Top 20 Techno/Rave Tunes of the Early 90s
Written by Bill G on June 8th, 2007 in 90s, Music, Periods, culture.
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In the early nineties rave music was everywhere. I remember it well. I was in college at the time and living in Orlando. Back then the downtown party scene was much cooler. Firestone was around, The Edge was around. Clubs stayed open all night and nobody even went out until well after midnight. If we got bored we drove to Gainesville and went to Simons. Zen Festival was in full effect and raves were ubiquitous. Ecstasy was plentiful and we liked how that dude from Rabbit in the Moon wore that crazy mirror-jacket!
Anyway, looking back on it, I would have to say the whole scene was dumber than hell. But the music was great! Of course, it’s hard not to listen to the music you grew up with and not have a little bit of nostalgia (I grew up in the 80s, thus I have a soft spot for 80s music, even while I understand that most of it isn’t very good). Sure, a lot of rave music, just like a lot of house music, is total crap. But some of it I really enjoyed at the time, and in that spirit I bring you my personal top 20 rave/techno tunes of 1990-1993. Naturally, rave purists will yell at me about it (How could you not include Run Tings? Where’s the Smart-ees?! Where’s DJ Icey?! Only a poseur would include Lords of Acid!). Whatever dudes! Go make your own list!
Top Twenty Techno/Rave Tunes of the Early 90s
20. Baby D - Let Me Be Your Fantasy
This one throws everything in but the kitchen sink. Female vocals (Dorothy Fearon), piano riffs, sirens, and at the end there’s a good amount of 303 squelches. From the Production House label, who also gave us Acen. This is a huge breakbeat/rave item and has been re-released countless of times.
19. Return of the Living Acid - Get Funky! (1991)
Return of the Living Acid is actually Tony Payne, who also did Goal Kick, which is on a 12″ white label from back in the day called “History Repeats” “Get Funky!” is my personal guilty pleasure. It’s not a complex song, but it combines all the required elements (long deep base notes, 303 acid stabs, hiphop sample) in just the right way to get the intended effect. I mean, it’s Africa Bambaata’s Planet Rock (Yo Yo, Get Funky! Yaaahhhhh!) turned into a rave anthem. Sounds good to me!
18. SL2 - On A Ragga Tip (1992)
This is the best example I can think of what they call “Ragga Techno”. It’s basically breakbeat with a reggae/dancehall influence. This song tends to make me jump up and down alot - it’s very bouncy. And I love the sampling of Jah Screechy’s “Walk & Skank” even though I have no idea what he’s saying.
17. Zero Zero - Zeroxed (1991)
Here’s a hardcore song off the Kickin’ label that samples Jimi Hendrix (the guitar riff from “Fire”). It also has a sample of Aphrodite’s Child (”Now comes the capture of the beast”) and sirens to kick it off. It’s only for the headstrong, whatever the hell that means.
16. Altern8 - Armageddon (1992) / Frequency (1991)
Top One, Nice One, Get Sorted.
Mark Archer and Chris Peat (formerly Nexus 21) dressed up in dust masks and chemical protection suits and called themselves Altern8. I don’t think you can talk about old school rave and not mention them - they are probably the most interesting of the bunch because they aren’t your typical “faceless” techno artist. Certainly not as well known as an act like The Prodigy, but at least you recognize their look. They came out with weird shit and sayings like “Top One Nice One Get Sorted”. Yeah! What in hell does that mean? I don’t know, but it’s fun to say. Their music is total rave all the way, influenced by the Detroit techno sound, and occasionally their songs will sample old school house music, throw in 303 stabs, nice 808 kickdrums, heavy bass, etc.. “Full On Mask Hysteria” is their only full length LP and it’s worth getting if you can find it. It works as techno and as a historical artifact. My two favorite tunes off the record are Frequency and Armageddon. The first track naturally has a recurring sample of some guy saying “Frequency” and it’s echoed and faded. Armageddon is a massive stormer with Public Enemy samples (Chuck D says “Armageddon!” from when they did a live show in London). Good stuff.
