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dandy*
post Feb 23 2021, 06:12 PM
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Hi all - I've been building up my collection of dance singles and I'm looking for inspiration as to what to get next... ideas welcomed from all so tell us about your absolute favourites from years gone by.

Nothing too old though if you don't mind, the earliest I have at the moment is the Theme From S'Express and I don't particularly want to go any further back than that.
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post Feb 23 2021, 08:28 PM
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my 2 fav dance tracks as a kid

Krush - House Arrest


Soho - Hippychick

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post Feb 23 2021, 09:39 PM
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I’d forgotten all about House Arrest - good shout! That’s going straight on the to buy list
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post Feb 23 2021, 09:41 PM
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House Arrest is still an absolute go to for me regularly, love it so much wub.gif
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post Feb 24 2021, 11:28 AM
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Here's what I've included within my collection so far - I've always been really interested in electronic music and I'm hoping to build it up to be a good representation of dance music over the years, I've probably focussed a lot on trance so far because of me being about 18 during that era - I feel like I could do with expanding other genres of dance now. Possibly even expanding into some earlier tracks that helped form dance music as we know it today. Similarly I'm light on tracks post 2000ish so I wouldn't mind recommendations from later eras also (despite the name of this forum!)

I'm steering away from indie-dance like Prodigy and Chemical Brothers at the moment simply because I have most of their albums already - although I may look to add a couple from those types of acts for the sake of completeness - plus they're very expensive usually which puts me off!!!

