It still really bugs me why OCC let 3 different versions (I know, with a different catalog number) of the same track to chart at once.....

Is 'Sound of The Underground' by Girls Aloud perhaps going to be eligible, just lisstened to it randomly and realised it is drum and bass technically :o

Is 'Sound of The Underground' by Girls Aloud perhaps going to be eligible, just lisstened to it randomly and realised it is drum and bass technically :o

It's by Xenomania though - if 'All Fired Up' wouldn't be eligible, I don't think any of their production will or should.

TheSnake - you use the term funky house where I would use looped house.

not a fan of the Zombie Nation track

TheSnake - you use the term funky house where I would use looped house.

 

Yes but most house music is looped in some way, certain aspects of songs of the genre are repetitive throughout the song, usually the bassline and the beat.

 

Looped house is when the vocals are repetitive (Daft Punk - Around the World is an example). Not all looped house is funky house, look at last years organ house ones.

 

Funky house is any type of house music where there is strong funk or disco influences.

 

 

 

 

Looped house is when the vocals are repetitive (Daft Punk - Around the World is an example). Not all looped house is funky house, look at last years organ house ones.

 

 

Isn't it where they take a sample of another song and repeat it? Spiller, Modjo, Stardust, etc. That is what I always called that sort of music.

Zombie Nation did go to #1 for me in what was a very dance heavy chart with Delirium's "Silence" at 2 (Former #1), Sonique, the aforementioned Modjo, Aurora (not that one), Sasha/Emerson and Azzido Da Bass.

Silence was a huge favourite for me at that time :wub:

 

Kernkraft is a really good techno track, Love it, although bit of a weird one I must admit :D

 

Funky house is any type of house music where there is strong funk or disco influences.

Isn't Funky House actually any type of music TheSnake says it is funky house? :heehee: :kink:

Think I'm right in that one of the biggest anthems of the decade is coming up next - I'll save more thoughts for when it's posted!

 

Until then, let's just gaze on the brilliance of the tracklisting of Now 47, disc 2 especially full of jams. After being spoilt for choice in 1999 I often forget how great a lot of 2000 was too...

Delerium feat. Sarah McLachlan - Silence (Remixes)

 

 

Date 8th Oct 2000

6 Weeks

Official Chart Run 3-4-6-7-11-13-21-28-31-37-44-45-41-47-59-62- (16 weeks)

 

 

Ambient and ethereal trance duo Delerium, a side project of 80’s Canadian Industrial Metal group Front Line Assembly, was formed in Vancouver during 1987 by Bill Leeb and Rhys Fulber. Abstract, industrial, and Dark Ambient soundscapes dominated their early output, with Tribal and Illbient influences becoming more apparent during the early 90s, before a shift to a more ethnic style - ethereal Electronica - with new age influences for their 9th album ‘Karma’ in 1997.

 

Complete with Gregorian chanting (Gloria in Excelsis Deo), and vocals from Canadian singer songwriter Sarah McLachlan, the potential of ‘Silence’ - the fourth track from ‘Karma’ - soon became apparent to trance producers. First up were Chris Fortier and Neil Kolo aka Fade and their Sanctuary mix which reached #73 on release, in June 1999, selling a mere 5k it was the 906th biggest selling of 1999.

 

A Matt Darey remix of a ‘Karma’ bonus track ‘Heaven’s Earth’ reached #44 in early 2000, before the big guns were brought into remix ‘Silence’ for the Ibiza season. Thus Airscape (Belgian trance duo Johan Gielen and Sven Maes) provided the radio version for the re-release, and Dutch superstar DJ Tiësto aka Tijs Michiel Verwest produced the now infamous 11:35 ‘In Search of Sunrise’ remix. When activated in October 2000 the remix package shot straight to #3 on sales of 48,500 and the longest dance Dance Chart #1 of the year clocking up 6 weeks here! *.*

 

Regarded as an all-time trance classic, ‘Silence’ returned to the top40 in November 2004 when an Above & Beyond remix reached #38. Delerium went on to have a number of minor hits in the early 00’s: ‘Innocente (Falling In Love)’ [#32 2001], ‘Underwater’ [#33 2001], ‘After All’ [#46 2003] & ‘Truly’ [#54 2004]. Still active Delerium are set to release their 14th album 'Mythologie' next month~

Silence! :wub:

 

I love both versions :wub: :dance:

I really like the original Fade remix as well as the Tiesto remix. At the time it was the Airscape mix that was huge but I don't think it has aged as well as the others.

That's the one. Just wow - the Airscape mix is the one I first heard and fell in love with but huge respect to Tiesto's too, even in the mid-noughties this was just one of the most incredible things I'd ever heard. One of the first songs I downloaded from iTunes when their Music Store launched a few years later - I liken it to 'Insomnia' by Faithless in that the best bit's the one at the very end, building up until reaching that moment.

 

Makes me all the more annoyed that I was still only a kid when it came out so missed its club-play peak, in fact I've only heard this once in a club and that was way back in 2008, but still sounded pretty damn special!

Silence is literally heavenly :wub:

Incredible song, and the only time the brilliant Sarah McLachlan had a notable UK hit. The Airscape mix will always be my favourite but I love the Tiesto mix too.

 

Where did the info that it was the 906th biggest seller of 1999 come from out of interest Ethan? I'd love to see that entire list, or indeed any year list stretching down that far!

Unpopular opinion time. I've always found Silence a bit limp & am not a fan of the all over the place vocals. There are much better in the trance genre for me.

Now Lady and Zombie Nation are still amazing imo.

 

Silence I could give or take tbh. Never loved it.

One of the many tracks that missed out as dance #1 during Silence's reign is an almost-forgotten gem from Fatboy Slim, one of my faves of his if nowhere near as remembered today as his 98-99 stuff:

 

 

First time I heard it was on the Ministry of Sound Annual 2000 CD, where a slightly sped up version mixed surprisingly brilliantly into Spiller's Groovejet.

 

Fatboy Slim was incredible at his peak, and I found it something of a shame that his mid-noughties stuff fizzled out into "nice video, shame about the song" irrelevance - Eat Sleep Rave Repeat was pretty good but that charted as a Calvin Harris remix.

Silence is of course genius. That break at 4:27 in the In Search of Sunrise mix still sounds great. The whole thing was responsible for some terrible trance lite produced afterwards. Fearful female vocals on trance started popping up all over the place, most of which didn't have the depth or tone of Sarah McLaughlin.

I really like the original Fade remix

 

The Fade mix was a hit in 1999 in Ireland and was in the charts for ages. It hit number 1 and spent 21 weeks in the charts according to the Irish charts site but I dont remember it's exact peak. It had no video.