pick only one : 'rave' /dance anthems that have stood the test of time.

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u sure do - strike.

― pisces (piscesx), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 12:06 (nineteen years ago)

Let's Twist Again

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 12:11 (nineteen years ago)

only love can SET U FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

― lex pretend (lex pretend), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 12:12 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.hardtofindrecordsrecordstore.com/htfrimages/BMR30459.jpg

― vita susicivus (blueski), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 12:13 (nineteen years ago)

Dominator

― Feargal Hixxy (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 12:20 (nineteen years ago)

Birdie Song

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 12:23 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.dancevinylmasterz.com/images/Wimg/21art/w2139_Full.jpg

And what's more, I like it!

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 12:27 (nineteen years ago)

Jack & Phil (featuring Wendy) - Unity

― Storefront Church (688), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 12:29 (nineteen years ago)

tracer that's more like it! tuuuuune.

― pisces (piscesx), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 12:43 (nineteen years ago)

Deee-Lite - Groove is in the House

― Wingwalker (1977), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 13:13 (nineteen years ago)

lols

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 13:14 (nineteen years ago)

could be a remix

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 13:26 (nineteen years ago)

Voodoo Ray

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 13:26 (nineteen years ago)

A medley came of the "I Wouldn't Dance for Another" song

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 13:33 (nineteen years ago)

Klaxons - 'Atlantis to Interzone'

― Tiki Theater Xymposium (Bent Over at the Arclight), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 13:40 (nineteen years ago)

Shit, I thought it said 'Nu-Rave'

― Tiki Theater Xymposium (Bent Over at the Arclight), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 13:40 (nineteen years ago)

RSW-The Phantom

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 13:45 (nineteen years ago)

Move Yr Body

― you win again, gravity! (tissp), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 13:49 (nineteen years ago)

Boring answer, but "Strings of Life", obv.

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 13:50 (nineteen years ago)

'let's get brutal'

never have danced to it.

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 13:52 (nineteen years ago)

they should remix and re-release "you got the love" every 3 years.

ahem

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 13:57 (nineteen years ago)

what was the last song you danced to oh never mind. xpost

(i love 'Let's Get Brutal' but never heard it out anywhere)

― vita susicivus (blueski), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 13:57 (nineteen years ago)

let's get brutal? i don't remember that one.

― pisces (piscesx), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 14:50 (nineteen years ago)

it's quite old, but so is dance music.

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 14:54 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.discogs.com/release/49919

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

Nitro Deluxe, one of the many 1987 House-going-pop classics. There's a curious mix which samples Ernie Wise.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

the nitro deluxe hypno house 12 inch is awesome. chep nunez brilliance.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

cuzza this thread i just watched go, higher state of conciousness, and pacific state on youtube. just so you know.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 14:58 (nineteen years ago)

RIDE ON TIME RI-RI-RIDE ON TIME

― lex pretend (lex pretend), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 14:59 (nineteen years ago)

CAN U FEEL IT

― tony conrad schnitzler (sanskrit), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 15:01 (nineteen years ago)

Was that the TOTP performance of "Go" where they had to shout/sing the samples?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 15:01 (nineteen years ago)

I'd almost consider Let's Get Brutal proto-house or something...it's really early and comes out of the NY Cutting Records scene, so it's more like an electro/freestyle oddity that found a home in the early days of house.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 15:01 (nineteen years ago)

stardust - music sounds better with you

― friday on the porch (lfam), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 15:16 (nineteen years ago)

jupiter jazz

― friday on the porch (lfam), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 15:17 (nineteen years ago)

"Close Your Eyes"

though if "Go" counts I say "Chime"

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

which can u feel it? (im assuming the mr fingers one, but id take todd terrys as cls, or even shaun imreis as elevation)

― Storefront Church (688), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 15:23 (nineteen years ago)

as usual people can't just pick only one...

agree in that it's at least as close to Man Parrish electro sound as to late 80s house if not closer. nice link between the two.

― vita susicivus (blueski), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 15:30 (nineteen years ago)

that's the thing...it definitely came out of the NY electro scene, probably before anyone on the east coast new what "jack your body" meant.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

PLASTIC DREAMS

― simon gabriel (one off), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:00 (nineteen years ago)

Thing is a lot of this stuff is undergoing a mini-revival at the moment, and not just through the whole nu-wave/indie disco novelty thing. A few tunes seem to be coming back into circulation.

Anyway, Awesome 3 - Don't Go.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:06 (nineteen years ago)

i might change mine to carl graig's 'bug in a bassbin', perhaps not dancey enough.

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:14 (nineteen years ago)

Music Sounds Better With You seconded.

― nickd (nickd), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:20 (nineteen years ago)

did you like bass construction - dance with power, mdc?

