Da1000's European Tour : Belgium

Hello there! It's day 11 of my tour, and I've just left The Netherlands and arrived in Belgium. Belgium is as nice as The Netherlands, altough a bit more frenchy... Nevertheless there's also some belgian acts on the international music scene. Back in 2000 Belle Perez had an european hit with her debut single Hello World, Lara Fabian also had hit singles and albums over europe, and then there's the belgian DJs like Danzel, Lasgo, Dave McCullen (who is actually part of Lasgo, but had a solo hit with the anthem Bitch) or even Junior Jack! Today's artist also was very popular on the european clubs back in 2003 with the hit single Desenchantée, which is actually a cover of french singer Mylène Farmer. That's the main reason you may recognize Kate Ryan, altough she also was a contestant for Belgium on the 2006 Eurovision Song Contest with her now europop flavoured style. Je t'Adore failed to win anything altough she was one of the big favourites to win the competition. Details apart, here's Kate Ryan from Belgium with her hit single Desenchantée. Enjoy, and meet me tomorrow on yet another European country.

Kate Ryan - Desenchantée



Thursday, December 28, 2006

Da1000's European Tour : Netherlands

Hey hey! It's day 10 of my European Tour, and today is time to visit The Netherlands. Dutch acts are also quite international, like rebel girl Anouk, pop chanteuse Do (which was featured on DJ Sammy's hit single Heaven), fantasy group Ch!pz, professional DJ Armin Van Buuren, gothic rockers Within Temptation or early 90's electronic sensation 2 Unlimited. For the tour though, I took the liberty to choose not one, but two artists. But don't worry, just one song. Kane has alwayas been a quite huge band on The Netherlands, but it was only with their 2002 hit Rain Down On Me that they broke through Europe, altough releasing it internationaly only in 2004 with DJ Tiësto's remix. The song became a hit all over the continent, either radio friendly Kane-only version, or club anthem with Tiësto. That's actually today's song. Of course the original is really good, but Tiësto (being one of today's best DJs) took it to a whole new level. Enjoy, and meet me again tomorrow on, perhaps, your own country ;)

Kane & Tiësto - Rain Down On Me (Tiësto Remix)



Wednesday, December 27, 2006

Da1000's European Tour : Germany

Back on the road again, my European tour is back after a 2 days break for Christmas. And what a lovely Christmas... what about yours? ;) Anyway, it's day 9 of the tour, and it's time to move to Germany. Germany has probably the most important music scene of Europe, if you don't consider the british one of course. Now and then, Deutschland has given us some big names, like Rammstein, Nena or Boney M, and has plenty national super stars like Jeanette, Sarah Connor or former girlband No Angels. For the tour, I chose less-phenomenon rock band Revolverheld. The band's first german hit was Die Welt Steht Still released last year, then they released Freunde Bleiben which was their contestant song on the Bundesvision Song Contest 2006, a Eurovision-type show on which all the German provinces take part. But it wasn't these songs that caught my attention to them. Their fourth single, Mit Dir Chilln' did. It's a rock ballad, perfect for the end of the summer, sang entirely in German, and it's video is just one of the most amazing I've ever seen. Simple, but amazing. So, here's Revolverheld with Mit Dir Chilln', and I meet you tomorrow on some other European country... Enjoy!


Revolverheld - Mit Dir Chilln'



Tuesday, December 26, 2006

Merry Christmas (Part II)

It's Christmas day! And I couldn't not write you today, so I'm just passing by to give you my Christmas presents.
The first one it's one of my favourite Christmas songs this year. British girl band Girls Aloud made a version of the very traditional Jingle Bell Rock. It's a bit similiar to the version presented on the motion picture Mean Girls, but this has more...Girls Aloud into it. Nevertheless, it's a quite good version, so here's their performance of the song, as well as the mp3 ;)


Girls Aloud - Jingle Bell Rock


Also one of my favourites this year, the Pussycat Dolls' version of Eartha Kitt's classic Santa Baby. The song has been covered by a whole bunch of artists, such as Madonna, Kylie Minogue or even Calista Flockhart on Ally McBeal, but it was the Dolls' version that really got me into it. A version by Cynthia Basinet is most of the times mistakenly credited to having been sung by Marilyn Monroe, although Marilyn never recorded the song. Anyway, here you go, video and mp3!

The Pussycat Dolls - Santa Baby



Also so you can compare, here's other versions of the song :


Finally, we had some bad news today unfortunatly. The godfather of soul, James Brown, passed away today. Here's my tribute to him.


Monday, December 25, 2006

Merry Christmas (Part I)

Christmas finally arrived! And I couldn't possibily stop writing you this days... So, as I'm on a short break from my european tour, I can now close the votings of my Christmas poll. Earlier this month I started to ask you what was your favourite Christmas single. And out of 31 total votes Mariah Carey's All I Want For Christmas Is You is the big winner with 32% of the votes. Last Christmas by Wham! earned second place with 19% of the votes, and in 3rd comes the Pussycat Dolls' version of Santa Baby with 16% of the votes. Songs by Ashanti, Jessica Simpson and N'Sync didn't got any votes, but they all celebrate Christmas in the end. You can check the whole voting charts in the end of this post. But I couldn't just tell you the winner and leave. Of course, you'll get my Christmas present today! To celebrate Mariah's victory, I'll leave you the three videos she made for the song (one of them a remix featuring Jermaine Dupri and Lil' Bow Wow), and also the oppurtunity to download the song, either if you want to pay or not... So, enjoy and until tomorrow!
MERRY CHRISTMAS!...

All I Want For Christmas Is You

All I Want For Christmas Is You (1964 Video Version)

All I Want For Christmas Is You

(Remix Ft. Lil' Bow Wow & Jermaine Dupri)

Free Download or Buy

Free /Amazon /itunes

Sunday, December 24, 2006