Find Me (Odyssey to Anyoona)

AllMusic editor Keith Farley named "Find Me (Odyssey to Anyoona)" a highlight from Tripomatic Fairytales 2001.{{cite web|first=Keith|last=Farley|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/tripomatic-fairytales-2001-mw0000118981|title=Jam & Spoon - Tripomatic Fairytales 2001|publisher=AllMusic|access-date=17 February 2020}} In his weekly UK chart commentary, James Masterton described it as "a slightly ambient piece of Euro-dance". Pan-European magazine Music & Media wrote that here, the team that brought you the smash "Right in the Night", "reads you another Madonna-esque myth from their Tripomatic Fairytales album."{{cite magazine|url=http://americanradiohistory.com/Archive-Music-and-Media/90s/1994/MM-1994-07-23.pdf|title=New Releases: Singles|magazine=Music & Media|volume=11|issue=30|date=23 July 1994|page=9|access-date=10 April 2018}} Music & Media editor Maria Jimenez noted that trance music "plays a major role" in "Find Me".{{cite magazine|first=Maria|last=Jimenez|url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-and-Media/90s/1994/MM-1994-10-29.pdf#page=8|title=A Survey Of The European Dance Landscape|magazine=Music & Media|volume=11|issue=44|date=29 October 1994|page=8|access-date=5 June 2025}} Andy Beevers from Music Week gave it a score of four out of five, complimenting it as "a well-produced commercial trance epic with Spanish guitar effects. The addition of a catchy vocal from Plavka of the Rising High Collective has broadened the track's appeal and has helped to generate a real buzz."

Tommy Udo from NME wrote, "More Euro disco for messrs Jam El Mar and Mark Spoon [...]. It captures some of that Balearic spirit with an almost straight — well, you know what I mean — hi-NRG remix by Groovecult. On the downside, ex-Shamen vocalist Plavka isn't really suited to this track, which should have been more shouty, more, erm, Hazell Dean."{{cite magazine|first=Tommy|last=Udo|url=https://flickr.com/photos/nothingelseon/53274990506/|title=Singles|work=NME|date=17 September 1994|page=49|access-date=24 October 2023}} Tim Jeffery from the Record Mirror Dance Update named it Tune of the Week, stating, "Jam and Spoon have managed to acheive crossover success without losing any of their credibility on the techno scene, which is some feat. This new doublepack is evidence of how they've done it."{{cite magazine|first=Tim|last=Jeffery|url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-Week/1994/Music-Week-1994-09-10.pdf#page=30|title=Hot Vinyl: Tune of the Week|magazine=Music Week, in Record Mirror (Dance Update Supplemental Insert)|date=10 September 1994|page=8|access-date=15 June 2025}} Another Record Mirror editor, James Hamilton, described it as a "Plavka Lonich warbled pulsating tinkly 0-136-0bpm electro trance throbber" in his weekly dance column.{{cite magazine|first= James |last= Hamilton |url= https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-Week/1994/Music-Week-1994-09-24.pdf |title= DJ directory |magazine= Music Week, in Record Mirror (Dance Update Supplemental Insert) |date= 24 September 1994 |page= 10 |access-date= 19 April 2021 |author-link= James Hamilton (DJ and journalist)}} On the 1995 re-release, Hamilton described it as a "moodily started pulsating tinkly 0-136-0bpm trancer".{{cite magazine|first= James |last= Hamilton |title= DJ directory |magazine= Music Week, in Record Mirror (Dance Update Supplemental Insert) |date= 26 August 1995 |page= 15 |access-date= 12 May 2021 |url= https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-Week/1995/Music-Week-1995-08-26.pdf |author-link= James Hamilton (DJ and journalist)}} Andrew Perry from Select named it as a "fantastic track" with "tribal euphoria" in his review of the album.{{cite magazine|url=http://selectmagazinescans.monkeon.co.uk/showpage.php?file=wp-content/uploads/2014/07/albums22.jpg|first=Andrew|last=Perry|title=Reviews: New Albums|magazine=Select|date=1 March 1994|page=75|access-date=3 March 2020}}

