I love house music and it contains lots of memories of good time. Only issue the memories don't include many names of tracks. I suspect some of you were not trying hard enough if you can remember names 🙂
Also I can never keep track of all the sub genres 🙂
You know when somebody does a retro cover of a classic tune and manages to pull it off... In this case Joe Smooth's Promised land.
Not too bad imo
That would fit right in on Jools Hogmanay... nice enough to hear once, don't see the point though. Original has so much more humanity squeezed into it. So much hope. Proper leave your troubles behind as you hit the dance floor vibes. That cover evokes very little in comparison.
Brothers! Sisters!
You've got have balls to try it though.
I listened to the original not so long ago and nostalgia asides, it didn't have the oomph that it once had. I wonder why? 😆
You need bigger speakers. 😉
And few hundred hot people with their hands in the air.
Promised Land... Legends Warrington.
Original has so much more humanity squeezed into it. So much hope.
+1 for the original. A stand-out tune.
Along those lines this is a more recent-ish remix not the original, but it's a good one. The original was another tune from Legends days.
You know when somebody does a retro cover of a classic tune and manages to pull it off…
Very good, but they've only rewound it a few years to disco (and to be picky, it doesn't need the Moroder bassline that comes in just before 3mins IMO).
Was hoping for a Motown-style version.
Another Legends anthem and a great cover.
Was a long time before I realised it had a full 4 1/2 mins before the sample and the 2nd part that got played out in the club.
Cool, and deadly!
Oh, if we're looking at "updates"... Foxbase Beta is essential. The whole album touched up by Richard X.
Legends again, downtempo classics. Didn't know what to make of it when I first went there because it was so much lower BPM than most places. Loved it in the end.
Some good memories here....
Legends, Quadrant Park.. Happy days.
I started in 89 with the Blackburn Warehouse parties then migrated to clubs... Shaboo, Shelleys, Hacketts, Monroes, Zone.. the NW rave scene was immense.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDFg2KNIOcY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id9E-4sCgww
Didn’t know what to make of it when I first went there because it was so much lower BPM than most places.
Classic Gay Traitor (downstairs at the Haç) track that one.
EDIT: That 808 State track even more so!
FPI Project!
Classics.
Rich In Paradise too. Legends used to play the Richie Haven's version, such a tune and way ahead of it's time. That club introduced me to so much great music beyond the house rave and techno of the times.
I have a well-looked after Legends tape with Sister Sledge 'We Are Family' dropping onto the end of Back to My Roots, straight cut, perfect timing.
And Brass Disc, classic that was over so many tracks, Daz Willot used it a lot. Like Chuck Roberts.. "In the beginning there was Jack"
Sampled on so many tunes. Used to go nuts for this one -
I was a bit late, 1995 ish.
Liquid, Sweet Harmony
And, a bit cheesy, but Set U Free by N-trance
Or, even more;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xROkeJVU0ao
The Joey Beltram and Laurent garnier tunes are monsters!
How about a bit of Bizarre Inc!
Woo, that downtempo stuff is weird, I just cannot get motivated by it. You must come out of a rave feeling refreshed, lol.
Thanks for sharing though, never heard any of that before.
JX – Son of a Gun! TUNE!
They used to play that tune at the night I went to (life@Bowlers) and I loved it.
One week we travelled all the way into Manchester from Barrow and that tune was on the shopping list and I did manage to buy it.
2 weeks later it came out as a single and I could bought have the CD single in Woolworths!
yea, saw JX live in Blackpool, 1997.
Another tune, I love - Greece 2000 by Three Drives:
Love the way it fades away, then comes back even harder. Dynamite!
Also, more recent, I'm quite liking the Hideaway/Kiesza video:
Top choreography
On the subject of choreography, this is hilarious. Utah Saints - Something Good:
I heard Bowlers was amazing but I was a classical brass player back then!
Being a Southerner, it was hard as a kid to choose what music to follow, Metal, pop, rock, dance rave etc....
So we just went to what ever was on each weekend.
About the only one that sticks in my memory is Slo Moshun, Bells of New York 🙂
Then I moved to Holland and forgot everything!!! LOL
Lovin that utah saints remix, couple more to keep the party going;
This used to pop up occasionally at raves, even before Corporation of One stuck that Queen sample on top of it.
Liam Howlett did his best work trying to sound like this 😉
This requires no comment whatsoever!
https://youtu.be/rFQZndywOR4
@jameso - nice to see another Legends regular. I loved that place
Have you read the Vice article
The Small Town Nightclub That Quietly Changed British Clubbing Forever
And let’s have another absolute banger
I’m really enjoying this thread, so many tunes that I’d forgotten about but instantly remember! 😄
How about this oldie….? Bass Construction “check how we jam”
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_mCHInM3H-o
Young Marco destroyed Dekmantel festival last year with this, its been living in my head ever since...you have been warned.
Well, someone had to post this
A Guy called Gerald - Voodoo Ray:
I seem to be stuck in 1991 tonight!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=L36m5sobhOE
Wheeling out the big guns
Awesome 3 - Don't Go:
Gentlemen strap yourselves in.
Candi Staton
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yn4HQmXyrM0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hS1pHfUP5WQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txioPc2t83c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVz9otZJ3U0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcsArF5lZfA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoBAfjvhj7o
Paying homage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oM_9ca8hxE
Forgot this classic.
Is this house or acid? LOL!
Neither sounds like Techno to me.
1988, I'm fourteen. I'm catastrophically unfashionable, but this:
Summer 1990, I'd finished my GCSEs. At a house party full of metallers:
Nothing made sense.
1983. I have the coolest big brother going. This is what he's playing on his turntable:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjObv0-8cxM
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.
