- The witch doctor of twisted, tribal house, Steve Lawler, seemed the perfect fit to add a little funk to a lost dusty vinyl that murmurs a spell when played in The Skeleton Key, Kate Hudson's excursion into voodoo hell. The drum beat makes you imagine some Madam Santeria tapping away on a tanbou, fires blazing in the bayous of Louisiana, while a catchy melody, perhaps a little too brass, carries the track forward keeping your head bopping. Over all this, a dead priest rants on about the devil's house asserting the sinister flavor that Lawler is attributed to.
His remix is one of those 'Slow down. Groove along. Save up that energy and wait for the next big tune.' While there's nothing extraordinary buzzing in it, it's nevertheless good fun in Lawler's dark house.
On the B-side the Richard Dinsdale remix kicks off with eerie bits of whispered dialogue from the film segueing nicely into some nifty deep house. The tribal drums are more passive, popping in along with the preacher’s ‘Devil’s House’ rant, which is sampled even more heavily. Yet, it’s the whispers which Dinsdale distorts with a delay that really sets this mix on fire as some slick synths peak into a wicked groove that never gets too big but doesn’t need to either. It's a faster steady pace, creepy, cool and kicking. This one's for those strange cats that wear their sunglasses at night, even at the clubs.