Favourite dance tunes

Hmm, nobody dared to mention this yet

Yeah ,i was at that Ally Pally night ,Al.NYE 96 Into 97 (Or 97 into 98?) it was.We actually got in free through some unguarded exit.Actually i think we missed Orbital somehow.

Agreed with a lot of the tunes already mentioned.Specially Age Of Love ,Papua New Guinea.. etc.

The Source featuring Candi Staton always gets me goose pimples goin .has to be the 98 mix though.Heard what appears to be yet another new mix this afternoon on the radio.Pretty good .

Al Jarvis wrote:

Jimll wrote:

Al Jarvis wrote:

Jimll wrote: The Future Sound of London - Papua New Guinea

Can't believe I forgot this. Had a flat with two mates in the early 90's and this was our 'going out' record for nigh on two years! Used to stick it on full blast in the living room as we were all getting ready to head out. Fcuking wonderful record. Brings back A Lot Of Memories.

Indeed, fantastic tune! Maybe they will do requests next week!

I was at one of them NYE Ally Pally things years back, before New Order did the Temptation thing, maybe 96 or 97. Orbital were the headline act. Last DJ on though was Paul Oakenfold, 5-7am slot or whatever. Did 2hrs of his standard set of the time - Goa trance / Perfecto stuff. And then the houselights came up at the end and there was a big pause, the the lights dropped and he just played the original version of this in its entirity from start to finish. Wasn't there three versions on the original 12" - well, it was the principal one on there. Wonderful moment. Lovely way to end the night and start a new year.

Now that is a superb way to end the night! You can usually rely on Oakenfold for something a bit special.

Johnny wrote: Yeah ,i was at that Ally Pally night ,Al.NYE 96 Into 97 (Or 97 into 98?) it was.We actually got in free through some unguarded exit.Actually i think we missed Orbital somehow.

Agreed with a lot of the tunes already mentioned.Specially Age Of Love ,Papua New Guinea.. etc.

The Source featuring Candi Staton always gets me goose pimples goin .has to be the 98 mix though.Heard what appears to be yet another new mix this afternoon on the radio.Pretty good .

The 98 version is good, but the original from 91 is still the one!

Al Jarvis wrote:

GlasVegas wrote: Some stinkers on there guv'nor! Subliminal Cuts? Darude? BBE? One step away from Robert Miles! Where's the soul(man)?!!

You're having a giraffe! All three of them were absolutely amazing before they ever got a release. The BBE thing especially. Everyone was caning that in London maybe a good year before it got a release. I bought so MANY duff records that year cos I was getting shite info as to who it actually was. Fact that it went straight in at no.1 (didn't it?) on its eventual release says it all. The exposure ruined it possibly but that was an amazing anthem at the time.

I'm old enough to remember when even Children was once considered, um, kewl.

Shame record companies often try to rehash these things in three minute formats and stick a girlie vocal over the top cos they want to sell even more copies. Thus very nearly sullying the memory. See my earlier comments about U2's Lemon (Orange mix) eventually becoming a Grace release. Utter shite.

Didn't "Children" feature as the opening track on a John Digweed Renaissance mix CD about a year before it went to number one for 100 weeks? Rotten record. Reminds me of those "Hooked On Classics" records you used to get in the 80's. Classical Tunes with a disco beat behind them. Awful.

As for BBE et al, just never been my bag. I'm a sucker classic US Garage. Big vocals and skippy beats. Songs the milkman can whistle ;o)

Remembered another belter.......

Brand New Heavies "Get Back To Love" (Graeme Park Remix)

All this talk of Robert Miles and such stuff, we will be onto Dr Alban next..remember that, 'It's My Life'? More like Dr All Bran - he's got verbal diarrhoea!

Snoopy wrote:

Missy Jem wrote: Anything by HED KANDI. I'm into house music, last club i went to they played Blue Monday at the end of the night and i loved it.

I'll dance to anything with a beer down me.

Have a couple of Hed Kandi cd's Jem, really good. Sadly Hed Kandi isn't well known over here.

I've got around 40 hed kandi compilations on mp3 :)

best dance? Gotta be orbital - chime, never heard a sweeter bassline in 40 years :)

GlasVegas wrote:

Didn't "Children" feature as the opening track on a John Digweed Renaissance mix CD about a year before it went to number one for 100 weeks?

