Chicane is an electronic music act, and the guise of British musician, comp… Read Full Bio ↴Chicane is an electronic music act, and the guise of British musician, composer and record producer Nicholas Bracegirdle. He was born on February 28th 1971, in Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire.
Chicane is known for the singles "Offshore", an Ibiza dance anthem included in many compilations in both chill-out and dance versions; "Saltwater", which featured vocals by Clannad member Máire Brennan and is one of the most well-known and popular singles of the trance genre; and the UK number-one hit "Don't Give Up", featuring vocals by Bryan Adams, which became a top ten hit on singles charts across Europe.
Far from the Maddening Crowds, Chicane's debut album, is still considered a seminal release among the trance music community, while the second album, Behind the Sun, was certified gold in the UK. In 2007, after the hindrance of an ultimately unreleased album in the intervening time, Somersault was released on Bracegirdle's independent record label followed shortly after by a re-release of Far From The Maddening Crowds which included a new mix of Offshore (Offshore 2007)
In addition, Bracegirdle also worked under the aliases Disco Citizens, producing a handful of less radio-friendly, vocal-less tracks with a stronger progressive house sound. Working with singer Vanessa St. James and producer Mr. Joshua, Bracegirdle was part of the Mr. Joshua Presents Espiritu project, known for the song "In Praise of the Sun", released with both English and French vocals. Nick has also gone by the name "Rebel Transcanner" to produce a remix of Tomski's "14 Hours To Save The Earth." Nick Bracegirdle has also used the alias Sitvac to produce a one-time single, "Wishful Thinking."
While having trained in classical guitar and piano at an early age, Bracegirdle's earliest influences in electronic music came from melodic composers such as Jean Michel Jarre and Vangelis, and synthpop pioneer Vince Clarke; a further influence was the dance hit "Anthem" by the house music group N-Joi. all this convinced him to pursue the creation of melodic dance music, and by the age of 12 he was making music in recording studios and sending demos to record labels.
Eventually, Bracegirdle founded his own record label, Modena Records, which holds the rights to all his songs and licenses them to other labels for release and distribution. A partnership with Leo Elstob produced the first Disco Citizens single, "Right Here Right Now", in 1995, as well as the first Chicane single, "Offshore", in 1996. "Offshore" would be the first of Chicane's many releases on independent UK dance music record label Xtravaganza Recordings, then-newly founded by DJ and Bracegirdle's college friend Alex Gold. It reached #12 on the UK Singles Chart (and #1 on other UK-based charts compiled by Mixmag, Record Mirror, and others), the top 40 in multiple European countries, and #5 on the US Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play charts in 1997 upon re-release. Its inclusion on numerous Ibiza-themed trance music compilation albums (such as Café del Mar) attest to its popularity in the nightclubs on the island, one of the worldwide epicenters of dance music.
'Sunstroke', the follow-up single, attained similar popularity and chart numbers. A third single, "Offshore '97" (a separate item from the re-release of "Offshore") was actually a mashup of "Offshore" with the vocal track from the Power Circle song "A Little Love, a Little Life", mixed by producer and DJ Anthony Pappa. Originally a bootleg, it was turned into an official release, credited to "Chicane with Power Circle".
Following these releases, the first Chicane album, Far from the Maddening Crowds, which included new songs and multiple versions of the previously-released singles, was released in September 1997. Additional singles that followed were "Lost You Somewhere", the Benelux release "Red Skies", and the non-album single "Strong in Love", for which Bracegirdle used vocals by British singer Sylvia Mason-James (after discovering that she was the vocalist on the Paul Oakenfold/Steve Osborne remix of "Lemon" by U2) and first collaborated on production with Ray "Madman" Hedges (producer for B*Witched and Boyzone).
1999 saw the release of "Saltwater", a song based on Máire Brennan's vocals from "Theme from Harry's Game" by the Celtic band Clannad. This song was also used on one of the Belfast City advertisements broadcast in 2005-2006 across regional channels. The version of the vocals used in "Saltwater", however, was a new recording by Brennan herself. It surpassed all previous Chicane singles, reaching #6 on the UK charts and #1 on all five major UK dance charts.
After producing a radio remix of Bryan Adams's "Cloud Number Nine", Bracegirdle offered Adams the vocal position on the song "Don't Give Up". The vocals Adams recorded were subsequently heavily processed through a vocoder so as to play down his rock music vocal style; in fact, the vocal credit was initially not publicized when the single was sent to Pete Tong's BBC Radio 1 program Essential Selection. On the show, Tong made the song his first "Essential New Tune" selection of the new millennium. It was also Chicane's biggest hit, debuting at #1 on the UK charts (and notably replacing "American Pie", Madonna's #1 single of the previous week), reached #3 on the US dance chart and #1 on Australian and Russian charts, and made other charts across Europe as well.
