The tune that got you hooked on dance...

...can remember hearing 808 State 'Pacific' for the first time back in '89, and that was that for me.

L1011

Not sure of a specific track, would be around 94ish and be something woeful and commercial - possibly MC Sar/Real McCoy - Runaway as that sticks in my mind all of a sudden.


What got me hooked on trance I can pin point to a specific track and a specific occasion. First time I heard Coast 2 Coast - Home when it was on promo in 2000. Given me an 8 year (to date) very expensive trance addiction.

MistyCheese

The first "dance" track I ever liked was Tim Deluxe - Just Won't Do

stomprockin

Good thread conner!!

Well where do i start...For me it had to be

Leftfield - Not Forgotten
Voodoo Ray - A Guy Called Gerald
Pacific - 808 State

and many more

jtsuited

excellent idea for a thread.

mine was shamefully only last year, Gui Boratto - Mr. Decay

Prefabsprouter

Well there was a few that got me hooked

Tyree - Turn up the Bass

Gene and Jim are into Shakes - Hows about a shake Gene

Garden of Eden - Garden of Eden

808 state - Pacific State

df1985

cant honestly remember-probably somethin really commercial when i was a kid.some proper dance that sticks out in my mind from being a kid would be

early prodigy stuff
serial diva-pearl river, heard it on holidays in lanzarote at a funfair when i was about 12.didnt find it again for years but always remembered it.
first dance compilation i bought was cream anthems 2001-15 at the time.

francois

Nitro Deluxe - Let's Get Brutal-This brutal House Mix
http://www.discogs.com/release/49919
fcekin fab

Dellboy2007

Baby D- Let me be Your Fantasy
Gat Decor- Passion
Livin Joy- Dreamer
Snap - Rhythm is a Dancer
Scatman- Scatman (HAHA!!)
Candi Station- You've got the Love
Ce Ce Peniston - Finally
Robin S- Show Me love
Armand Van Helden - You don't know me
Blackbox - Ride on time
David Morales - Needin U
Inner City - Good Life
Moby - GO
Grace - Not over Yet
Robert Miles - Children

That's all i can think of!!

Scubadevils

Deleted User wrote: »

...can remember hearing 808 State 'Pacific' for the first time back in '89, and that was that for me.

Yeah, same here, or maybe a little later with Cubik. Although the electronic seed had already been sewn prior to that with some cheese from the likes of Axel F and Jan Hammer (Crocketts Theme etc!). Oh the childhood memories, I wanted to be a drugs cop when I grew up because of Miami Vice... did the drugs bit alright! :pac: I used to play Crocketts Theme actually on an old Yamaha keyboard back then, my party piece

manufan

I was lying in bed one night with the radio on and (Capella - U got 2 Know) came on the radio. I was 12 at the time and i remember thinking, "What the hell is this". This music is the business". Never heard anything like it. Started going into places like Music Power under the arch not long afterwards to collect mix tapes from places like the "Tresor Techno Club" in Germany. Still love Dance music as much today as i did all those years ago.

I think the first Mix Tape i bought was "Graham Keeley - Eastern Promise" Still one of my fav mixtapes today even though i lost it many years ago.

CTRob

My Brother was in 5th year on summer holidays and he was working in Michael Dohertys school supplies in Bray part time during the summer months. He had saved up and bought the first CD player my family had lol along with a load of dance albums one of which being The Prodigy Experience.
I still remember that sunny summers day when I was 10 years of age, was coming home from playing football with the kids up on the green of our estate. The folks where out and my bro was blasting the above mentioned album out...
Muisc Reach 1,2,3,4 was playing... I had never heard anything like it... 10 years of age and I thought this stuff was mind blowing!!!
We must have listened to that cd 15 times that day lol

FruitLover

Does 'Blue Monday' count?

Sparky

Prodigy - Out of Space

JC 2K3

People Can Fly by Astral Projection

amazing.....

DonkeyStyle \o/

It was probably the first time I'd heard Prodigy - Hyperspeed, I was like !:eek:!

Single Malt

It wasn't one tune that got me hooked. I was in UCD in 99/00, and went to my first dance gig. It happened to be Decal live, and that opened my mind to the fact that there was more than rock/metal. Have not looked back.

Felixdhc

Felixdhc wrote: »

Although the electronic seed had already been sewn prior to that with some cheese from the likes of Axel F and Jan Hammer (Crocketts Theme etc!).

Oh yeah, and Paul Hardcastle, and even the synthier new romantic stuff like Visage always appealed. And of course you had artists like New Order, and Inner City weer around a good few months by the time I heard Pacific - I guess I just wasn't aware whether this was some fleeting fad (like new romantic had been) or a whole new genre of music. It's just that I can remember the exact moment I heard the 808 State anthem for the first time. Then the next 2 years were a whirl of house and electronic and life would never be the same.

Scubadevils

Deleted User wrote: »

Oh yeah, and Paul Hardcastle, and even the synthier new romantic stuff like Visage always appealed. And of course you had artists like New Order, and Inner City weer around a good few months by the time I heard Pacific - I guess I just wasn't aware whether this was some fleeting fad (like new romantic had been) or a whole new genre of music. It's just that I can remember the exact moment I heard the 808 State anthem for the first time. Then the next 2 years were a whirl of house and electronic and life would never be the same.

