Doctor Pressure

"Doctor Pressure"
A black background with the artist names and song title written in capitalised pink font
Australian maxi single cover
Single by Mylo vs. Miami Sound Machine
from the album Destroy Rock & Roll
Released5 September 2005
Length3:24
Label
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)MacInnes
Mylo singles chronology
"In My Arms"
(2004) 		"Doctor Pressure"
(2005) 		"Muscle Cars"
(2005)
Gloria Estefan singles chronology
"Tu Fotografía"
(2004) 		"Doctor Pressure"
(2005) 		"No Llores"
(2007)
Music video
"Doctor Pressure" on Vimeo

"Doctor Pressure" is a mash-up song of the two songs by Mylo and Miami Sound Machine, from the re-issue of Mylo's debut studio album Destroy Rock & Roll (2004). The song was written by Elias Enrique Garcia and the producer Mylo. It was released by Sony BMG and Breastfed Recordings on 5 September 2005, as the sixth single from the album. Initially created as a bootleg recording by Phil 'N' Dog, the mashup contains a sample of the songs "Drop the Pressure" and "Dr. Beat" by Mylo and Miami Sound Machine respectively.

"Doctor Pressure" peaked at number three on the UK Singles Chart, number five on the Irish Singles Chart, and at number 12 on the Australian ARIA Singles Chart. An accompanying music video was directed by Hexstatic member Stuart Warren Hill and released in 2005, which uses a DVJ to scratch and insert footage. The video is considered to be one of the first official mashup videos, while the song was later sampled by One Bit and Noah Cyrus on "My Way".

Background and release

Mylo released the electro song "Drop the Pressure" in October 2004,[1][2] which was included on his debut studio album Destroy Rock & Roll (2004).[3] During its production, Mylo used Reason 2.5 to incorporate a vocoder module in the song.[4] Phil 'N' Dog released a bootleg recording titled "Doctor Pressure" that spliced "Drop the Pressure" with Miami Sound Machine's 1984 song "Dr. Beat", which Mylo then made minor alterations to the song.[5] "Doctor Pressure" was written by Elias Enrique Garcia and the producer Mylo, while it was mastered by John Davis at Alchemy Soho.[6] The song contains a sample of "Dr. Beat",[7] which is included in a mashup with "Drop the Pressure".[8]

"Doctor Pressure" was released as the sixth single from the re-issue of Destroy Rock N Roll on 5 September 2005, which included three new songs.[3] Both Sony BMG and Breastfed Recordings believed that the song would introduce the album to a wider audience.[9] Writing for the National Post in 2007, Maryam Siddiqi stated that fans of the dance genre would "[clap] their hands for more" mashups such as "Doctor Pressure".[10]

Commercial performance

"Doctor Pressure" debuted at the number three peak on the UK Singles Chart dated 11 September 2005,[11] with 19,881 copies sold in the first week.[3] The song subsequently peaked higher than both "Dr. Beat" and "Drop the Pressure" on the chart,[12] and remained for 26 weeks.[11] It was eventually certified gold by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) on 25 August 2023 for track-equivalent sales of 400,000 units.[13] In Ireland, "Doctor Pressure" debuted on the Irish Singles Chart dated 8 September 2005. The song bowed at number five and remained on the chart for 11 weeks.[14] It additionally debuted at the number five peak on the Scottish Singles Chart dated 11 September 2005.[15] On the Australian ARIA Singles Chart dated 11 June 2005, "Doctor Pressure" bowed at number 12, where it remained for 11 weeks.[16]

Music video and legacy

An accompanying music video was released in 2005 and directed by Stuart Warren Hill of English electronic music duo Hexstatic.[17] Warren Hill utilized a DVJ to scratch sections, with the footage inserted in the video's cut.[18] Chris Mugan of The Independent acknowledged that it is "one of the first officially sanctioned mash-up visuals" along with Addictive TV's video for "Rapture Riders", a mashup of Blondie's 1981 song "Rapture" and the Doors' 1971 song "Riders on the Storm".[19] In 2017, British duo One Bit and American singer Noah Cyrus sampled "Doctor Pressure" on the song "My Way",[20] which consequently sampled "Drop the Pressure" too. Writing for The Fader, Owen Myers stated that Cyrus' "full-bodied" vocals modernised "Drop the Pressure".[1]

Track listings

Credits and personnel

Credits adapted from the back cover of "Doctor Pressure".[6]

Charts

Certifications

Certifications and sales for "Doctor Pressure"
Region Certification Certified units/sales
United Kingdom (BPI)[13] Gold 400,000‡

‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

References

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