It was actually the closing track, not the opening track. Plus, if I remember right (and I'm probably talking rubbish here) that CD (which, for the record, I still have and love to this day) was out something like two years before Children got a full release.

*takes off music-spotter's hat*

Snoopy wrote:

Missy Jem wrote: Anything by HED KANDI. I'm into house music, last club i went to they played Blue Monday at the end of the night and i loved it.

I'll dance to anything with a beer down me.

Have a couple of Hed Kandi cd's Jem, really good. Sadly Hed Kandi isn't well known over here.

They're getting better known over here, Snoopy. One of the guys who used to run it's doing his own stuff now; he's got a club called Tokyo Project that's started a monthly residency in Belfast. Have you heard about that before?

Told you I'd remember some more of my favourites...

ORBITAL Halcyon DEPECHE MODE Freelove (Deep Dish mix) SHAMEN - Move any Mountain

monty wrote:

SHAMEN - Move any Mountain

you stole it from me!!! :D

THE CRYSTAL METHOD!! I was blown away once again today in my car. I've got the loudest stereo in my neighbourhood.

any vintage funk and soul makes the best dance music. old Prince, Parliament, the Meters, Fela, James Brown, Lee Fields, Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, the Mighty Imperials, Linton Kwesi-Johnson, etc. Love the rare funk n' soul grooves!

Orbital - Out There Somehere ( Part 2) (fantastic trance record) Chemical Brothers - Sunshine Underground Leftfield - Release the Pressure Primal Scream - Come Together (Weatherall Mix) Orbital - Halcyon (live version from Millennium gig) Orbital - You Lot Astralasia - Hashishin LFO - LFO Transglobal Underground - Templehead 808 State - In Yer Face Moodswings - State of Independence Death in Vegas - Aisha Happy Mondays - WFL (Vince Clarke remix) The Orb - Li'l Fluffy Clouds Underworld - Rez Banco de Gaia - Mafichi Arabi Kraftwerk - The Robots

The New Order and Orbital nights at Ally Pally were definitely seperate.

New Order was 1998, and Orbital was i think 1999. I was at both of them, and they were both fantastic gigs.

New Order were supported by Underworld who did a fine set premiering their return to form album ' Beaucoup Fish'. Chemical Brothers did another set in another room.

Orbital was definitely separate as I remember watching New Order play 'Temptation' on the countdown, and Orbital do 'Chime', both on the main stage, but different years.

This is a random selection off the top of my head... without my DJ wallets I may have some titles wrong...

Pacific state. 20 seconds to comply. Cafe De Mar. Blue Monday. Chime. Jack your body. Nobody's diary. Can you feel it. Rock da House. No good for me (start the dance). U got the love. Killer. Gun man. Kung Fu. Once in a lifetime. Spin spin sugar. Where's your head at? A love supreme. Promised land. Don't call me baby. Pump up the jam. The Power. SEXpress. Never lost his hardcore.

I could go on... I bloody love dance music!

Headhunter by Front242 always gets me special after all these years for some reason... dunno how it would sound to kids nowadays thou on the dancefloor...

funniest dance song... Alpha Team- Speedracer, with the samples that make it sound like Speed and Trixie are gettin' busy!

Burt Reynolds wrote: The New Order and Orbital nights at Ally Pally were definitely seperate.

New Order was 1998, and Orbital was i think 1999. I was at both of them, and they were both fantastic gigs.

New Order were supported by Underworld who did a fine set premiering their return to form album ' Beaucoup Fish'. Chemical Brothers did another set in another room.

Orbital was definitely separate as I remember watching New Order play 'Temptation' on the countdown, and Orbital do 'Chime', both on the main stage, but different years.

Yeah , i didn't mean they played the same year.I know New Order was NYE 98.The Orbital one i attended was either 96 or 97.Can't recall exactly.Those years just merge into one for me these days.Did Orbital also play there in 99? Millenium eve?

I remember when 'Children' was considered cool. That song drive me nuts trying to figure out who did it, too. I still like it. I have no shame!

