U2 – Discothèque

The best of U2’s mixes
Only Fruitlegs and Kiwi come close

This is a large and now dated collection of remixes. But even upon its release, I focused early on the track without U2 vocals, the 'DM Deep Instrumental Mix'. This mix remains an unknown deep house entry which is still very much play-worthy today and should be considered a classic.

Ahh "Discothèque", 1997 (27 years ago!), the last time we get a great batch of mixes by Mr. Morales for a U2 song. The "DM Deep Extended Club Mix" was of course the floor filler back in the day, with those punchy (sampled) "Plastic Dreams" beats.....Undoubtedly it was David's mixes that made this a #1 Club Hit in the U.S. His "Tec" mix had more in common with the “Original 12"” and “Album Version”, while the real gem that has been overlooked here is the "DM Deep Instrumental Mix"—can somebody say "Redzone"?! This is no mear instrumental, it is a blissful (electronic) flute infused “closer”, best saved for the end of a very long sweaty night of dancing your ass off at the (you guessed it) "Discothèque".

Rip off/Inspired by Stone Roses - Begging You?...just a thought

The same UK release w/just a wrap Taiwanese obi added.

The DM Deep Club Mix is amazing. I still spin it today!!!

The Plastic Jewel case issue was later withdrawn in favour of the Digipack card release.

David Morales & Satoshi Tomiie take the familiar deeper new york route for their stonker of a remix. Starts out with a small breakbeat section to add a solid beat section and then heads into a smaller vocal introduction breakdown and then gets the pace going again and brings back the funk. Not particularly Morales' best remix work but it's banging work
Howie B takes the foundation of the original and adds a bleepy broken touch to it, it's a fairly decent remix but i can't get into it for the life of me.
Steve Osbourne also takes the broken route but this one is more or less the original clubbed up a bit and then added a breakbeat to it. It's a well-produced remix, but then again all of his remixes (together with Oakenfold) of U2's big tracks have been

Discotheque is, in my opinion at least, one of U2's better recent singles, and these are some very good remixes.

The David Morales mixes are very 1997, they seem almost about to erupt into hip house at times. Their style is more of a light dancefloor track, and rather unlike U2.

Howie B's 2 mixes are similar, but also very different. The Hexidecimal mix is a chunky clubrock stormer, with a great bassline which stays true to the original track while simultaneously beefing it up for the clubs. The Hairy B mix is almost a dub of the Hecidecimal mix, removing some of the tune and lyrics, and bringing in weird sampled vocals near the end, almost a Tone Loc style rap.

The Hecidecimal mix is probably the better of the four, but it's also on the 1990-2000 Greatest Hits album. If however you also like the DM mixes this is worth a buy, for the variation between all four versions.