Feeling bored so I wondered what if push came to shove would be your favourite dance record of all time. I thought I would limit it to post 1987 so that it captures house music in its broadest sense.
To start things off, I am offer up FOL Papua New Guinea
Too many favourites of too many genres… so if I have to say one, it would be this for making me sit up and take notice of house music when I was an indie kid. The first track I heard where I stopped thinking all dance music is shite, and set me on a path to clubbing a few years later.
It may be handbaggy, but the times I’ve heard it out on a big system since has been proper shivers up the spine stuff.
I say FOL Papua New Guinea as the original is simply ageless. It evokes so much pleasure and so many great memories. Best breakbeat record, best trance record. Jam & Spoon Odyssey for Anyoona and 808 State Pacific have similar effects on me
I’ve got to many choose from as in a different mood I’d pick something else. But hearing this as the sun rises at a huge outdoor rave in the late 80’s takes some beating.
‘God Within - Raincry’ mebbies.
The Hardflloor mix of Fever Called Love for me. Has everything. Always seemed to get played right when the club were coming up on their doves in unison. Everyone stretching during the magnificent breakdown and then pure carnage for the drop. Perfect vox and a killer piano line. What more could a pill head want?
Papua New Guinea is about as good a shout as I can imagine so going with that too.
Just one record is nigh on impossible to pick. Here’s one from a list of at least 10….
‘Sacred Cycles’ is one of a few records that perfectly fits the sound that made me sit up and go “Holy fuck” back in the mid 90’s. The first 2 Renaissance albums and Carl Cox’s first F.A.C.T. album.
Another one of these threads?
Really?
Hearing these tracks makes me realise how much I miss ledging it in nightclubs.
