Set You Free (N-Trance song)

"Set You Free"
Single by N-Trance
from the album Electronic Pleasure
B-side "Remixes"
Released
  • 20 April 1994
  • 14 January 1995 (re-release)
Format
  • Vinyl
  • cassette
  • CD
Recorded
  • 1992 (PWL Studios, London)
  • 1994 (Out of the Blue Studios, Manchester)
Genre
Length 4:22
Label All Around the World
Songwriter(s)
  • N-Trance
Producer(s) N-Trance
N-Trance singles chronology
"Turn Up the Power"
(1994)		 "Set You Free"
(1994)		 "Stayin' Alive"
(1995)

"Turn Up the Power"
(1994)		 "Set You Free"
(1995)		 "Stayin' Alive"
(1995)
Music video
"Set You Free" on YouTube

"Set You Free" is a song written and recorded by the English group N-Trance, featuring vocals from Kelly Llorenna. It was first released as a white label record in 1992, it was re-released in January 1995 and became a chart hit. Later it was remixed and re-released in 2001.[2]

Background

The deeply emotional song was inspired by a night out in the Haçienda in Manchester that N'Trance's Kevin O'Toole had in 1989. "They used to pass round pints of water, and a woman came up to me and I felt her heartbeat through her top," he said. "The songs created a diary of what was happening at the time."[3]

Music video

The music video was directed by prolific music video director Steve Price and shot in various locations in County Durham and North Yorkshire. The video comprises scenes of the band dancing and singing in a nightclub, in front of Cliffords Tower in York, England and travelling in a stretched limousine. The scene at Cliffords Tower was fortuitously or coincidentally shot on 3 November 1994,[4] which coincided with an annual Guy Fawkes Night Fireworks display organised by York City Council. The nightclub scenes were shot at Bianco's, Stockton-on-Tees.[4][5] It is claimed that the video cost around £5,000 to make.

In 2001, the video was re-edited for the Rob Searle Radio Edit.

Personnel

  • N-Trance: Producer, Writer
  • Kelly Llorenna: Vocals
  • T-1K: Rap (Lost Soul and Pop Mix)
  • Tim Russell: Engineer

Charts

Original version
Chart (1994) Peak
position
Scotland (Official Charts Company)[6] 13
UK Singles (Official Charts Company)[7] 39
Chart (1995) Peak
position
Australia (ARIA)[8] 11
Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 75)[8] 61
Europe (Eurochart Hot 100)[9] 9
Germany (Media Control Charts)[8] 44
Ireland (IRMA)[10] 4
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40)[11] 8
Netherlands (Single Top 100)[12] 9
Scotland (Official Charts Company)[6] 2
Sweden (Sverigetopplistan)[8] 15
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade)[8] 18
UK Dance (Official Charts Company)[13] 5
UK Singles (Official Charts Company)[14] 2
Reissue version
Chart (2001) Peak
position
UK Singles (Official Charts Company)[14] 4

References

  1. ↑ "Push It! Classic Party & Dance Tracks - Various Artists - Songs, Reviews, Credits - AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 26 August 2017.
  2. ↑ http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/2018/04/12/inarguable-pop-classics-33-n-trance-set-you-free-original-1992-white-label-mix/
  3. ↑ MacNeill, Kyle (11 January 2017). "It's a Quarter of a Century since N-Trance's "Set You Free" Put Clubland on the Map". Vice. Retrieved 28 August 2018.
  4. 1 2 "Set You Free (1995)". Retrieved 7 March 2014.
  5. ↑ redbookboro1. "FMTTM Archive".
  6. 1 2 "Official Scottish Singles Sales Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company.
  7. ↑ "Official Singles Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company.
  8. 1 2 3 4 5 "Set You Free", in various singles charts Lescharts.com (Retrieved April 10, 2008)
  9. ↑ "Music & Media: Eurochart Hot 100" (PDF). Music & Media. Retrieved 2018-01-16.
  10. ↑ Irish Single Chart Irishcharts.ie (Retrieved April 10, 2008)
  11. ↑ "Single top 100 over 1995" (pdf) (in Dutch). Top40. Retrieved 13 April 2010.
  12. ↑ "Dutchcharts.nl – N-Trance – Set You Free" (in Dutch). Single Top 100. Retrieved April 4, 2018.
  13. ↑ "Official Dance Singles Chart Top 40". Official Charts Company.
  14. 1 2 "Official Singles Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company.
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