A BLACKBURN record company is hoping for a serious case deja vu this weekend after re-releasing a five-year-old dance tune.
Set Your Free by dance act N-Trance sold 580,000 copies when it was released back in January 1995, giving label All Around the World their biggest hit to date.
Now the tune is set to emulate that success after being re-mixed and re-released this week -- and could go top five tomorrow.
Although the re-worked version of the track will make its first impression on the official UK charts tomorrow, it has been knocking around the dance scene for quite some time.
Thanks to the new generation of 24-hour music channels, the track has received endless airplay, topping request charts for both Kiss TV and The Box.
The best-known of the new mixes has been done by Rob Searle, who has also re-mixed for Kylie and Frankie Goes To Hollywood.
Voodoo and Sernao, Top 20 entrants last summer with Blood is Pumping have also had a dabble, as have Darwen DJs Fill n Fill, whose own track, True Love Never Dies, is waiting in the wings for a release date.
Hard House masters Tidy Trax and London garage remixing team DM Dubs have also had a go, ensuring the tune fits in with virtually every dance genre you care to mention.
If the track does as well as expected, All Around the World will have achieved a rare feat. Scoring success with a re-released song is normally only possible if it didn't do the business first time round.
Matt Cadman, from All Around the World, said: "It has received massive exposure. N-Trance performed on Live and Kicking alongside Victoria Beckham a fortnight ago, they were on Pepsi Chart Show on Thursday, CD:UK today and, all being well, Top of the Pops next week."
He added: "On the midweek chart it is beating releases from Samantha Mumba, Manic Street Preachers, Chemical Brothers and even Dido so we are hoping for top five."
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