June 23, 20169 yr I will do but won't download it until I'm back from my holiday. The track listing looks great though, without listening to it I can tell you've put a lot of thought into the sequencing :wub:
June 23, 20169 yr Author The links might have expired by then but I will upload it again if that happens,
June 23, 20169 yr The sequencing is brilliant, particularly given the huge mix of styles everything nicely segues into the next. Top work on using the proper UK mixes for all the songs as well, which often isn't right on these sorts of compilations that use other or re-recorded mixes - just on Disc 1 now and the correct Rapino Brothers mix is used for Corona's The Rhythm of the Night, which seems much rarer today than the original that was released elsewhere!
June 23, 20169 yr Author It's very rare to get the Rapino Brothers mix on a compilation but I made sure I had it. It's very irritating to get a substandard or non-hit version of a song on a compilation. It really ruins the flow.
June 23, 20169 yr I don't think I have commented in this thread (mainly because i kept playing catch up and wasn't often up to date!) but bravo on completing such a mammoth task. I applaud the commitment and passion that's gone into this! Can't wait to listen to the accompanying mp3s, that sequencing looks wondrous! :wub:
June 23, 20169 yr Just got to BBE's 'Flash' on Disc 2, and it's a bit of a revelation - I've been listening to a remix all these years instead of the original! The version I thought was the original, turns out, with a bit of searching, to be the 007 Mix: ygVHRvGzusQ This was used on the compilation 'Now Dance 97' edited down to be the same length as the original radio edit. Not sure which one I prefer, they both have their qualities. Here's the original as heard on disc 2 of the Buzzjack compilation: 0YjfpXABOLw
June 27, 20169 yr A while ago I searched The Hamster Dance on Wikipedia and the OCC site to see if it had charted in the UK and was surprised to not come up with anything. Seemed like an obvious novelty chart hit to me so I'm glad to see it actually was one under a different title! I genuinely can't believe I've been reading this thread for a year, how time flies! I thought it was more like 6 or 7 months. Nevertheless, it was a brilliant thread and you both are among the best writers I've seen on Buzzjack. I imagine with all the work put in it felt like a lot longer than a year to you! :lol:
June 27, 20169 yr It's very rare to get the Rapino Brothers mix on a compilation but I made sure I had it. It's very irritating to get a substandard or non-hit version of a song on a compilation. It really ruins the flow. Agree, I'm getting really tired of so many compilations using the original version of ATB's 9PM (Till I Come) recently and not the Sequential One edit, which was both the version promoted in the UK and I believe a huge reason why it was such a success here compared to other countries which were given the original. Original (which keeps appearing on compilations recently) ri6Efk1SPJc UK version (remixed by Sequential One) pA723UO3dWM
June 27, 20169 yr Author I haven't downloaded the file yet, so not sure. Oh, I got it off Now 43. I believe it's the version that got played on UK radio in 99.
June 27, 20169 yr Oh, I got it off Now 43. I believe it's the version that got played on UK radio in 99. That's the one, you used the right one then. It's funny because all of the comps that featured it in 99 (and there were many) all used the UK mix, but any comps that have come out past the mid 00s with it seem to use the other version. The reason I feel particularly strongly with it is because it's the song that kickstarted my love of dance music, and it's all down to that specific remix. I'd have had to wait a whole month for Better Off Alone to kickstart it instead if the original had been released in the UK :lol:
June 27, 20169 yr Author I wonder who is at the root of all this. It may be different parties in different cases. Sometimes the record company putting out the comp isn't willing to pay for the well know version and make do with a cheaper, lesser known one. Perhaps it's just a mistake and the person/team compiling don't know what they're actually doing :D Edited June 27, 20169 yr by Colm
June 27, 20169 yr I wonder who is at the root of all this. It may be different parties in different cases. Sometimes the record company putting out the comp isn't willing to pay for the well know version and make do with a cheaper, lesser known one. Perhaps it's just a mistake and the person/team compiling don't know what they're actually doing :D I'm going to take a punt at the latter, in which case they really need some quality control/have somebody with knowledge of the music on the compilation listen to it before it gets the green light. I mean you might expect re-recorded versions or mixes on budget '100 songs for £5' compilations (though funnily enough the 100 Hits series prides itself on using original artists and hit versions) but these mistakes are starting to regularly appear on chart-topping compilations being sold for the usual £10-£13.
June 27, 20169 yr Author The multitude of spin off Now albums - do they tend to use the proper, expected versions?
June 27, 20169 yr Generally they're a lot better but they have been known to slip up too, there's a definite non-hit version of Maria McKee's Show Me Heaven on the Now Movies compilation (whether it was the version used in Days of Thunder though I don't know, as I've never seen the film!) A quick scan of iTunes shows that the non-UK version of 9PM (Till I Come) made it onto albums including, but not limited to, 90 Hits of the 90s, #HolidayAnthems, Ibiza - The Album, For The Love of Trance, Now That's What I Call the 90s (slapped wrist Jenny Fisher...where's Hadji when you need him?), Judge Jules - Trance Anthems, One Clubland, Kisstory 2015...I think you get the gist, clearly nobody in these companies has any recollection of the remix that sold near a million copies...or they just don't have the rights to it anymore! You reminded me also of a case I've just posted in the pop forum, a version of Delta Goodrem's Innocent Eyes on a compilation called 100 Essential Tracks: Millennium Hits, which I'd never heard before, and as a Delta loon this is rare. It has more percussion and seems like either a demo or an alternative mix, but it was never on a CD single and I'd never come across it before, so I don't know where on earth it was found! :lol: Edited June 27, 20169 yr by gooddelta
June 27, 20169 yr Author How are you judging that it's a non-hit version on iTunes? By the duration? Some of those will be mixed albums so the duration won't match the hit version but it may still be the hit version that is used?
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