Posted February 23, 20214 yr 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.
February 23, 20214 yr my 2 fav dance tracks as a kid Krush - House Arrest 61rFY4VPADE Soho - Hippychick ILaTgQBKRbE
February 23, 20214 yr Author I’d forgotten all about House Arrest - good shout! That’s going straight on the to buy list
February 23, 20214 yr House Arrest is still an absolute go to for me regularly, love it so much :wub:
February 24, 20214 yr Author 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
February 24, 20214 yr 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
February 24, 20214 yr You got lots on that list, other 90s dance tracks I love are: Olive - You're not Alone Sonique - It Feels so Good
February 24, 20214 yr 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 Edited February 24, 20214 yr by fiesta
February 24, 20214 yr Nalin & Kane - Beachball Cygnus X - Superstring Xpansions - Move Your Body Blank & Jones - Cream
February 24, 20214 yr I would have to go with my holy 1995 trilogy: Snap feat. Summer - The First, The Last, Eternity ('Til The End) Xe_0zKVVGQw Grace - It's Not Over Yet oBUT0cxtHlg Jam & Spoon - Right In The Night (Fall In Love With Music) DfdkKYHlZp4 These all take me back to the hot sunny summer of 1995 :D
February 24, 20214 yr Author A personal fave, the Kicks Like A Mule Mix especially 3o11rAqGaOc 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:
February 24, 20214 yr 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. QtTBMBcuweE
February 26, 20214 yr Author 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
February 26, 20214 yr 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. QtTBMBcuweE The Style Council did a hit cover of this song, not as dancey but not a bad version Edited February 26, 20214 yr by fiesta
February 26, 20214 yr 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? :P
February 26, 20214 yr Author Not sure!!! It clearly didn’t leave a lasting impression if I did :D (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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