Oh, hang on just another minute!
The plot thickens as Bryan Pringle has sued Black Eyed Peas for unauthorized sampling of his track from 1999: "Take A Dive".
He should perhaps sue Snow Patrol aswell, cos the opening melody to "Open Your Eyes" is exactly the same chord progression as "Take A Dive".

Hang on. Snow Patrol's "Open Your Eyes", anyone?

A trainspotter-correction is required to my previous comment about the origins of the main sample used for Track 4 "The Weekend Starts Here". Our friends at Whosampled.com have come up with the original source, which dates way back to 1974 and Idris Muhammad's "Loran's Dance". I guess Jestofunk's "Fluid" can take some credit for using the sample first.
Oh, and the harmonica loop is taken from Black Sabbath's "The Wizard"...

This was released in 1995, epitomising that "intelligent Drum n Bass" sound of the time: lush melodies and trancey moods, underpinned by breakbeat rhythms. However, rewind a year earlier to 1994 and take a listen to "Sunflash", the first track on Lemon Sol's album "Environmental Architecture". You'll very likely spot a not-insignificant resemblance to those sweeping, lush melody structures on "Horizons"; as in: they're exactly the same!

Ah yes; clever (and uncredited) pillaging by Mr Bukem, for sure.

These N-Trance chaps are certainly astute businessmen, if nothing else. Sampling is one thing. Clever sampling is another. But completely ripping off someone else's clever sample is just cheaper than cheap.

Thomas Bengalter and Stéphane Quême as Together sampled "Love's Such A Wonderful Thing" by The Real Thing to great effect on their 2002 release "So Much Love to Give".

Just 3 years later, these N-Trance "Freeloaders" steal not only the sample, but the way it was sampled and even the goddam title; AND make shedloads in the process. Cheeky, cheeky, very cheeky.

Possibly interesting trainspotter factoid #451: Alan Braxe and Fred Falke weren't the first to sample that little snippet of 'Crush On You' by The Jets. Almost 10 years before, The Orb used the exact same sample in their 'Buckets & Bongs Mixture' remix of 'Fast Forward The Future' by Zodiac Youth. They were slightly more subtle about it though, only using it the once.

An incredible genre-busting DJ mix from Tim 'Love' Lee. The first CD is more up-beat and funky, with clever use of the sampler to keep some of the tracks segued nicely. He pays cheeky reference to TC 1991's "Funky Guitar" with his mix of The Jacksons' "Hum Along And Dance" and Third World's "Cross Reference". The 2nd CD is certainly more chilled, with quite a folky, prog rock feel to it. Jam-packed full of juicy morcels, some recognizable, some rare, but many plundered by both the house and hip-hop scenes, making this a DJ mix to learn from.

Having seen Mylo perform a good set at Pukkelpop festival this year, I was looking forward to seeing them live at I Love Techno, Gent, Belgium, 13th Nov 2004. Myles McInnes (the man behind Mylo) on keyboards / guitar, was accompanied by a bass player and a guy on fx/mixer. Sadly, the only way to sum up their performance is "extremely disappointing". Mr McInnes spraying the audience with champagne, like they'd just won the Formula 1 Grand Prix, BEFORE they'd even started their set, was not a good sign. And it basically went downhill from there. Frequent technical problems with their backing track meant they had to abandon 3 or 4 of their songs in mid-performance. Embarrassed, muffled apologies from an inebriated McInnes didn't help matters either. The quality of the sound itself gave me the distinct impression that the champagne was flowing way to freely amongst the sound engineers too. It all seemed very much as though the recent successes had gone right to their head.
Disjointed, lacklustre, embarrassing. What a sham(e).

Get the Kleenex out for The Original mix. If you're in love, you'll understand. Easy, rolling drum track to move the lows. Subtle string elements to tweak the highs. Perfectly backed up with the hypnotic "I think about you - all the time" vocal. Quite simply, a straight-up beautiful love song.

This project could have so easily failed. Just a perfect recipe for tasteless, bland cheese. But it seems the remixers really took their jobs seriously and delivered a corking collection of juicy re-interpretations of Dame Shirley's classics.