Since the Collector's Guide threads seem to have disappeared and Universe hasn't updated in over a year, I thought I'd post this info here. Anyone please feel free to update it.


Pressed in very limited quantities, this promo single appears to have been an attempt to market Almighty Associates and Dataluxe (two aliases for the same remixing group) to the US. The "Dataluxe Mix" was originally produced as an Almighty remix for release in the UK, where Almighty had been steadily gaining success with their remixing style, including remixes of "To The Moon And Back." Because of it's "big room" sound, this mix was deemed "too American" for the UK market, so the mix was not chosen for commercial use. Almighty Associates therefore chose to direct the release at the US market instead, and reformed as Dataluxe for this purpose. Due to this change, the release appears to have been rushed.

The actual title of the CD is "Savage Garden - Affirmation UK Remixes"

Three people who actually own copies have discussed them on the EZBoard Pop Remixes forum, and the Almighty Records forum and have said the following:

http://www.almightyrecords.com/forum...ssage&id=26697

happy
08/11/04 01:26:59


Re: Dataluxe unreleased mixes...


I am one who got this cd-r promo.....
times 9:06 Almighty mix
11:40 Dataluxe mix
it is on a mitsui thermal cd-r, no catalog number.
CD has "transferred via ISDN" on it, "Source Date: May 26, 2000", and Columbia May 30, 2000
I have not compared the mixes side by side with the Bangin' Mix, but the mix seems the same, just running at a slower BPM, the same with the Almighty mix---
actually, I like the slower BPM, works better for the song IMHO.
cheers........................

http://p210.ezboard.com/fpopremixesf...cID=3271.topic

beat136:

[I]t is an official promo, a printed CDr acetate, th[at] says "Savage Garden - Affirmation UK Remixes"

One difference of note: the almighty mix on this promo is actually 9:06 in length compared to 8:04 on the UK release (the version actually seems to run at a lower BPM than the UK release) And the Dataluxe mix is 11:40--Sheila Blige mentioned before that the UK did not use this mix because it was too "American" sounding. I must say in this case they were right, it has a very "american" big room sound--but it is a very good mix!!!

http://www.almightyrecords.com/forum...ssage&id=24062

wilson23
31/07/04 16:57:54


Re: Regarding the new Affirmation mixes

[M]y 12" promo copy features the Almighty Affirmative mix, and the Dataluxe mix.

That's the latest I have. No verification about whether the tracks actually play at these slower beat-per-minute rates, or whether this is just info printed on the CD/12". I also have an extremely low resolution scan of the CD from an expired eBay auction that Mario mentioned.