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You know how sometimes you forget a tune actually exists and then you hear it again and you're like Wooooo! Well it happened to me yesterday listening to some random mixing on Mixcloud live.
Suddenly it's 1993 and I'm surrounded by 2 thousand other people, all going for it. 😄
Let's hear your belter from back in the day or your up to date house banger.
Not a link to a tune, but between around 94-99 I spent most Saturdays at the Que Club in Birmingham.
A short film has just been released about it, a great watch for anyone who raved or clubbed in the 90's.
(My tune pick would have been DJ Tim & Misjah - Access)
Only went to the Q club the once, in about 2002. Trekked down from Manchester for Richie Hawtin. Was bumbling about looking for the cloakroom, came through a door and found myself on the walkway at the top of the main room, looking down at about 2,000 mental ravers, in what was surely one of the most spectacular settings in UK clubland. An absolutely jaw dropping moment! Followed by some jaw grinding moments, heh.
Here's a classic I played at my last gig before long COVID slapped me down - the midnight slot at a largeish event on NYE 19/20. Most of the crowd were in nappies when it came out. But it still went off:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sDxz-7DYsCs
This isn't exactly classic house / club music, but it came on the radio the other day and I was immediately and really vividly back in a particular pub in chesterfield 1993.
This also had a similar effect recently.
Joey Beltram - Energy Flash
Stella & Energy Flash absolute classics which I like to revisit every now and again, but mostly I’m looking for the new stuff here’s 4 that stand out from last year
Classic!
OP - WHAT A TUNE !
Remember going metal to that numerous times after far to many disco biscuits back in the day 😬😂
Another thing, why is it that nowadays someone can introduce themselves and within 5 minutes I’ve forgotten their name, put a banging tune on that I haven’t heard for 30years and I can sing it word for word 🤷
Can anyone tell me what the song was that I saw regularly on MTV in the 90s. It was a techno/house thing and the vid featured a girl sitting on a train with countryside flashing past her. IIRC it was in black and white. ????
A wee heads up for any Edinburgers. I spent NYE at MFSB or Mother Funkin Soulful Beats below the Street pub on Picardy place. It's run by Yogi Haughton who has done everything from Northern Soul to Acid house over a long career . Anyway its a daytime club so runs from 3 - 10 and the two dj's play old disco , house and soul . It's kinda like the old Rhumba club type crowd. Very friendly and a small wee venue but properly jumping even for the 50 plus crowd. Most of the tunes are on vinyl , A highlight was Hwen Guthrie 'Peanut butter' the old Njoi sample .
Anyhoo for a fiver It's way better than sitting in a souless Embra boozer.
@temudjin the Joey Beltram vid is mixed in with a great wee scottish film called 'Beats' about a night at a scottish rave. It's absolutely brilliant but hard to find.
Only went to the Q club the once, in about 2002. Trekked down from Manchester for Richie Hawtin. Was bumbling about looking for the cloakroom, came through a door and found myself on the walkway at the top of the main room, looking down at about 2,000 mental ravers, in what was surely one of the most spectacular settings in UK clubland. An absolutely jaw dropping moment! Followed by some jaw grinding moments, heh.
Sounds rather familiar, except I'm not from Manchester! 😂
Far far too many original house tracks come to mind, I could be here all day just listing them... So decided to go for something that holds a personal significance, as it was the very first Vinyl Record I bought back in the mid 90's...
Let's keep this thread going guys! 😁
Come with me to the dance floor, you and me coz that's what it's for...
Some classics here already.. True Faith and Denise Lopez - tunes from Shelley's, Entropy and Legends, clubs of my youth.
How about JJ Tribute, a real peaker of a tune in all of them.
Just loving Marsh at the moment.
Worth looking up his sets for Anjunadeep on SoundCloud. #313 and 327 and there's probably more since.
That JJ Tribute was an old Fantazia CD I had and wish I could find a link to for this thread now. I'll see if YT has it as a playlist...
The heaviest of heavy hitters :o)
It's the end of the night at Entropy. The last tune ends and a few lights come on. But a chant of 'One more! One more!' goes up, feet stamping on the floor at about 140bpm and drops of condensation fall from the ceiling. Goosebumps and shivers. It goes totally dark, one green lazer scans a horizontal line that slowly moves up and down through strawberry smelling smoke. The crowd go quiet and you hear the first strings of this tune and "ohahhh".. liftoff, like a vapour rising under pressure, floating for a moment.. that lazy piano holds you for a moment and then it's rolling and you're consumed.
"The rhythm is hot!" / Boom, the breakbeat kicks in, strobes and crowd go nuts together, 600 people bouncing in time.
The greatest rave tune of that era I reckon?
Just loving Marsh at the moment. Just what an incredible set.
Also worth checking out sets of his on YT. Beach/sunrise set from Anjunadeep Explorations is superb.
Franky Wah ‘This is SHEN’ 30-track release is a belter too.
I'll take you down, deep down...where love lives.
Nice Jameso👌🔥
Entropy was in Stoke?
