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No one talks about Vogueing.

Mercifully.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 15 March 2003 21:53 (twenty-three years ago)

Siegbran you rule. nice one for namechecking that Deep Zone track, i'd been wondering who did that for a while now!

Touch & Go is remembered in the UK thanks to it being the theme song to the show 'As If'

Red 5, Dario G, Captain Hollywood ARRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHHH!

Siegbran do you remember Culture Beat's 'Adalante' - thats one i'd like to hear again

now what about U96?

― stevem (blueski), Sunday, 16 March 2003 00:47 (twenty-three years ago)

Ska breaks!

― donut bitch (donut), Sunday, 16 March 2003 01:47 (twenty-three years ago)

Siegbran do you remember Culture Beat's 'Adalante' - thats one i'd like to hear again

Wasn't that an album track? Can't remember it as a single...

U96

"Das Boot" and "Club Bizarre" were close to classic, but the rest is terrible. "Love Religion", "I Wanna Be A Kennedy", "Love Sees No Colour", and his production work for Rollergirl...what the hell was he thinking?

And another list:

Wisdome "Off The Wall"
Plaything "Into Space"
MC Sar & The Real McCoy "It's On You"
King Bee "Back By Dope Demand"
Mr Lee "Pump That Body"
2 In A Room "Wiggle It" (actually it might be better off forgotten - the 2002 Aquagen remix was abysmal)
Mister Mixi & Skinny Scotty "I Can Handle It"
Egma "Let The Bass Kick"
Fire On High "Float In A Dream Of XTC"
Nomad "Devotion"
Sonic Surfers "Beat Of Zen"
The Farm "All Together Now"
Lonnie Gordon "Gonna Catch You"
Secchi "I Say Yeah"
2 Hyped Brothers & A Dog "Doo Doo Brown" (this is just bizarre...)

― Siegbran (eofor), Sunday, 16 March 2003 13:27 (twenty-three years ago)

you're right about U96 Siegran, remember M.O.D.O., Magic Affair and Maxx as well? MTV in the UK used to play a LOT of the big dance/pop hits in Europe because obv. it was the pan-Euro MTV back then.

Marusha's 'Deep' and Westbam's 'Celebration generation' are classic, of course you've got the earlier Westbam tracks 'Alarm Clock' and 'The roof Is On Fire' too, but he did some terrible stuff too lets face it

Technohead 'I Wanna Be A Hippy' - still love it, and the GTO stuff is great too.

Nomad "Devotion"

stone. cold. classic. i got listening to this track again late last year and it just sounds better with age, Mikey Freedom's rap has some ironic appeal i guess ("Like Hawk The Slayer I cam and quartered, Maggie came but now she's slaughtered!").

― stevem (blueski), Sunday, 16 March 2003 13:59 (twenty-three years ago)

Technohead 'I Wanna Be A Hippy' & GTO

OK, but the Technohead tune is a bona fide classic (everybody seems to remember and love it at least), and all the Go Bang! stuff (D-Shake, Turntable Hype, Fierce Ruling Diva, GTO, Quazar, House Of Venus) is pretty canonical, no?

MTVE was the greatest, it's a crying shame it's all been localized now. You got all the German tunes (all the Detroit-Berlin-axis stuff, Fehlmann & Väth, and later all the Mayday rave/techno) as well as the music that was popular in the UK (808 State, The Orb, Orbital, LFO), with Italian, Spanish and French chart hits thrown in as well - all the tunes you never heard on the radio. The first real manifestation of that grand vision of a future unified Europe for me...history quickly crushed that dream.

― Siegbran (eofor), Sunday, 16 March 2003 14:35 (twenty-three years ago)

hithouse - jack to the sound of the underground
collapse - my love
raul orellana - the real wild house
eric & the good good feeling - good good feeling
biz niz - don't miss the party line
d shake - yaaah!
stardust - numero uno
gino latino - welcome
samurai sam - house the japanese.

(the deep heat comps were great for this stuff)

― michael wells (michael w.), Sunday, 16 March 2003 14:59 (twenty-three years ago)

take it down / take it down / take it down / mikey

I Wanna Give You Devotion!

That song rules!

