August 16, 20168 yr Salsoul Nugget is SO infectious :wub: although I must admit the verses aren't that special & drag on a bit that chorus is SUCH an earworm and completely steals the song :dance:
August 16, 20168 yr But back to 'Salsoul Nugget' for now - surprised to hear the woman in the video actually sang some of it, I assumed it was the usual case of sampling all the vocals and getting a model to lipsync the lot, but it looks like she did at least the verses - the opening few lines are Loleatta Holloway, and the looped chorus is cut and sped up from Double Exposure's Everyman...and it's actually a guy singing that bit! Check the start of Everyman to hear the original! The vocals in the chorus were quite different from those in the verses, so I always had my doubts that Natasha was singing the full song. However the lyrics are different. In Everyman they go: "No one said that the road would be paved all smooth and nice" And in Sal Soul Nugget: "If you wanna right the rumble with me babe all through the night" so maybe it wasn't directly sampled from there.
August 16, 20168 yr The vocals in the chorus were quite different from those in the verses, so I always had my doubts that Natasha was singing the full song. However the lyrics are different. In Everyman they go: "No one said that the road would be paved all smooth and nice" And in Sal Soul Nugget: "If you wanna right the rumble with me babe all through the night" so maybe it wasn't directly sampled from there. I always thought it was 'If you want to by the river with me babe all through the night' :lol:
August 16, 20168 yr I always found the early Noughties quite interesting because there were quite a few European dance smashes that were never released over here. I'd imagine Daddy DJ and La Passion would have been massive hits (possibly even #1s) had they been promoted here. I always found it odd how they missed out.
August 16, 20168 yr Salsoul Nugget is SO infectious :wub: although I must admit the verses aren't that special & drag on a bit that chorus is SUCH an earworm and completely steals the song :dance: To me the reason I like it is because it is uplifting and also because of the disco strings samples. They add so much to dance music I think and they were particularly used a lot between a certain iconic 2004 track that sparked their use probably and the rise of electro at the end of 2006. Disco strings are great in dance music but are not used much these days apart from by Clean Bandit. Sigma use them in drum and bass but I prefer them in house music. I think they add a power to a house track, like the sweeping synths do in trance music. Edited August 16, 20168 yr by TheSnake
August 16, 20168 yr Norman Bass - How U Like Bass? (Warp Brothers Club Mix) http://i.imgur.com/BATfr0H.jpg Date 15th Apr 2001 1 Week Official Chart Run 17-28-39-51-x (4 weeks) 2dOeUf-nbkA 1NBjdv9IFZY “How u like bass in your motherf*cking face?” Thumping German Hard Trance courtesy of Norman Kniep aka Norman Bass. The Warp Brothers, German Hard House duo Oliver Goedicke and Jürgen Dohr, have of course already been mentioned in this thread for their sampling of New Order’s 'Confusion (Pump Panel Reconstruction Mix)' with Aquagen. ‘Phatt Bass’ reached #9 in December 2000 at the same time as Public Domain’s ‘Operation Blade (In The Place)’, which took a sample from the same source, was in the top5. Their remix of ‘How U Like Bass?’, which reached #17 in April 2001, gave them a clutch of 4 top40 hits by the end of 2001: ‘We Will Survive’ (#19, Feb 2001) and ‘Blast The Speakers’ (#40, Dec 2001) were the other two. Banging! :dance: :music: :dance:
August 16, 20168 yr Is this house or trance? Only discovered this recently while chart archive looking for early 00s dance tracks. If I did hear it at the time I wouldn't have liked it - too hard. Really like this one - wobbly bassline - Nero who? :lol: , humourous lyrics 'You like bass boom boom.boom boom.boom.boom. More booms than Heavy D would say in an hour. :) I like the ones that are not so well known on the thread and an obscure funky house one from early 2006 is one of my favourites as as an obscure trance one from early 2004 too. Only 4 weeks top 100 :o Edited August 16, 20168 yr by TheSnake
August 16, 20168 yr Wow a new discovery. I've never actually heard of this one before, in fact it was seldom released on any compilations at the time, and it isn't even in the Apple Music library which I just searched in? :huh: Very bassy, I am guessing the first video posted was the radio edit which was released in the UK? I guess this one gets out in the category of "songs hard to come by" as it seems like a rare and forgotten song.
August 16, 20168 yr The vocals in the chorus were quite different from those in the verses, so I always had my doubts that Natasha was singing the full song. However the lyrics are different. In Everyman they go: "No one said that the road would be paved all smooth and nice" And in Sal Soul Nugget: "If you wanna right the rumble with me babe all through the night" so maybe it wasn't directly sampled from there. It was definitely sampled, I just roughly recreated it in Audacity in about five minutes :P Here's a quick youtube video I've just made showing Everyman become Salsoul Nugget: cVl35KCf_Bg M&S cut the "If you wanna..." from the second line, and joined it onto "...that the road would be paved all smooth and nice" and sped the whole thing up by about 20%, creating the nonsense line "If you wanna that the road would be paved all smooth and nice"...which in turn can sound like anything the listener wishes! EDIT: Yep, amazed to see How U Like Bass here - easily the most obscure track here so far, but I adore it as much as Operation Blade - always been a huge fan of that hard bassy techno sound that was briefly big chartwise in the early noughties! That 'WUB WUB WUB' of the bass also reminds me of some of the dubstep hits in about a decade's time... I've never actually heard of this one before, in fact it was seldom released on any compilations at the time, and it isn't even in the Apple Music library which I just searched in? :huh: Very bassy, I am guessing the first video posted was the radio edit which was released in the UK? It is indeed the correct mix - my copy of this comes from a compilation called 'Big Club Hits', which was released in the UK later that same year. It also features the next dance #1. Edited August 16, 20168 yr by BillyH
August 16, 20168 yr I always found the early Noughties quite interesting because there were quite a few European dance smashes that were never released over here. I'd imagine Daddy DJ and La Passion would have been massive hits (possibly even #1s) had they been promoted here. I always found it odd how they missed out. also DJ Encore - I See Right Through To You, it even managed US success. Apparently the cd single was disqualified even though it was heading for a top20 position midweek
August 16, 20168 yr I always found the early Noughties quite interesting because there were quite a few European dance smashes that were never released over here. I'd imagine Daddy DJ and La Passion would have been massive hits (possibly even #1s) had they been promoted here. I always found it odd how they missed out. There did seem something of an effort in early-mid 2002 to finally release a ton of Eurohits that had been big around the continent over the last two to three years - Alizee, ATC, DJ Aligator, Lasgo, Milk Inc etc. Somehow Daddy DJ and La Passion missed out, the latter despite its Irish success. Agreed both would have been massive over here.
