Releases / notes / credits

Released on:
In A Bar, Under The Sea
Theme From Turnpike single (radio edit)
No More Loud Music

This was the first single from In A Bar, Under The Sea, 4 months before the album was released.

The jazzy sample which loops in the background is taken from "Far Wells, Mill Valley", a song by Charles Mingus. It was later also used by Neven, a Brussels drum'n'bass act.

The line "New Jersey Turnpike ridin' on a wet night" comes from a Bruce Springsteen song from his Nebraska album. New Jersey Turnpike is one of the most famous American highways, and the oldest if I'm not mistaken. Funny interpretation of the song by a member of the dEUS mailing list : Theme From Turnpike is about Bryan Adams, 'cause he's from New Jersey, and he got it all "counterclockwise" :)

The idea behind the video was inspired by the opening credits of Sean Penn's second movie, Crossing Guards. The Turnpike video shows two men walking along the Champs Elysées in Paris. They are Seymour Cassel (a comedian) and Sam Loewyck, a crazy dancer from Les Ballets C de B. It was showed in some Belgian theatres as a short film right before Trainspotting. It was censored by MTV who argued that Mr Loewyck's dance is a parody of an epilepsy crisis. This might explain why MTV hardly ever play a dEUS video, while MCM do it all the time. The idea behind the video was to make it the introduction to a full-length movie called Turnpike, even though there is no such movie. It was shot on 35 mm film.

Words & Music by Barman

Stef Kamil Carlens : vocal, percussion
Tom Barman : samples; guitar, vocal, percussion
Julle De Borgher : drums, percussion
Craig Ward : sax, vocal, percussion
Klaas Janzoons : percussion
Eric Drew Feldman : egg

Sample of "Far Wells, Mill Valley" by Charles Mingus. Used Courtesy of Sony Music and by permission of Jazz Workshop Inc.