''Mēness dejas'' is a 1995 album containing eight songs by
Latvia
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band Dzeltenie Pastnieki
Dzeltenie Pastnieki are a Latvian people, Latvian band formed in 1979 in Riga, Latvia. Their name means "the yellow postmen" in Latvian language, Latvian, and is sometimes abbreviated to DzP. They were among the pioneers of New wave music, new ...
as reinterpreted by
Uģis Vītiņš. Originally found on four of the band's 1980s album releases, the songs have been re-arranged radically, and have had all the vocals re-recorded by the original vocalists.
''Mēness dejas'' is notable as the band's first release on CD, and was done to meet the popular demand for a CD compilation of the band's hits. Thus, its concept could be compared to stopgap quasi-compilation releases from other
synthpop
Synth-pop (short for synthesizer pop; also called techno-pop; ) is a subgenre of new wave music that first became prominent in the late 1970s and features the synthesizer as the dominant musical instrument. It was prefigured in the 1960s a ...
artists like
Kraftwerk
Kraftwerk (, "power station") is a German band formed in Düsseldorf in 1970 by Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider. Widely considered innovators and pioneers of electronic music, Kraftwerk were among the first successful acts to popularize the ...
's ''
The Mix'' (1991) and
Yello's ''
1980–1985 The New Mix in One Go'' (1986), both of which likewise contained newly recorded versions of previously released material.
Uģis Vītiņš went on to appear on the band's next album, ''
Kaķis
''Kaķis'' ("a cat") is the seventh album by Latvian band Dzeltenie Pastnieki, released in 2003. It was their first album of new material in 16 years, and the first release, of any kind, in 8 years.
Track listing
#"Kaķa dziesma" ( Ingus Bauš ...
'' (2003) as well as played on
Ingus Baušķenieks's solo tour (2004–2005). His brother Toms Vītiņš, who played bass and designed the cover, later also did the cover for the CD release of the album ''
Alise''.
Track listing
Side one
#"Pastnieks trakais" – 5:52
#"Mēness deja" – 6:20
#"Kāpēc tu mani negribi" – 6:20
#"Rudens pastaiga (Rudens limits)" – 6:07
Side two
#"Svešā malā" (Svētki Rojā mix) – 6:32
#"Mana vasara aiziet (kā vēlējies)" – 6:17
#"Milžu cīņa" – 5:30
#"Jaunais gads" – 4:55
Credits
*
Uģis Vītiņš - arrangements, programming, saxophone, management, production
*Ģirts Bišs - additional arrangements, programming
*Toms Vītiņš - bass arrangements, bass guitar, photography, artwork
*Arnolds Kārklis - guitar arrangements, electric & acoustic guitars, second voice on track 8
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Ingus Baušķenieks - voice on tracks 1, 4, 6, 7 & 8
*Edīte Baušķeniece - voice on track 3
*Viesturs Slava - voice on tracks 2, 3 & 5
*Gatis Krūmiņš - trumpet
*Nils Īle -
conga
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s on tracks 4 & 7
*Tālis Timrots - recording and mix engineering
Release history
References
External links
''Mēness dejas''at
Discogs
{{DEFAULTSORT:Meness Dejas
Dzeltenie Pastnieki albums
1995 remix albums