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While that's a deserved bunch, just a reminder that a song we hadn't until three weeks ago, which I file under "joke has worn thin" still hasn't appeared.
Moopy's Greatest Dance Anthems: THE RESULTS SUPERTHREAD
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Black Legend TRAGICALLY low 
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I must remind you of the issues surrounding couples on Moopy.
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This has had a bit of a revival for me since this began.Black Legend TRAGICALLY low
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I feel like some shade has been thrown around and I'm not here for it. I gave my 20 to the act that sparks joys and gives me a genuine desire to dance, which is as valid a reason as any!
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that Agnelli & Nelson song is very euro trance and so I should hate it (I hate Alice Deejay, Ian Van Dahl etc) but I love it. A great vocal version as well. Uplifting. See also Space Brothers and Matt Darey. 1999 was a great year for commercial trance.
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Commenting on page 4 already so many...
Jinny. One of the most iconic pumpings of piano there is. Weirdly underrated, yet weirdly ubiquitous.
Capella. I only discovered they were holding onto the chorus of Gina G-ing for Myself last week. And that they started in the 80s. This is just lethal. I'll bet Siouxsie Sioux's eyes turned into cauldrons of luminous piss when she heard it
Alice Deejay. Swapping a microphone for Touche Eclat, I'd love her to do my make-up and subtly steer the conversation to Eurodance.
Todd Terry. Something. His best riff. A dreamy house elixir. I heard the cheapest Jocelyn cover version yesterday: I Want to know what love is. She didn't deserve to find out, but she got there with the 2 Todd Terry slams she did with Martha (RIP from diabetes).
Sonique. Was she the black Mel C or was Mel briefly the white Sonique? I'll DM Mark Moore. I'll bet fellow expresser Bully Ray Martin was furious.
French Affair. That season holiday makers brought home crabs and this song. A romantic tale.
Shamen Ebenezer Goode. What could that extra ebpossibly mean?
Roger Sanchez. This was huge at the time. I hoped his Dannii song would have had similar commercials prospects, but it was still a gorgeous souvenir regardless.
2 Unlimiter. What a statement to announce themselves with. Not my favourite by a long stretch though (that would be Face, The Real Thing or Maximum Overdrive).
Karen Remirex. Tracey Thorn almost drowned in her cornflakes from sobbing. Imagine if Todd Terry had remixed her version first.
You Don't Know Me. Did Madonna ever talk about this? It definitely sounds like a stepping stone towards Music.
Kelly Rowland. Her phoney foray into dance was half hearted, but there were a slather of gems. This isn't it for me (I would go on to dis people on the internet for the magnificently basic Forever & a Day (and now I have to look up a trance song of the same name I've now remembered), so what do I know)
USURS. Stone cold classic. Oaaw.
Kate Ryan. The forever 50 one and her 50p cover versions are mostly disappointing (Ella Elle L'A being the obvious exception). The original annihilated this, even if judged on dance song eligibility terms.
Fragma. This one was nice.
Jinny. One of the most iconic pumpings of piano there is. Weirdly underrated, yet weirdly ubiquitous.
Capella. I only discovered they were holding onto the chorus of Gina G-ing for Myself last week. And that they started in the 80s. This is just lethal. I'll bet Siouxsie Sioux's eyes turned into cauldrons of luminous piss when she heard it
Alice Deejay. Swapping a microphone for Touche Eclat, I'd love her to do my make-up and subtly steer the conversation to Eurodance.
Todd Terry. Something. His best riff. A dreamy house elixir. I heard the cheapest Jocelyn cover version yesterday: I Want to know what love is. She didn't deserve to find out, but she got there with the 2 Todd Terry slams she did with Martha (RIP from diabetes).
Sonique. Was she the black Mel C or was Mel briefly the white Sonique? I'll DM Mark Moore. I'll bet fellow expresser Bully Ray Martin was furious.
French Affair. That season holiday makers brought home crabs and this song. A romantic tale.
Shamen Ebenezer Goode. What could that extra ebpossibly mean?
Roger Sanchez. This was huge at the time. I hoped his Dannii song would have had similar commercials prospects, but it was still a gorgeous souvenir regardless.
2 Unlimiter. What a statement to announce themselves with. Not my favourite by a long stretch though (that would be Face, The Real Thing or Maximum Overdrive).
