Please help me identify this track?

June 14, 2011 7:02 AM

Please help me identify a dance track. I don't have lots of details, sorry, but it was an energetic track, possibly quite percussive, with a female vocalist, sounded African-American, repeating a phrase (speaking, not singing). The phrase was an emphatic three-word phrase like 'this is it' or 'what you need'. I don't remember what the phrase was, but I remember it reminded me of the title of a better known song (which I also now can't remember!) I have googled some likely lyrics, but not found what I'm looking for. If this description rings a bell with anyone so that I could identify the track, that would be awesome. Thanks!
posted by prune to Media & Arts (15 answers total)

Sounds like quite a lot of music. Can you suggest an era or where/when you might have heard it? Is it popular?
posted by pmcp at 7:19 AM on June 14, 2011

Your description applies to about a third of all dance music ever produced over the past 25 years since samplers were introduced. The other thirds being tracks with no words and those with full lyrics. Actually, it's probably one-sixth, since the snippet-vocal third would be split between male and female voices.
posted by rhizome at 7:37 AM on June 14, 2011

It's a long shot, but maybe Hercules & Love Affair member Kim Ann Foxman's solo track "What You Need"?
posted by Merzbau at 7:55 AM on June 14, 2011

Maybe "Move" by Moby? She cries out "You make me feel so good, so good." A lot. Good luck.
posted by rexknobus at 8:06 AM on June 14, 2011

Oops sorry. I should have said it sounded fairly contemporary. I don't know whether it's popular, I heard it in an environment which normally plays slightly left-field music rather than chart stuff though so that might be an indication. Thanks for the response Merzbau - it isn't the one, but appreciate the suggestion.
posted by prune at 8:08 AM on June 14, 2011

If this was a London club, do you know who the DJ was that played it? Or what club it was at?
posted by empath at 9:17 AM on June 14, 2011

If the emphatic three-word phrase could possibly be "run the world" it might be Beyoncé's "(Girls) Run the World," which is the track that immediately leaps to mind when I think recent dance singles with a percussive feel and female spoken vocal.
posted by SomeTrickPony at 10:11 AM on June 14, 2011

ATB is known for this kind of thing; "9PM - Till I Come" is about 1999 electronic as it gets though I think there was a rerelease.
posted by Khazk at 1:46 PM on June 14, 2011

To be clear: it's not Melba Moore's seventies disco classic "This is it"?
posted by MuffinMan at 1:47 PM on June 14, 2011

Subgenre, BPM, types of synth, effects?
posted by turkeyphant at 1:48 PM on June 14, 2011

The track that came to mind was the title track from Celeda's album "This is It".

YouTube doesn't seem to have it.
posted by phoebus at 1:49 PM on June 14, 2011

Todd Terry- Something goin' on


David Morales- Needin' U

?
posted by fray at 3:57 PM on June 14, 2011

Well, Soul II Soul: Back to Life came to mind, but the chorus is sung, not spoken, so maybe not ...
posted by Rube R. Nekker at 5:20 PM on June 14, 2011

Lol Mo Yin Yang - Reach?
posted by empath at 9:09 PM on June 14, 2011

thanks everyone.. hmm empath's track is closest but not the one! oh well it was worth a try :-) hopefully I'll hear it again somewhere and be able to identify it. It was such a rocking track. Thanks for all your help.
posted by prune at 2:39 PM on June 16, 2011