mid-nineties chart dance

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i'm trying to make a fat and big collection of mid-nineties chart dance music and have only been able to come up with a few really good tracks from that era. if anyone can think of any more please let me know. so far i have these: adamski - killer, black box - ride on time, wink - higher state of consciousness, sash - encore une fois, wildchild - renegade master, olive - you're not alone, baby d -let me be your fantasy, beats international - dub be good to me, berri - sunshine after the rain, n-trance - set you free, prodigy - no good. any suggestions would be great. thanks.

― xyz, Sunday, 28 August 2005 11:41 (twenty years ago)

Hate being petty, but aren't these mostly from about 1990/91?

Anyway, Fascinating Rhythm by Bassomatic is a great tune, from '91.

― KeefW (kmw), Sunday, 28 August 2005 12:01 (twenty years ago)

I have a folder of just this kind of stuff. Like:

Whigfield - Think Of You, Gimme Gimme
Dreamworld - Movin' Up
ALex Party - Don't Give Me Your Life
Corona - Rhythm Of The Night, Baby Baby
Dannii Minogue - All I Wanna Do
JX - You Belong To Me
Mozaic - Nothing In The World
Crush - Jellyhead
Pandora - Smile N Shine
SOAP - Ladidi Ladida
Tatjana - Santa Maria
Tokyo Ghetto Pussy - Everybody On The Floor

― edward o (edwardo), Sunday, 28 August 2005 12:10 (twenty years ago)

Oceanic - "Insanity"
M-Beat - "Incredible"
Bizarre Inc - "Playing with Knives"
Technotronic - "Rocking Over the Beat"

There must be a million threads on this already.

― I Ain't No Addict, Whoever Heard of a Junkie as Old as Me? (noodle vague), Sunday, 28 August 2005 12:12 (twenty years ago)

What do you mean by 'mid-90s' (as someone has pointed out, half that stuff is from 90/91)? What do you mean by 'dance'?

If you want poppy, commercial stuff I would add (in no particular order):
Dee-Lite - Groove is in the heart
Blue Boy - Remember Me
Snap - The Power
Young Disciples - Apparently Nothing
The All Seeing I - Beat goes on
Kenny dope & the buckethedz - the bomb
the goodmen - give it up
Robin s - show me love

If you want full-on Rave try N-Joi - Live in Manchester, and plenty more Prodigy singles.

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Sunday, 28 August 2005 12:23 (twenty years ago)

Ice MC "Think about the way" & "It's a rainy day"

MC Sar & The real McCoy "It's on you"

Everything by Cappella

― Rudolf (Rudolf), Sunday, 28 August 2005 12:38 (twenty years ago)

Judging from your initial list, perhaps try:

Billie Ray Martin, Your Loving Arms
Gloworm, Carry Me Home + Young Hearts
Our Tribe, High As A Kite + Love Come Home
The Original, I Luv U Baby
The Grid, Swamp Thing
Grace, Not Over Yet + Skin On Skin
Mary Kiani, When I Call Your Name
Mozaic, Sing It
Jinny, Keep Warm
Jam and Spoon, Right In the NIght
Judy Cheeks, Respect
Brand New Heavies, Midnight at the Oasis
CJ Lewis, Best of My Love
Black Machine, How Gee
Ken Doh, I Need A Lover Tonight
Kadoc, The Night Train
Gat Decor, Passion
Alcatraz, Give Me Luv
Club House, Light My Fire + Living In The Sunshine
Shara Nelson, Down That Road + Uptight

― brittle-lemon (brittle-lemon), Sunday, 28 August 2005 12:39 (twenty years ago)

whigfield - saturday night
los del rio/los del mar - macarena
ann lee - 2 times
haddaway - what is love
no mercy - where do you go
robert miles - children
triple x - x-files theme
la bouche - be my lover, sweet dreams
n-trance - stayin alive
mc sar & the real mccoy - another night
hocus pocus - heres johnny
the steppers - who the fuck is alice
rednex - cotton eye joe
everything but the girl - missing
paul van dyk ft the girl from st etienne - the riddle (tell me why)

― minna (minna), Sunday, 28 August 2005 12:50 (twenty years ago)

jx - you belong to me

― minna (minna), Sunday, 28 August 2005 12:54 (twenty years ago)

crystal waters - 100% pure love

― minna (minna), Sunday, 28 August 2005 12:56 (twenty years ago)

reel 2 real - i like to move it

― minna (minna), Sunday, 28 August 2005 12:57 (twenty years ago)

dr alban - sing hallelujah!!!!!

