'Prayer In C' is not tropical house either :wacko:

'Prayer In C' is not tropical house either :wacko:

Snakey often gets his dance sub-genres confused :no:

Snakey often gets his dance sub-genres confused :no:

 

I thought that looped acoustic guitar type house music was tropical (like Lost Frequences Are You With Me Too) :unsure:

I thought that looped acoustic guitar type house music was tropical (like Lost Frequences Are You With Me Too) :unsure:

Examples of tropical house include 'Easy Love' by Sigala, the Felix Jaehn remix of 'Cheerleader', 'Perfect Stranger' by Jonas Blue ft JP Cooper.

I thought that looped acoustic guitar type house music was tropical (like Lost Frequences Are You With Me Too) :unsure:

'Are You With Me' is deep/chill house, as is 'Prayer In C'.

'Are You With Me' is deep/chill house, as is 'Prayer In C'.

 

It is confusing as it said Lost Frequencies was tropical house on wikipedia when AYWM was out so I thought that acoustic guitar looped type of house was a type of tropical together with the pan pipe, zylophone and saxophone types.

 

There is arguably the first modern sounding tropical house song of the saxophone type to make the top 40 in 2005, X-press 2 and Kurt Wagner's Give It., making number 33. Big Jubel vibes with this one

Edited December 8, 20168 yr by Snaking Stevens

My satisfaction levels are low with the progress of this thread.

Push danG and then just touch danG until we can get some NEW SONG INFO. :lol:

apologies, I keep forgetting about this thread as I'm focusing so much on my personal chart EOY :lol:

apologies, I keep forgetting about this thread as I'm focusing so much on my personal chart EOY :lol:

 

That's OK I shall post the other tunes that were in the top 40 in the time of our next one

 

Yomanda - You're Free

 

 

Number 20, 1st week of our next song. Yay, another trancepop cover of a famous song....this is definitely the least cheesy and the best of them though imo.

 

 

Your Music - Intenso Project ft. Laura Yaye

 

 

Number 31, also 1st week of our next song. Rather dull funky house song (yes those do exist for me) that sounds like it is sung by Will.i.am. Average at best. Not surprised this didn't do better.

 

 

Paul van Dyk - Nothing But You

 

 

Number 39, also 1st week. Mostly instrumental trance track, these were struggling in the charts by this time, hence probably the low placing.

 

 

Deepest Blue - Deepest Blue

 

 

Number 7 on second week of our next dance number 1. Big deep house/progressive house tune....a bit like Deadmau5 and Kaskade's I Remember (6 years later) in style. This is brilliant...don't remember it from the time though, although I do remember Give It Way from the time.

 

 

Kosheen and Rhythm Bandits had songs in the top 40 on the second week of our next dance number 1 with 'All in My Head' #7 and 'Rhythm Bandits' #22 respectively but unlike their two respective highest charting songs 'Hide U' and 'Move Your Feet', they were not electronic dance music.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Benny Benassi presents The Biz - Satisfaction

 

 

Date 20th Jul 2003

3 Weeks

Official Chart Run 2-4-6-11-18-25-36-44-58-67-75-x (11 weeks)

 

 

Italian DJ Benny Benassi started DJing in the late 1980s and began producing electro house with 2002's 'Satisfaction' (The UK got the release a year after its initial release in Italy), released as the first single from debut album 'Hypnotica' (2003), in which all tracks are credited to Benny Benassi presents The Biz (The Biz being singers Paul French and Violeta). The vocals of 'Satisfaction' however are provided by two speech synthesisers (one male, one female) using MacInTalk (developed by Apple). The vocal consists of the repeated lyric 'push me and then just touch me, 'til I can get my satisfaction' spoken in a robotic monotone way. The song was arguably the first big electro house hit and helped kickstart a new trend in dance music, although it would be years later when electro house was at its peak.