Entropy was in Stoke?
Yeah, above the bus depot in Longton. You could hear the windows of the bus depot rattling and vibrating with the bass from upstairs as you walked across the car park. It got shut down after about 18 months though.
A classic from the back room of Club Kinetic and pretty much everywhere else then, when house was rave and rave was house. LOVE this tune, still.
My tune pick would have been DJ Tim & Misjah – Access
Choooon!
This track was similarly ubiquitous on the London scene in the mid-90s...
Que club, what a place. I suspect I crossed paths with a few people on here, spent many nights in there, Sundissential being the quintessential Que experience in my opinion.
Here's a couple for you.
Sundissential being the quintessential Que experience in my opinion.
Atomic Jam was the one for me, I barely missed any from about 97 to 2003. Nice to see lots of love for the old place - which looks like's it getting converted to a Hotel next year.
Narcotic Influence and Access ... that flying through space at the speed of light kind of genre. Carl Cox just blew up Club Kinetic one night with tunes like that. '94? When the scene was splitting into genres, a techno night with Carl Cox and Laurent Garnier, a load of happy ravers with hi-nrg techno rockets launched at them. I don't think any DJ regularly generated as much energy as Carl Cox did.
This was another one,
Went to the Que Club a couple of times for more of that kind of thing, 95-96 I think. Maybe later. Wasn't a fan of it there, it was too big and too many weirdo acid head lost-it cases, odd atmosphere. There was a real difference between the NW rave scene and the alternative psychedelic style nights, I thought. Ravers did it best.
Edit, seems like a lot of love for the Que Club, maybe the nights I went to weren't good ones or maybe it was just a different thing by then. There was a big difference between clubs early to late 90s. I remember going to the Edge in Coventry in the mid 90s, mainly drum n bass there and it was a pretty moody, dark atmosphere compared to Entropy or Legends.
Narcotic Influence and Access … that flying through space at the speed of light kind of genre. Carl Cox just blew up Club Kinetic one night with tunes like that. ’94? When the scene was splitting into genres,
Interesting to hear how it was happening elsewhere in the country.
I started out going to squat raves and they could be really great, but yeah there were always a proportion of casualties.
The scene down south was basically "handbag" or "hard" house / techno around that time IIRC, I favoured the latter and those two tracks in particular would get played by EVERYONE. Like Hardfloor's Acperience a couple of years before.
I associate them with DJs like Billy Nasty and clubs like Sex, Love & Motion - one of the best little nights in London - did anyone else ever make it there?
ta for the In The Que link, not seen that.
i was back in brum briefly last year, first time since the mid nineties, digbeth just aint what it was, found hwat would be the entrance for the dance factory tho
Couple of my faves from the 90s
used to pitch it down and mix in the lonnie gordon acapella catch you.
and this stomper,
https://youtu.be/ol-RprVO9DQ
This thread needs more house music : )
(OK it's more rave than pure house, but rave + house were pretty much the same for a while)
Higher! Take me higher....
Don't be afraid...
I can't stop the feeling, I just can't stop no
...just let the music motivate your mind
How come no one has put this one up yet. The definitive banger. Used to got bonkers to this..
Keeping the vibe going with a few more classics, think I can talk more about house music more than Mountain biking as it's influenced a lot of life choices
Something New
This is definitely the thread we needed this week.
I like that Jamie Jones track, feels modern and retro at the same time.
Love this one of his (remixes):
How could i forget this. This was released by a few mates of mine back in 92. Oofffff!
This one always takes me back
Haha what an eclectic mix of tunes inside one genre so far! I listened to all these on my commute, absolutely banging.
Here's another whopper, I defy you not to have at least one part of your body moving to the beat whilst listening to this! 😉
I'd finished my raving/clubbing by 92 so my fav tunes are from 90 - 92.
Anyone go here....
Njoi @ Quadrant Park
Love the nostalgia of this thread, even some new tunes to me.
There are times I wish I'd learned the art of DJing, this being one of them to do an STW classic house mix.
Anyone go here….
Njoi @ Quadrant Park
No, but I was at uni with a lad who was a regular 90-92 and and it sounded amazing, had a quality tape collection and taste in tunes. And that clip's so good!
Another classic.
The 7 minute mix on YouTube is how it should be of course.
I love house music and it contains lots of memories of good time. Only issue the memories don't include many names of tracks. I suspect some of you were not trying hard enough if you can remember names 🙂
Also I can never keep track of all the sub genres 🙂
You know when somebody does a retro cover of a classic tune and manages to pull it off... In this case Joe Smooth's Promised land.
Not too bad imo
That would fit right in on Jools Hogmanay... nice enough to hear once, don't see the point though. Original has so much more humanity squeezed into it. So much hope. Proper leave your troubles behind as you hit the dance floor vibes. That cover evokes very little in comparison.
Brothers! Sisters!
You've got have balls to try it though.