15. Kid Unknown - Nightmare (1992)
“I am a nightmare walkin” Despite the fact that it gets a little repetitive, Kid Unknown’s rave classic is the spookiest damn dance record I’ve ever heard. Repeated loops of the Ice-T vocal from the song Colors (”I am A Nightmare”) alternated with a sample of a little girl crying. It gives me the willies. Excellent breakbeat backing it all up, it comes to you from Paul Fitzpatrick from Manchester (he DJ’d at Hacienda back in the day).
14. LaTour - Blue (1991)
This is the version used in the club scene of Basic Instinct. After all these years it still comes through as a dark and moody house tune. Good baseline and synthesizers; I think it makes a great driving song. LaTour would later give us “People are still having sex”. Speaking of sex, Sharon Stone was hot in that movie.
13. T99 - Anasthasia (1991)
From Belgian dudes Patrick De Meyer and Olivier Abbeloos, Anasthasia is a classic rave anthem that starts off with a sample from Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana, modified into short techno “stabs”. Also in the beginning some kid says “Music, Maestro, Please?” and another vocal sample, according to a few people, exclaims “All Good Children Go To Heaven” but it sounds like to me the guy says “Whatcha-wan-in-charge-let’s-go-to-Miami”. This song was guaranteed to get me and my friends onto the dance floor. Again, somebody decided it was a good idea to create a version with a rap in it. Disregard that and go for the original.
12. L.A. Style - James Brown Is Dead
Dudes from the Netherlands dropped this hard house tune that starts out with some guy saying “James Brown is dead” before hitting us over the head with a huge house beat. This is the song that in my eyes is the perfect example of what they call a “club stomper”, because everybody on the dance floor starts stomping their feet to it. The irony here is that L.A. Style were trying to tell us that R&B/Soul/Funk was dead and techno/rave was here to stay. Well, James Brown may be truly dead now (RIP, James) but his music lives on. As for rave - well, yeah, you see where I’m going with this. The song also has a rap version, but you can skip that and go straight for the instrumental.
11. M.A.N.I.C. - I’m Comin’ Hardcore (Remix) (1992)
This is a classic rave stormer from the U.K. that took over the clubs. It’s starts off like a piano rave but then when the guy says “The Rhythm is hot” the whole thing blows up. Totally crazy song that was building on other dance tunes of the period. (From Discogs: Main vocal sample taken from Hard Core Hip House by Tyree. Rave stab sample from Fairy Dust by Set Up System.) By the way, M.A.N.I.C. stands for Music.Audio.Noise.Inducement.Control.
10. DubTribe - Mother Earth (Oringinal / Remix / Sunshine Mix) (1993)
yeah, some say we don’t deserve this earth we walk upon
some say we don’t deserve to breathe the air we pull into our lungs, yeah
carbon monoxide, acid rain, hate, greed, and selfishness destroy our precious skies of our mother earth
you people better rise up together and join hands with one heart and one mind
good people better rise up soon
cuz this planet is mine
this planet is ours and we have got to live together
i want my planet back
DubTribe (aka DubTribe Sound System) usually do tribal house stuff, but this is their masterpiece - a spaced out trance tune with a heartfelt message. I’m no environmentalist but this song is enough to make you join Greenpeace. It’s great hypnotic stuff. The remixes are really good also, with the Sunshine Mix throwing in nice piano riffs, a groovy bassline, and a reggae-sounding “My land/mother earth/my land…”.
9. Flipped Out - Everybody is Somebody (Just Beliv Mix) (1993)
Another classic that brings back a lot of memories. Piano riffs, hypnotic stabs, danceable breakbeat, atmospheric trance, and a damn helicopter sample in the middle! (Most people know this song as the “helicopter song”). Like the DubTribe track, this one still holds up after all these years.
8. Lords of Acid - I Sit On Acid (1988)
Darling, come here… fuck me up the…
Ok, I’m cheating here a little bit. This song was technically released in 1988 on a 12″ under Kaos Dance Records. But honestly, I never heard the tune until 1991 when they released it on the full length CD entitled “Lust”. This was pretty much my first real exposure to alternative dance music - before this time I was listening to Miami bass music (2 Live Crew, Magic Mike, A.D.E, etc), Miami freestyle (Stevie B, Trinere, Debbie Deb, etc), and whatever pop the radio was giving us (probably Madonna or something). When I first heard Lust I was completely intrigued. This is why 1991 was a great year in music for me - not only was there a rock revolution with the likes of Nirvana, and an industrial revolution with Ministry and Nine Inch Nails, but I was being exposed to all of this great electronic music like Moby, Eon, and LOA in clubs and on college radio.
