For the new moon, the Dark-Side Mix of Won’t Stand Down has been released.
The Dark-Side is mixed by Tchad Blake.
“I have always been a fan of Marvin Gaye and there was a Cuban element to his song Sexual Healing that I loved and was exploring – it was something in the way that it allowed the rhythm to move that I liked, and I tried to bring an element of that to this song, while allowing it to evolve into something different.
I think it’s a good band performance in the sense that it’s not built up over a lot of time with many different layers, so it feels more alive and, with this song more than any others on the record, I wanted to have real, live emotion in it.
Both Mark ‘Spike’ Stent (Bright-Side) and Tchad Blake (Dark-Side) have taken their mixes in quite different directions, but there is a real sense of emotion coming out of both mixes. People always think that the emotion all comes from the song, but actually you can change that enormously by the way you move things and dip them and bring them out and isolate certain sounds and instruments – by the way you tell the story. It’s very much a creative contribution with these wonderful mixers.”