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 | | The set captures the group at their best -- a time when they were still working with Trevor Horn, and managing to come up with creatively funky and sonically mindblowing numbers that fused hip hop production, electronics, and some of the chunkier pop work that Horn had been doing with bigger groups at the time. |
 | | At the time of the set, the group was riding high on the success and controversy of their singles "Relax" and "Two Tribes" -- but in the ambitious ZTT mode, sought to expand their sound way past familiar hits, and into a realm of sonic exploration that rivaled that of labelmates Art Of Noise. |
 | | Horn is nicely restrained in his presentation of Lisa -- never resorting to too many tricks or studio gimmicks, and instead giving plenty of space to the soulful expression of her vocals -- in a mode that's quite different from the classic ZTT sound of the 80s. |
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