After the comparatively low sales of albums "Mélodie Passagère – Alice Canta Satie, Fauré & Ravel" (1988) and "Mezzogiorno Sulle Alpi" (1992) the EMI label declined to release or even record the 1993/1994 project "Art et Décoration" with the Arturo Toscanini Symphony Orchestra. Instead they released a "greatest hits" compilation in 1994 entitled "Il vento caldo dell'estate", taking its title from the artist's first Italian hit single and mainly focussing on material recorded in the early 1980s. The compilation was issued without the knowledge or approval of Bissi herself. The hits package included a Euro disco remix of the 1982 track "Chan-son Egocentrique", originally a duet with Franco Battiato. The remixed version of the track, also released as a 12" single, omitted all lines sung by the composer himself – again this was done without the knowledge or approval of either Bissi or Battiato. The two subsequently considered taking legal action against the label to have the compilation and the remix single withdrawn – only to find that they legally had no control over the use of their respective bodies of work recorded for EMI. This subsequently led to both artists leaving the label after a fifteen-year-long and highly successful collaboration.