Karen Remirex. Tracey Thorn almost drowned in her cornflakes from sobbing. Imagine if Todd Terry had remixed her version first.
You Don't Know Me. Did Madonna ever talk about this? It definitely sounds like a stepping stone towards Music.
Kelly Rowland. Her phoney foray into dance was half hearted, but there were a slather of gems. This isn't it for me (I would go on to dis people on the internet for the magnificently basic Forever & a Day (and now I have to look up a trance song of the same name I've now remembered), so what do I know)
USURS. Stone cold classic. Oaaw.
Kate Ryan. The forever 50 one and her 50p cover versions are mostly disappointing (Ella Elle L'A being the obvious exception). The original annihilated this, even if judged on dance song eligibility terms.
Fragma. This one was nice.
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I rediscovered that the other day. AMAZING!
ButterTart
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He worked under the name during the 80s, but was LONG gone by the time they started doing anything of note. A very thinly veiled excuse to give Work a bit of promo.
ButterTart
Like Mussolini or Kennedy
Re: the Caramella Girls thing. More than anything, this rate should be fun. ‘Dance’ is a broad church and open to everyone, and that song is a full-on earworm that had to go through andrachansen to reach the final so I’m glad it’s in.
I’ve been vile about a lot of the acts so far (RIP Karen Ramirez, we hardly remembered ye), but that’s purely for comedy. Even the Mariah Carey ones have earned their spot, as much as I had to choke back vomit to admit that.
I’ve been vile about a lot of the acts so far (RIP Karen Ramirez, we hardly remembered ye), but that’s purely for comedy. Even the Mariah Carey ones have earned their spot, as much as I had to choke back vomit to admit that.
ButterTart
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This happy few were awarded EIGHTEEN points in exchange for their services to music. I’d have given them knighthoods, personally, but sadly I don’t own a sword.
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Barthezz – On The Move (ButterTart)
2001, Netherlands, No. 18 smash! Awww… this qualifying was my plucky underdog tale of the season, and yet another notch on the collective Dutch bedpost in this countdown. ‘In the Mix’ by Mix Masters is sampled here. The follow up single ‘Infected’ was equally exquisite, but I didn’t nominate it. Very silly of me altogether.
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Hercules & Love Affair – Blind
2008, USA/UK, No 40 smash! Forty years on from their transatlantic hit ‘Everlasting Love’, the Love Affair returned with this monster, co-written and performed by Anohni of Antony and the Johnsons. H&LA is a music project created by American DJ Andy Butler, who was presumably getting impatient for David Guetta and Usher to invent eedeyem and so took matters into his own hands.
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Solar Stone – Seven Cities (Stone’s Atlantis Mix)
1999. UK. No 39 smash. Watching the sunset on a boat in Ibiza, with this playing, was one of the most lip-tremblingly beautiful moments of my entire life. Clearly, Moopy has never had such a defining experience and, since it’s not by a shouty woman in a trouser suit, you cruelly cast it aside. This God-tier trance anthem samples Cabaret Voltaire’s ‘Hypnotised’ and ‘Tintinnabulum’ by Adiemus. Solarstone is Birmingham DJ Richard Mowatt.
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Barthezz – On The Move (ButterTart)
2001, Netherlands, No. 18 smash! Awww… this qualifying was my plucky underdog tale of the season, and yet another notch on the collective Dutch bedpost in this countdown. ‘In the Mix’ by Mix Masters is sampled here. The follow up single ‘Infected’ was equally exquisite, but I didn’t nominate it. Very silly of me altogether.
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Hercules & Love Affair – Blind
2008, USA/UK, No 40 smash! Forty years on from their transatlantic hit ‘Everlasting Love’, the Love Affair returned with this monster, co-written and performed by Anohni of Antony and the Johnsons. H&LA is a music project created by American DJ Andy Butler, who was presumably getting impatient for David Guetta and Usher to invent eedeyem and so took matters into his own hands.
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Solar Stone – Seven Cities (Stone’s Atlantis Mix)
1999. UK. No 39 smash. Watching the sunset on a boat in Ibiza, with this playing, was one of the most lip-tremblingly beautiful moments of my entire life. Clearly, Moopy has never had such a defining experience and, since it’s not by a shouty woman in a trouser suit, you cruelly cast it aside. This God-tier trance anthem samples Cabaret Voltaire’s ‘Hypnotised’ and ‘Tintinnabulum’ by Adiemus. Solarstone is Birmingham DJ Richard Mowatt.
