'True Love Never Dies' entered the chart at number 7 and was Flip and Fill's debut chart hit.

 

According to Wikipedia, Flip & Fill were members of Bus Stop (who had 3 top 40 hits in 1998-99), along with Daz Sampson.

DB Boulevard-Point Of View

 

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Date 23rd Feb 2002

2 Weeks

Official Chart Run 3-7-12-14-18-24-28-38-44-52-54-74 + 2 weeks (15/6/2002) 97-98 (14 weeks)

 

 

This one is one of the tracks that I most remember from the early 00s. Again probably from my ice skating days. A deep house track (not funky house this time awardinary :) ), it is by Italian group DB Boulevard, which contains singer Moony and three other members. Moony, who sounds a lot like Geri Halliwell to my ears in the track, had another hit in 2002 with the heavenly deep house track I'll Be Loving You, which I remember a lot too.

 

Point Of View samples a track called Heatwave by a French band called Phoenix that was made in 1999 and Madonna's 1988 single Drowned World. My point of view at the time about Point Of View is that I didn't not associate it with dance music, had no idea it was dance music and that was good as I didn't like 'dance' music which I associated with harder stuff like trance.

 

Sadly though, this was DB Boulevard's only hit in the UK.

According to Wikipedia, Flip & Fill were members of Bus Stop (who had 3 top 40 hits in 1998-99), along with Daz Sampson.

 

Its like Freeloaders and N-Trance, more about that later in the thread.

LOVE Point Of View. It was used very effectively in the ending of an episode of Sex & The City once. Great tune!

Point Of View was played 24/7 on MTV Europe, I eventually got bored of it, as much as I loved the cute video. "Dove" being deep house is stretching it ;)

Edited September 7, 20168 yr by Euphorique

Dove to me is deep house it is very chilled and relaxed, and definitely qualifies as house I think.

 

Certainly I prefer Dove and Point Of View to any 2010s deep house, less aboit the drop and more about the smoothness of the song.

I'd say its house over deep house ;)

 

Deep house is more loungey, lower toned and chilled than that.

Edited September 8, 20168 yr by Euphorique

I'd say its house over deep house ;)

 

Deep house is more loungey, lower toned and chilled than that.

 

Point of View and Dove (I'll Be Loving You ) are loungey and chilled to my ears by 2000s house standards.

Whatever genre they are, both Point of View and Dove are fantastic dance tracks. I also loved Moony's floptastic single Acrobats.

Point of View is genius, obviously following Starlight's cue with a unique CGI video guaranteeing tons of MTV airplay but again the song is so brilliant it deserved to be a megahit all the same. Even if I did think it was called "Point of You" for the first couple of listens back in the day :P Another one that really reminds me of the era thanks to its huge airplay, that "I see life and light, all the colours of the world, so beautiful" break is heavenly.

 

Credit to Alizee, while not a dance track (more dancepop), reaching top ten with '

' in DB Boulevard's first week too, a two-year-old release sung completely in French becoming a big hit here was fairly astonishing - think it got a lot of airplay on The Box at the time?

 

Fun fact, Point of View is the last dance #1 of the pre-Pop Idol era. Sure HearSay had charted before, but Will Young hit #1 the same week as the next dance #1 and the reality TV floodgates truly opened...

'point of view' is anther immense early 00s dance anthem <3 <3 <3

Lasgo-Something

 

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Date 3rd March 2002

5 Weeks

Official Chart Run 84-x-4-5-6-10-10-11-14-14-19-22-31-36-49-63-70-76 (17 weeks)

 

 

Probably one of the most iconic trance songs ever, this track by Belgian group Lasgo (Belgium seems to have been where a lot of these trance groups were from, Ian Van Dahl, Lasgo, Milk Inc, DHT and also Kira and Dee Dee) features another strong female vocal performance which by now had dominated dance music, particularly the epic trance that defined 2002. The vocalist in question is Evi Goffin.

 

Lasgo's music is different to most trance as if you listen to their hits they all have distinctive metallic bass synths in the chillout part after the chorus.

 

Like fellow 2002 entries into the thread Addicted To Bass and True Love Never Dies, Something wasn't a new song but was made in early 2000. Lasgo's track aptly hit the UK at the height of the early 2002 vocal trance craze and also became a top 40 hit in Australia and unusually for a trance track, in the US reaching number 35, giving the US a rare early taste of EDM eight years before the start of the EDM boom there. It also became a top 10 hit in Belgium, Netherlands, Austria, Denmark and Romania but not until March 2002 in the UK.

