Nicolette – Nightmare

I revisited this a few weeks ago and it just stood out, it was almost a surreal experience with seeing both sides of this track. The original is one mighty fine Alec Empire production and is one of the best examples of organized chaos. Empire sticks in drum grooves that aren't really on beat, pads that seem to shoot through the soundscape left and right. Under all that wonderful madness you have some really heavy sub bass and on top, you have Nicolette with her sweet voice talking about dreams and nightmares. It's quite brilliant.

The next version is the Mike Flowers rendition, people may know him more for his kitschy Bert Kaempfert/Easy-listening type renditions of 'Wonderwall' and 'Light My Fire'. I wasn't a fan of them and I wasn't a fan of this as it's too mild compared to what the original is.

Zinc's remix keeps the eerie atmosphere but keeps it subtle and overall it's a decent jungle workout. I liked it but I just preferred the original over the other versions on this.