Anyway, I’m getting off track - I Sit On Acid not only assaults you right away with it’s political incorrectness (singer Nikkie Van Lierop (Jade 4 U) not being shy about her sexual fetishes - giving screams of orgasms throughout the song, with exclamations of “I want to sit on your face”) but it’s a perfect example of early acid house and what they used to call the New Beat. The song (and the album) was unique in that it crossed boundaries when it came to fans - rock lovers were just as likely to like it as club-goers. The New Beat style didn’t last, but this song does. LOA later went the industrial route, and the results were not as satisfying.
7. The Prodigy - Everybody in the Place
I’ll take your brain to another dimension
Pay close attention
What can be said about The Prodigy other than the fact that they are probably one of the most popular techno/rave groups ever. Before they came out with Firestarter (’twisted firestarter’) and even before Poison (’i got the poison/i got the remedy’), they were releasing incredible records. “Everybody in the Place” is one of their earliest and a classic in its own right. I’m talking about the so-called Fairground Remix, because it sounds like you’re at an actual fair. The only things missing are the roller coasters and the cotton candy. It says “Fairground Remix” but I’ll be damned if they even released any other mixes of this song (I have yet to find any). No matter - it’s a wonderful early dance tune and the use of the fairground music is really clever. Charly is a cool breakbeat item with some really weird stuff in it. First there’s this sample of this cartoon cat named Charley from some kids safety advertisement back in the early 70s (England). (Heh - It sounds like Charley is sick) and the kid says “Charly says always tell your mummy before you go somewhere”. I like how the cat’s strang meow is used as a springboard into this crazy drawn-out 303 squelch. Fire continues the breakbeat phenomenon with a sample “I Am the God of Hellfire, and I bring you…”
Then they dropped “Out of Space” which is really crazy. Of all things, it samples “Chase the Devil” from Max Romeo and the Upsetters (I’m gonna send him to outer space/ To find another race) and even Kool Keith (I’ll take your brain to another dimension/ Pay close attention). What these songs all have in common is that they are extremely catchy and are good examples of what you can do with breakbeat music.
6. Acen - Trip II The Moon / Close Your Eyes (Optokonfusion) (1992)
Close Your Eyes
Forget Your Name
Forget the world
Forget the people
Acen Razvi’s stuff is crazy. It’s rave music at it’s most bizarre, for sure. He loves using speed up vocal samples, so the end result sounds like rave anthems as sung by the Chipmunks! Strangely enough, it works. I can imagine that if you are rolling at a rave you’re probably already speeded up, so the vocals will sound normal to you. He released a few tunes of the Production Label, my favorites being Trip II The Moon and Close Your Eyes. Both songs come in different remixed flavors and all different versions have their advantages. Trip II The Moon actually came out in 3 parts, with Part 2 starting off with a classic piano riff accompanied by a chipmunk vocal “Take Me Higher”. Then the hardcore breakbeat comes in alongside a deep bass note sure to blow a few woofers. There’s even samples from a few James Bond films in it. Close Your Eyes has interesting lyrics (Just Close Your Eyes/Forget Your Name…Go Insane) which are sampled from Jim Morrison and the Optokonfusion mix of the song is some kind of huge rave breakbeat masterpiece.
5. Moby - Go
This is an atmospheric house tune from Moby that still stands the test of time. It was released on a 12″ in 1991 under the “Moby” name but an older version of the song was released the year before under the moniker Mobility, which was one of Moby pseudonyms when he was doing old school acid house for Instinct Records. The difference is that the official Moby release of Go featured an ongoing sample of the theme from David Lynch’s Twin Peaks TV series. The song itself isn’t that complex, but it’s spacey and hypnotic, with the Twin Peaks sample layed alongside chants of “Go”, somebody saying “Yeaahhhh”, and even some piano. Total classic.
