This week's singles - Tiscali Music News

2003-03-24

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Westlife - Tonight

The seemingly unstoppable Irish boyband's 14th single, 'Tonight' finds Westlife kicking into spring 2003 in all-conquering pop form. A serious, rock-tinted ballad (that's already being described as the lads' most accomplished single to-date), it's a brilliant return, and also comes backed with a superb version of Sir Cliff Richards' classic 'Miss You Nights'.

Both formats also include exclusive video footage.

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Room 5: Oliver Cheatham - Make Luv: Lynx Pulse Advert

A firm fave with any house jock worth his/her salt since it first surfaced on the Noise Trax label around twelve months ago, Room 5's (aka Junior Jack) irresistible house gem 'Make Luv' finally, thanks to Positiva, sees a full UK release this week.

Featuring a cool vocal by Oliver Cheatham (from the 1983 soul classic 'Get Down Saturday Night') around a funky, guitar laced house groove, this potentially huge crossover track is already looking like it could have the legs to become one of this summer's big dancefloor anthems.

Both formats add mixes.

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Richard X: Liberty X - Being Nobody

The man behind the Sugababes' renaissance (with 'Freak Like Me'), Richard X returns this week, with a little help from Liberty X, on another futuristic slice of pop-dance bootie action. Weaving Liberty X's re-sung version of Chaka Khan's 'Ain't Nobody' around a funky electro-pop backdrop that borrows heavily from the Human League's 'Being Boiled', 'Being Nobody' is a huge crossover tune and one that'll unite music fans right across the chart and underground dance spectrums. Both formats include mixes.

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Check out the Richard X Mixer - 4 vocal samples and 4 beat samples that you can mix yourself. Once you are happy with your track, then it can be saved and automatically sent to a chart with all previous mixes - which then fans can then vote for. The winner will receive a prize which at the moment is a gold disc! Go for it.

Sam La More - Takin Hold

The work of Aussie producer Sam La More, 'Takin Hold' is the latest understated house gem from Darren Emerson's ever-excellent Underwater label.

Already a big fave with many of the dance scene's top jocks (and tipped by Pete Tong as a potentially big Miami record), it's an immaculately produced builder of sophisticated electronic grooves that can't help but ignite most floors.

Whilst the dub on the flip mines deeper, darker and no-less funky territory with one of those tracks that big rooms were built for.

An excellent release!

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Scooter - Weekend

The first taster of the mighty Scooter's forthcoming album, 'Weekend' sees the Euro-dance posse getting right back down to business with another energetic slab of catchy rave-pop.

Containing all those instantly recognisable Scooter hallmarks - pitched-up vocals, tongue-in-cheek lyrics and self-styled rave guru HP on the mic – 'Weekend' might not be big nor clever, but what it lacks in subtlety it more than makes up for with a complete lack of self consciousness.

And that's incrediblyrefreshing! Both formats include remixes with the CD adding the hilarious if somewhat bizarre video.

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Hot Hot Heat - Bandages

Yep, Hot Hot Heat are another of those cool young bands that are currently being touted as 'the next big thing' to hit the music scene. But, on the evidence of debut single 'Bandages', the media hype machine may well have hit the nail on the head with this Canadian four-piece.

A fantastically catchy burst of fresh-faced punk-rock, it's a brilliant single, and one that looks all set to set Hot Hot Heat's stall out as a band to watch in 2003.

Both formats of this release also include exclusive bonus tracks.

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Coldplay - Clocks

here's no stopping Coldplay at the moment! Off the back of Grammy and Brits success, a massive selling new album and sold-out shows across the world, the UK rockers return with quite possibly one of their finest songs to-date.

Featuring a distinctive goose-bump inducing piano line around their usual uplifting melancholia, 'Clocks' just confirms what we all already know, that Coldplay remain one of the finest musical exports this country's seen for years.

All formats add superb exclusive forthe fans, but the real treat is the addition of two brand new tracks alongside some excellent live recordings.

