E'voke

[aquaplex]

Anyone remember this duo who sporadically released the odd club tune that would trouble the top 30 but not much higher?

A shame that Arms of Loren flopped on both occassions- wasn't the 1996 version expected to be some big top 10 hit (yet only got to #25) and sadly the 2001/2002 version got lost amongst all the other vocal trance stuff released at the same time. I think it was a mistake having the Nip & Tuck version as the lead radio edit (maybe it was a little too uncommercial) The Steinway mix should have been pushed as the lead edit (and yes there was actually a radio edit of that version)

Missing you was fantastically tacky and cheap yet spectacularly flopped

Annoyingly there are no videos on youtube barring a minute long clip from an old Chart Show video.... dont suppose anyone has a video lying around they could upload?

[markthegab1]

I remember one of them was in Eastenders as a mate of Binnie the lesbian.

[undisco_me]

I used to think both girls were off the old CBBC drama The Biz.

Runaway is in my top 3 dance tracks called Runaway, unless there's a Sahlene remix I haven't heard yet (one of my favourite Eurovision songs):

Runaway - Real McCoy
Runaway - Deee-Lite
Runaway - E'voke

[Booers]

Runaway was so similar to Set You Free by N-Trance.

The piano intros are very similar and then the bits at 1.00 in E'voke and 1.05 on N-Trance are almost identical.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNflFz7Zmtw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bcf5kzBCdy4

Did they have the same song writers?

[aquaplex]

That version was a remix. Not sure if it was a remix by the sam people or intended to sound the same. Its listed as a remix by TTF, but TTF said on their website that they didnt do it.

The original version on Now 32(?) is much better

[vasilios]

I used to think both girls were off the old CBBC drama The Biz.

Runaway is in my top 3 dance tracks called Runaway, unless there's a Sahlene remix I haven't heard yet (one of my favourite Eurovision songs):

Runaway - Real McCoy
Runaway - Deee-Lite
Runaway - E'voke

I love all for and wanna add Pink's Runaway, even Bon Jovi's is cute.

[Eric Generic]

The original version on Now 32(?) is much better

Yep, it's on NOW 32. That's the only track by E'voke that I know!

EG.

[Booers]

The version on Now 32 had those bits in them as well and sounded just like N-Trance! That's where I know the track from.

[undisco_me]

The original version on Now 32(?) is much better

Yep, it's on NOW 32. That's the only track by E'voke that I know!

EG.

Now 32 wasn't great, but it was my source for Cher and Freddie Mercury for a long while until it got scratched.

E'voke were oddly melancholic - 'she's a runaway' was almost traumatic, no? Probably just me on that one. The piano bits were gorgeous.

I only know the leg-it anthem and Arms of Loren - what were their best bits?

[aquaplex]

I used to think both girls were off the old CBBC drama The Biz.

Runaway is in my top 3 dance tracks called Runaway, unless there's a Sahlene remix I haven't heard yet (one of my favourite Eurovision songs):

Runaway - Real McCoy
Runaway - Deee-Lite
Runaway - E'voke

I love all for and wanna add Pink's Runaway, even Bon Jovi's is cute.

And Runaway by The Corrs

E'voke's greatest (and only) hits were

1994: I believe (backed with a track called It's my life)
1995: Runaway
1996: Arms of Loren (Nip & Tuck/ Steinway mixes later of which is absolute class)
1997/1998/1999: Missing you (the track was first promoed in 1997, re=promoed on a new label in 1998 and released eventually in early 1999)
2002: Arms of Loren 2001 (one of those January releases of something that was done the year before- Ferry Corsten mix based on the Nip & Tuck mix)

There were some new mixes commissioned by AATW of Arms of Loren for 2006 but they never surfaced (I have the Dancing DJs mix but thats it)

Marlaine tried a solo career with a song called Step Away written by E'voke's producers and featuring the other E'voke girl on backing vocals... Didn't even scrape the top 200!

I liked the fact that with the two original singles, there was some kind of attempt to have better than average dance lyrics that almost told a story... isn't Arms of Loren about stalking a famous ex?

[Baby Clyde]

The original Arms of Loren was AMAZING!!!

I have it on 12"

[vasilios]

Who remembers similar flop female duo of the time, DIVA!

[undisco_me]

Oh Diva: The Sun Always Shines On TV is all kinds of amazing - someone on here sent me it, and one went solo with a cover of More Than This, which I am sure she promoted here in the UK...

[vasilios]

Emmie was in Diva?

[aquaplex]

Emmie was in Diva?

No, Diva were Helene Sommer & Elene Nyborg

Managed to get another of the elusive 2006 Arms of Loren remixes along with a couple of new versions of Missing You; complete with the most random rap ever:

"Sitting in the crib peeping out the window
I check the tree to see which way the wind blow
What I see causes me to ponder,
I wonder
Whats makes me fonder,
My surroundings
When I'm seeing your lativity
Make way for creativity
I keep the faith, How long can it last
Bring the future, repeat the past
Thats what I ask but who's gonna answer it
There's no tricks to question whats legitimate
Soon my thoughts stay on my surroundings
But I'm calm
Kinda like housing, kinda like housing"

I admit there's a couple of words I might have misheard but still it's the most bizarre rap that has nothing to do with the song!

[swinginglondontown]

The Steinway mix of 'Arms Of Loren' is still ABSOLUTELY AMAZINGLY ABOVE AVERAGE!!!

[aquaplex]

The Steinway mix rules above everything else. I'm sure if Manifesto had used that as a lead radio edit, E'voke would have had a sure fire Top 10 hit. The Nip & Tuck mix was too edgy...

[aquaplex]

Hurrah- its strange what you can find in second hand stores.

Just came across a second Pulse8 promo CD of Missing You that I never even knew existing containing trashy remixes I never knew existed! :)

[Deutschmike]

I love whichever mix of "Arms Of Loren" is on the MOS Annual II from 1996.

[aquaplex]

Steinway

[Rooneyboy]

The Steinway mix of 'Arms Of Loren' is still ABSOLUTELY AMAZINGLY ABOVE AVERAGE!!!

Still packs em on the dancefloor even now. Its a sure fire success for a DJ.

[aquaplex]

Oh Diva: The Sun Always Shines On TV is all kinds of amazing - someone on here sent me it, and one went solo with a cover of More Than This, which I am sure she promoted here in the UK...

Oh god I have jusy come across this for the first time

http://www.youtube.com/user/ohnoitis...24/VLBELoyhK1c

The video to the 2002 version is finally on Youtube. Sadly it seems the video for the 1996 version and Runaway are still not around to see...

[AcerBen]

Original video finally on YouTube!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBzNFOxUqy8

[aquaplex]

Original video finally on YouTube!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBzNFOxUqy8

Ha I did mean to post it in this thread. Yeah I badgered someone into uploading it.

The video for the trashtastic "Christmas mix" of Missing You
http://dazpix.co.uk/portfolio/evoke/

Marlaine's solo single Step Away
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_e9DL4rF700

So that just leaves the Runaway video. I wonder which edit was used, the TTF, Biff N Memphis or the original radio edit (which was only ever released on Now 32). There wasn't a video for I believe

[Black Melody]

It was the Biff N Memphis Edit that was used for the Runaway video, I remember seeing it on Sky 1's Coca-Cola Hit Mix and on MTV a lot. I use to hate that version, I love it now though.