Sure Feels Good (song)

Last updated
"Sure Feels Good"
Ultrabeat-SureFeelsGood.jpg
Single cover for Sure Feels Good
Single by Ultrabeat vs Darren Styles
from the album Ultrabeat: The Album
Released20 August 2007
Recorded2006
Genre Dance, Hardcore, House, Trance
Length3:28 (Radio Edit)
Label AATW
Songwriter(s) Mike Di Scala, Darren Mew
Producer(s) Ultrabeat, Darren Styles
Ultrabeat singles chronology
"Elysium (I Go Crazy)"
(2006)
"Sure Feels Good"
(2007)
"I Wanna Touch You"
(2007)
Darren Styles singles chronology
"Save Me"
(2007)
"Sure Feels Good"
(2007)
"Right by Your Side"
(2008)

"Sure Feels Good" is a song written and recorded by Ultrabeat and Darren Styles, released as a single in 2007. It was the first Styles/Ultrabeat collaboration since Ultrabeat covered "Pretty Green Eyes" and "Feelin' Fine" in 2003. The vocals are by Rebecca Rudd, also the singer on "Elysium (I Go Crazy)".

Contents

Writing and recording

The song was originally a hardcore track, written and recorded by Styles & Re-Con with vocalist Rebecca Rudd in 2006. Rudd had previously worked with Ultrabeat and Mike Di Scala in the past, for example the vocals on "Elysium (I Go Crazy)". In 2007, the song was re-recorded with another verse added and re-produced by Ultrabeat and Darren Styles.

Release and reception

The Styles & Re-Con hardcore mix first appeared on the Clubland X-Treme Hardcore 3 compilation album in 2006. In June 2007, the Ultrabeat versus Darren Styles version was released on Promo CD and Promo 12" Vinyl and the Rezonance Q remix was included on Clubland 11 .

"Sure Feels Good" was released as a Download EP on 20 August 2007 and as a Maxi CD and 12" Vinyl one week later. It peaked at a chart position of #52 on the UK Singles Chart, which was considered low compared to the #8 UK Albums Chart position of Ultrabeat - The Album a few weeks later. The song was also included on Darren Styles's #4 album Skydivin' in 2008.

Also, "Sure Feels Good" won the 2007 Eurodanceweb Award for song of the year, as voted for by over 150 DJs, producers and music journalists. It was the UK entry for this award, and competed with entries from 41 European countries. [1]

Track listing and formats

Personnel

Ultrabeat
Additional musicians

Music video

The video was filmed on June 6, 2007 and it was directed by Kevin Hewitt and choreographed by Elizabeth Honan. The video stars Mike Di Scala and Chris Henry from Ultrabeat, Darren Styles, Rebecca Rudd, and Playboy model Lisa-Marie Bourke with other models as the strippers.

The story of the video show Darren Styles and Ultrabeat entering a strip club and the strippers giving them lap dances and teasing them. Rebecca Rudd is also singing in the strip club. The story shows one of the strippers photographing Mike, Chris and Darren in the strip club with Darren's mobile phone and the sending it in a picture message to one of his contacts. They are then forced to leave in a hurry after the mobile phone starts receiving an incoming call.

There is also a "late night" cut of the video, which contains a parental advisory notice because of the nudity. This version shows footage of Lisa-Marie Bourke and some of the other models nude. There is also a hardcore version of the video shown on Clubland TV, where the Styles & Re-Con hardcore mix is used instead.

Chart performance

Charts (2007)Peak Position
Scotland (OCC) [2] 24
UK Singles (OCC) [3] 52

Related Research Articles

Scott Alexander Brown is a Glasgow-born Scottish disc jockey and music producer, now living in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire. Brown produces and plays a variety of genres, although he is most associated with bouncy techno. His music ranges from happy hardcore, through hard trance, to gabber. He is the founder of Evolution Records, which started in 1994.

Ultrabeat are a British electronic dance music group from Liverpool, England, formed in 2002. Originally consisting of vocalist and producer Mike 'Re-Con' Di Scala and producers Ian Redman and Chris Henry, Ultrabeat emerged with their cover of the Force & Styles song "Pretty Green Eyes", which peaked at number two on the UK Singles Chart 2003. They released further singles, including top forty hits such as "Feelin' Fine", "Better than Life" and "Elysium ", followed by their début album Ultrabeat: The Album in 2007, which peaked at number eight on the UK Albums Chart

Darren James Mew, better known as Darren Styles, is an English record producer, DJ, singer and songwriter from Colchester, Essex, England. Originally a member of the breakbeat hardcore group DJ Force & the Evolution, Styles found success during the 1990s as one half of Force & Styles. The duo were pioneers of happy hardcore and wrote several well-known songs such as "Heart of Gold", "Pretty Green Eyes" and "Paradise & Dreams".

