Alison limerick - Where love lives Joey beltram - Energy flash Ce ce rogers - Someday Josh wink - Higher state of conciousness Eric b & rakim - Paid in full Underworld - Cowgirl/rez Mariah carey - Dreamlover Future sound of london - Papua new guinea Joe smooth - Promised land Massive attack - Unfinished sympathy Orbital - Chime Donna summer - I feel love Nightwriters - Let the music use you Fpi project - Everybody(all over the world) Jaydee - Plastic dreams X-press 2-london - X-press(the journey continues) Rhythim is rhythim - Strings of life Jam & spoon - Stella Mr fingers - Can you feel it Inner city - Good life Everything but the gir l - Missing Gat decor -passion Leftfield/lydon -Open up Bizarre inc -Playing with knives Dsk - What would we do Hardfloor - Hardtrance acperience Dj misjah & dj tim - Access Stone roses - Fools gold Itj bukem - Horizons Dave clarke - Red 2(of 3) Phuture - Acid trax Funky green dogsfrom outer space reach for me Sabres of paradise - Smokebelch 2 K-klass - Rhythm is a mystery Moby - Go! Urban soul - Alright Age of love - Age of love Candi staton - You got the love Frankie knuckles/jamie principle - Your love Aphex twin - Digeridoo Goodmen - Give it up Baby d - Let me be your fantasy Circuit - Shelter me Jam & spoon - Follow me Bassheads - Is there anybody out there? A guy called gerald - Voodoo ray Billie ray martin - Your loving arms Ron trent - Altered states Brothers in rhythm -Such a good feeling Empirion - Narcotic influence Sl2 - Djs take control De'lacy - Hideaway Lil' louis - French kiss Degrees of motion - Do you want it right now? Sueno latino -Sueno latino Ravesignal 3 - Horsepower Last rhythm - Last rhythm Shades of rhythm - The sound of eden Slam - Positive education Bucketheads - The bomb! Lionrock - Packet of peace Inner city - Pennies from heaven Glam - Hell's party Hashim - Al naafyish(the soul) South street player - (Who)keeps changing your mind? Marshall jefferson - Move your body(house music anthem) Kariya - Let me love you for tonight Subliminal cuts - Le voie le soleil Mantronix - King of the beats River ocean - Love and happiness Urban shakedown - Some justice Nghtcrawlers - Push the feeling on M people - How can i love you more? 808 state - Pacific state Capricorn - 20 hz Lfo - Lfo Leftfield - Not forgotten Dee patten - Who's the badman? Dan hartman - Relight my fire Frankie knuckles - The whistle song Outlander - Vamp Ruffneck - Everybody be somebody Red planet - Stardancer Nitro deluxe - This brutal house Sterling void - It's alright/runaway girl The prodigy - Out of space Soul 2 soul - Keep on movin' Liquid - Sweet harmony Stetsasonic - Talkin' all that jazz Disco evangelists - De niro Grace - Not over yet Young mc - Know how Robin s - Show me love Rhythm on the loose - Break of dawn Cool jack - Just come D:ream - U r the best thing Robert owens - I'll be your friend Felix - Don't you want me? A homeboy,a hippie and a funki dread - Total confusion Jesus loves you - Generations of love
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 8 December 2003 02:20 (twenty years ago) link
― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Monday, 8 December 2003 02:20 (twenty years ago) link
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― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Monday, 8 December 2003 02:22 (twenty years ago) link
― Chupa-Cabras (vicc13), Monday, 8 December 2003 02:22 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 8 December 2003 02:22 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 8 December 2003 02:23 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 8 December 2003 02:24 (twenty years ago) link
I'm sure I remember one though, maybe it was in something else entirely.
― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Monday, 8 December 2003 02:25 (twenty years ago) link
― paulhw (paulhw), Monday, 8 December 2003 02:25 (twenty years ago) link
The Beatles “Tomorrow Never Knows” (EMI 1966)(Revolver L.P.) James Brown “Funky Drummer” (King 1969)(7”) Marvin Gaye “What’s Going On” (Motown 1970)(L.P.) Incredible Bongo Band “Apache” (MGM 1973)(Bongo Rock L.P.) Augustus Pablo “King Tubby Meets the Rockers Uptown” (Island 1976)(7”) Double Exposure “Ten Per Cent” (Salsoul 1976)(12”) Donna Summer “I Feel Love” (Casablanca 1977)(12”) Kraftwerk “Trans Europe Express” (EMI 1977)(King Klang L.P.) Grandmaster Flash “Adventure On the Wheels of Steel” (Sugarhill 1981)(12”) Afrika Bambaataa “Planet Rock” (Tommy Boy 1982)(12”) New Order “Blue Monday” (Factory 1983)(12”) Streetsounds Electro “Volumes One - Eight” (Streetsounds Compilations 1983-5)(12”) Double D & Steinski “Lesson Three” (Tommy Boy 1985)(12” promo) Mr Fingers “Can You Feel it” (Trax 1987)(12”) Phuture “Acid Tracks” (Trax 1987)(12”) Techno “The House Sound of Detroit” (Ten Compilations 1988)(12”) Public Enemy “It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back” (Def Jam 1989)(L.P.) A Guy Called Gerald “Voodoo Ray” (Rham 1988)(12”) Rhythim is Rhythim “Strings of Life” (Transmat/Jack Trax 1988)(12”) De La Soul “Three Feet High & Rising” (Tommy Boy 1989)(L.P.) Lil’ Louis “French Kiss” (FFRR 1989)(12”) Soul II Soul “Club Classics” (Virgin 1989)(L.P.) 808 State “Pacific State” (ZTT 1989)(12”) Primal Scream “Loaded” (Creation 1990)(12”) The KLF “Chill Out” (KLF Communications 1990)(L.P.) Massive Attack “Blue Lines” (Virgin 1991)(L.P.) Joey Beltram “Energy Flash” (R&S 1991)(12”) Leftfield “Not Forgotten (Hard Hands mix)” (Outer Rhythm 1991)(12”) Lennie De Ice “We Are I.E.” (Reel 2 Real 1991)(12”) The Prodigy "Charly" (XL 1991)(12") The Future Sound of London “Papua New Guinea” (Jumpin’ & Pumpin’ 1991)(12”) The Aphex Twin “Digeridoo” (R&S 1992)(12”) Gat Decor “Passion” (Effective 1992)(12”) Jam & Spoon “Stella” (R&S 1992)(12”) Hardfloor “Hardtrance Acperience” (Harthouse 1992)(12”) DJ Shadow “In/Flux” (Mo’Wax 1993)(12”) L.T.J. Bukem “Music” (Good Looking 1993)(12”) Marmion “Schöneberg” (Superstation 1994)(12”) Dave Clarke “Red 2” (Bush 1994)(12”) Dust Brothers “Chemical Beats” (Junior Boy’s Own 1994)(12”) Goldie “Inner City Life” (FFRR 1994)(12”) Robert Hood “Minimal Nation” (M-Plant 1993)(12”) Basic Channel “Phylyps Trak II” (Basic Channel 1995)(12”) DJ Trace “Mutant Revisited” (SOUR 1995)(12”) Fatboy Slim “Everybody Needs a 303” (Skint 1995)(12”) D’Angelo “Brown Sugar” (Chrysalis 1995)(12”) Misjah & Time “Access” (X-Trax 1995)(12”) Double 99 “Rip Groove” (Northwestside 1997)(12”) Tina Moore “Never Gonna Let You Go” (Delirious 1997)(12”) Stardust “Music Sounds Better With You” (Roulé 1998)(12”)
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 8 December 2003 02:26 (twenty years ago) link
― jed (jed_e_3), Monday, 8 December 2003 02:26 (twenty years ago) link
― vahid (vahid), Monday, 8 December 2003 02:28 (twenty years ago) link
― vahid (vahid), Monday, 8 December 2003 02:29 (twenty years ago) link
― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Monday, 8 December 2003 02:33 (twenty years ago) link
― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Monday, 8 December 2003 02:35 (twenty years ago) link
This should have been top of my list...
X-press 2-london - X-press(the journey continues) Jam & spoon - Stella Leftfield/lydon -Open up Itj bukem - Horizons Funky green dogsfrom outer space reach for me Sabres of paradise - Smokebelch 2 K-klass - Rhythm is a mystery Moby - Go! Goodmen - Give it up Lionrock - Packet of peace Felix - Don't you want me
All of those are fairly weak, but agree, not neccessarily all that canonical.
― Jacob (Jacob), Monday, 8 December 2003 02:35 (twenty years ago) link
― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Monday, 8 December 2003 02:36 (twenty years ago) link
― geeg, Monday, 8 December 2003 02:37 (twenty years ago) link
certainly filter-disco has replaced handbag as the high street dance subgenre of choice
i don't know how to say this in a way that doesn't sound like i'm totally dissing you - believe me, i'm not! - but i'll never ever ever understand the british habit of using neighborhoods to diss music.
― vahid (vahid), Monday, 8 December 2003 02:38 (twenty years ago) link
Black Dog Productions?
Bola?
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 8 December 2003 02:38 (twenty years ago) link
― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Monday, 8 December 2003 02:39 (twenty years ago) link
air liquide OTM but what canon were they in? bola was never good!
― vahid (vahid), Monday, 8 December 2003 02:39 (twenty years ago) link
― robin (robin), Monday, 8 December 2003 02:39 (twenty years ago) link
never! i still listen to spanners and bytes often and still love them both. especially spanners.
― jed (jed_e_3), Monday, 8 December 2003 02:40 (twenty years ago) link
― vahid (vahid), Monday, 8 December 2003 02:40 (twenty years ago) link
A thousand times yes to Tracer's Unit Moebius. Nice one, Mr Hand!