― minna (minna), Sunday, 28 August 2005 12:58 (twenty years ago)

unique II - break my stride

― minna (minna), Sunday, 28 August 2005 13:00 (twenty years ago)

whigfield - sexy eyes
n-trance - do ya think im sexy?
aqua - dr jones, barbie girl
mr president - coco jumbo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

― minna (minna), Sunday, 28 August 2005 13:02 (twenty years ago)

tori amos - professional widow

― minna (minna), Sunday, 28 August 2005 13:04 (twenty years ago)

thankyou for the suggestions.

― xyz, Sunday, 28 August 2005 13:05 (twenty years ago)

daft punk around the world
s.o.a.p. - this is how we party
mousse t ft hot & juicy - horny
the tamperer ft maya - feel it
cher - believe
stardust - music sounds better with you
madonna - ray of light
bz ft joanne - jackie
josh abrahams ft amiel daemion - addicted to bass

― minna (minna), Sunday, 28 August 2005 13:12 (twenty years ago)

ya ya ya coco jamboo ya ya yeah

― minna (minna), Sunday, 28 August 2005 13:14 (twenty years ago)

Nalin & Kane - Beachball

― Roz (Roz), Sunday, 28 August 2005 13:14 (twenty years ago)

pandora - a little bit
vengaboys - we like to party, boom boom boom boom
delerium - silence
atb - 9 pm (til i come)
eiffel 65- blue

― minna (minna), Sunday, 28 August 2005 13:30 (twenty years ago)

No mid-nineties dance collection is perfect without some Europop classics:

Dr. Alban: "It's My Life"
Coro feat. Taleesa: "Because the Night"
Cappella: "U Got 2 Know" & "U Got 2 Let the Music"
Urban Cookie Collective: "The Key, the Secret" & "Feels Like Heaven"
Doop: "Doop"
Culture Beat: "Mr. Vain" & "Got to Get It"
The Grid: "Swamp Thing"
The Shamen: "L.S.I."
DJ Bobo: "Everybody"
Utah Saints: "Something Good"
Captain Hollywood Project: "All I Want"
Tony di Bart: "The Real Thing"
D:Ream: "Things Can Only Get Better"
East 17: "It's Alright"
Leila K.: "Open Sesame" & "Glam!" & "C'Mon Now"
Snap!: "Rhythm Is a Dancer"
Ace of Base: "All That She Wants" & "The Sign"
U96: "Inside Your Dreams" & "Love Religion" & "Club Bizarre"
2 Unlimited: "Let the Beat Control Your Body"
Stakka Bo: "Living it Up"
Army of Lovers: "Israelism" & "I Am"
Def Dames Dope: "It's OK, All Right"

All these are great tunes, by the way, I left the more shitty ones out.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 28 August 2005 15:03 (twenty years ago)

A few more Euro tunes, with some techno and trance hits added in:

Jam & Spoon: "Find Me (Odyssey to Anyoona)"
CJ Bolland: "Sugar Daddy"
Westbam: "Celebration Generation" & "Wizards of the Sonic"
Marusha: "It Takes Me Away"
ULTRASONIC: "Check Your Head"
Scooter: "Hyper Hyper" & "Move Your Ass"
Sven Väth: "L'Esperanza"
DJ Tom & Norman: "Bass 4 Love"
RMB: "Redemption" & "Spring" & "Reality" & "Experience (Follow Me)"
Mo-fo: "Ein Zwei Polizei"
Credit to the Nation: "Teenage Sensation"
2 Cowboys: "Everybody Confi Gon"

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 28 August 2005 15:13 (twenty years ago)