― Storefront Church (688), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:26 (nineteen years ago)

(which uses same piano line as cedric winkleburger & the yellow blueberries - take it easy)

― Storefront Church (688), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:29 (nineteen years ago)

ooh i love 'take it easy'

― vita susicivus (blueski), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:30 (nineteen years ago)

The Bells

― Matt Olken (Moodles), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:39 (nineteen years ago)

second that, matt

― yours fondly, harshaw. (mrgn), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 17:34 (nineteen years ago)

I like Bass Construction very much, 688.

The actual answer to this is probably REZ, which seems to slip effortlessly into most DJ sets even today and seems to have always been around.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 17:41 (nineteen years ago)

ALL OF THEM!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 17:45 (nineteen years ago)

Alternately Nightmare On Wax's "Aftermath".

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 17:50 (nineteen years ago)

can i put a 1995/96 'latest possible date of original release' ammendment to my original question please?

thanks. no offence to anything after.

― pisces (piscesx), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 17:51 (nineteen years ago)

Neal Howard - "Indulge"
Altern 8 - "Re-Indulge"

Tullio de Piscopo - "Stop Bajon"

A Guy Called Gerald - "Hot Lemonade"

― hank (hank s), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 17:58 (nineteen years ago)

Drax: Amphetamine

― PRKLTR (flezaffe), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 18:03 (nineteen years ago)

i wonder if for each pick people are effectively saying they prefer the genre/style that particular track can be shoved into with relative ease (electro, acid house, detroit techno, euro techno, harder of poppier ardkore/UK rave etc.) as well or there are cases of 'particularly love this track altho i listened to this other genre or subgenre more generally.

― vita susicivus (blueski), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 18:08 (nineteen years ago)

For me, The Bells is a track that I would always hear and recognize at just about every rave and club night that I went to for a long time. The recognizability of it is a key factor for me: that track comes on and it instantly stands out, you just know it's The Bells. I think, if you are not a DJ or really hardcore fan, lots of tracks (most probably) don't stand out and are not memorable like The Bells.

I definitely gravitate toward the techno end of things, so it makes sense that it is a hallmark song of that particular genre.

― Matt Olken (Moodles), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 18:19 (nineteen years ago)

E-Dancer Velocity Funk

― blunt (blunt), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 18:25 (nineteen years ago)

also Joe Smooth Promised Land as end of nighter etc.

― blunt (blunt), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 18:34 (nineteen years ago)

Belfast

― toe-foo (toe-foo), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 19:33 (nineteen years ago)

Acen "Trip To the Moon"

― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 19:36 (nineteen years ago)

mdc, the version i sent you is from some mix thing, the piano that comes in for the last 10 seconds is, i think 'right before your eyes' by first prodject (tim taylor in uk style!). i'll send that when i find it

― Storefront Church (688), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 19:37 (nineteen years ago)

and for tonite,

Nexus & Blowback - Dinky Dink (this samples frank de wulf - the tape, which can also go here)

― Storefront Church (688), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 19:39 (nineteen years ago)

I definitely gravitate toward the techno end of things, so it makes sense that it is a hallmark song of that particular genre.

Yeah I agree with all that, I'd have picked it myself but I don't think of it as 'rave' or a 'dance anthem' in a sufficiently broad sense. To be fair the main reason Dominator came to mind for me first was the fact it was on a mix CD I'd been playing while making breakfast, so there you are

― Feargal Hixxy (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 19:42 (nineteen years ago)

The First Rebirth

― Siegbran (eofor), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 19:45 (nineteen years ago)

a 9 is a classic >>>> dominater

(and theres a human resource rmx anyway)

― Storefront Church (688), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 19:54 (nineteen years ago)

drew OTM.

'the bells' was ruined for me forever after hearing that dreadful orchestral version

― geeta (geeta), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 20:20 (nineteen years ago)

"Energy Flash" Joey Beltram

― Cameron Octigan (Cameron Octigan), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 20:37 (nineteen years ago)

'the bells' was ruined for me forever after hearing that dreadful orchestral version

Ha Haaa! I kind of like the orchestral version, but I can understand why not everyone would agree. I like the wackiness of the idea, doesn't really translate to the dancefloor though.

― Matt Olken (Moodles), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 20:39 (nineteen years ago)

I find it so hard to answer this question...has time really been testing in the last 20 years?

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 23:07 (nineteen years ago)

Pepe Bradock- Deep Burnt

― Chantilly Bass (ChantillyBass), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 00:36 (nineteen years ago)

3 AM etranal.

― jambalaya backgammon (grady), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 01:52 (nineteen years ago)

Edge #1 - still sounds fresh as a daisy

― Auntie's quim (the_article_don), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 09:39 (nineteen years ago)

xpost: I knew "Let's Get Brutal" as "This Brutal House", and used to play it out loads in Spring/Summer 1987 - it was one of my best floor-fillers. It was around 114bpm, so formed a useful bridge between the hip hop and the Chicago jack tracks.