Kate
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100% would buy
ButterTart
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What’s got NINETEEN points and has never shot a dog? This merry band of misfits.
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Galantis – Runaway (U & I)
2014, Sweden, No 4 smash! One of tellingly few post-2010 entries in this countdown, this one was only nominated in the bonus round. Wikipedia tells me Cathy Dennis is the uncredited vocalist here. Also, it was nominated for a Grammy – but so were loads of others we’ve had so far so that’s becoming an increasingly unimpressive factoid.
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Captain Hollywood Project – More and More
1992, Germany, No. 23 smash! ‘People just want More and More’ trilled Gala. ‘Nah, we’re alright’ replied Moopy. This samples the Woodstock mix of ‘Go’ by Moby. Captain Hollywood himself is rapper Tony Dawson-Harrison, and the vocals were provided by Nina Gerhard. I say these things as if I expect you to know who the fuck these people are.
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Iio – Rapture
2001, USA, No 2 smash! Iio are Nadia Ali and Markus Moser. The streaming versions of this song tend to either credit it to Nadia Ali or Iio ft. Nadia Ali, because she re-released their many hit under her own name after Iio split. Our Nads calls herself the ‘queen of clubs’, having clearly never heard of Karen Parry. The Armin Van Buuren mix of this is incredible.
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DJ Quicksilver – Bellissima
1996, Turkey/Germany, No. 4 smash! DJ Quicksilver was born in Turkey and raised in Germany. I always assumed he was Italian, which I blame on that deliberately misleading title. He cracked the top ten again with ‘Free’, and had further success with ‘Heart of Asia’, which he released under the alias ‘Watergate’.
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Technotronic ft. Felly – Pump Up the Jam
1989, Belgium, No. 2 smash! Who’d have thought Belgians would be good at this music lark? Certainly not anyone who follows Eurovision, that’s for sure. Ya Kid K is the vocalist, but she must be a bit of a bowser because Congolese model Felly Kilingi was featured in all promotional material. This samples ‘Techotronic’ by The Pro 24’s and ‘Move Your Body’ by Marshall Jefferson.
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Mariah Carey – Dreamlover (Def Club Mix Edit)
1993, USA, No 9 smash! Speaking of bowsers, here’s Mariah. Wikipedia tells me the original sampled Blind Alley by The Emotions. David Morales was responsible for this mix (Well, someone had to own up or I’d have started shooting the hostages), and this was apparently the only remix that Carey re-recorded her vocals specifically for. Good of her.
161
Galantis – Runaway (U & I)
2014, Sweden, No 4 smash! One of tellingly few post-2010 entries in this countdown, this one was only nominated in the bonus round. Wikipedia tells me Cathy Dennis is the uncredited vocalist here. Also, it was nominated for a Grammy – but so were loads of others we’ve had so far so that’s becoming an increasingly unimpressive factoid.
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Captain Hollywood Project – More and More
1992, Germany, No. 23 smash! ‘People just want More and More’ trilled Gala. ‘Nah, we’re alright’ replied Moopy. This samples the Woodstock mix of ‘Go’ by Moby. Captain Hollywood himself is rapper Tony Dawson-Harrison, and the vocals were provided by Nina Gerhard. I say these things as if I expect you to know who the fuck these people are.
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Iio – Rapture
2001, USA, No 2 smash! Iio are Nadia Ali and Markus Moser. The streaming versions of this song tend to either credit it to Nadia Ali or Iio ft. Nadia Ali, because she re-released their many hit under her own name after Iio split. Our Nads calls herself the ‘queen of clubs’, having clearly never heard of Karen Parry. The Armin Van Buuren mix of this is incredible.
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DJ Quicksilver – Bellissima
1996, Turkey/Germany, No. 4 smash! DJ Quicksilver was born in Turkey and raised in Germany. I always assumed he was Italian, which I blame on that deliberately misleading title. He cracked the top ten again with ‘Free’, and had further success with ‘Heart of Asia’, which he released under the alias ‘Watergate’.
