DANCE.

CHART COMMENTARY

Chaka Khan topped the Club Chart in both 1978 and 1989 with I'm Every Woman, Whitney Houston's cover did likewise in 1993, and, keeping the spirit if not the letter of the song alive at the top of the chart for the fourth decade in a row, Disco Tex presents Cloudburst move to number one this week with their single I Can Cast A Spell. Initial promos of this house monster sampled the Khan single but now contains resung portions (and some new lyrics) by Shena. Combining the talents of Full Intention and Stella Browne, the record is the introductory release on the Absolution label, and has a 7% lead at the top of the chart this week ... Chart "churn" is still at a very low level, with more records hanging around for lengthy periods than is the norm. Other symptoms of the less-than-hectic turnover: Angelic slip only a notch to number two, there are no new entries to the Top 10, and four records re-enter the Top 40 despite having no real new impetus ... The Pop Chart is similarly in slo-mo at the moment, with Martine McCutcheon easing into pole position after three weeks at number two and Dominguez's Remember The Music -- which samples Duran Duran's Save A Prayer -- making the week's highest and only Top 20 debut at number 13. Just outside the Top 20 are a trio of singles which should make the grade next week, however -- Faith Hill's The Way You Love Me, given an overhaul by Love II Infinity and coupled with the still hot Almighty mix of the far superior This Kiss; Samantha Mumba's upcoming third smash Always Come Back To Your Love, and Artful Dodger's double-A-sided fifth single pairing the Michelle Escoffery vocal of Think About Me with Craig David's reading of What You Gonna Do ... Little change on the Urban Chart either, except for resurgences by Usher's Pop Ya Collar (11-2) and Shaun Escoffrey's Space Rider, both driven by new mixes. At the top, Joe's unusually hard Stutter remains in charge for a second week, while Mos Def's collaboration with Pharoahe Monche and Snoop Dogg, Oh No! -- which spent several weeks in the 21-40 region of the chart -- graduates to the Top 20 simultaneous with its commercial release.

COOL CUTS CHART

as featured on Tall Paul's Saturday night show on Kiss 100 and Emap Big City Network

 
 1    RE   IF YOU WANNA (SALSOUL NUGGET) 
           M&S presents The Girl Next Door               ffrr 
           (Back with A new Spiller-style 
           vocal and ready to rock the 
           charts) 
 
 2     1   FREE AT LAST Simon                        Positiva 
           (Now set too cross over with 
           hot new mixes from Futureshock, 
           Bushwacka and DJ Pierre) 
 
 3     4   COATNOISE Midfield General                   Skint 
           (Featuring Dave Clarke's first 
           floorfilling mix of the year) 
 
 4     2   THE ENERGY Astrotrax                      Defected 
           (Finally available with new 
           mixes from King Unique, BMR and 
           Stanton Warriors) 
 
 5     7   YOU'VE BEEN ON MY MIND Soul Vision       Fluential 
           (Infectious house cut with mixes 
           from Ian Pooley, Mazy and Sandy 
           Rivera) 
 
 6   NEW   PRECIOUS HEART Exchange                  Duty Free 
           (Anthemic house track featuring 
           vocals from the late Michael 
           Hutchence) 
 
 7   NEW   CHILLIN' Modjo                            Sound Of 
           (Not quite as instant as Lady but          Barclay 
           still another floorfiller from the 
           French duo) 
 
 8     9   STRANGE WORLD Push                          Bonzai 
           (Well produced trance track that's 
           developing a following) 
 
 9    10   PRAYIN' The Path feat. Marcel               Junior 
           (Terry Farley's all-star Junior 
           production line-up with mixes from 
           Tom Middleton) 
 
10    13   HIDDEN AGENDA EP DJ Q                       Filter 
           (Excellent three-track EP of 
           funky, hypnotic house grooves) 
 
11   NEW   SOO GOOD Electric J                            WEA 
           (An Alex Neri production with 
           mixes from Kamasutra and 
           Astrotrax) 
 
