Jon Savage on song: Fingers, Inc – Mystery of Love (Club Version)

Timeless and transcendent, this visionary house anthem lives up to the ambitious promise of its titleFirst released in 1985 (on Alleviated Records), then remixed by Larry Heard for a DJ International 12", Mystery of Love seemed to come out of nowhere in early 1986. It sounded truly extraterrestrial: an easy enough thing to say, but how else to explain the appearance of a record that opens up your ears and excites your spirit, that is nothing less than a jump cut into the future?Any song with "my...

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