CULTURE BEAT
"Inside Out"
DancePool/Sony Music Germany

Culture Beat is back with the first single from their upcoming album also titled "Inside Out". Tania Evans leads the vocal on a trancy melody while Jay Supreme gives us a smooth rap in the middle of the track to validate this track a Eurodance gem. Get this if you want superior club music.

2 UNLIMITED
"Real Things"
Byte Records Belgium

Whoever came up with the theory that pop is dead obviously hadn't reckoned on 2 Unlimited. The Dutch duo of Anita Dels and Ray Slijngaard are now on to their tenth hit (largely thanks to Belgian producers Jean Paul De Coster and Phil Wilde) and "Real Things" is their third album. Unless you've been living in a cave for the past two years, the 2 Unlimited formula consists of Slijngaard energetically rapping over a toytown dance backbeat - seemingly provided by the Duracell drumming rabbit - with the singalongchoruses coming from Dels. Sadly, now, of course, the winning formula is wearing unimaginably thin and Coster/Wilde seem intent on flogging the ground where the dead horse once lay. Even the classical tinges of the title track and the watered-down ragga of "Turn Into Something Wild" seem unlikely to stave off their slippery descent, but then again, this is techno for toddlers and chances are anyone else simply doesn't understand.

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