Find Me (Odyssey to Anyoona)

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"Find Me (Odyssey to Anyoona)"
Jam Spoon - Find Me single.jpg
Single by Jam & Spoon featuring Plavka
from the album Tripomatic Fairytales 2001
Released10 July 1994 (1994-07-10)
Length4:02
Label
  • JAM!
  • Dance Pool
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
  • Jam El Mar
  • Mark Spoon
Jam & Spoon singles chronology
"Right in the Night"
(1993)		"Find Me (Odyssey to Anyoona)"
(1994)		"Angel (Ladadi O-Heyo)"
(1995)
Music video
"Find Me (Odyssey to Anyoona)" on YouTube

"Find Me (Odyssey to Anyoona)" is a song by German electronic music duo Jam & Spoon featuring American singer Plavka, released in July 1994 by JAM! and Dance Pool as the third single from their second album, Tripomatic Fairytales 2001 (1993). Written by Jam El Mar and Mark Spoon with Nosie Katzmann, the song was the follow-up to their successful hit single "Right in the Night" in 1993. It reached number one in Finland and number six in Italy, while in the United Kingdom and Australia, it peaked at number 22 in both countries. "Find Me (Odyssey to Anyoona)" also entered the Eurochart Hot 100 on 30 July 1994, peaking at number 19 on 27 August. The accompanying music video for the song was A-listed on Germany's VIVA in August 1994. [1]

Contents

Critical reception

AllMusic editor Keith Farley named "Find Me (Odyssey to Anyoona)" a highlight from Tripomatic Fairytales 2001 . [2] In his weekly UK chart commentary, James Masterton described it as "a slightly ambient piece of Euro-dance". [3] Pan-European magazine Music & Media commented that here, the team that brought you the smash "Right in the Night", "reads you another Madonna-esque myth from their Tripomatic Fairytales album." [4] Andy Beevers from Music Week gave it four out of five, complimenting it as "a well-produced commercial trance epic with Spanish guitar effects. The addition of a catchy vocal from Plavka of the Rising High Collective has broadened the track's appeal and has helped to generate a real buzz." [5]

Tommy Udo from NME wrote, "More Euro disco for messrs Jam El Mar and Mark Spoon [...]. It captures some of that Balearic spirit with an almost straight — well, you know what I mean — hi-NRG remix by Groovecult. On the downside, ex-Shamen vocalist Plavka isn't really suited to this track, which should have been more shouty, more, erm, Hazell Dean." [6] James Hamilton from the Record Mirror Dance Update described it as a "Plavka Lonich warbled pulsating tinkly 0-136-0bpm electro trance throbber". [7] On the 1995 re-release, Hamilton described it as a "moodily started pulsating tinkly 0-136-0bpm trancer". [8] Andrew Perry from Select declared it as a "fantastic track" with "tribal euphoria". [9]

Airplay

"Find Me" entered the European airplay chart Border Breakers at number 22 on 23 July 1994, due to crossover airplay in West-, North- and South-Europe. The single peaked at number three on 3 September. [10]

Track listings

  1. "Find Me (Odyssey to Anyoona)" (radio mix) – 4:02
  2. "Find Me (Odyssey to Anyoona)" – 7:30
  3. "Die Kraft der vier Herzen" – 8:04
  4. "The Tribe" – 6:46
  5. "Find Me (Odyssey to Anyoona)" – 10:00
  1. "Find Me (Odyssey to Anyoona)" (Dedicated to the Blondes) – 6:10
  2. "Find Me (Odyssey to Anyoona)" (House Ideaz) – 5:41
  3. "Find Me (Odyssey to Anyoona)" (Frühschicht) – 8:11
  4. "Find Me (Odyssey to Anyoona)" (Ben Liebrand remix) – 8:25

Charts

Release history

RegionDateFormat(s)Label(s)Ref.
Germany10 July 1994CD
  • JAM!
  • Dance Pool
 [17]
United Kingdom12 September 1994
  • 12-inch vinyl
  • CD
  • cassette
 Epic [32]

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Tripomatic Fairytales 2001 is an album by German electronic music duo Jam & Spoon, released in 1993. It features their three International hit singles, "Right in the Night ", "Find Me " and "Angel ". The album was re-structured twice to permit the inclusion of "Find Me " and "Angel ", released after the first pressing of the album.

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