Historically influential dance tracks

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just as the topic notes, please list what you feel are the most influential edm tracks to present. please keep in mind that favorite or popular tracks do not always equal influential.

i'll list a few and let's see where the discussion and takes us:

Marshall Jefferson - Move Your Body
Jim Silk - Jack Your Body
Goldie - Timeless
Fluke - Bullet
Orbital - The Box, Halcyon..
Kraftwerk - Trans Europe Express
Lords of Acid - Take Control
Rythim is Rythim - Strings of Life
Orb - Little Fluffy Clouds
Prodigy - Charlie
Lil Louis - French Kiss
Apotheosis - O' Furtuna
Depeche Mode - Enjoy the Silence
What a Sensation - Masters At Work
Phuture - Acid Tracks
Inner City - Good Life
Wink - Higher States..
Robert Miles - Children
P-Funk - Atomic Dog
Happy Mondays - Hallejuhah
The KLF - What Time is Love
Afrikkaa Bambaata - Planet Rock
Moby - Go
Raincry/Hardkiss - God Within
 
adding to that list...

sasha - xpander
cass n' slide - perception
bedrock - heaven scent

k, thats enough of the super anthems...

sasha and emmerson - scorchio
saints n' sinners - pushin too hard
trancesetters - roaches


more...but i am tired
 
day_for_night said:
adding to that list...

sasha - xpander
cass n' slide - perception
bedrock - heaven scent

k, thats enough of the super anthems...

sasha and emmerson - scorchio
saints n' sinners - pushin too hard
trancesetters - roaches


more...but i am tired
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How would you consider xpander, heaven scent, and perception influential. They were great tracks for the moment in which they were conceived, but I don't think they influenced much in music.

I'm not dissing rather, I'm compelled as to what would bring you to that conclusion?
 
  • Underworld : Born Slippy 1995 <-- The first successful 'hard' track to use 'Heavenly' melodic elements.
  • Leftfield : Leftism 1995 <-- hands down, the orignal progressive house project
  • Green Velvet : Perculator 1993 <-- no comment needed
  • The Orb : Little Fluffy Clouds 1990 <-- no comment needed
  • The Future Sound of London : Papua New Guinea 1990 <-- Ambient techno that gave rise to the 'ambient 4/4' movement of the early nineties
  • AUTECHRE : LP5 1998 <-- Set the standard for that clicky sub Click Hop sound that every IDMist whores after today.
  • The Orb - Orbvs Terrarvm <-- The last truley monumental electronic project to date [PERIOD] and the end of The Orb as we once knew them. The beauty behind this project is its organic nature. Occidental being my favorite track, I have managed to slide this track into modern techno sets. Brilliant.
  • Plastikman : Acid House Remix of System 7's Alphawave 1995 <-- Solidified the tense drum roll build concept that brought trance into its best iteration; the 1996 through 1998 trance sound.
  • DJ Misjah : Access 1995 <-- Had every techno producer scrambling that year to figure out just how the hell he got that kick drum to sound THAT wide. Still rocks floors today. Timeless.
  • Josh Wink : Don't Laugh 1994/5 <-- Aside from its obvious commercial cross appeal, Don't Laugh was one of the first tracks, that I can think of anyway, to utilize the HIGHLY infectious quarter beat bassline pump. Again, another track that still plays well today.
  • Kraftwerk : Tour De France 1980 <-- alot of emphasis goes to them for their earlier works such as Trance Europe Express, Numbers, and so fourth. But Tour De France's straight forward step-beat concepts are the basis for ALL breaks music you hear today. A highly influencial track.
  • Brian Eno / Roger Fripp : An Index Of Metal 1971 <-- The precursor to modern 'looping', something NO electronic track could be made without. Respect.


I could go on forever with this, but that's my list.. and I did labor over it.


Great topic. :)

I love this music.
 
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Aside from the tracks already mentioned:

Layo & Bushwacka - Love Story - For reasons unknown, North America didn't see this track smash like it did in Europe. Great tune.

