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Badarou composed it, though we could not verify the formal credit. At Red Bull Music Academy in 2006 he said he was trying to emulate Lalo Schifrin's "Mannix", that it had sort of success in England, and that he reused its drums, on a LinnDrum, for "Mambo". The 1985 single reached 46 in the UK in October 1985; Trouser Press dates the EP to 1986 on Island, with remixes of five tracks including the title tune, and says it topped British dance charts, which we could not verify. Trouser Press calls it a hard synth-funk instrumental, and Music Is My Sanctuary calls it an idiosyncratic dancefloor cut, a cult classic influential on the Balearic and cosmic scenes. Setlist.fm lists five Badarou sets from 2017 to 2026, none with this song. Our upload is presumably the album version.