I’m opening it up with a classic from the 90s, when Strictly Rhythm records ruled much of the house music scene:
Title: Congo Artist: The Boss Label: Strictly Rhythm
Genre(s): House, Tribal Year Released: 1994
I’ll never forget 1994 and 1995, when NYC flooded the market with their own clubby brand of house music, pulling the scene out of the rave techno much of the scene embraced from 1992-1993. I’ll also remember how Goodmen’s Give It Up started a short trend in producers sampling the batucada sound of Brazilian samba. Most of them just sampled the Goodmen.
Out of all those tunes, Congo has to be my favorite, even more than Give It Up. I think the added use of samples from George Kranz as well as the pianos and organs so noted to NYC style house just gave a greater depth to this track. The piano (5:42) always sends chills up and down my spine.
Some of you may know the Euro Dance Hit Mr. Vain from Culture Beat, but I like much more there first Single “Der Erdbeermund”. I guess not much of you who live outside of Germany will know it. The Lyrics are a poem from 1930 from Paul Zech.
Title: Der Erdbeermund
Artist: Culture Beat Featuring Jo Van Nelsen
Year: 1989
Another German one is Zauberstab from ZaZa.
After I heard that one in a Club, it took me several months to find a copy on vinyl. (No Internet back in those days!)
Unfortunately it got stolen a few years later. Found a digital copy just a few years ago.
I’m going to toss in my second on that “before they were famous” logic with this one:
Title: No Good (Start the Dance) Artist: The Prodigy Label: XL Recordings
Genre(s): Oldskool jungle, breakbeat hardcore, breakbeat, rave Year Released: 1994
DJs and Ravers knew of The Prodigy by the three hit singles from their first album, Experience. Most of the rest of the world encountered The Prodigy by their famous release The Fat of the Land.
No Good (Start the Dance) was from their third album Music for the Jilted Generation. It was the time between the rave explosion of the early 90s and the mainstream popularity of big beat in the late 90s. The sound in it self you can hear a mixture of the past and things to come. It mostly reminds me of the time when the raves were pushed far out of the cities, and thus the new sounds of jungle and D&B were crafted.
The video in itself shows a Prodigy in transition. The black and white, run down, dirty vibe carries itself into the videos from The Fat of the Land, and yet all the members are still quite “clean cut”, versus the tattoos and piercings they take on.
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