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'Nuclear Seasons' on Nick Grimshaw's nighttime Radio 1 show.

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The style of minimalist organ production in the verses of Milk Inc's 'Walk on Water' has been used quite a bit in dance hits over the last few years now (including after the chorus of the recent Morgan Seatree/Florence track). 'Nessaja' is good fun. The debut Sean Paul hit is good!

Poor Ane Brun, a one hit wonder with the excellent 'Can't Stop Playin' in 2015.

'Hey DJ I Can't Dance To The Music You're Playing' is like a cooler version of The Reynolds Girls - similar lyrical themes! Thought it was aimed at non danceable MOR not S/A/W though! Very good track!

He's definitely been listening to that Chicane/Bryan Adams track!

Gorillaz

Arctics

P**f D***y and R. K***y

'The Theme' is fab. Used to assume Jurgen Vries was German or Dutch too. 'Forever' is a bit cheesy lyrically but I like it. The style of piano in the intro reminds me of the first #1 of a certain French DJ.

Gorillaz

Ride On Time is a massive era defining track. The 90s were nearly there indeed!

Dynamit-ee-ee is so catchy and I liked it at the time! Didn't know any other Ms Dynamite songs at the time sadly. It is her signature track from the early 00s (although 'Lights On' and 'Neva Soft' were great too from her in the early 10s. The Enrique track is quite good. Never liked Atomic Kitten much and found them a bit boring at the time.

Difficult choice this week these are all good: HI-LO x Temper - Work That Body HUGEL x David Guetta x Kehlani x Daecolm - Think Of Me Jorja Smith - The Way I Love You Robin Schulz x NERVO x KOPPY - Freaking You Out Subtronics x Flowdan - Hunter Went for Work That Body actually!

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Sonique omitted this time :( 'I Put A Spell On You' charted in 2000. Voted for Muse.

Yeah I like 'She Bangs The Drums' the chorus sounds very Kirsty MacColl-esque to me but I guess a lot of 80s indie sounded like that!

How come Tobiahs - Angel of Mine went top 100 officially and not this

Voted for Perfect Illusion - I only just noticed that the vocal of it rhyming illusion with confusion near the end of the song reminds me a lot of Imagination - Just An Illusion from 1982!

And then to add insult to injury in 2007, his other song My Egyptian Lover with Nadia Oh just missed the top 40 :(

Milky - Just The Way You Are is a lovely song, Starry Eyed Surprise is catchy and I liked it at the time but not really dance I guess trance/eurotrance was oversaturated at this point so Paul Oakenfold decided to do something different. 3rd Edge song is catchy with good production but awful lyrics that have aged badly, discovered the song a while back.

Didn't know ithe ATC song was a cover of a Russian song reminds me of the situation with the Azerbajani accordion sample in fellow eurodance hit Edward Maya's Stereo Love in 2010!

awardinary just about top 10 relying on his "If ________ is your favourite new release this week, make sure to vote for it in the __(genre)___ track of the week poll" posts!

I was hoping he'd steer clear of folk-pop given the oversaturation of it in the charts at the moment.

Chorus also reminds me a bit of the Logical Song by Supertramp/Scooter as well as obviously Physical, the Olivia Newton John song.