Schiller is a really good DJ a lot of the time, it had passed me by that he'd had a UK hit. Sounds like a great track.

Weapon Of Choice, it still sounds so good today :wub:

 

 

Star 69 I have never heard before.

 

It is like a 2000s Sak Noel Loca People though with the 'What the f*ck ' line and the repetitive nature. I like it a lot though. The video is funny too.

2001 was when Fatboy started to go a bit downhill for me, but not before closing the year with the beautiful “A Song For Shelter” (used to excellent effect many times in Green Wing amongst other TV/film) which made #30 in September. Nothing he has released since has been anywhere near the quality he used to attain, even the BPA project was quite average after the potentially great “Toe Jam”.

Edited August 20, 20168 yr by Doctor Blind

This is probably the only 90's eurodance tune to be more successful in the US than in Europe.

 

Edited August 20, 20168 yr by N-S

This is probably the only 90's eurodance tune to be more successful in the US than in Europe.

 

It does not surprise me that this was a moderate hit the the US. It sounds very similar to "Another Night" and Run away" from MC Sar & The Real McCoy which were two of the most successful Eurodance singles there.

 

Did not know that Schiller's "Glockenspiel" got a UK release :o

By the way the project is still very successful in Germany, but over the years has started focussing more on albums than singles.

The former duo in 2003 has become a "one man show" and Christopher von Deylen regularly gets a Number 1 album helped by a still big fanbase and by fully taking advantage of a now revenue based chart.

It does not surprise me that this was a moderate hit the the US. It sounds very similar to "Another Night" and Run away" from MC Sar & The Real McCoy which were two of the most successful Eurodance singles there.

 

Did not know that Schiller's "Glockenspiel" got a UK release :o

By the way the project is still very successful in Germany, but over the years has started focussing more on albums than singles.

The former duo in 2003 has become a "one man show" and Christopher von Deylen regularly gets a Number 1 album helped by a still big fanbase and by fully taking advantage of a now revenue based chart.

 

Is von Deylen's music still trance?

I heard 'This Is Your Night' in Australia earlier this year as part of a Eurodance playlist someone had on, it was the only one I'd never heard before! Massive in Oz too, #11 over there. Apparently it did get a UK release but didn't chart - I guess given its release date of late 1996 it sounds about two years too late for the UK, who were in dream house/early trance by then. Amber did have a top 40 hit here with Sexual in 2000.

 

Love the Schiller track, particularly Tiesto's brilliant remix. Not as keen on Fatboy Slim, his best days were behind him by now although the Weapon of Choice video is always a fun watch. What does hurt a little is that in its second week, it blocked

's chance at being a dance #1 by one place....and, further down in that chart, some bloke called DJ Tiesto has his first solo hit with

, charting at a criminally low #56 - happily it would reach top 40 with a

the following year, and (even better) the commercial bollocks he ruined his name with a decade later came out well after the noughties ended so we won't see them here.

 

Telepopmusik - Breathe

 

One of those I knew of for ages but didn't know the name, and when I did I was slightly stunned to find it missed top 40 - #42 in March 2002 was as high as it got. Laboratoire Garnier's used it as their advert music for years, to the point that whenever I hear it now I'm expecting someone to sell me skincare products.

 

Moby - Southside

 

This one's a new discovery to me - a downtempo electronica rare major US dance hit (#14!), helped hugely by the single version featuring

on vocals. Don't think it was released outside of North America although Moby had plenty of hits from the Play album here too.

Edited August 20, 20168 yr by BillyH

Of course, there are other big US dance hits mostly from US dance radio station, from The Roc Project's "Never" to Deborah Cox's "Something Happened On The Way To Heaven", to "Tu Es Foutu" by In-Grid, this one actually got played on KIIS, the 2nd biggest station

Edited August 21, 20168 yr by Euphorique

How U Like Bass is a fantastic discovery! That wub is just pure acid, miss the days where heavy dance like this could be a chart force.

 

The Schiller song rings a feint bell from somewhere but I'm glad to have been reminded of it via this thread :D very unique instrumentals make it standout over the relatively generic production but it sounds like a good driving song.

 

And a double Fatboy Slim :o I don't really recall Star 69 that well but Weapon Of Choice is very much of the familiar variety, swear I've heard that jingle at the start of the song on at least 1000 adverts, movies & TV shows :lol:

 

Surprised at just how quickly dance music faded in popularity in 2001! In 2000 almost every track was top 5 in the official charts but we're having to plumb to the depths of #17 to find the top dog at the moment :o

thankfully following Fatboy Slim we have a fair few entries that had top 5 peaks. There is one more song to come in 2001 that did miss the top 10 though but I imagine some of you will be familiar with it nonetheless, it is a one-hit wonder.

Weapon of Choice is a disco house classic. :dance:

 

Which one got more AirPlay at the time, was it Star 69 or Weapon Of Choice, i am guessing the latter.

