\nRank 1<\/a> \u2013 Airwave<\/a> (Rank 1<\/a> vs Dutch Force<\/a> Remix) (buy on Itunes)<\/a><\/p>\n
Benno De Goeij<\/a> and Piet Bervoets<\/a> started working together back in 1996 as the duo Pedro & Benno<\/a> but it wasn’t until 1998 they took the name Rank 1. They also released some tracks under the names Precious People<\/a>, Gualagara<\/a>, A.I.D.A.<\/a>, Simplistic Mind<\/a>, Two Disciples<\/a> and R.O.O.S<\/a>.<\/p>\n The name Rank 1<\/a> name came from the idea of \u201dwhat if we get ranked no 1 in the charts\u201d It was also remade in 2000 as a mashup with Donna Williams<\/a>’s track True Love Never Dies<\/a> which IMHO is the best mashup never released!<\/p>\n Rank 1 re-released Airwave in 2003 with vocals by Aino Laos<\/a>, but now under the name Breathing<\/a><\/p>\n Lyrics:<\/p>\n breathing breathing <\/p>\n everytime I close my eyes spread my wings and fly 1998 Endless Wave \/ Northern Spirit \/ Outstream<\/a> Since the release of Airwave, several huge hits has been released.<\/p>\n In 2001, they released Such Is Life<\/a> with singer Shanokee<\/a> which also came with a pretty decent Marco V<\/a> remix. The same year also saw the release of Awakening<\/a> which came with remixes from Cosmic Gate<\/a> and a really beautiful Ferry Corsten<\/a> remix which I still listen to quite often.<\/p>\n Their album, Symsonic<\/a> came out in 2002 with all the major releases so far. It even came out with a DVD.<\/p>\n 1 Symsonic In 2003 they released a new vocal track called It’s Up To You<\/a> with vocalist Shanokee<\/a>. It was a remake of the album title track, Symsonic but now with vocals and a bit faster tempo.<\/p>\n The 2004 release of Beats At Rank-1.Com<\/a> became the official Trance Energy<\/a> theme 2005. The same year also saw the release of the singles Opus 17 \/ Top Gear<\/a> .<\/p>\n In 2007 they teamed up with Armin Van Buuren<\/a> for the single This World Is Watching Me<\/a> with vocalist Kush<\/a>. Since then, Benno has been a co-producing most of Armin Van Buuren’s productions. On Armin’s 2008 album, Imagine<\/a>, most songs were written by Benno except for Imagine, Fine Without You and Intricacy.<\/p>\n 2007 also saw the release of Life Less Ordinary<\/a> which was a collaboration between Alex M.O.R.P.H.<\/a> & Rank1. They also collaborated with Jochen Miller<\/a> on 2 projects, the 2008 release And Then…<\/a> and the 2010 release The Great Escape<\/a>. Since 2008, Benno has been involved with most Jochen Miller<\/a>-releases as co-producer.<\/p>\n 2009 was a big year as 2 of Rank 1’s track became the official anthems. First out was L.E.D There Be Light<\/a> which was the official Trance Energy theme and later Symfo<\/a>, which became the official Sunrise Festival<\/a> theme. I remember seeing Rank 1 playing L.E.D. at Trance Energy that year, major goosebump-moment!<\/p>\n Feel free to download JP Bates<\/a> beautiful mashup of Rank 1 \u2013 L.E.D. And Roger Shah<\/a>’s Back To You<\/a> which you can download for free here<\/a>.<\/p>\n 2010 saw the release of 100<\/a>, which was a collaboration between Nic Chagall<\/a>, Wippenberg<\/a> & Rank 1. The title is named after being the 100th track released on the dutch label, High Contrast Recordings<\/a>.