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Don't know about you guys...but every weekend is a step back in time to the old skool dazes now I got these set up again
One of my fav tunes of all time ...."Your Love" The Prodigy
One of my fav tunes of all time ….”Your Love” The Prodigy
Putting it on again now… such a huge tune still.
Im just going to leave this here,
Faithless - Not Going Home (Eric Prydz remix);
One of my fav tunes of all time ….”Your Love” The Prodigy
Mine is The Narayan <- that chanting is rather accurate but not 100%.
A little injection of cool.
Mine is The Narayan
For me it's climbatize.
Or the where the sample is from.
Jimpster!
Wondering when the Prodigy would get a look in!
Get a load of this for a video which sums up raving;
Chase and Status - Blind Faith;
There was a debate on a drum and bass group recently about what genre Prodigy fit under. The albums have some house tunes some breaks and some drum and bass. I think it was agreed that they're a genre all by themselves.
Anyway back to house bangers...
The original from the 90s.
Manic - Party People.
A remix from 21 which absolutely knocks it out the park.
@jekkyl, i have that original mix as a white label,4 track ep with that track second in just says bone masters in felt pen, nice to know what it is now.
Have been trying to remember what decks I had. Didn't want to stretch to Technics money so bought some a bit cheaper. Ended up selling them to fund a car and girlfriend. They weren't those Stanton's above. What other decent makes were around mid nineties?
This one occasionally pops up when I'm listening to an old iPod full of napster mp3s. It's got everything needed to become an absolute stone cold classic but I heard it once in some club in Huddersfield where everyone proceeded to go ballistic, and then I don't think I heard it out ever again.
For newer stuff I'm really liking KAS:ST and The Blaze, both of whom have stellar videos to go with the music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54fea7wuV6s
Yea, nice remix there of Party People.
Here’s another classic,
Urasu - Open Your Mind;
I'm going to go ahead and suggest that sleeve art wouldn't get past Legal these days.
put your hands in the air
The Blaze and KASST - excellent. Scary videos!
Never noticed that - haha
hands somewhere else
@talys. They were direct drive.
Need to sort out what I'm going to do with my vinyl as well. They've been moved between various attics and lofts over the years, so sleeves are a bit tatty yet the vinyl is mint. Been meaning to get them on Discogs but wouldn't know what they'd go for, if anything.
Sounds like they were Vestax turntables, @tewit. I don't think there were any other alternatives back then.
There was a debate on a drum and bass group recently about what genre Prodigy fit under.
Yeah, from Fat of the Land onwards they had very much become their own beast, I'm not even sure anything they made after Jilted Generation could really fit in this thread with any relevance to the OP.
How are we defining "house music" here? to me it was always the gentler more melodic end of electronic dance music more akin to disco than some of these tunes on here?
Disco? 😳
I'm going to go out on a limb here Uncle Jezza and assume you've never been in a sweaty warehouse at 4am absolutely ripped to the tits on industrial quantities of weapons grade MDMA?
They didn't generally tend to play much Chic
here you go grandad... 😉
If you have to ask what defines house music I might possibly suggest this thread might not be the place for you.
You don't have to comment on every thread you know Tj. 🙂😋
The standard answer btw I think is four to the floor.
That'll just confuse TJ, because most disco is also 4 on the floor, whereas loads of ravey stuff that feature on this thread have break beats.
I’m going to go out on a limb here Uncle Jezza and assume you’ve never been in a sweaty warehouse at 4am absolutely ripped to the tits on industrial quantities of weapons grade MDMA?
Well you would assume wrongly! 🙂 I have plenty of recollection of tunes but not of the names of them.
Dimitri from Paris used lots of disco. sister sledge / chic are two that come to mind he remixed a lot, Is that not house ? His third album was actually called disco forever IIRC. franki Knuckles? chicago house? Lot of disco there
I had this conversation with a DJ pal of mine and we had great difficulty defining the difference. I wondered how you were because to me a lot of what is on here is other genres not house? Perhaps the definitions altered around the world. Where I was and the clubs I went to theline between disco and house was very blurred. those ravey beats referred to above were considered something else
Not meaning to cause a row - just interested in how you define house
To me its one of those things really hard to define but is this thread not mixing in trance, techno,along with house?