― Nik (Nik), Sunday, 16 March 2003 18:14 (twenty-three years ago)

re MTV Europe - i dunno, it was hit and miss really. great in the way Siegbran describes but also dud for similar reasons! ironically the unified MTV had a huge American influence and with the localisation that was reduced for a while in the UK a few years (tho its back in force now with all the terrible programming like Cribs, Dismissed, Becoming, Real World etc.) at least. what i couldn never understand about MTV Europe ten years ago was how all the programming was in Englsih but half the adverts were in German and all advertising jungle and gabba compilations - the narrator would always sound like the guy from Scooter. you'd get lots of adverts for the European Business School as well, and a lot of arty short films shown between programmes that drove you mad the 50th time you'd see them in just one week. back then MTV also played a lot more 80s stuff too (Greates Hits with Paul King etc.), now thats strictly VH-1, but even they are playing less stuff from that era it seems.

despite all this, MTV Europe was instrumentally useful for exposing dance music throughout Europe with the Partyzone, MTV Dance and so on. which just leaves the question, are Scooter better now than they were 8/9 years ago or not?

― stevem (blueski), Sunday, 16 March 2003 19:19 (twenty-three years ago)

It's kinda annoying now that MTV doesn't play much music anymore.

― Ronan (Ronan), Sunday, 16 March 2003 19:38 (twenty-three years ago)

i suggest a stern letter to the Broadcasting Standards Commision

― stevem (blueski), Sunday, 16 March 2003 21:34 (twenty-three years ago)

I only watched MTVE after 10pm back then, so I probably did not experience much of the bad daytime programming. But indeed, what was the deal with all those Israeli yoghurt commercials?

are Scooter better now than they were 8/9 years ago or not?

The great thing about Scooter is that they're exactly the same as 9 years ago. I still remember a 1993 review of the first single Hyper Hyper which went along the lines of "it's absolutely pants. One of those novelty acts we can be sure of that nobody will ever hear of again".

Incidentally, I saw the video for the new Scooter single Weekend a few days ago and it's beyond bizarre. A troupe of Buddhist monk slaves and bare breasted girls, discomforting "faces under skin" CGI FX, all in a fetishist Roman setting. And of course another classic line for HP Baxter: "We Are Not The Monkees! But We've Got The Key!"...

― Siegbran (eofor), Sunday, 16 March 2003 21:46 (twenty-three years ago)

it is impossible for me to like anything by Scooter except 'Move Your Ass' it seems, partly because i have fond memories of the video for that one, lots of bizarre shit happening in it - mad scientists etc.

what was the first video you ever saw on MTVE? mine was actually u96's 'Das Boot' or maybe Adamski ft Nina Hagen's 'Get Your Body' - this was when on holiday in Mallorca in '92. we finally got satellite tv in '93 and i think the first vid i saw then was CultureBeat's 'Mr Vain' or Sven Vath's 'La Esperanza' - as you can see MTVE's influence on me is so huge that remembering shit like that comes very easy.

― stevem (blueski), Sunday, 16 March 2003 21:51 (twenty-three years ago)

I believe we got MTVE on cable somewhere in 1989...I'd love to say that the first one I saw was S-Express or Inner City, but I can't remember...might've been a Bros tune.

― Siegbran (eofor), Monday, 17 March 2003 10:38 (twenty-three years ago)

I remember Confettis. Got they were totally rubbish! I can't actually think of anything worse! I have some old French "Now!" equivalent called Boulevard Des Hits lying around somewhere. Most of it is either hilarious or total shit. Cock Robin? Kassav? Zouk Machine? Hypnoteck? Liza Minelli?!!!!!! ARRGH!

― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 17 March 2003 18:18 (twenty-three years ago)

This entire thread is the best dance mix ever.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 17 March 2003 18:30 (twenty-three years ago)

Most everything Si Begg does makes me just lose my shit. I know it's dance music because I'm dancing, but though it's got moments of sick, herky-jerky techno or house parody, I know it's neither techno nor house. Some call it breaks but I say it's too organic. Wacko.

― matt riedl (veal), Monday, 17 March 2003 20:12 (twenty-three years ago)

five months pass...

revive:
D-Mob feat. Cathy Dennis "Come on and get my love". Big pianos, a cute little rap section, diva vocals, and a sample... "Im comin' hardcore" which may have been true at that point, but the claim now seems hilarious in retrospect (ie the breakbeat hardcore, darkcore, jungle, etc. that all came after this record).

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Sunday, 17 August 2003 05:44 (twenty-two years ago)

aaron that is one of my favourite songs of all time ever!

― minna (minna), Sunday, 17 August 2003 07:33 (twenty-two years ago)

someone needs to cover 'dirty cash' STAT
-- zemko

this is an amazingly prophetic post

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 17 August 2003 08:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Who did that cover? I'm gutted about that cos I can't play the original at parties anymore...

Also: Billie Ray Martin to thread...

― Jacob (Jacob), Sunday, 17 August 2003 08:39 (twenty-two years ago)

zemko, why did it need a cover? the original is amazing!

― minna (minna), Sunday, 17 August 2003 09:03 (twenty-two years ago)

(i haven't heard the cover)

― minna (minna), Sunday, 17 August 2003 09:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Billie Ray Martin seconded, 'Your Loving Arms' in particular.

