So much love for Fragma's holy trinity, and I still adore the album Toca too, there was a fantastic pop/dance song on their called Magic.

I saw Fragma live - complete with Damae - as one of the supporting acts as part of the Dance Nation tour in early 2009. I remember when their name was announced a lot of "Fragma?!" shouts went up around the arena - this was only a few months after the Inpetto remix of Toca's Miracle charted and I think many were surprised that they were still going! Great to see them but musically they were a little underwhelming as none of their hits sounded like the originals, they'd all been remixed into Toca's Miracle 2008 clones which was a little disappointing. As opposed to Sash! who performed later that same night and blew the roof off with their own unaltered late 90s classics!

 

Absolutely adore You Are Alive though, I'm probably alone in thinking this but it beats both Toca's Miracle and Every Time You Need Me any day - maybe because I've heard it the least out the three though so it never got overplayed. That fizzling trance-pop backing is awesome, particularly when it really kicks into gear about two minutes in - all my fave dance tracks are the ones that save the best bits to the end!

You Are Alive :wub: :wub: :wub:

DJ Pied Piper and The Masters Of Ceremonies-Do You Really Like It

 

 

Date 2nd June 2001

3 Weeks

Official Chart Run 1-2-2-3-6-10-16-22-27-31-35-37-49-57 (14 weeks) + 1 (12/01/2002) at 83

 

 

This is a UK Garage number 1 for the collaboration between DJ Pied Piper (real name Eugene Nwohia) and the Masters of Ceremonies (MC DT, Melody, Sharky P and The Unknown MC whose real names are Ronnie Nwohia, Connor Bostock, Ashley Livingstone and Steve Wickham. Presumbly Ronnie is a relation of Eugene, this seems too much of a coincidence for them not to be related.

 

Anyway, ‘Do You Really Like It’ is a one hit wonder for this group, who are from London. Do You Really Like It combines garage electronica with a rather sad sounding acoustic guitar part. It sold 475,000 copies in the UK in all.

 

Finally a personal note. I was in the later years of primary school at the time and the refrain ‘Do You Really Like It, Is It Is It Wicked, I’m Loving It, Loving it, Loving It, I’m Loving It Like That’ must have been the most sung part of any song in my school. Even more than any part of Busted’s songs.

 

Edited August 25, 20168 yr by TheSnake

...no, I don't :P As mentioned this became the irritating playground chant of choice at the time, replacing Ali G impressions, "WAZZUP" and "You are the Weakest Link, goodbye" of the months prior. I don't mind the early UK garage hits - the Rewinds, Moving Too Fasts etc - but by now we're in dire territory, although I do have a soft spot for one we'll probably be seeing at the end of the year.

 

, which would be a brilliant appearance here, misses out by one place - #3 when DJ Pied Piper was at #2, darn it! Seeing them perform that live at V Fest a few years back was a festival highlight.

You Are Alive is a fab tune, but some way off Toca's Miracle still. When I first looked back at their discography I'm surprised they had 3 top 5 hits I always thought they were one at most 2 hit wonders!

 

LOVE Do You Really Like It? Same with me Snake that song was CRAZY round my school at the time, the only other song I can remember at Primary having such an effect was Baha Men - Who Let The Dogs Out :lol:

'do you really like it?' ~ old skool ch00n :dance: :dance:

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.

Weapon of Choice was a huge MTV favourite thanks to its famous video - it was so well-known by the end of the year that Children in Need did a version with

.

 

Just realised what might be next, interesting choice - wouldn't immediately call it a 'dance' track but I suppose it's very heavily infuenced by the sounds of the time.

Was We R Here another cancelled single or did it really just flop so hard it missed the top 100. I remember hearing it quite a lot at the time and thinking it would go top 20 so that's rather bizarre if so.

 

The Do You Really Like It hook was very overused in my school too, though I was in Year 9 at the time.

