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“Axis”

Neil Tennant: Now this track is just called “Axis” but it has also been called at various times “Electric” and “Turn it On”, but it went full circle back to “Axis”.

Chris Lowe: We’d been to an Italian disco night in Berlin and got back and felt inspired by the music we’d been listening to—nothing specific, but just the feeling of it all.

NT: And I think it was this track that might have made us decide to do a separate dance album— ‘cause this was never going to go on Elysium. There was no option of that at all.

Stuart Price: The demo always had the direction and the atmosphere. I sort of always thought it had this sort of futuristic, sort of mystical “City in the Skies” feel to it, and that’s what I loved about it. It was sort of like where techno met disco… and that’s always what it felt like, so when we were working on it in the studio I think it was just putting it into a place where it could be played in a DJ set now. The BCS-3 is that box you always see Eno with in a Roxy Music video, or on a Bowie record. And there’s not really anyone alive that can play it, but anyone can sort of stand there and just push it and it will do something. So all this, it’s just the sound of those boxes—plus disco bells, equals “Axis”.

NT: The disco bell making its first of many appearances on this album.