 

Undeniably one of the big selling features of the song was the sexual nature of its lyrical content, artwork and music video. Its

was a simplistic video featuring the four people in the cover artwork of 'Hypnotica', though when it was picked up by Ministry of Sound for its commercial release it got a new video, the infamous one we all know today featuring women (mostly British 'lad mag' models) in barely any clothing demonstrating power tools whilst showing us what they've got. :kink: Information about the tools also appear as text on screen, so you could argue to some extent it being an educational video. :lol:

 

The UK were given a very short radio edit, at just under two and a half minutes (same length as the video). The version that appears on the album however is 4:45, and if that's still not long enough there is a 6:45 version. 'Satisfaction' was also a top ten hit in Hungary, Belgium, France and Australia. He wasn't able to repeat the success though, as follow-up 'No Matter What You Do' was only able to make #40 (February 2004), possibly because the beat and speech synthesiser in it were too similar to 'Satisfaction'.

 

That wasn't the end for Benassi however. In 2011 he scored two further top 40 hits, the #4 hit 'Beautiful People' (as featured artist for Chris Brown) and the #20 hit 'Cinema' (featuring British singer/songwriter Gary Go). He also co-produced Brown's #2 hit 'Don't Wake Me Up' though received no artist credit. More recently he had another hit, once again with Chris Brown on 'Paradise' (although this time credited as the lead artist) which reached #40 in May 2016. 'Paradise' was taken from his sixth album 'Danceaholic', this includes his first album with The Biz and two albums with Alle Benassi (under the name Benassi Bros, although they are actually cousins).

 

On a final personal note I think this is a proper chooon. :dance:

This is great, (and there is another great electro tune greatly inspired by this one bassline wise in 2005) but the electro era later in 2006 and in 2007 would produce much inferior tracks than this imo with annoying vocals and not as interesting electro synths.

 

Strangely I don't remember Satisfaction from the time though (I don't think i would have liked it much as I wasn't into purely electronic dance music at the time like this). I discovered it a few years ago after I started listening to the radio more (I liked it from first listen) and when I eventually found out it was from 2003 I was shocked, as it is far ahead of its time. And now I find out it was actually made earlier in 2002 :o

 

Sadly the video for this led to a decline in quality of dance videos that would last until about 2008...see also the next entry on our list. But at least this video was educational....as dan said.

 

 

Ultrabeat - Pretty Green Eyes

 

 

Date 10th Aug 2003

7 Weeks

Official Chart Run 2-2-4-4-7-9-16-18-20-27-31-39-45-57-x(60)-68-x (15 weeks)

 

 

Ultrabeat are British hard trance group from Liverpool, consisting of producers Ian Redman, Chris Henry and Mike Di Scala; the latter was also the group's vocalist. Di Scala was previously in the group Rezonance Q, whose Mariah Carey cover 'Someday' (vocals by Nazene Langfield) reached #29 in March 2003. Whilst discussing the single with label All Around The World, Di Scala played them the demo of 'Pretty Green Eyes' which led to Ultrabeat being signed.

 

'Pretty Green Eyes' began life in 1996, as a happy hardcore song by Force & Styles feat. Junior, appearing on their album 'All Over the UK'. Force & Styles are Paul Hobbs and Darren Styles, and Styles would later go on to collab with Ultrabeat in 'Sure Feels Good' (#52 2007) and 'Discolights' (#23 2008). Ultrabeat decided to cover the song as they were big fans - and it ended up having huge mainstream success, selling over 200,000 copies and becoming the 3rd biggest dance hit of the year.

 

It was the first single from 'Ultrabeat: The Album', which would get released four years afterwards (2007) and peaked at #8 in the albums chart. A second album 'The Weekend Has Landed' would be released in 2009 but no more would follow. 'Pretty Green Eyes' would also be the first of five UK top 40 hits for the group, including one more top 20 hit 'Feelin Fine' (#12 2003) which was the direct follow-up single.

that's a double for y'all today, Snakin' Stevens will take care of the next four songs.

The Ultrabeat track is fantastic, it is so uplifting, I wouldn't have liked this sort of thing at the time but I first began to appreciate it a few years ago when I heard it on a local radio station. :)

 

Looked up the original recently, it is not very 'hardcore' for a happy hardcore track, I like the funky piano on it and MC Juniors funky vocal.

 

Feelin' Fine and Better Than Life are also great tunes from Ultrabeat. Di Scala has a great voice, Ultrabeat were one of the few eurotrance groups that used male singing vocals rather than female.

 

Also Liverpool seemed to produce a few eurodance groups, Uniting Nations and Cahill were from there too as well as Ultrabeat.

