Historically influential dance tracks

Am I allowed to say "Spin, Spin Sugar" by Sneaker Pimps?

Would that fit into the list somewhere?

I mean, it's old skool and all, but it still kinda rocks :\
 
I'll add some more:
Front 242 - Headhunter
Nitzer Ebb - Let Your Body Learn
DAF - Der Mussolini
Giorgio Moroder - Chase
808 State - Cubik
Bomb The Bass - Beat Dis
Kraftwerk - Das Modell, The Robots, Autobahn, and many more!
X-101 - Sonic Destroyer (classic!)
and Daft Punk's Homework was quite influential too!
 
Robert Miles ?????? In the name of dead donkey bollox!!!! 8) He stole just about every sound he had, and made bland arse, but that's just my opinion of course. But influential ? 8(

Anyway, for trance at least we have the 1991-1993 MFS catalogue. Also the 1990-1994 FAX catalogue. Previous to that I would go with Kraftwerk.
 
BlueAdonis said:
Kernkraft - Zombie Nation
Hatiras - Spaced Invader
Darude - Sandstorm
Alice Dee Jay - Better Off Alone
Daft Punk - Around the World and One More Time

..just off the too of my head, that weren't already mentioned. With the exception of Alice Deejay, I've heard all of them at least a dozen times each played at key, peak times in DJ sets that really get the crowd jumpin.
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Historically influential dance tracks?

beer boy music!
 
Frankie Knuckles
The Whistle Song (EK 12" Mix)

Lisa Stansfield
People Hold On (New Jersey Jazz Mix)

Sydney Youngblood
If Only I Could (Extended Version)

Crystal Waters
Gypsy Woman (She's Homeless) (Basement Boy "Stripped To The Bone" Mix)

Tony Di Bart
The Real Thing (12" Mix)

Chrissy Ward
Right & Exact (StoneBridge Club Mix)

Mount Rushmore
I've Got The Music (Pegasus Club Mix)

Robin S
Show Me Love (StoneBridge Club Mix)

LaTour
Blue (Hermes Trance Mix)

Subliminal
Cuts Le Voie Le Soleil (Original Mix)

Urban Soul
Alright (Sasha Remix)

Mory Kante
Yeke Yeke (Hardfloor Mix)

Nu Colours
Greater Love

Miles Jaye
Heaven (Celestial Club)

Kenny Thomas
Outstanding (Original Mix)

Beats International
Dub Be Good To Me

Eric B & Rakim
Paid In Full - 7 Mins Of Madness (Coldcut Remix)

Heavy D & The Boyz
We Got Our Own Thang (Club Mix)

Monie Love
I Can Do This (Uptown Mix)

Mantronix
King Of The Beats

Gregg Diamond & Bionic Boogie
Hot Butterfly

Tom Browne
Funkin For Jamaica (1991 Ext Remix)

Lyn Collins
Think (About It)

Frances Nero
Footsteps (Following Me)

Turntable Orchestra
You're Gonna Miss Me (Original Mix)

Victor Romeo feat. Latrice Brown
Love Will Find A Way

Ann Consuelo
See The Day (Stonebridge Mix)

Aftershock
Slave To The Vibe (12" Club mix)

Night Crawlers
Push The Feeling On

Shawn Christopher
Don't Lose The Magic (David Morales Club Mix)

Djamin feat. Alessandra
GiveYou (Mix 91 Dancefloor Syndromad Mix)

House Of Virginism
I'll Be There For You (Doya Dododo Doya) (Stone's Glamarama Club Mix)

Pulse
Lover That You Are

Donna Giles
And I'm Telling You (Stonebridge Mix)

Todd Terry
Weekend

Soul II Soul
Keep On Movin' (Club Mix)

Fresh 4
Wishing On A Star

De La Soul
Eye Know (The Know It All Mix)

Stetsasonic
Talkin' All That Jazz (Extended Vocal)

Dee Patten
Who's The Bad Man (Sound System Mix)

Eric B & Rakim
I Know You Got Soul

Think Tank
A Knife And A Fork (The Massively Parallel Mix)

Rob Base & DJ EZ
Rock It Takes Two

King Bee
Must Bee The Music (Frisco Disco Mix)

Cheryl Lynn
Got To Be Real

Stock, Aitken, Waterman
Roadblock (Rare Groove Version)

Carly Simon
Why (Ext. Version)

Lavine Hudson
A Little Sensitivity (Full extended 12" mix)

Nightwriters
Let The Music (Use You) (Original Mix)

Sterling Void
It's Alright (Original Mix)

Adeva
Respect (Extended Mix)

Chanelle
One Man (One Mix)

A Guy Called Gerald
Voodoo Ray (Rham On Acid Remix)

Doug Lazy
Let I Roll (Vocal)

Raze
Break 4 Love

Kym Sims
Too Blind To See It (Hurley's House Mix)

Ce Ce Peniston
Finally (12" Choice Mix)

Arrested Development
Mr Wendal (Perfecto Mix)

Gat Décor
Passion (Do You Want It Right Now) (Naked Mix)

Frankie Knuckles
Your Love

Inner City
Whatcha Gonna Do With My Lovin' (Def Mix)

Soul II Soul feat. Rose Windross
Fairplay

D-Influence
Good Lover (Wow Original)

En Vogue
Hold On (Radio Version With Intro)

Alyson Williams
Sleep Talk (Extended Version)

Jungle Brothers
What U Waitin' 4 (Jungle Fever Mix)

Shannon
Let The Music Play (Original 12" Version)

Grandmaster Flash & Melle Mel
White Lines

KC Flightt
Planet E (Hip Hop Mix)

Orange Lemon
Dreams Of Santa Anna (Extended Club Mix)

