His mention of MBV (specifically the bonus single instrumental with Isn't Anything - breakbeat overlaid with ghostly wavering) and A.R. Kane's "A Love From Outer Space" reminded me that the precursors to shoegaze had dancey moments.
Well, there was M.A.R.R.S. obviously....
But A.R. Kane did a one-off single as A R K that was their stab at house
Possibly motivated by desire to prove that they'd contributed more to "Pump Up The Volume" than a coloursplash of guitar? Or perhaps to show that they could do full-on dance music if they wanted to....
Comrade Oldfield oversells the side project a little bit in this 1988 Singles Page.
Paul makes it sound a bit more enthralling and achieved than it actually is. But that's how we rolled in those days ("inflation of meaning" yunno). This review is an example of what one Melody Maker editor teasingly referred to as the National Geographic school of reviewing then prevalent at the paper (at least, with my crew). Moraines, escarpments, that kind of thing...
Rudi and Alex had already showed their dancey tendencies on the flipside of "Pump Up the Volume" with this beauty, to which Colorbox lads contributed only a bit of drum programming.
A remix I have no recollection of ever hearing.
Then, as referenced by Cardross with "A Love From Outer Space", there were several boppy tunes on i.
"Crack Up" was a favorite.
Another vaguely housey chugger
There was even a remixes mini-LP or maxi-EP in 1990 - the typographically clever Rem'i'xes
Several of the remixes - "Miles Apart", "Crack Up", and "Crack Up (Space Mix)" - were actually done by Robin Guthrie. But they don't seem to be available on YouTube.
