Tremor is a good shout actually, though barely a hit!

 

It does come across like a slowed down hardstyle track, which is basically what big room house was but moreso for this song

 

Would this be, or have elements of trance...it was number 37 in October 2011

 

Edited October 23, 20168 yr by TheSnake

That's progressive house. Can't see anything trancey about that.

That's progressive house. Can't see anything trancey about that.

 

Its quite confusing between the two, they kind of both build up into big synths in the chorus, trance has more fadeouts, I think?

"I'll Be Your Angel" was such a tune. First heard it in 2002 when I was following the Belgian charts. Happy it reached the top10, mostly thanks to Radio 1 who A-listed the track

Edited October 23, 20168 yr by Euphorique

That's progressive house. Can't see anything trancey about that.

 

The Saturdays' All Fired Up definitely has trancepop influences imo even if it is classified as an electroclash song. :dance: The synths show a little bit of similarity to the likes of the Kira track and also there is a bit after the spoken word bit with no music and just synths before the buildup which is quite a trancepop thing.

 

On the subject of progressive house though even that genre seems to have gone from the charts. One exception is the Alan Walker track but it was slowed down like future bass and wasn't my kind of thing.

Here's a current 2016 trance song

 

 

Would this be a 2016 trance song?

 

Kolsch sounds nothing like trance to me, more some sub-genre of house.

 

To my knowledge there has been no 'true' trance hit this decade, there's plenty of it about but it's not commercial and radio wouldn't touch it. I still think a resurgence is only a few years away.

 

Alan Walker is vaguely close to trance, and I'd love to see his remix of Sia's Move Your Body become a hit as it sounds like some of the Eurodance stuff big in the late 90s/early 00s like Eiffel 65.

Kolsch sounds nothing like trance to me, more some sub-genre of house.

 

To my knowledge there has been no 'true' trance hit this decade, there's plenty of it about but it's not commercial and radio wouldn't touch it. I still think a resurgence is only a few years away.

 

Alan Walker is vaguely close to trance, and I'd love to see his remix of Sia's Move Your Body become a hit as it sounds like some of the Eurodance stuff big in the late 90s/early 00s like Eiffel 65.

 

The Kygo and Kodaline - Raging one was vaguely trancey too.

 

Alan Walker and Raging are some of the best examples of 2016 dance - but I don't see much in Raging, it's more like a Kygo-does-Avicii folk-dance song. Alan Walker is probably the closest we have.

 

Much love for The Opera Song since I last looked in this thread, amazing tune.

Kolsch sounds nothing like trance to me, more some sub-genre of house.

 

To my knowledge there has been no 'true' trance hit this decade, there's plenty of it about but it's not commercial and radio wouldn't touch it. I still think a resurgence is only a few years away.

 

Alan Walker is vaguely close to trance, and I'd love to see his remix of Sia's Move Your Body become a hit as it sounds like some of the Eurodance stuff big in the late 90s/early 00s like Eiffel 65.

 

Sub Focus and Alex Clare's Endorphins in early 2013 had some trance influence I think (it even starts off with a trance beat).

 

There is the potential for drum and bass to be quite trancey, like the Skream remix of Cassius' I Love You So that I mentioned so maybe something similar to trance could come back through drum and bass which still gets played.

 

 

 

 

 

 

DJ Sammy- Boys Of Summer

 

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Date 8th March 2003

1 Week

Official Chart Run 2-4-10-17-24-24-30-37-53-75-74-69-74(13 weeks)

 

 

Covers and remixes of 80s songs seemed to be popular from late 2002 to 2006 and here is one of the most well known dance covers from one of the big names of the period who liked to make them, DJ Sammy.

 

DJ Sammy started his career in 1984 playing in clubs in his native Mallorca. However it wasn't until Heaven in late 2002 that he had his first UK hit. After his success with a trancepop cover of a well known 80s song, he followed it up with the same formula, albeit with a faster paced original called Boys Of Summer by former Eagles member Don Henley, which made number 12 in 1984. The original you could call electronic dance music, of course, as it used a drum machine and was quite fast (not as fast as the DJ Sammy version though).

 

The DJ Sammy song keeps some of the original acoustic feel of the instrumentation for the verses, the trance synths only really come in for the chorus and the end. Dutch singer Loona provides the vocal, which is of the eurodance style variety rather than the big vocal style provided by the likes of Kelly Llorenna which dominated most trance songs in 2002.

