Originally posted by Rodri Santos
The unbeatable track is this:
Darude vs Robert Miles - Children of the Sandstorm (Tiësto Mashup) a track i find very handy to play in a club when you want to start building your set.
Please tell me you're joking and you just made that up.
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Originally posted by Mad for Brad
Eddie Calvert's version of Oh Mein Papa hit #1 in its fourth week on in 1922. Pump up the jam was the first house song to crack the USA mainstream market.
I suppose but it was an instrumental of an already popular song which had vocals and one of the main reasons it was popular was so people could sing along to it in bars etc.
Sorry, I should have qualified - Children was the first UK no1 instrumental.
Pump up the jame was the first big dance tune though.
In fact if you still drop that at a house party that track will make it explode.
Rodri Santos
Well i say unbeatable because involves 2 of the most known tracks not because it's a must play track, but it's handy for a dj people love classics.
tehlord
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Originally posted by DJ RANN
Sorry, I should have qualified - Children was the first UK no1 instrumental.
I would argue that MARRS' Pump Up The Volume was an instrumental, besides the vocal samples that is :rolleyes:
MrJiveBoJingles
Did "Axel F" not hit number one in the UK? I know it did in at least a few countries.
Technically, not a dance track - it was actually a soundtrack or you could even argue it was a score.
MrJiveBoJingles
"Cafe del Mar" is too niche. I doubt that many people outside of EDM circles know it (well, maybe in some European countries, but not here). But plenty of people who never listen to classical music still know the opening bit from Beethoven's Fifth.
I think "Children" works.
SYSTEM-J
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Originally posted by DJ RANN
Sorry, I should have qualified - Children was the first UK no1 instrumental.
Children did not reach #1 in the UK. It peaked at #2. Even if it had reached #1, it would have been nowhere near the first instrumental #1 in this country. By 1996 there had been 23 instrumental #1s in the UK.
Also, Pump Up The Jam was not the first big dance tune. It was released in 1989. M/A/R/R/S - Pump Up The Volume and Steve "Silk" Hurley - Jack Your Body were UK #1s as early as 1987. Pump Up The Jam wasn't even the biggest selling dance record of its year - the honour goes to Blackbox - Ride On Time, which I believe is still the highest selling dance record of all time in the UK.
At least do a modicum of research before spouting off these "facts" from the top of your head.
DJ RANN
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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
Children did not reach #1 in the UK. It peaked at #2. Even if it had reached #1, it would have been nowhere near the first instrumental #1 in this country. By 1996 there had been 23 instrumental #1s in the UK.
Also, Pump Up The Jam was not the first big dance tune. It was released in 1989. M/A/R/R/S - Pump Up The Volume and Steve "Silk" Hurley - Jack Your Body were UK #1s as early as 1987. Pump Up The Jam wasn't even the biggest selling dance record of its year - the honour goes to Blackbox - Ride On Time, which I believe is still the highest selling dance record of all time in the UK.
At least do a modicum of research before spouting off these "facts" from the top of your head.
How about you drink a a bit of that yourself?
If you;re going to try to pull someone up on "facts" make sure you have them right yourself in the first place :rolleyes:
There were actually 24 instrumental, and 19 of those happened between 1953 and 1963, before the official charts were formed in to the body it is now.
The UK official chart show listed Children as as a no 1, but top of the pops did not, so it was relegated historically to a number 2.
It was the 1st instrumental dance no 1 (and no doop doesn't count as it had a vocal sample and it was sung live on tv). same with Jack your body I'm afraid (it technically has a vocal so it's not a instrumental).
Anyway, why I am even arguing. I really don't give a .
Stu Cox
Completely depends where you delineate 'dance music'... Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake is technically dance music according to some definitions and just about everyone on the planet would recognise it ;)
Assuming the 'electronic' catergory, I'll just throw these into the mix:
Faithless - Insomnia
Underworld - Born Slippy
Seeing that everyone I know who knows any music whatsoever post-1995 knows them.
Rodri Santos
Yep i think Insomnia is another big deal, you still hear plays of it in house sets, techno sets, trance sets...
I'd add to the list:
Dj Rolando - Jaguar (Often people thinks is a Carl Cox track since he played it in all his set in a period)
Tiesto - Traffic (First instrumental track to reach nº 1 in the netherlands in 23 years) Overrated imo but the data fact is there.
And more actual:
Fragma - Toca's Miracle.
tehlord
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Originally posted by DJ RANN
I can't believe no one has mentioned Energy 52, Cafe Del Mar. Now I think about it, it's probably the best fit to the thread title.
Well I was going to mention that but I thought it was too obvious :D
I also can't believe that nobody has mentioned the Oakenfold version of Lost Tribes Gamemaster, which as far as i'm concerned is the greatest dance track of all time, and one that I aspire to immensely.
