What were the big dance tunes of '97?

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'Da Funk', 'Born Slippy' and Armand Van Helden's remix of 'Professional Widow'. What else?

― Michael B, Monday, 11 April 2005 08:11 (twenty years ago)

Chemical Brothers - Block Rockin' Beats
Aqua - Barbie Girl
Teletubbies - Teletubbies Say Eh-oh!

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 11 April 2005 08:34 (twenty years ago)

Encore Un Fois!
Freed From Desire!
Sunchyme!

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 11 April 2005 08:35 (twenty years ago)

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000007V80/ref=br_lf_m_h__17/202-2712651-6546209

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 11 April 2005 08:37 (twenty years ago)

the Mr Jack remix of 'Freed From Desire' is fantastic, as is 'Encore Un Fois'!

'Born Slipp' was 1996, as i would've thought Alba would've pointed out by now

― $V£N! (blueski), Monday, 11 April 2005 08:41 (twenty years ago)

I thought it impolite (maybe people were still dancing?)

This is a funny old read.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 11 April 2005 08:44 (twenty years ago)

Mary Kiani '100%'
Byron Stingily 'Get Up (Everybody)'
Tin Tin Out 'All I Wanna Do'
Nu Yorican Soul 'Runaway (Armand Van Helden 'Mongoloids In Space' mix)' (particularly great)
Submerge 'Take Me By The Hand'
Apollo Four Forty 'Aint Talkin About Dub (Armand Van Helden mix)'
Souvlaki 'Inferno'
Lithium 'Ride A Rocket' (great)
JX 'Close To Your Heart'
Armand Van Helden 'The Funk Phenomena'
Sneaker Pimps 'Spin Spin Sugar (Armand Van Helden Dark Garage mix)'
DJ Quicksilver 'Belissima'
Funky Green Dogs 'Fired Up' (great)
Hondy 'Hondy (No Access)'
Natural Born Grooves 'Groovebird'
Course 'Ready Or Not'
Daft Punk 'Around The World
Robert Owens 'I'll Be Your Friend' (re-release, great)

― $V£N! (blueski), Monday, 11 April 2005 08:49 (twenty years ago)

Bentley Rhythm Ace - Bentley's Gonna Sort You Out!
The Prodigy - Smack My Bitch Up!

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 11 April 2005 08:52 (twenty years ago)

http://www.rocklist.co.uk/mixmag.html#1997 might be of use

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 11 April 2005 08:55 (twenty years ago)

Free - Ultra Nate
Closer Than Close - Rosie Gaines
Never Gonna Let You Go - Tina Moore
Gabriel - Roy Davis Junior/Peven Everett
It's Alright, I Feel It - Nu Yorican Soul
Moment Of My Life - Bobby D'Ambrosio/Michelle Weeks
Psyche Rock (fatboy slim remix) - Pierre Henry
Fly Life - Basement Jaxx
You Can't Hide From Your Bud - DJ Sneak
Renegade Master (fatboy slim remix) - Wildchild
Give Me Love (tony de vit remix) - Diddy
Twisted - Wayne G/Stewart Who?
Turn That Fucking Music Up - Knuckleheads
Blue Fear - Armin
Flowtation - Vincent De Moor

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Monday, 11 April 2005 08:59 (twenty years ago)

Brainbug 'Nightmare'
DJ Supreme 'The Wildstyle' (re-issue)
Red 5 'I love You...Stop!'
Space Brothers 'Shine' (horrible horrible horrible!)
Huff & Puff 'Help Me Make It' (re-issue)
Eta 'Casual Sub (Burning Spear)'
Todd Terry 'Somethin' Goin' On (Loop Da Loop mix)' (great, best speed garage track ever)
Gala 'Freed From Desire (Mr Jack club mix)'
Massive Attack 'Risingson (Darren Emerson mix)'
Boris Dlugosch 'Hold Your Head Up High (Julian Jonah mix)'
Chicane 'Offshore '97' (rub vocal version)
Tin Tin Out 'Strings For Yasmin'
Praxis ft Kathy Brown 'Turn Me Out (Turn To Sugar)'
TJR 'Just Gets Better'
Daft Punk 'Burnin'
East 57th Street 'Saturday'
Scott Garcia ft MC Styles 'It's A London Thing'
Roy Davis Jr 'Gabriel'
Double 99 'RIP Groove' (THE TUNE)
PF Project 'Choose Life'
Fabulous Baker Boys 'Oh Boy'
Sex-O-Sonique 'I Thought It Was You'

