Really liked this one a lot more than Heaven! It's quite glorious. Sunrise however was dull as dishwater

 

As for Loona, I'll always love Baila Mi Ritmo and Viva El Amor, such summer smashes

 

Sunlight is fantastic I think, real tropical house vibes in it of the Lost Frequencies and Robin Schulz type style music in it (albeit with a faster beat), Prayer In C in particular is similar production wise with its mix of acoustic guitar and buildup synths (the difference being the drop in Prayer in C of course). Sunlight was ahead of its time in that respect.

 

If a trancey song was to become a hit now it would be of the Sunlight type as it is not a million miles from acoustic guitar tropical house.

 

If you are talking about Sunrise though, the Angel City track is pretty dull and a massive comedown from their fantastic first hit :lol:

Edited October 26, 20168 yr by Count Snakula💀

Really liked this one a lot more than Heaven! It's quite glorious. Sunrise however was dull as dishwater

 

As for Loona, I'll always love Baila Mi Ritmo and Viva El Amor, such summer smashes

 

:wub:

 

That one was such a guilty pleasure of mine.

Kolsch sounds nothing like trance to me, more some sub-genre of house

 

But the Kolsch track has a trance beat in places and bits without a beat before the buildup which is reminiscent of trance.

Junior Senior - Move Your Feet

 

 

Date 9th March 2003

3 Weeks

Official Chart Run4- 3-6-5-5-3-4-6-9-11-19-26-28-38-38-49-68-79-79(19 weeks)

 

 

We head back to funky house for our next song. Sadly though this is my least favourite hit from the genre, for the reason that whilst the music is good, I simply find the vocal very annoying, and it has been so overplayed over the years too in adverts and TV soundbites.

 

Junior Senior are from Denmark and are a duo consisting of Jesper "Junior" Mortensen and Jeppe "Senior" Laursen. Unlike most dance music producers, Junior Senior could play all their music live, and both members are multi instrumentalists.

 

They formed in 1998 but it took them 5 years to release their first single. The song Move Your Feet went top 40 in six European countries other than the UK (where it reached number 3). It also reached number 20 in Australia.

 

In the UK it was in the top 10 for 9 weeks, a very long time for a dance track by 2003 standards (2003's charts had lots of new entries every week).

 

The singer in the song is Thomas Troelsen, who both rapped and sung in the record. Troelsen would go on to produce records for Flo Rida as well as co-writing two football tournament songs, This Ones For You (2016) and We are One (Ole Ola) (2014) - which he also produced.

 

Junior Senior had a follow up with Rhythm Bandits later in 2003, which reached number 22 in the UK. However they had no further UK hits after that.

Like Do You Really Like It, Move Your Feet I remember was being sung a lot in the playground during my last year in primary school. I think that contributed to the annoyance factor for me.

Edited October 30, 20168 yr by Count Snakula💀

I respect Junior Senior for being multi instrumentalists (unlike most dance producers) but I never really liked this, the rap is OK but I don't like the immature 'cheerleader' style singing vocals or the immature lyrics. I just find the song quite annoying as a result.

 

As with the next funky house song on our list, the vocals just aren't great or euphoric compared to those on mid 00s funky house records (and pale in comparison to the wonderful emotive vocals on the trance records before it)

Edited October 30, 20168 yr by Count Snakula💀

Number 24 in the first week of Junior Senior. Massive drum and bass/dancehall hybrid.

 

 

Number 28 JS' second week. The start of the mid 00s style videos featuring ahem....interesting content. Musically very 90s rave inspired.

 

 

Number 15 on the 3rd week of JS' dance chart dominance. Tech house remix of the Queen song. Much more fun and better imo than the 10s tech house hits.

 

Move Your Feet :dancing: :music: :dancing:

 

big song of my childhood, still a jam now.

Move your Feet is amazing and still sounds good

Number 28 JS' second week. The start of the mid 00s style videos featuring ahem....interesting content. Musically very 90s rave inspired.

 

 

The 1995 original hit #54, jumping on the Outhere Brothers bandwagon.

 

The 1995 original hit #54, jumping on the Outhere Brothers bandwagon.

 

 

Ah so the mid 00s style dance videos started much earlier.... :lol:

 

The song having sampled a 90s dance tune is a bit like the Commander Tom Attention one in early 2005 (which sampled Novy vs Eniac - Superstar from 1997) or Lil Love by Little Love later in 2005 (my personal favourite of the 90s dance covers). By early 2007 regarding 90s dance remakes we had Sunblock's funky house/eurodance cover of Corona's Baby Baby, which is quite good imo (it uses the original singer too) although it is an example of how the resorting to making of covers of well known songs in a particular dance genre that had been dominant for a time seem to proceed the decline of the genre as a chart force (in this case funky house). See the Soda Club covers as a similar example for trance.

 

Shake Ya Shimmy is much different to Flip and Fill's other songs. I guess that is the P*rn Kings input and the use of the 90s sample. But Flip and Fill would be back to normal with Field of Dreams, their next single to make the chart.

 

 

Edited October 30, 20168 yr by Count Snakula💀

Porn Kings had a massive hit in 90's in Europe...not sure if it charted in UK though

 

LOVE 'Move Your Feet', a regular recently in my set lists.

Porn Kings had a massive hit in 90's in Europe...not sure if it charted in UK though

 

 

#28 in the UK Chart

 

Move Your Feet :wub: :wub: Such a classic feel good tune, was one of those tracks I went for years before being able to put a name to it due to it being used as a soundbed to virtually everything.

Junior Senior!!! That was a fantastic single and it was from a bizarrely great album too if you like your stuff all fun, cartoonish and bonkers with a slight indie edge.

Well undoubtedly although it wouldn't be my favourite, Move You Feet is a fun record. I can see why it was a hit and why funky house in general started to become more popular throughout 2003, it is generally more light hearted and perhaps dance music fans were becoming bored by the more serious sounding trance music. Of course by the end of 2004 fun sounding funky house was starting to dominate and would do until electro arrived.

 

I find it strange how futuristic trance was replaced by retro sounding funky house (arguably kickstarted by Move Your Feet). Its like a retrograde step, against the flow of dance music becoming more futuristic over time usually.

 

The instruments used for production in Move Your Feet are similar to those used in a certain 2008 dance number 1.

 

The singer in the song is Thomas Troelsen, who both rapped and sung in the record.

 

For some reason I always thought that it was Junior and Senior themselves who did the vocals on this, with the younger-sounding Junior doing the singing and the older-sounding Senior doing the rap (hence their names).

I remember thinking at the time that it should have been what Michael Jackson would be releasing. If it were new now I'd change that to Bruno Mars... it has dated very well, can't believe it's 13 years old.

Move Your Feet is my jam (and seemingly everyone else's too, yay)!! So many genres mixed together, I love the guitar in it especially. Insanely catchy and has aged very very well.

 

For some reason I always thought that it was Junior and Senior themselves who did the vocals on this, with the younger-sounding Junior doing the singing and the older-sounding Senior doing the rap (hence their names).

Same, I never would've guessed otherwise especially after seeing their performance on TOTP.

 

I will be back tomorrow with the next track, a track which I definitely do not love, and which imo cheated some better tracks out of dance number 1 for a total of weeks.