yeah I know this thread sounds retarded but I like taking risks.
I'd say The Crystal Method - Keep Hope Alive. it just sounds like the perfect underground club music. People who were raving during the mid 90's must've have a hella good time especially when this track was was being spun.
enydo
Got to hear Giorgio Moroder drop this bomb.
Sykonee
Little known Future Sound Of London side-project, this one. Whenever I hear this, I think of the best gurns ever.
Floorfiller
was there really any other choice?
/thread :p
2techs
all those 1990-1991 tracks are pretty tough to beat especially when ecstasy/mdma was probably at its best quality wise during that era.
Scoops
AlphaStarred
Resistance D - Cosmic Love = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jQP3BSzaFs
Metro Dade - The Andor Voyage - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLEowE4eAZM
Format #1 - Solid Session - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qriYvNVdVEM
Jam & Spoon - Odyssey To Anyoona - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1b1znBaWYag
Humate - Love Stimulation = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PiyzobnwAA
Ramin - Moonchild - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Y75xMXWA98
Hole In One - X-Paradise ( DJ G Spot Mix ) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9XimcxaL4Y
C.J. - Bolland - Camargue - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBeJNiRST5w
Chaos & Julia Set - Atmosphere (Sub-Base Field Mix) = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hobRGnMdPCw
Dance 2 Trance - We Came In Peace = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qc9391UXPO8
Dr. Fernando - Caverna Magica = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ft0aFy5kLzc
Eden Transmission - I'm So High = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rYDzmp53II
Mystic Force - Mystic Force = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soVul-TABn8
Vapourspace - Gravitational Arch Of 10 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZXcdK0RUuQ
Innocence Lost
Thinking of rollin tonight eh Matt?
SYSTEM-J
The thing about E is it's not just one moment, it's a 12 hour journey that hits a massive peak and then slowly descends back to Earth, and there are different points along that path that are very different.
There are probably three different stages that sum up why I love it. The first is shortly after midnight. The headliner has just come on and the music is suddenly changing gear out of the warm-up into the peak time, and you're starting to come up big-time. Then a track comes in that's really pumping and euphoric and you look round at your friends and they've got the same massive grin on their faces you can feel on yours, and you just know in that moment you're going to have a ing wicked night. I've heard this track a couple of times at that moment in the night and it sums it up perfectly:
The second moment comes much later, sometime around 5am. You've been dancing all night, the crowd has thinned out a bit and the last DJ has been taking things really hard and percussive. You've calmed down now but there's only an hour or so left and you want to stay until the end. And then out of the mix slides something tough and percussive but deeper, with just a lone string sound that rises up and runs down your spine and makes all your hairs stand on end. It's that beautiful mellow moment where you're hardly even dancing, you just close your eyes and feel that string stroking your skin. Usually this track is some gorgeous Detroit thing that I'll never find the name of. I haven't heard this track out but I discovered it recently and would love to hear it at that time of night:
The third and final moment comes after the club. The night is over but the journey hasn't quite finished. You've gone back to someone's flat. You're tired but you can't sleep yet. You want something chilled but warm - nothing too harsh or dark - something slow but with a groove, something to keep the juices flowing through you and to soothe your tired mind. I often like to stick this tune on at this point. Not just for the groove, but the way it simply doesn't want to come to an end perfectly encapsulates your state of mind around 8am:
corjay9
^good post.
When I saw Sasha 4 years ago at Stereo, he started off a bit rocky but eventually found his groove. Right as I was peaking, he drops this track. The whole club just transformed as the vocals slowly creeped in, I could see smiles on everyone's faces almost like the drugs kicked in on everyone all at the same time. This track sounded SO ing good, and the vocals really dragged everyone on the dance floor.. even though it was unreleased at the time everyone was humming and singing along, everyone was looking around at eachother like "WOWWWWW!" it was truly a beautiful moment on a packed dance floor of 1000 people. To this day it still gives me goose bumps, and it was the first track to put Tale of Us on the map.. total bomb.
Keep in mind, this sound was fresh back then.. now it's beaten to death on Life & Death and Innervisions.
2techs
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Originally posted by Innocence Lost
Thinking of rollin tonight eh Matt?
It was a feeling I'll never forget that's for sure. I'll never forget my pseudo-Christian friend (who went to church on sundays but partied the night prior) handing me my first pill.
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Originally posted by Robotrance
I have never taken any drugs but used to hang around people that did, however as much as I have witnessed them taking all kind of drugs and therefore have some indirect experience I have never seen any of them taking XTC so to me it is a mythical drug. When I started going to clubs and trance parties around 2000 the drug was probably not that popular anymore either so I have probably not witnessed many clubbers on E, I have seen people on some other weird though mostly in Techno clubs in Berlin (Tresor in 2003 for instance - strangest crowd I've ever seen). I'm very curious of what this drug do with a person as it's the only drug I can't imagine myself how works. Some say it's like being in love. Sounds cheesy to me but the music from the era of extacy is some of the best both emotionally, rhythmically, and a little challenging sound selection wise - however it all sounds very in time almost like the hippy rock from the 70s. It must be a drug that as with LSD expands the mind a little? I have no idea but would like someone to tell me their experience with it. I guess it varying a lot of the quality and how much rat poison it has. Some of my friends thought they were given exstacy once but they sat for hours hanging with their head not talking and said it wasn't working and just felt bad and depressed. /stupid post. I don't care to test myself just wondering how it feels on a research point of view and why the music was good back then.
Interesting. I thought the allure of a club setting would be strong enough to make you try it tbh.
Mr.Mystery
As soon as I saw the topic I knew what track Matt would pick.