2 Bad Mice - Bombscare
808 State - Pacific
A Guy Called Gerald - Voodoo Ray
Adamski - Killer
Afrika Bambaataa - Got to Get Up
Age of Love - The Age of Love
Alan Braxe & Fred Falke - Intro
All Seeing I - Beat Goes On
Alter Ego - Rocker
Altern 8 - Activ-8 (Come With Me)
Âme - Rej
Andy Stott - Ceramics
Apex Twin - Windowlicker
Armand Van Helden - Koochy
Armand Van Helden - You Don't Know Me
Ayla - Ayla
Baby D - Let Me Be Your Fantasy
Barthezz - On The Move
Basement Jaxx - Do Your Thing
Bassheads - Is There Anybody Out There
BBE - Seven Days and One Week
Bedrock - Heaven Scent
Beloved - The Sun Rising
Beloved - Sweet Harmony
Benni Benassi - Satisfaction
Billie Ray Martin - Your Loving Arms
Binary Finary - 1998/1999
Bizarre Inc - Playing With Knives
Black Box - Ride On Time
Blue Pearl - Naked In The Rain
Blueboy - Remember Me
Bob Marley vs Funkstar De Luxe - Sun is Shining
Bodyrox feat. Luciana - Yeah Yeah
Brainbug - Nightmare
Bran Van 3000 - Astounded
BT - Flaming June
BT - Godspeed
BT - Mercury and Solace
Bucketheads - The Bomb!
C & C Music Factory - Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)
C & C Music Factory - Just a Touch of Love
Cappella - U Got 2 Let The Music
Carl Craig - Science Fiction
Cassius - Cassius 99
Cassius - Feeling For You
Cerrone - Supernature
Chad Jackson - Hear The Drummer (Get Wicked)
Chemical Brothers - Loops of Fury EP
Chemical Brothers - The Private Psychedelic Reel
Chic - Good Times
Chicane - Saltwater
Clivilles & Cole - Pride / A Deeper Love
Colonel Abrams - Trapped 97
Cornershop - Brimful of Asha
Crescendo - Are You Out There
Culture Beat - Mr Vain
Cut Copy - Hearts on Fire
Cygnus X - The Orange Theme
Daft Punk - Get Lucky
Daft Punk - One More Time
Dario G - Sunchyme
David Holmes - 69 Police
David Morales / The Face - Needin' U
De'Lacy - Hideaway
Deee-Lite - Groove is in the Heart
Deep Dish - Flashdance
Deep Forest - Sweet Lullaby
Delerium - Silence
Depeche Mode - Enjoy the Silence
Digital Excitation - Pure Pleasure
Digitalism - Pogo
DJ Koze - Pick Up
DJ Mehdi - Signatune (Thomas Bangalter Mixes)
DJ Quicksilver - Bellissima
Djuma Soundsystem - Les Djinns
DNA feat. Suzanne Vega - Tom's Diner
Donna Summer - I Feel Love
Doop - Doop !!!
E'Voke - Arms of Loren
Eddy Grant - Electric Avenue 2001
Electrique Boutique - Revelation
Energy 52 - Café Del Mar
Enigma - Sadeness Part I
Erasure - Chorus
ETA - Casual Sub
Everything But The Girl - Missing
Faithless - Insomnia
Faithless - Salva Mea
Faithless - We Come 1
Fatboy Slim - Demons
Fatboy Slim - The Rockerfeller Skank
Fatboy Slim - Weapon of Choice
Felix - Don’t You Want Me
Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Two Tribes Remixes
Frankie Knuckles & Satoshi Tomiie - Tears
Fridge - Angel
Future Sound of London - Papa New Guinea
Gang Gang Dance - MindKilla
Gat Decor - Passion
Gil Scott Heron & Jamie xx - I'll Take Care Of You
Giorgio Moroder & Phil Oakey - Together in Electric Dreams
Gloworm - I Lift My Cup
Goldbug - Whole Lotta Love
Goodmen - Give It Up
Gossip - Standing in the Way of Control
Gouryella - Gouryella
Greece 2000 - Three Drives on a Vinyl
Grid - Diablo
Guru Josh - Infinity
Hardrive - Deep Inside
Hot Chip - Ready for the Floor
Humanoid - Stakker Humanoid
Hybrid - Finished Symphony
Hybrid - Symphony
iio - Rapture
Inner City - Big Fun
Jam & Spoon - Find Me (Odyssey to Anyoona)
Jam & Spoon - Stella
Jamiroquai - Space Cowboy
Jaydee - Plastic Dreams
JDS - Nine Ways
Jessie Ware - Overtime
Josh Wink - Higher State of Consciousness
Junior Jack feat. Robert Smith - Da Hype / Stupidisco
Junior Senior - Move Your Feet
Justice - D.A.N.C.E.
JX - There's Nothing I Won't Do
Kenny Dope vs The Jungle Brothers - I'll House You
Kenton Slash Demon - Harpe
Kirsty Hawkshaw - Fine Day
KLF - 3AM Eternal
KLF - Justified and Ancient
KLF - Last Train to Transcentral
KLF - What Time Is Love
Kraftwerk - Tour de France
Krush - House Arrest (thank you bjork!)
Krystal Klear - The Division EP
Kylie Minogue - Can't Get You Out Of My Head (Extended)
Ladytron - Destroy Everything You Touch
Laurent Garnier - The Man With The Red Face
Layo & Bushwacka - Love Story
Le Prix & Johan Agebjörn - Watch the World Go By
Leftfield - Song Of Life
Leftfield/Lydon - Open Up
LFO - LFO
LFO - LFO (Remixes)
Lil' Louis - French Kiss
Livin' Joy - Dreamer