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 10:47 (nineteen years ago)

Urban Hype - Trip To Trumpton
I think that this tune made me realise that I love dissonance in music - I just loved the alarm bells going off with no regard to melody whatsoever.

And everything by Acen, obv.

― Ruairi Wirewool (Ruairi Wirewool), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 11:49 (nineteen years ago)

"3 AM etranal."

i had never seen/heard that american what time is love with the guitars and glenn hughes before until yesterday. what the hell? what a nightmare.

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 12:12 (nineteen years ago)

papua new guinea - future sound of london

― Aguila (Aguila), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 12:17 (nineteen years ago)

Point of order: the bells in "A Trip To Trumpton" are all harmonically relevant.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 12:19 (nineteen years ago)

I doubt whether many of these have stood the test of time from the point of view of the thrusting Thatcherkid of 2006 who won't remember them at all.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 12:20 (nineteen years ago)

'Point of order: the bells in "A Trip To Trumpton" are all harmonically relevant.'

You're right of course, Mr Carlin, but it didn't sound that way to me when I was 12. It just sounded like someone ringing an alarm bell over a dance track, and I LOVED it.

― Ruairi Wirewool (Ruairi Wirewool), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 12:31 (nineteen years ago)

I'm still happy to hear Energy Flash and Pacific State now, and danced to both out last year :)

Considering (checking Discogs) I first heard them both around 15 years ago, and even that will have been two or three years after they actually first came out, not bad going!!

Did we have a thread where people made bets on what dance anthems from NOW might have similar longevity? That could be interesting.

― fandango (fandango), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 12:44 (nineteen years ago)

seeing as those^ have been spoken for already though...

Age Of Love - Age Of Love

― fandango (fandango), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 12:46 (nineteen years ago)

played Pacific State and some classics in a set, part of which you can download here:

http://www.tropicalcomputersystem.com/music.html

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 16:00 (nineteen years ago)

if i hadn't keejerked to the term 'rave' i probably would've said 'Pacific'

― vita susicivus (blueski), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 16:02 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, i don't really know from raves. go and higher state of conciousness certainly haven't aged that well. pacific state still sounds cool to me. that whole album does.

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 16:18 (nineteen years ago)

but, jeez, voodoo ray, that song will never die.

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 16:19 (nineteen years ago)

i have a horrible three album bootleg "rave mix" from the early 90's that i should dig out. it's kinda entertaining.

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 16:20 (nineteen years ago)

but, jeez, voodoo ray, that song will never die.

oddly enough i'm not sure i've ever actually danced to 'Pacific', whereas can't NOT dance to 'Voodoo Ray', so yes.

― vita susicivus (blueski), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 16:23 (nineteen years ago)

a lot of that ol' rave stuff sounds kinda fresh these days (after years of virtual unlistenability)...Rhoobarb & Custard, Everybody In The Place, etc...

― hank (hank s), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 16:25 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah I agree with all that, I'd have picked it myself but I don't think of it as 'rave' or a 'dance anthem' in a sufficiently broad sense.

I'm not sure if this is a cultural/geographic difference or what. Most of the raves I went to in the 90s were in the New England/New York area and tended toward the Techno side of things, so The Bells seemed like a rave anthem to me. It always seemed to get a big crowd response.

― Matt Olken (Moodles), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 17:02 (nineteen years ago)

SL2- On A Ragga Tip

― Neil Stewart (Neil Stewart), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 17:07 (nineteen years ago)

when i see the word rave i think acid and i think techno. and nothing else.

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 17:09 (nineteen years ago)

To me "rave" refers to the actual event, but could include any kind of dance music (or even ambient, got to have those chill-out rooms!).

― Matt Olken (Moodles), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 17:15 (nineteen years ago)

oh yeah, well i think of it as an event too. but after that, those are the two things i think of.

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 17:17 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.kompaktkiste.de/cd/_123/_9/9031142.jpg

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 17:20 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.kompaktkiste.de/cd/_123/_9/9030842.jpg

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 17:21 (nineteen years ago)

lol techno = baldies

― vita susicivus (blueski), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 17:21 (nineteen years ago)

http://img.tesco.com/pi/entertainment/CD/LF/593772_CD_L_F.jpg

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 17:24 (nineteen years ago)

That's Luke Slater, Richie Hawtin, Sven Vath and the Hartnoll brothers modelling on those baldy covers above!

― Neil Stewart (Neil Stewart), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 17:25 (nineteen years ago)

69 "Throw"

― Jay Vee's Return (Manon_69), Thursday, 18 January 2007 10:23 (nineteen years ago)

go and higher state of conciousness certainly haven't aged that well.

