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Top 20 Techno 90s Rave Tunes

Written by Bill G

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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”) and another from the early Ice-A-Mix (“Bust a beat for this tune!”) 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 (1991)

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.

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  1. Garry says:
    July 17, 2012 at 7:40 am

    nice one top one get sorted……that’s a typical english type sayin
    ….nice one …well thanks mate….top one….sorta the same but also number 1….get sorted ….well sort of self explanatory…get wrecked, stoned, hammered, bolloxed, caned

    great times and great sounds

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  2. Edsel Arcibal Calamba Laguna Philippines says:
    September 7, 2012 at 11:27 pm

    Im so impress in the sound of the oldskool especially those sound that will surely catches your attention , Its amazing and make a big crowd of dancers going too hype………………………..Dj Academy Philippines…….

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  3. Samantha says:
    November 3, 2012 at 4:13 pm

    Bill, I also was at UCF in Orlando from 1991 – 1996! I know every song you posted in yr awesome article here. My good friends opened up the Abyss & that was our hang out for the time it was there. Just wanted to tell you thank you for the walk down memory lane!! With husband and kids now I sure needed it! Thanks again, Sam

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  4. Lainie says:
    November 11, 2012 at 2:57 am

    Hi – thanks for the trip down memory lane…I do a bit of dj work on the side – and have the lord of acid one in my mix. I like the momentary ‘what the f***’ face the clubbers get and then they get it. But there is one song on my old mix-cds from that time that I also play that people love and I can’t for the life of me remember who did it – can anyone help? I know it will all come to me when I know, but for the moment it’s alluding me – should have been more clear-headed in those rave years… ;)

    The two main lyrics are:
    I’m on a mission from God, listen all you suckas, and
    WHFD start the panic.

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  5. Haystack says:
    November 27, 2012 at 2:45 am

    These are some great tunes – I revisit the 90-94 techno stuff fairly often, but I totally forgot about Return of the Living Acid “Get Funky” – amazing! Does anyone remember a tune that started with the Roger Miller sample that would end up years later in that annoying Hampster Dance song? It was on a comp I had back in the day & would love to hear it again, even if it’s a cheesy novelty song!

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  6. Haystack says:
    November 27, 2012 at 9:00 pm

    Yes! That’s it – thanks Bill!! I guess I must have faintly recalled those tunes were on the same comp. Nice to hear them again all these years later …

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  7. Jay says:
    March 1, 2013 at 10:30 pm

    did i miss josh wink’s higher state of consciosness somewhere?

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  8. Kenneth says:
    March 25, 2013 at 6:09 pm

    We would like to introduce you to a little thing called STEREO.. First the bass… Then the hihat and snare osv osv. Can someone remember some of this lyrics ?

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