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714-Sidney Samson featuring Wizard Sleeve-Riverside (Let’s Go!)

2010-Number 2 single.

Best Bit-At 1.16. I have always wondered why the English football team Middlesbrough never chose this song to walk out to on match days.

Sidney Samson was born on October 2nd, 1981, in Amsterdam, Holland, he is a songwriter, and music producer, who specialises in the genres of ‘Electro House,’ Dutch House,’ Progressive House,’ ‘Trap,’ and ‘Moombahton.’ As the lead artist, he has released 43 singles between 2006-2021, of which four of those tracks have made the ‘Dutch Single Top 40’ chart, with the original version of ‘Riverside,’ charting the highest at Number 8 in 2009, although the version of ‘Riverside (Let’s Go’) featuring Wizard Sleeve, failed to chart. Outside of Holland, the original version of ‘Riverside’ reached Number 10 in Australia, and Number 13 in Belgium. His only other chart entry outside of Holland is with ‘Riverside (Let’s Go’) in the UK. Sidney Samson who has also appeared on four singles as a featured artist between 2012-2018, has produced or remixed tracks for several different artists in the ‘Electronic Dance Music’ genre. He is married to the Dutch singer and songwriter Eva Simons, who was the featured vocalist on Will.i.am’s 2012 UK Number 1 single,’This Is Love.’

The original version of ‘Riverside,’ which is an instrumental, was first released by Sidney Samson in 2009, The song which failed to chart in the UK, did find great success some six months later in the that country when vocals were added by the American ‘Alternative Hip-Hop’ trio of Lex One, (Alex Cruz), Mike Beatz, (Michael Barnett) and DJ/producer Pusher Fm, (Pedro Calcano) who go by the working name of ‘Wizard Sleeve.’ The trio took their name from a popular slang phrase, coined in the ‘Viz Profanisaurus’ book, (2002) by the author Chris Donald, and then featured in the movie ‘Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan,’ (2006) which was used to describe large, hanging or dangling labia. As Wizard Sleeve they had originally performed the Rap on the 2008 song called ‘Me Plus You,’ which had been in collaboration with the production team of ‘Black Noise.’ Sidney Samson on hearing ‘Me Plus You,’ dubbed the vocals on to his track ‘Riverside,’ transforming the song, which begs the question, does this make this song a mashup? The original version of ‘Riverside’ featured an audio sample of Tupac Shakur (1971-1996) (see also best songs 482) repeating the words ‘Riverside Motherf….r,’ this audio was sampled from the 1992 American crime thriller ‘Juice,’ which starred Tupac Shakur (playtime 1.10.25.) The sample was modified for the radio edit of ‘Riverside (Let’s Go!’) in order to get airplay, and become a hit.

‘Riverside’ can be filed under the genre of ‘Dutch House’ music, which is sometimes referred to as ‘Dirty Dutch’, and is a style of ‘Electro House Music’ that originated in the Netherlands, and had become commercial by 2009, It was mainly pioneered by Vato Gonzalez , Afrojack, (see also best songs 531 and 210) and DJ Chuckie, and is primarily defined by complex rhythms made from Latin-influenced drum kits, a lower emphasis on basslines, and squeaky, high-pitched lead synths. Influences on this sub-genre include ‘Detroit Techno,’ ‘Hip-Hop,’ and other urban styles of music.

‘Me plus you, that equals better equations. We must do, do subtraction of your clothes. Me and you, you got a date tonight, I’m gonna be so straight tonight, these chicks wanna come take me right.’