The subsequent album Behind the Sun was certified gold by the BPI, while "Don't Give Up" was certified silver. Two other singles were released off the album—the double A-side "Halcyon" / "No Ordinary Morning" and a dramatically remixed version of "Autumn Tactics"—but neither was as successful as the preceding releases.
In 2002, Bracegirdle co-wrote two songs on Cher's album Living Proof, including "Alive Again", which was released as a single in Europe only. The 2002 edition of the Formula One video game included the songs "Sunstroke", "The Drive Home", and a remix of "Nagasaki Badger".
For the next two years, Bracegirdle became engaged in a lawsuit with Xtravaganza, which ended in Chicane's departure from the label and its signing with WEA for the release of a third album, Easy to Assemble. Originally scheduled for 2003, the album's release was preceded by the lead single "Love on the Run", followed by a promotional single, "Locking Down". After promotional copies of the album were distributed, however, Easy to Assemble was not commercially released as expected—though over the following year, the official Chicane website was periodically updated with messages announcing further delays towards a still-expected release.
More recently, biographies, interviews, and publicity have stated that the album's release was outright prevented due to an Internet leak and bootlegging of the promotional album. It was also revealed that Bracegirdle had left Warner following its 2003 sale to Edgar Bronfman, Jr. and was planning an independent release at the time.
Eventually, April 2006 saw the release of a new single, "Stoned in Love", on Globe Records through Universal Music Group, featuring singer Tom Jones on vocals. (Press Release). At the time of the announcement the song was also played twice by Pete Tong.
The track received substantial UK TV promotion in the run up to the week of release, featuring utterly live performances on Friday Night with Jonathan Ross, The New Paul O'Grady Show and a semi-live performance on BBC's now defunct Top of the Pops. Jones and Bracegirdle were also interviewed on Channel 5 News; When asked in the 5 News interview where he had been since "Don't Give Up", Bracegirdle replied that he had been "basically stuffed" by the internet bootlegging of the album Easy to Assemble.
In February 2007, Chicane departed from Universal as well; according to the official website, all new material will now be released through Modena itself. The follow-up single "Come Tomorrow" was released on 16 July 2007, followed by the fourth album, Somersault, a week later on 23 July 2007. Bracegirdle has entirely self-financed these initial independent releases, as well as subsequent live performances. On 4 May 2007, the Cicada remix of "Come Tomorrow" was played on Radio 1 by Pete Tong.
On 25 August 2008 Chicane released "Bruised Water" with Natasha Bedingfield. Promotional copies of the track were made available, with remixes from Mischa Daniels and Adam K. Following the leak of his 2003 album, Chicane now employs Web Sheriff in order to prevent links to pirated material, such as this single and other tracks from his upcoming album, from being posted on various blogs and websites. In October 2008, Chicane released a new Best Of compilation, which features all their hits, along with a new track called Wake Up, which is a collaboration with Keane.
Chicane's fourth studio album "Giants" is set to be released on August 1 2010 (September 7 2010 in The Netherlands). The first official single off the album will be "Middledistancerunner" featuring Adam Young.
Chicane is known for the singles "Offshore", an Ibiza dance anthem included in many compilations in both chill-out and dance versions; "Saltwater", which featured vocals by Clannad member Máire Brennan and is one of the most well-known and popular singles of the trance genre; and the UK number-one hit "Don't Give Up", featuring vocals by Bryan Adams, which became a top ten hit on singles charts across Europe.
Far from the Maddening Crowds, Chicane's debut album, is still considered a seminal release among the trance music community, while the second album, Behind the Sun, was certified gold in the UK. In 2007, after the hindrance of an ultimately unreleased album in the intervening time, Somersault was released on Bracegirdle's independent record label followed shortly after by a re-release of Far From The Maddening Crowds which included a new mix of Offshore (Offshore 2007)
In addition, Bracegirdle also worked under the aliases Disco Citizens, producing a handful of less radio-friendly, vocal-less tracks with a stronger progressive house sound. Working with singer Vanessa St. James and producer Mr. Joshua, Bracegirdle was part of the Mr. Joshua Presents Espiritu project, known for the song "In Praise of the Sun", released with both English and French vocals. Nick has also gone by the name "Rebel Transcanner" to produce a remix of Tomski's "14 Hours To Save The Earth." Nick Bracegirdle has also used the alias Sitvac to produce a one-time single, "Wishful Thinking."