― $V£N! (blueski), Monday, 11 April 2005 09:01 (twenty years ago)

I think 'I Thought It was You' is the best track mentioned so far. 'Gabriel' is great too although I didnt hear it until a couple of years later.

― Michael B, Monday, 11 April 2005 09:07 (twenty years ago)

1997!

tremendous.

― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 11 April 2005 09:15 (twenty years ago)

1997!

terrible!

― charltonlido (gareth), Monday, 11 April 2005 09:17 (twenty years ago)

predictable

― $V£N! (blueski), Monday, 11 April 2005 09:20 (twenty years ago)

mind you so is my defensiveness i suppose

― $V£N! (blueski), Monday, 11 April 2005 09:21 (twenty years ago)

Forgotten!

Run DMC vs Jason Nevins - "It's like that"
Blue Boy - "Remember me"
DJ Krust - "War Head"
TJR - "Just gets better"

And fuckin' Sash! of course. Euch.

― Jacob (Jacob), Monday, 11 April 2005 09:35 (twenty years ago)

1997: the year three scenes died and one was born.

― Jacob (Jacob), Monday, 11 April 2005 09:36 (twenty years ago)

Roni Size - Brown Paper Bag

― M Carty (mj_c), Monday, 11 April 2005 09:37 (twenty years ago)

Oops TJR repetition. It just keeps getting better.

― Jacob (Jacob), Monday, 11 April 2005 09:38 (twenty years ago)

Moment Of My Life - Bobby D'Ambrosio/Michelle Weeks

Fucking fantastic record.

― Jacob (Jacob), Monday, 11 April 2005 09:39 (twenty years ago)

it's really odd to see these in terms of 'scenes' in retrospect, I was 14 at the time.

― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 11 April 2005 09:40 (twenty years ago)

Well I think the scene thing is actually crucial here cos "Gabrielle" was actually released (on a US label) in '96 and was a big hit on the US garage scene (i.e. Paul 'Trouble' was caning it) that year, but wasn't a speed garage hit until '97...

And that's not even to start talking about when "Brown Paper Bag" was actually getting played in clubs versus the date on the release.

― Jacob (Jacob), Monday, 11 April 2005 09:43 (twenty years ago)

Hey, know which scene we forgot?

http://stat.discogs.com/R/t/168270-001.jpg

ergo:

Lochi - "London Acid City"

― Jacob (Jacob), Monday, 11 April 2005 09:46 (twenty years ago)

Acid techno! And then there was Tinrib and Prolekult and Tripoli Trax and Eve and...

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Monday, 11 April 2005 09:54 (twenty years ago)

which scenes died again?

― $V£N! (blueski), Monday, 11 April 2005 10:06 (twenty years ago)

Optical - "To Shape the Future"
Roni Size/Reprazent - "Share the Fall (Grooverider Remix)"

― JoB (JoB), Monday, 11 April 2005 10:18 (twenty years ago)

"Gabrielle" was actually released (on a US label) in '96 and was a big hit on the US garage scene

Aargh, could everyone stop calling this tune "Gabrielle"? It's called "Gabriel", as in the arch angel. Listen to the song, he's not singing some girl's name. This has been bothering me for eight years now, thank you.

― JoB (JoB), Monday, 11 April 2005 10:22 (twenty years ago)

Jacob just now is the only person I've ever seen refer to it as 'Gabrielle' ;)

― $V£N! (blueski), Monday, 11 April 2005 10:25 (twenty years ago)

Um, Sleater-Kinney, "Dance Song '97"?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 11 April 2005 11:02 (twenty years ago)

"Boris Dlugosch 'Hold Your Head Up High (Julian Jonah mix)'"

great, great, GREAT tune. Never bigged up enough I reckon.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 11 April 2005 12:49 (twenty years ago)

Late '96 and throughout '97 was probably the period when I first started paying attention to dance music (though I didn't get massively into it for another two years almost) so this list brings back a lot of nice memories.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 11 April 2005 12:59 (twenty years ago)

what are Jonah and Gant up to now? i am missing them lately.