 

Just listened to Star 69 in full and it really reminds me of Loca People from this decade.

Edited August 21, 20168 yr by TheSnake

How U Like Bass is a fantastic discovery! That wub is just pure acid, miss the days where heavy dance like this could be a chart force.

 

Well I think 2014 big room house was heavy dance and it really reminded me of the early 00s when it came out. I would go as far as to say that 2014 chart dance music was most similar to 2001 dance music of any year since the early 00s. There was even a progressive house song that kind of came close to trance - Alesso's remix of One Republic's If I Lose Myself.

 

And deep house was big in 2001 as we have seen with the Jakatta and Planet Funk songs and as we will see with a classic deep house tune sampling of a Toto track later on in 2001.

I don't consider the big room boom in 2014 much like that Norman Bass track myself, nowhere near enough "wub" :wub: it was heavy yes but still quite "watered down" heavy, with the exception of Animals, Wizard & Tsunami (and not that awful Tinie version ta)

 

Love Alesso but not a big fan of that If I Love Myself remix, just a bit mediocre & didn't capture the essence of trance like the late 90s classics.

 

Deep house seems to be the one genre that never dies out, as you mentioned encompassing a good number of early 00s tracks & still going strong to this day (well not quite as strong as 2 years ago but good enough to carve out some strong hits).

Is von Deylen's music still trance?

 

No, I would say it is not trance anymore. The music is now much more pop, ambient and chill out. Over the last years he has also made albums that had a classical influence. Artists he worked together include Sarah Brightman, Lang Lang, Mike Oldfield, Midge Ure and Colbie Caillat.

It's funny that Eurodance fell out of fashion in the UK so quickly but lasted another couple of years in North America. La Bouche's "Be My Lover" is a key one that springs to mind. When it got to #27 in July 1995 the ship had already sailed. Then it was a top 10 hit in the U.S. in early '96 and still couldn't get any higher than #25 on UK re-release.

I don't consider the big room boom in 2014 much like that Norman Bass track myself, nowhere near enough "wub" :wub: it was heavy yes but still quite "watered down" heavy, with the exception of Animals, Wizard & Tsunami (and not that awful Tinie version ta)

 

Love Alesso but not a big fan of that If I Love Myself remix, just a bit mediocre & didn't capture the essence of trance like the late 90s classics.

 

Deep house seems to be the one genre that never dies out, as you mentioned encompassing a good number of early 00s tracks & still going strong to this day (well not quite as strong as 2 years ago but good enough to carve out some strong hits).

 

Funky house hasn't really died out either. Salsoul Nugget to Lola's Theme and Love On My Mind in the middle of the decade then to Ready For The Weekend in 2009, Bom Bom in 2011 (novelty song but still funky house) and I Wanna Feel in 2014 and then 99 Souls at the end of last year.

 

However genres like trance and dubstep are non existent as a chart force any more.

Edited August 21, 20168 yr by TheSnake

It's funny that Eurodance fell out of fashion in the UK so quickly but lasted another couple of years in North America. La Bouche's "Be My Lover" is a key one that springs to mind. When it got to #27 in July 1995 the ship had already sailed. Then it was a top 10 hit in the U.S. in early '96 and still couldn't get any higher than #25 on UK re-release.

 

But eurodance came back in 1999(Vengaboys, Alice Deejay and Eiffel 65), 2003 to 2004 (Ultrabeat, Fly on the Wings of Love, those eurodance 80s sovers by Soda Club , Flip and Fill and Dan Wayne etc) and 2006 to 2008 (Cascada, Basshunter, Micky Modelle etc)

Fragma ‎- You Are Alive

 

http://i.imgur.com/sT9Vg3E.jpg

 

Date 13th May 2001

2 Weeks

Official Chart Run 4-5-12-15-25-35-42-51-70-x(7)-99-x (10 weeks)

 

 

This was German Trance Group Fragma’s third and final UK top5 smash reaching #4 in May 2001. I must say ‘You Are Alive’ is a rather fabulous atmospheric and uplifting trance jam :wub: :dance: :wub:, featuring the vocals of Damae, a German TV presenter hailing from Cologne, who would become their primary vocalist for the next decade. In terms of UK chart action things went south rapidly. 'Say That You're Here', the first single from Fragma’s second album ‘Embrace’, stalled at #25 in December 2001, their last original hit :(. A 2008 rehash of ‘Toca’s Miracle’ - remixed by Inpetto - peaked at #16 as ‘Toca’s Miracle 2008’, but it didn’t precipitate a revival and group folded in 2012.

Like the Shapeshifters and Ultrabeat, Fragma should have lasted as a chart force for longer. :(

 

Vaguely remember the great chorus, the singer sounds a bit like Geri Halliwell in the chorus a bit I think. Very good.