You can tell how old I am from the age of these (sometimes shameful, and cliched) tunes:

M/A/R/R/S - Pump Up The Volume Jonathon Peters - Flower Duet Marky Mark & Funky Bunch - Good Vibrations The Klf - Last Train to Transcentral/3AM Eternal/What Time Is Love The Goodmen - Give it Up Most versions of A Message to You Rudi The Beloved - 1000 years from today, Sweet Harmony Waterlillies - Never Enough (Jr's Deep Factory Remix) Art of Noise - Moments In Love Erasure - Oh L'amour (hi NRG remix) Camouflage - The Great Commandment 12" Controlled Bleeding - Fodder Song Front 242 - Headhunter Stereo MC's - Elevate My Mind, Connected (played out yet?) Depeche Mode - In Your Room (Jeep Rock Mix) Pulp - Sorted for E's and Wizz ( ) VNV Nation - Legion, Kingdom (Restoration), Standing (Still remix) Orbital - Open Mind, Halcyon, Lil Fluffy Clouds William Orbit - Adagio for Strings (Ferry Corsten mix) Blumchen - Herz an Herz (Herz in der Luft mix) T42 feat Sharp - Run to You Aiboforcen - Twilight World Shamen - Boss Drum Pet Shop Boys - KDX-125, Violence (Hacienda Mix), Can You Forgive.. (MK mix) Alice Deejay/Miss Jane - Better off Alone/ Fine Day Mix Ayla - Ayla pt.II Noel - Silent Morning Glis - Sunrise (Club mix) Ayria - Substance (More Pills XP8 mix) Cyberaktif - Nothing Stays Rob Dougan - Chateau Section 25 - Looking ... (Razormaided) Acid Horse - No Name No Slogan Sunscreem - Love You More Red Red Groovy - Come to me, Ecstasy Corona - Rhythm of the Night Freez - IOU Vicious Pink - 8:15 to Nowhere Utah Saints - Ohio 12" Aphex Twin - pulsewidth Rosetta Stone - Temptation Yazoo - Don't Go (Tee's Freeze Mix) Human League - Don't.. (Snap 12" Extended)

And lastly, two things I get dj's to play:

Andreas Dorau/Paula - Als es passierte Razormaid of New Order's 5 8 6

Carl Cox - "Phoebus Apollo"

Can't remember when Orbital played... I was on the 'special stuff', i.e. pro-plus and Chicken and Mushroom Pot Noodles etc etc. I had a feeling it was the year after NO, but I could well be wrong. Might have been the year Kraftwerk supported Orbital at Homelands and blew them offstage. I just don't know anymore, but hell it was fun, whilst NO were dormant. I'll have to check loopz.co.uk some time.

While I'm here I'm gonna add a few more:

Bizarre Inc - Playing with Knives Underworld - Hmmmmm Skyscraper I love you Azukz - Lift

and the magnificent:

Sabres of Paradise - Smokebelch II (David Holmes remix)

BA wrote:

Al Jarvis wrote:

Jimll wrote: The Future Sound of London - Papua New Guinea

Can't believe I forgot this. Had a flat with two mates in the early 90's and this was our 'going out' record for nigh on two years! Used to stick it on full blast in the living room as we were all getting ready to head out. Fcuking wonderful record. Brings back A Lot Of Memories.

Ditto. I never tire of that tune....bootiful

Damn right - love the Hybrid remix too.

Also...

BT - Namistai Plaid - Booc LFO - LFO Aphex Twin - Quoth Cass & Slide - Perception Baby D - let Me Be Your Fantasy Orbital - Impact, Funny Break (Weekend Ravers Mix) Antico - We Need Freedom Cygnus X - The Orange Theme

Pash.

Burt Reynolds wrote:

and the magnificent:

Sabres of Paradise - Smokebelch II (David Holmes remix)

Oh yes, forgot about that one, sufookingperb!!

Also, did anyone else see Bentley Rhythm Ace at Reading 98, after NO, Spiritualised & Mogwai? BRA were fcucking great in the dance tent that night, just happened upon it, and it was brilliant at the time, for once the line up worked quite well that night!

Digital Mike wrote: Alpha Wave: system7 (plasticman mix)

That's the ONE Steve

Top tune, and superb live!

In fact, anything on Steve's list (plus 808 State/A Guy Called Gerald stuff), and stuff like "Strings Of Life" (Derrick May/Rhythim Is Rhythim)

Afrika Bambaataa - Looking for the Perfect Beat

Steve Campbell wrote: :( grrrrr not if we build a ramp and get a good run.

Was thinking about Gerald then, about watching that series "pump up the volume". It starts off with all the amzing early Chicago and detroit and NY stuff, then decends into horrid soul-pish....then suddenly, the Brits show up, on comes Voodoo Ray and you remember why life is worth living :D

That's why I started a website on him! :)