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2 Brothers on the 4th floor   (Netherlands)

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Latest 2 Brothers on the 4th floor news

04/06/2024 : 2 Brothers on the 4th floor's hit Dreams was used on a TV ad for Dutch phone operator KPN, featuring a cute ginger cat

18/12/2023 : Pop & Rau did a remix for 2 Brothers on the 4th floor's anthem Dreams (Will Come Alive)

14/09/2023 : 2 Brothers on the 4th floor were invited to talk about the making of Never Alone in an interview

06/02/2023 : On March 17th 2 Brothers on the 4th floor will release a re-edition of their album 2, for the first time as a limited edition vinyl

26/03/2022 : 2 Brothers on the 4th floor released a Re-Style Remix for their 1996 single Fairytales.

18/11/2021 : For the project's 30th birthday, 2 Brothers on the 4th floor will release a limited vinyl edition of their Best Of - 30th Anniversary

03/09/2020 : ReMan feat. Tabba, Zentone & UNA released a cover of 2 Brothers on the 4th floor's hit Dreams

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2 Brothers on the 4th floor albums

	Dreams	Aug 1994	BUY X
	2	Nov 1996	BUY X
	The Remixes Vol.1	19th Jan 2010	BUY X
	The Remixes Vol.2	19th Jan 2010	BUY X
	The Remixes Vol.3	19th Jan 2010	BUY X
	Best Of	19th Mar 2010	BUY X
	The Very Best Of 2 CDs	6th May 2016	BUY X
	The Very Best Of 30th anniversary edition	3rd Dec 2021	BUY X

2 Brothers on the 4th floor singles

	Can't Help Myself	Jan 1991	BUY X
	Turn Da Music Up	30th Oct 1991	BUY X
	Never Alone	3rd Dec 1993	BUY X
	Dreams	11th Jul 1994	BUY X
	Let Me Be Free	4th Nov 1994	BUY X
	Fly (Through The Starry Night)	30th Mar 1995	BUY X
	Come Take My Hand	4th Sep 1995	BUY X
	Fairytales	Feb 1996	BUY X
	Mirror of Love	Jul 1996	BUY X
	There's A Key	Nov 1996	BUY X
	Christmas Time	Dec 1996	BUY X
	One Day	May 1997	BUY X
	I'm Thinkin' of U	Jul 1997	BUY X
	Do You Know	Mar 1998	BUY X
	The Sun Will Be Shining	27th Nov 1998	BUY X
	Heaven Is Here	5th Feb 1999	BUY X
	Living In Cyberspace	29th Oct 1999	BUY X
	Wonderful Feeling	14th Jun 2000	BUY X
	Shine Like A Star Promo only	Oct 2000	BUY X
	Stand Up And Live	29th Jun 2001	BUY X
	Never Alone 2004 Promo only	2004	BUY X
	Dreams 2016	22nd Apr 2016	BUY X

2 Brothers on the 4th floor remixes

	Can't Help Myself	1990	BUY X
	Can't Help Myself	1991	BUY X
	Turn Da Music Up (The Ultimate Rave Mixes)	1992	BUY X
	Fly (Through The Starry Night)	1995	BUY X
	Fairytales (Re-Style Remix)	18th Mar 2022	BUY X
	Come Take My Hand (Spiady Remix)	29th Nov 2024	BUY X

Featurings and collaborations

DJ Worris - Dreams (Will Come Alive) part 1

17th Jul 2020

BUY X

Aliases - Records released under other names

2B4TH - Never Alone 2

2007

BUY X

2 Brothers on the 4th floor biography

Dutch brothers Bobby and Martin Boer had been experimenting with music for years in a little bedroom located in their mum's appartment, at the 4th floor of a building in Zuilen, in the suburbs of Utrecht. They spent their days in the record shop Kareltje, and their nights listening to Ben Liebrand's show. But then in 1990 things really started to happen for them, the single Can't Help Myselfwas picked up by Dutch radiostations and became an international hit.

The composing brothers Bobby and Martin appointed rapper Da Smooth Baron MC and the singers Peggy 'The Duchess' and Gale Robinson to form the 2 Brothers on the 4th Floor stage-act. The next single Turn Da Music was somewhat less successful but really helped spreading the name 2 Brothers on the 4th Floor.

After these two singles the project was put on a halt. Martin moved into a new professional studio and started making remixes under the name Dancability Productions. He made remixes for acts like Becky Bell and Twenty 4 Seven , he also made the Veronica Megamix 1993 for Veronica Radio. In the meanwhile Bobby was busy designing record-covers and CD-inlays.

In 1994 they decided to revive the 2 Brothers on the 4th Floor-project. Bobby joined Martin in his studio and after a while they finished their first track Never Alone. This single was the first to be launched with rapper D-Rock (Renee Philips) and singer Des'ray (Desirée Claudette Manders).

The renewed style and concept got out real fine. Never Alone topped the charts for weeks (Number 1 in Israel) and even got a golden status. The consecutive single was called Dreams, it went right up to the #1 position (#2 in Israel), and Let Me Be Free got a long stay in the national top 10 and peaked # 3 in Israel. In July 1994 the album Dreams hit the shops, it stood in the national album charts for weeks and got very positive reviews.

In 1995 and 1996 the 2 Brothers on the 4th Floor even widened their success with the singles Fly (Trough The Starry Night), Come Take My Hand and happy harcode track Fairytales (inspired from a classical composition by Johann Pachelbel, Canon in D Major). These singles really topped the charts in various European countries and all over the world (Fairytales was #1 in Israel). Their idol Ben Liebrand contributed to the record sleeves design. Some of them were remixed by the Lick project team.