While having trained in classical guitar and piano at an early age, Bracegirdle's earliest influences in electronic music came from melodic composers such as Jean Michel Jarre and Vangelis, and synthpop pioneer Vince Clarke; a further influence was the dance hit "Anthem" by the house music group N-Joi. all this convinced him to pursue the creation of melodic dance music, and by the age of 12 he was making music in recording studios and sending demos to record labels.
Eventually, Bracegirdle founded his own record label, Modena Records, which holds the rights to all his songs and licenses them to other labels for release and distribution. A partnership with Leo Elstob produced the first Disco Citizens single, "Right Here Right Now", in 1995, as well as the first Chicane single, "Offshore", in 1996. "Offshore" would be the first of Chicane's many releases on independent UK dance music record label Xtravaganza Recordings, then-newly founded by DJ and Bracegirdle's college friend Alex Gold. It reached #12 on the UK Singles Chart (and #1 on other UK-based charts compiled by Mixmag, Record Mirror, and others), the top 40 in multiple European countries, and #5 on the US Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play charts in 1997 upon re-release. Its inclusion on numerous Ibiza-themed trance music compilation albums (such as Café del Mar) attest to its popularity in the nightclubs on the island, one of the worldwide epicenters of dance music.
'Sunstroke', the follow-up single, attained similar popularity and chart numbers. A third single, "Offshore '97" (a separate item from the re-release of "Offshore") was actually a mashup of "Offshore" with the vocal track from the Power Circle song "A Little Love, a Little Life", mixed by producer and DJ Anthony Pappa. Originally a bootleg, it was turned into an official release, credited to "Chicane with Power Circle".
Following these releases, the first Chicane album, Far from the Maddening Crowds, which included new songs and multiple versions of the previously-released singles, was released in September 1997. Additional singles that followed were "Lost You Somewhere", the Benelux release "Red Skies", and the non-album single "Strong in Love", for which Bracegirdle used vocals by British singer Sylvia Mason-James (after discovering that she was the vocalist on the Paul Oakenfold/Steve Osborne remix of "Lemon" by U2) and first collaborated on production with Ray "Madman" Hedges (producer for B*Witched and Boyzone).
1999 saw the release of "Saltwater", a song based on Máire Brennan's vocals from "Theme from Harry's Game" by the Celtic band Clannad. This song was also used on one of the Belfast City advertisements broadcast in 2005-2006 across regional channels. The version of the vocals used in "Saltwater", however, was a new recording by Brennan herself. It surpassed all previous Chicane singles, reaching #6 on the UK charts and #1 on all five major UK dance charts.
After producing a radio remix of Bryan Adams's "Cloud Number Nine", Bracegirdle offered Adams the vocal position on the song "Don't Give Up". The vocals Adams recorded were subsequently heavily processed through a vocoder so as to play down his rock music vocal style; in fact, the vocal credit was initially not publicized when the single was sent to Pete Tong's BBC Radio 1 program Essential Selection. On the show, Tong made the song his first "Essential New Tune" selection of the new millennium. It was also Chicane's biggest hit, debuting at #1 on the UK charts (and notably replacing "American Pie", Madonna's #1 single of the previous week), reached #3 on the US dance chart and #1 on Australian and Russian charts, and made other charts across Europe as well.
The subsequent album Behind the Sun was certified gold by the BPI, while "Don't Give Up" was certified silver. Two other singles were released off the album—the double A-side "Halcyon" / "No Ordinary Morning" and a dramatically remixed version of "Autumn Tactics"—but neither was as successful as the preceding releases.
In 2002, Bracegirdle co-wrote two songs on Cher's album Living Proof, including "Alive Again", which was released as a single in Europe only. The 2002 edition of the Formula One video game included the songs "Sunstroke", "The Drive Home", and a remix of "Nagasaki Badger".
For the next two years, Bracegirdle became engaged in a lawsuit with Xtravaganza, which ended in Chicane's departure from the label and its signing with WEA for the release of a third album, Easy to Assemble. Originally scheduled for 2003, the album's release was preceded by the lead single "Love on the Run", followed by a promotional single, "Locking Down". After promotional copies of the album were distributed, however, Easy to Assemble was not commercially released as expected—though over the following year, the official Chicane website was periodically updated with messages announcing further delays towards a still-expected release.
More recently, biographies, interviews, and publicity have stated that the album's release was outright prevented due to an Internet leak and bootlegging of the promotional album. It was also revealed that Bracegirdle had left Warner following its 2003 sale to Edgar Bronfman, Jr. and was planning an independent release at the time.