IIRC House music refers to the house style of the club or resident DJs
I also love euro house which has very strong disco influences in the way chicago house does. As well as the harder trance / techo sounds that came later.
Paul van Dykes "for an angel" a great fave of mine from the 90s but to me thats not house its techno or trance
am I wrong? I was always more interested in the music and the dance not specificity of the genre of the music
Paul van Dyke, Jam & Spoon et al are most definitely Euro Trance just to fall further down the pigeon hole.
I agree that disco, Italo disco, etc begat house and techno and with plenty of house music, has no qualms showing it's origin. Larry Levens, Knuckles, MAW never hid their disco roots and influences.
I have never grasped the technical differences in that I can hear them but I don't know what they were technically. Not helped by not being able to remember the names of the tunes as well! I guess its a bit if you can remember then you weren't there? 🙂
Ta Ocrider - I thought i was going mad for a minute.
Edit - I've been scared to put my fave dance tracks of the era on this thread for fear of being shouted at 🙂 for putting the wrong genre on
I'm still too scared to put any tracks up 🙂 but I have spent the last while on a nostalgia trip and down a rabbit hole of definitions. Looks like i was thinking about French house also known as Euro disco! etienne de crecy, thomas bangalter, bob Sinclair, daft punk, Dimtri from paris, cassisus etc with a side track down the chicago house road of Frankie knuckles and Felix da housecat etc
So the French house i was thinking of is really a very different genre to the house music you guys meant!
Ta anyway - gave me a lovely nostalgia trip and got me no closer to any definitions
Put your tracks up and let’s have a listen to them , I don’t think this tread is about what house music is or is not it’s just a thread about dance music and people are posting what they like & remember from having a good time whilst off your face- French House is just another genre of house music and yes Dimtri is very disco influenced you would need a million threads if you wanted just specific genres eg tech house - techno - deep house - minimal tech - minimal techno - garage - uplifting - trance I could go on
But the cool kids will laugh at me 🙂
No laughing now! Most of my tunes from this era are saved on an old computer and my memory sure aint what it used to be 🙂 so I am struggling to find many on youtube
this has already had a mention I think
TJ, have a wee look for glitterbox on YouTube. I think you might like it...
Don’t have a huge amount of French house but do own all 3 tracks - again all classics
That Cassius track is one I couldn't remember the name of or find!
there was a load of latin influenced stuff I loved as well but can I find it - nope!
Cerrone but I can't find the right mixes he had hits in the disco era and in the house era.
@tj supernature by cerrone, a classic, same time as donna summer i feel love, things were happening.....
Supernature was one that sits right in that boundary between disco and house and was a hit twice for sure but there are others I can't remember. Cerrone was probably one of the first DJs that had hits in their own right that I remember - a much as I remember any of it 🙂 I couldn't find the mixes I wanted tho.
Gorgio Moroder did some fabulous stuff and it was great Daft punk recognised him on random access memories
although I had this version on 12" disk, untill my brothers dog decided to chew it up.
Does anyone know where I can buy early AGCG stuff for download?
This one hit wonder got resurrected in 2022 as Baddest Of Them All (thought about remixing it myself years ago)!
Probably the pinnacle of the French touch. Got those offbeat guitar licks synonymous with Disco and Reggae.
Gorgio Moroder did some fabulous stuff and it was great Daft punk recognised him on random access memories
He did. The cheesy pop hit Electric Dreams has had a resurgence in popularity!
Thats one I couldn't remember! Music sounds better. Ta!
Cerrone but I can’t find the right mixes he had hits in the disco era and in the house era.
Was listening to this version of Supernature last night...
Does anyone know where I can buy early AGCG stuff for download?
https://aguycalledgerald.bandcamp.com/album/automanikk
As someone mentioned breakbeat earlier on the thread, this just popped up on one of my playlists. A top notch Freestylers tune from a couple of years ago. Breaks with a very house feel to it and quite different from the old Freestylers stuff (which is still bloody brilliant!)
Ha, you could probably have a whole thread of songs that have the Hot Pants drumloop! True Faith, Fools Gold, Radio Babylon, Kylie, Right said Fred...