Absolutely, there was a big leap when house and acid kicked in... who would have thought all these years later we would still be so obsessed. I will always remember too when I got a copy of N-Joi live in Manchester '92, that was on repeat on my walkman throughout the summer of '92! Picked up a nice MP3 version a while back, must upload it here if anyone wants it.

donegalgirl28

Well, my brother always used to play dance tunes when I was a kid, 10 year difference between us so I was only, what, about 8 or 9 so I was in love with the Spice Girls and Boyzone. Bought those compilations like Now 39 etc... listened to a couple of the commercial dance tunes on them, got really into Alice Deejay for a while, then heard Gigi D'Agostino - Passion and started buying Godskitchen compilations etc... but remember hearing this trance tune that ultimately got me into the whole scene. It was Red Carpet - Alright. Still get goosebumps every time I hear it. Into Progressive mainly now but not to be "pigeonholing" anything, my taste in music is very broad.

manufan

JC 2k3, i have to second that. "People can fly - Astral Projection" is one of my favourite tunes of all time.

Zero, Ambient Galaxy and Nilaya - Astral Projection, are all animal tunes as well.

SuprSi

I can't remember the name of tune, but it was midway through Mick Walsh's Gravity 5 or 6 - lovely little female vocal in it. Also, Playing with the Voice was another that really stuck with me.

Dun laoire

The prodigy experience album got me right into the whole dance music scene. Away from the prodigy i always loved this little belter in the teenage disco

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_q7pKDGd9k

Dun laoire

SuprSi wrote: »

I can't remember the name of tune, but it was midway through Mick Walsh's Gravity 5 or 6 - lovely little female vocal in it. Also, Playing with the Voice was another that really stuck with me.

Playing with the voice is a real gem alright.

shane86

Scooter- Logical Song :pac: Summer of 2001 iirc. Bought the 1994-2001 singles album off a lad in school who was copyin soon after

Apart from one pretty good trance comp I bought that hasnt been seen since I played host to my own gaffs free destruction during a lethal party way back when, I didnt get proper into it really until I went to ****** 2004. Madchester Experience, Darren Emerson, Felix and Faithless......ah good luck to yis! :pac:

Luke! Broughan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhAyhAg_Rmg


i really began to love all sorts of "dance" music after this,its not my favourite song at all,god no....,but this just did it for me.


i used to hang around,listen to Pulse FM,they played this song a lot.
I lost sleep one nite,and this song kept going thru my head,the music video,and the really weird gurgly "bird like" synth used through out the song,it was all there for me.It just got me into electronic music,i dunno.stil remember it like yesterday.

im not saying its the best song ever composed,or whatever,it just "got me into" "dance music"...

mad

turks

snap!ryhthm is a dancer real done it for me hearin on the radio and always wathin the vid on mtv class vid at that!!

holton

I was big in to heavy/thrash metal back in early '92. I had no idea about dance music before then. My brother had two albums on cassette - Spirit of Ecstasy http://www.answers.com/topic/spirit-of-ecstasy and Hit the Decks. Really got hooked on it then and 16 years later, i still am.:)

Scubadevils

holton wrote: »

I was big in to heavy/thrash metal back in early '92. I had no idea about dance music before then. My brother had two albums on cassette - Spirit of Ecstasy http://www.answers.com/topic/spirit-of-ecstasy and Hit the Decks. Really got hooked on it then and 16 years later, i still am.:)

Funny you should mention thrash metal, I knew/met a lot of people who were into that back then and slowly but surely the hair was cut, bikers jackets went and were transformed into ravers I remember being at a good few regular parties where there were lots of 'rockers' as we called them off their heads on E and bouncing around to techno... they all over time lost the look.

311

Candi Station ,you've got the love. One of my all time favourites:)
http://www.myspace.com/candistaton

Technotronic - Jammy bastids. http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=222257090

run_Forrest_run

probably something from The Prodigy Experience or actually some cheese from Alex Party or Atlantic Ocean (oh how young I was:D).

jonny68

Felixdhc wrote: »

Yeah, same here, or maybe a little later with Cubik. Although the electronic seed had already been sewn prior to that with some cheese from the likes of Axel F and Jan Hammer (Crocketts Theme etc!). Oh the childhood memories, I wanted to be a drugs cop when I grew up because of Miami Vice... did the drugs bit alright! :pac: I used to play Crocketts Theme actually on an old Yamaha keyboard back then, my party piece

hahah no way we're 2 of a kind mate i was mad into Miami Vice as well i used to model myself on Dom johnso the and the glamorous Miami scene :D did the drugs bit as well.:pac:

jonny68

I suppose this really had an impact on me getting into Acid House still a classic

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSKTeKi-zfM

BUT ultimately this seminal classic really done it for me, more powerful than you can possibly imagine, this song was light years ahead of anything that was around back then,i remember the first time they played this in Sides in 1990 the cheer that went up..incredible.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXlUygsJteE&feature=related

holton

jonny68 wrote: »

BUT ultimately this seminal classic really done it for me, more powerful than you can possibly imagine, this song was light years ahead of anything that was around back then,i remember the first time they played this in Sides in 1990 the cheer that went up..incredible.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXlUygsJteE&feature=related

And it still sounds f****** amazing.

wideangle

More than likely one of these:

bomb da bass - beat dis

s-express - theme from s-express

marrs - pump up the volume

d-mob - it is time to get funky

Simon Young in the mix!!!on 2fm backin the day:)

Swain

Kraftwerk - The Model.

