What's Your Favourite Era of House?

Right Turn Clyde · 17-10-2015 5:27pm #1

It's hardly a difficult question given there's only been a handful of what we could loosely define as 'eras' (as opposed to genres).

Obviously there was something special going on in the 90s and virtually all of my favourite house tracks are from that era. The likes of Gemini, Boo Williams, Moodymann, etc.

However, I first fell in love with house music in the early 00s, so I've always found something special in that big, chunky house sound that we had back then. Everything from H-Foundation and Joeski & Onionz to Doc Martin and Medicine 8. My favourite straight-up house mixes are certainly from that period.

In terms of genres it covered everything from tech, West Coast, latino, tribal, etc. It's a bit of a cliche, but it was such a melting pot of sounds.

And a lot of it has agreed really well. It only seems like yesterday but those tracks are the best part of 15 years old now. That's a long time in house years.

I only recently re-listened to Craig Richards' Fabric 01 mix, along with his Tyrant: No Shoes, No Cake collection with Lee Burridge. They sound really fresh, at least to my ears. Especially the amount of breaks in there. Breakbeat went in a totally different direction from the mid 00s but there was a time when it sounded right at home in a house mix.

Anyway, what's your favourite era?

a148pro · 22-10-2015 10:04pm

Its funny I was only tonight listening to some vocal soulful house classics from 90s, South Street Players - Who keeps changing your mind, Deep Dish - Stay Gold, Pete Heller - Big Love. Big records, filled a room.

Not necessarily my favourite house music, there's a lot more subtle and funky stuff, but pretty emotional and soulful, and even though it could easily have gone cheese they've held up as classics and still sound great.

holystungun9 · 24-10-2015 2:44pm

Yep, give me Moodymann, Romanthony, Kerri Chandler, MAW, Mood II Swing, Paper Records, Glasgow Underground Records.

It was the right music at the right time for me.

end of the road · 25-10-2015 12:24am

i'm not sure i could pick a particular 1. been many good tracks from the late 80s until probably about the mid to late 2000s. i'm not even bothered about the music these days tbh. odd good track now but not what it was. maybe its the joys of simply getting older but i genuinely think a lot of music these days has nothing to it

The_fever · 14-11-2015 10:01am

late 90's when Naked Music were in full flow, and Charles Webster was on fire...

mordeith · 14-11-2015 11:33am

I had a soft spot for the mid to late late 90s hard house/trance stuff. Artists like Scott Project, Legend B, Odyssey of Noise. I was also a fan of guys like Vincent de Moor, Groovebird, Jark Prongo - Movin' Thru Your System etc. On the more housey side of things there were standout tracks like Eddie Amador - 'Not Everyone Understands House Music',

Scubadevils · 15-11-2015 3:28pm

Exact same as you Right Turn Clyde... 90s still my favourite but I totally agree with that early 00 period... labels like Siesta, Low Pressings, Drop Music, 20:20 Vision & some absolute crackers on Doubledown Recordings - the techno out around then too mixed so well, very nice to progress a set later in the night.

Inspired me to listen to this which immediately makes me want to dig all this stuff out again :eek: