Creativity + Combination + Time = worthy compositions

Create a dance tune can be not as easy as you might think

For some Dj's compose a song can be a bit difficult as it may require creativity, time, extravagant combinations and a lot of research...but at the end everything is worthy.
During the past decade, fearless dj's such as Sash!, LMC, Mousse T and Jakatta decided to experiment and take their chances in creating the latest dance tunes with a big inspiration and originality.
In all of these cases, they decided to re-use old songs and mix them with some of their original samples. But it took sometime to release the last version as some of them decided to use the lyrics of one song and the music from other or get inspiration in the score of a movie.
The british Dj Joey Negro has worked during the past decade in various solo projects, each with a different name and characteristics.
One of them was the acclaimed Jakatta, which became famous, mainly, from 2001 to 2004 releasing singles as So Lonely, My vision and American Dream.
This last composition, released by the end of 2001, was definitely the most acclaimed and popular as it is based in two of the main themes from the movie American Beauty.
The result of this mix and chop is the following song: American Dream...


Dance tunes like La Primavera, Adelante and Ecuador were a massive success across Europe and specially in the UK.
The creator: the german producer Sash!, who decided to create an especial edition of the former number 2 Encore une fois, released in 1997.
This version was released last year as a compilation of Sash!'s greatest hits became available last year in stores. But even though it may sound quite catchy, the process to create was quite exhausting.
To create this new version Sash! took as an inspiration the song Insomnia from Faithless and the lyrics of the song Raindrops by the dj Stunt.
The result was quite original and successful as it reached the UK top ten by the beginning of last year. Enjoy the song

The german-turkish dj, Mousse T became massive in 1998 with the release of his first single Horny and later in 2004 with the song Is it cos I'm cool?
But in 2006, he made a remarkable return when he created the song Horny as a Dandy, which is nothing but a combination of his former number one Horny and the song Bohemians like you from the american band The Dandy Warhols.
The combination as it follows:


In 2004 the english dance artist LMC took the melody from that acclaimed song With or without you from U2 and then he mixed the lyrics from Whitney Houston's hit How will I know.
The result was the chart hit Take me to clouds above, single that became quite popular in the UK.