I think we’ve done this loads of times before haven’t we?

In reality, they’re all guilty pleasures in some way, because most of this era’s big tunes were trashy as fuck in hindsight.

Cream booked a lot of quality djs, especially in the Annexe, though. I would have said Gatecrasher and GodsKitchen were the two epicentres of trance. And I was indeed guilty of being in GodsKitchen most weeks 1999-2000.

This was pure shivers up the spine on a decent mitsi at 4am… (had to be this mix though)

An absolute banger favoured by PvD

    bosstrabs undoubtedly trashy but listening to them every few years brings back some good memories and the odd tingle. Good pick re Mike Koglin. There was plenty of trance at Cream with Oakey and Fontaine as ressies. Remember Tiesto and PVD were their Ibiza ressies for a few years in the early noughties

      My point being Cream always booked someone interesting in at least one of the rooms. It might be Sasha or Weatherall in the Annexe, or LTJ Bukem in The Courtyard, even as trance peaked.

      GodsKitchen was big room trance every week, and the back room or the Arc (the downstairs room, when even open) would either be house or just slightly more chilled trance.

      I don’t really know about Gatecrasher, I only went once or twice, although I remember it actually being shit in all honesty because it was when it had been taken over totally by UV-wearing mongs, who were doing weird stuff like sitting down on the dancefloor instead of dancing. I think they even started booing any booked house acts off (was it Roger Sanchez maybe?) GodsKitchen had a less clued-up crowd than Cream but a nicer crowd than Gatecrasher.

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        Dan Indeed, didn’t know that. There is that trancey feel to Rex records.

            bosstrabs I think we’ve done this loads of times before haven’t we?

            Yes this sort of thread has been done plenty of times before I think. Not entirely sure whether the previous threads had specified the “guilty pleasure” aspect though eg in encouraging some of the more cheesy tunes to be posted.

            But people are clearly going to quickly abandon the “guilty pleasure” angle of the OP and just start posting Cream tunes they like for the umpteenth time.

            bosstrabs In reality, they’re all guilty pleasures in some way, because most of this era’s big tunes were trashy as fuck in hindsight.

            I disagree with this bit - there’s plenty of that sort of stuff which isn’t trashy at all and still holds up.

                alistair MIKE was always a cut above back then.

                You’ve derailed your own thread already alistair!

                Further to the point I was just making to @bosstrabs above - I don’t think you can count basically anything made by MIKE around that time as a “guilty pleasure”! He was just a fucking class, top drawer producer whose stuff often still sounds clean today.

                    hugopal That’s a fair point. Track deleted. It is a guilty pleasures thread

                      Binary Finary - 1998….

                      Or if you fancy a mash up Romy from the XX has been banging out, get a loada this bad boy…….. 😆

                      Poppers at the ready

                        IndustryStandard I don’t have particular fondness for:
                        Binary Finary, Gouryella, Out of the Blue, Bullet in the Gun, Not Over Yet, Diving Faces
                        Maybe because this is the time I was clubbing every week, but those tunes got so hammered I ended up hating them, and they also ended up being played in every shite high street bar-club in places like Warrington.

                            Cafe del Mar (Nalin and Kane mix) was another one I hated for the same reason, although I did live the Three n One mix and still appreciate it.

                            bosstrabs My point being Cream always booked someone interesting in at least one of the rooms. It might be Sasha or Weatherall in the Annexe, or LTJ Bukem in The Courtyard, even as trance peaked.

                            Yeah, it was always a broad church. The boys in the office liked their US house, so you’d regularly get Sanchez, Sneak, Onionz, Joeski or the like for a bit of balance. Once Bugged Out came over it shifted around a bit, some people going to the Friday night etc.

                                IndustryStandard Binary Finary - 1998….

                                Or if you fancy a mash up Romy from the XX has been banging out, get a loada this bad boy…….. 😆

                                Binary Finary is a good tune. Personally I wouldn’t consider it a guilty pleasure.

                                If you like that Ariana Grande mash-up abomination though? Jesus fucking christ. It just sounds all sorts of wrong. The two don’t even match with each other properly.

                                  bosstrabs I don’t have particular fondness for:
                                  Binary Finary, Gouryella, Out of the Blue, Bullet in the Gun, Not Over Yet, Diving Faces

                                  Binary Finary > all the other ones you’ve listed there.

                                  Gouryella is pure cheese. Out of the Blue I don’t think is Ferry’s best work. Bullet in the Gun and Not Over Yet have both got tired. Diving Faces not sure it was ever as much a “classic”? And also quite cheesy.

                                  The Kay Cee Mix of 1999 still kicks:

                                      Guilty! Still think this was a cracking piece of shit polishing