Schwarzkopf - Dancing in the Dark

Schwarzkopf disappoints with a 12" of lazy electro house. Meant for the peak time big floors this is quite ashamedly a very predictable single thrown together with preset parts aiming for mass appeal. The vocals are pretty endearing and might cut the grade better on a jazzy little number but they are wasted here. The Amo & Navas remix starts things off a little more interesting with a dark, brooding bassline but from there it goes nowhere. The BNG Remix is probably the best of a bad bunch, cutting the track right up and piecing it together in a fairly jacking electro remix but it still fails to hit the mark. Schwarzkopf finishes off by putting you to sleep with another boring rendition that slots somewhere in between the first two tracks just in case you had forgotten what they sounded like. [Don McVinnie]