August 16, 20168 yr Daddy DJ charted at 198 in September 2001, but of course made #2 as the remade “All I Ever Wanted” by Basshunter in the year when he inexplicably managed that plus a 5-week #1 (What happened in 2008?!?) Edited August 16, 20168 yr by Doctor Blind
August 17, 20168 yr Basshunter's version has a more scousey feel to it, which was more in tune with what was doing well at the time. I think some the ones that did get a UK release suffered cause they were released 2 or 3 years too late. ATC would've been an easy top5 in 2000, Sylver completely missed the top40 in 2003 when it would've been an easy top10 in 2001, etc. Edited August 17, 20168 yr by Euphorique
August 17, 20168 yr It was definitely sampled, I just roughly recreated it in Audacity in about five minutes :P Here's a quick youtube video I've just made showing Everyman become Salsoul Nugget: cVl35KCf_Bg M&S cut the "If you wanna..." from the second line, and joined it onto "...that the road would be paved all smooth and nice" and sped the whole thing up by about 20%, creating the nonsense line "If you wanna that the road would be paved all smooth and nice"...which in turn can sound like anything the listener wishes! Thanks for that. Once you know all that, you can pretty much catch the actual Everyman's lyrics in Sal Soul Nugget, even the sped up sample sounds like it may have different lyrics.
August 17, 20168 yr I picked up How U Like Bass for 1p in Asda once (the days when they sold off old hits in the bargain bin for 1p <3) I don't actually like it that much though to be honest :lol: Yeah I See Right Through To You was disqualified for some reason, I definitely recall seeing the CD single in Virgin the week it came out, it was heading for a decent chart placing. I was gutted. Gigi D'agostino could have had a few hits here...Bla Bla Bla was half promoted in summer 2000 (#87 peak), it went to #1 in my personal chart after I heard it on a compilation called Fresh Hits Vol. 2. I'm sure La Passion, The Riddle and L'amour Toujours would have done much better though, the latter is pretty well known in this country even though it wasn't properly released. Edited August 17, 20168 yr by gooddelta
August 17, 20168 yr The complete lack of Gigi D'Agostino action in the UK charts is something that will always mystify me, particularly as some of his hits came extremely close to being released - L'amour Toujours got cancelled at least twice, once in 2002 and again when AATW tried to release it sometime in the mid-noughties. I actually have the UK edition of the Bla Bla Bla single somewhere, a long-gone CD shop in Battersea were selling them off for 10p each in early 2008 along with tons of other lesser-known noughties dance tracks (Kontakt, Oceanlab, Warp Brothers etc) - they gave it another go in late 2002, but again promotion was virtually zero.
August 17, 20168 yr The complete lack of Gigi D'Agostino action in the UK charts is something that will always mystify me, particularly as some of his hits came extremely close to being released - L'amour Toujours got cancelled at least twice, once in 2002 and again when AATW tried to release it sometime in the mid-noughties. I actually have the UK edition of the Bla Bla Bla single somewhere, a long-gone CD shop in Battersea were selling them off for 10p each in early 2008 along with tons of other lesser-known noughties dance tracks (Kontakt, Oceanlab, Warp Brothers etc) - they gave it another go in late 2002, but again promotion was virtually zero. Strange isn't it, especially as it was the time when The Box and other TV music channels were usually largely responsible for breaking the big European dance hits in the UK. Weird that they didn't pick up anything by Gigi D'agostino, at least not until it was too late, I always see the video to L'amour Toujours on TV now :lol:
August 17, 20168 yr With reference to the 2000 tracks released later like the DJ Alligator track, there were a fair share of hits released 2 years late in 2005, Praise Cats - Shined On Me, Gadjo/Alexandra Prince - So Many Times and DHT and Edmee - Listen To Your Heart. Blaze and Barbara Tucker's Most Precious Love was released in 2005 but didn't chart until 2006. Earlier than this there was a version of Matt Darey's Beautiful that I saw on the OCC website that charted in 1999 in the low top 40, three years before its main success. Also there is a 2008 song on this thread that was released in 2005 originally and was a moderate hit.
August 17, 20168 yr Also wasn't Love Inc's You're A Superstar a hit in Canada in 1998? It answered so many questions when I learnt that fact because every time I heard it in late 2002 I thought 'wow...this takes me back to 1998' :lol: It was like Sash's Move Mania or something.
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