"Heater"
Single by Samim
from the album Flow
Released29 October 2007[1]
GenreHouse
Length3:04
Label
Songwriter(s)Samim Winiger
Producer(s)Samim Winiger
Samim singles chronology
"Heater"
(2007)		 "The Lick"
(2008)

"Heater" is an instrumental song by Swiss electronic music producer Samim. The instrumental contains a sample of the Colombian cumbia "La Cumbia Cienaguera", popular in the 1950s, in a version by Colombian accordionist Alberto Pacheco.[2]

"Heater" peaked within the top ten of the charts in Belgium and the Netherlands as well as the top twenty of the UK Singles Chart. This song was featured on the various artists compilation Ultra 2008. It also appears as the intro track on the first CD of the Hed Kandi The Mix 2008 3-CD collection called The Mix 2008 CD1 − Twisted Disco Mix.

Music video

A music video was produced and released in support of the single. The video opens with a piece of luggage in the carousel of an airport, then cuts to a montage of city landscapes and air travel clips which seem to follow the suitcase around the world to various environments. The video cuts to a random assortment of people wearing headphones and dancing around the world in various environments – Asian metropolises, Southeast Asia marketplaces, New York City, the Great Pyramids of Giza, a Buddhist statue, the beaches in the islands of Caribbean, San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge and more – to the beat of the song. The variety of people and clothing styles suggests unity and happiness as a central part of dancing to the infectious melody of the accordion sample used in "Heater".

Roughly 30 seconds into the video, the luggage reappears and opens to reveal the accordion. Interspersed with the dancing people individuals play the accordion in relation to the sample. Some scenes also depict the dancers mouthing the words of the short vocal yells or mimicking the style of vocalization characterized to the Native American tribes in the United States.

In the later half of the video an individual which may actually be Samim wearing a floral printed rabbit onesie, large boots and oversized sunglasses dances in front of a painted desert landscape. Between two shots of this individual is an airline steward dancing in the aisle of an airplane with no passengers. The video concludes with a man dancing in the shallows of the shoreline of a beach before lifting off the headphones during sunset.[3][4][5]

Charts

Samplings

In 2008, the song was sampled in Shaggy's title song for the UEFA Championship 2008 called "Feel the Rush". In 2016, Italian producer Alex Guesta used the sample from "Heater" on his track "Cumbia Cienaguera", released on Spinnin' Records. In 2019, British producer D.O.D released "According To Me" on Axtone Records using the same sample as "Heater".[23]

References

  1. ↑ "Samim – Heater at Discogs". Retrieved 3 September 2008.
  2. ↑ "Lost in MySpace: La Nueva Cumbia". 5 January 2008. Retrieved 3 September 2008.
  3. ↑ Time Records (15 July 2011), Samim - Heater [Official Video], archived from the original on 21 December 2021, retrieved 23 February 2019
  4. ↑ Blanco y Negro Music (3 April 2008), Samim - Heater (Official Video), archived from the original on 21 December 2021, retrieved 23 February 2019
  5. ↑ samimbiatch (4 October 2007), Samim - Heater, archived from the original on 21 December 2021, retrieved 23 February 2019
  6. ↑ "Samim – Heater" (in German). Ö3 Austria Top 40. Retrieved April 13, 2020.
  7. ↑ "Samim – Heater" (in Dutch). Ultratop 50. Retrieved April 13, 2020.
  8. ↑ "Samim – Heater" (in French). Ultratip. Retrieved April 13, 2020.
  9. ↑ "Samim: Heater" (in Finnish). Musiikkituottajat. Retrieved April 13, 2020.
  10. ↑ "Samim – Heater" (in French). Les classement single. Retrieved April 13, 2020.
  11. ↑ "Samim – Heater" (in German). GfK Entertainment charts. Retrieved April 13, 2020.
  12. ↑ "Archívum – Slágerlisták – MAHASZ" (in Hungarian). Dance Top 40 lista. Magyar Hanglemezkiadók Szövetsége. Retrieved April 13, 2020.
  13. ↑ "Archívum – Slágerlisták – MAHASZ" (in Hungarian). Single (track) Top 40 lista. Magyar Hanglemezkiadók Szövetsége. Retrieved April 13, 2020.
  14. ↑ "Samim – Heater". Top Digital Download. Retrieved April 13, 2020.
  15. ↑ "Nederlandse Top 40 – week 45, 2007" (in Dutch). Dutch Top 40. Retrieved April 13, 2020.
  16. ↑ "Samim – Heater" (in Dutch). Single Top 100. Retrieved April 13, 2020.
  17. ↑ "Official Singles Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved April 13, 2020.
  18. ↑ "Jaaroverzichten 2007" (in Dutch). Ultratop. Retrieved 13 April 2020.
  19. ↑ "Dance Top 100 – 2007" (in Hungarian). Mahasz. Retrieved 13 April 2020.
  20. ↑ "Top 100–Jaaroverzicht van 2007". Dutch Top 40. Retrieved 13 April 2020.
  21. ↑ "Jaaroverzichten – Single 2007" (in Dutch). MegaCharts. Retrieved 13 April 2020.
  22. ↑ "Dance Top 100 – 2008" (in Hungarian). Mahasz. Retrieved 13 April 2020.
  23. ↑ Axtone (22 February 2019), D.O.D - According To Me, archived from the original on 21 December 2021, retrieved 23 February 2019
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