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Technotronic ft. Felly – Pump Up the Jam
1989, Belgium, No. 2 smash! Who’d have thought Belgians would be good at this music lark? Certainly not anyone who follows Eurovision, that’s for sure. Ya Kid K is the vocalist, but she must be a bit of a bowser because Congolese model Felly Kilingi was featured in all promotional material. This samples ‘Techotronic’ by The Pro 24’s and ‘Move Your Body’ by Marshall Jefferson.
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Mariah Carey – Dreamlover (Def Club Mix Edit)
1993, USA, No 9 smash! Speaking of bowsers, here’s Mariah. Wikipedia tells me the original sampled Blind Alley by The Emotions. David Morales was responsible for this mix (Well, someone had to own up or I’d have started shooting the hostages), and this was apparently the only remix that Carey re-recorded her vocals specifically for. Good of her.
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This is probably the appropriate point to post the DEFINITIVE version of Pump Up The Jam, by Queen of Tampa Sondra Prill:
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I would argue that about Ms Carey
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Pump up the Jam surprisingly low for such a fearless banger.
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Blind is stunning.
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On the Move is likely my favourite exercise song of all time.
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Bellissima is way too low. I also have his I Have A Dream single in a box somewhere.
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Bellissima was of course a totally joyous moment of Euro techno, but it's placing is probably fair.
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Pump up the Jam is one I feel like I should give many points to but actually leaves me not feeling much.
ButterTart
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I’ve never been bothered about it. I enjoy it when it’s on, but I don’t think I’ve ever listened to it voluntarily outside of this rate.
ButterTart
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Yeah, in the September ‘20 edition of Dance Rate, I expect Heart of Asia to be front and centre of the 1000 nominees.
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Which five songs are about to discover that possessing a cool TWENTY points is still not enough to guarantee them safe passage into the top 150? Let’s read on.
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Dead or Alive – You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)
1984, UK, No 1 smash! A surprisingly low placing for poor dead Pete and his irrelevant friends. This was entirely self-funded by the band because their record label thought it was shit. It went on to top the charts, and re-entered again in 2006 after Pete Burns had his coat arrested on Celebrity Big Brother.
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49ers – Touch Me (Jyxz)
1989, Italy, No. 3 smash! The bird with the wildly expressive face in this video is Dawn Mitchell, gamely pretending she sang even a note of the vocals. The one samples Aretha Franklin’s ‘Rock-a-Lott’ and Alisha Warren’s ‘Touch Me’. I had no idea what this one was called when I started this rate, and now I find myself humming it at all hours, to the point where I have to give myself a head injury just for a moment’s respite.
153
Basement Jaxx – Red Alert
1999, UK, No. 5 smash! Staggeringly, this was one of only two Basement Jaxx songs nominated, and the only one to qualify after you decided Get Me Off was a heap of shit you wanted no part of. This was the track that put them on the map, and features vocals by Blu James. The inevitable sample comes from Locksmith’s ‘Chinese Funk Song’.
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Billie Ray Martin – Honey
1999, Germany, No. 54 smash! “You’ve used the wrong fucking version, you fat cunt!” You cried. “I swear to Christ I will take all of these pills if you don’t leave me alone.” I sobbed. I’m legally obliged to tell you that the Chicane mix is the definitive reading, and I have to say it’s a splendid bit of mournful trance that’s made a welcome addition to my playlists. Recorded here for posterity:
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Angel City feat. Lara McAllen – Sunrise
2005, Netherlands/UK, No. 9 smash! Angel City are a Dutch duo, Lara McAllen is a vocalist from Guildford whose Wiki proudly boasts of her photoshoots in Loaded and Marie Claire. The original version of this was by Ashiva, released only a couple of years earlier, and sports a marvellously cultural appropriation-tastic video.
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Dead or Alive – You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)
1984, UK, No 1 smash! A surprisingly low placing for poor dead Pete and his irrelevant friends. This was entirely self-funded by the band because their record label thought it was shit. It went on to top the charts, and re-entered again in 2006 after Pete Burns had his coat arrested on Celebrity Big Brother.
154
49ers – Touch Me (Jyxz)
1989, Italy, No. 3 smash! The bird with the wildly expressive face in this video is Dawn Mitchell, gamely pretending she sang even a note of the vocals. The one samples Aretha Franklin’s ‘Rock-a-Lott’ and Alisha Warren’s ‘Touch Me’. I had no idea what this one was called when I started this rate, and now I find myself humming it at all hours, to the point where I have to give myself a head injury just for a moment’s respite.
