Party Animals are a pop-gabber

Gabber

Gabber , is a style of electronic music and a subgenre of hardcore techno. "Gabber" is a slang word of Yiddish origin that means "mate", "buddy" or "friend"....

 group from The Netherlands. The band was created by producers Jeff Porter, Jeroen Flamman together with vocalists MCs Remsy, Evert van Buschbach, Patrick de Moor, Dennis Adam and Paul Grommé. They became the first act in the Netherlands to have their first three singles go straight to number one.

The Party Animals made their introduction on the video for the single "I Wanna Be A Hippy" by Technohead

Technohead

Greater Than One is an English electronic music band, founded by husband and wife Lee Newman and Michael Wells in 1985. They released many albums under this name, and also under the names Tricky Disco, GTO, John + Julie, Church of Extacy, Signs of Chaos, T.D.5, Salami Brothers, Killout Squad,...

. The clip featured three gabbers and a hippie

Hippie

The hippie subculture was originally a youth movement that arose in the United States during the mid-1960s and spread to other countries around the world. The etymology of the term 'hippie' is from hipster, and was initially used to describe beatniks who had moved into San Francisco's...

. The producers Flamman & Abraxas discovered the four and saw a potential for opening the mainly underground scene of gabber by making the sound more pop oriented and thus introducing the new genre to a mainstream audience.

The first single was "Have You Ever Been Mellow

Have You Ever Been Mellow

"Have You Ever Been Mellow" is the first single of the Party Animals and was released on their debut album Good Vibrations. The track was released in 1996 and became their first number one hit in The Netherlands. The song contains a sample of Have You Never Been Mellow by Olivia Newton-John from...

" which was based on Olivia Newton-John

Olivia Newton-John

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's "Have You Never Been Mellow

Have You Never Been Mellow

Have You Never Been Mellow was an album by Olivia Newton-John, released in 1975.-Reception:Both the title single and the album rose to the top of their respective U.S. charts . The title song and its follow-up, "Please Mr...

" and the lyrics still contain parts of the original song with "Never" replaced by "Ever". The music is totally different of course. The single was released in September 1995, however it took three months before it became a #1 hit.

The group stopped in 2000 after considerable success in the Netherlands and even a hit in Hong Kong

Hong Kong

Hong Kong is one of two Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China , the other being Macau. A city-state situated on China's south coast and enclosed by the Pearl River Delta and South China Sea, it is renowned for its expansive skyline and deep natural harbour...

 with "Atomic". They tried it again in 2002 and 2005. However they were not able to revive their earlier success.

Albums

Date	Title	Dutch album chart	Certification
1996	Good Vibrations Good Vibrations (Party Animals album) Good Vibrations is the debut album of the Party Animals and was released in 1996.The Party Animals made their introduction on the video for the single "I Wanna Be A Hippy" by Technohead. The clip featured three gabbers and a hippie. The producers Flamman & Abraxas discovered the four...	3	Gold
1997	Party@worldaccess.nl	-
1998	Hosanna Superstar	-
2004	Gang of 4	50

Singles

Date	Title	Chart	Comments
December 1995	"Have You Ever Been Mellow Have You Ever Been Mellow "Have You Ever Been Mellow" is the first single of the Party Animals and was released on their debut album Good Vibrations. The track was released in 1996 and became their first number one hit in The Netherlands. The song contains a sample of Have You Never Been Mellow by Olivia Newton-John from... ?"	1 (NL)	Gold in NL
April 1996	"Hava Naquila Hava Naquila (single) "Hava Naquila" is the second single of the Party Animals from their debut album Good Vibrations. The song was released in 1996 and is a happy hardcore version of the classic folk song "Hava Nagila" set in a gabber beat. The single was certified Gold.... "	1 (NL)	Gold in NL
July 1996	"Aquarius"	1 (NL)	Platinum in NL
February 1997	"We Like To Party We Like to Party (Party Animals song) "We Like to Party" is the fourth single of the Party Animals and the first release from their second album Party@worldaccess.nl. The song was released in 1997 and was their first single which was not cover of an existing song. The song peaked at number 6 in the Dutch Top 40 and a number 67 position... "	6 (NL)
May 1997	"Atomic"	8 (NL)
September 1997	"My Way My Way (song) "My Way" is a song popularized by Frank Sinatra. Its lyrics were written by Paul Anka and set to music based on the French song "Comme d'habitude" composed in 1967 by Claude François and Jacques Revaux, with lyrics by Claude François and Gilles Thibault. Anka's English lyrics are unrelated to the... "	19 (NL)	Cover of Sid Vicious Sid Vicious Sid Vicious was an English musician best known as the bassist of the influential punk rock group Sex Pistols... ' version of Frank Sinatra Frank Sinatra Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an American singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became an unprecedentedly successful solo artist in the early to mid-1940s, after being signed to Columbia Records in 1943. Being the idol of the... 's classic
February 1998	"Whatever!"	35 (NL)
May 1998	"Hawaii 5-0"	24 (NL)