Edited August 22, 20168 yr by gooddelta

I was under the impression that their follow up got cancelled. You'd think it would have at least gone top 100 though I don't recall the song itself

Mis-Teeq- All I Want

 

 

Date 23rd June 2001

2 Weeks

Official Chart Run 2-4-7-10-17-22-26-28-40-53-71

 

 

This is another Uk Garage entry this time for Mis-Teeq and their second single All I Want. Sunship produced this one, the producer behind Sweet Female Attitude's Flowers. While the former was a chilled garage tune, this is more vibrant and funky in nature. A mix between UK garage and funky house, it features Alesha Dixon rapping a verse as well as the singing. Rapping by female UK artists was not that big at the time so Alesha is somewhat a pioneer in this.

 

Mis-Teeq started off their career with a mid tempo R&B tune Why which was remixed into a garage tune and reached the top 10 earlier in 2001. Mis-Teeq would gradually become less garage after All I Want and so do not appear again in the thread.

Edited August 23, 20168 yr by TheSnake

classiqué~ :dance: :wub: :dance:

Really nice funky garage tune. Don't really remember it but is much better I think than the deeper more emotive sounding Flowers (which Sunship also produced) because I like a vibrant uplifting tune.

I know, I am a bit late, but yes "You are alive" is an abolute tune. :w00t:

Whenever you need motivation, if in the gym oder when not wanting to get up in the morning, turn this song on and you are fit as a fiddle :cheer: :dance:

Not really into that DJ Pied Piper song tbh. But the Mis-Teeq one is great :D

Further down at #31 in Mis-Teeq's first week, German techno group Members of Mayday scored a surprise top 40 hit with

- the 'anthem' of that year's Mayday Rave held in Dortmund in Germany, but big enough to cross the channel and chart here. The following year their older track

was released a whopping five years after its original German release (a #1 there in 1997) but it only reached #59. Still good going for something half a decade old and hardly the most commercial of acts.

 

All I Want is ok but a little too poppy at times, the 'Why' remix is my fave of theirs.

'10 In 01' is quite a choon! Shame it didn't do better but it's not really commercial enough to have been a top 10 I guess.

Roger Sanchez- Another Chance

 

 

Date 8th July 2001

2 Weeks

Official Chart Run 1-3-8-11-13-20-29-32-42-62-70-73-84 (13 weeks) + 2 weeks 29/12/2001 (100-91)

 

 

This deep house tune is the first really popular 80s remix of the 2000s of which there were plenty. Both of the lighter more relaxing retro sounding variety in the mid 2000s of for example the Waiting For A Star To Fall remixes but also of the rather less relaxing heavy eurodance sound of Soda Club and Dan Wayne in late 2002 and early 2003, Dana Rayne in early 2005 and later Cascada in 2008. Not all of these make the thread though.

 

Anyway the song in question samples is a ballad by American rock band Toto ‘I Won’t Hold You Back’. The track just made top 40 in the UK but was much bigger in the US at the time it was released (March 12th 1983)

 

So in July 2001 a sample from the song was used by Roger Sanchez and the song Another Chance immediately hit number 1 in the UK singles chart. Including the UK, it went top 40 in 18 countries and of these it went number 1 in Romania and top 10 in the Netherlands, Ireland, Spain and Denmark.

 

The man who made the track, Roger Sanchez is an American of Domitian descent. He would later, in 2003 win a Grammy award for best remixed recording, non classical for his remix of No Doubt’s ‘Hella Good’. Sadly Roger Sanchez never had another hit after ‘Another Chance’ in the UK, having had two top 40 hits before ‘Another Chance’ in 2000 and early 2001.

 

However Roger Sanchez has had a long career making and remixing songs, his first remix was one of Michael Jackson’s ‘Don’t Stop Until You Get Enough’. Sanchez was studying to be an architect originally but his father encouraged him to follow his desire and become a DJ full time. He has had a residency on Ibiza every summer since 2000.

The man who made the track, Roger Sanchez is an American of Domitian descent. He would later, in 2003 win a Grammy award for best remixed recording, non classical for his remix of No Doubt’s ‘Hella Good’. Sadly Roger Sanchez never had another hit after ‘Another Chance’ in the UK, having had two top 40 hits before ‘Another Chance’ in 2000 and early 2001.

 

You Can't Change Me was released after and charted at #25.

Roger Sanchez- Another Chance >>> absolute fave :wub: :dance: :wub:

Edited August 23, 20168 yr by Ethan