Dance music news

Xandee (better known as Sandy, the female singer of the pop group Touch of Joy) has blown away the competition in Eurosong 2004 with her song 1 Life. With 50 points out of 54, Xandee was the clear winner. Many people tipped Natalia (runner up at the Belgian Idols 2003 contest) as the big winner, but her song turned out to have a lot less potential then Xandee’s dance inspired track.

Indeed, this is the first time a ‘dance track’ (albeit with some ethnical influences) will be sent to the Eurovision song contest. With her great voice, outstanding performance and a song that instantly nests itself in your head, Xandee is expected to be a serious contender for the final victory. Dancevibes will certainly support Xandee and welcomes the arrival of a new dance diva …

Last week Danzel’s debut single Pump it up! entered the Flemish Ultratop charts at nr 25. A great start for Johan Waem, alias Danzel, which was one of the 20 finalists of ‘Idool 2003’ in Belgium.

Producer Jaco Van Rijswijk took the original song by the Black & White Brothers and a sample of ‘In the mix’ by Mixmaster to create a new groovy 2004 edition together with Johan

Check out the Danzel – Pump it up review!

It seems that P magazine can’t get enough from our Belgian dance divas. Now it is electro babe Roxane who goes all out on the cover of P magazine. And it turns out to be quite a sexy foto shoot. In addition, you can find a long interview with Roxane. Keep in mind that Roxane will take part in the finals of Eurosong this sunday.

Peter Luts updated his website www.peterluts.com with some new remixes.

Ian Van Dahl‘s single Where are you now? has been given the Peter Luts treatment. This probably means that this is the next CD Single to be expected from Ian Van Dahl (as they only make remixes for vinyl/cdsingle releases)

Also the track Long Island has been remixed into the Heliac Arena remix. (Heliac is the name of Peter’s studio)

is a new project by L-Vee that started 10 months ago. While lots of people love his trancy sound (eg. Fire & Ice, Airwave), Lô is something completely different. Quoting L-Vee himself, it’s some kind of ‘futuristic-electo-pop-rock’ written, composed, produced and sung by L-Vee.

Laurent Veronnez

Right now enough tracks are ready for a full album. It’s however not yet certain that the album will be released as it is not easy to convince recordcompanies to invest into full albums these days. We’ve had the opportunity to listen to some short samples and were impressed!

Check out DJ Airwave site for more info! Also don’t forget to read our L-Vee interview if you haven’t done so already!

Blanco y negro released the spanish maxi cd of Typhoon – More than ever last week friday. To hear the soundsample visit the Blanco y negro site!

New contest!

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Check out our contests page as we’ve just added a new contest! Thanks to Mostiko we can give away 5 Retro Arena – The Tuning Edition CDs!

On sunday, Roxane won the third semi final of the preselections of the Eurovision contest with the very nice electro/rock song Television game.

On March 1st, her debut album will be in the shops. As we already reported it’s called Naked and offcourse includes Television Game, Re Arrange, Fashion, I Wanna dance with somebody. Beside those it also contains brand new songs like ‘Kinky Thoughts’ (an Electro Pop track), ‘Dancing Naked in The Rain’ and the groovy track ‘Ain’t no sunshine when he’s gone’

The album is not only Electro Pop, it also includes great mixtures of loungy groovy summer night tracks produced by Mon ‘S Jegers and Danny Van Wauwe. The photoshoots for the album were done by Dirk Leunis who already worked for artists like SoulWax, Axel Red.

Zippora is back in 2004 with a great new single called Luminous and Beautiful.

Zippora - Luminous and BeautifulThe belgian CD single contains the Original Edit and Rudi Gouda Radio edit. In their second week Zippora goes up one place to nr 22 in the Ultratop.

A new party concept is born : on Friday February 6, 2004 Miss Bambi will present the first edition of Le Cabardouche in Transit East (Hasselt).

Expérience La Décadence defines everything regarding this sexy party concept : mixing a bit of Berlin’s Kit Kat Club with the Moulin Rouge from Paris, Le Cabardouche is sure to make your blood boil.

Every first Friday of the month, Transit East will be changed into La Cabardouche with 3 rooms : La Suite, Le Salon and La Boudoir Privé. DJ Phill (Studio 54), DJ Guy –ohm (Cafe d’ Anvers) and DJ Lesly and DJ CéCéM, residents of Transit East, will provide you with all the right vibes. Moreover, sexy entertainment will be everywhere … So be sure to check it out.

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