In the end of 1996 they released a single called There's A Key and their second album called 2. The next single to be released was One Day and was a R&B track and not the usual happy hardcore/eurodance style.

The next single to be released was I'm Thinkin' of U. It was also the first single not to be included in any album. In March, 1998 2 Brothers on the 4th Floor released a single, their second from the forthcoming album scheduled for release sometime in the fall of 1998. The single was entitled Do U Know, a mid to low-tempo pop track.

In the beginning of fall 1998 the single The Sun Will Be Shining was released and contained remixes by Mark van Dale & Enrico, Dance Therapy and the Dub Foundation. It also contained a bonus CD-ROM Part with the video of The Sun Will Be Shining and The Making Of. They toured in Canada starting from the end of June.

February 5th, they released a new single called Heaven Is Here. They completely updated the sound to the current future trance hype : with that song they stepped into the same progressive music style as Sash!. For the first time, Des'Ray did all the vocals, singing the verses and the chorus. Remixes were done by Olav Basoski, D-Rock and Marco V. & Benjamin.

29th of October 1999 : the follow-up to Heaven Is Here was finally released : Living In Cyberspace was a cover of the hit Living on Video by Trans-X, already covered by Cardenia among others. It reached #28 in the charts.

2000 : before the Summer 2000 they released a single entitled Wonderful Feeling (which peaked #44 in the charts). At the beginning of October, they delivered 2 singles (among them, the long-awaited Shine Like A Star) and the complete third album to CNR/Arcade. Besides a lot of pushing, no one may take a decision about releasing the new singles, because the company was busy at the moment with a co-operation with another company, which was very frustrating for the group and all his fans.

2001 : At the beginning, the name of the new single was Life and it was initailly planned on the 25th of May 2001. Afterwards it was delayed to June or July. Then it turned out to be Stand Up And Live, planned for June, 29th 2001. It was co-produced by G-spott. At first the record was released as "White label" without the artist name. Therefore it was played by several club-DJ's, Radio 3 and ID&T (Radio) and even nominated to the Fresh Top 40 Tip (The most important Clublist). The record was even played a few times on Radio 3. Since the record was going well on its own, everyone may know that it's from 2 Brothers on the 4th Floor. The release date of the album has not been decided yet.

2002 : Des'ray started a solo carreer whereas D-rock was working with E-life.

2004 : The 2 Brothers On The 4th Floor are going to release a best of album and DVD. The release was at first planned to be in November 2004 in Holland. It was finally postponed to March 2005, then to an undefined date...

2006 : on the 13th January, Des'ray and D-rock performed together in a TV show on the Dutch television. They sung one of the 2 Brothers on the 4th Floor hits. Des'ray said that she could not believe how much people still knew their songs and how much their music was still loved.

In July, Ozi meets Tom Mountain released a cover of their hit-single Dreams. The same year, Dreams was also covered by a Dutch solo singer called Mary (real name : Marieke).

D-rock and Des'ray are still doing performances in Holland. They are speaking with a record company to make a 2 brothers DVD or maybe a best of CD. Nothing has been confirmed yet.

2007 : on 20th August, they released a single entitled Never Alone 2, hidden behind the acronym 2B4TH, under the label Mostiko. It contained a sample from the original hit, and mixes from Anonymous, Juno and Lethal MG.

2008 : D-rock and Des'ray took part to the concert I Love The 90s - The Party in Hasselt (Belgium), on April 12th. A fake third album entitled III can be found on the web, spread by some Russian fans.

2009 : Gabry Ponte vs Format C did a cover of Dreams.

2010 : in May, 2 Brothers on the 4th floor released a new album entitled The Best Of in March, available on iTunes. Shortly after, they released a remixes album in 3 volumes.

2011 : Never Alone as well as a few other 2 Brothers songs featured in the trailer of Dutch movie New Kids Nitro. Quintino & Afrojack used a rap sample from Can't Help Myself in their track Let Me See You Dance.

2013 : 2 Brothers on the 4th floor's hit Dreams was covered by DJane Cassey Doreen

2015 : in May, they released a DJ The Viper remix of their hit Come Take My Hand.

2016 : 2 Brothers on the 4th floor double-CD entitled The Very Best Of, then a 2016 version of their hit Dreams remixed by Louis Bailar and Dimitris Kops

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Thanks to Shimon O'Hana for the charts positions
Thank to Eric-X, Klems and Denis "DJ Hooligan" Zhabkine for the latest informations.

2 Brothers on the 4th floor biography was last updated Fri, May 20th 2022

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Charts (singles)

Can't Help Myself		#21		#32			#6
Turn Da Music Up		#22					#17
Never Alone		#3			#1	#16	#2		#38
Dreams		#8		#25	#2	#4	#1		#14	#32	#93
Let Me Be Free		#11		#43	#3	#5	#7		#23
Fly (Through The Starry Night)	#26	#19				#12	#6		#24
Come Take My Hand		#9				#14	#4	#12	#28
Fairytales		#46			#1		#4		#49
Mirror of Love		#22	#19				#6		#44
There's A Key							#7
One Day							#15
I'm Thinkin' of U		#48					#20
Do You Know							#26
Heaven Is Here							#52
Living In Cyberspace							#28
Wonderful Feeling							#44

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