White Lies - To Lose My Life

White Lies are a band hailing from Ealing near London and originally were in a band called Fear Of Flying. They felt that the songs they were coming up with didn't fit in with that band so White Lies came from that band with a more darker sound to the material they had played previously. The band formed in late 2007 and began gigging with the new band and songs they had written. Almost straight away they began to have record company interest and signed to Fiction Records which was an off shoot from Polydor and started work on their debut album.

To Lose My Life was the title of the album and third single off the album and the single reached 34 in the UK charts. A mixture of rock, pop and punk with plenty of 80's sounds, the single and album sound like Echo & The Bunnymen with a bit of Billy Idol in places I think. But don't let that put you off, listen to then as it is a great debut album and a cracking single. Here's the single which was released in clear vinyl.

Feist - 1234

This catchy single was brought to our attention thanks to an advert for Apple Nano. Canadian singer Feist co wrote the song with Sally Seltmann and came from the album The Reminder which were both released in 2007. The single was slowly selling copies and suddenly after the advert was shown, the sales shot through the roof making it an instant hit here in the UK and America. It reached number 8 in September 2007 thanks to the advert, plus a really great video for the single. In the video you see Feist alone in a warehouse start to sing the song then suddenly there's a group of dancers behind her in what is a very cleverly edited video, made to look like it is a one take song and dance routine.

I think this is a really infectious to listen to and you can't help but sing along to the song, although the lyrics I think have more of a darker story to them. Here's the single

Sinead O Connor - Troy (The Phoenix From The Flame)

This could be my all time favourite Trance track, strange concidering it wasn't originally a dance track and I didn't really like the original

The original just simply called Troy was released in 1987 off her debut album The Lion And The Cobra, but never charted here. It would be her next single Mandinka that would make her a popular name (sometimes for all the wrong reasons)

So jump forward into 2002 and dance music is huge thanks to the DJ culture and Trance was still around from the end of the 90's. Someone had the great idea to have the track remixed and brought in German producer Push. He remixed the song to an amazing dance track, complete with echo on her voice and turned it into an awesome track. It got to number 48 on the charts but managed to top some of the club charts. It was released on a CD single and a remix 12'' single. I caught the track by accident one night channel surfing through the music channels. Check it out on Youtube and play loud!