As per the just released Billboard Dance Club Play Chart Top 25 on Billboard.com for the week of 5 Sept 2015, UK producers Disclosure have 2 top-25 tracks...the number 1 track and the number 25 tracks!
Disclosure f-Gregory Porter "Holding On" goes #1 on the 5 Sept 2015 Club Play Chart
Disclosure f-Sam Smith "Omen" enters the top-25 at #25 on the 5 Sept 2015 Club Play Chart
To say that Disclosure are the "sound of the moment" among the Billboard DJs would be an understatement. Well deserved too, Disclosure are definitely amazing producers of funky deeper vocal house!
I love these recaps the people at Billboard put together. They stopped producing them in March and I had figured they were no longer going to be made, but just discovered that they are being made again. Thank you Billboard!
Topping the Billboard Club Play Chart for the week of 22 August 2015 are the remixes by British pop hearthrob Nathan Sykes, originally best known as a member of UK boyband The Wanted and one time boyfriend of pop-divette Ariana Grande. While the pop version of the track has done much better in the UK than here in the USA, the club mixes have propelled the track to the top of the Billboard Club Play Charts.
Jump Smokers Remix of "Kiss Me Quick"
To be honest though, the Jump Smokers mix doesn't do much for me, instead give me the remixes by Dave Aude or (preferably) DJ Escape & Tony Coluccio any time.
So I finally have caught up with new trance releases after a two month hiatus caused by moving to a new house and a hectic work schedule. Now I can start commenting on new music in a much timelier fashion. Each week I am going to try to provide a list of some of my favorite new releases, hopefully others find it useful.
Week 31 2015 Vocal Trancers
Above & Beyond f-Gemma Hayes - Counting Down The Days (Judah Remix)
She's done it again, another #1 Billboard Club Play chart single for Madonna, as "Bitch I'm Madonna," which sees her again collaborating with Nicki Minaj, hits the top on the 15 Aug 2015 Billboard Club Play Chart. Rosabel's mix is nothing short of FIERCE, and really is it any surprise this track with a chorus of "Bitch...I'm Madonna" would do nothing less than rule the club charts here in the USA??? Props to La M, she turns 57 this year and still looks amazing, putting plenty of younger singers to shame with the amazing choreography she uses in her videos.
Playing catch up on new music as my partner and I moved houses after living in the same place for 17 years (omg never moving again!). Anyways this track from Markus Schulz from late May 2015 is a gorgeous instrumental that samples the synth hook from late-90s trance classic "Sweet Release" by Trouser Enthusiasts. LOVE THIS!!!
Sitting atop the Billboard Club Play chart for 8 August 2015 are the club mixes for the big pop-country hit from Andy Grammer "Honey I'm Good." Mike Cruz really did a fun remix that captures the light spirit of the track perfectly. Who says country can't be remixed for the clubs! Actually this isn't the first country track to be remixed for bigroom club play, as many country divas have had official or bootleg mixes of their tracks produced, from Dolly Parton to Faith Hill and beyond. But male country vocalists getting the remix treatment is much rarer. Great summertime club track!