Seminal dance tunes from your particular era

[purplex]

I was never really that into it until this came out, after that I was hooooooooked.

K-Klass

Really fancied the lass (Bobbi Depasois? What happened to her I'd like to know) too.

Probably a bit too charty for the aficionados but it hit the spot for me.

Top tune!

 

[kyser_soze]

Jaydee - Plastic Dreams
Red Planet 4 - Red Atmospheres
WPA - The Seawolf
Lochi - London Acid City
Joey Beltram - Energy Flash
Robert Armani - Circus Bells (Hardfloor mix)
Dave Clarke - Red series
Misjah & Tim - Access

To many to mention, altho this list would be a pretty good start...

 

[FunkyUK]

Qaurtz - Meltdown

 

[El Jefe]

Benny Goodman - Sing, Sing, Sing

 

[FabricLiveBaby!]

I used to love Delerium - Slience (remix of some sort), 10 in 1 etc. But then i'm a cheesy motherfucker.

 

[kyser_soze]

FM - digging This Corrosion, but I preferred Flood I&II off the album as rekkids.

La Luna - To The Beat Of The Drum
Gat Decor - Passion
Farley and Heller - Ultra Flava (original mix, none of those shitty vocal things)
Stakker - Humanoid
Jack n Chill - The Jack that House Built (first EVER modern era dance record I bought
FSOL - Papua New Guinaeiaiaeia
All of the Green and Brown albums by Orbital.

More to come...

 

[redsnapper]

FM - digging This Corrosion, but I preferred Flood I&II off the album as rekkids.

La Luna - To The Beat Of The Drum
Gat Decor - Passion
Farley and Heller - Ultra Flava (original mix, none of those shitty vocal things)
Stakker - Humanoid
Jack n Chill - The Jack that House Built (first EVER modern era dance record I bought
FSOL - Papua New Guinaeiaiaeia
All of the Green and Brown albums by Orbital.

More to come...

Some right tunes here kyser.....Gat Decor, been trying to remember that one for ages. Nice one

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

These days a lot of what I listen to would probably be dance tunes from well before 'my era.' Ones that would probably fit when I first started going clubbing a lot would be things like The Nine by Bad Company or Alien Girl by Ed Rush, Optical and Fierce.

 

[kyser_soze]

Ahh, The 9...what a tune...

As is it's Daddy tune where the main synth line was sampled from, Shadow Boxing by Dr Scott. Now that's a scary dark piece of D&B.

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

Or this. With scary video as well.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Hey you the rock steady crew.

Best song ever.

 

[ohmyliver]

vamp, outlander
energy flash, beltram
mentasm, beltram
bombscare, 2 bad mice
horsepower, cj bolland

 

[kyser_soze]

Arses, forgot Vamp and Horsepower.

Best time I've ever heard Vamp:

Final Frontier at club UK, Carl Cox in the main room played his last tune. Everyone's gone to get coats, doing that weird shuffling thing you do on the way out, when suddenly the system kicks up again with a big kick drum, and those who know start going ape; when the piano break opens the whole place erupts. One of my fave clubbing moments that.

 

[ohmyliver]

Arses, forgot Vamp and Horsepower.

Best time I've ever heard Vamp:

Final Frontier at club UK, Carl Cox in the main room played his last tune. Everyone's gone to get coats, doing that weird shuffling thing you do on the way out, when suddenly the system kicks up again with a big kick drum, and those who know start going ape; when the piano break opens the whole place erupts. One of my fave clubbing moments that.

I still remember the first time I heard vamp, at a rave in the Brighton Centre (!?!) and watching a sea of hands like grass in a strong wind. I stayed up all night and was in Rounder Records when it opened, wide eyed and flicking through the R and S records to find it.

had a similar moment with Acperience but played by Wetherall down the Zap club. Lights come on, bouncers start trying to herd people out, acperience goes on, place goes batshit crazy, bouncers give up trying to get people out and wander around looking faintly befuddeled.

 

[redsnapper]

I dont think anyone's mentioned KLF's Chillout LP yet have they?

Oh and Little Fluffy Clouds

Interviewer: "What were the skies like when you were young?"

Jones: "They went on forever – They - When I w- We lived in Arizona, and the skies always had little fluffy clouds in 'em, and, uh... they were long... and clear and... there were lots of stars at night. And, uh, when it would rain, it would all turn - it- They were beautiful, the most beautiful skies as a matter of fact. Um, the sunsets were purple and red and yellow and on fire, and the clouds would catch the colors everywhere. That's uh, neat cause I used to look at them all the time, when I was little. You don't see that. You might still see them in the desert."

