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Fingers, Inc: 'Mystery of Love' (Club Version)

Jon Savage, The Guardian, 2 March 2010

FIRST RELEASED in 1985 (on Alleviated Records), then remixed by Larry Heard for a DJ International 12", 'Mystery of Love' seemed to come out of nowhere in early 1986. It sounded truly extra-terrestrial: an easy enough thing to say, but how else to explain the appearance of a record that opens up your ears and excites your spirit, that is nothing less than a jump cut into the future?

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