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Models of Star Destroyers, Rebel Fighters, the Millennium Falcon, and plastic figures from the film litter the studio. and that's not the way we want to go." Lost In Blueĭeep Blue Studios is located in an arts complex near Piccadilly station in the heart of the city and Dale and Kevin have fitted it out like the true Star Wars fanatics they are. As Dale Longworth, the other half of the duo, affirms, "Our main problem is that now people expect pop from N‑Trance. It's all a long way from 'Stayin' Alive', and the brains behind the group are only too aware of this in fact, as I visit their Manchester‑based Deep Blue studio in late September 1997, they're discussing bringing N‑Trance to the end of its life after the imminent release of the next album, and looking forward to continuing in their new‑found, more progressive vein under a new name. And then there's the material they're working on at the moment: the hard‑hitting, Robocop‑sampling 'Violent Mechanical Psychopath' which exhibits distinct leanings towards the recent output of The Prodigy the expansive, driving instrumental 'Deep Blue', which Kevin O'Toole, one of N‑Trance's core creative duo, proclaims "the best thing we've ever done" and 'The Mind Of The Machine', a hardcore collaboration with Hollywood actor Stephen Berkoff. They've had plenty of self‑penned successes, for one thing, such as their 1995 dancefloor classic (and UK number 2) 'Set You Free'. But more importantly, there's more to N‑Trance themselves than their cover hits. For a start, reworking those disco tunes around a main sampled section isn't as easy as it looks a lot of studio work goes into their creation. Easy money, you might say this is obviously a group bereft of talent, stealing other people's ideas by means of modern sampling technology and reaping the rewards.īut as with so many other aspects of life, it's not quite that simple.
'Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?' as the group have mysteriously renamed it - has become the third cover hit the band have enjoyed in the last two years (following 1995's 'Stayin' Alive' and this year's 'D.I.S.C.O.') by sampling the hooks of old disco classics and reworking them for the modern club market.
"NA NA NA NAAH‑NAAHH!!" It is the evening of Friday October 31st, 1997, and as Top Of The Pops is beamed into living rooms nationwide, so too is a radically updated version of Rod Stewart's late‑'70s hymn to leopardskin, 'Do You Think I'm Sexy?' by N‑Trance. The perpetrators of recent smash hit 'Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?' might look like a leopardskin‑clad disco covers band composed of several people, but in fact, they're the pet electronic project of two Mancunians with their heads firmly screwed on and an eye to the future of dance music.