Eventually, April 2006 saw the release of a new single, "Stoned in Love", on Globe Records through Universal Music Group, featuring singer Tom Jones on vocals. (Press Release). At the time of the announcement the song was also played twice by Pete Tong.
The track received substantial UK TV promotion in the run up to the week of release, featuring utterly live performances on Friday Night with Jonathan Ross, The New Paul O'Grady Show and a semi-live performance on BBC's now defunct Top of the Pops. Jones and Bracegirdle were also interviewed on Channel 5 News; When asked in the 5 News interview where he had been since "Don't Give Up", Bracegirdle replied that he had been "basically stuffed" by the internet bootlegging of the album Easy to Assemble.
In February 2007, Chicane departed from Universal as well; according to the official website, all new material will now be released through Modena itself. The follow-up single "Come Tomorrow" was released on 16 July 2007, followed by the fourth album, Somersault, a week later on 23 July 2007. Bracegirdle has entirely self-financed these initial independent releases, as well as subsequent live performances. On 4 May 2007, the Cicada remix of "Come Tomorrow" was played on Radio 1 by Pete Tong.
On 25 August 2008 Chicane released "Bruised Water" with Natasha Bedingfield. Promotional copies of the track were made available, with remixes from Mischa Daniels and Adam K. Following the leak of his 2003 album, Chicane now employs Web Sheriff in order to prevent links to pirated material, such as this single and other tracks from his upcoming album, from being posted on various blogs and websites. In October 2008, Chicane released a new Best Of compilation, which features all their hits, along with a new track called Wake Up, which is a collaboration with Keane.
Chicane's fourth studio album "Giants" is set to be released on August 1 2010 (September 7 2010 in The Netherlands). The first official single off the album will be "Middledistancerunner" featuring Adam Young.
Lost You Somewhere
Chicane Lyrics
We have lyrics for 'Lost You Somewhere' by these artists:
M.T. Sullivan A chaque fois que je te regarde Je finis par être…
Various Artists You look into my eyes I go out of my mind I…
We have lyrics for these tracks by Chicane:
06 Autumn Tactics Deep river runs its course To a warm horizon Shadows of fall…
08 Dont Give Up Don't give it up Don't worry if the sun don't shine You've…
1000 More Suns Isma 'qalbek u mbagħad tkellem ma qalbi Meta tkun hemm tihie…
Already There [INSTRUMENTAL]…
Arizona (Instrumental)…
Bruised Water My skin is like a map Of where my heart has…
Come Back (Come back and stay for good this time) (Come back and…
Come Tomorrow If I talked to god he'd tell me why There's something…
Daylight Is it daylight? I hardly ever notice I hardly feel the sun A…
Daylight (ATB remix) Is it daylight? I hardly ever notice I hardly feel the…
Don Don't give it up Don't worry if the sun don't shine You've…
Don't Give Up (feat. Bryan Adams) Don't give it up Don't give it up Don't worry if the…
Don't Give Up 2004 Don't give it up Don't worry if the sun don't shine You've…
Early Well, her old friend, from her own end of town Dropped…
East Side Story There was this girl I used to see - down…
Eterna Nowhere to go But I'll still be cruising I live this life…
Everything We Had To Leave Behind M’hemmx għalfejn tħares warajk X'hemm quddiem għalik Ma nist…
Far Away from You You say I'm falling down, I know That I can't stop…
From Where I Stand I hold the fire Here in my hands From where I stand It's…
Going Deep Wondering here what I'm gonna do When I bring out my…
Gorecki If I should die. This very moment I wouldn't fear Ive never…
Help Me Make It Take the ribbon from your hair Shake it loose and let…
Hiding All The Stars You can say what you want Find the path that you?ve…
Leaving Town (Instrumental)…
Let The Universe Surround You Feed your soul and face your beauty. Be the one who…
Locking Down ah me nah moot moot chu can monga day ah me too…
Love On the Run Like love on the run there will be tomorrow The stars…
Love That's Hard to Find You′re a thousand miles away But the feelings still remorse …
Love_on_the_run Like love on the run there will be tomorrow The stars…
Low Sun Ace Of Base Miscellaneous Doctor Sun Ace Of Base - Doctor…
Make You Stay M’hemmx għalfejn tħares warajk x'hemm quddiem għalik Ma nist…
Middledistancerunner Feel my heart Feel my heart has turned to grey Feel my…
Natural Thing Keep coming, keep coming so strong Keep coming on so strong…
Nevertheless We turned around We dropped back in For all those times The …
Nineteen Eighty Five Hold me tight let's drift away Hold me tight let's drift…