Usura: "Exterminate"
U96: "Do You See the Light"
Melodie MC: "I Wanna Dance"
Scatman John: "Scatman" & "Scatman's World"
K7: "Come Baby Come"
N-Trance: "Stayin' Alive"
20 Fingers: "Short Dick Man"
Twenty 4 Seven: "Is It Love"
Alex Party: "Read My Lips"
2 Brohters on the 4th Floor: "Never Alone"

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 28 August 2005 15:21 (twenty years ago)

Sorry, "Ein Zwei Polizei" is by Mo-do, not Mo-Fo. :)

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 28 August 2005 15:22 (twenty years ago)

Dance 2 Trance: "Power of American Natives"
Shaggy: "Oh Carolina"
Atlantic Ocean: "Waterfall"
Moby: "Move" & "Hymn (This Is My Dream)" & "Feeling So Real" & "Everytime You Touch Me"
DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince: "Boom, Shake the Room!"
Maxx: "Get-A-Way"
Jaydee: "Plastic Dreams"
Haddaway: "Life"
Playahitty: "The Summer Is Magic"
Double You: "Part-Time Lover"
Loft: "Hold On"
Mark'Oh: "Randy (Never Stop This Feeling)"
Intermission: "Piece of My Heart"
CB Milton: "It's a Loving Thing"

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 28 August 2005 15:32 (twenty years ago)

Wasn't "Exterminate" by Snap!

Usura did "Open your mind" (with the Simple Minds sample)

― Rudolf (Rudolf), Sunday, 28 August 2005 16:04 (twenty years ago)

Yes, you're right, for some reason I always mix those two songs, even though they're not even that similar. They're both great though.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 28 August 2005 16:09 (twenty years ago)

And of course you need some Happy Hardcore (Dutch style):

everything by Paul Elstak

everything Charlie Lownoise & Mental Theo

Dune "Hardcore vibes"

Bodylotion "Always hardcore"

Critical mass "Burning love"

― Rudolf (Rudolf), Sunday, 28 August 2005 16:10 (twenty years ago)

Not sure if this was already mentioned (don't see it):

Corona "Rhythm of the night"

― Rudolf (Rudolf), Sunday, 28 August 2005 16:12 (twenty years ago)

Shit, I'd forgotten about Dune! Threads like this always bring back so many memories... I wouldn't recommend everything by Charlie Lownoise & Mental Theo; they used to produce the straight, non-happy variant of hardcore and gabba before turning to happy hardcore. Ever heard "The Ultimate Sextrack"? It consists of continuous vocal loops like "suck suck suck the penis" and "kiss kiss kiss the penis" and "up'n'up'n'up'n'down", divided by breaks such as "Don't you love the penis?" or "This is the ultimate sextrack!", all rolling over a hardcore beat. The only hardcore track I've heard worse than that was something played in the radio in the early nineties: it was merely a gabba beat with sampled loops of people vomiting, accompanied by occasional and very poor German rapping. The DJ introduced the tune by saying, "You know, I've been playing records on the radio for over ten years now, and this is the worst song I've ever heard!". It wasn't hard to believe him.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 28 August 2005 16:28 (twenty years ago)

Please don't forget Dannii's awesome "Everything I Wanted".

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Sunday, 28 August 2005 21:10 (twenty years ago)

Hmm, can't remember that, how did it go?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 29 August 2005 06:31 (twenty years ago)

The album version was rub, but the single mix was great. YOu'RE EVERYTHING I WANTED! YOU'RE JUST ANOTHER PART OF ME. The title was whispered quite a bit in a surprisingly unrubbish way. And so on.

― edward o (edwardo), Monday, 29 August 2005 06:47 (twenty years ago)

Max Don't Have Sex With Your Ex

― Mippy (Mippy), Monday, 29 August 2005 09:50 (twenty years ago)

Haha, and don't forget the follow-up, "Billy Put a Condom on Your Willy". Though there are actually two other mid-nineties Eurodance songs advocating condom use that are better than the E-Rotic tune: "Put It On" by Sin with Sebastian (sung from the point of view of a gay man) and "Don't Be Silly" (sung from a woman's point of view). The latter is particularly good, I think E-Rotic stole their chorus from that song. Here are the lyrics for "Don't Be Silly":

Hey you, don’t be silly, put a condom on your willy
Yeah yeah, yeah yeah, yeah
Hey you, don’t be silly, put a condom on your willy
Yeah yeah, yeah yeah, yeah

I said, not without a rubber (no!) Not without a rubber (no!)
C to the O to the N to the D to the O to the M
I said, not without a rubber (no!) Not without a rubber (no!)
C to the O to the N to the D to the O to the M

On top, on top, everybody on top
Put it on, put it on, put it on, put it on
On top, on top, everybody on top
Me no want no HIV
On top, on top, everybody on top
Think about it, think about it
On top, on top, everybody on top
Condom!

