PLUR! Zen Fest! Firestone! Raves! Glowsticks! Time to go back to the early 90s for a look at the top rave tunes.
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Holy shit, son. Time to take a couple of E and get some damn glowsticks!
thx, you just made me queue up enough to kill my freaking ratio…we’re both gonna get kicked
ps. after i dunno how many plays, halcyon and png still give me chills. great writeup buddy! =)
The Ethics “La Luna”. I’m like rolling or something. Must be the shades.
Also Massive Attack “Unfinished Symphony”. Nice strings.
Check out the Paul Weller Pin-up Girls Remix of Take Me Away, IMHO it’s the best.
And BTW, nice list
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
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
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.
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?
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
Trying to find out name of song from 97 or 98, some girl singing’let the music take control, higher and higher and higher
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.
The lyrics “let the music take control, higher and higher and higher”
are from D-TRAX – LET THE MUSIC TAKE CONTROL
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
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
got mixmag article detailing top 100 as picked then on my site if you have a looski
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!
Great list, I was in Daytona from 90-94 at the Coliseum and other places in Orlando.
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
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…
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!!!
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!
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.