4. Eon - Spice (1990)
He who controls the spice, controls the universe!
There’s this weird church in Orlando called H20. It’s completely bizarre, and it’s located in the building that used to be a country bar called 8 seconds. But before *that* it was The Edge, a club we all knew and loved. I saw many bands there, including Ministry and My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult and Lords of Acid and Reverend Horton Heat. The best part was when midnight rolled around on Saturday and they changed the music to techno. Well, Eon’s Spice was one of the tunes they almost always played. It has samples from Dune (Lynch’s version - yes, techno artists love Lynch!): The Spice Must flow. And it’s got a futuristic electro feel with assorted bleeps and perhaps a Miami-bass feel. I had never heard a sound like that before, and I thank Ian B. Loveday for that.
3. Human Resource - Dominator
I’m bigger and bolder and rougher and tougher
In other words, sucka, there is no other
I’m the one and only dominator
Wanna kiss myself!
One-rave-wonders Guido Pernet, Johan Van Beek, Jasper Drexhage, Robert Mahu & Larenzo Nash dropped this massive acid track in 1990, and it’s pretty good, but what really made it popular was when Joey Beltram remixed it and turned it into a club smash. This is more of the harder rave sound (but nowhere near gabber/hardcore) and we all loved it back in the day. And show me a techno fan who doesn’t own the Strictly for the Hardcore CD - when I found out the first track was Dominator I was beside myself! There’s also a CD single with 13(!) mixes on it.
2. Orbital - Halcyon + On + On (1992)
The genius of Orbital (Paul and Phil Hartnoll) cannot be overstated. Halcyon is a beautiful song, that’s all there is to it. I like how they take the Kirsty Hawkshaw sample from Opus III ’s “It’s a Fine Day” and twist it around. Sure, sure - “Chime” and “Satan” have their place in history but I think this song (and the whole “brown” album - Orbital 2) is where they hit their stride. Total bliss.
1. Future Sound of London - Papua New Guinea
Some people might not even call this song techno. I admit that it might fit under the more umbrella-term “Electronica” but let’s not split hairs. This song came out in 1992 and in 2007 it still sounds brand new. These guys were way ahead of the times and Papua New Guinea shows it. Breakbeat with an ambient flavor - far and away the best electronic tune of the early 90s. In closing I can only quote from this girl: “I remember coming up om an E when this song was playing and doing a back flip. I think my life changed from that moment onwards and I could only accept love and unity from that day onwards. I am so lucky to have been 22 at that time and able bodied.” Amen.
Runners Up/ Honorable Mentions
XPansions - Move Your Body
Xpansions featured Richie Malone, who was also in the group Marradona. I’m not sure of “Move Your Body” qualifies as “rave” or “acid house” or “Euro House” or maybe even hip-hop but what the hell. Love the vocals: “I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, dance while the record spins…!” “Move Your Body, higher, higher, hi-hi-higher!” Perfect example of that midpoint between the 80s and 90s when people started to experiment with music again.
Marradona - Out of My Head (1993) / Awesome 3 - Don’t Go (Kicks Like A Mule Mix) (1992)
Two decent piano rave anthems. The piano stuff would get played out quickly, but at the time these were fun little dance numbers. Marradona (Richie Malone was also in that group) sounds unmistakably Italian in this one. Kicks Like A Mule’s mix throws in all sort of breaks between Julie McDermott’s singing.
2 Bad Mice - Bombscare
This was huge at the time. Massive breakbeat song punctuated with the sound of a bomb exploding. As Discog says: “Formed in 1991, 2 Bad Mice are widely credited as among the first U.K. hardcore acts to begin heavily incorporating breakbeats into their style. Produced by Rob Playford from Moving Shadow, the group’s influential approach to sampled beats — cutting them up into shards of rhythm and rearranging them in novel combinations is generally considered the blueprint from which jungle’s characteristic manipulation of breaks was assembled.” No surprise that Playford later ended up in Goldie’s group Metalheadz.