Hey you, don’t be silly, put a condom on your willy
Yeah yeah, yeah yeah, yeah
Hey you, don’t be silly, put a condom on your willy
Yeah yeah, yeah yeah, yeah

Keep it coming like I do, when I hear the music I’m humming
For once take a stand like we all do in our four girls band
It’s not about sex we’re talking (no)
But how to face the future (you know)
Love to make love, get sweaty and wet
But I always use me brains in bed
It happens every day that people get carried away
Stop fooling around, start thinking about the risks involved, I say
Become an expert, experiment, try everything, try to invent
Just don’t stop being silly and put a condom on your willy

Hey you, don’t be silly, put a condom on your willy
Yeah yeah, yeah yeah, yeah
Hey you, don’t be silly, put a condom on your willy
Yeah yeah, yeah yeah, yeah

You stop, not without a condom
Put it on, put it on, put it on, put it on
Ooh eh eh eh, ooh eh eh
Ooh eh eh eh, ha ha ha ha ha
On top, on top, everybody on top, on top, on top
On top, on top, everybody on top, on top, on top

- Hey yo, Snake, do you wear it?
- I don’t wear it, my man wears it
- And ah do you put it on or does he?
- Sometimes I do it, sometimes he does
- But ah it’s kinda like fun, it’s like a game, ain’t it now?
- Yep, and you have it in different flavors

Hey you, don’t be silly, put a condom on your willy
Yeah yeah, yeah yeah, yeah
Hey you, don’t be silly, put a condom on your willy
Yeah yeah, yeah yeah, yeah

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 29 August 2005 10:25 (twenty years ago)

And speaking of Sin With Sebastian, no mid-nineties collection is perfect without "Shut Up and Sleep With Me", one of the glory moments of gay dance pop.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 29 August 2005 10:27 (twenty years ago)

Ha ha speaking of which what about Newton's "Sky High"??

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 29 August 2005 12:21 (twenty years ago)

Here's a few more obvious classics from the era I forgot to mention earlier:

Faithless: "Insomnia"
The Prodigy: "One Love" & "Voodoo People"
Chicane: "Offshore"
Apollo 440: "Ain't Talking 'Bout Dub" & "Krupa"
Technohead: "I Wanna Be a Hippy"
BBE: "Seven Days and One Week"
Orbital: "The Theme from Saint"
Felix: "Don't You Want Me"
Stretch'n Vern: "I'm Alive"

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 29 August 2005 13:23 (twenty years ago)

Galaxy FM (don't know the frequency I'm afraid as I am at work and the digital radio is far away) is doing an old school dance day and, in between lots of noughties chart dance, has been playing lots of early / mid 90s chart dance.

― hmmm (hmmm), Monday, 29 August 2005 13:40 (twenty years ago)

Nush - "U Girls"
Tin Tin Out - "All I Wanna Do"
CJ Bolland - "Sugar is Sweeter"
Livin' Joy - "Dreamer"
SL2 - "On a Ragga Tip"
Sasha - "Arkham Asylum"
Robert Miles - "One & One"

― Pvt. Dave Goes To Far (scarlet), Monday, 29 August 2005 14:14 (twenty years ago)

Open your eyes - Koko
Alex Party's best was wrap me up

― william hillier, Sunday, 11 September 2005 04:04 (twenty years ago)

stay - sash
back in my life - alice deejay
son of a gun - jx
try me out - corona

― william hillier, Sunday, 11 September 2005 04:16 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

Has everyone forgot the great "Leila K - Open Sesame"?

