Batten Down the Hatches: Darude's 'Sandstorm' Just Turned 20

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We caught up with Darudevil for the 20th anniverasry of Sandstorm Read the full interview ⬇️

of it. To date, it has over 164 million plays on YouTube and over 160 million combined plays on Spotify, and has been certified Gold in the U.S.

By the early 00s, artists like Moby and Groove Armada were soundtracking car commercials and touring amphitheaters; Fatboy Slim was an MTV fixture and BT was producing for NSYNC. Despite these signs of electronica’s success, American audiences were thought to be wary of the melodic, pulsating, typically emotive sound of trance, often derided as being too “Euro.”

Despite the best efforts of an industry that wanted to control which variety of electronic music would dominate, club music kept breaking through. By the timereturned with the unabashedly Euro dance-pop banger “One More Time,” a full year after the original release of “Sandstorm,” American ears were ready to accept as credible a sound they previously might have dismissed as cheesy.

 

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