Track Of The Day: Happy Mondays - Hallelujah (Andrew Weatherall & Paul Oakenfield Club Remix) (Factory)

I have no idea who did what on this remix, but to the untrained ear it sounds like mostly, if not all Weatherall. To think that this track came out in 1990 and it anticipated a decade of middle aged hip swivelling twenty years later. In spite of that, even though it’s a great remix, the fact that it can be inserted into an appropriate set now, not raise an eyebrow says a lot about both AW’s talent and the state of house and techno in 2023. The most appealing aspect of Balearic, is its power to absorb literally anything and render it ageless. And this is a great example of such a tune bridging two epochs: early 80s cosmic, contemporary chug while belonging to neither, or either.