Oh how I laughed when Ian Van Dahl claimed to be a project by three female producers. Now, I’d like to think I know a little bit about music, so I didn’t believe this for one moment after I heard their first single Castles in the Sky back in 2001. Why? Well, call this a sweeping generalisation, but you’d never hear anything as benign if it was created by three women. Take for example a random sample of women who are (or were) driving forces in electronic music: DJ Rap, Peaches, Traci Lords, Billie Ray Martin, Missy Elliott, Björk, Dot Allison. I think that proves my point.

I laughed again when they gave in and admitted that Ian Van Dahl was actually three male producers. Not quite matey. Ian Van Dahl was a name coined by a couple of Belgian producers plus the guys who go under the name of Lasgo. Vocalist Annemie Coenen (who appears to be universally described as ‘impossibly beautiful’) is the ‘face’ of the group and writes the lyrics. Things get further confused when one discovers that Surrender – Lasgo’s single earlier this year – was co-written and sung by Annemie.

Rollercoaster is taken from their second album Lost and Found and it’s my track of the day for a number of reasons: It marks a departure from the classic Euro-trance feel of the rest of the album – a little bit harder, especially the sawtooth synth stabs. But it’s also a missed opportunity. It doesn’t go anywhere. Mind you, neither do rollercoasters. The outro demands to be a lead into another track, but this doesn’t happen. Instead there’s just a lengthy fade out.

Lost and Found – an album more about losing than finding, at least to my ears – is currently available on import, having been released in Europe about 137 years ago. Or four months.