February 21, 20178 yr Candee Jay!! Had completely forgotten about her - the singles got a lot of airplay but even at the time I remember thinking they sounded about two years behind the times. The one I remember more was the follow-up...which I'm not sure if we'll see here or not? It's not really behind the times, considering Styles and Breeze, Flip and Fill, Ultrabeat, Angel City (Do You Know) and Eyeopener still had trancepop hits to come in 2004. There were still a few in early 2005, one at the end maling top 10, a couple making top 40 in 2006 (one making top 10) and perhaps 2 in 2008 if you count Angel In The Night and Raindrops (Encore une fois) as trancepop. Edited February 21, 20178 yr by The Wise Sultan
February 21, 20178 yr It's not really behind the times, considering Styles and Breeze, Flip and Fill, Ultrabeat, Angel City (Do You Know) and Eyeopener still had trancepop hits to come in 2004. There were still a few in early 2005, one at the end maling top 10, a couple making top 40 in 2006 (one making top 10) and perhaps 2 in 2008 if you count Angel In The Night and Raindrops (Encore une fois) as trancepop. But none of those were half as big as Ian Van Dahl, Alice Deejay or Lasgo's first hits! Angel City I think would have been much bigger just two years earlier.
February 21, 20178 yr But none of those were half as big as Ian Van Dahl, Alice Deejay or Lasgo's first hits! Angel City I think would have been much bigger just two years earlier. Trancepop had become a bit tired by 2004, like tropical house is now. The likes of Candee Jay and Styles and Breeze are a more poppy and less trancey than Ian van Dahl or Lasgo's early hits though. They are more like the likes of Fly On The Wings Of Love or Shooting Star. Edited February 21, 20178 yr by The Wise Sultan
February 21, 20178 yr I bought all three Candee Jay singles...and her/their album. All of them were only good in an 8/10 sort of way but I was desperately trying to fill an Alice Deejay sized void in my life, and iirc this act had the same production team behind it. (Back For Me was very Will I Ever in sound too...) Edited February 21, 20178 yr by gooddelta
February 21, 20178 yr I've always held that Marcus Levin track high in my rankings of 80's looped house covers. Here are my other personal faves from the time... Eric Prydz - Call On Me Sunset Strippers - Falling Star Uniting Nations - Out Of Touch Alex Gaudino - Reaction Sunblock - I'll Be Ready Divided - Easy Lover Groovecutters - We Close Our Eyes Groovenut - Love You More Freeloaders - So Much Love To Give Kash vs Inxs - Dream On Black Girl Andy J - Tilt My Hat Sixty 9 vs Discodrive - Rainbow Thomas Falke - High Again Not too mention the countless straight up 80's covers from the time that were f***ing amazing! Edited February 21, 20178 yr by girlsaloudjunkie
February 21, 20178 yr I've always held that Marcus Levin track high in my rankings of 80's looped house covers. Here are my other personal faves from the time... Eric Prydz - Call On Me Sunset Strippers - Falling Star Uniting Nations - Out Of Touch Alex Gaudino - Reaction Sunblock - I'll Be Ready Divided - Easy Lover Groovecutters - We Close Our Eyes Groovenut - Love You More Freeloaders - So Much Love To Give Kash vs Inxs - Dream On Black Girl Andy J - Tilt My Hat Sixty 9 vs Discodrive - Rainbow Thomas Falke - High Again Not too mention the countless straight up 80's covers from the time that were f***ing amazing! I don't know a lot of those you mention! A lot of those weren't hits, some of the ones that you mention that were may be appearing! High Again I remember from the time, even though it didn't go top 40! So Much Love To Give is actually little reminscent of Joe Stone - The Party (albeit without the organ bassline), it even has the similar style fast piano style synths in the middle. Out Of Touch's production also reminds me a little of the 99 Souls track in late 2015, albeit faster. So Much Love To Give and Falling Stars made top 10 without relying on a video resorting to the usual mid 00s feature of dancing women wearing little clothes, which was good. I will say what I think of them when they appear, or if they don't make dance number 1, at the time on the thread that they chart. A weird one is Dancing DJ's Fading Like A Flower - kind of a weird mix of disco house and UK hardcore. I do prefer the funky house songs from that time though.
February 21, 20178 yr My fave looped 80s cover was the Eric Prydz re-working of Howard Jones’ “Things Can Only Get Better” wpxxikJtGDU
February 21, 20178 yr Interesting list - I'll have to check out the ones I don't know! I sourced a ton in the back end of 2016 for my DJ sets so will post a list when I'm home tonight. Included a crazy Flip-N-Fill esque cover of China In Your Hand by Karen Danzig!