Robert Miles - Children - The godfather of what was dubbed "dream trance" struck a chord with this early 90's classic

U96 - Love Sees No Color - It makes me cringe to listen to it now, but for some reason, it was fitting for its time and surely influenced a great many trance producer

LA Style - I'm Raving - This is what gave America one of its first impressions of homogenized European rave culture.

Yello - Oh Yeah - Speaks for itself

Marrs - Pump Up The Volume - Funky, crazy and forward-thinking track from the late 80's


These are obvious, but since most of the more influential current tracks have been cited, I thought I'd chime in.
 
Delerium - Silence (tiesto mix)

One of, if not the first trance track played in the US on daytime radio rotation. Now we are hearing more dance and trance tracks played on radio rotation, but this was one of the first to be played on mainstream radio.
 
Chic – Good Times
Probably the most sampled bassline ever, it was used by the Sugarhill Gang for their mega-hit Rappers Delight, and the whole tune was lifted by Grandmaster Flash for his sampladelic classic Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel. (Unfortunately, Queen also ripped the bassline for their awful Another One Bites The Dust single…)

Donna Summer – I Feel Love
Basically created electro-disco on its own.

Funkadelic – One Nation Under A Groove
Another one that’s been sampled a zillion times, musically and lyrically. Ice Cube also did a version of it.

New Order – Blue Monday
If you didn’t hear this at least once every weekend in the 80’s then you weren’t going out, and it’s influence was just as hard to escape. Was used recently - 20 years after first release - for a remix of Kylie’s Can’t Get You Out Of My Head.
 
Keep this going.

It’s interesting to see everyone's choices and what angle they are taking on it. Looking at the big picture and putting your own personal interests aside, makes it all the more challenging.

Good call on 'I Feel Love', 'Blue Monday', 'Pump up the Volume', and Brian Eno recordings.

...and how I left out Leftfield, I should sign up for the lobotomy now.

However, I'd argue that Fluke should get the crown as the starting point of the progressive (house/trance) movement. ‘Bullet’ being the seminal track that finally broke through.
 
I have to go with Karmacoma on Donna Summer - I Feel Love.

But of course let us not forget that Georgio Moroder wrote the music for this track, and that the year was 1975. This is, to my knowledge the first house track ever written and produced.

Cheers,
Triple-Alpha
 
chemical brothers - chemical beats
Double 99 RIP Groove
Tori amos - Professional widow (armand van helden remix + all the other remixes he did at that time)

I can't really add that many to what is already here but I can definitely agree with blue monday, Strings of life, I feel love, Trans Europe express + Planet Rock.

I think the most obvious orbital track however would be chime.

Also what about Jungle Brothers - I'll house you.

What about the Incredible Bongo bands version of apache which surely has it foot in a lot of the breakbeat/jungle tracks of today.

Higher states of conciousness was a great call too as was all the early acid house/chicago house stuff I think you could add to that stuff like the source featuring candi station - you got the love which seemed to be a progression from that, Marrs pump up the volume and bomb the bass - beat dis aswell as coldcuts remix of paid in full which was along similar lines.

Other tracks such as valley of shadows and original nutta have played a big part in different scenes as has Roni Size's It's jazzy and krusts warhead, as for melodic trance music - cafe del mar would probably be a big one.

Hmm Im gonna go look for more now:)

Great thread
 
Blue Lava said:
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Sheesh, I give up... too hard distinguishing anthem from truly pioneering.
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That you have the insight to realize the difference speaks volumes about your knowledge of music.

Kudos!!!!! :)
 
I think what I was looking for when I was thinking about this is things which started a new genre or launched a different side to an existing one something which took the sound to another level and then layed a blueprint for all the rest :)
 
mashead testing said:
I think what I was looking for when I was thinking about this is things which started a new genre or launched a different side to an existing one something which took the sound to another level and then layed a blueprint for all the rest :)
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that's sort of the approach i took with my selections.
 
let me add:


gat decor - passion (one of the first prog house tracks)
cafe del mar - energ 52 [3 in 1 mix] (quite possibly the biggest trance anthem ever)
 
underscore_omega: good calls on the leftfield, autechre, and plastikman. lots of heavy influences there! :)
 
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