“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

I was not a fan of this song when it came out, it wasn’t in my genre at the time, so I was hardly aware of it. Then then as I became more interested and familiar with the ZTT label and Trevor Horn in general, it became a point of interest. I found it odd that there was not more than one remix of this (‘Blooded’) for the single. I was used to Trevor’s unhealthy amount of experimentation. But at this point, I was not yet familiar with the Grace Jones album of the same name which, it turns out, it eight different interpretations of the same song.

So when I saw the multitrack fall from the sky, I immediately went to work on a Trevor Horn styled remix. Nothing was added to this apart from effects. I found a very nice (I think) unused string arrangement at the end that I made a significant contributor to the atmos.

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Slave To The Rhythm (Earl Three’s TruStyle 12” Mix)

Grace Jones