"Somnambulist" is a song by Brian Transeau, better known as BT

BT (musician)

Brian Wayne Transeau is a classically trained and Grammy-nominated American music producer, composer, audio technician, multi-instrumentalist, singer and songwriter better known by his stage name, BT. He is an artist in the electronic genre...

, that was released as a single on March 20, 2003. The track quickly became the most successful track from the album Emotional Technology

Emotional Technology

Emotional Technology is the fourth album by electronica artist BT. Transitioning towards a poppier sound, the album features some of BT's well-known hits, including "Somnambulist", "The Force of Gravity" and "Superfabulous". "Somnambulist", also known as "Simply Being Loved", holds the Guinness...

, and one of Transeau's biggest commercial hits. The album debuted at number one on the Billboard

Billboard (magazine)

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Electronic Albums chart. The song features background vocals by JC Chasez.

The song features BT's signature 'stutter edit

Stutter edit

The stutter edit is a musical production technique, most often known for its use in electronic music, in which fragments of audio are repeated in rhythmic intervals. Stutter edits not only occur as the common 16th note repetition, but also as 64th notes and beyond. Stutter edits can go beyond...

' technique prominently in his vocals, largely contributing to the song's inclusion in the Guinness Book of World Records in 2003 for the largest number of vocal edits in a song (6,178 BIAS Peak

BIAS Peak

Peak is a digital audio editing application for the Macintosh, used primarily for stereo/mono recording, sample editing, creating loops, and CD mastering...

 edits).

The unmixed version of the song was featured in the North American music video game

Music video game

A music video game, also commonly known as a music game, is a video game where the gameplay is meaningfully and often almost entirely oriented around the player's interactions with a musical score or individual songs...

 Dance Dance Revolution Extreme

Dance Dance Revolution Extreme (North America)

Dance Dance Revolution Extreme is a music video game and part of the Dance Dance Revolution series by Konami. It was released by Konami Computer Entertainment Japan on September 21, 2004 and is the ninth DDR release in North America....

for the PlayStation 2

PlayStation 2

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. In the game the song was cut from its original version to roughly a minute and a half in length to fit the standard play length for songs in the DDR series. The main title of the song was displayed as "Simply Being Loved" with "Somnambulist" as the subtitle

Subtitle (titling)

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.

Music video

The song's music video features BT sleepwalking, magically changing the background to a city before he was in a nightclub. It ends with it being played backwards very fast.

Track listing

1. "Somnambulist" (Edit)
2. "Somnambulist" (Junkie XL
   Junkie XL
   Tom Holkenborg , better known as Junkie XL or JXL, is a Dutch musician. He uses the name JXL in cases where the term "Junkie" might cause offense. XL is for "Xpanding Limits"....
   
    Vocal Mix)
3. "Somnambulist" (Sander Kleinenberg's Convertible Mix)
4. "Somnambulist" (Burufunk Remix)
5. "Somnambulist" (Mark Norman
   Mark Norman
   Mark Richard Norman CBE was an English banker from the Norman family.He was a former managing director of Lazard Brothers, the merchant bankers and chairman of Gallaher, the cigarette manufacturers....
   
   Radio Mix)