“Blue Skies” by BT featuring Tori Amos

"Blue Skies" put Tori Amos's voice on a BT record in 1996, though she never sang it quite the way you hear it. The American electronica artist had her improvise for 15 minutes over a track of his called "Divinity", then cut her syllables and breaths apart and spliced them into new words; by his account, the title never once left her mouth. Brian Transeau did the rest himself, writing, producing and mixing it and playing synthesizer, bass and drums, and it floats somewhere between the club and a daydream.

First announced for his next album, ESCM, it ended up on the double-disc reissue of his debut, Ima. In January 1997 it went to number one on the US Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart, turned up on the Party of Five soundtrack and spawned a pile of remixes, the 'Delphinium Days' mix among them, built on samples from Derek Jarman's 1993 film Blue.

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