CLUBS have gone from strength to strength, various genres have continued to break into the mainstrain charts - all in all, it has been a good year for dance music.
It's a sentiment the lads at All Around the World Records, based in Blackburn, also share after turning out impressive hits in 2001.
Biggest hit for them was the re-release of N-Trance's Set You Free. Remastered and given a new lease of life by Rob Searle, the track leapt into the Top 10 in the autumn after being played to death in clubs and on music television.
A compilation album chronicling the last decade of N Trance has now been released because of public demand.
On the album front, the firm was behind Rock FM's Rock The Dancefloor 6 compilation album, which despite being released just a fortnight before Christmas, shifted more than 8,000 units before Santa came down people's chimneys.
Tapping into the demand for tunes which have only made it big locally as well as the country's biggest floor fillers, the double CD has several rare tracks on it, including Shooting Star by Flip and Fill.
And that dangerous double act are set make 2002 one to remember for AATW, with their much-sought True Love Never Dies finally being released on January 21.
Flip and Fill -- one half of whom is from Darwen -- recorded the track using Kelly Llorenna, whose vocals made Set You Free such a hit.
And that whistling tune is also set to be released as well -- you know the one.
It seems to have done the rounds forever, first popping up during the summer, and maybe even the summer before but under a different guise.
It has been in the import charts for months and is currently the most requested tune on Kiss TV -- a benchmark for popularity if ever there was one.
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