Set You Free (N-Trance song)

"Set You Free" is a song written and recorded by the English group N-Trance, featuring vocals from Kelly Llorenna. It was first released as a white label record in 1992, then officially released as a single in 1994, just making the UK top 40 at No. 39. A re-release in January 1995 was much more successful, peaking at No. 2 in the UK. Later it was remixed and re-released in 2001.[2]

"Set You Free"
Single by N-Trance
from the album Electronic Pleasure
B-side"Remixes"
Released
  • 1992 (white label)
  • 20 April 1994
  • 14 January 1995 (rerelease)
Recorded
  • 1992
  • 1994
Studio
  • PWL (London, UK, 1992)
  • Out of the Blue (Manchester, UK, 1994)
Genre
Length4:22
LabelAll Around the World
Songwriter(s)N-Trance
Producer(s)N-Trance
N-Trance singles chronology
"Set You Free"
(1992)		 "Stayin' Alive '95"
(1995)
Music video
"Set You Free" on YouTube

Background

The song was inspired by a night out in the Haçienda in Manchester that N-Trance's Kevin O'Toole had in 1989. "They used to pass round pints of water, and a woman came up to me and I felt her heartbeat through her top," he said. "The songs created a diary of what was happening at the time."[3]

Chart performance

The 1995 version of "Set You Free" was successful on the charts in Europe, peaking at number 2 in both Scotland and the United Kingdom. In the latter, it reached that position in its fifth week at the UK Singles Chart, on 5 February 1995.[4] It was held off the top spot by Celine Dion's "Think Twice". The single managed to climb into the Top 10 also in Ireland and the Netherlands, as well as on the Eurochart Hot 100, where it peaked at number 9. Additionally, "Set You Free" was a Top 20 hit in Sweden and Switzerland, and went to number 44 in Germany. Outside Europe, it was a hit in Australia, where it reached number 11. It earned a gold record there, with a sale of 35,000 singles and a platinum record in the UK, after 600,000 singles were sold.

Music video

The music video was directed by prolific music video director Steve Price and shot in various locations in County Durham and North Yorkshire. The video comprises scenes of the band dancing and singing in a nightclub, in front of Cliffords Tower in York, England and travelling in a stretched limousine. The scene at Cliffords Tower was fortuitously or coincidentally shot on 3 November 1994,[5] which coincided with an annual Guy Fawkes Night Fireworks display organised by York City Council. The nightclub scenes were shot at Bianco's, Stockton-on-Tees.[5][6] It is claimed that the video cost around £5,000 to make. It was uploaded to YouTube in June 2008. As of September 2020, the video has got more than 6.8 million views.[7]

In 2001, the video was reedited for the Rob Searle Radio Edit.

Personnel
  • N-Trance: production, writing
  • Kelly Llorenna: vocals
  • T-1K: raps (Lost Soul and Pop Mix)
  • Tim Russell: engineering

Charts and certifications

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