Historically influential dance tracks

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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BlueAdonis said:
Kernkraft - Zombie Nation
Hatiras - Spaced Invader
Darude - Sandstorm
Alice Dee Jay - Better Off Alone
blaze - Can you dance to my beat?
Static Avenger - Happy People

..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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your kidding right? just because etards dance to them and they are played on the top 40 stations doesn't make them historically important. what kind of historical significance to any of those songs play besides being massively overplayed? they weren't ground breaking, forward thinking, or very good (with the exception of the hatiras and blaze tunes)
 
Mystic Styles said:
your kidding right? just because etards dance to them and they are played on the top 40 stations doesn't make them importance. what kind of historical significance to any of those songs play besides being massively overplayed? they weren't ground breaking, forward thinking, or very good (with the exception of the hatiras and blaze tunes)
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I think it's safe to assume that it was a joke.
 
junior vasquez once looped zombie nation for a full hour just to prove it was overplayed. People were jamming out to it it for the first 20-30 minutes before they got the point. :D
 
Sheesh...so much for having an opinion :\

I suppose what a "widely successful club tune" in my region may not be the same in everyone elses.

And vice versa..
 
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success doesn't = significant music


you can look at teh boy bands of today if you want to see proof of that. those songs may be wildly popular among those who really don't listen to electronic music unless they are rolling, but they have no significance. They will be forgotten in ten years, but songs like born slippy and papa new gunea are timeless classics that will be around forever and changed their particular genres forever
 
Massively influential in terms of both the production techniques and sounds that were pioneered and the number of people they inspired...

Manuel Göttsching - e2 e4
Alexander Robotnik - Problems d'Amour
Telex - Moskow Disko
DBX - Losing Control
Adonis - No Way Back
Model 500 - Night Drive, No UFOs
A Guy Called Gerald - Voodoo Ray
Orbital - Chime
Rufige Kru - Terminator
Underground Resistance - World 2 World EP
Joey Beltram - Energy Flash
Innerzone Orchestra - Bug in the Bassbin
Basic Channel - Phylyps Trak II
Plastikman - Spastik
Hardfloor - Hardtrance Acperience


and just plain fucking classic...

Robert Armani - Circus Bells (Hardfloor remix)
Sabres Of Paradise - Smokebelch II (David Holmes remix)
Warp 69 - Natural High
Dave Clarke - Red 1 and Red 2
Underworld - Cowgirl/Rez
Orbital - Lush 3
Slam - Positive Education
PA Presents - Entangled
Jeff Mills - The Bells
Millsart - Humana
Carl Craig - At Les
69 - Desire
Rhythim is Rhythim - It Is What It Is
Infiniti - Game One
Underground Resistance - Final Frontier
Red Planet - Firekeeper
E Dancer - Velocity Funk
Sour Mash - Pilgrimage To Paradise
Secret Cinema - Timeless Altitude

I think I'm going to go dig through my records some more...there're a few things here that I haven't listened to in a while...
 
Lots of Deborah Harry
Kraftwerk in general
Aldo Nova--Cars
ELO-Twilight
Fripp, as mentioned

Many of the above mentioned 90's tunes are, in my way of thinking, an evolution of the above artists. To pin down specific tracks is a bit presumptious on my part, as I am not thoroughly educated here, but surely "Rapture" and "Heart of Glass" must fit in there somewhere.

The varying trance styles today can be traced back to different influential tracks for certain, I am unable to list these comprehensively...

But a quick listen to Roxy Music's first record will be interesting to those with a keen ear for Delerium type trance, as would a listen to ELO's record 'Time" for those who wonder where PVD's thick sounding harmonies and strict 4/4 beats might have found a few seedlings.

Jean Michael Jarre undoubtedly influenced trance possibly more than anyone else ever did. He brought to the mainstream arena the true depths of sonic hypnotism that is possible with minimal chordal movement.