 

Lasgo would have another top 10 hit, Alone, later in 2002 followed by Pray, a top 20 hit at the end of 2002. Their last UK hit was in May 2004 with Surrender, which reached number 24 at a time when house had overtaken trance as the main dance genre in the charts.

 

Finally a personal note. This one I definitely remember blasting from the ice rink speakers :) Now that was quite something hearing it. It is a brilliant trance track, I am starting to love 2002 big female vocal trance music as much as mid 00s big female vocal disco house :o

Edited September 9, 20168 yr by TheSnake

Now Ethan is going to bring us soon an act that is not too shy to make remixes up to recently and maintain that Radio 1 playlist relevancy.

I'm next actually :kink:

Oops I forgot, lets hope you are not too shy to post 'ur' next track from our eternally relevant dance act.

I believe Evi Goffin was the singer on Something and Lasgo's other hits, I think Jelle is her latter day replacement.

 

But yes, Something is a fantastic track, great vocal trance. Belgium were really on fire at this point, so many tunes coming out one after the other in early 2002, my favourite being the instrumental Close Cover by Minimalistix which just missed the top ten around the same time. I asked my keyboard teacher at the time to write sheet music for me for that <3

Edited September 8, 20168 yr by gooddelta

It is not clear what the reason for the massive delay was.

 

I don't think there was much of a delay in this case - 'Something' might have first been recorded in 2000 but it definitely didn't start smashing across Europe until late 2001, so the gap between that and the UK release was only a few months. Wikipedia says it charted in 2000 but the links further down on the page say otherwise.

 

Vocals aren't Jelle Van Dael's by the way, she was only born in 1990 so would have been far too young at the time! They're by Evi Goffin, Jelle replaced her in the group a few years later. (ah yeah, just seen gooddelta saying the same thing above me)

 

The song itself - the "I don't want to say I'm sorry" opening is great, and I love the vocals throughout, but I've never been too keen on the rest of the song. Once the beat comes in it's all just too poppy, it sounds mixed for radio rather than club play and it's not got that 'kick' other Eurohits like Castles In The Sky do. It's a bit too minimal for me, but given a remix it would be great.

Adore Something! Belgian dance in the 2000's was everything!

2002 seemed to have a lot of dance hits in the UK chart by Belgian acts....

 

I don't think there has been any other year that was dominated by dance acts in the UK chart from another country other than the UK...I am guessing Dutch big room/future house in 2014 with the Netherlands would be a comparison....Showtek, Martin Garrix and Oliver Heldens and former trance producers Tiesto and Armin van Buuren also came back with hits in 2014. Or this year with America, multiple hits by the Chainsmokers and one by Major Lazer....

Edited September 9, 20168 yr by TheSnake

Shy FX & T Power (feat. Di) - Shake Ur Body

 

 

Date 31st Mar 2002

1 Week

Official Chart Run 7-13-18-20-22-31-38-47-66-75-57-x (11 weeks)

 

 

Shy FX (Andre Williams) has been producing drum n' bass and jungle music for over 20 years. He at the time would regularly collaborate with another producer of this genre, T Power (Marc Royal), and their breakthrough single 'Shake Ur Body' (featuring vocals from Di) gave the duo a top 10 hit - becoming one of the biggest drum n' bass songs of the time (it was the second song of its genre to become a UK dance #1, following 'Addicted To Bass'). It only spends one week at #1 here though before passing it back to Lasgo for one more week.

 

The duo would score two more top 40 chart hits, 'Don't Wanna Know' (#19) and 'Feelin U' (#34), and released an album 'Set It Off'. In 2004 Shy FX & T Power would use the alias Ebony Dubsters and had two top 75 hits under that name. They'd then revert back to their original name to release their second and final album 'Diary Of A Digital Soundboy' (2005).

 

It wasn't the last Shy FX would see of the charts though as he took his remix of Naughty Boy, Wiley & Emeli Sandé's 'Never Be Your Woman' to #8 in 2010. More recently he has given remixes to DJ Fresh 'Gold Dust' and Protoje 'Who Knows' both of which received significant daytime airplay on Radio 1.