wwwowowwww...cant wait!!!! Hope we get to listen to the good old Chicane again...

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Originally posted by Spirit5 The only ones i've despised are "Stoned In Love" and "Don't Give Up"

don't give up i thought was good, bit on the commercial side but enjoyable.. brian's voice was run through a vocoder so it ended up fitting quite well. the backing track was rather nice also, with lots of the old-style chicane subtleties thrown in. also if you take 'stoned in love' as how it was intended (ie, as a radio-friendly pop record), it isn't all that bad.. it's strong, catchy & well produced. but that said i'd never play it at home

'love on the run' is by far the worst thing he's done in my view... it had the same accessibility factor as don't give up, only it was really weak, half-arsed & not catchy in the slightest.. sounded like it was thrown together in one night (as with most of the tracks on that album)


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i also don't have high hopes for this, seeing as in interviews nick has made clear his desire to leave the 'old chicane' behind

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Originally posted by isoterra don't give up i thought was good, bit on the commercial side but enjoyable.. brian's voice was run through a vocoder so it ended up fitting quite well. the backing track was rather nice also, with lots of the old-style chicane subtleties thrown in. also if you take 'stoned in love' as how it was intended (ie, as a radio-friendly pop record), it isn't all that bad.. it's strong, catchy & well produced. but that said i'd never play it at home 'love on the run' is by far the worst thing he's done in my view... it had the same accessibility factor as don't give up, only it was really weak, half-arsed & not catchy in the slightest.. sounded like it was thrown together in one night (as with most of the tracks on that album) + i also don't have high hopes for this, seeing as in interviews nick has made clear his desire to leave the 'old chicane' behind

"Love On The Run" I agree was pretty bad. I just hate Tom Jone's voice..it doesn't fit in a dance track. "Don't Give Up" was probably the better of the three male vocal Chicane tracks, but I just thought it was too overplayed and like I said, I prefer female vocals to male vocals so I might be partially biased.

Let's see how this is going to turn out...

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Originally posted by isoterra i also don't have high hopes for this, seeing as in interviews nick has made clear his desire to leave the 'old chicane' behind

yep, and by having a preview of their new material on the recent gigs I can say that he really ment it ... Most of the new tracks from the forthcoming album are poppish...

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Originally posted by isoterra seeing as in interviews nick has made clear his desire to leave the 'old chicane' behind

Yep, face it, it's over.....

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Originally posted by Spirit5 Actually "Strong In Love" is a house-pop track, not really a trance track, hence why one of the reasons you might not like it. The "Disco Citizen's Mix" turned it into more of a trance track and eliminated a lot of the vocals (other than a loop of "strong in love, say it again"). The only ones i've despised are "Stoned In Love" and "Don't Give Up", but I guess I just really don't like male vocals in trance/dance tracks, only a few on a rare occasion that I don't mind (like AvB's "Yet Another Day").

oh okay, but yea it was just the vocals i didnt like mostly. i thought dont give up was nice, commercial doesnt always mean shit. ive always preferred female vocals aswell though

After thhe Tom Jones fiasco...anything is better than that.

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Originally posted by Spirit5 The only ones i've despised are "Stoned In Love" and "Don't Give Up", but I guess I just really don't like male vocals in trance/dance tracks, only a few on a rare occasion that I don't mind (like AvB's "Yet Another Day").

The "Disco citizens remix vs. Tomski" remix of "Don't give up" was a brilliant typical end-90s instrumental epic trance track IMO (with just a "don't give up" vocodered phrase and nothing else from the vocal side of things.)

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I am down!!! But i will admit Chicane can be wishy washy on his tunes. So who knows.. guess just wait and see:-)

Jamie

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I can't see the new material being anywhere near his first two albums in terms of quality. Yes, an artist cannot continue to produce in the same style forever but it's terrible to completely abandon the style of the material that your audience grew to love for commercialized material that will just make you a lot of money. I think Chicane has lost its love for the music that produced "Far From The Maddening Crowds" and "Behind The Sun" sadly...let's just hope this isn't true