Korgscrew
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Posted: Dec. 23 2002, 17:12 |
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I suppose that whether any singles get released would depend on the amount that the record company wants to promote the album.
Knowing their current direction, there'll probably be some pumpin' dolls style remixes which will get released in Spain and nowehere else, while the rest of the world is struggling to even get hold of the album, but maybe I'm wrong here 
I'd imagine that buyers would almost expect a single to have the opening piano line - after all, to a lot of people, that line IS Tubular Bells. That might be a very good reason to release something different of course, but it would have to be something that'll grab people enough to make them want to buy it.
As for Ibiza being a bad influence on Mike...yes, in some ways - it did end up in him taking all sorts of drugs which could have ended his career at least a couple times. As for musical examples...I'd not personally say that Voyager was influenced by Ibiza - rather by a combination of Mike's Irish past and record company suggestions. It was recorded in England, only the cover was taken in Ibiza. On TB3, meanwhile, I'd say that some of the heaviest Ibiza influence is in Secrets/FATC...
Guitars had nothing to do with Ibiza, but I'd not say it was any better than TB3.
I think it's more that Mike got caught up in Ibizan culture at a time when he was changing direction anyway. In fact, a lot of what fans dislike about his work now isn't really down to change at all - his extensive use of computers, for example, is something he's been doing for the past 20 years or so (Tom Newman complained about it, in relation to making Amarok).
We'll soon see what direction he'll go in next, though...perhaps some of us will be surprised.
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