Bulletproof

It's very nearly a year since Dusk was completed, and we're very close to finishing the project as a whole (an announcement about the final single will follow, hopefully in the next week or so, although we've not entirely decided what's going to be on it yet). However, the track-specific comments have ground to a halt somewhat, so I have formulated a cunning plan.

And it is this: every day for the next week, I shall add comments about another track. That will still leave us with a few more for the new year, but it will help clear the backlog, and it might help put somebody in the mood for the new single when it eventually surfaces. So, here goes...

Bulletproof was started in early 2004, not long after Empires was released. It was a track that we were both very fond of, so an obvious choice for the album. It is, however, another case of coming up with an idea for a song, and flogging it entirely to death by using the metaphor in every single line.

It's always reminded me a little bit of Depeche Mode in style. They probably wouldn't have gone quite so over the top, but top marks to Simon for avoiding using gunshot samples at any stage of the production.

The idea of remixing Bulletproof came about very simply: I was never happy with the mastering of the album version, and I wanted to have another go. In the end, I didn't: in the summer, Simon remixed it to create what would become the Kevlar mix instead.

At the same time, I'd been playing with some ideas for a remix which essentially borrowed the bass line from a certain successful 80s hit which should probably remain nameless. Unfortunately, this wasn't really going anywhere, so I passed it over to Simon, who carried out a very impressive rescue job, and created the Western mix.