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Does anyone else miss the 'old school' Dance music?
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I was browsing on Spotify tonight and I came across an album full of big club hits from the past (2000-2006) and I listened and remembered these:
Freeloaders vs the Real Thing - So Much Love to Give
Supermode - Tell Me Why
Sunset Strippers - Falling Stars
Sunblock vs Robin Beck - First Time
Rockwell - Somebody's Watching Me
These tracks reminded me of being a child and I recall joining secondary school around when these songs were in the charts... It's funny when you see just how much Dance music has changed mainstream.
It used to be the likes of these and now it's very different with stuff like Swedish House Mafia, Afrojack, Disclosure, Avicii etc :sleep:
Freeloaders vs the Real Thing - So Much Love to Give
Supermode - Tell Me Why
Sunset Strippers - Falling Stars
Sunblock vs Robin Beck - First Time
Rockwell - Somebody's Watching Me
These tracks reminded me of being a child and I recall joining secondary school around when these songs were in the charts... It's funny when you see just how much Dance music has changed mainstream.
It used to be the likes of these and now it's very different with stuff like Swedish House Mafia, Afrojack, Disclosure, Avicii etc :sleep:
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Nightcrawlers - push the feeling on
Robin s - show me love
Bucketheads - the bomb
But yeah, I think the past (especially around 2003-2007) had better dance music today. Now people release dance songs because it's the most popular genre in the mainstream. Pop stars release dance songs to get #1. And you can release any old song, which results in lots of lazy and boring dance songs making the chart...
Supermode are actually Swedish House Mafia without Sebastian Ingrosso. But I love Tell Me Why too, it's brilliant. September used the sample in Cry For You as well.
I liked Falling Stars too. And I also liked Cabin Crew's version.
I do like some of the dance music today though. Disclosure's songs are awesome. Swedish House Mafia are good as well, it's just Don't You Worry Child and Save the World that I don't like. They're so soppy. But I like their songs Miami 2 Ibiza and Antidote.
I think 2009-2011 were the absolute worst years for dance music. Absolutely horrific. It's gotten a bit better recently imo.
as has been pointed out 'old skool' dance is early-mid 90's dance, not that stuff from yesterday (well it seems like it).
i much prefer swedish house mafia, disclosure and avicii (as tim berg) anyday over those tracks you listed 4 of which are re-hashed retro tracks..... sorry.
I don't know, but if I had to make an educated guess I'd say Ableton and/or Logic Pro/Pro Tools.
Hun, those aren't old school or else I am ancient
I would consider Livin' Joy, Robin S, De' Lacey, N-Trance, Tony Di Bart, etc as "old school"
Kym sims - To blind to see
Frankie knuckles - Tears
Bizarre Inc. - Playing with knives
Bass-O-matic - Fascinating rhythm
Joe smooth - Promised land
Patti Day - Right before my eyes
Debbie malone - Rescue me
Awesome 3 - Dont go
Rozalla - Everybodys free
Alison Limerick - Where love lives
A man called Adam - Barefoot in the head
Sterling Void & Paris Brightledge - Its alright
Raze - Break for love
N trance - set you free 1992
Prodigy - everybody in the place
Frankie Knuckles - your love
Green velvet - Flash
So many more i could list.
Who loves you, and who do you love? The Messiah!
..and continuing with the "90s dance that had drops from scifi movies in them" theme:
Antiloop - Purpose in Life
Whatever happened to her?
Massively successful and in-demand songwriter - Kylie's "Can't get you out of my head" is one of many
Saying that I think the stuff made from about 2010 onwards has been better than most of the mid-late noughties. Would much rather listen to Swedish House Mafia/Nero/Disclosure than the repetitive 80s-sampling looped house that dominated around eight years ago!
I'm even more ancient as old school for me means Caister Anthems
agreed
The only version of 'Somebody's watching me' by Rockwell I know came out in 1984 which is about 20 years before the era you're talking about. Obviously there must have been a remix of it.
Do you think music has really changed that much in the past 5 - 10 years. I don't think it has.
If you played me a dance song or any song for that matter that was recorded in say 2003 which was 10 years ago, and I'd never ever heard that song before, then you played me a song that was recorded in 2013 and I'd never heard that before either and you asked me to guess which song sounds older I'd probably wouldn't know because music has changed very little over the past 10 years.
I went to school in the 80s and if you played 2 songs that I'd never heard before - one from 1980, one from 1990 I could tell you EXACTLY which was the older song.
Now normally I'm a rock fan and hated the rave era, but your comments about 2000 dance music are well right. At this time Britpop was dead and buried, the next generation of rock acts like Limp Bizkit were a year off, and the alternatives to dance music were banal pop and garage. Dance was the only deal in town as it had thrown off this cheesy, naff image it had developed in the mid nineties and in terms of production values, the quality of the music and the anthems it was top dog. However, by 2002 the music form was in decline, a few years later dance is dead comments were common on forums, and a new generation of rock bands had got me back to guitars.
I loved Let Me Think About It when it got released.
Rozalla - Everybody's Free
N-Trance - Forever
Rachel MacFarlane - Lover
Filo & Peri Feat, Eric Lumiere - Anthem
Sash - Stay
Rui Da Silva - Touch Me
Nalin and Kane - Beachball
Love Inc - Your'e a Superstar
Loleatta Holloway - Love Sensation 06' (The Dead Stereo Mix is pretty awesome too)
Ian Van Dahl - Castles in the Sky & Will I
Corona - Rhythm of the Night
Kelly Llorenna - Tell it to my heart
And many many more.....
you make a very good point about music not progressing..
UK garage, not garage m8... is a form of dance anyway and i like it! imho it was the last of the great british movements.
Dee Dee-Forever
Alice Deejay-Better Off Alone
Matt Darey/Marcella Woods-Beautiful
ATB, AVB and Dash Berlin off the top of my head were knocking out quality tracks/remixes and albums during those years, they are just not commercially accepted over here though for some reason.