Don't forget Armand's other number one, 2009's Bonkers. :P

 

Also I'd say My My My by him was far bigger than Koochy although it did miss the top ten.

 

Also, the slow bit of One More Time is amazing. As is the whole song, but that really adds something special to the song. It's gotta be the album version too, the 4 minute edit is too short for the song.

love One More Time and I was surprised it wasn't bigger, should have been #1 for multiple weeks instead :)

A few other minor hits I missed;

 

Robbie Rivera pts. Rhythm Bangers – Bang

Bob Sinclar – I Feel For You

Sash! – With My Own Eyes

Armand Van Helden – Koochy

Fatboy Slim – Sunset (Bird Of Prey)

Here are only the dance number 1s listed.

 

With My Own Eyes though is another fantastic track from Sash! :wub:

Don't forget Armand's other number one, 2009's Bonkers. :P

 

Also I'd say My My My by him was far bigger than Koochy although it did miss the top ten.

 

Also, the slow bit of One More Time is amazing. As is the whole song, but that really adds something special to the song. It's gotta be the album version too, the 4 minute edit is too short for the song.

 

My My My missed the top 10 twice once in summer 2004 and secondly in summer 2006, with a new version with Tara McDonald. They both kind of framed the retro disco house period in the middle of the decade. I prefer the second version, Tara's vocals sound a bit like Ane Brun's ones in 'Cant Stop' this decade.

 

Has anyone else noticed the video for My My My is very similar to Tough Love's So Freakin Tight?

 

 

 

Public Domain - Operation Blade (Bass In The Place)

 

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Date 26/11/2000

4 Weeks

Official Chart Run 5-5-8-811-9-12-19-25-35-43-52-67-84-x-x-93-94-85-97-91-98(20 weeks)

 

This track is from Scottish duo Public Domain from Ayr, consisting of DJ James Allen and MC Neil Skinner. The video features these two individuals performing to a crowd. The track to my ears sounds much like a forerunner of 2014 style big room house with a big build up and the drop. Technically though it is under the genre 'hard house' however it is very hard for many (including myself) to know the difference between the two genres. Perhaps some dance experts here can elighten me. :blink:

 

The track features crowd sounds and is not the only track in this countdown to feature them. It also was definitely targeted only at the UK market as the most prominent words are 'Bass In The Place, London'. A slight snub to their Scottish roots perhaps. Despite this, it did go top 10 in Austria, Germany and Australia.

 

It was a struggle to find sales information about this one. There is no English Wikipedia page for this. Apparently, according to the German Wikipedia page it went platinum in Australia, although there are no figures for the UK.

 

They had two follow ups which made the top 40 in the UK, Rock Da Funky Beats (which despite its name definitely wasn't funky house :lol: ) which reached number 19 in June 2001 and Too Many MCs (number 34 in January 2002).

 

Finally a personal story. It was the kind of thing I didn't like much at the time, as I wasn't into hard dance music. I have a more positive opinion now. In Belfast, I think I must have heard it and similar stuff on a dance radio station operating in Ireland at the time, NRG, which my aunt used to listen to for some reason. Fellow Irish Buzzjackers may remember this station.

 

Edited August 11, 20168 yr by TheSnake

This track samples the Pump Panel remix of New Order's Confusion. There was another track in the top ten around the same time using the same sample, Phatt Bass by Warp Brothers and Aquagen. Personally I never cared much for any of them.

Now my opinion, goodness me it's like the 'Eat Sleep Rave Repeat' of 2000. Very similar sort of dance music. As I said I didn't like it at the time but now I think its a great tune and probably a big influence on 2014's trend of hard house and big room house.

This track samples the Pump Panel remix of New Order's Confusion. There was another track in the top ten around the same time using the same sample, Phatt Bass by Warp Brothers and Aquagen. Personally I never cared much for any of them.

 

Yes I saw it sampled three few tracks in whosampled but I thought that was too many songs and didn't know whether it was accurate so didn't include it.

 

LOVE this one and the story of it all always fascinated me - as gooddelta's already said, a remix of a remix - and has a crazy complicated journey from birth to release. Correct me if I'm wrong, but basically:

 

* New Order release the song 'Confusion' in 1983

 

* In 1995, New Order release the album 'The Rest of New Order' featuring various remixes of their older songs. One of them is the Pump Panel Reconstruction Mix of 'Confusion' completely transforming the song into a ten minute acid techno banger

 

* This remix was used in a memorable scene in the superhero movie 'Blade', released in the UK in November 1998. Demand for the song grew instantly from clubbers who'd seen it

 

* Step forward Public Domain, a group of Scottish DJs who notice the demand for the 'Blade song' and begin playing it to huge reception in clubs, mixing in some sampled MC vocals from Public Enemy's Flavor Flav featuring the repeated line "Bass for your face, London!" (I know, bear with me) for added effect. What becomes 'Operation Blade' is born

 

* Track is signed for commercial release, but in the same way as Black Legend's The Trouble With Me, the sampled vocals can't be cleared for commercial use and are re-recorded by soundalike Mallorca Lee. The new vocals change the main line to "Bass in the place, London", and a few other changes - "Yo Chuck (D), kick it to them, man" becoming "Public Domain, kicking it to you man"

 

* Track is scheduled to be released in time for Christmas 2000, but at the same time two groups of German DJs - Warp Brothers and Aquagen - have presumably had exactly the same idea, and their song 'Phatt Bass' is released, using the same Blade/Pump Panel sample - the CD features two main mixes, the Warp Brothers mix and the Aquagen mix, but it's the Warp Brothers one that gets the main radio airplay. This is released in the same month in the UK causing something of a sample 'battle' - both singles have stickers on the front claiming their record is the 'original' Blade theme, with Phatt Bass going a step further with the words "ACCEPT NO IMITATIONS" on the front!

