I was inspired by Ferry Corsten's remix of William Orbit's 'Adagio For Strings' on this track, and also Brothers In Rhythm's Maroon Mix of Art Of Noise's 'Dreaming In Colour.' You can really tell in the mix. I started with the string arrangement, then built everything else around it. I thought the quiet buildup, crescendo, and muted ending were a perfect finale for the album.
This song was original composed for the EtherReal collection, The Flower Of Humanity, in 1999. Back then, it was in response to a girl that I met at a Toronto concert and was trying to get with at the time, who promised that she would come and visit me from her hometown of Montreal in a few months... then she did a 180, and started slagging me off to her friends online, so I promptly banned her. So it was 'the reunion that never was'.
In 2006 when I was compiling Omega, I had original planned to have my cover of Depeche Mode's Memphisto as the lead-in to The Flight Deck, since both were in the same key. But after reading up on how difficult it would be to get the rights to use it, I just decided to replace it with a song that sounded similar, and then I remembered La Reunion. It was also the same key as the other two, and the timing and tempo was the same as Memphisto. So I recreated the song from the old arrangement using new sounds and samples, and seemlessly welded it to the beginning of The Flight Deck, and made it a single track in the collection, topping out at almost 19 minutes.
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