153
Basement Jaxx – Red Alert
1999, UK, No. 5 smash! Staggeringly, this was one of only two Basement Jaxx songs nominated, and the only one to qualify after you decided Get Me Off was a heap of shit you wanted no part of. This was the track that put them on the map, and features vocals by Blu James. The inevitable sample comes from Locksmith’s ‘Chinese Funk Song’.
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Billie Ray Martin – Honey
1999, Germany, No. 54 smash! “You’ve used the wrong fucking version, you fat cunt!” You cried. “I swear to Christ I will take all of these pills if you don’t leave me alone.” I sobbed. I’m legally obliged to tell you that the Chicane mix is the definitive reading, and I have to say it’s a splendid bit of mournful trance that’s made a welcome addition to my playlists. Recorded here for posterity:
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Angel City feat. Lara McAllen – Sunrise
2005, Netherlands/UK, No. 9 smash! Angel City are a Dutch duo, Lara McAllen is a vocalist from Guildford whose Wiki proudly boasts of her photoshoots in Loaded and Marie Claire. The original version of this was by Ashiva, released only a couple of years earlier, and sports a marvellously cultural appropriation-tastic video.
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Last night's Bloc Party listen has reminded me that Kele rather fabulously WENT DANCE for his solo effort, and I'm kicking myself for not nominating this because it probably would've done alright:
If you want tough
I'll give you tough
If you want tough
I'll give you tough
Tisch
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Shockingly low for Pete. I assume it fell in the category of "not really dance" for many people who were WRONG
ButterTart
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We’ve reached the top 150, which is the number Dance Rate 2015 STARTED at. Every song from this point is treading on (I just came to say) hallowed ground and should feel honoured to even be here.
These three also received TWENTY points, but in higher denominations.
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Three Drives – Greece 2000
1997, Netherlands, No. 12 smash! This one samples Cruisin’ Gang’s ‘China Town’, and is a hazy Balearic anthem. Three Drives, also known as ‘Three Drives on a Vinyl’ is just obligatory Dutchman Erik de Koning. Three Drives had another song in the running for this rate – Sunset on Ibiza – but because I nominated it and you clearly hate me, you sacked it off without a second thought.
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Orbital – Halcyon
1992, UK, No 37 smash! This one samples ‘It’s a Fine Day’ by Opus III (which we quite monstrously forgot to nominate), and ‘Leave It’ by Yes. Kirsty Hawkshaw, the vocalist on It’s a Fine Day, appears in the video for this. It was remixed as Halcyon + On + On (+ On and Ariston), which has become the more widely known version.
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Pete Heller’s Big Love – Big Love
1999, UK, No 12 smash! The only solo outing for Pete Heller, this samples Wear It Out by Stargard. Heller produced the whole thing in less than a day, and it’s considered a shining example of ‘filter house’ (I didn’t know it was a thing either).
Sadly, his baseball paraphernalia outlet Pete Heller’s Big Glove was destroyed by a gas explosion in 2009.
These three also received TWENTY points, but in higher denominations.
150
Three Drives – Greece 2000
1997, Netherlands, No. 12 smash! This one samples Cruisin’ Gang’s ‘China Town’, and is a hazy Balearic anthem. Three Drives, also known as ‘Three Drives on a Vinyl’ is just obligatory Dutchman Erik de Koning. Three Drives had another song in the running for this rate – Sunset on Ibiza – but because I nominated it and you clearly hate me, you sacked it off without a second thought.
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Orbital – Halcyon
1992, UK, No 37 smash! This one samples ‘It’s a Fine Day’ by Opus III (which we quite monstrously forgot to nominate), and ‘Leave It’ by Yes. Kirsty Hawkshaw, the vocalist on It’s a Fine Day, appears in the video for this. It was remixed as Halcyon + On + On (+ On and Ariston), which has become the more widely known version.
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Pete Heller’s Big Love – Big Love
1999, UK, No 12 smash! The only solo outing for Pete Heller, this samples Wear It Out by Stargard. Heller produced the whole thing in less than a day, and it’s considered a shining example of ‘filter house’ (I didn’t know it was a thing either).
Sadly, his baseball paraphernalia outlet Pete Heller’s Big Glove was destroyed by a gas explosion in 2009.
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As much as I voted this way a dance track is a dance track is a dance track.
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Big Love is such an massive MEH from me.
