1993 and 1994 were the years of eurodance, also often called eurohouse. The thing many people (especially those listening commercial music back then) immedately think of when you say ’90s music’. Because of the huge succes of 2 Unlimited, we saw about 8304393843 clones coming (o.k., not exactly, but it felt like that).
We saw also the first signs of a new trend called r&b, although there weren’t much huge hits yet. But it would become big in the late 90s. Besides eurodance and r&b, grunge was on it’s top, grunge fáshion included, till… Kurt Cobain shot himself.
Btw, many songs in the 1994 list would, in fact, become hits in 1995.
* = dance music, about 120 bpm and upwards
*** = guilty pleasures
Extra, from my previous site: fashion in 1994
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Top 12 of favorite songs (1/3 of the 35 songs):
- Snap! – The first the last eternity *
- The Offspring – Self esteem
- Real 2 Reel – I like to move it */***
- The O.T. Quartet – Hold that sucker down (Builds Like A Skyscraper Remix) *
- Portishead – Sour times
- Snap! – Welcome to tomorrow *
- Doop – Doop (Jean Lejeux Et Son Orchestre Single Edit) */***
- Negrocan – Aqua esquina *
- Prana – The dream *
- Luke Slater’s 7th Plain – Lost *
- Des’ree – You gotta be
- Weezer – Buddy Holly
My other favorites:
- Blur – Parklife
- Cesaria Evora – Sodade
- Chanelle – Work that body *
- Charly Lownoise & Mental Theo – Wonderful days */***
- The Cranberries – Zombie
- Dionne Farris – I know
- Dominica – Gotta let you go *
- Doop – Doop (Sydney Berlin’s Ragtime Band Single Edit) */***
- Edwyn Collins – A girl like you
- G. Love & Special Sauce – Blues music
- Greenday – Longview
- Jamalski – Jump, spread out
- Jamiroquai – Scam
- Kenny Dope Pres. The Bucketheads – The bomb (These sounds fall into my mind) *
- Livin’ Joy – Dreamer (note: the first hit version, not the Rollo Remix which also became a hit)
- The O.T. Quartet – Hold that sucker down
- Portishead – Glorybox
- The Prodigy – Voodoo people *
- Real To Reel – Go on move */***
- R.e.m. – Bang & blame
- Soundgarden – Black hole sun
- Ween – Freedom of ’76
- Zhané – Groove thang
* = dance music, about 120 bpm and upwards
*** = guilty pleasures
Extra, from my previous site: fashion in 1993
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Top 19 of favorite songs (1/3 of the 58 songs):
- Cappella – You got 2 know (note: the version in this YouTube file, it’s not the album version and also not the version in the video.) *
- Leila K – Open sesame (note: try also the ‘Long version’, sounds like the radio version but is – like the title says – extremely long) *
- CJ Bolland – Camargue (Original Mix) *
- Cajmere ft. Dajae – Brighter days (Masters At Work Remix) *
- Dr Alban – Sing halleluja */***
- Jamiroquai – When you gonna learn
- The Breeders – Cannonball
- Capricorn – 20 hz *
- A Tribe Called Quest – Award tour
- René Et Gaston – Vallee de l’armes *
- TC 1993 – Harmony (The F.P.I. Funky Mix) *
- Blind Melon – No rain
- Culture Beat – Mr vain *
- Jamiroquai – Too young to die
- Naughty By Nature – Hip hop hooray
- A Tribe Called Quest – Electic relaxation
- Culture Beat – Anything *
- The Martian – Star dancer *
- Harddrive (Or: Masters At Work) – Maurice’s vibe *
My other favorites:
- #1 – Do you know what I mean (note: the unknown version in this YouTube file) *
- Ace Of Base – All that she wants ***
- Any Question? – Living on a fantasy *
- Carl Craig – My machines *
- Culture Beat – Adelante */***
- Culture Beat – Got to get it (Club Mix) *
- Cypress Hill – Insane the brain
- Dajae – You got me up */***
- Duran Duran – Ordinairy world
- Exposure – Party claps *
- Fresh Tunes # 1 – Do you know what I mean *
- Fundamental – Dancin’ on a higher ground *
- The Goodman – Give it up *
- Green Velvet – The stalker *
- Guru ft. MC Solaar – Le bien le mal
- Honey C – Stop the disease *
- Janet Jackson – That’s the way love goes
- Kerri Chandler – Track 1 *
- Lee Scratch Perry – Money
- Lenny Kravitz – Are you gonna go my way
- Living Colour – Leave it alone
- Lords of the Underground – Funky child
- Marmion – Schoneberg *
- Moby – Move *
- Onyx – Slam
- The Prodigy – Wind it up (the radio version, not the album version)
- Quazar – Breakaway (Trance Mix) *
- The Radios – She goes nana
- Salt ‘N Pepa ft. En Vogue – Whatta man
- Serious Rope ft. Sharon Dee Clarke – Happiness *
- Shara Nelson – One goodbye in ten
- Slam – Positive education *
- Stone Temple Pilots – Plush
- Terence Trent D’Arby ft. Des’ree – Delicate
- Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – Mary Jane’s last dance
- Tom Waits & Gavin Bryers – Jesus’ blood never failed me yet
- 2 Unlimited – Tribal dance */***
- X-Press 2 – Muzik x-press *
- Zhané – Hey mr DJ
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ABOUT THIS SITE
Besides links to my webradios, this site is filled with lots of songs to try. They are in the narrow bar on the left.