 

 

 

 

Deepest Blue - Deepest Blue

 

 

I still adore this one and in a perfect world, it would have been a bigger hit than Satisfaction.

Elvis Presley - Rubberneckin' (Paul Oakenfold Remix)

 

 

Date 28th Sept 2003

2 Weeks

Official Chart Run 85-96-5-9-17-29-46-68-70-78-73 + (from 10/01/04) 90-82-99-92-99 (16 weeks)

 

This is a breakbeat remix of a 1969 Elvis Presley song, it is very much in the same mould of the JXL remix of 'A Little Less Conversation'. Paul Oakenfold started his career as a DJ in the early 80s, but his first big hit wasn't until 1995 with one of the first big trance hits 'It's Not Over Yet' in the production group Grace. Oakenfold stayed with trance until 2001, when he tended to move away from the genre and got hits with other genres of EDM and even a non EDM one, the hip hop song Starry Eyed Surprise.

 

Obviously Rubberneckin' would have had massive crossover appeal, so it is surprising it only stayed four weeks top 40 (2 of those weeks top 10). It was also in a car advert at the time which makes it chart run additionally disappointing.

 

Personally I am not really a fan of this style of lighter breakbeat and I don't really like it that much now. But I did like it at the time more as it wasn't hard dance music and was quite poppy.

 

Elvis would go on to have quite a few re-entries in the chart during 2005, when many of his songs were re-released. Paul Oakenfold would have a top 10 in 2006 with the late actress Brittany Murphy, Faster Kill Pussycat.

Edited January 1, 20178 yr by Auld Lang Snake

Some other tunes during the period of Ultrabeat and the Elvis remix at dance number 1: Part 1.

 

#25

 

Deep house tune, still sounds very relevant, similar in style to some of the kind of house music that was popular in 2014.

 

#30

 

Some more eurotrance. A good tune though.

 

#9

 

Deep house tune, quite similar to the style of Roger Sanchez's Another Chance, albeit a bit more commercial sounding. Samples Michael Jackson (our second big hit sampling one of his songs during the 00s after Scanty Sandwich- Because Of You and there are two more in 2006 of course).

 

#16

 

Fun latin house tune. I have never heard it before, but I quite like it. Rather similar vibes and style to the Ray Foxx and Rachel K Collier 2013 song.

 

 

 

#31

 

The group specialising in trancepop covers return. Obviously bored of covering 80s classics they cover a 1995 house song of the same name by Love To Infinity. Not quite as good as Soda Club's first two covers.

 

#36

 

Another happy hardcore track given a trancepop rerelease, although this time in the form of a remix of the original by Voodoo and Serano. I prefer this to the original to be honest, I don't really like the chorus synths in the original.

 

#14

 

The first dance track I properly loved :wub: . I remember singing the lyrics a lot at the time in the school playground. Nobody else I sung it to knew what the song was though.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

#40

 

Another happy hardcore song update, but this one stays true to the original style. Remixed by the same producer that made it.

 

#32

 

Bhangra was quite big in the early 00s and this is a bhangra remix of the Snap! classic

 

#19

 

Excellent euphoric vocal trance tune, one of the best imo, should have done a lot better in the charts.

 

#22

 

Funky house/eurodance tune, this is where the future of Eurodance would go, the instrumental is a bit like the likes of Cahill - Trippin on You in style.

 

#14

 

This is one of the tunes that felt a lot bigger than how it did....really should have been number 1 or top 10 at least. Also why was it released so late...it has 'summer' in it but was released in late September. Also the future of Eurodance...by the early 10s this kind of style was popular with Inna, Alexandra Stan and Edward Maya. The song itself was a remix by DJ F.R.A.N.K. of a UK garage song from 2000.

 

#20

 

Excellent vocal trance tune, even the animated video couldn't send it the top 10 though, as more serious vocal trance like this was underperforming by this point

 

#17

 

Trippy sounding song by the iconic dance group with The Flaming Lips. Not sure if this is dance though, it is more like synthpop.

 

#18

 

Latin house tune. I think I remember the chorus of this one from the time.

 

#38

 

Funky house tune. Never heard it before but it is quite nice imo.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Have you heard this one by Morjac, Snakey?

 

 

big Ibiza funky house tune, released in 2005 but didn't chart. It was on a floorfillers or clubland compilation though which is how I knew it.