DANCE.

CHART COMMENTARY

The umpteenth dance record to sample Martin Luther King's classic civil rights speech, Free

At Last by Simon scuttles to the top of the Club Chart this week, finding just enough juice to squeeze past I Wanna Be U by Chocolate Puma. The tracks have an identical number of DJs playing them but the Simon single scores about 3% more under our system, and demonstrates that while its historically important acts like the Vengaboys and Alice Deejay may be on the slide, the Positiva hit machine continues to churn 'em out ... Meanwhile, last week's number one, My Love by Kluster featuring Ron Carroll, dips to number seven. The funky French house record is the second number one in recent times to sample Carol Williams' Salsoul classic Love Is You, the first being Spiller's If This Ain't Love. Further illustrating that Salsoul samples are still in vogue, the highest climber in the chart -- soaring 30 places -- is Salsoul Nugget (If U Wanna) by M&S presents The Girl Next Door, which uses Double Exposure's Every Man. Finally given a full service in excellent mixes by M&S themselves and DJ Lottie, this has been highly sought-after for months and has maintained an uninterrupted presence in the Top 100 of the Club Chart since last October, moving 58-52-54-36-40-49-37-33-49-33-68-71-52-40-28-64-38-8, with fluctuations due primarily to the limited number of copies hitherto feeding through to DJs ... Junior Vasquez mixes have been of variable quality recently, to say the least, but he is back on top form with Chante Moore's Straight Up, his funky house mix transforming the track from a soulful groove into an exciting stormer. It debuts at number one on the Pop Chart and number 19 on the Club Chart, while the more traditional mixes power it to a number five debut on the Urban Chart ... After five weeks at the top of the Urban Chart, Joe's Stutter slips to number four. His Jive label-mate Mystikal continues at number two for the third straight week, however, as Shaggy's It Wasn't Me soars 13-1 to take the title by a margin of nearly 20%.

 
COOL CUTS CHART 
as featured on Tall Paul's Saturday night show 
on Kiss 100 and Emap Big City Network 
 
 1   [NEW]   AERODYNAMIC                                        Virgin 
             Daft Punk 
             (Controversial and short but still 
             inspired, Daft Punk divide the nation 
             again) 
 
 2       3   FLY AWAY                                    VC Recordings 
             Vincent De Moor 
             (A Cool Cuts number one from last 
             summer gets a UK release with new 
             Thrillseekers mix) 
 
 3       1   FLESH                                            Perfecto 
             Jan Johnson 
             (Already an anthem for Oakenfold and 
             now with new mixes from DJ Tiesto) 
 
 4      10   BOOO!                                                JKSC 
             Sticky feat. MC Dynamite 
             (The hottest underground garage tune 
             on the streets of London) 
 
 5       9   FAITH                                           Fluential 
             Annette Taylor 
             (Gospel-tinged garage with mixes from 
             Sunkids and Pharmacy) 
 
 6       8   FUNNY BREAK (ONE'S ENOUGH)                           ffrr 
             Orbital 
             (First single from their new album 
             with mixes from Plumps DJs and Layo 
             & Bushwacka) 
 
 7   [NEW]   INTO SPACE                                      Manifesto 
             Play Thing 
             (Sheila B Devotion's Seventies hit 
             Spacer with mixes from Hatiras 
             and Public Domain) 
 
 8   [NEW]   MUSIC IS MOVING                                   Nukleuz 
             Cortina 
             (Fargetta's big mid-Nineties Italian 
             club hit reworked into a hard house 
             anthem) 
 
 
 9   [NEW]   THE SUN                                               R&S 
             Roland Clarke presents Digital Pimps 
             (Outstanding and original house 
             production with mixes from 
             Todd Terry) 
 
10      12   GHOSTS                                             Nebula 
             Tenth Planet 
             (Trance cover of the Japan classic 
             with mixes from Vincent De Moor 
             and Redanka) 
 
11   [NEW]   I'M SATISFIED                                    Dtension 
             Full Intention 
             (Solid disco house production with 
             a powerful bassline) 
 
12      18   CLARKNESS                               Plastic Fantastic 
             Dave Kane 
             (Strong progressive cut with mixes 
             from Slacker and Corellian & 
             Lee Burridge) 
 
13   [NEW]   THE BIZ                                     Spunki Spanko 
             Organic Audio 
             (Floorfilling twisted funky house 
             workout) 
 
14   [NEW]   FELINE                                       Disctinctive 
             Maurice 
             (Explosive progressive track with a 
             new mix from Trancesetters) 
 
15   [NEW]   DISCO SOUL                                            Boo 
             Kings Of Soul 
             (Infectious house cut with the catchy 
             "Love and tenderness has gone" vocal 
             hook) 
 
16   [NEW]   RESERVATION                               Fire Recordings 
             Brethren 
             (Deep but powerful underground house 
             groove) 
 
17   [NEW]   THE HACIENDA MUST BE REBUILT                  Intergroove 
             Sound 5 
             (The tribute concept may be dodgy but 
             the music is excellent) 
 
18   [NEW]   CRIMSON                                       Circulation 
             Circulation 
             (Hard-to-find house track gets a full 
             release with a new mix from the band 
             themselves) 
 
19   [NEW]   NARCO TOURISTS                                       Soma 
             Slam vs Unkle 
             (Guitars and techno collide in James 
             Lavelle's collaboration with the 
             Slam duo) 
 
20   [NEW]   LOOK ME UP                                    white label 
             Spek 
             (Bass heavy two-step dub mixes from 
             DJ Hyper and Dylan Rhymes) 
 
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      13       2   IT WASN'T ME                                  MCA 
                     Shaggy 
 
 2       2       4   DANGER (BEEN SO LONG)                        Jive 
                     Mystikal feat. Nivea 
 
 3       3       2   COULD IT BE               Divine Mill/Warner Bros 
                     Jaheim 
 
 4       1       8   STUTTER                                      Jive 
                     Joe Feat. Mystikal 
 
 5   [NEW]   [NEW]   STRAIGHT UP                                   MCA 
                     Chante Moore 
 
 6       8      10   MS. JACKSON                         LaFace/Arista 
                     Outkast 
 
 7       5       8   El Nelly                         Universal Island 
 
 8       7       2   DARLIN'                                  Defected 
                     Bob Sinclar 
 
 9       4       4   X                                       Loud/Epic 
                     Xzibit feat. Snoop Dogg 
 
10      12      18   POP YA COLLAR                       LaFace/Arista 
                     Usher 
 
11      11      10   EVERYDAY/SO AMAZING                          Dome 
                     Darwin Hobbs feat. 
                     Michael McDonald 
 
12    [RE]    [RE]   A LONG WALK                                  Epic 
                     Jill Scott 
 
13       9      10   CASE OF THE EX                            Polydor 
                     (WHATCHA GONNA DO) 
                     Mya 
 
14      14       2   BONNIE & SHYNE                     Bad Boy/Arista 
                     Shyne 
 
15   [NEW]   [NEW]   DON'T TALK                                   Epic 
                     Jon B 
 
16      15       3   GIRLS DEM SUGAR                            Virgin 
                     Beenie Man feat. Mya 
 
17      16       2   SHIT ON YOU                    Interscope/Polydor 
                     D12 
 
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