― Diogo Carvalho, Wednesday, 28 September 2005 20:21 (twenty years ago)

daft punk - da funk
blackstreet - no diggity

― Lukas (lukas), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 20:32 (twenty years ago)

Robert Miles - "One & One"

Fantastic! Exponentially better than Children.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 20:36 (twenty years ago)

Has everyone forgot the great "Leila K - Open Sesame"?

No, I mentioned it in my first post. Though personally I like "Glam!" even more.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 29 September 2005 04:26 (twenty years ago)

DON'T FORGET THE REAL MCCOY! THEY WERE REALLY BIG!

― salexander (salexander), Thursday, 29 September 2005 05:10 (twenty years ago)

9 hours
http://www.musicspace.com/product.asp?catalog%5Fname=musicspace&category%5Fname=00s&product%5Fid=MS1176

if i wanna dance with a hottie and get her in the mood for horizontal dancing i'[ll play sam fox , sabrina salerno and tatjana simic.

― retroman, Thursday, 29 September 2005 05:32 (twenty years ago)

MC Sar & The Real McCoy are already mentioned. Though I have to say that "Run Away" and "Automatic Lover" are just as good as "Another Night".

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 29 September 2005 05:36 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

Not sure if this song has been mentioned. I know nothing about it except one goes "I'm alive, the man with the second face...." and so on. Any help identifying this song would be greatly appreciated. I've tried all the lyric search engines and I'm getting nothing.

― Imran Malik, Friday, 14 October 2005 14:05 (twenty years ago)

If memory serves, that's "I'm Alive", by Stretch & Vern. There were a slew of these kind of dance tunes in the late 90s, basically consisting of a speeded-up rap sample and a hard house beat. Also worth checking:

"Up To No Good" - The Porn Kings
"Wildstyle" - DJ Supreme

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Friday, 14 October 2005 14:09 (twenty years ago)

is that dj supreme one a tune where someone shouts "dj supreme" a lot? i remember stabnding transfixed in top shop on oxford st one time in 97/98? standing watching those huge tvs shouting "dj supreme!!!!"

i thought: "fuck yeah!"

― ambrose (ambrose), Friday, 14 October 2005 14:12 (twenty years ago)

The song's "I'm Alive" by Stretch'n'Vern. It's a fun tune, part of the late nineties "house tracks with helium vocals" mini-boom kick-started by "Renegade Master".

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 14 October 2005 14:12 (twenty years ago)

(x-post)

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 14 October 2005 14:12 (twenty years ago)

"Wildstyle" goes like this:

The low profile
most versatile child
The low profile
most versatile deejay
The low profile
most versatile child
number one
undercover
the inventor of wildstyle

The low profile
most versatile child
The low profile
most versatile deejay
The low profile
most versatile child
number one
undercover
DEE
JAY
SU
PREME
!!!

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Friday, 14 October 2005 14:15 (twenty years ago)

"I'm Alive" by Stretch and Vern!!!! Man, that was big.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 14 October 2005 14:17 (twenty years ago)

oh AMBER - sexual, thats a great song! i ws reminded by that awesome comp that retroman posted. retroman havent you had enough of samantha fox tho?

― minna (minna), Friday, 14 October 2005 14:37 (twenty years ago)

>> The only hardcore track I've heard worse than that was something played in the radio in the early nineties: it was merely a gabba beat with sampled loops of people vomiting, accompanied by occasional and very poor German rapping.

-- Tuomas (tuomas.alh...), August 28th, 2005 6:28 PM. (Tuomas)

Someone pls YSI this immediately!

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Friday, 14 October 2005 14:45 (twenty years ago)

basically consisting of a speeded-up rap sample and a hard house beat.

Another for this fine camp is Klubhoppers 'Klubhopping' ("Go with the halfste for yours is a full kind you're making me dizzy pumping the junk into my mind" or somesuch)

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Friday, 14 October 2005 15:10 (twenty years ago)

I always heard that as:

known as a half-step
but yours is a full climb
you're makin' me dizzy
pumpin' the junk into my mind

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Friday, 14 October 2005 15:13 (twenty years ago)

JX - There's Nothing I Won't Do. One day the other week I woke up and remembered about this song and found it and now I have to listen to it at least once a day.

― valium_annie, Friday, 14 October 2005 17:16 (twenty years ago)

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