Originally Published: 2002-08-04

The revival of '80s club culture continues as even Kylie Minogue has borrowed New Order's "Blue Monday" for live performances of her ubiquitous hit "Can't Get You Out Of My Head." Here Canadian has-been Corey Hart's angst-pop ditty about the ultimate night-club cool is recreated for a new club generation by fellow Montrealer Tiga, who launches the synth pop-oriented White Leather imprint from his Turbo label. Recording with Finnish producer Juri Hulkkonen (moonlighting as "Zyntherius" from his house productions on the F Comm label) Tiga plays on the darker aspects of the song with a suitably detached deadpan vocal dominated by a raw and loud bass synth rhythm. Their skeletal approach to synth-pop's dance essentials is done with the bigger nightclub sound systems in mind, as once the music of New Order and dozens of others did back in the drum machine-dominated '80s. Strangely European radio and TV has been taken by their version which has become a noir anthem after being performed live on Top Of The Pops and selling 150,000 copies on vinyl in Germany! Let's just hope Corey himself doesn't get plugged-in again.

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