Madonna - Vogue
Madonna - Ray of Light
MANDY vs Booka Shade - Body Language
Mantronix - Got To Have Your Love
M|A|R|R|S - Pump Up The Volume
Mariah Carey - My All (Remixes)
Marshall Jefferson - The House Music Anthem
Mason - Exceeder
Massive Attack - Safe From Harm
Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy
MIA - Galang
Michael Moog - That Sound
Mighty Dub Katz - Magic Carpet Ride
Mike Koglin - The Silence
Missy Elliott vs Basement Jaxx - 4 My People
Missy Elliott vs Fatboy Slim - Gossip Folks
Moby - Go
Mory Kante - Yé Ké Yé Ké
Motorcycle - As The Rush Comes
Mousse T - Horny
Mr Fingers - Can You Feel It
New Order - Blue Monday
New Order - True Faith 94
Nightcrawlers - Push The Feeling On '95
Nina Simone - See Line Woman (Remixes)
Nomad - (I Wanna Give You) Devotion
Oliver $ & Jimi Jules - Pushing On
Orbital - Chime
Orbital - III
Orbital - The Box
Orbital - Nothing Left
Orbital - Radiccio 1
Orbital - Radiccio 2
Outlander - The Vamp
Panjabi MC - Mundian To Bach Ke
Paul Hardcastle - 19
Paul Van Dyk - For an Angel
Paul Woolford - Untitled
Peggy Gou - Once
Perfecto Allstars - Reach Up (Pig Bag)
Pet Shop Boys - It's a Sin (Remix)
Pet Shop Boys - So Hard
Pete Heller's Big Love - Big Love
Pete Lazonby - Sacred Cycles
Portishead - Glory Box
Praga Khan - Injected With a Poison
Praise - Only You
Prodigy - Charlie
Propellerheads - Take California
Propellerheads/David Arnold - On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Push - Strange World
Quadrophonia - Quadrophonia
Rank 1 - Airwave
Raze - Break 4 Love
Rest Assured - Treat Infamy
Rex the Dog - Maximize
Rhythm is Rhythm - Strings of Life
Rob Dougan - Clubbed to Death 1
Rob Dougan - Clubbed to Death 2
Rob Dougan - Furious Angels
Robert Miles - Children
Robert Miles & Maria Naylor - One and One
Robyn with Kleerup - With Every Heartbeat
Roger Sanchez - Another Chance
Róisín Murphy - The Rumble
Róisín Murphy - Incapable
Róisín Murphy - Murphy’s Law
Roy Davis Jr - Rock Shock
Röyksopp & Robyn - Do It Again
Rüfüs - Innerbloom
Rui da Silva - Touch Me
Run DMC vs Jason Nevins - It's Like That
S-Express - Theme from S-Express
Safri Duo - Played-a-Live
Salt 'n Pepa - Push It
Salt Tank - Dimension
Sander Kleinenberg - My Lexicon
Sasha - Xpander EP
Sasha & Maria - Be As One
Sasha/Emerson - Scorchio
Seal - Crazy
Shamen - Move Any Mountain
Shamen - Ebeneezer Goode
Shamen - Boss Drum
Shapeshifters - Lola's Theme
SL2 - On a Ragga Tip / DJs Take Control
Snap! - The Power
Snap! - Rhythm is a Dancer
Soft Cell - Tainted Love/Where Did Our Love Go
Soul II Soul - Back to Life
Sounds - Tony the Beat (Rex the Dog mixes)
Source feat. Candi Staton - You Got The Love (Bootleg)
Source feat. Candi Staton - You Got The Love (97 Mixes)
Space Brothers - Shine
Space Manoeuvres - Stage One
Special Request - Modern Warfare I
Spiller - Groovejet (If This Ain't Love)
Stardust - Music Sounds Better With You
Storm Queen - Look Right Through
System F - Out of the Blue
Technotronic - Pump Up The Jam
Todd Terje - Inspector Norse
Todd Terje - Ragysh
Todd Terje - Strandbar
Tomcraft - Loneliness
Tori Amos - Professional Widow
UHF - UHF
Ultravox - Vienna
Underworld - Born Slippy [NUXX]
Urban Cookie Collective - The Key The Secret
Urban Shakedown - Some Justice
Utah Saints - Ohio
Utah Saints - Something Good
Veracocha - Carte Blanche
Wamdue Project - King of My castle
Watergate - Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence (Heart of Asia)
Wildchild - Renegade Master 98
William Orbit - Barber's Adagio for Strings
Wiseguys - Start the Commotion
X-Press 2 - Lazy
Young Disciples - Apparently Nothin'
Zombie Nation - Kernkraft 400
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post Feb 24 2021, 02:04 PM
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KLF America: What Time Is Love is fab
Liza Minelli Love Pains
Bassomatic aka William Orbit Fascinating Rhythm
Cathy Dennis Just Another Dream
The Shamen Move Any Mountain
Haddaway Life
Sophie B hawkins Right Beside You (dance-ish)
Corona Rhythm Of The Night
Bowie/Pet Shop Boys Hallo Spaceboy
EBTG Wrong
Faithless Salva Mea
Dario G caranaval De Paris
Echobeatz Mas Que Nada
Cher Believe
Fatboy Slim Right Here Right Now
Bob Marley vs Funkstar Sun Is Shining
Sonique Feels So Good
Sonique Sky
Silicon Soul Right On


