Robbed hit of the week 4/24/23 - Goldtrix's "It's Love (Trippin')"...

 

 

"It's Love (Trippin')" - Goldtrix presents Andrea Brown

from the single (2001)

Billboard Hot 100 peak: did not chart

Billboard Dance Club Play peak: #1 (two weeks)

 

This week's "robbed hit" comes from Goldtrix, a one-time collaboration between British DJ/producers Daniel Goldstein and Jamie "Matrix" Quinn, with the moniker a combo of their name/aliases. In 2001 they recruited native New Yorker Andrea Brown for a single "It's Love (Trippin')", which is a remake of an album cut on American neo-soul singer Jill Scott's debut album Who Is Jill Scott? Words and Sounds Vol. 1 from 2000. Here's the original...

 

 Jill's version already had the minor key flow that house music is built on, so it wasn't a stretch to speed up the tempo for Goldtrix's take. Andrea's voice lends enough sassiness to the tribal house groove to create a vibe that had clubgoers not even knowing it was a cover song...

While Goldtrix and Brown's "It's Love" didn't make Billboard magazine's Hot 100 pop chart, their single topped the Dance Club Play chart for two weeks (at that time a rarity) in March of 2002. Internationally, the single climbed to #6 on the British Singles chart the month prior. 

After this single, Goldtrix pretty much went their separate ways, though releasing a couple singles under "Matrix & Danny J". Quinn, continuing the Matrix alias, would join with another DJ/producer, Brendan "Futurebound" Collins as the drum-and-bass act "Matrix and Futurebound", which put out two albums and various singles using all featured singers. Four of them made the British Top-40, with 2013's "Control" with Max Marshall going all the way to #7. 

(7/10)