Wendi Cermak from The Network Forty stated that "this is signature Jam & Spoon with its ethereal trance/ambient electronic rhythms, light female vocals and their excellent guitar work on the intro".
James Hamilton from the magazine's RM Dance Update deemed it an "excellent Madonna-ish Balearic throbber". On the 1995 re-release he added, "Sweet music to my ears, I love this to bits and commented in these lines back in 1994 that it had the potential to be a No.1 hit - I could still be right." Pan-European magazine Music & Media commented that "this fast but mellow house track with ambient works so well that it should go a long way to establish this well-reputed remix and production duo as artists in their own right." Maria Jimenez described it as "alluring, yet highly commercial", adding that "this club track is poised for international success." Andy Beevers from Music Week rated it four out of five, calling it a "rather unexciting Euro house song". Lai from the Gavin Report said that "this high-energy tune should have no trouble making its way up the chart soon." Music writer James Masterton wrote in his weekly UK chart commentary, "It's combination of a brilliant pop tune and rampant flamenco rhythms should be enough to make it the biggest hit of the next few months." And the splashes of flamenco guitars are an enticing flavor". She has a field day with the song, more than holding her own against the track's busy array of sound effects." In an 1997 review, the magazine called it a "percolating ditty was years ahead of its time, since the groove and synths sound as fresh as ever. David May & Amfree.īarry Walters from The Advocate stated that the song "distills Jam & Spoon's most accessible aspects into one flawlessly girly flamenco-style hi-NRG anthem." Larry Flick from Billboard described it as a "jumpy, disco/ pop ditty that strobes with bright synths and a killer hook." He noted that "at first, singer Plavka will have you thinking of Madonna, though her own unique tones and nuances eventually shine through. In 2013, the song was released in a new remix, by Jam & Spoon vs. And just like most times, the label people were wrong." Some other individuals from A&R asked, "Where's the hook-the punchline?" I really hated to play the song for the record company, and a week before it came out I thought for sure it would be a flop because the label people just didn't hear the hit in it. In the 2017 book Stars of 90's Dance Pop: 29 Hitmakers Discuss Their Careers by James Arena, writer of the song Nosie Katzmann told, "I always felt "Right in the Night" was one of the best songs I've ever written, but the record company and A&R people who came to my place to listen to new songs for the project just thought of "Right" as being average. It earned the duo an award in the category for "Best Progressive hi-NRG Recording" at the 1995 Hi-NRG Music Awards in the US. Jam & Spoon and Plavka performed the song on many different European TV-shows and concerts, like the British music chart television programme Top of the Pops, the Italian singing competition Festivalbar and the Finnish 1994 national final of Eurovision Song Contest. It has been extensively anthologised, further indicating the song's significance in trance music's evolution. On the UK Singles Chart, the song originally peaked at number 31, but after a re-release in 1995 it reached a new peak of number ten. On the Eurochart Hot 100, "Right in the Night" peaked at number four. It is widely regarded as one of the biggest electronic music anthems of the 1990s, reaching number one in Finland, Greece and Spain, as well as number two in Australia, Iceland and Italy in 1994. The single was released in 1993 on the German label Dance Pool.
The flamenco-styled riff in the song is played by El Mar, who was trained as a classical guitarist. It is based on " Leyenda" by the classical composer Isaac Albéniz and features vocals by American vocalist Plavka, with lyrics by Nosie Katzmann. It is a Eurodance song with elements from progressive and vocal trance. " Right in the Night (Fall in Love with Music)" is a song by German electronic music duo Jam & Spoon, released as the second single from their second album, Tripomatic Fairytales 2001. " Right in the Night (Fall in Love with Music)" "Right in the Night (Fall in Love with Music)"įrom the album Tripomatic Fairytales 2001