The Dance Music Nobody Talks About S & D

(Jess yr first reply was godlike btw, AoL fans are even harder-core than The Gathering for realz)

Highlights being:

We Don't Exist - The Acid Boyz
I'll House You - The Jungle Brothers
It Takes Two - Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock
Gittin' Funky - Kid n' Play
Stomp - Master Plan

I really hoped Missy Elliot's fantastic "4 My People" would kick start a HipHouse revival... but sadly no.

"Hot in Herrre" by Nelly is kinda Housey, no?

Yes, Italian...

have not heard anything else by them alas...

AFAIK there are no other Triple X originals, but they recently did a great remix of Mundian Te Bach Ke on the Italian 12" release. And their remix of ATC My Heart Beats Like A Drum is amazing in how it transforms the cheesiest of europop into a huge filterfest. And decent remixes of Love Connection The Bomb and Alive Alive.

You'll have to pitch it up considerably to make it work in a house set though, it's way too slow.

Richard Norris

...is now Electroclash as The Droydz.

Mercifully.

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?

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...)

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!").

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.

(the deep heat comps were great for this stuff)

I Wanna Give You Devotion!

That song rules!

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?

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!"...

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.

this is an amazingly prophetic post

Also: Billie Ray Martin to thread...

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

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"

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)

Also: Livin Joy - "Dreamer"

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!

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

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!

Scotland is grate.

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...

it's never too late!

last party i did there was a bunch of 18 year olds having their 1st ever time in a club (they were infinitely more mature than i was at 18) and a guy celebrating his 70th birthday. They all got along great.

I was working the cloakroom tonight at an event that was about "90s techno" and the last ninety minutes played was all from the Ministry Of Sound/Kisstory axis of "trance classics." But it was all what I would consider the worst end of it - Sandstorm, Seven Days & One Week, Children. I'm unreasonably fond of the stuff that works as pop music - your Sash and Alice Deejay type of stuff - and I say "unreasonably" because I know it's beyond reasoning. I also love the tougher, more muscular stuff that goes towards hard house - Time To Burn, The Launch, Synth & Strings - it feels so much more camp in its dramatics. But ninety minutes of ~moody pads~ and protracted snare build-ups is hard going, the genre's rote moves feel emotionally austere and the grooves aren't interesting enough to be rhythmically captivating, plus all those cheap preset textures.

Basically I want the revival to be more Tony De Vit and less Paul Van Dyke.

Is this finally time for the reassessment of Richard humpty vission’s “big floor funk”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEPc6T4PiFo

Worse still is psychology of un voyeur, das person who is aware of his highest moralism but copes with perversions in his worldview that justify morality. Bovine Marquis De Sade, a bizarre all-encompassing childish claim, possesses the qualities necessary to criticize judgment. A liberal Autonomous Dustbin. But wherever my gaze wandered I was in the same extraordinary position: apart from the two responsibilities, sometimes shrill cries of joy and many blasphemies, sometimes loud, there was no sound that one would have liked to hear. Perfect order prevails over everything that was in motion; if there were very rare clashes, a gesture by the presidents or censorship would soon lead to silence; the most appropriate activities cannot take place more calmly.
problem is, Americans didn't know how to do the MDMA all together fratboy homophobie, so they never came home hauzemuzik even though they invented it! pop music is not to overthrow Protestantism, obviously wrong. Before puberty, your civilised CV want to make feel supreme, and in that case you would NEVER copulate like innocent, brutal, and angry dog. At some point I find this negative very pathetic, completely immature!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VMSWE-gjMg

Damn I was just going to say that

neo-hard house
https://davequam.bandcamp.com/album/aether-binge