Let the Beat Control Your Body

"Let the Beat Control Your Body"
Single by 2 Unlimited
from the album No Limits
B-side Remix
Released January 1994
Format CD single, CD maxi, 7" single,
12" maxi
Recorded 1993
Genre Eurodance, Hi-NRG
Length 4:01 (album version)
3:38 (single version)
Label PWL
Writer(s) Phil Wilde, Jean-Paul De Coster,
Anita Dels, Raymond Lothar Slijngaard
Producer Phil Wilde, Jean-Paul De Coster
2 Unlimited singles chronology
"Maximum Overdrive
(1993)		 "Let the Beat Control Your Body"
(1994)		 "The Real Thing"
(1994)

"Let the Beat Control Your Body" is the fifth and final single taken from Dutch group 2 Unlimited's second album No Limits.

The single reached #6 in the UK and was markedly different from the album version, which in no doubt helped its success. The album version was largely instrumental and contained just a few spoken words by Ray and Anita. The single version, however, contained full verses rapped by Ray and a new chorus sung by Anita. The title of the song was changed to "Let the Bass Control Your Body" in France because the word "beat" sounds very similar to the French word for penis.

Dance music artist Chaah (aka Susanne Jark) uses the melody from "Let the Beat Control Your Body" in her 1999 release entitled "The Funkiness of You".[1]

Contents

Remixes

Track listings

CD maxi

Australia
  1. "Let the Beat Control Your Body" (Airplay Edit)
  2. "Let the Beat Control Your Body" (X-Out In Trance)
  3. "Let the Beat Control Your Body" (Extended)
  4. "Let the Beat Control Your Body" (X-Out In Rio)
  5. "Murphy's Megamix Pt 2"
Netherlands
  1. "Let the Beat Control Your Body" (Airplay Edit) (3:38)
  2. "Let the Beat Control Your Body" (X-Out In Trance) (5:11)
  3. "Let the Beat Control Your Body" (Extended) (5:58)
  4. "Let the Beat Control Your Body" (X-Out In Rio) (5:06)
  5. "Get Ready for no Limits" (Murphy's Megamix Part 2) (6:45)

UK

  1. "Let the Beat Control Your Body" (Airplay Edit) (3:38)
  2. "Let the Beat Control Your Body" (X-Out In Rio) (5:06)
  3. "Murphy's Megamix Part 1"
  4. "Get Ready for no Limits" (Murphy's Megamix Part 2) (6:45)

12" maxi

Belgium
  1. "Let the Beat Control Your Body" (X-Out In Trance) (5:11)
  2. "Let the Beat Control Your Body" (Extended) (5:58)
  3. "Let the Beat Control Your Body" (Extended) (5:58)
  4. "Get Ready for No Limits" (Murphy's Megamix Part 2) (6:45)
Germany
  1. "Let the Beat Control Your Body" (X-Out In Trance Remix) (5:11)
  2. "Let the Beat Control Your Body" (Extended) (5:58)
  3. "Let the Beat Control Your Body" (X-Out In Rio) (5:06)
  4. "Get Ready for No Limits" (Murphy's Megamix Part 2) (6:45)

7" single

UK
  1. "Let the Beat Control Your Body" (Airplay Edit)
  2. "Get Ready for No Limits" (Part 2)

Charts

Peak positions

Chart (1994) Peak
position
Australian Singles Chart[2] 39
Austrian Singles Chart[2] 11
Dutch Top 40[3] 2
French SNEP Singles Chart[2] 10
German Singles Chart[4] 8
Irish Singles Chart[5] 6
New Zealand RIANZ Singles Chart[2] 29
Spanish Singles Chart 10
Swedish Singles Chart[2] 11
Swiss Singles Chart[2] 11
UK Airplay Chart 46
UK Singles Chart[6] 6

End of year charts

End of year chart (1994) Position
Dutch Top 40[3] 39

External links

References

  1. ^ Mp3skyline.com
  2. ^ a b c d e f "Let the Beat Control Your Body", in various singles charts Lescharts.com (Retrieved February 15, 2008)
  3. ^ a b "Single top 100 over 1994" (in Dutch) (pdf). Top40. http://www.top40.nl/pdf/Top%20100/top%20100%20-%201994.pdf. Retrieved 17 April 2010. 
  4. ^ "2 Unlimited singles, German Singles Chart" (in German). musicline. http://www.musicline.de/de/chartverfolgung_summary/artist/2+Unlimited/single. Retrieved 17 April 2010. 
  5. ^ Irish Single Chart, database Irishcharts.ie (Retrieved February 15, 2008)
  6. ^ ""Let the Beat Control Your Body", UK Singles Chart". Chartstats. http://www.chartstats.com/songinfo.php?id=21626. Retrieved 1 January 2010. 
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