Din Daa Daa

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Din Daa Daa
George wreath
publication 1983
length 4:11 (single)
Genre (s) Dance
Author (s) George wreath
album Din Daa Daa: The Album

Din Daa Daa is the title of a song by the Berlin musician George Kranz , published in 1983 . In 1984, in addition to number 28 on the German charts, it also reached first place on the Billboard dance charts in the USA , where it could last for two weeks. The song is often referred to simply as the drum dance , but this is actually only the name for the single version of the song.

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Singles
Din Daa Daa
  DE 28 02/06/1984 (12 weeks)
  UK 88 01/28/1984 (5 weeks)
Din Daa Daa (Pulsedriver vs George Kranz)
  DE 42 11/26/2001 (4 weeks)
  AT 42 11/25/2001 (4 weeks)

background

George Kranz was the drummer in the Compass Big Band and for Jasmin Bonnin . From 1980 to 1983 he was a member of the band ZeitGeist , with whom he recorded three albums, at the same time he also worked with Ulla Meinecke , for whose 1980 album “Überdosis Großstadt” he played drums. He supported Cosa Rosa and Stefan Waggershausen with TV appearances.

George Kranz recorded Din Daa Daa , which emerged from a drum solo, in 1983. The Tangerine Dream musician Christoph Franke was involved as producer and keyboard player .

The singing is limited to the imitation of bass and drum sounds performed by Kranz . The song is carried by the speedy and varied drumming, the always present loop "Din-Daa-Daa-Dum-Dum" in the background , as well as interspersed synthesizer sounds and effects.

The song was published by "Nordton" and was released as a single under the label "Pool Musikproduktionen" . The single version was called "drum dance", there was also a dub version (3:08 min.) And the US mix (6:20 min.). The US mix was produced by Kranz and The Magnificent Kordak (Jürgen Korduletsch) and appeared as the B-side of the maxi single . In the USA the song was released on Personal Records.

Din Daa Daa appeared on a longplay album in 1984 when Kranz released Din Daa Daa: The Album as an LP , on which the song was included in the US mix. In February 1990 the album was also released on CD .

reception

Din Daa Daa was internationally successful: The title reached number 28 on the charts in Germany in February 1984, number 88 in Great Britain and number 45 in France , but not until November 1984. In January 1984 it reached top position in the dance club in the USA Play Charts and was able to hold its own there for two weeks.

Re-releases

Din Daa Daa was re-released by Kranz in 1991 as Din Daa Daa '91 (8th place on Billboard Dance Music / Club Play Singles; vocals: Doug Lazy ) and in 1996 as Din Daa Daa remixes in modernized and newly mixed versions. In 2001 DJ Pulsedriver released his version of Din Daa Daa .

Cover versions

  • In 1997, the title was recorded by Kevin Aviance and the first of his two number one hits on the US dance charts.
  • In 2004 The Roots recorded the song as a hidden bonus track on their album The Tipping Point .
  • In 2005, a sample of the song was used by The Ying Yang Twins and rapper Pitbull for their single Shake .
  • In 2006, Din Daa Daa was included on the album FabricLive.31 by the group The Glimmer .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chart sources: DE AT UK
  2. ↑ a b George Kranz website: Vita ( Memento of the original from October 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.george-kranz.com
  3. ^ Joel Whitburn : Hot Dance / Disco: 1974-2003 . Record Research, 2004, p. 149.
  4. ^ Joel Whitburn : Hot Dance / Disco: 1974-2003 . Record Research, 2004, p. 26.