March 25, 20169 yr Author This one always frustrates me a little because it reminds me of another, similar track - probably late 90s/early noughties - that I heard a million different times on various adverts/TV shows in the early-mid noughties but never known the name of it as it's an instrumental. Features a brassy sample from what sounds like an old movie/TV show theme - but might not be - and goes into a garage/D&B style-sound similar to Bomfunk MC's 'Freestyler'. Unfortunately that's not enough to identify it but it's the same sort of idea as the Orbital track. Is it Apollo 440 - Lost in Space?
March 25, 20169 yr Author fk it, I'm gonna post The Box as it's still my favourite piece of electronic music by anyone. MWi_7QSTUjE Album version that really benefits from the 6 min build up!
March 25, 20169 yr Author It's between Orbital and The Prodigy for my favourite electronic act. In Sides is my favourite electronic album.
March 25, 20169 yr fk it, I'm gonna post The Box as it's still my favourite piece of electronic music by anyone. Album version that really benefits from the 6 min build up! I love this too! Its best thing theyve done, one of my fav from 90s, I love the freaky scary video too! (I remember myself literally being scared watching that)
March 25, 20169 yr Olive - You’re Not Alone http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm82/TheMagicPosition86/rsz_youre_not_alone_zpspxgclkuk.png Date 11th May 1997 3 Weeks Official Chart Run 1-1-3-6-15-18-27-37-44-54-57-64-69 (13 weeks) *Positions in red are the weeks when the track would be number 1 if just dance music was chart eligible. In the original of “You’re Not Alone” (taken from their debut Extra Virgin, Ruth-Ann Boyle’s eerily moody yet gorgeous vocals are stripped bare with only occasional remote bleeps and bursts of jagged interference interrupting the opening verse, before the rich and warm reversed synths roll in through the chorus. Stalling just outside the Top 40 on its initial release in 1996, a year long campaign of remixes, promo and a slightly reworked original version ensured that it eventually stormed straight to number 1 in May. Olive were formed in 1995, and were the coming together of keyboardist/trumpeter Tim Kellett - who had previously worked with Manchester punk group The Durutti Column, and went on to write/play for Simply Red in the late eighties/early nineties - and songwriter/producer Robin Taylor-Firth who had previously worked in Nightmares On Wax. Session singer Ruth-Ann Boyle was discovered by Kellett whilst gigging in Portugal with The Durutti Column; the duo loved her voice and she was immediately brought in. She was tracked down in a student union bar and amongst the early demos the group tried out recorded the vocals to what would become “You’re Not Alone”. “You’re Not Alone” was extended to 4:15 for the ’97 edit, which opens with the synths that provided the tracks main hook, and has the somewhat restrained breakbeat coming in earlier and accompanied by some added bass to enhance the chorus. Ruth-Ann Boyle’s echoed refrain which takes over towards the end of “You’re Not Alone” leaves the listener wondering whether there may be some slightly sinister undertones to this open love letter to a former lover, recalibrating the title as much a warning as reassurance. The chart topper developed an enduring popularity which led to Friendly Fires emulating the hook for “Skeleton Boy” in 2008 and Tinchy Stryder covering it for his 2009 single which made #14. Olive failed to make the Top 10 again, with follow-up “Outlaw” making it no further than 14 in the summer and then soon disappearing from the Top 40. 5W3bf-wfdHQ
March 25, 20169 yr Gorgeous track. :wub: Apparently Olive were later dropped from their record label for not being "successful" enough despite having 2 top 20 singles & a top 20 album. Edited March 25, 20169 yr by Ne Plus Ultra
March 25, 20169 yr love You're not Olive too <3 <3 <3 one of the best dance songs EVER, subtle but beautiful
March 25, 20169 yr Author The percussion is the part that I enjoy the most. I wonder was there an influence on William Orbit's production on Madonna's Frozen. Certainly a unique song that I still play now. Was it the first time a re-release entered at number 1 that had failed to make the Top 40 first time around?
March 25, 20169 yr A STORMING track that is, one of the biggest 90s influences in my eyes. I wish the synths were more rough though.
March 26, 20169 yr Proper tune. I didn't know that video, only the one where Ruth-Ann is in the bathroom.
March 26, 20169 yr Rosie Gaines - Closer Than Close http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm82/TheMagicPosition86/rsz_rosie-gaines-closer-than-close-517909_zpsxl48x0c3.png Date 1st June 1997 1 Week Official Chart Run 4-5-6-5-14-14-16-25-27-38-50-68 (12 weeks) *Positions in red are the weeks when the track would be number 1 if just dance music was chart eligible. Despite just the 3 UK hits to her name, Rosie Gaines has a long and highly acclaimed music career that started in 1985 with debut LP Caring, and peaked when she was asked by Prince to become part of his supporting band The New Power Generation on 1991 album Diamonds and Pearls, even duetting with Prince on his version of “Nothing Compares 2 U”. She went back to a solo career in 1992 but continued to work with Prince, who provided vocals for one of the tracks on her 1995 album Closer Than Close where the original title-track was first recorded. “Closer Than Close” as it appears in its original form on that album is a smooth, mid-tempo, bluesy number - yet as so often happened in the 90s - it was a remix that propelled it into the chart. US DJs Hippie Torrales and Mark Mendoza both had long established careers, and collaborated in the mid-nineties to create MenTor Productions. Amongst the many remixes that they produced was the MenTor mix of “Closer Than Close” which sped Gaines’ towering vocals up, and transformed the original into an upbeat and incredibly catchy house track that inevitably stormed the clubs, whilst managing to successfully maintain the laid-back vibe of the original. It also had the traces of the style adopted by the nascent UK garage (2-step) scene, and was pitched-up and mixed to become a firm underground garage setlist favourite, along with one of the first hits of the genre in the UK - 187 Lockdown’s “Gunman”. Whilst “Closer Than Close” was incredibly successful, due to the fact that it had been remixed out of the normal style of Gaines’ repertoire the options for a follow-up were limited - though one did eventually materialise - “I Surrender” which briefly charted at #39 in November, however Rosie has failed to chart since thus cementing her status as apparent ‘1-hit-wonder’ in the UK at least. lORTh4WlBeo Edited March 26, 20169 yr by Doctor Blind
March 26, 20169 yr Bellissima is one of my favourite 90s dance songs, I was hoping I'd see it in this thread eventually, while I've known and loved a few throughout this thread we really should be getting to the point where I recognise a lot more now. Not a HUGE fan of You're Not Alone; Closer Than Close sounds rather catchy having not heard it before.
March 26, 20169 yr Certainly a unique song that I still play now. Was it the first time a re-release entered at number 1 that had failed to make the Top 40 first time around? No afraid not, the most recent one prior to this was, I think, Baby D. :D
March 26, 20169 yr Did Baby D enter at number 1? Apologies I misread your question. In that case then arguably White Town was the first though its first release on an independent label then a major picked it up. :D Having said that it failed to chart at all so Olive are probably the first act to chart a song between 41-75 to have it re-enter at No 1 on re-issue
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