<\/p>\n My guess is that we will see more great things from Benno & Piet in the future, they have so much more to give the trance audience. Or as the title of the Airwave-mashup said \u201dTrue Love Never Dies\u201d<\/p>\n Related tracks:<\/p>\n Rank 1 vs Donna Williams – True Love Never Dies<\/a> [youtube http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4gcebbgooOM&w=680&h=491] This weeks classic comes from a group that has been in the scene for a quite some time. Its an alltime tranceclassic that pioneered the wave of the Dutch trancesound. I’m talking about Rank 1 \u2013 Airwave (Rank 1 vs Dutch Force Remix) (buy on Itunes) Benno De Goeij and Piet Bervoets started […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[744,705,753,752,756],"tags":[480,751,806,1809,811],"class_list":["post-2845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-744","category-articles","category-classic-for-the-weekend-2","category-niklas","category-podgressive","tag-airwave","tag-classic-for-the-weekend","tag-classic-ftw","tag-niklas","tag-rank1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bejbi.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bejbi.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bejbi.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bejbi.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bejbi.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2845"}],"version-history":[{"count":44,"href":"https:\/\/www.bejbi.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2889,"href":"https:\/\/www.bejbi.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2845\/revisions\/2889"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bejbi.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bejbi.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bejbi.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bejbi.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nTheir big breakthough as Rank 1 came in 1999 after the release of the single Airwave<\/a> which even got high rankings in a few charts all over the globe, for instance #10 on the UK Singles chart and #25 in the US Billboard Hot Dance Club Play. The single became a huge hit and was played by most major djs around the world at the time.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.bejbi.se\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/rank1airwave.jpg\")
<\/a><\/p>\n
\nfeel it on my skin
\nyour breathing
\nfalling to your arms again
\nspread my wings and fly
\nhold my head up high
\nfeels like summer wind
\nwhen you’re breathing,
\nbreathing <\/p>\n
\nwhen the stars begin to rise
\nI feel like I could fly
\nyou’re the reason why
\nwhen i need to have you near
\ndrowning in my tears
\nthe colors fade to grey
\nyou wash them all away
\nmorning sun
\nyou’re the one
\ndeep within
\nI hear you breathing
\nBreathing
\nfeel it on my skin
\nyour breathing
\nfalling to your arms again <\/p>\n
\nhold my head up high
\nfeels like summer wind
\nwhen you’re breathing
\noh when you’re breathing
\nbreathing
\n<\/em>
\nMeanwhile working as Rank 1, Benno De Goeij<\/a> was also busy with some other projects, like for instance the project Kamaya Painters<\/a> with Tiesto<\/a>. Kamaya Painters released 3 track in total: <\/p>\n
\n1999 Far From Over \/ Cryptomnesia \/ Soft Light<\/a>
\n2000 Wasteland \/ Summerbreeze<\/a><\/p>\n
\n2 Cosmomatic
\n3 Airwave (Album Cut)
\n4 Conspiracy
\n5 T.T.C.
\n6 Awakening (Radio Edit)
\n7 Down From The Deep
\n8 Equilibrium
\n9 Such Is Life (Sunday Afternoon Rework)
\n10 Passage To The Unknown
\n11 Still In My Mind
\n12 Airwave (Sunset Mix)
\n13 Such Is Life (Album Cut)
\n14 Citrus Juicer
\n15 Live At Trance Energy 16.02.2002
\n16 Airwave (Video)
\n17 Such Is Life (Video)
\n18 Such Is Life (Live At Sensation)(Video)
\n19Awakening (Video)<\/p>\n
\nRank 1 \u2013 Such Is Life<\/a>
\nKamaya Painters \u2013 Endless Wave<\/a>
\nSystem F \u2013 Cry (Rank 1 Remix)<\/a>
\nCygnus X \u2013 Superstring (Rank 1 Remix)<\/a>
\nRank 1 \u2013 Awakening (Ferry Corsten Remix)<\/a>
\nArmin Van Buuren vs Rank 1 \u2013 This World Is Watching Me<\/a>
\nRank 1 \u2013 L.E.D. There Be Light<\/a>
\nRank 1 \u2013 Symfo<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"