Nirvana Take me to the dark side of the moon I've been…
No Ordinary Morning If there was nothing that I could say Turned your back…
Nothing Of here every moment, I can't stop movin' on now I…
Now or Never And if I let you go I think we’ll never know And…
Off Shore (Instrumental track)…
Offshore '97 I feel in my mind I've got to let go I've got…
Offshore (Ambient Mix) I, feel in my mind, I've got to let go, I've got…
Offshore 97 I feel in my mind I've got to let go I've got…
Offshore 97 (A Man Called Adam Mix) A little love, a little life A little love, a little…
One More Time Of all the things we've never spoke of The time we've…
One Thousand Suns If I feel like another part of me The silence starts…
Overlap Oscail mo shúile Nìos mò èist è sin Ar an tsáile snámha F…
Oxygen You're all I wanted And I tried hard not to let…
Playing Fields Softly the end of summer Gives us her last rays To remembe…
Red Skies (intrumental track)…
Running To The Sea We're running to the sea With a change of heart A dream…
Sailing Well, it′s not far down to paradise, at least it's…
Salt Water Open my eyes Bigger Listen to us Swimming in Saltwater Open …
Saltwater Oscail mo shuile Nios mo eist e sin Ar an tsaile snamha Fol…
Saltwater (feat. Máire Brennan) Oscail mo sh�ile N�os m� �ist � sin Ar an ts�ile sn�mha Fol …
Saltwater (Mothership mix) Camper Van Beethoven Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart Sh…
Saltwater (original mix) Oscail mo sh�ile N�os m� �ist � sin Ar an ts�ile sn�mha Fol …
Saltwater (original radio edit) Camper Van Beethoven Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart Sh…
Saltwater (The Thrillseekers Oscail mo shuile Nios mo eist e sin Ar an tsaile snamha …
Saltwater (the Thrillseekers R Oscail mo shúile Nìos mò Èist è sin Ar an tsáile snámha …
Saltwater (The Thrillseekers remix) Imtheochaidh soir is siar A dtainig ariamh An ghealach is an…
Saltwater (Tomski vs. Disco Citizens remix) Camper Van Beethoven Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart Sh…
Saltwater Mix Oscail mo shúile Nìos mò èist è sin Ar an tsáile snámha Fol…
Serendipity If I could pave your streets with gold Would you be…
So Far Out to Sea (So far, I'm out to sea) (Everyone's calling) (Every step …
Some Might Say I see that Some Might Say And I see Looking at…
Spirit Someday Someday The spirit of the heart Someday The spirit…
Still With Me Slow down Let me be still with you Still with me Slow down L…
Stoned in Love If you could see me here this way Looking backwards…
Stoned in Love (feat. Tom Jones) If you could see me here this way Looking backwards from…
Strong In Love (Say it again, say it again) Standing here in the dim…
Summer in E Major In the state I’m in’s so different calms It’s so different…
The Nothing Song Essil on Essil on erifet al Essil on Essil on eriftel al Ess…
Turning Corners When you look back and there's nothing there Pieces of you…
U R Always Just before I go to sleep There's a rendez-vous I keep And…
Way I'm Feelin' As I stood there empty men all around me Got to…
Way I'm Feeling As I stood there, empty men all around me Got to…
We Were Once Kings Fear not, fight and save them all All their tears will…
What Am I Doing Here Dream about you ... So lay me down, Awake,…
What Am I Doing Here? Prt 1 eeling broken No time to tell, why have you left again Car…
Where Do I Start Where do I start? Where do I begin? How do I start?…
Where This Whole Thing Began You will not face the night alone Just take another step…
Wide Open Space i'm in a wide open space, i'm standing i'm all alone…
Windowlicker Mmmmmmmmmmmm mmmm Mmmmmmmmm ummmmmm ah Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm…
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@exchef7555
this is his best track and one of the best tracks ever made,Nicholas Bracegirdle along with Brian Wayne Transeau are the best music producers around since the 90's
@PsychicMedium4747
Check out my 13th studio album https://youtu.be/tK2S78uxH7c
@nsx001
Is BT in this track?
@CochinKerala
This track, to me, is one of the greatest electronic music (whatever you want to call it) tracks ever produced. Absolutely breathtaking!
@trupak9020
Trance was beautiful 🤍
@robicenco1
Always the standout track from FFTMC - still sounds phenomenal a quarter of a century later. This album is one of the sacred texts of electronic and trance music.
@SimonPalmer
who needs a video with music like this. just close your eyes and float away :)
@agibabe
I was watching the stars on the sky while listening it. It was amazing!
@PsychicMedium4747
@agibabe check out my 13th studio album. Very relaxing https://youtu.be/tK2S78uxH7c
@spinback72
Perfect partner for Offshore.