“Music does a lot of things for a lot of people. It’s transporting, for sure. It can take you right back, years back, to the very moment certain things happened in your life. It’s uplifting, it’s encouraging, it’s strengthening.” — Aretha Franklin

This is a classic hit by INXS from 1987. It was a single and had some great remixes by Julian Mendelsohn and Ben Liebrand. I had started this remix at least a year and a half ago from the time of this post, but I kept putting it away until I had proper inspiration. in the late 80s and early 90s, INXS remixed a few of their earlier tracks (like Coldcut’s mix of “What You Need”) and my goal was to do something like that. So I changed most of the background percussion to a shuffle and added some loops and samples to give it a kind of turntablism feel.

This was a hard track to work with because there is so little of it, and there is a lot of repetition, but I think this works and is totally what I was going for.

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Need You Tonight (Earl Three’s 90s Style Remix)

INXS

CREDITS

written by A. Farris/M. Hutchence. produced by Bob Clearmountain and Chris Thomas. additional production and remix by Earl Three.