Apotheosis - O Fortuna
This one you were more likely to hear at a goth club (Barbarellas?) than a warehouse rave, but what the hell. Somebody once said it was like raving with sharp knives instead of glow sticks. That sounds about right - Carl Orff’s classic “Carmina Burana” is worked to advange in this bizarre little tune that was either loved or hated. I personally loved it. As soon as they released it the folks who own the rights to Orff’s stuff (his family) weren’t too happy. That’s why the record is hard to find these days. (You might get lucky if you pick up the Radikal techno compilation CD, like I did).
80 Aum - Mindcontroller (1991)
Messiah - There Is No Law/ I Feel Love
Kicks Like a mule - Number One
Channel X - Rave the Rhythm / A Million Colours
Phantom - The Abyss
The Movement - Jump
“Y’all some jumpin motherfuckas” - rather standard club tune but I like the use of the f-word in it.
Praga Khan - Injected with a Poison
“Injected with a poison… we don’t need that anymore”. Good classic from Praga Khan, who was also involved with LofA.
Mix Factory - Take Me Away
This one was popular enough that it got some radio airplay. Some girl bellows out “Take me Awayyyyyyyyyy”… and while I admit that it eventually gets too repetitive, it’s a staple of the “radio” rave stuff that was tolerable (before they ruined everyting with Bob Acosta and that stupid “Set you Free/Planet Soul” claptrap). But let’s not go there - it’s right down there with that Banana Phone song.
Bill Gordon
June 8th, 2007 at 8:16 am
Holy shit, son. Time to take a couple of E and get some damn glowsticks!
June 8th, 2007 at 7:58 pm
thx, you just made me queue up enough to kill my freaking ratio…we’re both gonna get kicked
June 8th, 2007 at 8:05 pm
ps. after i dunno how many plays, halcyon and png still give me chills. great writeup buddy! =)
June 15th, 2007 at 7:54 pm
The Ethics “La Luna”. I’m like rolling or something. Must be the shades.
June 15th, 2007 at 8:26 pm
Also Massive Attack “Unfinished Symphony”. Nice strings.
June 22nd, 2007 at 5:21 pm
Check out the Paul Weller Pin-up Girls Remix of Take Me Away, IMHO it’s the best.
June 22nd, 2007 at 5:37 pm
And BTW, nice list
August 25th, 2007 at 8:35 am
Nice list. I also grew up in Orlando. here are a few that are not on here but see if you remember them.
all boxed in - happen
gypsy - i trance you
opus 3 - its a fine day/ when you made the mountain
September 30th, 2007 at 3:07 pm
Great list, made me think of alot of good tunes I had forgotten about. Like the author I grew up in Orlando during the early 90’s and remember most of the songs from hanging out at the local clubs.
From Aahz at the Beacham, late nights at the edge, firestone, Reunion, your ocassional Mystery Fun House Rave…in a small city like Orlando these parties gave birth to a more than relevant local music scene.
At the time there weren’t many club/dance scenes in the U.S. that involved so many people so early on in their existence. Flyers for parties covered the city’s downtown, everyone knew someone who was a DJ or party promoter and LOTS of people were doing E. On a regular night out you wouldn’t leave the house until 2am, that way the bars would stop serving and the jocks would be leaving, once the jocks were gone a good dj would play some “real” music, you’d dance all night, roll your face off, go to sleep, then get up and do it all over again.
It eventually got to a point where around 1997, after almost 10yrs of continious growth, the scene had reached critical mass. In the August 21, 1997 issue of Rolling Stone there was a 5 page article entitled “Orlando, the Seattle of Electronica…”. Rolling Stone was about 3 yrs to late with the title and by 1997 the scene was a pale comparison of its less populated former self. More and more it was morons and bad drugs that came to be synonomous with the word RAVE and eventually all the powders, pagers and pills became more important then the plur.
Goin’ Off
M
October 1st, 2007 at 7:37 am
Hi M,
I think it was people like Glenda Hood and Richard Crotty who killed the Orlando scene. They passed the 2am law, which effectively killed late night. Hood never wanted Orlando to be rave-central. She loved the idea of a family-friendly town in the Disney mold.
October 1st, 2007 at 11:28 am
I agree with you about the 2am law, but the whole reason the law was passed was because during the later half of the 90’s there were so many people attending the parties it got hard for the city to ignore. It got to a point were kids would be walking out of the clubs at 8am, all ate up, looking like zombies, while the tourists in the area were wondering what the fuck was going on. The rising number of under age kids over dosing on bad pills didn’t help eithier…and those bad pills were a result of dealers recognizing a market that was not around 3 yrs earlier…
As the rolling stone article that I referenced in my above post said “Slap a pair of mouse ears on a Bible and thats Orlando”.
I think I remember seeing you around, you were the one with the “hottie” hat right?
October 3rd, 2007 at 3:46 pm
Different country, same tunes. From the UK and have the same great memories from the same tunes. Some of them are cheesy as f*ck, but hey great memories. If you like the Orbital stuff check out Paul Hartnolls new solo album. Saw him play live and he closed with a great live version of Halcyon
October 10th, 2007 at 4:21 pm
Trying to find out name of song from 97 or 98, some girl singing’let the music take control, higher and higher and higher
October 16th, 2007 at 9:37 pm
Great list from a time when Orlando wasn’t the shithole it is now.
I would say the “glory years” ended around 1995 or so.
Haha…someone mentioned the Mystery Fun House party…that was an odd one but definitely one to remember.
Anyone happened to remember the artist and track title that had a chorus sampe of woman saying:
“Suffer all the children to come up me”….sort of a dark housey/trancey style song.
October 18th, 2007 at 11:20 am
The lyrics “let the music take control, higher and higher and higher”
are from D-TRAX - LET THE MUSIC TAKE CONTROL
November 22nd, 2007 at 9:59 am
Do you know where I can find a song ? not sure correct name but its main part was “shut the fuck up bitch you cant sing” it was in the early 90’s. please if so get intouch with mw on myspace. my url is myspace.com/kelliedane
November 22nd, 2007 at 9:01 pm
Kellie,
You might be thinking of “Shut Up” by New York Style. I think it’s on a compilation called “Technorave 3″ but that may be hard to get nowadays. -Bill
November 24th, 2007 at 9:10 pm
got mixmag article detailing top 100 as picked then on my site if you have a looski
December 7th, 2007 at 6:09 pm
Nice list. Does anyone know this random track I heard once at a rave - early nineties London - it featured a female vocalist with an American accent - “Hey, that ain’t right, I can’t take another sleepless night, another can’t take another anananother….yes I gotta move on” had something about a silly rabbit, with real simple early house breaks. Less techno than any on the list. Just thought I’d ask………….Cheers!
January 28th, 2008 at 12:33 am
Great list, I was in Daytona from 90-94 at the Coliseum and other places in Orlando.
January 28th, 2008 at 12:36 am
I am also looking for help with a couple of songs. The first is one that has the lyric “dream upon a dream in you heart” I think the title is “One Love” by Saffron but I can’t find it anywhere. The other song starts out with the old 60’s song about going to the witch doctor and then goes into an awesome beat. If anyone can help, please email me address is makersman423@insightbb.com. Also if anyone went ERAU at the same time, say hey, maybe we know each other. Later
March 16th, 2008 at 12:27 pm
Great list, pretty much matches most of my favorites from that era. I was DJing clubs in Tampa, Daytona, and Miami during that time - still have most of the songs on your list locked away. Used to drive up to O’town to go to Underground Records - they had the shiznit. A few more that come to mind - Far Out - Sonz of a Da Loop Da Loop Era, a remake of Barrington Levy’s Here I come (Broader than Broadway) - (can’t remember the artist), Infiltrate - Altern8, Don’t Go - Awesome 3, Sweet Harmony - Liquid, and Playing With Knives - Bizzare Inc.
Good Times…
March 21st, 2008 at 4:09 pm
Great list!
Anyone remember a track from the early-mid 1990’s from, who i think was called “Gadget.”?
A chicks voice would say something about waiting for a “DJ to play this funky sound.”
Who is the artist/group? Is Gadget correct? I’d love to find an .mp3 or .wav file.
Anyone? Thanks!!!
March 23rd, 2008 at 12:23 pm
Christine Says:
October 18th, 2007 at 11:20 am
The lyrics “let the music take control, higher and higher and higher”
This is spqr - unlimited dreams. Top tune, takes me back!
