Review
Genre and Mood
Terranova recorded Prayer with the actors Nicolette Krebitz and Udo Kier, and Prayer - Gui Boratto Mix, the Brazilian producer’s remix of it, opens a remix album that Discogs files under house and tech house. No review describes this mix, so its feelings, alluring and bittersweet, come from Kompakt’s own words for the album: guests who bring “their own brand of seduction”, and a tale of fragile glamour and the crippled beauty of the downfall.
Song Summary
The original Prayer is track 13 of Terranova’s album Hotel Amour, released by Kompakt in February 2012, and runs 5:11; its video, directed by Krebitz and starring Kier, credits the vocals to the two of them. Five months later, on 30 July 2012, Kompakt released Hotel Amour (Nightporter), thirteen remixes of the album’s songs, and put Gui Boratto’s 6:48 mix of Prayer first.
Musical Breakdown
No source describes the Gui Boratto Mix part by part, so this breakdown names what to listen for rather than inventing a structure.
Intro
Listen for how long the remix holds back the voices; the extra length over the original gives a DJ room to mix in.
Main Section
Listen for where Krebitz and Kier sit in the mix and what Boratto builds around them, against Kompakt’s description of the album’s heavy, bouncing bass drums and juicy synths.
Outro
Listen for how the track winds down, the stretch a DJ uses to blend into the next record.
Concepts in Focus
A remix album like Nightporter hands an album to other producers: here Gui Boratto, Tiefschwarz, Rampa, KiNK and Adam Port among others, with a second Prayer remix by Re.You near the end. Hear another Boratto remix in Massive Attack, Gui Boratto – Paradise Circus - Gui Boratto Remix.
The <a href=“https://korczis.github.io/sonic-playground/concept/featured-artist/” class=“concept-link font-medium text-primary-700 underline decoration-dotted underline-offset-4 hover:decoration-solid dark:text-primary-400” data-concept=“featured-artist” title=“A guest performer credited on another artist’s track, usually as “feat.”: a rapper’s verse, a singer’s hook or a second voice. Features bring together different styles and audiences and are central to hip-hop, R&B and dance music.“>featured artist credit here goes to two actors. Krebitz, born in West Berlin in 1972 and known for Bandits and Der Tunnel, had sung on Terranova’s Just Enough, Plastic Stress and Never; Kier, the Cologne-born star of Flesh for Frankenstein and many Lars von Trier films, died in November 2025.
As a dj mix track the remix found its use quickly: MusicBrainz lists it in Michael Mayer’s TSUGi 56 mix of 2012 and on later Ibiza compilations.
Artistic Context
Terranova was formed in 1996 by Fetisch, Marco Meister and Kaos and is based between Berlin and Paris; Kompakt calls it Fetisch’s go-to project, joined by the producer &ME in 2007. Many of Hotel Amour’s ideas, the label writes, were conceived on a night train between Berlin and Paris, Fetisch’s second home. Gui Boratto, born in São Paulo in 1974, released his debut album Chromophobia in 2007, which Mixmag named album of the month.
Impact and Reception
No chart run or review is recorded for the remix. What the sources record is its life in DJ mixes and compilations, carrying two film voices into the club. Press play and listen for what a remixer adds to a voice he did not record.