"Find Me (Odyssey to Anyoona)" was a moderate success on the charts across Europe and in Australia, New Zealand and Canada. In Europe, the single peaked at number one in Finland and was a top-10 hit also in Italy, where it peaked at number six on the Musica e dischi singles chart.{{cite book | first= Jake | last= Nyman |year= 2005 | title=Suomi soi 4: Suuri suomalainen listakirja | edition= 1st | publisher=Tammi | location= Helsinki| isbn= 951-31-2503-3| language= Finnish }}{{cite magazine|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-and-Media/90s/1994/MM-1994-09-17.pdf|title=Top 10 Sales in Europe|magazine=Music & Media|volume=11|issue=38|date=17 September 2019|page=16|access-date=25 November 2019}} In the duo's native Germany, it became a top-20 hit, peaking at number 17 and spending a total of 16 weeks within the German Singles Chart between July and October 1994. It was a top-20 hit also in Belgium (16), the Netherlands (18) and Switzerland (20), and a top-30 hit in Ireland (24).

In the UK, "Find Me" peaked at number 22 in its first week on the UK Singles Chart on 10 September 1995, with a total of three weeks within the UK Top 100. And it also reached number seven on the UK Dance Singles Chart and number 32 on the Record Mirror Club Chart.{{cite magazine|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-Week/1994/Music-Week-1994-09-17.pdf|title=The RM Club Chart|magazine=Music Week, in Record Mirror (Dance Update Supplemental Insert)|date=17 September 1994|page=4|accessdate=20 May 2023}} On the Eurochart Hot 100, it peaked at number 19 in its fifth week on the chart, on 27 August 1994, after charting in Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands and Switzerland.{{cite magazine|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-and-Media/90s/1994/MM-1994-08-27.pdf|title=Eurochart Hot 100 Singles|magazine=Music & Media|volume=11|issue=35|page=14|date=27 August 1994|access-date=1 April 2018}}

Outside Europe, the single was successful on the Canadian RPM Dance/Urban chart, peaking at number two. It was kept from the number-one position by Whigfield's "Saturday Night". In Australia and New Zealand, "Find Me" peaked at numbers 22 and 34, respectively.

"Find Me (Odyssey to Anyoona)" topped the European Dance Radio Chart on 27 August 1994, becoming the most-played dance song on European radio in that period.{{cite magazine|title=European Dance Radio Top 25|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-and-Media/90s/1994/MM-1994-08-27.pdf|magazine=Music & Media|volume=11|issue=35|page=22|date=27 August 1994|access-date=13 December 2019}} On its year-end chart, it ended up as the 18th most-played dance song on European radio in 1994. The song also entered the European airplay chart Border Breakers at number 22 on 23 July 1994, due to crossover airplay in West-, North- and South-Europe. The single peaked at number three on 3 September same year.{{cite magazine|first=Karen|last=Holt|url=http://americanradiohistory.com/Archive-Music-and-Media/90s/1994/MM-1994-11-19.pdf|title=Border Breakers: Monitoring The Impact Of Euro Talent|magazine=Music & Media|volume=11|issue=47|date=19 November 1994|page=20|access-date=2 April 2018}}

• CD maxi-single (Europe, 1994)

1. "Find Me (Odyssey to Anyoona)" (radio mix) – 4:02
2. "Find Me (Odyssey to Anyoona)" – 7:30
3. "Die Kraft der vier Herzen" – 8:04
4. "The Tribe" – 6:46
5. "Find Me (Odyssey to Anyoona)" – 10:00

• CD maxi-single remix (Europe, 1994)

1. "Find Me (Odyssey to Anyoona)" (Dedicated to the Blondes) – 6:10
2. "Find Me (Odyssey to Anyoona)" (House Ideaz) – 5:41
3. "Find Me (Odyssey to Anyoona)" (Frühschicht) – 8:11
4. "Find Me (Odyssey to Anyoona)" (Ben Liebrand remix) – 8:25

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