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Help me, dance anoraks, help me

 
 
Scrambled Password Bogus Email
10:46 / 30.07.03
I am going insane. I need help to identify a dance track that for some reason, I haven't ever managed to identify properly. Like how I've never seen Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, only much more annoying...

So anyway, the track :

Unfortunately no snippet i can direct you too, but here goes :

It has a really chunky but simple conga loop running throughout 1 - 2 - 3 - da da..da 1 - 2 - 3 etc., and the main hook is really moody kind of Lawrence of Arabia minor string line, sounds like it's sampled off either a movie or a contemporary classical track...It's prolly about a year or so old..

Sorry, can't describe it better, anyone know what the hell I'm banging on about??
 
 
No star here laces
12:50 / 30.07.03
That's no help at all. How fast is it? Any vocal samples? Where did you hear it? What style is it? e.g. house, breaks, techno, dnb etc.
 
 
Red Cross Iodized Salt
00:17 / 31.07.03
Any DJs in particular playing it?
 
 
Scrambled Password Bogus Email
08:08 / 31.07.03
It's a house track, prolly about 130-135 bpm, it's done the rounds in the clubs and had its fair share of radio, but was never a chart/commercial hit...


The string sample really is the whole thing, though I think they went on to stick some arbitrary song on there for the 7" as is the wont these days.

The string is a sustained minor thing with a lovely naaaaaaaaaaaaaaa-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa from high naaaaaaaaaaa to low naaaaaaaaaaaa and that conga just bubbles away all the time.

Shit, this is getting worse now isn't it? Kiss play it, all the usual suspects into the deep house thing have spun it, you know, the bloody stringy bloody track bloody!
 
 
No star here laces
08:24 / 31.07.03
No clue whatsoever I'm afraid. But this thread gives me an idea for a game. Each person has to describe a dance track, in words, without naming any part of it i.e. you can't name tunes it samples or make specific references to other tunes or any words that the tune has. Purely descriptive language. And other people have to guess what it is. I reckon it's bloody hard to do even with something really obvious...

My effort:

It's quite fast with a simple, very clean-sounding electronic break. Kind of geometrical. It's got an extremely repetitive but kind of insistent bassline that goes "whomm, whommm" with slight modulations all the way through and little squelchy sounds here and there. That's pretty much it - it's really simple.
 
 
Tryphena Absent
08:50 / 31.07.03
How old is it? Is it recent, is it a re-release or has it been around for a while?
 
 
Scrambled Password Bogus Email
09:03 / 31.07.03
Azzido da Bass

Now do my naaaaaaaaaaaaa-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa stringy track please
 
 
The Knights Templar Boogie Machine
09:41 / 31.07.03
are the na na bits sang with a really nice female vocal which just keeps repeating itself really soothingly over the beat? I think i might know what track you're on about...
 
 
Scrambled Password Bogus Email
10:00 / 31.07.03
Could be Boogie Machine, what is the track??? I'm not sure about the vocal version, but there definitely is one - I just know the bloody nanana can't shift from head must find track bit.
 
 
Scrambled Password Bogus Email
07:54 / 05.08.03
bump

Still going ker-razy.
 
 
The Knights Templar Boogie Machine
15:09 / 09.08.03
Hey money shot, just remembered this thread, i think the track i was on about is on the 2 many djs mix cd ...Trouble is i can't remember the name of the track!...
 
 
Scrambled Password Bogus Email
16:59 / 12.08.03
HAHAH!!! Dance anoraks relax, you have not helped at all. But I found the buggering track!

It's a Curtis Mayfield sample btw, but still reminds me of Lawrence of Arabia. And just to really up the ante, I'm not even going to mention what it's called. Hah!

Anyone know what it is now I dropped the Curtis Mayfield bit?
 
 
Red Cross Iodized Salt
23:19 / 12.08.03
Is it a Moodymann record?
 
 
Red Cross Iodized Salt
23:48 / 12.08.03
Or was it that Bran Van 3000 thing?
 
 
the Fool
01:57 / 13.08.03
I actually know the song you're talking about I think. Its a Joey Negro remix of the sunshine... something or other - sunshine band?. Its on Joey Negro's Nite:life mix CD... I've got it at home and was so happy when I found it.
 
 
the Fool
02:02 / 13.08.03
Album: Nite:Life 08 Compiled By Joey Negro
Track: Garden Of Love (Joey Negro Mix) - The Sunburst Band
 
 
the Fool
02:13 / 13.08.03
I could be wrong of course, go to www.groovetech.com the've got a realplayer thingy you can listen to...
 
 
Scrambled Password Bogus Email
09:48 / 13.08.03
No, you're all wrong. Oh, how the tides have turned.

Nyuk nyuk
 
 
Hattie's Kitchen
12:26 / 13.08.03
I fink I know - the track's called "Camels" but I have no idea who dod it...back later
 
 
Hattie's Kitchen
12:26 / 13.08.03
I fink I know - the track's called "Camels" but I have no idea who did it...back later
 
 
Scrambled Password Bogus Email
14:01 / 13.08.03
No, not Camels, though that's the best guess I reckon. Still wrong though.

I'll give you a clue, you hopeless excuses for anoraks. On TOP of the huge Curtis Mayfield clue.

The guys are a production duo. They are Scottish. There are no less than 3 versions of the track, one the same name as the Curtis Mayfield track.

Come ON guys an' gals I'm givin' it yerz on a plate now.

Really enjoying this "help me" to "taunt you" stuff.
 
 
Red Cross Iodized Salt
02:07 / 14.08.03
Ah...

Silicone Soul - Right on 4 tha darkness
 
 
Scrambled Password Bogus Email
08:34 / 14.08.03
The banana and cigar goes to Red Cross.

What a luvely fucking tune, the Silicone Soul rehash and the Curtis Mayfield original. It just really gets me.
 
 
Scrambled Password Bogus Email
08:35 / 14.08.03
If you re-read my original post, I think you'll agree it was a pretty good description, eh?

I'll get my coat.
 
  
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