When was groovejet released

According to technology journalist Steven Levy , "Groovejet" was the first song ever to be played on an iPod , specifically on a prototype unit in August The booklet write-up correctly predicted it to be a hit. The song was ranked at number in Pitchfork Media 's list of the Top Tracks of the s. In April , the Official Charts Company announced that "Groovejet" was the biggest-selling vinyl single of the millennium in the UK.

Piers Martin of NME was favourable, saying "this is a slip of irresistible ice-filtered summer funk. No Chic for Spiller, none of that poise or aspirational elegance. The sounds 'Groovejet' loots are the syn-drums and ray-gun synths of disco's overripe peak and decline, when it was corny, wonderful, mass-market pop music: you can hear hints of Kelly Marie or Amii Stewart in the song, before that sweetness falls back into the dreamy groove.

In fact she sounds carried along by it. The video for the song shows Spiller and Sophie making their way separately around Bangkok. Spiller meets people and signs autographs, while finding his height makes life there difficult; Sophie sings wistfully at various tables in bars. I had no idea how the pop world worked. It was a completely crazy time but also a dream come true: I ended up DJing at the best clubs and parties around the world.

Groovejet gave me so much freedom — it meant I never had to do another pop hit. I could just keep on making music for clubs. I played it again and this time I thought it really had something. I was only 19 but they were always quite nasty and never particularly supportive.

Groovejet was a breath of fresh air, a brilliant way of turning the page. I agreed to sing on the track and went into the studio with my own ideas and wrote the verses quickly. Eventually, they spliced my verses with a brilliant chorus by Rob Davis.

Mine was rubbish in comparison! I was so happy to be the voice on it. Sophie Ellis-Bextor has reflected on the 20 years since the release of her smash dance hit, Groovejet , and her plans for a new version. The song was released by Italian DJ Spiller with Ellis-Bextor on vocals, but she's said that at the time she didn't realise the impact it would have on her career. The year-old shared a photo still from the video, which was filmed in Bangkok, noting it had been two decades since it was shot.

Read more: Sophie Ellis-Bextor shows injuries after bike accident. View this post on Instagram. The track was released in August and was in a famous chart battle for number one with Victoria Beckham's first solo track, Out Of Your Mind.

The mother-of-five noted she was "worried" about how the indie scene would respond to her involvement in a dance track and that she had felt a "bit burned" by the breakup of her band Theaudience which she had been vocalist for between to Her first solo album released the following year, Read My Lips , proved to be a hit as it reached number two in the UK charts.

Ellis-Bextor remarked on the different venues it had led her to perform in, including her recent kitchen discos. She joked: "Thank you, Groovejet. The entertainer has recently announced a tour and album based on her lockdown kitchen discos. She's divulged that fans can expect to hear a new version of Groovejet she's recorded with James Wiltshire from DJ duo the Freemasons.

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