Kylie Minogue’s ‘Impossible Remixes’ album is now available digitally.
The collection, which boasts mixes from the ‘Impossible Princess’ era, has long been absent from download and streaming services but was recently made available digitally.
It includes alternate versions of Breathe, Did It Again, Some Kind of Bliss and Too Far, courtesy of remixers such as Brothers in Rhythm and Trouser Enthusiasts.
Originally released in 1997, ‘Impossible Princess’ recently celebrated its latest milestone with its first-ever vinyl edition, following years of calls from fans for the LP to be revisited.
Speaking in RETROPOP’s November 2022 issue, Kylie’s co-writer and producer Steve Anderson looked back on the creation of the project, which was conceived at Peter Gabriel’s Real World Studios near Bath, England.
“She was in an incredibly creative place in her life, coming off the back of how well things like Confide In Me had been received, which was very, very different for her. And she had really started to get involved in wanting to write and started to write in a book, lots of lyrics, scribbling lots of things down,” he says.
“[She was] just really inspired. I think the combination of our musical ideas that we were coming up with and the lyrics she was coming up with just seemed to gel really well.
“Lyrically, it’s really poetic. It really is poetry that she was writing. So we would just be in a tiny little room at Real World – not even the big studio, it’s a residential studio where we would all stay – and she would wander over and we’d play something and she would say, ‘Oh, that fits with this’. Or she’d come in with something like Say Hey, which was almost a finished song, and she just said, ‘I woke up and I’ve got this thing, what do you think?’ and then we’d help finish it.
“So it was really that; it was complete freedom to go away without any deadline, or any idea of where it was supposed to be heading, and just come up with something that we felt could be a good route for her to find a new sound for the next album.”
‘Impossible Princess: 25th Anniversary Edition’ is available now.
