Sam Taylor-Wood releases her cover version of 'I'm in Love with a German Film Star', produced by Pet Shop Boys, on Kompakt Records on 20 October 2008.
The single, a cover version of the post-punk classic by The Passions, was produced by Pet Shop Boys who also did a full length Symphonic mix. Other remixes will be available by Gui Boratto, Juergen Paape and Mark Reeder.
The single will be available through iTunes on 22 October and through other digital outlets on 229 October. CD release will be on 20 October and the track will also be available on 7" and 12" vinyl.
Sam Taylor-Wood has sung on two previous collaborations with Pet Shop Boys: cover versions of Serge Gainsbourg’s 'Je t’aime…moi non plus' and Donna Summer's 'Love To Love You Baby', the latter under the pseudonym Kiki Kokova.
Previous to the above recordings, she first worked with Pet Shop Boys in 1997 when she created the visuals and staging for their live show Somewhere at the Savoy Theatre in London.
Kompakt is a Cologne-based electronic music label which has been described as "the label that's contributed more than any other to Germany's dominance of electronic dance music this decade."
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