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The debut album from Nadia Shepherd and Cherise Roberts, former singers with Big Brovaz and now known as Booty Luv, looks like a 1970s disco album: the cover and the album title, Boogie 2Nite, further reinforce this impression. The album opens with the three hit singles "Boogie 2Nite," "Shine," and "Don't Mess with My Man," all of which are versions of little known, previously very minor hits by Tweet, Luther Vandross, and Lucy Pearl respectively, so one might have thought they were all originals, unless one studies the lower regions of the singles charts. However, this was not the '70s, it was the late 2000s, and the dance music on Boogie 2Nite was one drum machine-led house track after another, all sounding as if they may have been bigger hits had Kylie Minogue recorded them, or even Madonna during her Confessions on a Dance Floor phase. There were in fact only 12 tracks on the album, the final three being remix versions of the first three hit singles. "He's a Winner" was the track that pinpointed the era exactly, a disco beat yes, but also electronic bleeps and synthesized repeated and echoed vocals. At a club, put the album on and leave the DJ box while the dancing goes on, but nearly 50 minutes of daytime listening in a living room is far too long and samey. ~ Sharon Mawer, All Music Guide
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Trompeta SIS |
| Be it the underground nature of dance music nowadays or a general inability to produce chart friendly tracks, but the six month decamp of the world's most hardened clubbers and DJ's to Ibiza doesn't seem to uncover as many cross-over records as it did a few years ago. However, despite nothing like Moloko's "Sing It Back" or Spiller's "Groove Jet" being unearthed this year, there has been plenty of exciting club tracks keeping the dance fraternity happy – the king of which has been SIS's "Trompeta". A favourite at Cocoon, which won "Best Ibiza Night" at the recent DJ Awards, and a staple in sets of Luciano and Ricardo Villalobos, who incidentally shared the award for "Best Ibiza Set" at the same awards show; “"Trompeta" has successfully burrowed its way into the minds of Ibiza holiday makers and now looks set to flourish with the season's close and the tracks official release. Taking a sizeable chunk from Balkan Beat Box's "Bulgarian Chicks" and coupling it with a clattering kick/ hi hat shuffle and speaker busting bottom end, "Trompeta's" repetitive Trumpet led hooks have made it an instantly memorable dance hit at odds to the thoughtful techno that often surrounds it on Ibiza's cooler club nights. However, like last year's dance cross over "Heater", this track quickly divides opinion as the simple hooks and general quirkiness of what makes the record appealing also makes it unpalatable to some clubbers and DJ's striving to stay on the cutting edge. Love it or hate it, this record has emerged as one of the most popular in the last six months. | |
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