How I came to know this track is unlike a lot of other stories I recount when it comes to writing these posts. Dutch DJ Ferry Corsten’s ‘Rock Your Body, Rock’ was a song I heard in my sleep. That’s right. Around 2003/04, I was sharing a bedroom with my sister, and she’d leave the radio on as we laid our weary heads on our separate beds and got our few hours of shut-eye in. It was during one of those nights that Corsten’s track played. I feel like I was in a deep sleep at the time, but hearing the song woke me up because it sounded like some intense robot factory. I told my sister the next morning, “I heard this really good song that played on the radio last night.” She said, “Ah, nice. Cool.” Something along those lines. She was being nice about it, but kinda brushed it off. And I was left wondering what that really good song was for a long while.

That all changed though, thanks to Top of the Pops. At some point, the show was doing the countdown of the official UK singles chart. ‘Rock Your Body, Rock’ had charted at number 11. I think a short clip of the music video (below) played, and it sort of stopped me dead in my tracks. I went onto Corsten’s website, the video could be played in full on there. This was the song. Would be funny after all these years if it actually wasn’t and I’ve still yet to hear that sleep-song. I’m 95% sure this was it, though. And I tell you, I kept repeating that video basking in the success. Having owned FIFAs 2003 and 2004, I did think it would be cool if the song was used in the next game that would be made. And it was like EA heard my thoughts because the company included the song on the FIFA 2005 soundtrack. Now there was no way I would be able to forget it even if I wanted to.

‘Rock Your Body, Rock’ is the only song of its genre that I’ve ever thought to listen to. ‘Trance’. If anyone knows any Trance albums, please send them my way. If you can’t, well, I can always go to Rate Your Music. But if this turns out to be the only one I know for the rest of my life, I’d be pretty fine. ‘Rock Your Body. Rock’ begins suddenly with Corsten’s heavily effected vocals, droning on a B-flat note (which is also the one chord the track stays on for its entirety), in which he tells the listener that he wants to have relations with his girl on a worldwide scale. Hence the song’s title. I didn’t know that when I was eight but became very apparent while growing up. His verses appear only twice in the whole song, dedicating a lot more time to the surging instrumental passages that trundle along, fade away, then come in with a vengeance with the euphoric “choruses”. The official music video cuts out a lot of the instrumental sections out, so I’d say the album version’s the way to go. But the edit is also there only have three-and-a-half minutes to spare.