June 10, 20169 yr It's funny that I prefer the UK version to the Europe Version of 9 PM, but for Don't Stop it's the other way around. ATB's 2004 album No Silence is quite, especially these two: tdNT_OTWwwg xFhZSo0dbao
June 10, 20169 yr Author Feck it I'm publishing the track listing now! http://www.buzzjack.com/forums/uploads/pictures/pic-3-1465574182.jpg Edited June 10, 20169 yr by Colm
June 10, 20169 yr don't know if it's true or a urban legend :) but back in the day I read the story that ATB had been working on a song at the studio, was time to save the track, checked the time and saw it was 9pm precisely and thats why he saved the track as 9pm and thats where it got the name :)
June 10, 20169 yr 9PM (Till I Come) kickstarted my love affair with dance music. I first heard it on a listening post in Virgin and immediately bought it I was so blown away. I'd actually gone in to buy S Club 7's Bring It All Back but that never happened. Incredible track, and one of my favourite dance artists ever, he still releases some fantastic music now. Edited June 10, 20169 yr by gooddelta
June 10, 20169 yr The strap line should read '63 ACTUAL dance anthems from the 90s' but I'll let you off because that must have taken a lot of effort to compile. Thanks Colm!
June 10, 20169 yr Author The strap line should read '63 ACTUAL dance anthems from the 90s' but I'll let you off because that must have taken a lot of effort to compile. Thanks Colm! It did take quite a while to get the essence of the list into 240 mins and because I'm obsessional about sequencing I re-arranged things many many times. I originally had Better Off Alone with the trance songs on disc 2 but it works so much better with the Vengaboys and Urban Cookie Collective. I love how Things that Make You Go Hmmmm....is enhanced by being set up by Groove is in the Heart.
June 11, 20169 yr Author DJ Jurgen presents Alice Deejay - Better Off Alone http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c32/tonyttt31/better.jpg Date 25th July 1999 5 Weeks Official Chart Run 4-3-2-2-2-5-8-12-15-17-23-29-37-42-58-72 (16 weeks) *Positions in red are the weeks when the track would be number 1 if just dance music was chart eligible. DJ Jurgen (Jurgen Rijkers) was born in 1967. He started his DJ career in 1987 as a radio-DJ with Radio Stad den Haag. He continued working at radio stations until the 90s when he started playing night clubs and creating his own dance music. In '94/'95 Jurgen built his own studio and produced his first music, releasing two 12" - Chakra Feeling and the double A-side Chakra's Discovery/Chakra's Eternity on the Dutch house label Colours. In 1998 he started a new project which consisted of a huge collective of various alternating producers and musicians - the production teams Pronti (aka Sebastiaan Molijn) & Kalmani (Eelke Kalberg), M. van der Kuy & DJ Isaac, Hazerdous, Svenson & J. Gielen and Danski & DJ Delmundo (of the Vengaboys) and the frontwoman, Judy Pronk were all involved. Their first fruits was Better Off Alone which was released on the continent in 1998 and became a huge hit in several territories. As was often the case in 1999 Positiva gained the rights for a UK release which hit big in the summer of trance. What was most un-1999 about its chart performance was its persistence. In week 1 it entered at number 4 on sales of 50,800 which was, in 1999 terms, undistinguished. But a rise of 1 place in its second week on the official chart doesn't really show what remarkable uptake in sales the song experienced. In week 2 it increased its sales by a whopping 64% to 86,300. In week three it managed a further increase when sales topped 93,000. In the end it outsold the three songs that held it at number 2 - Ronan Keating's When You Say Nothing At All, Westlife's If I Let You Go and Geri Halliwell's Mi Chico Latino In fact it went on to be the second best selling single of 1999 that didn't make it to official number 1 and the best ever selling single from the Positiva label. There would be several hits after that - most notably Back in My Life and Will I Ever? which both hit the top 10. DJ Jurgen's last release was the 2011 single Ovetime. In our world of "Justice for Dance Singles" the track takes its place at the top for 5 weeks. lHjNmyzrVvM Edited June 12, 20169 yr by Colm
June 11, 20169 yr Another huge classic. Their follow-up singles were great too. The David Guetta "Play Hard" version is horrible. Edited June 11, 20169 yr by Ne Plus Ultra
June 11, 20169 yr It has been said before, but the week that it was beaten to the top by Westlife it was just 460 copies behind (90,031 to Westlife’s 90,491). Anyway it reminds me of Now 43 and vividly of that summer and I only wish they had put the UK edit on the CD single (it was on the Cassette but only available on Now 43 on CD) as it would have likely been a number 1. However, at least here justice is served!
June 11, 20169 yr Author I only wish they had put the UK edit on the CD single (it was on the Cassette but only available on Now 43 on CD) as it would have likely been a number 1. However, at least here justice is served! What was the version that was on the CD single?
June 11, 20169 yr Only the extended/original version and some mixes were on the CD single. I bought Now 43 on the day of release to get the single version. The 'UK short cut' version, which sliced off half of the instrumental first minute and a bit could be found on the cassette single. Better Off Alone very quicly overtook 9PM (Till I Come) as my favourite dance song, and indeed favourite song of 1999. I first heard it in the car the day before it entered the chart, on a hot summer's day driving up to Great Yarmouth for a holiday. I was completely mindblown, incredible song and still within my all time top five. Watching its chart/sales rise was the first time I ever really obsessed over following something on the chart, and I was quite gutted that it couldn't overcome Westlife (and stop that horror run of 7 #1s from debut they had before it had even got going). Woolworths had it at #1 on the week Mi Chico Latino was released but ultimately I think Geri trounced it, I guess they assumed that its destiny was to eventually reach #1, and it's a real shame it never happened.
June 11, 20169 yr DJ Jurgen (Jurgen Rijkers) was born in 1967. He started his DJ career in 1978 as a radio-DJ with Radio Stad den Haag. He started DJing at age 11? Better Off Alone is great but I think it deserved to be more of a proper song. I don't mind dance tracks with the same line repeated over and over (that didn't hurt King Of My Castle) but in this case, I think it asked for a little more than that, Edited June 11, 20169 yr by N-S
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