''Ultrabeat: The Album'' is the début self-titled album by the British dance act
Ultrabeat
Ultrabeat are a British electronic dance music group from Liverpool, England formed in 2002. Originally consisting of vocalist and producer Mike Di Scala and producers Ian Redman and Chris Henry, Ultrabeat first emerged with their cover of ...
. It was released on 10 September 2007 (four years after their first single) with
All Around the World records. The album was a major chart success in the UK Album Chart as it reached #8 in its first week.
Background
The long-anticipated album comes over four years after their first single "
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" was released. According to
AATW, the album was delayed for so long because
Ultrabeat
Ultrabeat are a British electronic dance music group from Liverpool, England formed in 2002. Originally consisting of vocalist and producer Mike Di Scala and producers Ian Redman and Chris Henry, Ultrabeat first emerged with their cover of ...
kept producing new tracks and re-changing the album to accommodate the new material, and also going away to places such as
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and
Ibiza
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delayed the album as well. It was originally, supposed to be called ''Better than Life: The Album'' and was meant to be released around the same time as the "
Better than Life" single. There was many speculation after this over whether an Ultrabeat album would materialise, until the summer of 2007 when AATW announced on their website that it was getting released in September 2007, and would include all their hits and more. Some of the tracks that never made it on to the album were songs called "Stay with Me", and
Re-Con songs "Free Again" and "Let It Show".
Release
When the album was released, it charted at #8 in its first week and stayed in the Top 20 for a further three weeks, and the release of the album coincided with Ultrabeat supporting Cascada on their tour of the UK. The Album was released in Australia on 8 December 2007, with
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records, and in the UK, "I Wanna Touch You" was the next single released after the album, which came out at the start of 2008.
Track listing
Personnel
;Ultrabeat
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Mike Di Scala
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– producer, vocals
* Ian Redman – additional producer
* Chris Henry – additional producer
;Production
*
Darren Styles
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– additional producer (on tracks 3 & 7)
* Wayne Donnelly – additional producer (on track 13)
;Additional musicians
* Rebecca Rudd – vocals (on tracks 3, 5, 7 & 10)
* Darren Styles – keyboards (on tracks 3 & 7)
;Other personnel
*
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– distribution
* Absolute – marketing
Chart performance
Release history
References
External links
Official artist profile(aatw.com)
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2007 debut albums
All Around the World Productions albums
Ultrabeat albums