Chart updated: 5/2/08
May 5, 2008
I was a bit late this week with the chart processing, but the latest Top 25 Dance Chart has been posted. There are a few surprises this week in terms of movement.
Elena’s sad but well-produced track Before I Sleep has jumped to #1. The heart-wrenching lyric notwithstanding, I just love this song, and audiences are responding well to it too. With Velvet at #2 with Fix Me, this gives the top two slots to Robbins Entertainment, and I have to say, they’ve nailed it with some really strong single releases in recent months.
Unsurprisingly, Leona Lewis is now at #3 with Bleeding Love. This is one of those songs I liked at first, sorta wondered about, but that came back strongly for me. Audiences seem to have responded in kind. There’s a range of good mixes of the track, and it’s just superbly well done.
Oddly enough, #4 and #5 are held by the same artist: Andrew Spencer on my own label affiliate, CAPP Records. I’ve been spinning Zombie since I got the first rough cut of the track for U.S. release back in August of 2007. It did a soft hit late last year on the Bounce! compilation and had an official release back in February here. So for me, the song is hardly new, but I still really love it. I might be biased since it’s a CAPP track, but I think it more speaks to the incredibly solid production work on the track, and it continues to chart strongly with pools and mixshows.
As for the other Spencer track, To Be With You is a pick from the 50 Techno Electro Tunes compilation. It’ll be released as a single sometime later this year (stay tuned), but it stood out for me the moment I heard it. Another incredibly strong set of production work there.
Also noteworthy is DJ Bill Bennett with Breakaway. This is, simply put, an amazing electro house track. Inaya Day is a great vocalist, but I’m still amazed at how well this track is put together, every time I hear it.
I could go on and on with this blog entry, but let me at least mention a couple of stand-outs.
At #15, Aurora gives us Love Resurrection, a remake of a classic Alison Moyet song. Amanda Wilson does a great job with the vocals (I love her voice!), and again, the production work is superb. And at #16, Australia’s Raen delivers solidly on Dramatic Fanatic. I really dig this funky, kitschy track and its clever lyrics.
Have a great week.
Wes
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Luna Sojourner | May 12, 2008 at 5:33 am
Not that you probably wanted comment, but I feel like it, so.
I guess it never have really grown into bleeding love. For one thing, I am very much a lyrics person, and no matter how many times I listen to the song, it sounds for all the world like she is saying raining love to me, not bleeding, which throws the rest of the lyrics off, making the song not make sense, much like this sentence for most other people, and thereby completely ruins my stay in the middle of the music peace. Plus, the vocals reach a pitch that if I were being mean I would call whiny…
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But instrumentally it is solid and easy to mix into and out of, so I begrudgingly put it into sets sometimes, especially as it is somewhat often requested. So it might grow on me too. For those playing along, I don’t officially DJ anywhere yet, but I do for myself a lot as practice, which makes me the world’s worst wannabe. That noise you can likely now hear is Wesley barely biting back a stream of disagreeing phrases and reminders about a handful of agreements. Hush, you.
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Anyway. Andrew Spencer. Lord, talk about ear candy. Almost enough to make one switch teams. Almost. That’s another one, like most of my music lately, I discovered inside Wesley’s sets. Zombie I was not as quick to warm up to at first because the original song is way way overplayed and overdone among my former karaoke crowd. You can’t help but fall in love with the rhythms and the musical arrangements, though. But to be with you? Caught me totally and completely off guard regarding the timing of when I first heard it, (I was telling someone a story about the original version) and I started laughing and stress just completely went away. This is a good thing when music can drop me like that, trust me. And when I first got to hear it a couple weeks ago on professional style headphones instead of chintzy speakers, well, there is an appropriate use for the overused cyber phrase OMG. If it is possible that music can cause total body fulfillment… seriously.
My only small complaint would be that he didn’t include more of the original vocals in his version, but then I know that would not have worked very well, because a good DJ/mixer knows what makes a song complete. And it would’ve been too full and not as solid.
For another interesting and talented mixer, check out Jason Nevins, (spelling?) discovered by me through his apparent continuing love of Jordan Sparks. His treatment of tattoo will likely remain a favorite for a really long time, but I’ve started learning more about music by checking out other projects from mixers I like.
If you would like to do something like this, but are afraid that everything will start sounding the same, start with the Freemasons first. You will have an expansive and diverse listening experience, and rock future music trivia games. Four repetitive piano notes that pull you unsuspectingly in? Oh, I know this one! Uninvited! Alanis? No, you can tell your amazed, astounded, and probably drunk friends, Bailey. Like the drink? Rock on!
Anyway, I don’t know how this formally educated comment spiraled downward so quickly. Sorry. I’m done now. Maybe I should start my own music blog.
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