Posted by admin on August 7th, 2006 under Club Dance Music

The musical roots of the 99th Floor Elevators are steeped in old hi-NRG, Euro dance and heavily influenced by people like Giorgio Moroder, 80s PWL, Record Shack, Bobby Orlando and later the playlists of the great Tony de Vit, amongst others.

In this vein back in 1999 there was a great Euro hit by producer Carlo Resoort under the name Alena. ‘Turn It Around’ had a great hook and a fantastic vocal with a thumpingly addictive dance mix from the Space Brothers which I have somewhere on a Wonderboy DJ double pack.

Being in Florida since May 2003 means that I’ve been woefully out of sync with whats going on in Europe so I completely missed a new version of the track by 4 Strings which sticks pretty close to the original (close but not as good) and charted in the UK in 2004. Naturally the video has found its way onto YouTube so you can check it out, though if you really like it I recommend you seek out the Space Brothers excellent ‘Rethink’ version on Wonderboy.

Space Brothers

4 Strings on MySpace

Buy. Alena ‘Turn It Around’ from Gemm