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Graham Clark
Music Features Writer
@Maxximum23Clark
3:32 PM 7th December 2019
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Pete Tong Presents Ibiza Classics, Leeds Arena

 
Pete Tong
Pete Tong
DJ Pete Tong's Friday night dance show on Radio 1 has broken some most of the most successful dance tracks of the last 29 years - if your track was one of his Essential New Tunes it was guaranteed that the song would go on to become a mainstream hit, not just in the UK but in the rest of Europe and beyond.

With dance music now having a history and the 1990's clubbers now being 40 year old something's, it seems only natural that the next logical conclusion was to turn some of those dance tracks that they used to dance to in Ibiza and in some respects Back To Basics in Leeds, into orchestral arrangements.

Led by Jules Buckley the sixty piece orchestra with Pete Tong behind the decks treated Leeds to some of the best dance tracks that took everyone back to the White Island.

Beverley Knight
Beverley Knight
Opening with the Fatboy Slim track Right Here, Right Now footage of Ibiza is shown on the video screens. It was enough to want you to book your next trip to experience clubs like Pacha and Eden all over again.

The problem though with most of the tracks is that they were quite faceless, with many just being one hit wonders, which in some respects works as any of today's acts could cover them.

Beverley Knight delivered a storming version of De'Lacy's Hideaway whilst Robert Owens was there to sing Come Together as he originally did back in the day.

Becky Hill was just starting junior school when Sing It Back To Me by Moloko was released, but you wouldn't know it as she made the track her own with the song working well with the string accompaniment.

Becky Hill
Becky Hill
The Faithless hit, Insomnia came with a spectacular laser show with the whole floor becoming a mass of dancing bodies.

The Prodigy would have never imagined that Out of Space would be played by an orchestra when they wrote the track.

The sun sets by Cafe Mambo are legendary and tonight was all about legendary dance tracks. Sing it Back to me indeed.