Lightforce - Take Your Time (The Riddle '99)

1999

Lightforce - Take Your Time (The Riddle '99) (1999) Era: Late 90s Eurodance/Trance Crossover (1999) - Peak-era European club music transitioning from high-energy eurodance into melodic uplifting trance, characterised by synthesised orchestral builds, rapid-cut MTV promos, and pan-European label distribution via Sony Dance Pool. Solid archival specimen of the 1999 European trance/eurodance crossover promo format. High quantitative interest due to extreme editing pace (1.72s avg shot length, 122 cuts) and measurable early-digital warm saturation profile. Documents the aesthetic and commercial conventions of Sony Dance Pool-distributed club promos at the genre's mainstream peak. Director anonymity limits auteur-level analysis but reinforces its value as an industry-standard period artefact rather than an auteur work. Context: Released in 1999 at the height of the European trance boom, 'Take Your Time (The Riddle '99)' is an instrumental rework of Nik Kershaw's 1984 new wave classic 'The Riddle', re-contextualised within late-90s uplifting trance idioms. The track was produced and arranged by Lightforce and released on Dos Or Die Recordings / Fairlight Records, distributed by Sony Music. It sits within a wave of late-90s European acts mining 80s pop melodic hooks for club-floor reworks, a practice central to the eurodance and trance crossover market of the period. The release's multiple remix variants (Sandbox Rockers remix, Club Attack, Extended Mix) reflect the era's commercial emphasis on format saturation across 12" vinyl and CD maxi-single formats for both club DJs and retail consumers. Director notes: The video was released in 1999 under copyright of Dos Or Die Recordings GmbH, distributed via Epic/Sony Music Entertainment Germany and marketed by Sony Dance Pool outside the GSA territory. Production was mastered at Fairlight Studios. No director, production company, or video crew credits appear in any publicly indexed database. IMVDb lists the video as released but carries no technical or crew details.