[Closed] Dance Music Vinyl Albums...

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The best compilation in the world, ever...

https://www.discogs.com/Various-Flux-Trax/release/23733

Look at that tracklist. Just look at it! It's like a greatest hits of my best nights out in the early '90s. There are probably five or six of the best dance tracks ever on there.

Ill recommend High Contrast!

High Contrast - High Society & Tough Guys Don't Dance, both on 12"

Northern Exposure Vol 1 by Sasha and Digweed.

A few early 90s gems...

Underworld - Dubnobasswithmyheadman

The Orb - Adventures beyond the Ultraworld

Primal Scream - Screamadelica

In the 90's there was a realisation that dance music really could work across an album format. My 3 picks from that era would be:

Leftfield - Leftism
Portishead - Dummy
Prodigy - Music for the Jilted Generation

'Narcosis, a Journey Through the Outs and Ins of Underground' , on Guerilla Records.

GRLP 009

Recommended but only if you like quality music and play it on good equipment with directional speaker cable.

Leftfield - Rhythm & Stealth

That Album (on vinyl) brings back some awesome memories of my first year of Uni! 😍

Plastikman - Sheet One
Jeff Mills - Waveform Transmission
Galaxy 2 Galaxy - High Tech Jazz

Goldie -Timeless
Chemical brothers - exit planet dust
Prodigy - experience
Grooverider- the prototype years
Dj Shadow - Endtroducing
Edit: and another vote for Dummy and rythm & stealth.

Right, well I'll just add

Orbital - In Sides
Roni Size & Reprazent - New Forms

...and we should be pretty much able to close this thread. Good job, everyone, well done.

And to come down from the above;

Global Communication 76:14

Aphex Twin SAW and SAW II

Saint Germain Tourist

Aim Cold Water Music

Oh and back to banging

Matrix Sleepwalk

Source Direct Exorcise the Demons

There are some good ones mentioned above but dance music does not really sit well on an album. The tracks are long for starters and many have copyright issues re samples hence most artists use multiple alias and small scale record companies to keep the water muddy.

Ales Reece is a classic example of the above. I bought his album which is good ( https://www.discogs.com/Alex-Reece-So-Far/release/90543). It features Pulp Fiction - a masterclass in jazzy breakbeat. But the album version is not the original as the original was not cleared for samples.

Couple of recommendations from things I have on vinyl

Paperclip People ‎– The Secret Tapes Of Dr. Eich - Carl Craig on an almost perfect Detroit trip

Stacey Pullen Presents Kosmic Messenger - clear to see the influence on early UK tech house, great album, this track sounds like 6am and the end of another fantastic night.

Derrick Carter's Mixmag compilation "Cosmic Disco" is a bit of a winner, might be hard to find on vinyl though, includes some really amazing tracks and classics like DJ Sneak's You Can't Hide from Your Bud, but the standout track is Earthshaker by The Republic, link takes you to the mix-in, proper sweaty gay house music

https://youtu.be/wQqCid8Q0Uw?t=722

Couple more...

How about a bit of Matthew Herbert? Apart from being creative director of the BBC radiophonic workshop, he's knocked out a couple of ace house music albums

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNdYB8R48Y8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5eTlurwwpI

And finally, a bit more recent, why not give Kelly Lee Owens a go, this is from her first album, she's got a new one due soon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdDf2Ib4B64

"Dance" gives rather a wide scope!
Here's a few I've got on vinyl
George Fitzgerald - Fading Love

DJ Koze - Knock Knock

Sweatson Klank - Fine Lines
https://youtu.be/PjU0jdGjK1w

That Flux Trax album is an absolute classic, mine is well played; Deep Cuts a Sabres of Paradise compilation is another flashback inducing album but my favourites from that era are are Pure Classics Vols 1 and 2.
Dj Shadow has produces some brilliant albums too, Endtroducing... was highly acclaimed.
Dj-Kicks is a series of over 70 albums by different djs such as Nightmares on Wax, Daniel Avery and Nina Kravitz.
Thanks for the post OP, I'm going to have another cup of coffee and a wee dance

Thanks for the post OP, I’m going to have another cup of coffee and a wee dance

Yeah indeed, got the Stacey Pullen album spinning away as I bounce on my office chair "working from home", its been awhile since I listened to it.

Listening to dance music on vinyl is great, but then you do miss out on the mixing between tracks (assuming you're not doing that bit yourself OP).

Have a listen on YouTube and work out what type of dance music you like first of all. Theres alot of variation.

Thanks for the post OP, I’m going to have another cup of coffee and a wee dance

I always do the wee dance after walking home from the pub on a Friday night. I can often be seen trying to unlock the front door whilst skipping about, busting for the toilet.

Actually my normal dancing looks a lot like that too.

Jon Hopkins on vinyl (start with immunity) would be one of my first purchases

Yeah, I was thinking about Jon Hopkins, Immunity is by far his best work imo but I don't have it on vinyl, I only have Singularity, which is ok but not good enough for me to recommend.

Likewise, Four Tet and Caribou would probably be called Dance Music these days, loved their first couple of albums, which were less obviously "dance" than more recent output.

If we are talking artist albums I'd add these:

Rustie - Glass Swords.

Edit: oh, and Burial - Untrue. Obviously.

Also a Zomby album. Where Were You In '92 or Dedication, depending on how you're feeling.

Rustie – Glass Swords.

Great choice - he's just released a new track, so should be coming back soon, which is cool.

Edit: oh, and Burial – Untrue. Obviously

Superb album. But I have trouble dancing to Burial 🙂

Was going to recommend a Chemical Brothers album, but couldn't decide on 1. Exit Planet Dust? Come With Us? Surrender? Dig Your Own Hole..? How to choose 😀

I mean

I just found this on the Tidal (while searching One Dove, a band I feel the OP should explore)::

Soma Quality Recordings Vol.1

I recommend.

I think I saw a Vol.2 as well.