I think the "Tweakin' Acid Funk" remix of HSoC is pretty timeless, because it only has drums, bass and 303. The radio mix and the mix they used to play on MTV when it was rereleased probably sound a lot more dated. But anyway, it's probably too new to be considered a "rave anthem".

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 18 January 2007 10:35 (nineteen years ago)

I think it probably is a geographic difference insofar as in the UK, 'rave' as a genre had fairly definitive elements to its sound, and for a while had a pretty strong presence on the singles charts.

I was just reading the other day about the raves that Frankie Bones, Lenny Dee etc played round NYC in the early 90s, they sounded pretty incredible

― Feargal Hixxy (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 18 January 2007 11:41 (nineteen years ago)

go and higher state of conciousness certainly haven't aged that well.

so so so wrong

― Make a Beck Song #1 (M Matos), Thursday, 18 January 2007 17:57 (nineteen years ago)

not to me it isn't! to me it's very right. maybe "aged well" wasn't right. they just don't sound as good to me as they did way back when. not that either of them was a favorite song of mine to begin with. whereas pacific state sounds as fresh as the day i ripped open my tommy boy vinyl!

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 18 January 2007 18:03 (nineteen years ago)

I think "aging well", still sounding good despite the passing of time & trends... is a different things to still sounding current.

― fandango (fandango), Thursday, 18 January 2007 18:11 (nineteen years ago)

db-x - losing control

― friday on the porch (lfam), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 20:09 (nineteen years ago)

Opus III - It's A Fine Day. This was played on Saturday night and you could almost feel the entire crowd going 'awwwwwwwwww'.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 20:12 (nineteen years ago)

I still love: Berri - Sunshine after the rain.

― Slumpman (Slump Man), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 20:20 (nineteen years ago)

xxpost: on that note, Orbital - "Halcyon"

― hank (hank s), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 21:03 (nineteen years ago)

I saw Soulwax play a live rock version of "James Brown is Dead" last year but doubt whether they'd do the same thing this year...

― Jacob (Jacob), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 08:41 (nineteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

Clivilles & Cole - Pride

xpost - Sunshine after teh rain, ditto.

― Hard like armour (Hard like armour), Friday, 9 February 2007 02:09 (eighteen years ago)

i'd say this hysterical song called Underground Resistance by BON that i got on slsk accidentally. heh heh heh.

― the table is the table (treesessplode), Friday, 9 February 2007 04:21 (eighteen years ago)

kid vicious-reform
gouryella-wallflower

― dani (T-Master), Friday, 9 February 2007 04:56 (eighteen years ago)

Inner City - Good Life
Rhythim is Rhythim - Strings of Life
Orbital - Chime
Robin S. - Show me Love
Nightcrawlers - Push the Feeling On
A Guy Called Gerald - Voodoo Ray
Renegade Snare (Foul Play remix) - Omni Trio

― J-rock (Julien Sandiford), Friday, 9 February 2007 09:55 (eighteen years ago)

House Crew - Euphoria (Nino's dream)

― snowballing (snowballing), Friday, 9 February 2007 10:34 (eighteen years ago)

kid vicious-reform
gouryella-wallflower
-- dani (danij2...), February 9th, 2007.

are these rave anthems dani? forgive my ignorance.

― pisces (piscesx), Friday, 9 February 2007 11:12 (eighteen years ago)

gouryella = ferry corsten trance

― vita susicivus (blueski), Friday, 9 February 2007 11:21 (eighteen years ago)

No youre right pisces Corsten is just trance. In that case. 'Kid Vicious-Reform'

― dani (T-Master), Friday, 9 February 2007 14:08 (eighteen years ago)

Foul Play - Finest Illusion

― J-rock (Julien Sandiford), Saturday, 10 February 2007 05:11 (eighteen years ago)

eleven months pass...

more pleaze!

― pisces, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 12:42 (seventeen years ago)

Liquid - Sweet Harmony
Anything by Acen.

― chap, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 12:44 (seventeen years ago)

Andronicus - Make You Whole
I heard this again recently an think it holds up nicely.

― mmmm, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 13:03 (seventeen years ago)

I think the right answer is Papua New Guinea

― Kaliova, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 13:42 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.discogs.com/image/R-36634-1096214229.jpg

― Mr. Goodman, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 13:54 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.discogs.com/release/36634

― Mr. Goodman, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 13:54 (seventeen years ago)

Also, Todd Terry - Can You Party

― Mr. Goodman, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 13:55 (seventeen years ago)

808 State - Narcossa

― Discordian, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 16:09 (seventeen years ago)

Most of the first Prodigy album.

Actually, pretty much anything from the early-mid 90s hardcore/proto-jungle scene I'll still happily listen to - it's one of my favourite periods for dance music.

― chap, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 16:20 (seventeen years ago)

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