Scubadevils

jonny68 wrote: »

hahah no way we're 2 of a kind mate i was mad into Miami Vice as well i used to model myself on Dom johnso the and the glamorous Miami scene :D did the drugs bit as well.:pac:

lol, I wanted my hair cut like Don Johnson back then (admitting that on a public forum )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47XaK4XJxFQ

(the memories listening to this)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGkurWAXgZs

(and this, seems like only yesterday)

Trab

Probably Everybody in The Place (155 and rising) from The Prodigy Experience.

There were loads of tunes on Sunset FM back in the day and I can't remember the names of a lot of them, but OT Quartet - Hold that Sucker Down, Moby - Feeling So Real and Liquid - Sweet Harmony all stand out in my memory.

Prefabsprouter

Sunset FM? Great station!!

IrishHomer

Phatt Bass

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rx3o0miiNM0&feature=PlayList&p=442F634EBFB991CF&index=11

Trab

Prefabsprouter wrote: »

Sunset FM? Great station!!

I used to have loads of tapes of stuff I recorded off that station but seem to have taped over / lost the majority of them now. I'd love to have a listen to some of that stuff again.

alphanine

Underworld - Dark and Long

moany

the age of love - the age of love
i was sixteen at the time on the ferry to holyhead and managed to get DLR 106 on the walkman in the middle of the irish sea , went mental to it never heard anything like it b4 always listening to hardcore and other stuff . this song made the hair stand up on the back of my neck.

Technocentral

I remember being at a wedding in 1988 and hearing Jack to the Sound of the Underground by Hithouse, blew me away though it is quite cheesy in retrospect. hadn't heard samples and piano's used like that before.

old gregg

could have been something like Ride on Time by Black Box but a few years later Block Rockin' Beats and that whole Dig Your Own Hole album by the Chemical Brothers changed the way I thought about a lot of music and remains a favourite.

francois

I always liked electronic music so when rave came along it fitted like a glove, loved all the early house and rave stuff, but I'll never forget the menacing low rumble of this in the mansion house, coming out of the mix, it all suddenly made perfect sense, the moment I'd been waiting for

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALsHox5sYCk

stomprockin

francois wrote: »

I always liked electronic music so when rave came along it fitted like a glove, loved all the early house and rave stuff, but I'll never forget the menacing low rumble of this in the mansion house, coming out of the mix, it all suddenly made perfect sense, the moment I'd been waiting for

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALsHox5sYCk

Another mansion house survivor:D I can relate to that francois!
Superb tune!
Where you there the night of the bomb scare? where everybody had to leave and wait on the street, people dancing on the pillers outside - after about 30 minutes they let everybody back in but a lot went there way and wasn't that busy for the last 2 hours.
Then DJ Bass droped this -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mX1GQNHgyks

Place went nuts :cool:

Billy Mays

Even though I was only 10 when this was number 1 in '87 I thought it was deadly. Guess I caught the dance bug at an early age. Caught Josh Wink 3 years ago in a sweaty little basement club in New York and I couldn't believe it when he opened his set with it.:D:D Still sounded great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0M8Pa4kQCmg

francois

stomprockin wrote: »

Another mansion house survivor:D I can relate to that francois!
Superb tune!
Where you there the night of the bomb scare? where everybody had to leave and wait on the street, people dancing on the pillers outside - after about 30 minutes they let everybody back in but a lot went there way and wasn't that busy for the last 2 hours.
Then DJ Bass droped this -



Place went nuts :cool:

I was-what a night!

Is mise le key

Very difficult to pinpoint,

I have these on Vinyl,

(ive got the power being one that stands out to me as being pperhapps the first)

http://www.discogs.com/Snap-World-Power/master/70499



http://www.discogs.com/Black-Box-Ride-On-Time/release/170805



http://www.discogs.com/Various-The-Brits-1990-Dance-Medley/release/175394



http://www.discogs.com/Tricky-Disco-Tricky-Disco/release/1195003



And these on CD,

http://www.discogs.com/Altern-8-Activ-8-Come-With-Me/release/58086



http://www.discogs.com/Toxic-Two-Rave-Generator/release/31140

first memory is liking what was in the charts and on the radio, the prodigy, 2 unlimited etc
Soon after i remember picking up a copy of Muzik magazine in a newsagents which had a Darren Emerson mix tape attached, one of the first tracks that hit me was by Jark Prongo, "Whatchagonnado" i think it was called, hooked ever since