In the days before EDM, Trance was probably the most ridiculed genre of Dance music aside from Happy Hardcore. Given the DJ Sammy type crap of taking the vocals from and old song and put some generic Trance riff behind it that was all over the charts in the early 00s you could maybe understand why.
However if you look beyond the cheese there was some genuinely good Trance music out there. One man who was there throughout the popularity of Trance in the charts was Nicholas Bracegirdle aka Chicane.
This was the last Top 40 hit for Chicane and was arguably the last Trance Top 40 hit too. Ironically this is effectively a Trance version of an older record, "Hoppiholla" by Sigur Ros. Unlike DJ Sammy and co though, he takes the main riff as the sample rather than the vocals and it works, there's nothing cheesy about it at all.
This came at a time when most of the Dance music in the charts was what went on to become known as EDM and was therefore pretty dreadful, so it was really good to hear this whilst that was going on.
I don't know whether it was intentional or not, but the videos for "Poppiholla" seems to be a response to the video for ""Hoppiholla". In "Hoppiholla" we have groups of OAPs up to no good doing things you would normally associate with young trouble makers. In "Poppiholla" we have a hooded man who people assume to be a thug, but at the end of the video he runs a ridiculously long distance to save someone from bricks falling on their head.
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