“Breathe” by Telepopmusik

"Breathe" was the debut single from Télépopmusik, the French dance outfit, released in 2002 off their 2001 album Genetic World, and it floats in on the guest vocal of Scottish singer Angela McCluskey, who wrote it with Fabrice Dumont and Stéphan Haeri. It's electronica for the comedown rather than the rave, all hush and exhale; the BBC's Chris Long heard it as something silky lounging by the pool, and AllMusic counted it among the album's high points.

It was the group's commercial breakthrough: number 42 in the UK that March, then a slower climb in America, where it reached number 9 on Billboard's Hot Dance Club Play chart and number 78 on the Hot 100 in February 2003.

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