February 21, 20178 yr Just checked out Sixty 9 vs Discodrive, it's good, uses the same sample as Bingo Players - Cry (Just a Little) - which because of its sound I thought was an old remix from the 00s that had recharted because of an advert or something when it was on iTunes in 2011! The Bingo Players one sadly missed the top 40 at number 44. Also Nero's Crush on You was a typical mid 00s style 80s remix apart from the drops of course :lol: . Edited February 21, 20178 yr by The Wise Sultan
February 21, 20178 yr My fave looped 80s cover was the Eric Prydz re-working of Howard Jones’ “Things Can Only Get Better” wpxxikJtGDU Very good, more progressive sounding than most of them, its a bit like Sharam - PATT (also very progressive) which is one of my favourites. Edited February 21, 20178 yr by The Wise Sultan
February 21, 20178 yr Angel City - Touch Me (All Night Long) Date 27th June 2004 1 Week Official Chart Run 18-28-39-60 (4 weeks) V3eGojDkFLE 'Touch Me (All Night Long)' was Dutch dance act Angel City's sophomore single, following the success of 'Love Me Right (Oh Sheila)' into the UK Top 20 at number 18 in June 2004. It was a cover of Fonda Rae's version which dates back to 1984 and was featured in Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge; however it would be Cathy Dennis that took it to the heights of US Billboard Hot 100 number 2, and UK Singles Chart number 5 in the early 1990s. Angel City was a DJ duo composing of DJ Renegade (Hugo Zentveld) and Aldwin Oomen. British singer Lara McAllen, who was credited as the featuring artist on their debut hit, became their mainstay vocalist by 'Touch Me (All Night Long)' and was no longer credited by this point. The video shows Lara and backing dancers performing on a red and black set. Anyone who did Media Studies at school or university will know that red is a connotation of passion, but perhaps it was also there to signify danger, or was red and black supposed to represent roulette to basically say "this is your lucky night... or is it?" - who else wants to read wildly into the video? 'Touch Me (All Night Long)' was taken from Angel City's debut album 'Love Me Right' which was a smash hit number 44 album in 2005. Purchase on iTunes Stream on Apple Music
February 21, 20178 yr I ADORED Angel City :wub: 'Sunrise' takes me back to an amazing time of my life.
February 21, 20178 yr Touch Me really is getting a bit on the poppy side of dance, the 2004 equivalent of Jonas Blue's By Your Side today. The production is a bit early 2010s Inna in style so perhaps it is ahead of its time. I think I may remember Touch Me from the time, I would have quite liked it. By the way I listened to the China In You Hand cover, it definitely should have charted top 40 as it is way better than Poison by Groove Coverage, another Flip and Fill style trancepop 80s cover that went top 40 in 2005.
February 21, 20178 yr 19th June - this reached number 23 aSl95m-vBpA It really was coming to the end for vocal trance in the charts by this stage, although there is Need To Feel Loved making top 20 in early 2005, we shall see if it makes dance number 1 though. Edited February 21, 20178 yr by The Wise Sultan
February 21, 20178 yr Take My Hand is brilliant, as are all of Jurgen's hits imo. I don't really remember it from the time though. Jurgen would return with a top 20 hit with the DT8 Project soon, which I do think I remember and liked, this one was funky/progressive house, not trance though.
February 22, 20178 yr I love Angel City (Touch Me is their best for me), there were a couple more great songs on the album ! actually I think #44 for a dance record is a good result. :wub:
February 22, 20178 yr Author For the time number 44 isn't bad for a dance album, as this was long before the idea of dance albums being proper sellers took off (ie before Guetta, Harris, Avicii). Album sales were better then as well so their album must've sold at least 10k in total.
February 22, 20178 yr Author George Michael - Flawless (Go To The City) Date 4th Jul 2004 2 Weeks Official Chart Run 8-14-22-30-34-33-43-50-53-65-x (10 weeks) QgGDcn46aW8 Deja vu anyone? Well that's because for this entry we go back to 2001's 'Flawless' (The Ones) which was a previous Dance #1, charting at #7 officially. Singer George Michael used the instrumental of that song as the basis for this single, and as such this is eligible for our Dance #1s rundown. It also samples portions of the original vocal but is predominantly made up of Michael's own vocal. The video edit above is just under four minutes long, but in full it is one of his longest songs, the album version being 6:51 in length (although the edited version used for the single release was 4:50). Taken as the fourth single from his fifth and final studio album 'Patience', whose name perhaps derives from it being his first album of original material since 1996's 'Older'. As you would expect it entered the albums chart at #1, selling over 275k to do so. 'Flawless' would become his last of 23 top 10 hits as a solo artist; 32 if you also count his 9 top 10 hits with Wham!. He was most recently seen in the top 10 a few months ago with 'Last Christmas', climbing to #7 following his untimely death on Christmas Day. It was also the first single to be released following the album's release. Despite that, it managed to make the top 10, although it couldn't match the peak of the 'original', nor would it outsell it. The three singles that came before this - 2002's 'Freeek!' (#7) and the controversial 'Shoot The Dog' (#12), a song highly critical of George W Bush and Tony Blair, and finally 2004's 'Amazing' (#4) (a long gap between the 2nd and 3rd singles would be due to Michael wishing to change record labels; from Polydor to Sony). A fifth single, 'Round Here' (#32) would be released later in the year.
February 22, 20178 yr Well it's more interesting and better than the original Flawless, with a vocal on it, but I don't like it as much as George Michael's 90s funky house-pop hits like 'Outside'. The next one on this list marked the start of one of the two new trends in dance music for the next two years, and this new trend I found very refreshing at the time after trancepop before it. At the time, having no internet at that time to see I was wrong, I thought this next song on our list was a motivational song created as part of a campaign to get people to do more exercise (hence the artist name and lyrics in the chorus). I also thought the group was a girl band (the latter I remember reading on Buzzjack that someone else thought they were too)!
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