Was anybody into house music in the late 80's, anybody think of any classic house music tracks from back then.

 

One of my faves is The Party by Kraze

Yeah I was into it from about 88 to 90. Some of my faves…

 

Rhythim Is Rhythim - Strings Of Life

The Nightwriters - Let The Music Use You (Dub)

Mr Fingers - Can You Feel It? (Instrumental)

Raze - Break For Love

Mr Lee - Pump Up London

Bam Bam - Give It To Me

Todd Terry Project - Bango (To The Batmobile)

Reese And Santonio - Back To The Beat

Swan Lake - In The Name Of Love

Royal House - Can You Party?

Tyree - Acid Over

not me m8, never got into anything dancey untill trance in the mid 90's. mind you there were a few earlier tracks i liked, like oceanic 'insanity', and usura 'open your mind'...

Remember Royal House (AKA Todd Terry) and Raze, Usura was good too but was never keen on Insanity

Did like a bit of Acid House sometimes.

Totally. Got well into dance music in 1988 thanks to the likes of S'Express, Bomb the Bass and Krush. Absolutely hated 90s house, hardbag, trance and all that superclub $h!t.

Totally. Got well into dance music in 1988 thanks to the likes of S'Express, Bomb the Bass and Krush. Absolutely hated 90s house, hardbag, trance and all that superclub $h!t.

 

id take issue with that tbh, if you mean 'ian van dahl' camp of 'trance' then id agree, but real trance is IMHO the best genre ever! its euphoric, its spiritual, its melodious, it gets me where no other music has on so many levels... :)

not me m8, never got into anything dancey untill trance in the mid 90's. mind you there were a few earlier tracks i liked, like oceanic 'insanity', and usura 'open your mind'...

I'm a bit with mushyman here.

After the soul & motown of the 60s, Philly & Northern Soul of the 70s I wasn't into dance music until the likes of 2 Unlimited - Culture Beat etc around 1992/3.

Then I loved all the techno, hardcore and Progressive House from Europe throughout the 90s.

Examples:

Jam & Spoon - U96 - Westbam - Scooter - Brooklyn Bounce - Blumchen - Masterboy - Marusha - 666 - DJ Visage - Ravers On Dope - Members Of Mayday - Future Breeze - X-Perience - Interactive - Intermission - Mr. President - Red 5 - Hypetraxx - Blank & Jones - 2 Brothers On The 4th Floor - Twenty 4 Seven - DJ Quicksilver - Aquagen - Sequential One and many more

Edited September 22, 200717 yr by Euro Music

Totally. Got well into dance music in 1988 thanks to the likes of S'Express, Bomb the Bass and Krush.

 

Yes Ruth Joy, whatever happened to her? I thought that she would become as big as 'Saffron'. Also can anyone remember the vocalist with 'The Funky Worm'. I can remember 'Parrot' and 'Ping Pong'.

 

However there are so many records so little time to go through them all. Saying that I think the first house record I ever heard was Farley ’Jackmaster’ Funk & Darryl Pandy’s ‘Love Can’t Turn Around’ in about 1986, and I guess that record would sound nearer in style to all those ‘1980s Soul Weekender’ tunes like ‘the Fatback Band’ and ‘Frankie Beverley’ than to modern dance records as house music was still very soulful at that time.

 

Also from 1986, I wonder if anyone else remembers or indeed owns Stylus Music’s ‘Hit Mix 86’. I think that album was one of the very first dance mix LPs to become commercially popular, I think all those ‘Street Sounds’ albums were more underground and mostly were focused on ‘Electro’ whilst ‘Now Dance’ just had extended mixes of the Top 40’s pop hits. ‘Hit Mix 86’ on the other hand mixed 86 tracks on to four sides of vinyl and had a good range of records from ‘pop-dance’ to ‘Eurobeat’ to ‘soul’ and ‘house’. I think the albums mix was created by the DJ Les Adams (of DMC and the group ‘L.A. Mix’) and could be seen as an 80s version of all those ‘Ministry of Sound’ collections.

 

id take issue with that tbh, if you mean 'ian van dahl' camp of 'trance' then id agree, but real trance is IMHO the best genre ever! its euphoric, its spiritual, its melodious, it gets me where no other music has on so many levels... :)

 

Anything from ATB, Robert Miles etc. Basically chart dance music from the mid to late 90s or anything that now gets played on Dave Pearce's Dance Anthems (my least favourite radio show on the entire planet)

 

I take it you mean the likes of Dance.2.Trance, DJ Dag, very early KLF / Moody Boys etc. I never cared for them either but far more listenable than Ian Van Dahl and modern 'euphoric hard house' or whatever it masquerades as now.

 

 

 

Anything from ATB, Robert Miles etc. Basically chart dance music from the mid to late 90s or anything that now gets played on Dave Pearce's Dance Anthems (my least favourite radio show on the entire planet)

 

I take it you mean the likes of Dance.2.Trance, DJ Dag, very early KLF / Moody Boys etc. I never cared for them either but far more listenable than Ian Van Dahl and modern 'euphoric hard house' or whatever it masquerades as now.

