House Music all night long.

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.

Have been trying to remember what decks I had. Didn’t want to stretch to Technics money so bought some a bit cheaper. Ended up selling them to fund a car and girlfriend. They weren’t those Stanton’s above. What other decent makes were around mid nineties?

@tewit Direct drive or belt drive?

This one occasionally pops up when I’m listening to an old iPod full of napster mp3s. It’s got everything needed to become an absolute stone cold classic but I heard it once in some club in Huddersfield where everyone proceeded to go ballistic, and then I don’t think I heard it out ever again.

For newer stuff I’m really liking KAS:ST and The Blaze, both of whom have stellar videos to go with the music

Yea, nice remix there of Party People.
Here’s another classic,
Urasu – Open Your Mind;

I’m going to go ahead and suggest that sleeve art wouldn’t get past Legal these days.

put your hands in the air

The Blaze and KASST – excellent. Scary videos!
Never noticed that – haha

hands somewhere else

@talys. They were direct drive.

Need to sort out what I’m going to do with my vinyl as well. They’ve been moved between various attics and lofts over the years, so sleeves are a bit tatty yet the vinyl is mint. Been meaning to get them on Discogs but wouldn’t know what they’d go for, if anything.

Sounds like they were Vestax turntables, @tewit. I don’t think there were any other alternatives back then.

There was a debate on a drum and bass group recently about what genre Prodigy fit under.

Yeah, from Fat of the Land onwards they had very much become their own beast, I’m not even sure anything they made after Jilted Generation could really fit in this thread with any relevance to the OP.

How are we defining “house music” here?  to me it was always the gentler more melodic end of electronic dance music more akin to disco than some of these tunes on here?

Disco? 😳

I’m going to go out on a limb here Uncle Jezza and assume you’ve never been in a sweaty warehouse at 4am absolutely ripped to the tits on industrial quantities of weapons grade MDMA?

They didn’t generally tend to play much Chic

here you go grandad… 😉

If you have to ask what defines house music I might possibly suggest this thread might not be the place for you.
You don’t have to comment on every thread you know Tj. 🙂😋
The standard answer btw I think is four to the floor.

That’ll just confuse TJ, because most disco is also 4 on the floor, whereas loads of ravey stuff that feature on this thread have break beats.

I’m going to go out on a limb here Uncle Jezza and assume you’ve never been in a sweaty warehouse at 4am absolutely ripped to the tits on industrial quantities of weapons grade MDMA?

Well you would assume wrongly!  🙂  I have plenty of recollection of tunes but not of the names of them.

Dimitri from Paris used lots of disco.  sister sledge / chic are two that come to mind he remixed a lot,    Is that not house ? His third album was actually called disco forever IIRC. franki Knuckles?  chicago house?  Lot of disco there

I had this conversation with a DJ pal of mine and we had great difficulty defining the difference.  I wondered how you were because to me a lot of what is on here is other genres not house?  Perhaps the definitions altered around the world.  Where I was and the clubs I went to theline between disco and house was very blurred.  those ravey beats referred to above were considered something else

Not meaning to cause a row – just interested in how you define house

To me its one of those things really hard to define but is this thread not mixing in trance, techno,along with house?

IIRC House music refers to the house style of the club or resident DJs

I also love euro house which has very strong disco influences in the way chicago house does. As well as the harder trance / techo sounds that came later.

Paul van Dykes “for an angel” a great fave of mine from the 90s but to me thats not house its techno or trance

am I wrong?  I was always more interested in the music and the dance not specificity of the genre of the music

Paul van Dyke, Jam & Spoon et al are most definitely Euro Trance just to fall further down the pigeon hole.

I agree that disco, Italo disco, etc begat house and techno and with plenty of house music, has no qualms showing it’s origin. Larry Levens, Knuckles, MAW never hid their disco roots and influences.

I have never grasped the technical differences in that I can hear them but I don’t know what they were technically.  Not helped by not being able to remember the names of the tunes as well!  I guess its a bit if you can remember then you weren’t there?  🙂

Ta Ocrider – I thought i was going mad for a minute.

Edit – I’ve been scared to put my fave dance tracks of the era on this thread for fear of being shouted at 🙂  for putting the wrong genre on

I’m still too scared to put any tracks up 🙂   but I have spent the last while on a nostalgia trip and down a rabbit hole of definitions.  Looks like i was thinking about French house also known as Euro disco!  etienne de crecy, thomas bangalter, bob Sinclair, daft punk, Dimtri from paris, cassisus etc with a side track down the chicago house road of Frankie knuckles and Felix da housecat etc

So the French house i was thinking of is really a very different genre to the house music you guys meant!

Ta anyway – gave me a lovely nostalgia trip and got me no closer to any definitions

Put your tracks up and let’s have a listen to them , I don’t think this tread is about what house music is or is not it’s just a thread about dance music and people are posting what they like & remember from having a good time whilst off your face- French House is just another genre of house music and yes Dimtri is very disco influenced you would need a million threads if you wanted just specific genres eg tech house – techno – deep house – minimal tech – minimal techno – garage – uplifting – trance I could go on

But the cool kids will laugh at me 🙂

No laughing now! Most of my tunes from this era are saved on an old computer and my memory sure aint what it used to be 🙂 so I am struggling to find many on youtube

this has already had a mention I think

TJ, have a wee look for glitterbox on YouTube. I think you might like it…

Don’t have a huge amount of French house but do own all 3 tracks – again all classics

That Cassius track is one I couldn’t remember the name of or find!

there was a load of latin influenced stuff I loved as well but can I find it – nope!

Cerrone but I can’t find the right mixes he had hits in the disco era and in the house era.

@tj supernature by cerrone, a classic, same time as donna summer i feel love, things were happening…..