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(This beat is) Automatic, supersonic, hypnotic, funky fresh Work my body, so melodic, this beat rolls right through my chest (Yup) Everybody, Ma and Papi, came to party, grab somebody Work ya body, work ya body Let me see you one, two step (Here we go!)

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Title: Desperate Reality (Original 12" Instrumental Mix) Artist: Brayden Nohai Released: 11 November 2023

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track 11 - EURO (EXPANDED EDITION) 2023

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Today’s compilation:

Bravo Hits 32 2001 Pop / Europop / Hard Trance / R&B / Pop-Rap / Pop-Rock / Euro House / Euro Trance

OK, so, Bravo Hits is, like, a Central European equivalent of Now That's What I Call Music!, specifically focused on the DACH region: Germany (D), Austria (A), and Switzerland (CH). Bravo, the largest German-language teen magazine in the world, puts out four double-disc sets of these fuckers every year, and each DACH country gets their own edition. Each edition's essentially the same, but they also have two or three songs on them that are exclusive to their own edition. And I was able to get my mitts on every song from all three editions of Bravo Hits 32, which came out in February of 2001 😎.

Comps like these from the 90s and 2000s always make for fun trips down memory lane, but from the perspective of a different region of the world. Our top 40 charts in America share a lot in common with other places, and that leads to a nice nostalgia rush for everyone involved, but there's also a lot of music we don't share in common at all. So the goal when listening to these ephemeral things is to get some of that good nostalgia, discover a few sweet tracks that you weren’t previously familiar with, and then hopefully find something so patently absurd and terrible that you can't help but smile at how ridiculous it is. I was able to check off those first two boxes with this release, but unfortunately not the third 😔.

So, all the shared nostalgia between the US and DACH countries is really packed into the first disc here: "Independent Women, Part 1" by Destiny's Child, "Country Grammar" by Nelly, "Who Let the Dogs Out" by Baha Men, and a song that honestly feels a tad bit memory-holed at this point, "Gotta Tell You" by Samantha Mumba. And then there's some good songs on that same disc that were pretty popular in the DACH region, but made little to no inroads in the States: "Overload" by UK girl group Sugababes is an awesome piece of pop that even fucking Pitchfork included on their list of the Top 500 Songs of the 2000s, "Higher & Higher" by Milk & Sugar is a sweet German disco-house bop, and "Things I've Seen" is a song by a rap group from Philly you've probably never heard of called Spooks, whose chorus sounds like it's on a sort of proto-Amy Winehouse lounge singing kind of vibe and whose music video also has fucking Laurence Fishburne in it?!? What?!?

Second disc of this is just plainly awful from top to bottom though, and not in any kind of ironically fun way. It's just boring. Nothing insane, just a bunch of bad and overly sentimental pop-rock and pop and a whole lotta disposable giant Euro-rave hard trance schlock. There's a song on here called "No Alternative" that ironically sounds like an alternative to that awful "Kernkraft 400" song by Zombie Nation. Miss me with all of that!

Disc 1's a really fun ride though. Always love digging into these things in order to see what another part of the world was bopping to at a certain point in time. It allows you to compare and contrast and also find some good music you've never been exposed to before.

Highlights:

CD1:

Sugababes - "Overload (original edit)" Destiny's Child - "Independent Women, Part 1" Nelly - "Country Grammar (Hot ....) (new radio edit)" Baha Men - "Who Let the Dogs Out (single version)" A★Teens - "Upside Down" Samantha Mumba - "Gotta Tell You (single version)" LL Cool J feat. Kelly Price - "You and Me (album version radio edit)" Milk & Sugar - "Higher & Higher (David Morales reconstructed radio mix)" Spooks - "Things I've Seen"

CD2:

No highlights.