 

im talking veracocha, binary finary, delerium, push, gouryella, and the likes of matt darey, dogzilla, cor finjamen...

 

ok, lower reaches of the chart as a rule. i dont understand 'klf' being labeld 'trance'.. surely the genre wasnt even coined when klf started out. id call it rock/dance crossover.

 

i guess we have differing tastes :)

I guess ‘The JAMMS’ could be seen as one of those acts that operated in different area of dance music depending on who they were that week. They could be put in a group alongside early ‘Pop Will Eat Itself’ for their cut n’ paste, ‘hip-hop’ sampling ethos (the infamous ‘1987’ album), whilst some pre-chart tracks made under the nom de plume of ‘The KLF’ could be seen some of the earliest examples of trance, especially since records such as ‘Last Train to Trancentral’ came from the ‘Pure Trance’ series of releases by ‘the JAMMS’. On the other hand I think ‘Stadium House’ was an ironic joke that was developed from their video proposals. By the way has anyone else remember the Jimmy Cauty - June Montana – Youth group ‘Brilliant’?

Indeed. To say the KLF aren't trance is ludicrous as they're quite often credited with inventing the term back in 1989 I think...but I've got the wrong end of the stick here I think. Yep, the trance you like is the stuff I hate ;)

 

Just fills me with anger rather than euphoria...

THere will never ever be an era like the Summer of Love/Hacienda era as far as dance music in concerned. I'm only 23, but I don't half know my onion on late 80s house music - the era of 88-92 is probably my favourite genere of pop music, let alone dance... Here is a list of choice house tracks from that era:

 

Inner City - Good Life/Big Fun

Lil Louis - French Kiss (rather naughty...)

Sterling Void - It's Alright (later covered by Pet Shop Boys... atrociously)

Nightwriters - Let The Music Use You

Frankie Knuckles - Your Love/Tears

Kariya - Let Me Love You For Tonight

 

And for a cheesey moment!

 

Betty Boo and Beatmsters - Hey DJ

 

Right up until the present day - I will stand by dance music thru thick and thin! But yes, it ain't what it used to be... that I can agree on.

I can not remember ‘Hey DJ’ being seen as that ‘cheesy’ back in the day as ‘MC Betty Boop’ was originally from quite a respected rap group along the lines of the ‘London Posse’ and the ‘Definition Of Sound’. However I guess that most of records that ‘the Beatmasters’ ‘re-moulded’ into chart successes for ‘the Shamen’ would also be seen as ‘cheese’ by the younger generation rather than the brilliant indie-dance creations that we thought back then.

Indeed. To say the KLF aren't trance is ludicrous as they're quite often credited with inventing the term back in 1989 I think...but I've got the wrong end of the stick here I think. Yep, the trance you like is the stuff I hate ;)

 

Just fills me with anger rather than euphoria...

 

we will agree to disagree on wether or not its any good! lol.. i totally love the genre.

Yup, the circle continues...the Beatmasters also formed the KLF's edgier material into pop nuggets. In fact, the Beatmasters pretty much deserved to share the Brit Award that the KLF picked up for best group.

 

MC Betty Boop - yup, Alison Clarkson, part of the She-Rockers and forced to drop the p when she became famous. Now inhabiting a thread not very far from this one!

‘The KLF’ could be seen some of the earliest examples of trance, especially since records such as ‘Last Train to Trancentral’ came from the ‘Pure Trance’ series of releases by ‘the JAMMS’. On the other hand I think ‘Stadium House’ was an ironic joke that was developed from their video proposals. By the way has anyone else remember the Jimmy Cauty - June Montana – Youth group ‘Brilliant’?

 

'last train to transcentral' though isnt 'trance'... its just bog standard dance/rock cross. i like it, i like klf, ... mind you not being a dance fan this might be a case of genre definition changing.. maybe klf were trance back in 89-92, but the whole genre changed with the advent of electronic (often european) music especially with energy 52 'cafe del mar' (composed in 93 originally i believe) and its that not klf thats seen as the 'one that started it'.

 

i might be late in the dance/trance scene, getting into it (discovering it really) only reletively recently, but my sisters, neice, nephew and m8s were there in the clubs and they have NEVR refered to klf as trance.

ok

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trance_music

 

klf were 'proto trance', laying down the foundations for the differing sub genres that emerged afterwards :)

 

as i like klf (reckon 'dr in the tardis' the timelords was possible the best ever use of samples on this hilarious p take track) im more then happy to accept this lol.

as i like klf (reckon 'dr in the tardis' the timelords was possible the best ever use of samples on this hilarious p take track) im more then happy to accept this lol.

 

They were one of my favourite acts at the time, so much so that we recorded and released a reply to ‘It’s Grim Up North’.

 

I actually went to their evening where they showed everybody the film that ‘Gimpo’ filmed of them burning a million pounds. They did not say why they burned it, that is to only be found written on a note inside a ‘Datsun’ that they pushed off a cliff and also would not sign any records (only money). However ‘Gimpo’ managed to sign my rare white label vinyl copy of ‘America: What Time Is Love’ and they were decent enough to go to the pub with everybody afterwards.