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Snoop Dogg Dog - Beautiful

It's official, The Neptunes (aka N*E*R*D) can do no wrong! Returning behind the scenes (of sorts anyway) on Snoop Dogg's latest, the celebrity knob-twiddlers do their funky best whilst Pharrell also lends his falsetto vocals to proceedings.

Already big with all the top urban/hip-hop jocks, this is another of those incredibly funky N*E*R*D productions whilst Tha Doggfather waxes lyrical over the beats in his own inimitable style.

Both formats include instrumental and album versions with the CD addingthe silky-smooth vid.

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Athlete - El Salvador

Best described as a bizarre hybrid that falls somewhere between Steely Dan, Squeeze and Welsh rockers Super Furry Animals, Athlete return this week with another dose of wonderful weirdness.

The latest single from the band's highly-anticipated debut album (titled 'Vehicles And Animals', released April), 'El Salvador' is another very promising single from a talented young band that are, quite rightly, regarded as one of the best on the way up. Watch them get better in 2003!

All formats addexclusive bonus tracks.

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Mariah Carey - Boy: I Need You

Lifted from Mariah's excellent comeback album, 'Boy (I Need You)' finds the US diva getting back to the kind of musical form she displayed with ease throughout the mid-late nineties.

Featuring a guest spot from Cam'ron (woven around a sample from his own 'Oh Boy'), this Mariah penned Just Blaze co-production shall see the chanteuse back to the top of the pop pile whilst at the same time converting quite a few cynics.

A superb single, it also comes backed with a wealth of remixes alongside a typically hi-tech Joseph Kahn produced vid.

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Desree - It's OK

One of the UK's most enduring, not-to-mention best loved, r'n'b singers, Des'ree returns to the spotlight this week with the first single from her forthcoming new album, 'Dream Soldier'.

A typically smooth, sultry and inspirational slice of UK soul, 'It's Ok' shows that Des'ree hasn't lost any of her individuality and still manages to remain relevant, even in today's ever-changing r'n'b scene.

Whilst both formats have the added advantage (well, if youdon't own them already) of including the classics 'Life', 'Feel So High' and 'You Gotta Be' as bonus tracks.

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Guano Apes - You Can't Stop Me

One of the biggest metal bands around Europe since they formed in 1994, the Guano Apes look like spreading their unique musical word far wider with the release of their brilliant new single, 'You Can't Stop Me'.

Raw, uncompromising and taking absolutely no prisoners whatsoever, this is an excellent new release and one, hopefully, that'll see this sorely overlooked band getting the attention they completely deserve.

Whilst both formats also include exclusive bonus tracks.

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Harry - Under The Covers

Having caught everyone's attention last year with the release of her debut single 'So Real', Harry returns this week with a sassy metal cover of the Belouise Some 80's classic, 'Imagination'.

Already a major part of a £2 million Rimmel ad campaign, not-to-mention a fave with the likes of metal bible Kerrang!, 'Imagination' (along with the rest of the 'Under The Covers EP') is a brilliant new single from a very promising UK singer.

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Nas - I Can

The latest single from Nas's latest (and best) album for sometime, 'I Can' finds the NY rapper taking a leaf from arch hip-hop enemy Jay-Z's book and drafting in a kids choir to supply the insanely catchy vocal that runs throughout the chorus.

Featuring a typically nonchalant rhyme from Nas around a laidback, head-nodding groove, 'I Can' proves that the rapper's found his hip-hop feet and can indeed STILL cut it with the best of them.

All formats also include bonus tracks/mixes.

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Stuart - Let It Be

Originally starting life as an instrumental dance cut used as the soundbed for a mobile phone ad in Holland, Stuart's 'Free (Let It Be)' resurfaces on UK dancefloors this week thanks to an uplifting, sing-a-long vocal from 20-year-old vocalist Lara McAllen. Catchy and completely irresistible, this is one of those rare tunes that manages to dip its toe in both house and pop pools whilst at the same time not alienating fans of either form of music.

Whilst the remixes, from Rezonance Q and Swag, add slightly different slants for a variety of dancefloors.

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