 

* The Warp Brothers/Aquagen ended up charting first, presumably on import (#58 in November 2000), and on full release reached the top ten at #9, but it was Public Domain's more homegrown version that ended up the winner here, peaking at #5, a massive seller right through the season and climbing back into the top ten in early 2001 once all the Christmas songs were falling. I'm not sure of the full sales total but I know it's pretty huge, it got quite high in a countdown of dance songs from the noughties that one of the music channels showed a few years ago.

 

Think that's all correct, and agreed that the 'drop' is similar to the big-room house of just over a decade later - although I'll listen to this over the likes of 'Animals' any day, a brilliant uplifting hard house tune.

That was a really insightful story, BillyH! I know it's too early to ask, but I'd love it if you know if there was a similar backstory behind 2 records that sampled Waiting For A Star To Fall that both went top 5 in 2005 and were in the top 10 at the same time. :P

There is indeed a big story to go along with the Star To Fall sample battle, but we'll get to that when we see one or both of them get featured in the thread.

This thread is really educational. I love it

There is indeed a big story to go along with the Star To Fall sample battle, but we'll get to that when we see one or both of them get featured in the thread.

 

Actually there are three. Mylo - In My Arms too but that was released later.

 

During the 2000s there was also Chocolate Puma/Nigel and Marvin and The Ones/George Michael and also Big Ang and Siobhan/Freemasons. But these were released at different times. Naughty Boy/Sunblock was released at the same time though like the Waiting For A star to fall ones. We will see which ones will appear in the thread.

Edited August 11, 20168 yr by TheSnake

This thread is really educational. I love it

 

 

Were there any sample wars in the 90s thread?

KWS - Please Don't Go (1992) and Spacedust - Gym & Tonic (1998) are two tracks in the 90s thread that have similarly interesting stories.

 

(edit: links now attached!)

Edited August 11, 20168 yr by BillyH

There were a number of these "big bass" songs competing around that time period and beyond.

 

Here's a number of ones I put into this category.

 

Fatboy Slim & Riva – Eat Sleep Rave Repeat [Calvin Harris Remix]

Porn Kings – Pumping Up The Sound

Porn Kings vs DJ Supreme – Up On The Wildstyle

Porn Kings vs Flip & Fill – Shake Ya Shimmy [FNP Remix]

Porn Kings vs Flip & Fill – Music Is Pumping

Porn Kings vs Mix Factory – Take Me Away

Public Domain – Operation Blade

Sub Focus – Rock It

Warp Brothers – We Will Survive

Warp Brothers vs Aquagen – Phatt Bass

Wink – Higher State Of Consciousness

 

And it was the last one in that list there by Wink that started a lot of the se other DJ's off I think wasn't it?

 

 

Does Operation Blade conclude the year 2000?

Edited August 11, 20168 yr by awardinary

TheSnake, please don't start again with the double and triple posts, they ruin this fantastic thread ;)

 

Operation Blade is an anthem, weird song but a tune and remembers me always on that vampire movie ( now I forgot the title arghhhh)

 

Blade was the title, i think

Edited August 11, 20168 yr by *Ben*

Were there any sample wars in the 90s thread?

 

No but there were a few instances when similar tracks were released.

KWS - Please Don't Go was a the hit version but Double You had the original version before KWS but failed to released it in time to capitalie on it. This is the simplified version.

 

There were disagreements over the use of the song title Playing With Knives between Blue Pearl and Bizarre Inc, I think.

Edited August 11, 20168 yr by Colm

Oxide and Neutrino ft Megaman, Romeo and Lisa Maffia - No Good 4 Me

 

 

Date 24/12/2000

2 Weeks

Official Chart Run 6-6-8-14-27-40-53-70-x-x-x-x-91-93-92 (11 Weeks)

 

 

This UK garage song by So Solid Crew members Oxide and Neutrino finishes off the 2000 part of the thread, being a big hit during the festive period of 2000 and into the new year of 2001. It covers The Prodigy's 1994 track No Good (Start the Dance) in the chorus and in the music of the verses too. It also contains rapping in the verses like the first Oxide and Neutrino song on this thread, Bound 4 Da Reload, so Oxide and Neutrino really started off the growing trend of rapping being included in UK Garage tracks. They reference their precious hit in the first words of the song 'Bound For The Bound Bound We're Back Again'. They also use their favourite number 4 again in the title.

 

The London duo would have four more top 20 hits in 2001 and the start of 2002 from their first two albums, Execute and 2 Stepz Ahead, the second one undoubtedly named after the genre of 2 step garage they were part of.

 

The video features epic noodle throwing, a Modestep - Feel Good reminiscent metal box and a rather humorously running man as well as the duo themselves. Of course the most famous incidence of a humorously running man in a 2000s dance video occurs near the middle of the decade part of this thread.

Edited August 11, 20168 yr by TheSnake

The video features... a rather humorously running man as well as the duo themselves. Of course the most famous incidence of a humorously running man in a 2000s dance video occurs near the middle of the decade part of this thread.

You know what random video popped into my head when you said this, which I know isn't the video you are referring to, but it was this funny one. :lol: