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Off work for the long weekend and had a bit of pissed up fun with my brother last night as he dusted off some cheesy trance. This still puts a smile on my face.
Guilty pleasures from the Crasher/Cream trance era
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
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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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alistair apparently went by Mekka and Planet Perfecto too…
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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.
Remember Oakey mullering this one. Those bpm’s!
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.
ScottBailey certainly not flaccid house!
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.
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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.
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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
ScottBailey Loved the Way out West mix of that.
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ScottBailey another one where I don’t know how anyone could consider it a “guilty pleasure”?! It’s just a banger. Probably the most acceptable Faithless tune.
Amps 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.
Would say this was Creams silver period, downward trajectory
What the world needs is a Business Class Lounge with orchestral remixes of Gatecrasher trance classics pumped in.
Enya-type vocals and dreamy, uplifting beats as you raid the curled up sandwiches and filter coffee just before JETSETTING off to Barbados or Corfu.
Has anyone thought of this already? The ‘Fat Lads’ could make back all that money they owe Digweed by teaming up with ESCAPE LOUNGE.
I only ever heard Oakenfold play this track, but still love it to this day. I remember it at Ultra Vegas and Creamfields in 1999
Fucking hell, Ultra Vegas - now there’s a blast from the past.
Totally forgot about that place. Went once because my uni mate was from Milton Keynes.
Remember thinking it was full of knobheads - they let too many boozers in.
I only went for the Gatecrasher events and the Ultra Vegas Birthday.
Mad_Cyril Maybe start another thread to establish the definition fk a guilty pleasure?
Might make the board run more smoothly in the future
Alistair already alluded to it in the first post of the thread:
alistair he dusted off some cheesy trance
Note the word “cheesy”.
Also, again the term “guilty pleasure” should be fairly self-explanatory. There needs to be some element of it whereby you’re aware that a fair few other people may find it a weird thing to like and perhaps a bit cringe - and therefore you may feel a bit hesitant or “guilty” about sharing it. If it’s just something you share proudly and you expect many others would understand and agree with then it’s just a “pleasure”.
Posting generally accepted stone-cold classic, non-cheesy trance doesn’t really fit the criteria.
Some bangers in here! So fast, too, to these aged ears at least.
Must say I far preferred the Nalin and Kane mix of Everytime (and it mixed brilliantly with Beachball).
I’m off down a right old rabbit hole now lol. Might fire up the decks and butcher some classics 
My BBE guilty pleasure:
elrobertos always liked the video