thanks but us three are doing fine at it ourselves, keep posting in the thread though - we like contributions! ^_^

Can I post a couple of Number Ones along with videos and write ups please? :D

 

I like how this is a collaborative project between danG, Ethan and TheSnake, but I'd like to collaborate too!

 

Well I was going to start 80s electronic dance number 1s...would you do that with me.....

 

Well I was going to start 80s electronic dance number 1s...would you do that with me.....

Sure Snake, I own lots of MOS compilations for that era! :)

Hated "Lazy" one of the worst dance songs of all time.

 

Shakedown's at night is good, but pales in comparison to the 4 Strings track

I'd love to disagree here but I can't. All the popular dance songs at the moment are either house, tropical house or future bass - which are all very similar. Even drum n' bass doesn't seem to do well in the charts now.

 

In this era, you had house, trance and garage dominating (including many of its subgenres from funky, deep, french, progressive, vocal, euro, 2step, 4x4...), plus hits from others genres like ambient, techno and Drum & Bass. Good times for sure.

Edited September 12, 20168 yr by Euphorique

Shakedown are one of the few acts from Switzerland to have made the top 10. Another such act is Yello (who reached #7 in 1988 with The Race), whose frontman Dieter Meier featured (albeit uncredited) on X-Press 2's follow-up to Lazy (I Want You Back, which reached #50).

Shakedown are one of the few acts from Switzerland to have made the top 10. Another such act is Yello (who reached #7 in 1988 with The Race), whose frontman Dieter Meier featured (albeit uncredited) on X-Press 2's follow-up to Lazy (I Want You Back, which reached #50).

 

That's far too few for Switzerland. They have some great dance acts around right now like Remady, Manu-L & DJ Antoine but their type of music will never become big in the UK :(

 

Whilst I do prefer the Chocolate Puma track, Follow Da Leader is a whole lot of fun & the type of novelty track done right. This mashup tho!

 

funnily I was living in Belgium at the time, so was very much into all the dance music that was coming out in Belgium/The Netherlands, you know Lasgo, Tiesto, etc especially loved all the early Tiesto stuff, before he went "pop" :)

 

this is one of my fav Belgian dance songs of the period, was only a small hit in the UK but deserved better

 

Minimalistix - Close Cover

In 2002, there was even a Benelux dance act named after a Travis song.

 

That's far too few for Switzerland. They have some great dance acts around right now like Remady, Manu-L & DJ Antoine but their type of music will never become big in the UK :(

 

Whilst I do prefer the Chocolate Puma track, Follow Da Leader is a whole lot of fun & the type of novelty track done right. This mashup tho!

 

One of my favourite dance tracks is from a Swiss producer, Rise Up by Yves Larock. Always used to hear it on holiday. :dance: :dance:

Ethan will be posting the next song on our rundown, and it's by a dance act we have seen before. Any guesses?

I'm going to hazard a guess at

Flip & Fill

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Shooting Star

Going back to 'At Night' - the radio mix I remember sounds a fair bit different to the one linked in the video, a stronger house beat rather than the more swing-like one heard in the video.

 

Don't think I'd heard 'Freeloader' before - a top 40 hit in the UK in early 2003 (#32). The early part of it makes me wonder if Mylo had it in his mind when making 'Drop The Pressure'!

how odd the wrong audio was on that '4 my people' video :lol:

 

ridiculously excessive pedantry aside, the basement jaxx remix was the version serviced to radio and the primary track on both CDs, so i'd put it in the same category as everything but the girl 'missing', tori amos 'professional widow', cornershop ' a brimful of asha', omi ‘cheerleader’, mike posner ‘i took a pill in ibiza’ etc category~ :teresa:

Ian Van Dahl ‎- Reason

 

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

 

Date 26th May 2002

2 Weeks

Official Chart Run 8-11-18-31-39-50-62-72-77-x (9 weeks)

 

 

The return of Belgian trance/house act, Ian Van Dahl, created by Christophe Steve Fotini Chantzis and Erik Jos Vanspauwen, following top five successes in 2001 with ‘Castles In The Sky’ (#3) [see Dan’s write up here] and ‘Will I’ (#5) [blocked by Daniel Bedingfield]. ‘Reason’ became their third successive top10 hit peaking at #8 at the end of May 2002, featuring the vocal talents of Annemie Coenen who permanently joined the group from ‘Will I’ onwards. The track was backed in the UK with remixes from trance producers Lange and Minimalistix.

 

The album ‘Ace’ reached an impressive #7 a week later (7-9-18-21-30-41-63-77-99-x), and yielded a further top15 hit ‘Try’ (#15) in the fall of 2002. The campaign for the group’s second album ‘Lost & Found’ didn’t hit the same heights with the first two singles ‘I Can’t Let You Go’ (#20, Nov 2003) and ‘Believe’ (#27, Jul 2004) providing their last taste of top40 action. The album failed to chart in the UK and the third single ‘Inspiration’ failed to live up to its name bombing in at #87 October 2005. The group was reconfigured and rebranded as AnnaGrace in 2008 grabbing a couple of top10 hits in their homeland [‘Let The Feelings Go (#5, 2009) and ‘Ready To Fall In Love (#7, 2012)]. The material dried up 2013 and the group is presumed to have disbanded.

 

Bonus~

Edited September 18, 20168 yr by danG

Reason and Will I <3

 

I didn't like the album that much, although I was impressed it managed a top ten debut!

That same CD shop in Battersea I think I've mentioned before had dozens of copies of 'Will I', 'Reason' and 'Try' for sale back in 2008, all for 10p each! Given the dust on them they looked like they'd been there since new...

 

I've always oddly liked Reason, I give IVD credit for not doing what loads of dance acts do which is just recycle the same sound over and over again, creating steadily more inferior copies of their one big hit single. Say what you like about Castles/Will I/Reason but you can't say they sound identical.

Paffendorf ‎- Be Cool

 

http://i.imgur.com/vjX26xL.jpg

 

Date 09th Jun 2002

1 Week

Official Chart Run 7-12-21-23-31-48-71-x (7 weeks)

 

 

Paffendorf are a German dance project, consisting of Ramon Zenker, Gottfried Engels, Sven Thiel, and Nicolas Valli, who are best known on the continent for their #11 1999 German trance smash ‘Where You Are’.

 

 

Incidentally Ramon Zenker is also a member/producer of German trance group Fragma, who we’ve already heard from in this countdown.

 

In the UK it was their 2002 hard trance banger ‘Be Cool’, sampling George Clooney from the 1996 Robert Rodriguez film ‘From Dusk Till Dawn’, which was picked up by the Ministry Of Sound imprint Data Records and reached #7 in the summer of 2002. A follow-up 'Crazy Sexy Marvellous' reached #52 in April 2003, but their success was largely confined to Germany~

Edited September 18, 20168 yr by Ethan

Wow completely forgot about “Be Cool”

 

I watched From Dusk till Dawn after the Ladyhawke single, it is a bizarre and scary film, but nonetheless enjoyable!

Edited September 18, 20168 yr by Doctor Blind

These past few are examples from the time I began to lose interest in popular dance tracks. I'm sure there will still be entries to come that I love but I'm expecting them to get less frequent, Be Cool is an example of one that I just thought was average at best.