2 Brothers On The 4th Floor - Come Take My Hand (1995)

JUL 01 1995 · 12:00

2 Brothers On The 4th Floor - Come Take My Hand (1995) (1995) Era: Mid-90s Eurodance Peak (1994–1996) - Dutch club export era; Eurodance transitions toward happy hardcore with cinematic black-and-white video aesthetics and early CGI flourishes A high-value archival document combining confirmed commercial success (top-10 Netherlands/Belgium, #1 Israel) with a visually distinctive black-and-white surrealist aesthetic that stands apart from contemporaneous Eurodance video norms. The early CGI sequences and desert-tableau staging offer researchers a rare window into mid-budget Dutch music video craft of 1995, and the video's production via the Arcade/CNR Music corporate ecosystem makes it a primary source for the study of Dutch pop-dance industry infrastructure at its commercial peak. Context: Released in October 1995 as the second single from the group's second album '2' (1996), 'Come Take My Hand' arrived at the commercial zenith of European Eurodance. Produced by Dutch brothers Bobby and Martin Boer, who built their studio practice from a Utrecht apartment bedroom, the track typified the era's formula of uplifting female vocal hooks layered over a male rapper, targeting pan-European pop charts. The song reached the top 10 in Belgium and the Netherlands, top 20 in Italy and Norway, and number one in Israel, illustrating the genre's broad continental reach. The black-and-white surrealist video, produced by Arcade Creative (a CNR Music / Arcade Music Company subsidiary), positioned the group with an art-house visual language unusual for the genre, distinguishing it from the then-dominant brightly-saturated rave-imagery convention. Director notes: The music video was produced by Arcade Creative and shot entirely in black-and-white on a desert-like outdoor location. The video features performers Des'Ray and D-Rock arriving and departing by bus, a parade of surrealist character vignettes, and early CGI data-animation sequences including a mechanical unfolding microphone and an animated bird. The video was A-listed on Dutch music television channel TMF in October 1995. No individual director credit appears in any indexed database consulted.