 

The song went top 10 in Australia and New Zealand as well as the UK and went top 40 in 5 other European countries.

 

A personal note: This song was EVERYWHERE at the time, I remember hearing it on the car radio with my parents quite a few times. My dad hated it, as he knew the original Don Henley record and thought it inferior and made fun of DJ Sammy's name. I also thought it originally said 'after the poison summer has gone' in the lyrics. I liked it though (although I always thought the vocal style was a bit cheesy) and hearing it now brings back good memories. It is certainly a lot better than the next song on our list I think.....

Edited October 25, 20168 yr by TheSnake

This was not the only trancepop 80s cover in the charts at the time. On the week DJ Sammy was number 1 this was at number 13. The second drink of Soda Club served with lots of cheese after Take My Breath Away :lol:

 

Edited October 25, 20168 yr by TheSnake

I did love this...nowhere near as much as Heaven mind.

 

It's so weird that none of Loona's solo material was pushed here when it was huge all over Europe.

 

Wait, what am I saying, none of it was in English... :lol: I still think Bailando and Mamboleo would have been big here with a push on The Box or other music channels.

 

I love that Soda Club cover too, that was my favourite song of theirs. Not as good as the original but still enjoyable.

Edited October 25, 20168 yr by gooddelta

DJ Sammy :wub: and yeah Loona was the queen of summer hits in late 90's :wub:

I did love this...nowhere near as much as Heaven mind.

 

It's so weird that none of Loona's solo material was pushed here when it was huge all over Europe.

 

Wait, what am I saying, none of it was in English... :lol: I still think Bailando and Mamboleo would have been big here with a push on The Box or other music channels.

 

I love that Soda Club cover too, that was my favourite song of theirs. Not as good as the original but still enjoyable.

 

This is my favourite of the dance cover versions of well known songs in the 00s from early 2006, only just made top 40 though. Rachel McFarlane is a great vocalist and the production is great too. I prefer it to their other more famous song (also a cover)

 

 

Although that is a funky house one (that genre started to spark a few cover versions of well known songs too in the mid 00s which made the lower end of the top 40 such as LNM Projekt - Everywhere and Clea and Da Playaz - You Don't Have To Take Your Clothes Off)

 

Yes it seems every dance trend seems to spark cover versions of famous songs ,we saw that with tropical house (Fast Car and Ain't Nobody) and now future bass (Sex and Let Me Hold You (Turn Me On).

 

 

Yeah it's surprising that neither versions of Bailando (Paradisio or Loona) charted in the UK.

 

As for DJ Sammy's Boys Of Summer, I remember being more keen on the punk-pop version by The Ataris that came out the same year, but Don Henley's original is one of those songs which should have gone without being messed around.

Yes the DJ Sammy track marks the end of the domination of the big female vocals in dance music for a while too, we would see more vocals like Loona's in a cover of a Eurovision winner and the likes of Candee Jay in early 2004 and male vocals a eurotrance song about a body part later in 2003. The big female vocals would return in 2004 courtesy of two house music number 1s, where they would last as a trend until the end of 2006 and electro, which didn't use powerful vocals unlike trance and funky house.

 

Interestingly the electro never spawned covers of famous songs that made the charts that I am aware of....must be the only 00s trend that didn't. Even garage did with the Prodigy cover we saw earlier in the thread.

Kolsch sounds nothing like trance to me, more some sub-genre of house.

 

To my knowledge there has been no 'true' trance hit this decade, there's plenty of it about but it's not commercial and radio wouldn't touch it. I still think a resurgence is only a few years away.

 

Alan Walker is vaguely close to trance, and I'd love to see his remix of Sia's Move Your Body become a hit as it sounds like some of the Eurodance stuff big in the late 90s/early 00s like Eiffel 65.

 

I thought Faded was more dubstep influenced than trance influenced, its a bit like Tidal Wave or Endorphins.

hated DJ Sammy with a passion, this is horrific

Really liked this one a lot more than Heaven! It's quite glorious. Sunrise however was dull as dishwater

 

As for Loona, I'll always love Baila Mi Ritmo and Viva El Amor, such summer smashes

Edited October 26, 20168 yr by Euphorique