critical mass
actief: 1995 - 1999
land: Nederland
genre: hardcore, happy hardcore, house, eurodance,
trance
producer: Ed Bout, Dave van Hasselaar
leden: Ludmilla, MC ENERGY (Danny Haemraets)
biografie
De producers Ed Bout en Dave van Hasselaar werden
door de platenmaatschappij ID&T gevraagt om iets
commercieels op te zetten. Onder de naam Critical
Mass brachten ze het nummer "Dancing Together" uit. In het begin
stonden de producers zelf op het podium, maar later
werden de Rotterdamse zangeres Ludmilla en de Limburgse rapper
MC ENERGY (Danny Haemraets) de gezichten van Critical
Mass.
Het hoogtepunt voor de groep was in 1996 waar ze
drie grote happy hardcore hits scoorden. Ook staan ze regelmatig
op Thunderdome party's van ID&T. De in 1997
uitgebracht single "Together In Dreams" deed het een stuk minder en de
producers besluiten om het happy hardcore genre
achter zich te laten liggen. Ze waren van plan een album uit te
brengen, maar dat is niet door gegaan. De samenwerking
met ID&T werd verbroken. Het laatste dat Critical Mass
uitbracht was het trance-achtige nummer "In Your
Eyes".
singles
Dancing Together (1995)
Burnin' Love (1996)
Believe In The Future (1996)
Happy Generation (1996)
Together In Dreams (1997)
In Your Eyes (1999)
albums
er zijn geen albums uitgebracht onder de naam Critical Mass
Critical Mass was a dutch Rave/Happy Hardcore group from the Mid-Nineties.
Critical Mass was formed in 1994 by 2 Gabbaproducers, Ed Bout and Dave Hasselaar.
ID&T records (the centre of hardcore at that time) wanted a live act for gabbaparties.
At the beginning both producers where the act by themselves but not
much later they integrated the singer
Ludmilla Odjik and the rapper Danny Haenraets alias MC Energy.
At the end of 1995 they got a hit with "Dancin' Together".
In 1996 3 big hits followed: "Burnin' Love", "Believe In The Future" and "Happy Generation".
They wanted to have success in whole Europe but that failed because
ID&T was an underground gabba label in those years and had no
professional marketing strategies. But they had big popularity at raves
and gabba parties.
In 1997 another single followed called "Together In Dreams". The Summer
of 1997 was the highlight of gabba music
but in the autumn of that year it fell down.
In 1999 the group tried again with a trance single called "In Your Eyes", it became a clubhit.
"In Your Eyes" and "Together in Dreams" (both being eurotrance tracks,
and not happy hardcore) were picked up by Byte Records. Byte
Records is one of the major Belgian labels that brought around 2 Unlimited,
Sylver, D-Devils, and many others. But even Byte failed to make
Critical Mass succeed.
When hardcore began to live again in the underground Ed and Dave decided
to quit with it and go back to their roots.
Title:
Dancing Together
Released:
1995
Tracklisting:
Track 1.
Track 2.
Track 3.
Track 4.
Track 5.
Dancing Together (7"Original Mix)
Dancing Together (Live In Germany)
Dancing Together (Big In Japan Mix)
Dancing Together (Critical Happycore)
Dancing Together (DJ Waxweazle Remix)
4.22
4.44
5.10
4.32
4.22
Title:
Burnin' Love/ Dancin' Together
Released:
1995
Tracklisting:
n/a
n/a
n/a
Title:
Burnin' Love
Released:
1996-05-13
Tracklisting:
Track 1.
Track 2.
Track 3.
Track 4.
Track 5.
Track 6.
Burnin' Love (Happy Radio Edit)
Burnin' Love (Rave Radio Edit)
Burnin' Love (Original Version)
Burnin' Love (2 Da Core Mix)
Burnin' Love (DJ Weirdo & DJ Sim 173.683 Remix)
Burnin' Love (The Propher Remix)
3.53
4.17
4.42
4.42
5.29
4.45
Title:
Believe In The Future
Released:
1996
Tracklisting:
n/a
n/a
n/a
Title:
Happy Generation
Released:
1996
Tracklisting:
Track 1.
Track 2.
Track 3.
Track 4.
Track 5.
Track 6.
Happy Generation (Radio Edit)
Happy Generation (Extended Mix)
Happy Generation (Trimix)
Happy Generation (Deaz. D Remix)
Happy Generation (DJ Weirdo & Mtness Remix)
Happy Generation (Buzz Fuzz Remix)
3.38
5.35
5.22
5.35
5.26
6.11
Title:
Together In Dreams
Released:
1997
Tracklisting:
Track 1.
Track 2.
Track 3.
Track 4.
Together In Dreams (Radio Edit)
Together In Dreams (Radio Extended Edit)
Together In Dreams (Aegri Somnia)
Together In Dreams (Moprheus)
4.00
6.08
6.36
6.00
Title:
In Your Eyes
Released:
1998
Tracklisting:
Track 1.
Track 2.
Track 3.
In Your Eyes (AJ Radio Mix)
In Your Eyes (JP's Edit)
In Your Eyes (Original Edit)
3.47
3.47
3.39
Title:
In Your Eyes Remixes
Released:
1999-03-21
Tracklisting:
n/a
n/a
n/a
Biography and parts of discography provided by Rogier Verkroost 2002
Additional information and corrections by Ruslan L. Margolin 2002
Additional information and discography by Niklas Adolfsson 2002
Thanks to Bart van Eijck for some discography information.
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