Posted November 28, 20213 yr So Gezza's TOTP thread has us at Roobarb and Custard, so here's a reminder/discussion about the curious techno/rave foray into children's TV show themes, games and BBC infomercials from the early 90s: cSTBFZ-To2E The Prodigy - Charly 1991 w0hMe46F3P8 Shaft - Roobarb and Custard 1991 sXYa_qklKPc Urban Hype - A Trip To Trumpton 1992 J7uVVImPhdY Smart E's - Sesame's Treet 1992 NJKsn_OkOQ0 Doctor Spin - Tetris 1992 Not rave but still VERY 90s: A2nF92mu8X0 Ambassadors of Funk - Super Mario Land 1992
November 28, 20213 yr You've missed off Hedgehogs with Attitude. : ( From Christmas 92~ Inlay card reads 'All proceeds that Sega receive from sales of this record will be donated to the Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy Centre. The charity helps children with severe learning difficulties communicate through the medium of music' MoubaWRkuHk
November 28, 20213 yr 4n4pk9uWfiU I know this is awful but I kinda love it at the same time, bits of it remind me of KLF! There's a definite rip off from Last Train to Transcentral in there in the bridge with the female vox
November 28, 20213 yr Author You've missed off Hedgehogs with Attitude. : ( From Christmas 92~ Inlay card reads 'All proceeds that Sega receive from sales of this record will be donated to the Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy Centre. The charity helps children with severe learning difficulties communicate through the medium of music' MoubaWRkuHk That passed me by! :o
November 28, 20213 yr Wtf at the Lemmings song :lol: It's so catchy though :D Oh no! Let's go! Weeeeeeeeee, geronimo! I've actually listened 3 times since posting that video :kink:
November 29, 20213 yr MwnZabEL0-8 I know for a fact that there was one done in 1991 but I can't find it anywhere online. The one I posted is dated 1993 on Discogs.
November 29, 20213 yr I love how this is one of those chart trends that is so specific to a certain frame of time. Charly was the one that set the ball rolling on the whole thing and then there were a ton of high charting rave remixes based around the children's TV concept in 1992 but within another year it had burnt itself out.
November 29, 20213 yr I love how this is one of those chart trends that is so specific to a certain frame of time. Charly was the one that set the ball rolling on the whole thing and then there were a ton of high charting rave remixes based around the children's TV concept in 1992 but within another year it had burnt itself out. The trend for medleys in the early 80s was similar. In the wake of the success of Starsound in 1981 there were a loads of medley records in the charts that year but by 1982 they were nowhere. Of course Jive Bunny revived the craze in 1989 but it wasn't anywhere near as big.
November 29, 20213 yr We also had the trend of the 'megamix' in the early 90s which thankfully died a death.
November 29, 20213 yr From how I interpreted what was said on the 90s dance number ones thread, I thought that the Toytown Techno ones were deemed uncool at the time by most ravers and they mostly only appeared really as rave was dying out as a genre? I wonder why the rave sound in the charts slowly dissapated in the second half of 1992 and only the Prodigy really had rave sounding hits after that (apart from a brief revival at the end of 1994 with Baby D Let Me Be Your Fantasy and N-Trance Set You Free)
November 29, 20213 yr I think it was just the whole "sound has become fully mainstream and now cheap knock offs seem to be making the Top 10 every other week" thing that usually occurs with trends in genres but I agree the drop off did seem quite sharp with the rave hits.
December 1, 20213 yr The first one was Mark Summers “Summers Magic” in Feb 1991 - that was a remix of the Magic Roundabout theme! It only got to 27 though, so the Prodigy got the first Top 10 hit with this style. oumsdTXWL8U
December 1, 20213 yr I think it was just the whole "sound has become fully mainstream and now cheap knock offs seem to be making the Top 10 every other week" thing that usually occurs with trends in genres but I agree the drop off did seem quite sharp with the rave hits. Its really personified by one track from late 1992 I think, Bizarre Inc - I'm Gonna Get You, a normal piano house track from a former rave band.
December 29, 20213 yr Like with many genres the rave tunes in the charts were a mixture of underground records that got big and records that were made for the charts. "A Trip To Trumpton" was a credible record called "Feel the Heat" but they replaced the vocals in it with the Trumpton sample for the single release. "Sesame's Treet" was very much a novelty record, but Smart E's member Luna C started Kniteforce Records afterwards which is quite an iconic label in the rave scene. The rave tunes stopped charting in 1993 but there were plenty of big records coming out and lots of big raves still happening. By 1994 the rave sound split into jungle and happy hardcore with jungle then evolving into drum & bass. "Set You Free" and "Let Me Be Your Fantasy" were both recorded in 1992 but didn't chart until 1994.
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