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Pretty Green Eyes</span> 1997 single by Force & Styles

"Pretty Green Eyes" is a song originally written and recorded by Force & Styles featuring Junior. A remixed version appeared on their debut album, All Over the UK (1996), and the song was released as a 12-inch single in 1997. The song achieved mainstream popularity in 2003 when it was covered by Ultrabeat and peaked at No. 2 on the UK Singles Chart.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Feelin' Fine</span> 1998 single by Unique

"Feelin' Fine" is a song written by Darren Mew and originally released as a happy hardcore song in 1998 under the alias Unique. In 2003, Ultrabeat released a cover of the song with newly added lyrics as their second single; it reached number 12 on the UK Singles Chart.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Feel It with Me</span> 2005 single by Ultrabeat

"Feel It With Me" is the fourth Ultrabeat single. It was released in September 2005 and it reached number 57 on the UK Singles Chart. It is the only Ultrabeat song to date that has not reached the Top 40 in the charts and is the lowest charting Ultrabeat song. It is the last of the Ultrabeat singles, so far, that has Mike Di Scala on vocals. The song was brought out on CD and 12 inch and artists who remixed this track were Styles & Breeze, Friday Night Posse, Flip & Fill, and Hixxy.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Elysium (I Go Crazy)</span> 2006 single by Ultrabeat vs. Scott Brown

"Elysium (I Go Crazy)" is the 5th single by Liverpool dance trio Ultrabeat. It was released in 2006 and played throughout the summer of that year. Ultrabeat used the vocals of Rebecca Rudd to Scott Brown's hardcore cult hit "Elysium" and gave it a trance remix, achieving further commercial success for a song which is perceived by many hardcore fans as a great dance anthem.

<i>Ultrabeat: The Album</i> 2007 studio album by Ultrabeat

Ultrabeat: The Album is the début self-titled album by the British dance act Ultrabeat. It was released on 10 September 2007 with All Around the World records. The album was a major chart success in the UK Album Chart as it reached #8 in its first week.

Rezonance Q is an English electronic group from Liverpool formed by producers Mike Di Scala, Lee Butler and Les Calvert. Di Scala also produces and remixes songs solo using the name Rezonance Q.

Clubland is a brand created by the UK dance record labels All Around the World and Universal Music TV. Since 2002 Clubland has made many dance compilation albums, including the popular Clubland series, which is currently up to Volume 28, which was released on 13 November 2015. Clubland also hosts live events in various nightclubs and clubland Ibiza, and in 2008 many Clubland artists featured on the Clubland Night of Your Life arena tour. In January 2008, Clubland launched its own digital TV channel, Clubland TV.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Paradise & Dreams</span> 1997 single by Force & Styles featuring Junior

"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 in 2003 and another was by Ultrabeat versus Darren Styles which appeared on both artists début albums Ultrabeat: The Album (2007) and Skydivin' (2008).

"Pacific Sun" is a song originally written and recorded by Force & Styles featuring Junior. It was originally released on white label in 1997 and appeared on their greatest hits album Heart of Gold (2000). The song has also been covered numerous times with other versions recorded by Flip & Fill featuring Junior, Ultrabeat and Darren Styles

This is the discography page for Darren Styles. It also includes the discography of his groups DJ Force & The Evolution, Force & Styles and Styles & Breeze. It also includes the peak chart performance of each album or single where applicable.

<i>Skydivin</i> 2008 studio album by Darren Styles

Skydivin' is the debut solo studio album by British dance musician Darren Styles.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Discolights</span> 2008 single by Ultrabeat feat. Darren Styles

"Discolights" is a song written and produced by Ultrabeat and Darren Styles, taken from Styles' debut solo album, Skydivin' and Ultrabeat's second album The Weekend Has Landed. The song combines the hardcore and commercial styles of the two artists. It was released on 23 June 2008 as a digital download; a physical single was released on 28 July 2008.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Save Me (Darren Styles song)</span> 2007 single by Darren Styles

"Save Me" is a single by British DJ Darren Styles, the third single released from his album Skydivin', it was released in 2006. The single reached #70 on the UK Singles Chart.

Clubland X-Treme Hardcore are a series of compilation albums from Clubland, released by Universal Music TV and AATW, that was initiated by DJ producers Hixxy and Styles. The series has been credited as a turning point in the popularity of the hardcore music scene.

<i>The Weekend Has Landed</i> 2009 studio album by Ultrabeat

The Weekend Has Landed is the second studio album by Ultrabeat.

Karen Jane Danzig is a British singer with paternal German ancestry. She was raised by profoundly deaf parents, with a hearing brother and a deaf younger sister.

<i>All over the UK</i> 1996 studio album by Force & Styles

All Over the UK is the debut studio album by British happy hardcore musicians Force & Styles released on 26 August 1996 on United Dance Recordings.

References

  1. "Eurodance Web Contest 2007". Eurodanceweb.net. Retrieved 3 January 2011.
  2. "Official Scottish Singles Sales Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company.
  3. "Official Singles Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company.