Dan Hartman
Vertigo/Relight My Fire (Original 12" Version)

Incognito
Always There (Extended Mix)

Kariya
Let Me Love You For Tonight (House Club Version)

Degrees Of Motion
Do You Want It Right Now (King Street Mix)

Mass Order
Lift Every Voice (Take Me Away) (Bumped Up Mix)

Inner City
Pennies From Heaven (Kevin's Tunnel Mix)

Lil Louis
French Kiss (Original Mix)

Richie Rich's Salsa House feat. Ralphi Rosario
You Used To Salsa (12*)

Rhythm On The Loose
Break Of Dawn (Rhythm On The Loose 95 Remix)

Aly-us
Follow Me (Club Mix)

Ce Ce Rogers
Someday (Club Mix)

True Faith
Take Me Away (Original Pin Up Bootleg Mix)

Rhythim Is Rhythim
Strings Of Life (Piano Mix)

The Source feat. Candi Staton
You've Got The Love (Original Mix)

Young Disciples
Get Yourself Together (12* Mix)

Regina Belle
Good Lovin' (12* Remix)

The Chimes
123 (UK Raw Mix)

Driza Bone feat. Dee Heron
Real Love (Original '91 version)

First Choice
Let No Man Put Asunder

The Jackson Sisters
I Believe In Miracles (Extended Mix)

Maceo & The Macks
Cross The Tracks (We Better Go Back)

King Bee
Back By Dope Demand (Funky Bass Mix)

De La Soul
Say No Go (Say No Dope Mix)

Deee-Lite
Groove Is In The Heart

Young MC
Know How

Soul II Soul
Back To Life (However Do You Want Me) (Club Mix)

Archie Bell & The Drells
Don't Let Love Get You Down

T-Empo
Saturday Night, Sunday Morning (T-Empo Mix)

Degrees of Motion featuring Biti
Shine On (Original 12")

Jomanda
Got a Love for You (Hurley's House Mix)

Jamiroquai
Space Cowboy (Morales Classic Club Mix)

Alison Limerick
Where Love Lives (Come On In) 12" Classic Mix

Phase II
Reachin (Latin Workout Mix)

Frankie Knuckles presents Satoshi Tomiie
Tears (Classic Vocal)

Ten City
That's the Way Love Is (Deep House Mix)

Patti Day
Right Before My Eyes (House Vocal Mix)

Joe Smooth
Promised Land (Original Mix)

The Brand New Heavies
Back to Love (Graeme Park Remix)

Zoe
Sunshine on a Rainy Day (Original 12" Version)

The Family Stand
Ghetto Heaven (Original Soul II Soul 12" Remix W/Jazzy B)

Diana Brown and Barrie K Sharpe
The Masterplan (Extended Version)

Young Disciples
Apparently Nothin' (Original 12" A Side)

Mantronix
Got To Have Your Love (12" Club with bonus beats)

Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam
Let The Beat Hit 'Em (Brand New Super Pumped Up)

Paul Simpson
Musical Freedom (12" Mix)

Rufus & Chaka Khan
Ain't Nobody (Original Version)

Richie Havens
Going Back to My Roots (Original)

Gwen McCrae
All This Love That I'm Giving (Original Version)

Sounds of Blackness
Optimistic (Album Version)


that is the sound track to '89

when house happened =D
 
Sasha - Xpander - Every clubbers dream is to hear this track being droped by Sasha. It was a massive hit in 1999, and it will remain a classic.

Orbital - Chime - Don't quote me on this, but wasn't this the first 'electronic' track to hit the music charts in the U.K.?

Underworld - Dark & Long - Need I say more?

PvD - For an Angel - Unfortunately, this one is a classic in the trance genre.

Plenty of more, but my head hurts... :)
 
There are tons that have already been mentioned, but I don't think I've seen any of these yet:

808 State - Pacific State
Second Phase - Mentasm
A Guy Called Gerald - Voodoo Ray
Mr. Fingers - Can You Feel It
Humanoid - Stakker Humanoid
Prodigy - Charly
Hallucinogen - LSD
AFX - Analogue Bubblebath
The KLF - Chill Out (album)
DJ Shadow - In/Flux
 
some of hte most influential tracks in the rave scene in my opinion are
general base - Rythym & Drums Pt 1
a-tension - angels
dyewitness - masterplan
dune - cant stop raving (got alot of people into happy hard)
ultrasonic - anihalating rythem (first guys to be put on the map for there style of mc'ing and playing hardcore)

others include

the first rebirth
rank1 - airwave
bt - godspeed
paul van dyk - for an angel
the prodigy - out of space, voodoo people
hocus pocus - heres johny
david morales - needing you
 
s p a c e d said:
There are tons that have already been mentioned, but I don't think I've seen any of these yet:

808 State - Pacific State
Second Phase - Mentasm
A Guy Called Gerald - Voodoo Ray
Mr. Fingers - Can You Feel It
Humanoid - Stakker Humanoid
Prodigy - Charly
Hallucinogen - LSD
AFX - Analogue Bubblebath
The KLF - Chill Out (album)
DJ Shadow - In/Flux
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Excellent list. Pacific State - jeez that takes me back. Beautiful chill with that lovely chirping noise (other 808 classics: In Your Face & Nimbus). Stakker Humanoid is a killer, and that is (believe it or not) the Future Sound of London. Prodigy - Charly had that hoover sound from Hades. Although Pete Namlook had that hoover sound going a few years before. But anyway. AFX - great electro style from RDJ. Voodoo Ray is a classic with that meandering vocal. The KLF's Chill Out (actually with Dr. Alex from the Orb) is a landmark album. Great list!!!!
 
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