Pete Ellison continues his sovereign streak of 80ies remixes with this a masterfully crafted piece of synth-pop.
Blancmange’s Living on the Ceiling was released in 1982, at a time when Britain seemed to be manufacturing synth-pop acts with the efficiency of a Midlands car plant, Neil Arthur and Stephen Luscombe chose a different route.
The single became Blancmange’s breakthrough, reaching the UK Top 10 and proving that audiences were perfectly happy to embrace the unfamiliar – provided it came wrapped in an irresistible hook.
More than four decades later, Living on the Ceiling remains one of those rare records that sounds like it arrived from somewhere else entirely. Not because it belonged to the future, but because it refused to belong to any one place or time.
