April 4, 20169 yr Yes, last appearance for QJ Quicksilver - however if we were to continue into the 2000s, they'd appear once more as Watergate for #3 hit - “Heart of Asia”. : )
April 5, 20169 yr Author That Positiva sleeve was a warning sign in the 90s! I have 3 Positiva 12"s. Motorcycle - As the Rush Comes DJ Sakin - Nomansland Verococha - Carte Blanche
April 5, 20169 yr Author Yes, last appearance for QJ Quicksilver - however if we were to continue into the 2000s, they'd appear once more as Watergate for #3 hit - “Heart of Asia”. : ) Unfortunately Heart of Asia was outsold by Oxide and Neutrino's Bound 4 Da Reload (Casualty) and then Madison Avenue's Don't Call Me Baby. :(
April 5, 20169 yr I prefer Free too, but I don't know if it's the better record. It was just played less. Same with Robert Miles' Fable.
April 5, 20169 yr Author Neither were overplayed in my life back in 1997 so it's not a case of over-familiarity. I just much prefer the music in Free.
April 8, 20169 yr Author Sorry - been busy this week. This shall resume over the tonight/over the weekend.
April 8, 20169 yr Author Tina Moore - Never Gonna Let You Go http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c32/tonyttt31/tina.jpg Date 7th Sept 1997 2 Weeks Official Chart Run 7-11-9-12-9-11-11-17-15-23-21-28-35-43-67 (15 weeks) *Positions in red are the weeks when the track would be number 1 if just dance music was chart eligible. Tina Moore emerged in the US in 1995 to minor success having R&B chart hits with All I Can Do and the original, less hysterical version of Never Gonna Let You Go. Her eponymous album failed to set sales records ablaze managing only number 90 on the R&B album chart that same year. But the laid back soulful original of Never Gonna Let You Go was picked up by Kelly G an up and coming producer and he gave it a thoroughly modern twist to produce what was to become a two-step or UK Garage sound. It was Kelly's first official remix. He was asked to submit a mix of the song by his new paymaster Steve Silk Hurley, who had taken him on having heard him DJ in clubs. When Steve and Kelly's other colleagues heard the remix they were quite confused as to what was being presented. They expected a four-to-the-floor Chicago house and not this rhythmically off-kilter curio. It was originally pressed on a white label with the remix of Rosie Gains' Closer than Close which we saw earlier. But Kelly saw and heard what the others didn't and Never Gonna Let You Go hit big time in the UK in August/Sept 1997 when it spend 7 weeks yo-yoing between positions 7 to 12, eventually outselling official number 1s from Blur, U2, Chemical Bothers, Tori Amos and Gary Barlow, clearing 320,000 sales and becoming one of the highest selling non-Top 5 singles of the decade. The nascent genre had its first commercial classic. Tina had one more hit with Nobody Better the following year which Kelly G also remixed from its 1995 original. Kelly G also released his debut 12" in 1998 and then a longer form mini-album of garage music in 2000. tFQkgvRByE8 Edited April 9, 20169 yr by Colm
April 8, 20169 yr Author I must say, I've really come to like Never Gonna Let You Go over the last few weeks. I've been listening to a lot of the songs in his run down a I compile the (un)official 3 disc compilation of this thread.
April 8, 20169 yr A fantastic song, and one that sounds completely fresh to this day, nice that garage had started to impact the top ten as early as 1997 and that's a great chart run too. The video/styling looks very dated but I suppose they didn't update it for 1997.
April 8, 20169 yr Author Yep. It didn't impact it very often. The end of 1997 would be the most insane time for physical sales ever so it's no wonder it managed to sell 320,000 and only reach number 7.
April 9, 20169 yr Dario G - Sunchyme http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm82/TheMagicPosition86/Sunchyme_zpspmpfx2fe.png Date 21st September 1997 3 Weeks Official Chart Run 2-3-2-3-5-6-10-15-21-34-43-58-65-60-54-62-59-65 (18 weeks) *Positions in red are the weeks when the track would be number 1 if just dance music was chart eligible. With its African/tribal sounding influences, it is difficult to immediately believe just how British 90s dance track “Sunchyme” really is - with its main sample and influence drawn from English group The Dream Academy’s beautiful but somewhat depressing 1985 hit “Life In A Northern Town” - and that sample being transformed into an incredibly upbeat and positive dance anthem (complete with steel drums) by a trio of DJs from northwest England. Dario G were based in Cheshire and made up of Scott Rosser - who was originally from South Wales, and locals Paul Spencer and Stephen Spencer. Paul and Scott had previously met in college during the 1980s on a music course, and by the end of the decade with their studies behind them, the two went about building a record studio and began experimenting with different ideas. To pay the bills, Paul taught music and Scott played in a band. They then chanced upon meeting Stephen, who was working at the time in the music industry as a distributor, and began collaborating as a trio on underground dance tracks - though it took some time, after building up a catalogue of sounds, samples and demos before they created what would become known as “Sunchyme”. “Life In A Northern Town” was a #15 hit for the Dream Academy in 1985 and somewhat unusually a bigger hit in America (#7) - dedicated to the late Nick Drake, who tragically took his own life at the age of just 26, the song was written to describe the abject depression that befell major northern cities during the 1980s after having lost their main industry (in this case it was the shipyards in northeast England). Dario G were named after Crewe Alexandra long running manager Dario Gradi (who only left in November 2011 after 28 years!) and cleverly crafted the sample amongst joyous steel drums, an incredibly catchy piano hook and transformed it into the upbeat, unifying sound that became “Sunchyme”. The video highlights its influences well and conveys the same social message of equality, and with it being unique this inevitably led to its use successfully soundtracking many a TV montage. “Sunchyme” would go on to sell half a million in the UK and rank 19th for the year, and with over 1.5 million copies worldwide from its success in Europe, this took the group and the label by surprise meaning a follow-up was not put forward for some time... More from the group next year! 1YTqmMDd3zs Edited April 9, 20169 yr by Doctor Blind
April 9, 20169 yr Author There's no way that I would have said that Dario G were English. For 1, 1997 was littered with continental dance acts, 2 they did the Carnival De Paris world cup song in 1998 which I assumed was a continental idea also. Great track, Quite euphoric.
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