Eta: LFO - LFO

 

[sojourner]

fuck, i was way too amnesiac to remember ANY of the actual names of the tunes, apart from Higher State of Consciousness, which was notable due to me ingesting large amounts of poppers in readiness for when the bass hit *cue me going fucking ballistic*

 

[DJWrongspeed]

Slam's Positive Education still sounds a classic, appears very simple but is real masterpiece of acidy wobble.

 

[N_igma]

Tony De Vit- The Dawn

 

[purplex]

Illuminatae - Tremora Del Terra http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=fx5kDttZllU

 

[elbows]

I wouldnt say I think too much of these tunes nowadays, but at the time they meant something to me:

808 State - Cubik http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=VWbrBk4OdCU&feature=related

Altern 8 - Activ-8 http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=2_bL0hFyslg

Prodigy - Charly http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=H6QYpUd-5EY

Opus III - its a fine day http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=TjIPzyVlK60

Kicks Like A Mule - The Bouncer http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=tguP14GMrCA

Praga Khan - Injected With A Poison http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=exh27L9znXg

Utah Saints - Something Good http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=eUxhNWDlGts

Rotterdam Termination Source - Poing! http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=IQmtwsNhvi4

LaTour - People Are Still Having Sex http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ZP05N_bZ60Y

I was happier later on with the likes of the Orb, Orbital, FSOL, Eat Static. But as my previous exposure to music was often just the radio 1 chart show featuring the likes of Phil Collins, the above tunes were something of a revelation. Its cheese but its not as bad as Jive Bunny!

 

[elbows]

Oops I missed one

d-mob - we cal it acieed http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=PKuswAcwYLg

Just over 20 years since that was in the charts

 

[Geri]

Gwen Guthrie - Ain't Nothing Going On But The Rent. They always used to play it at the Tropic Club in Bristol, where I used to go every Friday and Saturday night. It was guaranteed to get me up onto the dance floor.

 

[rubbershoes]

vamp, outlander
energy flash, beltram
mentasm, beltram

and not forgetting


human resource dominator
SL2 DJs Take Control
GTO Elevation
Force Mass Motion I need release
modular expansion cubes
subliminal cuts le voie le soleil

and from a few years before

corporation of one real life
richie rich salsa house
orange lemon dreams of santa anna
casanovas revenge lets work

 

[Blagsta]

Slam's Positive Education still sounds a classic, appears very simple but is real masterpiece of acidy wobble.

A classic, as is Ron Trent's Altered States, which was the inspiration for it.

 

[killer b]

when i was first getting into raves & drugs & the like, the big current tunes were:

commander tom: are am eye
wippenburg: neurodancer
trope: amphetamine
baby doc & the dentist: mantra to the buddha

plus, the art lab (seminal preston rave - i still think of the place with teary eyes) used to have a few 'classics' which would always get played, so despite them being probably a little before my era, they still count:

underworld: cowgirl
leftfield/lydon: open up
hardfloor: acperience
more kante: yeke yeke (hardfloor mix)
age of love

plus we used to occasionally go to techno clubs, where the big 'uns were:

green velvet: flash
plastikman: spastik
teste: the wipe

 

[blairsh]

Agoria - la11marche
funk da void - Diabla (heavenly mix)

 

[chico enrico]

actually, when i started going clubbing the first records i really remember LOVING and totally jumping up when they came on were -

1) DAF - der mussolini
2) ACR - shack up
3) Shannon - let the music play
4) gap Band - Burn Rubber On me
5) Donna Summer - I feel Love
6) SPK - metal dance
7) Bauhaus - kick In The Eye
8) Joyce Sims - all and all
7) Simple Minds - Theme For Great Cities
8) whatever New Order record was out at the time

that would have been about 1983 or 84 or so when I was 14/15, obviously loads of amazing tunes a few years later when house came along, but i still reckon all of those tracks are excellent and i'd be pretty chuffed if i went to some club where even half of them were played in the one night.

 

[chico enrico]

A classic, as is Ron Trent's Altered States, which was the inspiration for it.

Aaaaaaha...Altered States is a million times better though. I dropped Altered States New years eve in fact. 20 years on and still a track of glory!

 

[purplex]

Patrick Prins - Dont Hold Back
"where are the drums"

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Dreaming of Me.