Oceanic - Insanity
The Bassheads - Back To The Old School
Culture Beat - Anything
CeCe Peniston - Finally
Utah Saints - Something Good
Sub Sub feat. Melanie Williams - Ain't No Love (Ain't No Use)*
Robin S - Show Me Love

*still my favourite Doves song

― The Lex (The Lex), Sunday, 17 August 2003 09:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Also:

Farley and Heller - "Ultraflava"
Todd Terry - "Keep on jumpin"
Underground Sound of Lisbon
Junior Vasquez
DJ Pierre - "Muzik sets you free"

and on a different tip:

Ultra-sonic - "Annihilating rhythm"
DJ Technotrance - "YRS Stomp"
Neuro-Tek - "Cocaine"
Chill FM - "Strobelight"

― Jacob (Jacob), Sunday, 17 August 2003 09:41 (twenty-two years ago)

yes to Billie Ray Martin and Electribe 101 - 'Tell Me When The Fever Ended' etc.

and 'Ultraflava' - liked that one a lot

i've been thinking about loads of mid 90s happy handbag anthems again...

Nush 'U Girls'
Nu-Birth 'Anytime'
2 Men Will Move You 'The Goodbye Thing'
Nightcrawlers 'Push The Feelin' On' (but everyone remembers this)
Jinny 'Keep Warm'
The Swimmer 'Let It Come'
DSK 'What Would We Do' (they play it on 24HPP in the first Hacienda club scene)
E-Motion 'Naughty North, Sexy South'
Kadoc 'Night Train'
Klubbheads 'Klubbhopping'
DJ Supreme 'Wildstyle'
Technocat ft Tom Wilson 'Technocat'

and more Westbam ('Alarm Clock', 'The Roof Is On Fire', 'Celebration Generation')

and Marusha ('Deep' and 'Unique' her best tunes i think, everything else probably TOO cheesy)

― stevem (blueski), Sunday, 17 August 2003 12:04 (twenty-two years ago)

"U girls look so sexy"!!! Damn that list takes me back. Have to see if I've still got those silver trousers and gold hairspray...

Also: Livin Joy - "Dreamer"

― Jacob (Jacob), Sunday, 17 August 2003 12:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Hed Boys 'Girls & Boys'
Tinman '18 Strings'
Clock 'Keep The Fires Burnin'
Hyper Go Go 'High'
Awesome 3 'Don't Go'
Kym Sims 'Too Blind To See It'
Sabrina Johnston 'Peace'

― stevem (blueski), Sunday, 17 August 2003 14:32 (twenty-two years ago)

aaron that is one of my favourite songs of all time ever!
rawk!

this thread reminds me... can anyone remember the producer of a track from the early 90s called "take it"? It consists of a sample of those words being sung plus a little sax loop. I heard it on bassquake (RIP) a few years ago... thnks!

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Sunday, 17 August 2003 15:19 (twenty-two years ago)

OH MY GOD I'd completely forgotten that Kym Sims and Sabrina Johnston even existed, and I'm fucking pleased to be reminded of them.

Zoe - Sunshine On A Rainy Day
Rozalla - Everybody's Free (To Feel Good)
Crystal Waters - Gypsy Woman
Alison Limerick - Where Love Lives
Karen Ramirez - Looking For Love

― The Lex (The Lex), Sunday, 17 August 2003 16:19 (twenty-two years ago)

And anything by the mighty 2 Unlimited, of course.

― The Lex (The Lex), Sunday, 17 August 2003 16:19 (twenty-two years ago)

dug up an old pair of tapes that contain a copy of a pop/dance comp from 98 or 99 that a friend in germany owned. most I dont like much, but i am wondering what others think of:
"I'm Lonely" Hollis P. Monroe... I always liked this one, but the impression I got from reading mixmag at the time was that it was being played out a LOT. Did this make everyone sick of it?
"Future of the Future (David Morales remix)" DD/TT... damn it is a lush, lush track, for better or worse.

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Sunday, 17 August 2003 20:13 (twenty-two years ago)

"Take My Advice" was the best Kym Sims single.

