Sunblock

Producers Martin Pihl and Magnus Nordin were behind the project, whose I'll Be Ready reached British listeners in 2006. The track reworked Jimi Jamison's I'm Always Here, familiar as the Baywatch theme, into a dance single. The original's broad, reassuring melodic gesture became material for a build, a break and the return of a much firmer electronic beat.

The concept could easily be reduced to novelty, but its success also depended on timing inside the arrangement. A familiar phrase needs to arrive at the right moment for recognition to become physical excitement. Sunblock's productions generally kept that phrase clear, using the surrounding rhythm and repeated sections to prepare the listener for its return rather than disguising the source.

First Time followed in 2006 with Robin Beck, revisiting the song that had been a major hit for her in the eighties. The new version changed the rhythmic setting while keeping the force of the central vocal association. It was a different kind of memory from a television theme, but the production method made the two fit naturally within the same project.

Baby Baby arrived in 2007 with Sandy, returning to a song associated with Corona's nineties dance catalogue. The sequence captures a specific club-pop moment, when an older chorus could become the centre of a new single without requiring a newly written topline. Sunblock's identity lay in the framing: the point at which a remembered melody meets a beat designed for the room it is playing in now.