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2 BROTHERS ON THE 4TH FLOOR - DREAMS (WILL COME ALIVE)
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Dreams (Will Come Alive)
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Euro Dance classic reissued on White Vinyl
Rarely are we ever lucky enough to welcome much Eurodance back to the sale stock, but 'Dreams (Will Come Alive)' is indeed an unsurprising exception to this apparent rule, one that governs what we may expect. Made in early 1994 by the Dutch duo 2 Brothers On The 4th Floor - initially made up of Martin and Bobby Boer, but later enlisting the "brand booster" lineup additions of Dutch singer Desray and rapper D-Rock - 'Dreams' was understandably a major hit in Europe at the moment of its release. The track was hilariously described as "old fashioned rave style squawking shrill girl wailed and at times inevitable gruff gruff rapped Euro hit" by Music Week, but this mentions nothing of its finger-clicking snares and tweezing square saw lead, the latter of which commands a melody that sounds suspiciously similar to Haddaway's 'What Is Love,' released around the same time. Rave communism, anyone? Hardly, probably, but there is a kind of mimesis to these things. Anyway, it's the contemporary remixes on this reissue that really take the cake, with the Lick mix standing out as the relatively torrential emo-downpour, and that's saying nothing of the aromatic, nigh nightmarish cheese that ensues on Twenty 4 Seven Trance mix: D-Rock raps away with dogged insistence to "keep going on", shining brightly on what can only be described as a rare, authentic hip-hop / Eurotrance combo moment.
Rarely are we ever lucky enough to welcome much Eurodance back to the sale stock, but 'Dreams (Will Come Alive)' is indeed an unsurprising exception to this apparent rule, one that governs what we may expect. Made in early 1994 by the Dutch duo 2 Brothers On The 4th Floor - initially made up of Martin and Bobby Boer, but later enlisting the "brand booster" lineup additions of Dutch singer Desray and rapper D-Rock - 'Dreams' was understandably a major hit in Europe at the moment of its release. The track was hilariously described as "old fashioned rave style squawking shrill girl wailed and at times inevitable gruff gruff rapped Euro hit" by Music Week, but this mentions nothing of its finger-clicking snares and tweezing square saw lead, the latter of which commands a melody that sounds suspiciously similar to Haddaway's 'What Is Love,' released around the same time. Rave communism, anyone? Hardly, probably, but there is a kind of mimesis to these things. Anyway, it's the contemporary remixes on this reissue that really take the cake, with the Lick mix standing out as the relatively torrential emo-downpour, and that's saying nothing of the aromatic, nigh nightmarish cheese that ensues on Twenty 4 Seven Trance mix: D-Rock raps away with dogged insistence to "keep going on", shining brightly on what can only be described as a rare, authentic hip-hop / Eurotrance combo moment.
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2 Brothers On The 4th Floor are the Dutch brothers Martin and Bobby Boer.
For years, Martin and Bobby Boer had been experimenting with music in a little bedroom. But then in 1990 things really started to happen for them, the single Can't Help Myself was picked up by Dutch radiostations and became an international hit.
After two singles the project was put on a halt. Martin moved into a new professional studio and started making remixes under the name Dancability Productions. He made remixes for acts like Becky Bell and Twenty 4 Seven. In the meanwhile Bobby was busy designing record-covers and CD-inlays.
In 1994 they decided to revive the 2 Brothers on the 4th Floor-project. Bobby joined Martin in his studio and after a while the two presented Never Alone. This single was the first to be launched with rapper D-Rock (real name is Renee Philips) and singer Des'Ray (real name is Desirée Claudette Manders). The song "Dreams", the title cut from their first album, was a major hit nationally and internationally inasmuch as it epitomized the essence of Euro-dance, which was popular when the song released in 1994.
The renewed style and concept were accepted well by the Dutch audience.
Two albums (Dreams (1994) and 2 (1996)) and nineteen singles have been released so far. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.