Paradise & Dreams

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"Paradise & Dreams"
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Single cover of "Paradise & Dreams" vinyl.
Single by Force & Styles featuring Junior
from the album All over the UK
Released20 October 1997 (1997-10-20)
Recorded1996 at UK Dance Studios, Clacton-on-Sea
Genre Happy hardcore
Label Diverse
Songwriter(s) Paul Hobbs (Force), Darren Mew (Styles) Leon Van Brown
Producer(s) Force & Styles
Force & Styles singles chronology
"Pretty Green Eyes"
(1997)
"Paradise & Dreams"
(1997)
"Heart of Gold"
(1998)

"Paradise & Dreams" is a song written and recorded by producers Force & Styles, featuring Junior which originally appeared on their album All over the UK (1996) and was released as a single in 1997. Both members of Force & Styles would later record cover versions of the song at later dates, the first was by The Force (Paul Hobbs and Flip & Fill) in 2003 and another was by Ultrabeat versus Darren Styles which appeared on both artists début albums Ultrabeat: The Album (2007) and Skydivin' (2008).

Contents

Background

The Force & Styles version of "Paradise & Dreams" was a happy hardcore song which first came out in 1997, on the Diverse record label. The song features MC Junior's vocals, who co-write the song.

In 1998, the year after the original version came out, Paradise & Dreams was re-recorded by Force & Styles. The new version added the female vocals of Kelia to sing the song as a duet with Junior, and she sang one of the verses solo also. This version of the song is the version that has been covered, and it was released on Force & Styles' own record label, UK Dance, as the b-side to "Cutting Deep".

Track listing

CD single (1997)
  1. "Paradise & Dreams" (Force & Styles hardcore mix) – 5:44
  2. "Paradise & Dreams" (Arthur Baker 7" edit mix) – 3:46
  3. "Paradise & Dreams" (Walford Project house mix) – 6:54
  4. "Paradise & Dreams" (Silver City trip hop mix) – 6:38
  5. "Paradise & Dreams" (Arthur Baker 12" mix) – 7:53
  6. "Paradise & Dreams" (original mix) – 5:33
12-inch single (1997)

A1. "Paradise & Dreams" (Arthur Baker 12" Mix)

B1. "Paradise & Dreams" (Walford Project House Mix)

B2. "Paradise & Dreams" (Arthur Baker 7" Dub Mix)

C1. "Paradise & Dreams" (Hardcore mix)

D1. "Paradise & Dreams" (DJ Friendly mix)

D2. "Paradise & Dreams" (Silver City Trip Hop mix)

12-inch single (1998) [1]
  1. "Cutting Deep" (feat. Junior) – 6:16
  2. "Paradise & Dreams" (duet version) – 4:14

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Personnel

Force & Styles
Additional musicians
Other personnel

Chart performance

Chart (1997)Peak
position
UK Singles Chart [2] 106

Cover versions

The Force version

In 2003, the duet version of "Paradise & Dreams" was remade by Paul Hobbs and Flip & Fill, under the alias The Force. It was signed to the commercial dance label All Around the World, and the vocals were sung by two vocalists from Liverpool called Terry Byrne and Marie Lowrie. The 2003 version was released as a promo by AATW and it also featured on some of their major compilation CDs, such as Clubland 4. In 2007, all remixes of The Force's version were released as a digital download.

Track listing

12-inch promo (2003)
  1. "Paradise & Dreams" (extended mix) – 7:21
  2. "Paradise & Dreams" (Ultrabeat remix) – 6:18
Download EP (2007)
  1. "Paradise & Dreams" (original mix) – 7:21
  2. "Paradise & Dreams" (KB Project remix) – 6:14
  3. "Paradise & Dreams" (Ultrabeat remix) – 6:18
  4. "Paradise & Dreams" (Darren Styles remix) – 5:57
  5. "Paradise & Dreams" (Scott Brown remix) – 5:56

Ultrabeat vs Darren Styles version

In 2007, one of the writers of the song, hardcore producer Darren Styles (of Force & Styles) teamed up with producers Ultrabeat to cover the song for their album, "Ultrabeat - The Album". Darren Styles was already collaborating with Ultrabeat on their sixth single "Sure Feels Good", and the two artists recorded "Paradise & Dreams" near the same time. Mike Di Scala the lead singer of Ultrabeat recorded it with the Rebecca Rudd.

Both artists had worked with the song in the past, with Darren Styles being one of the writers and part of the original artists to produce the song. Both Ultrabeat and Darren Styles had also remixed The Force's version from 2003. As well as appearing on Ultrabeat's album, a hardcore mix of the song appeared on AATW compilation album, Clubland X-Treme Hardcore 4 and it was the second release by Darren Styles's new hardcore record label, Junkbox Records, in early 2008, as a double a side with "Sure Feels Good". The song also featured on Darren Styles' solo album, "Skydivin'".

Personnel

Ultrabeat vs Darren Styles
Additional musicians
  • Rebecca Rudd – vocals

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References

  1. "Force & Styles Feat. Junior – Cutting Deep / Paradise & Dreams (Duet Version) (1998, Vinyl)".
  2. "Chart Log UK". zobbel.de