Very good song, I think I remember this from the time a bit. A mix of latin music (big in the late 90s/early 2000s in pop) and drum and bass. This is what 'tropical' dance music should be about, summery dance music like this and not the pan pipe tunes we have now.

 

Shy FX, like Tiesto has been relevant for a long time :)

during Lasgo's final week at #1 in the dance chart the following trance songs would enter the top 40

 

Future Breeze - Temple Of Dreams [#21]

 

DJ Tiësto - Lethal Industry [#25]

 

'Temple Of Dreams' in particular is brilliant, shame it didn't do better.

Personally I prefer "Ocean of Eternity"

 

also released in 2002

 

 

 

 

What I miss about this era was the variety of dance genres charting. Now its all sounds the same...

Edited September 10, 20168 yr by Euphorique

Personally I prefer "Ocean of Eternity"

just gave that a first time listen, personally I have to disagree. 'Temple Of Dreams' is a lot better.

just gave that a first time listen, personally I have to disagree. 'Temple Of Dreams' is a lot better.

 

I dont like the vocals on Temple Of Dreams, and I think Ocean Of Dreams has a better melody.

 

Future Breeze had hits in Europe back in the mid to late 90s also, shame they never had a shot in the UK til 2002.

Edited September 10, 20168 yr by Euphorique

What I miss about this era was the variety of dance genres charting. Now its all sounds the same...

I'd love to disagree here but I can't. All the popular dance songs at the moment are either house, tropical house or future bass - which are all very similar. Even drum n' bass doesn't seem to do well in the charts now.

What I miss about this era was the variety of dance genres charting. Now its all sounds the same...

 

With future bass certainly, every song of the genre does tend to sound similar, Future bass has the most similarity between songs as it has to have the acoustic style verses and then the drop with weird sound effects and pitched voices, making loads of future bass songs sound too alike. Closer, Sex, Don't Let Me Down, In The Name Of Love, Lean On etc. all have the same structure which gets really tiresome.

 

With trance there is more difference between tracks, from the harder style of How U Like Bass to the gentle style of Don't Give Up. Funky house also has variety, some is disco influenced like Salsoul Nugget, others more modern like Stonebridge- Take Me Away. But neither future bass or tropical house (which all sounds similar too) have that variety imo.

 

 

I bought the Temple Of Dreams single on I presume its second week out, as I remember hearing it first time when it entered the chart and loving it.

 

BTW, the version played on the chart show in the UK and the lead mix on the CD single (and the only version I ever realised existed until a few years later) didn't have any vocals and was barely more than two minutes long. The tracklist is here:

 

https://www.discogs.com/Future-Breeze-Templ...s/release/94335

Oh man, Shake Ur Body has such a good start but the moment those vocals come in it all just completely fizzles out :( I appreciate it for being a rare D&B top 10 hit this early but Addicted to Bass manages to do it all so much better, this is exactly the sort of thing that made vocal D&B so dull in the 2010s - a mediocre vocal pop track with a bland drum loop behind it, made even worse here by sounding so low in the mix compared to the vocals it barely needs to be there at all. Particularly a shame as Shy FX absolutely kicked ass just six years earlier with Original Nuttah, a massive anthem of the jungle era.

 

EDIT: Actually, thinking about it more Shy probably knew exactly what he was doing - a deliberate attempt at a D&B/pop crossover to be played on radio and get the kids on board, in the hope that they'd be encouraged to listen to more D&B and eventually end up raving away in Fabric when older. Looking at it like that it does its job well, particularly when you consider how few D&B tracks had really crossed over and made it at the time. Still not my cup of tea though.

 

Temple of Dreams on the other hand is fascinating - half of it's early noughties trance (the opening and middle builds) and the other half a foreshadowing of future EDM, that main synth lead could come from almost any song in the last five years!

Edited September 10, 20168 yr by BillyH

Lasgo-Something

 

 

Probably one of the most iconic trance songs ever,

 

 

:o

 

I have many DJ friends and they would never describe Something as iconic.

that's probably down to Something being a very poppified trance song. If you asked a DJ what the most iconic dance songs are they wouldn't necessarily be the same as the biggest selling ones.

Anyway, I'd do another writeup tonight, but I'm too lazy to do one...

Temple of Dreams on the other hand is fascinating - half of it's early noughties trance (the opening and middle builds) and the other half a foreshadowing of future EDM, that main synth lead could come from almost any song in the last five years!

 

I always felt like Calvin Harris *must* have surely been influenced by Temple of Dreams for I'm Not Alone, as well as Madagascar by Art of Trance. Sure, the melodies are different in all of these but some of the production similarities are startling.

that's probably down to Something being a very poppified trance song. If you asked a DJ what the most iconic dance songs are they wouldn't necessarily be the same as the biggest selling ones.

 

 

Then why is TheSnake labellng it as probably one of the most iconic trance songs?

 

^confused^

 

X-Press 2 (feat. David Byrne) - Lazy

 

 

Date 14th Apr 2002

3 Weeks

Official Chart Run 2-5-7-10-14-19-28-35-40-42-59-70-72-x (13 weeks)

 

 

Ashley Beedle, DJ Diesel and DJ Rocky made up English house trio X-Press 2 (still active now as a duo, Beedle left the group in 2009) and had sixteen UK top 100 hits (including four top 40 hits), starting their chart career with 1993's 'London X-Press' (#58) and 'Say What!' (#32). Their only major hit however would be 2002's 'Lazy', which entered at #2 (selling 38,000 copies) behind Gareth Gates' pointless cover of 'Unchained Melody' in its fourth week at #1 (44,000 copies). As well as being a big chart hit it would win the group an Ivor Novello award.

 

The song features vocals from David Byrne who you may know as the lead artist in the band Talking Heads, whose hits include 'Once In A Lifetime' (1981, #14) and 'Road To Nowhere' (1985, #6). As the song title suggests he sings about being lazy and he puts on the voice for it too. The music video also features a man being very lazy. It would be the tenth top 40 hit for the indie record label Skint that the song was released on, and impressively the first for a song not by Fatboy Slim. 'Lazy' would also feature on X-Press 2's debut album 'Muzikizum'. They'd release one more album afterwards, 2006's 'Makeshift Feelgood'.

X-Press 2 were the second act with a name starting with X to make the top 10 in as many weeks, following X-Ecutioners. The only previous such acts to make the top 10 were XTC and Xpansions, and only XTM and Xzibit have done it since.

I remember 'Lazy' a lot from the time, but it was later that I heard Talking Heads and realised that the singer was the same.

 

A great progressive house track. X press 2 also had this...a forerunner of deep tropical house like Klingande - Jubel, in 2005 (production is similar). Managed to make the top 40 (kind of remember it at the time)

 

 

 

Edited September 11, 20168 yr by TheSnake

These 00s dance tunes make me ready for a shakedown, and I think I will undergo it at night.

These 00s dance tunes make me ready for a shakedown, and I think I will undergo it at night.

 

BOP.