I still have no idea what subgenre of EDM any of this is but
I must admit to liking this,
Mory Kante - Yeke Yeke;
Not house music, by a long shot.
But props to R1 for trying some goa psytrance:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001gv77?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile
Is it time for the after party yet? some nice ambient / chillout music?
I must admit to liking this,
Mory Kante – Yeke Yeke;
That was good. Hardfloor had the big build up 303 down to a tee. Much more effective than more recent EDM 'big drop' dross.
A couple of other slightly formulaic but very effective remixes of theirs I liked,
Hot like the sun and wet like the rain.. the ultimate seduction
no intro needed (but a massive break+build added)
Is it time for the after party yet? some nice ambient / chillout music?
Any reason to post what's probably my favourite electronic record of all time. I could lie back and drift to this or groove along to it popping speakers in a club. A genius track.
And one that always tugs at the heartstrings of nostalgia - so beautiful.
Saw Orbital live when they had this and Belinda Carlisle mixed over the top. Oddly good. Later they did it with added Bon Jovi, not so sure about that.
Don't know if this will work, this is meant to be a collaborative playlist that everyone can add to.
I was going to suggest someone did that. I am still too scared of the cool kids to add to it but thats my soundtrack for the day sorted. Ta
Some real classics on that spotify list! I forgot to mention these fellows,
KLF - what time is love?;
As a contrast, I like the way this one just rumbles along,
Cj Bolland - sugar is sweeter (avh remix);
Departing from the original ‘house’ brief, have a piece of this,
Evil Nine - Cakehole;
Adam Freeland v nirvana white label;
Im just gonna go on a breakbeat trip as nobody else is posting!
Ils - next level;
Bit sweary, this one,
DJ Shadow Featuring Roots Manuva - GDMFSOB (UNKLE Uncensored Remix )
For anyone in the central belt , MFSB are doing an afternoon club with guest DJ and PA Robert Owens on March the 4th. Great wee venue and a friendly older crowd. Robert Owens
How did that A.S.H.A track pass me by? Thanks Jameso.
This one for the purists:
Love most of the Evil Nine duos stuff. ILS and Adam Freeland have done so many amazing Breakbeat tracks.
Continuing the theme of not posting a House track and in response to
Is it time for the after party yet? some nice ambient / chillout music?
How good is this
For all you old Que Club regulars...1996 Ultimate Orange.
A youthful sc-xc between 17.58-18.16
Have you seen the Que Club docco on YouTube? Such a wonderful pace.
White stripes - 7 nation Army (Freeland remix);
That Orbital video is mental
Tune and a half,
PMT - Gyromancer;
One for the chillout, then.
New Order - Crystal (Lee Coombs remix);
A NW club backroom classic with a follow-up that was just as good
Positive as you like..
Love the comments on youtube under these old classics. There's a great article about that - https://www.vice.com/en/article/8gvy7a/rave-video-comments-will-restore-your-faith-in-humanity
"If these comments are true—and why would you doubt that they are?—going out in those days was about unity and euphoria rather than wearing T-shirts that define your pecs and trying to compete in some kind of Moet-pissing competition. Maybe these comments comprise a history lesson that modern clubbers would do well to heed."
🙂
Alright, back to the main story then.
Bit poppy, but still,
Snap - Rythym is a dancer;
This guy is soo good!
Eric Prydz - Pjanno
Love the comments on youtube under these old classics.
Me too! If I find a 'topic' video with comments disabled I'll look for another with comments. Have created a rave playlist trying to find as many of the tracks I played to death on cassette as I can.
Young people saying they weren't born when track was released in 91/92 but they love it, or comments from people who shed light on the producers etc, opening up a whole avenue of investigation and suddenly finding other tracks I'd forgotten about.
Sorry, here's the proper link (ahem) to
Snap - Rythym is a Dancer:
And, just to diverge again, great remix of Adele - Hometown Glory by High Contrast;
Deep House. I have heard people change the Deep part to Derp 🙂
Loving the variety in here. Still unsure what I'd class as house music - definitely not that High Contrast remix of Adele above (even though it's an absolute banger of a D&B track though, as is their whole 'Confidential' album).
This is more at the disco/house end of what I generally listen to: