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Today, from the Bond on Vinyl archives, we’re moving on to the 1990s and listening to music from GoldenEye!
This 12” promo single of Tina Turner’s title track from the GoldenEye soundtrack is similar to the UK promo single I covered in Bond on Vinyl #20. However, this US version has a few different tracks. Both releases contain the style of electronic dance music known as “house music.” This style originated in Chicago in the mid-1980s, earning its moniker from a discotheque called “Warehouse.” By the late 1980s, house music had become popular in London and elsewhere in Europe, and later in major cities in North America, like New York City, and even in South America and Australia.
As house music had become more infused into mainstream pop and dance music around the world by the early to mid-1990s, it makes sense for this album to feature house mixes produced in 1995. Besides the “Morales Club Mix” available on both versions of the record, there is also a “Morales 007 Dub” and a “Morales Dub Of Bond” that appear on this US version. All of these were produced and remixed by American DJ and record producer David Morales. Morales has produced and remixed over five hundred releases since the 1980s, many years before Daft Punk started working in the house music style. It can be a fun genre to listen to occasionally. However, the repetitiveness of the lyrics with the dance beat may annoy your family when playing cards on a Saturday evening.
The other track on the 12” single is the GoldenEye (LP version), which is an interesting name as GoldenEye was the first Bond soundtrack to not be released on vinyl format (and still hasn’t been reissued to vinyl in the 29 years since), still only produced on CD and cassette tape for physical media. Because there is no vinyl art to share, you now get to see the inside of the GoldenEye LaserDisc for a backdrop. Cheers!
121. Tina Turner – GoldenEye US Promo 12″
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