Angel City's four singles and Lost Brothers = ABSOLUTE BANGERS!

 

Touch Me's production is good (like Inna's songs 6 years before her first hit), not sure about the vocal, it is quite cheesy :mellow:

 

Sunrise just sounds like a poppy progressive house track, of the type that was popular around the early 2010s.

I wonder if Motorcycle 'As The Rush Comes' is coming up, forgot about it until just now - love it!

I wonder if Motorcycle 'As The Rush Comes' is coming up, forgot about it until just now - love it!

 

Yep there are some wonderful 'deep' dance tracks in 2004 making the charts, Deepest Blue - Give It Way is another one. And in 2005 we have Reflekt - Need To Feel Loved and Deep Dish's Say Hello. I wonder will any of them make dance number 1....

Yep there are some wonderful 'deep' dance tracks in 2004 making the charts, Deepest Blue - Give It Way is another one. And in 2005 we have Reflekt - Need To Feel Loved and Deep Dish's Say Hello. I wonder will any of them make dance number 1....

I love that Deepest Blue track!

I love that Deepest Blue track!

 

Deepest Blue and Deep Dish were both great. Really started the resurgence in progressive house in the charts, although progressive house wouldn't become a major chart force until 2009.

 

The Deepest Blue one I remember well from the time, playing on the radio. Excellent track, much better chilled dance music than today's tropical house type imo.

Lucky Star :music: I've always been a fan of Basement Jaxx!

 

Maria (I Like It Loud) is great as well, by no means Scooter's best track though

Lucky Star :music: I've always been a fan of Basement Jaxx!

 

Of course of their three 2005 top 40 songs the best one 'Do Your Thing' had to be released third from the album and chart the lowest when it should have been released first.

 

I like 'Where's Your Head At' most out of their 00s songs, I like Bingo Bango too. But this Lucky Star one that I never heard before prior to this thread sounds great. Dizzee's best dance song I think, along with Dirty Disco (I have to pick that one because of the funky house production :D )

Edited January 10, 20178 yr by 🚡🚟🍥-♨🎪🚘🎉🍥

The next one I remember quite a bit from the radio at the time too, a good tune definitely made better by the great vocal in it.

Edited January 12, 20178 yr by 🚡🚟🍥-♨🎪🚘🎉🍥

Hmmm, Motorcycle or Boogie Pimps I think. The latter most likely. Part of my DJ sets regularly :)

Hmmm, Motorcycle or Boogie Pimps I think. The latter most likely. Part of my DJ sets regularly :)

 

The odd true trance song like the Motorcycle one still became a hit in early 2004, there is also another trance producer (who may make this thread) doing well in the charts with a song in early 2004, the track I am referring to sounds a lot different to most trance songs. One of the last true vocal trance songs to do decently in the charts was Jurgen Vries' Take My Hand in early summer 2004. The final undisputed one (Calvin Harris' I'm Not Alone is disputed) to do decently in the charts will be on this thread for early 2005.

 

Of course I am not talking about trancepop/ eurotrance which continued to do well, during the first half of the year, after that eurotrance was on its way out as funky house started to become more dominant. The last trancepop hit wasn't until later in 2008 with a certain late 90s/very early 00s trance group that featured early in this thread getting a top 10 hit.

 

I remember Ferry Corsten 'Rock Your Body Rock' was an almost top 10 hit in 04

I remember Ferry Corsten 'Rock Your Body Rock' was an almost top 10 hit in 04

 

Weird one that one for a trance song - sounds a lot like Pendulum in terms of synths.

Weird one that one for a trance song - sounds a lot like Pendulum in terms of synths.

 

It's always stuck out for me as an interesting track

I remember Ferry Corsten 'Rock Your Body Rock' was an almost top 10 hit in 04

 

Another absolute banger ;)

For some reason I always associate this with Driftwood's 'Freeloader' as I guess they were out very close to each other and both amazing tracks that I still jam out too!

Edited January 16, 20178 yr by girlsaloudjunkie

2004 is a mixed year for dance music, we had the serious stuff like Motorcycle and then the bubblegum dance stuff like Discoland and Hungry Eyes. I tended to dismiss those two as terrible up to now, but they did clearly preceed/influence the iconic underground sound of PC Music, so I guess there was a point of them, apart from what I originally thought as them showing how ridiculous trancepop had become in its dying days in the charts.

 

By the way the next one on the list is on the cheesy side, but not yet to the standard of the two I mentioned. :D

 

Edited January 19, 20178 yr by Snake Got Hissed

I'll get back to this tomorrow.

I'll get back to this tomorrow.

 

Yes the next one would be an example in dance music where the vocal really makes the track I think, despite a generic production for the time (see also from this year - Jax Jones ft RAYE - You Don't Know Me too for another example imo).

 

I also think this was the only song of its particular subgenre I liked at the time, mostly because of the great vocal.

 

I'll get back to this tomorrow.

 

Great! I am look forward to seeing 2004's dance number 1s as we move into the funky house revival that starts in the second half of the year :dance:

Edited January 19, 20178 yr by Snake Got Hissed

Looking forward to this continuing. If you need any help putting them up I'm happy to chip in.

 

Also the Jax Jones song is a tuuune! For the record :P

I much prefer Yeah Yeah Yeah by Jax Jones...it has a more lively and interesting instrumental, a classic house style vocal and has disco strings samples in the chorus which I like.

Looking forward to this continuing. If you need any help putting them up I'm happy to chip in.

 

I would be happy if you did four after my four come up, but its up to danG as well.