Consider Oxygene...part six to be exact...although the entire soundscape is highly provocative to the trance student. Especially those who tend to worship Sasha.

The warbling of rythmic transients is more a result of filtered disco than anything else. Initially these warblings were incidental, but mixers began to discover an intrinsic coolness to the non-exactitude of a single transient, preferring the actual 'drum' to be anything but.

If you take a close listen to DJ Dan's early mixing he actually approaches certain trance elements in an incidental way. The correlation is not at once apparent, but its there.

If we really wanted to get to the actual roots of trance, we might have to go as far back as Claude Debussy, who was the first musician to successfully render appealing sonic landscapes with repetitive arpeggiating, both tonal and atonal.

A listen to Claire de Lune is a good place to start, but an in depth study of his music is worth any effort it requires.

I do not consider the tenth century monks chants to be the same type of influence that say, Debussy was. The reason is that the sound is a finished sound as it stood, and the only thing anyone has ever done with these in a modern setting is add drums.

The above refernces do not take into account the very relevant impact that African tribal rhythms had on todays dance music, which is an area that must be fully examined in order to comprehend just how significant that influence truly was, and is.
 
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Just digging through my cd collection, I came across an artist who some say was the original 'remixer' - Steve Reich (and this is stretching back to the 60s). I'm sure some of you are familiar with his work. He was known for taking original sounds, looping them and the purposely knocking them off synch, exposing the 'inbetween' sounds. These out of synch works became the basis for beat music and more so, minimalism.

My girl used to work for a small independent label in nyc called Nonesuch. They released a cd called "Reich Remixed". Modern DJ interpretations on Reich's earlier original works/remixes. Check it :)
 
I think Timo Maas remix of 'Doom's Night' was a historically significant track.

Some might argue that it was riding the success of Mr Oizo's 'Flatbeat' with its bass groove, but I remember hearing the remix of 'Doom's Night' in a club and thinking "what the fuck is that 'whomp whomp' sound?"
Then after a few listens it sounded groovy.

And because it was a commercial breakthru, it turned alot of ppl (that I know) onto the harder sounds of techno and nu school breaks.
 
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I think Timo Maas remix of 'Doom's Night' was a historically significant track.

Some might argue that it was riding the success of Mr Oizo's 'Flatbeat' with its bass groove, but I remember hearing the remix of 'Doom's Night' in a club and thinking "what the fuck is that 'whomp whomp' sound?"
Then after a few listens it sounded groovy.

And because it was a commercial breakthru, it turned alot of ppl (that I know) onto the harder sounds of techno and nu school breaks.
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Iffy argument at best, however, the point you make about it bringing nu-school breaks onto the main floor seems valid.
 
To reply to Blue Adonis thinking that his opinion was a bad one...I think that what people are looking for on this thread are songs that weren't just hugely popular, but totally withstood the test of time. If Paul Van Dyk (just an example, no PVD bashing this thread) were to drop Alice Deejay in the middle of a set, people would think he was fucking crazy. But say in the middle of one of his little breaks sets he plays sometimes, he dropped something like Cybotron- Clear or Afrika Bambatta- Planet Rock (the original), people would think that it was fucking fantastic, just because it's old and it was a historically significant dance track that still holds it's own on the dance floors of today. So not saying you're picks weren't significant, they just really aren't timeless. Peace.
 
And oh yeah, a lot of people have already picked a lot of stuff that I thought was classic, so I don't have much left to say, but I'm gonna have to say:

Michael Jackson-Billie Jean and Thriller
MFSB- Love is the Message
Kraftwerk- Trans Europe Express
Newcleus- Jam on It
Cybotron- Clear
Afrika Bambatta and Soul Sonic Force- Planet Rock
George Clinton- Atomic Dog
Zapp & Roger- More Bounce to the Ounce
Sugarhill Gang- Rappers Delight

Just a few, there's a lot more, but I just got up and can't think =D Peace.
 
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