Pitchfork

Now that Katie Holmes is reportedly headed to my town to perform in a Broadway production of Arthur Miller's All My Sons, I might finally get a chance to thank Tom Cruise for his contribution to contemporary music. No, not so much for "Danger Zone", "Kokomo", or the pre-Forrest Gump but post-The Big Chill canon-building of Born on the Fourth of July, although we can talk about all those another time. See, electronic music pioneers Tangerine Dream brought their Roland MC-8 sequencer to the soundtrack of Michael Mann-directed Cruise film Risky Business in 1983. When young moviegoers weren't being chased by Guido the killer pimp or watching Cruise lip-sync to Bob Seger in his (Cruise's, not Seger's) pre-insanity skivvies, many of us were getting our introduction to minimalist and ambient music.

It's no surprise that Tangerine Dream would be a source of inspiration for the Balearic dreams of Swedish cosmic groove-finders Studio. The duo of Dan Lissvik and Rasmus Hägg apply their tripped-out bass and interlocking acoustic strums to ex-Mylo keyboardist Williams' faithful, synth-based Risky Business cover in "Love on a Real Train (Version by Studio)", which appeared on a Williams 12" earlier this year and is set for official release on Studio's upcoming Yearbook 2. At nine minutes, the track finds Studio in the hypnotic long-form mode familiar from last year's excellent Yearbook 1; if it doesn't break new ground, it shows Studio's knack for melodies and gradually shifting dynamics continuing to pay dividends. Just don't think about Tom Cruise having sex. Seriously, stop that.

[from Williams' "Love on a Real Train" 12" and Studio's Yearbook 2; the 12" is out now on Love Triangle Music, and Yearbook 2 is due this year on Information]