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Neon Nights is the perfect snapshot of the early noughties dance-pop zeitgeist. Propelled by a veritable pick and mix of the European dance production scene, Dannii's album spawned 4 UK Top Tens smashes and 13 No.1 spots across the UK Dance Charts.
"It's one thing to create an excellent three-and-a-half-minute dance-pop song, but another to sustain the appeal over an entire album. Kylie managed it with Fever, Madonna followed suit on Confessions on a Dance Floor. Dannii's contribution to the genre on Neon Nights is every bit as good as those classics." - IDOLATOR
First 1,000 orders will receive a numbered Promo CD Single of Put The Needle on it, signed by Dannii PLUS pre-order on any format from the official store for your chance to win a personalised Gold Disc presentation frame!
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The Pet Shop Boys will release a new greatest hits album in June called Smash: The Singles 1985-2020.
This release features new 2023 remasters and includes 55 singles, starting withWest End Girlsfrom ’85 and ending with 2020’sI Don’t Wanna. It includes most of their singles although there’s a few grey areas/omissions such as no ‘How Can You Expect To Be Taken Seriously?’ (from 1991’sBehaviour) and a lack of ‘Burning The Heather' (the latter, from 2020’sHotspot, was issued on seven-inch vinyl in the UK).
The 6LP version of Smash: The Singles 1985-2020 contains 55 tracks (click image to enlarge)
The physical formats are a3CD+2xblu-ray,6LP vinyland a 3CD set without the video content. Where appropriate, all the singles are seven-inch remixes or edits. A special 6LP white vinyl and triple-cassette edition are available exclusively via the Pet Shop Boys shop.
The 3CD+2blu-ray seesall the videos on blu-ray for the first time. A second blu-ray contains bonus videos and lyric videos including for some of the songs excluded from the main audio offering. 66 videos in total!
The Pet Shop Boys commented: “As we start work on a new album, and later this year continue our ‘Dreamworld’ greatest hits tour, it seems like a good time to take stock and bring together every single we’ve released.”
Smash: The Singles 1985-2020will be released on 16 June, via Parlophone.
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Rick Astley’s 1988 album Hold Me In Your Arms will be reissued in May as an expanded 2CD set and on coloured vinyl.
The album is 35 years old and features three top 10 UK singles in ‘She Wants To Dance With Me’, ‘Take Me To Your Heart’ and the title track. Astley also continued his success in North America; ‘She Wants To Dance With Me’ was a top 10 hit and the US-only single, ‘Giving Up On Love’, was a top 40 hit.
Hold Me In Your Arms is reissued as a 35th anniversary 2CD set (click image to enlarge)
Hold Me In Your Armshas been newly remastered and the 2CD edition offers18 bonus tracks, which doesn’t quite match the 21 from the 2010 double-CD from Edsel. Likelast year’s reissue of Rick’s 1987 debutWhenever You Need Somebody, this new 2CD set offers some ‘Reimagined’ versions (first issued on the 2019 Best of Me compilation). This deluxe CD edition comes with an expanded booklet that includes previously unseen photographs of Rick from 1988/1989.
There is also an album-only LP which features the new remaster is presented on blue vinyl.
Hold Me In Your Arms will be reissued on 12 May 2023, via BMG.
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Out today is Everything But The Girl's new 'Nothing Left To Lose Remix EP'. The EP is led by a box-fresh remix by Four Tet (aka Kieran Hebden), and includes extended club and dub mixes of the original from Ben Watt and Bruno Ellingham.
Speaking about the new Four Tet remix, Ben and Tracey say: ‘We've always loved that meditative but propulsive thing in Kieran's music. The restraint mixed with momentum. It is something that we often explore as well, so asking him to rework one of our songs felt like a great fit. There is a confident lightness of touch to his remix, underpinned by a raw killer beat, and a beautiful final third where all the subtle intricacies of his additional production coalesce’.
Four Tet - fresh from a career-high show at New York’s Madison Square Garden with Fred Again and Skrillex last month - delivers a remix that steers the track further into 4-on-the-floor club territory, staying close to the original while still sprinkling the defining production elements that have made him such a revered producer.
The extended club and dub mixes by Ben Watt and album engineer Bruno Ellingham amp up and re-arrange the original version for dance floors.