I picked up a 50 track megamix CD from 1991 used for next to nothing. Lots of forgotten gems:

Dr. Baker - Kaos
Petra & Co - Just Let Go
Space Trax - Atomic Playboy
The Mixmasters - In The Mix
Fire On High - Float In A Dream Of Ex-TC
Westbam - Hold Me Back
How II House - It's Time To Feel The Rhythm
B-Sides - The Tape
B-Sides - Moral Soundabuse
Lewis Lovebump - Mallorca
Digital Boys - Kokko
The Break Boys - My House Is Your House (And Your House Is Mine)
A Homeboy A Hippy & A Funky Dredd - Total Confusion
DJ Dick - Weekend
T99 - Anastasia
Dirty Mind - The Killer

And some more oldies:
Kellee - My Love ("...is the only key that can set you free")
RMB - Spring
RFTR - Extrasyn
D-Mob - Put Your Hands Together

Technocat ft Tom Wilson 'Technocat'

Recently reissued with new mixes!

― Siegbran (eofor), Sunday, 17 August 2003 20:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Tom Wilson used to be Edinburgh's biggest local radio DJ. His show was called Tom Wilson's Bouncing Beats and he released a compilation called "Tartan Techno".

Scotland is grate.

― Jacob (Jacob), Monday, 18 August 2003 05:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Several comps called Tom Wilson's Tartan Techno and also a companion series Tom Wilson's Bouncing Beats. I have 4 of them and love them all. I haven't read the whole thread so I can only assume JX is mentioned many times as he surely deserves.

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 18 August 2003 07:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Also: Livin Joy - "Dreamer"

i always thought this song would be perfect if covered by dag nasty (in their best period)... could work so well as a skaty hardcore tune...

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Monday, 18 August 2003 10:01 (twenty-two years ago)

I think if it had been that good an idea Snuff would have done it by now...

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Monday, 18 August 2003 10:33 (twenty-two years ago)

three months pass...

can anyone tell me more about mid-90s house?
right now, my favorite track is "push the feeling on" by the nightcrawlers. is there more stuff like this? deep stuff pre-70s revivalism? dark, sexy? uregent? clubby?

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 06:03 (twenty-two years ago)

I thought this thread was going to be about the polka.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 06:22 (twenty-two years ago)

latin freestyle.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 06:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Aaron:

Deep Zone - It's Gonna Be Allright
Kadoc - The Nighttrain
The Original - I Love You Baby
OT Quartet - Hold That Sucker Down
Gala - Freed From Desire
Novy vs Eniac - Superstar
The Course - Ready Of Not
Red 5 - I Love You...Stop
Kellee - My Love
Jean & Peran - I Give My Life

― Siegbran (eofor), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 09:07 (twenty-two years ago)

never sawe this thread originally, but i wanted to start a thread about sheep on drugs. i bought their tape the other day., sorta goth rave. i remember my brother having their album and thinking it dead subservise looking. but it was a bit pissy. the lyrics are awful, at any rate. can anyone recommend sheep on drugs stuff?

― ambrose (ambrose), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 09:34 (twenty-two years ago)

also baltimore breakbeat (thanks scott!)

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 10:27 (twenty-two years ago)

sheep on drugs were terrible, there is nothing to recommend

― charltonlido (gareth), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 10:43 (twenty-two years ago)

they had a cool logo though

― ambrose (ambrose), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 10:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Search:

Culture Beat - "Mr. Vain" & "Got to Get It"
Cosmic Baby - "Loops of Infinity" (not the album version, though)
Westbam - "Wizards of Sonic"
??? - "Don't Want No Short Dick Men"
??? - "Poing"
RMB - "Redemption", "Universe of Love", "Spring" etc.
Robert Miles - "Children"
Microglobe - "All Our Colors"
Jens - "Loops & Tings"
Robotnico II - "Backtired" (not the vocal version, though)
Raver's Nature - all their singles, basically (except "Fire")
Hardsequencer - "Plastic Fantastic", "Dancing Nations" & "Broadcast"
Tony di Bart - "The Real Thing"
D:Ream - "Things Can Only Get Better"
K-Klass - "Let Me Show You"
Westbam - "Wizards of the Sonic" & "Celebration Generation"
Marusha - her first LP (can't recall the title)
Utah Saints - "Utah Saints"

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 10:46 (twenty-two years ago)

poing was rotterdam termination source

and, 'loops and tings'? people talk about that, its a trance classic!

― charltonlido (gareth), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 11:09 (twenty-two years ago)

i have a version from the love parade (2001 i think) and the crowd noise is completely deafening

― charltonlido (gareth), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 11:10 (twenty-two years ago)

mid 90s house...

i have two Kiss In Ibiza compilations that i still think are fantastic

Cool Jack 'Jus Come'
Ian Pooley 'Rollerskate Disco'
all the Van Helden stuff, remixes ('Spin Spin Sugar' etc.)
Alcatrazz 'Gimme Luv'
Deep Dish 'Hideaway' of course

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 12:25 (twenty-two years ago)

S: Sash! "Adelante"

― Rudolf (Rudolf), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 12:25 (twenty-two years ago)

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