I'll stop there as I head into my clubbing years and the list would get very long, cough Sandstorm, cough Crying At The Discotheque, Murder On The Dancefloor, cough Starlight cough etc etc etc


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post Feb 24 2021, 02:32 PM
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A personal fave, the Kicks Like A Mule Mix especially

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post Feb 24 2021, 03:40 PM
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You got lots on that list, other 90s dance tracks I love are:
Olive - You're not Alone
Sonique - It Feels so Good
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post Feb 24 2021, 03:50 PM
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The course ready or not
Bobby D"ambrosso/Michelle Weeks moment of my life
Funky Green Dogs fired up
Allison Limerick where love lives
N-Joi anthem


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post Feb 24 2021, 04:00 PM
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'Carte Blanche' is my favourite trance track of all-time. wub.gif
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post Feb 24 2021, 04:38 PM
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Nalin & Kane - Beachball
Cygnus X - Superstring
Xpansions - Move Your Body
Blank & Jones - Cream
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post Feb 24 2021, 08:34 PM
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Agnelli & Nelson El Nińo
QFX Freedom
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post Feb 24 2021, 09:09 PM
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I would have to go with my holy 1995 trilogy:

Snap feat. Summer - The First, The Last, Eternity ('Til The End)



Grace - It's Not Over Yet



Jam & Spoon - Right In The Night (Fall In Love With Music)



These all take me back to the hot sunny summer of 1995 biggrin.gif
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post Feb 24 2021, 10:01 PM
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QUOTE(lewistgreen @ Feb 24 2021, 02:32 PM) *
A personal fave, the Kicks Like A Mule Mix especially


This is a GREAT shout. Plus it made me look up the vinyl, which was ridiculously priced so I passed... which prompted me to search for a compilation with it on and I stumbled across this:

https://xlrecordings.com/buy/variousartists...ycloseattention

Which has the most amazing tracklist so I've bought it for not much more than the single would have set me back, WHAT A LABEL wub.gif
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post Feb 24 2021, 11:27 PM
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Nothing too old?

Surely you could allow “Promised Land” by Joe Smooth ! I still listen to this absolute classic at least once a month, never fails to make me feel in a better mood instantly.

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post Feb 26 2021, 12:41 AM
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You also need:



Rickie Lee Jones!
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post Feb 26 2021, 08:39 AM
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Promised land is a nice one, not sure I’ve heard that before but I like!

Out of the others listed by you kind folk, I’m most tempted to try to source N-Joi, Grace, Xpansions, Olive, The Shamen and Bassomatic
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post Feb 26 2021, 10:14 AM
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QUOTE(Doctor Blind @ Feb 24 2021, 11:27 PM) *
Nothing too old?

Surely you could allow “Promised Land” by Joe Smooth ! I still listen to this absolute classic at least once a month, never fails to make me feel in a better mood instantly.


The Style Council did a hit cover of this song, not as dancey but not a bad version


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post Feb 26 2021, 03:32 PM
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QUOTE(dandy* @ Feb 26 2021, 08:39 AM) *
Promised land is a nice one, not sure I’ve heard that before but I like!


You sure you didn't hear it when it was entered into BJSC 2 years ago? tongue.gif
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post Feb 26 2021, 03:59 PM
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Not sure!!! It clearly didn’t leave a lasting impression if I did biggrin.gif

(just checked and I gave it nil points in the semi and final... which in itself is quite unusual for me as I usually point cumulonimbia)
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