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.

    bosstrabs Remember hearing it for the first time. Brandon Block Club for Life 95. Huge record. Still think Stay Gold is their best production ever

        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.

          bosstrabs
          The bass hooks on the Deep Dish mixes were boss in a big main room like @ Cream.

          Top 10 for sure, probably top 5

            ‘God Within - Raincry’ mebbies.

            Dubman Which mix? I also really like the Dave Angel one. Don’t like Soul Central. They just cheesed it up.

                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.

                  SM001

                  from Carl Cox F.A.C.T is a fucking beauty.

                    Hearing these tracks makes me realise how much I miss ledging it in nightclubs.

                    I think there was a thread on the GU forum that described this thread better under the name of ‘Honeymoon E tracks’. Essentially, the gist of it was what colours our idea of ‘best’ dance track is heavily influenced by the first year of exposure to MDMA. For me, and don’t want to break the track down into components to say why I liked it, other than it’s beautiful trance and I didn’t hear it ad nauseam like their other track that was big at the time (Eugina) is:

                    But I’ve gotta add in 2 others as technically they’re much better feats of engineering- they just don’t have the euphoric impact for me as the first:

                      Fuck it, here’s 2 more. 😅

                      Wasily Binary Finary 1998 sounded fucking exhilarating on MDMA at the time!

                        Still think Humate Love Stimulation is a top tenner.

                          Breeder the Chain has to be up there. The best tracks like this sound amazing in transition

                          Wasily Essentially, the gist of it was what colours our idea of ‘best’ dance track is heavily influenced by the first year of exposure to MDMA.

                          Nowhere near true for me.

                            alistair Still think Humate Love Stimulation is a top tenner.

                            I’d agree with that, though which version? I’d say the PvD Mix.

                                How quickly this thread has descended into a ‘I will post lots of prog tracks that I like’ farce.

                                Predictable.

                                  Trying to pick a favorite is practically impossible, but I’m gonna have my best of all time be the track that made me realize I liked electronic music. I actually liked it before I knew what it was, but the track that connected the dots for me was this one, oddly enough:

                                    Kells77
                                    I’ve still a few Front 242 tracks somewhere. I got into some New beat but soon went off it.

                                        bosstrabs How quickly this thread has descended into a ‘I will post lots of prog tracks that I like’ farce.

                                        Predictable.

                                        I’ll give it a few more posts before adding Pounds and Penz.

                                          Dubman I’ve still a few Front 242 tracks somewhere. I got into some New beat but soon went off it.

                                          I remember getting this on a cassette when I was about 12 or 13 and trying to convince everyone in my family that it was amazing….they did not agree (and still don’t) 😂

                                            After giving it more thought than I should, I’d have to go with this one. Tuff call tho. Luke Slater; Love (Loved) and Basic Channel; Phylyps Track II/II are tuff to pass over.