I listened to the original not so long ago and nostalgia asides, it didn't have the oomph that it once had. I wonder why? 😆
You need bigger speakers. 😉
And few hundred hot people with their hands in the air.
Promised Land... Legends Warrington.
Original has so much more humanity squeezed into it. So much hope.
+1 for the original. A stand-out tune.
Along those lines this is a more recent-ish remix not the original, but it's a good one. The original was another tune from Legends days.
You know when somebody does a retro cover of a classic tune and manages to pull it off…
Very good, but they've only rewound it a few years to disco (and to be picky, it doesn't need the Moroder bassline that comes in just before 3mins IMO).
Was hoping for a Motown-style version.
Another Legends anthem and a great cover.
Was a long time before I realised it had a full 4 1/2 mins before the sample and the 2nd part that got played out in the club.
Cool, and deadly!
Oh, if we're looking at "updates"... Foxbase Beta is essential. The whole album touched up by Richard X.
Legends again, downtempo classics. Didn't know what to make of it when I first went there because it was so much lower BPM than most places. Loved it in the end.
Some good memories here....
Legends, Quadrant Park.. Happy days.
I started in 89 with the Blackburn Warehouse parties then migrated to clubs... Shaboo, Shelleys, Hacketts, Monroes, Zone.. the NW rave scene was immense.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDFg2KNIOcY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id9E-4sCgww
Didn’t know what to make of it when I first went there because it was so much lower BPM than most places.
Classic Gay Traitor (downstairs at the Haç) track that one.
EDIT: That 808 State track even more so!
FPI Project!
Classics.
Rich In Paradise too. Legends used to play the Richie Haven's version, such a tune and way ahead of it's time. That club introduced me to so much great music beyond the house rave and techno of the times.
I have a well-looked after Legends tape with Sister Sledge 'We Are Family' dropping onto the end of Back to My Roots, straight cut, perfect timing.
And Brass Disc, classic that was over so many tracks, Daz Willot used it a lot. Like Chuck Roberts.. "In the beginning there was Jack"
Sampled on so many tunes. Used to go nuts for this one -
I was a bit late, 1995 ish.
Liquid, Sweet Harmony
And, a bit cheesy, but Set U Free by N-trance
Or, even more;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xROkeJVU0ao
The Joey Beltram and Laurent garnier tunes are monsters!
How about a bit of Bizarre Inc!
Woo, that downtempo stuff is weird, I just cannot get motivated by it. You must come out of a rave feeling refreshed, lol.
Thanks for sharing though, never heard any of that before.
JX – Son of a Gun! TUNE!
They used to play that tune at the night I went to (life@Bowlers) and I loved it.
One week we travelled all the way into Manchester from Barrow and that tune was on the shopping list and I did manage to buy it.
2 weeks later it came out as a single and I could bought have the CD single in Woolworths!
yea, saw JX live in Blackpool, 1997.
Another tune, I love - Greece 2000 by Three Drives:
Love the way it fades away, then comes back even harder. Dynamite!
Also, more recent, I'm quite liking the Hideaway/Kiesza video:
Top choreography
On the subject of choreography, this is hilarious. Utah Saints - Something Good:
I heard Bowlers was amazing but I was a classical brass player back then!
Being a Southerner, it was hard as a kid to choose what music to follow, Metal, pop, rock, dance rave etc....
So we just went to what ever was on each weekend.
About the only one that sticks in my memory is Slo Moshun, Bells of New York 🙂
Then I moved to Holland and forgot everything!!! LOL
Lovin that utah saints remix, couple more to keep the party going;
This used to pop up occasionally at raves, even before Corporation of One stuck that Queen sample on top of it.
Liam Howlett did his best work trying to sound like this 😉
This requires no comment whatsoever!
https://youtu.be/rFQZndywOR4
@jameso - nice to see another Legends regular. I loved that place
Have you read the Vice article
The Small Town Nightclub That Quietly Changed British Clubbing Forever
And let’s have another absolute banger
I’m really enjoying this thread, so many tunes that I’d forgotten about but instantly remember! 😄
How about this oldie….? Bass Construction “check how we jam”
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_mCHInM3H-o
Young Marco destroyed Dekmantel festival last year with this, its been living in my head ever since...you have been warned.
Well, someone had to post this
A Guy called Gerald - Voodoo Ray:
I seem to be stuck in 1991 tonight!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=L36m5sobhOE
Wheeling out the big guns
Awesome 3 - Don't Go:
Gentlemen strap yourselves in.
Candi Staton
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yn4HQmXyrM0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hS1pHfUP5WQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txioPc2t83c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVz9otZJ3U0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcsArF5lZfA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoBAfjvhj7o
Paying homage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oM_9ca8hxE
Forgot this classic.
Is this house or acid? LOL!
Neither sounds like Techno to me.
1988, I'm fourteen. I'm catastrophically unfashionable, but this:
Summer 1990, I'd finished my GCSEs. At a house party full of metallers:
Nothing made sense.
1983. I have the coolest big brother going. This is what he's playing on his turntable:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjObv0-8cxM