― $V£N! (blueski), Monday, 11 April 2005 13:12 (twenty years ago)

was Slacker's 'Scared' tail end of '96? i liked it. the follow up 'Your Face' (bit cheeky as it pilfered Joanna Law just as Way Out West had done a few months earlier) did well too.

― $V£N! (blueski), Monday, 11 April 2005 13:16 (twenty years ago)

Bentley Rhythm Ace!!!!!! Awesome.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 11 April 2005 13:40 (twenty years ago)

Um, Sleater-Kinney, "Dance Song '97"?

you stole my joke!

― jody the country girl doll (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 11 April 2005 13:41 (twenty years ago)

what was tripoli trax all about? local shop has tons of them from some dj who unloaded his collection. any names to look for, or is it unredeamable?

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Monday, 11 April 2005 19:33 (twenty years ago)

donna lewis "i love you always forever"

i remember NPR (ken tucker?) mentioning this tune and making a big deal of the fact that in that jaded time it said "i love you always forever" directly and without irony or whatever. don't know if it was big in clubs, but it was one of many many pop-house-y radio hits at the time.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Monday, 11 April 2005 19:47 (twenty years ago)

187 lockdown - gunman

went to this free party the other night, and they played gunman, then borwn paper bag, then wildchild "renegade master" - the fatboy slim mix.

i thought that was a total 97 mix, but it seems the wildchiold remix wasnt called renegade master 98 for nothing.

― ambrose (ambrose), Monday, 11 April 2005 20:38 (twenty years ago)

"Hypnotize" - The Notorious B.I.G.
"Busy Child" - The Crystal Method
"Goin' Out Of My Mind" - Fatboy Slim
"Velvet Pants" - Propellerheads
"Take California" - Propellerheads

memories...

― billstevejim, Tuesday, 12 April 2005 01:24 (twenty years ago)

xpost 1:

When dude sings it he pronounces it gab-ree-ell, not gay-bree-ull ergo that's how I wrote it. You are, however, technically correct.

xpost 2:

US garage turned into UK garage; drum 'n bass turned into techno and techno turned into tedium. Ergo three scenes died and one was born.

― Jacob (Jacob), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 02:45 (twenty years ago)

ithink davis jr/everetts Gabriel might be better than all the rest on here put together

― charltonlido (gareth), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 06:41 (twenty years ago)

Are you all crazy? The biggest dance tune of '97 was Johann Strauss II's Blue danube Waltz!

― Frogman Henry, Tuesday, 12 April 2005 06:54 (twenty years ago)

oh 1997.

― Frogman Henry, Tuesday, 12 April 2005 06:56 (twenty years ago)

'Da Funk', 'Born Slippy' and Armand Van Helden's remix of 'Professional Widow'. What else?

None of these were from 1997.

― The Horse of Babylon's Butler (the pirate king), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 08:07 (twenty years ago)

what was tripoli trax all about? local shop has tons of them from some dj who unloaded his collection. any names to look for, or is it unredeamable?

Hard house before it was called hard house, as played at Trade. Difficult to appreciate now, in the light of the formulaic dross which followed it... and most definitely not for everybody... but this sort of stuff soundtracked my life for nearly three years, so I'm biased...

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 08:25 (twenty years ago)

'Da Funk' and 'Prof. Widow' were released as singles in '97 Jamie (weary sigh)

― $V£N! (blueski), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 09:12 (twenty years ago)

(as in yeh most people know them from before that but humour the thread dude...)

loads of drum n' bass to mention but can't be bothered

― $V£N! (blueski), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 09:13 (twenty years ago)

Wyclef Jean - We Trying To Stay Alive
Ramstein - Du Haust

― John Fredland (jfredland), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 11:01 (twenty years ago)

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