March 24th, 2008 at 12:57 pm
Good List,
But where’s Manix “Feel Real Good” or “Oblivion (Head in the clouds mix)”
Anyways search Youtube Carl Cox Amnesia House Book of Love, the video in question i was at and i was quite emotional watching it again.
Never will the UK see days like that again.
April 28th, 2008 at 4:49 pm
For those in the Orlando/Florida breakbeats of the late 90s - early 2000s. Wasnt there a DJ Merlin? that was popular at the same time DJ Icey+Baby Anne? he had a few popular mixes of which I’m trying to find but of course i cant remeber the name of the songs.
April 30th, 2008 at 11:16 pm
great choices
I would love to trade you some old school tracks as what i have is incomplete i have two full mp3 discs so far
thanks
Sunny
June 10th, 2008 at 11:41 am
Does anyone know the techno song lyrics “We’re gonna have an orgasm that you can’t even comprehend”. I do not know the singer or the song, but cannot find this anywhere.
June 10th, 2008 at 9:52 pm
To R Alrashidi: I have this record. It’s by DJ Lace and it’s called “Horizontal Lambada (Vangroovy Style)” The record is called “Illegal Funk EP”. It’s an old funky breaks tune.
June 11th, 2008 at 9:06 am
you persons are a bunch of chinois salo
June 15th, 2008 at 2:46 pm
Thank you, Sir! I’m glad I found your article. I am on the quest to fill my computer w/ the tunes of my youth. Some great suggestions out there. I also remember coming up to he Edge in 92′ dancing to the alternative and yes, quizically changing to DJ Icey. Wow, I wouldn’t get back down to South Florida till 6AM. Later, that next year I moved up to Orlando & Firestone (my second home) was a super unique club w/ all those beautiful drag queens prancing around and fluid dancing going on. We would also cruise up to Simon’s in G-ville for great dj’s as well. Great music & memories of feeling free & unified!! Here are some honorable mentions from my collection: Jam & Spoon, Dee-lite, BT, Josh Wink, and my favorite 2 disc Scott Hardkiss- Delusions of Granduer. Would anyone know how I can get a copy of Sade’s “Pearls” remix? One of the best songs out there Also, Boston Bruins “Raise your Hands”, Billy Ray Martin’s “Your Loving Arms Around Me” & finally, Way Out West “The Gift”. Thanks!!!
June 17th, 2008 at 9:26 pm
im looking for the artist and title of a song. the lyrics say, i give you my heart, i give you my soul, i give you my love and i give you my time. i wanna take you around the moon or world??? its not atc.
June 20th, 2008 at 12:14 am
Great lists - very helpful for some good finds - thanks u guys …zzzzzz
June 27th, 2008 at 7:16 pm
WOW! what a find,great list,took me back……way back TOP ONE,NICE ONE,GET SORTED! I Dont believe there will ever be another phenomenom to shape a generation like we experienced with the birth of RAVE ………..we coulda cured the world with the Rave Wave that swept over us all! Damn we grow up waaaaay to quick ……….life’s just to short
Summed up to a T in the film Human Traffic ……….and the Streets tune “We become hereo’s”
June 30th, 2008 at 4:34 pm
I was a child of Orlando too. This really brings back so many memories. Ultr-Violet, Mars,The Firestone, The Edge, Simons and Barbarellas, I remember not even leaving for the club until 3 am. Wow. D Extreme, Kimballs Birthday bashes and yes DJ Icey. Those are great memories. It was definely a crazy expeirence. Use to go down to Cape Canaveral to see DJ Yogi all the time to. And sometimes Atalnta. Miss those days. Thanks Guys. My favorite is the old school remix of Duran Durans Save a Prayer.
July 11th, 2008 at 8:52 am
Yeah, there was a DJ Merlin back in the day. I remember picking up one of his albums at the SBN sound offs in Daytona. Him and Jasp 182 hit it hard, but i havent heard much after that. This is one hell of a catch up/list for anyone that remembers. Kind of makes you think about all the tracks that used to be ripped. From early 90’s house to O-Town breaks to some of the new D&B tracks. Its come a long way, the sound that is, but the best is the best simply put!