Saturday 28 April 2012

Seamus Haji featuring KayJay 'Last Night A DJ Saved My Life'

Chart Peak: 13
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Seamus is of Irish-Indian descent (which explains the name!), he began his DJing career at 16... He had a hand in the success of Booty Luv's 'Boogie 2Nite', which he remixed and took to No.2 in the UK charts last year - now he's back with a funky electro version of the 80s classic 'Last Night A DJ Saved My Life' which looks set to storm the charts in late March 2006.
They mean March 2007, of course. And yes this is yet another in the run of cover versions, if a song that's such an established standard counts as a cover. The name you might have been trying to remember is Indeep, whose  version is notable for its bassline (even more familiar than the rest of the song thanks to its many sampled appearances) and those guitars. It's odd, therefore that Haji dispenses with both those elements in his version relying instead on what sounds suspiciously like the same backing track as his version of 'Boogie 2Nite' (admittedly, I don't know which came first) with the lyrics which were hardly the best bit of the song in the first place. And the rap part seems to be off-mic. The whole thing is almost as odd as the fact that the "official" Indeep video I've linked to above is a TotP performance blatantly videoed from a UK Gold repeat, complete with a bit of a wardrobe malfunction.

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