12   NEW   VISIONS OF YOU Trevor Rockcliffe            In-Tec 
           feat. Blake Baxter 
           (Clash of the techno dons with 
           mixes from Carl Cox and Samuel L 
           Sessions) 
 
13    12   SAME AS IT EVER WAS Class A                  Azuli 
           (Yet another take on Talking 
           Heads' Once In A Lifetime, this 
           one a little deeper) 
 
14   NEW   HOLD TIGHT 1 Up Front                     New Deal 
           (An awesome bassline is the power 
           behind this two-step/breakbeat 
           soundclash) 
 
15   NEW   KICK BACK Natural Born Grooves             Sunrise 
           (Well-produced floor-filling house 
           groove with a catchy bassline) 
 
16   NEW   ENERGY FLOW Vitae                      Distinctive 
           (Powerful acid breaks track from            Breaks 
           Bristol) 
 
17   NEW   ALL THIS AND HEAVEN TOO Main St 
           Project Smokin' Beats 
           (Smokin' Beats bring this old 
           Chapter & the Verse song right up 
           to date) 
 
18   NEW   FINALLY Kings Of Tomorrow                 Distance 
           (Deep and classy garage tune with 
           mixes from Masters At Work) 
 
19   NEW   FREE AT LAST Soul Deluxe feat Kareem      Champion 
           (Utilising the old Spank loop and 
           with mixes from Kerri Chandler and 
           John Cano) 
 
20   NEW   KITES Angel                                 3 Beat 
           (Cover of the Simon Dupree/ 
           Ultraviolet song with mixes from 
           Fade) 

Compiled by DJ feedback and data collected from the following stores: Black Market/City Sounds/Flying/Plastic Fantastic/Pure Groove/Release The Groove/Tag/Trax/Vinyl Addiction (London); Eastern Bloc (Manchester); 23rd Precinct (Glasgow); 3 Beat (Liverpool); Flying (Newcastle); Massive (Oxford); The Disc (Bradford); Rhythm Syndicate (Cambridge); Plastic Surgery (Maidstone); Urban/Covert (Brighton); Crash (Leeds).

 
URBAN TOP 20 
 
 1     1     4   STUTTER                                    Jive 
                 Joe Feat. Mystikal 
 
 2    11    14   POP YA COLLAR                           Laface/ 
                 Usher                                    Arista 
 
 3     5     6   EVERYDAY/SO AMAZING                        Dome 
                 Darwin Hobbs feat. Michael 
                 McDonald Dome 
 
 4    12     4   SPACE RIDER                              Oyster 
                 Shaun Escoffrey 
 
 5     3     3   CASE OF THE EX (WHATCHA GONNA DO)       Polydor 
                 Mya 
 
 6     6     6   BABY WE'RE DANCIN'                    Urbanstar 
                 Ultimate Kaos 
 
 7     9     4   THE NEXT EPISODE                    Interscope/ 
                 Dr Dre feat. Snoop Dogg                 Polydor 
 
 8     4     4   El Nelly                              Universal 
 
 9     7     4   WHEN I LOOK INTO YOUR EYES              Mercury 
                 Maxee 
 
10     2     7   LOVE DON'T COST A THING                    Epic 
                 Jennifer Lopez 
 
11     8    10   AFTER PARTY                              Arista 
                 Koffee Brown 
 
12    10     9   I JUST WANNA LOVE U                     Def Jam 
                 Jay-Z 
 
13    14     6   MS. JACKSON                             LaFace/ 
                 Outkast                                  Arista 
 
14   NEW   NEW   OH NO!                                   Rawkus 
                 Mos Def 
 
15    16     3   SHUT UP ... AND FORGET ABOUT IT          Arista 
                 Dane Bowers 
 
16    RE    RE   GET A LIFE/WAKE UP EVERYBODY                !K7 
                 Rae & Christian feat. Bobby 
                 Womack 
 
17    15     7   IN MY MUSIC                           Universal 
                 Al Jarreau feat. Phife Dawg                Jazz 
                 Universal Jazz 
 
18    20     2   GETTIN' IT ON/BOUNCE TO THIS            Instant 
                 K-Gee                                ...