Southern Sun/Ready Steady Go

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"Southern Sun" / "Ready Steady Go"
Single by Oakenfold
from the album Bunkka
Released20 May 2002
GenreBreakbeat
Length6:57 ("Southern Sun")
4:13 ("Ready Steady Go")
Label
Oakenfold
Oakenfold singles chronology
"Planet Rock"
(2001) 		"Southern Sun" / "Ready Steady Go"
(2002) 		"Starry Eyed Surprise"
(2002)

"Southern Sun" / "Ready Steady Go" is a double

In Search of Sunrise 3: Panama of the same year. The original version and various remixes have been included on over 70 compilation albums.[2] "Southern Sun" is written in the key of E-minor while "Ready Steady Go" is written in the key of C♯minor
.

Music video

The song "Southern Sun" was promoted with a

2001: A Space Odyssey
.

Licensing

"Ready Steady Go" has been licensed in a number of other media, including video games, TV series and high-profile movies. The track was used in the video games

Alias. It also appears in the films Stormbreaker (during the scene in which Alex Rider and Sabina Pleasure run across London), The Bourne Identity (during the famous police chase scene), the theatrical version of The Hot Chick and notably in a pivotal Korean nightclub scene in Collateral, for which Korean-language vocals were recorded in place of the original English vocal. This mix was subsequently titled "Korean Style". It was also used in the television program Las Vegas
in the opening of the pilot. In addition it played as a central theme in the 2007 SAAB advertising campaign TV commercials, "Born from Jets."

The song once played in the queue for Reese's Xtreme Cup Challenge at Hersheypark, right after the rules of the ride are explained on small wall mounted television screens.

Charts

Chart performance for "Southern Sun"
Chart (2002) Peak
position
Australia (ARIA)[3] 55
UK Singles (OCC)[4]
 16
UK Dance (OCC)[5] 2
US
Hot Dance Club Songs
 9

References

  1. ^ "Oakenfold - Southern Sun". Discogs.
  2. Allmusic. Retrieved 18 October 2011. [permanent dead link
    ]
  3. ^ Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010 (PDF ed.). Mt Martha, Victoria, Australia: Moonlight Publishing. p. 206.
  4. ^ "Official Singles Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company.
  5. ^ "Official Dance Singles Chart Top 40". Official Charts Company.


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