That 808 track is dated, but was influential in the UK.
― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Monday, 8 December 2003 02:40 (twenty years ago) link
― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Monday, 8 December 2003 02:41 (twenty years ago) link
― geeg, Monday, 8 December 2003 02:42 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 8 December 2003 02:43 (twenty years ago) link
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― geeg, Monday, 8 December 2003 02:43 (twenty years ago) link
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― robin (robin), Monday, 8 December 2003 02:47 (twenty years ago) link
― vahid (vahid), Monday, 8 December 2003 02:49 (twenty years ago) link
― disco stu (disco stu), Monday, 8 December 2003 02:51 (twenty years ago) link
― vahid (vahid), Monday, 8 December 2003 02:53 (twenty years ago) link
(okay, I haven't heard a lot of the first list, but things that jump out at me - haha stone roses, + I'm wondering how relevant "unfinished sympathy" is (can't decide whether mezzanine was ahead or behind the times))
(underworld/prodigy - relevant to lots of rock bands in the late 90s, right? & I could never ever figure where underworld slotted in to the dance scene, ever)
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― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 8 December 2003 03:12 (twenty years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 8 December 2003 03:13 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 8 December 2003 03:15 (twenty years ago) link
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― disco stu (disco stu), Monday, 8 December 2003 03:19 (twenty years ago) link
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Ah, Robin, you could be right, but when I want to get a party started it's 'Good Life' and 'Bounce Your Body To The Box' that do it every time, guaranteed.
― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Monday, 8 December 2003 03:30 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 8 December 2003 03:33 (twenty years ago) link
Todd Terry's best stuff is great but when you have as many goddamn Todd Terry records as I do, a lot of them are painfully dull. The hits, including most of the stuff on the 2 LPs are all killer of coure, the Oranges Lemon Texican track(doing the Mexican) is dope and the Sound Design EP rocks, but lots of other stuff he did under different names doesn't really stand out.
Interestingly, Pal Joey, who's style picks up right from Terry but is even more simplified, i.e., sample a classic, add your own drums, somehow make it sound uniquely yours at the same time, has dated even less then Todd Terry, and his records, even the played out hits, still sound totally fresh and hot, always rock an danceflore, and it's no suprise he keeps repressing them. I got to spin with him a few months ago and he hooked me up with the Earth People repress that has Dance Dub on it(that wasn't on the bootleg I used to have) and it's just totally amazing. Same with It's Partytime and of course Hot Music.
But you're crazy about Lil Louis! That song is perfect and put in the context of everything else he was doing, it's just pure genius. The hooks, the like one key change, the slowing down, the orgasm. Still totally awesome.
My favorite sacred cow classic that I love to hate is Maurice-This Is Acid. It just reminds me too much of the crap that it directly inspired that I heard coming out of too many white camaros in high school.
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Monday, 8 December 2003 04:14 (twenty years ago) link
oddly this is the massive attack track that feels most dated to me! the one i keep returning to on blue lines is "lately." if you stripped out the vocal, you could add boingy robot sound fx and release it as a beck-ripoff in '97, throw on some laser noises and a disaffected vocal and rerelease it as electroclash in '01. that bloopy bassline works for everything!
oh i guess the ineffectual scratching is v. much 1991 forever, though
― rgeary (rgeary), Monday, 8 December 2003 06:34 (twenty years ago) link
But Weekend, I think just has all the worst elements of his style. Actually, I also totally hate on "I'll house you" which is just plain irritating.
And I agree about Lil Louis but the key words you used are "in the context" - that's kind of what i mean. It seems like a lot of the tracks that people pick out as classics are picked because of context and because they were "first" even if they were the first to do something that then became totally played out.
For me, I'm fascinated by the things in music that date and the things that don't. Like the corny hi-nrg Italo is as fascinating to me as the "tasteful" stuff because they have so many of the same elements. And even, I think down to the level that a track like "Hypnotic Tango" which is (deservedly) called a classic, but probably wouldn't be nearly so revered if it had been released in 1987....
But basically, what got me thinking about this was the "Secret History" comp. Because that's a selection that will probably go down now as the "Italo canon". But it's a selection that it seems was made in terms of records that are obvious precursors to 90s techno and 00s electro tunes. And not that there's anything wrong with that.
But the dance canon to me seems very different because it's basically the view of a bunch of middle-aged dance 'historians' who look at the records from the perspective of how much they enjoyed them at the time, rather than from what still stands up as classic now.
― Jacob (Jacob), Monday, 8 December 2003 08:07 (twenty years ago) link
plenty of syringes in use among artists of all genres
― i n f i n i t y (∞), Monday, 15 May 2017 23:15 (six years ago) link
Ryan Adams strikes again.
― how's life, Tuesday, 16 May 2017 09:53 (six years ago) link