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M People - Don't Look Any Further (1993)

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M People - Don't Look Any Further (1993)

M People ‎- Don't Look Any Further (1993)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue, log) ~ 84.81 Mb | 13:27 | Scans included
House, Dance | Country: UK | Label: Deconstruction

"Don't Look Any Further" is the eighth single from British band M People. It was the third single from their second album Elegant Slumming. It was released on 22 November 1993. The song peaked at number nine on the UK Singles Chart. M People is an English dance music band which formed in 1990 and achieved success throughout most of the 1990s. The name M People is taken from the first letter of Pickering's first name, who formed the group. In December 2016, Billboard magazine ranked them as the 83rd most successful dance artists of all-time.

Heather Small sings the lead duet of the song which was originally sung by Dennis Edwards, and Mark Bell sings the female part (originally sung by Siedah Garrett). Small slightly alters the third line of the first verse: "What you need is a lover, someone to take over. Oh babe, don’t look any further" instead of singing: "What you need is lover, a man to take over. Oh girl, don’t look any further".

The M People version stayed very faithful to the original, incorporating the much sampled bassline, with a trademark deeper Moog sound, and programmed drumming sticking to the same familiar bass drum beat. However, instead of the guitar in the middle eight, they used a saxophone in its place and just one set of keys with progressive and chords plays throughout with splices of percussive drumming at junctions between verses and choruses.

Backing vocals are provided by critically acclaimed British R&B gospel group Nu Colours.

The song received very positive reception from critics. The single became the fourth consecutive top 10 hit for the band and their third consecutive Top 10 from the Elegant Slumming album. It charted and peaked at number 9, spending five weeks in the Top 20 with weekly sales starting at 82,000 copies and it continued to sell over 60,000 copies in each of the following four weeks.

The song spent a total of 10 weeks on the chart, leaving in early February 1994, so "Don't Look Any Further" had the second longest chart sojourn of any M People single, after the 11 weeks of both predecessor singles. Elsewhere, they secured their second consecutive Top 5 hit in New Zealand where it peaked at number 4 and stayed in the chart for 18 weeks. In Switzerland, it took the single seven weeks to peak at number 23, but stayed in the Swiss Top 40 for 18 weeks in total.

The two mixes were provided by British house music producer (Dancing) Danny D (a.k.a. D Mob) who gave a funkier interpretation with additional backing vocals on the chorus whereas the similar-sounding "Strip to the Bone" mix (also by Danny D) gave the song a funkier version with an additional rap ad-lib of "the drum, the bass" to bridge the verse and chorus.

Track List:
1: (M People master edit). 3:27
2: (Strip to the bone mix). 5:27
3: La Vida Loca. 4:32

Exact Audio Copy V1.1 from 23. June 2015

EAC extraction logfile from 28. July 2017, 13:50

M People / Don't Look Any Further [CDS] (74321 18059 2)

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Track 1

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