These were the new entries in the Dutch Top 40 that never made the UK Top 40:
Good to see U96 again, although sad to say this will be the last time they will feature. It features a sped up sample of "Do You Dream" by Carlton. This meant that anyone else could try to make a similar record by using the same sample and that's what Kaos and Energy did in the UK in 1997 with "Breakin Free". One of many examples of this sort of thing happening.
Paul Elstak - Life Is Like A Dance
The main reason UK producers would make their own versions of records from other countries by using the same sample was due to DJs like Paul Elstak doing the same to them and having greater success with it. Dougal originally made "Life Is Like A Dance" which was relatively popular within the hardcore scene in the UK, but these records never really sold in huge numbers. Paul Elstak made his own version and landed his first Dutch Top 40 hit with it and made the Top 10.
With a name like Dominica and a tune that sounds like this I assumed it would be Italian. It's not though, it's American. I'm sure I knew this record in 1995, I certainly knew it before I started exploring the Dutch charts. It also makes me think I was there in 1995 and they were much better times.
In the early to mid-90s there were a ridiculous number of Eurodance acts making the UK Top 40 that all following the same sort of formula with a female singer and male rapper. When you look beyond the UK charts you find there's even more of them. Pharao were a German Eurodance act who never had a UK Top 40 . This was their only Dutch Top 40 hit.
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