As long as I like it: everything (no purist talk here, when it comes to specific genres...), but in practice there's an emphasis on sound instead of lyrics. Expect lots of funky drums, grooves, riffs, horns, bleeps, chords and exotic instruments.
And in general, I like a natural feel (also when it's in fact 100 % electronic) and a dynamic sound, lacking obvious loudness wars. And forced hipness is simply not my cup of tea. But there will always be exceptions, with an undefinable 'x-factor'.
Simple: If a song is even more to me than 'very nice', really outstanding, it will be added to the site. Besides these tracks, there's a huge amount of other tracks I really like, just not enough to mention here.
About the year of release/on which page you can find the tracks I add: I see the - first - year of release mentioned at Discogs as right, or (if I can't find the track at Discogs, and have to search other sources) the 'oldest' year mentioned. Also if it became a hit one/two/more years later. I'm very consequent when it comes to that, very clear.
ABOUT MYSELF
I'm born in 1981, Dutch and female. My personal music history, because it's relevant on a site like this:
I'm listening to pop music since 1990, starting with my fathers cds/lps, with pop/rock oldies, some classical music, some 70s compilations with music like Boney M and Luv, and some typical Dutch stuff like BZN; some people would call it corny. No modern pop/dance yet (the Dutch children act Kinderen Voor Kinderen not counted; officially, KVK part 11 was my first cd).
That phase started halfway 1991. I especially started to like dance music, and for the next one and a half decade to follow, I wouldn't listen much to golden oldies anymore.
Till 2000 most dance I listened to was extremely commercial; a huge 2 Unlimited obsession, during from 1992 till 1996, included.
The period after that, it was still commercial but in a more grown-up way. That era started about December 2000/January 2001, after discovering an internet station (Dancenet.fm) playing groovy tunes, like Daft Punk - One more time.
In the next couple of years to follow, my devotion to dance music (especially the 'serious' side of it) would reach it's peak. Discussing all the stuff on discussion boards, buying Hed Kandi cds, buying dance magazines and obsessive downloading included. I was standing right in front of the current trends.
I remember myself getting quite tired of everything, late 2004/early 2005.
After a long break from enjoying music in an intense way (a period of breathing space) and making the decision to take it more easy in the future, 2005-early 2008 turned out to be the transition period to now.
Besides dance music (in 2005 heavily influenced by the French station Underground FG, playing quite subtle kinds of dance), I started to like more and more other kinds of music, and the way of producing records got more important. I didn't complain much about things like 'overproduction' and 'loudness wars' before, but I started to notice it.
When it came to music released before my time, something not really getting my attention the years before, I started save, with exploring the 1988-1990 era: De La Soul, Soul II Soul and all the others. Because there seemed to be a certain click. And in 2006, I started to like music released before that, often many years before my birth. Yeah, the oldies were back...
In general my taste was becoming more laidback, and the amount of funky elements also increased. Early 2008, Studio Brussel's De Hop (presented by the founder of internet station Laid Back Radio, and the same kind of music) was a huge influence. Discovering that, in combination with Miles Davis' track Pharao's dance (in the same period), was the reason the penny dropped finally.
Since Spring 2008, nothing has changed anymore (while the entire 2003-early 2008 era was VERY experimental; I can assure you I've not mentioned everything above). I'm still listening to dance music nowadays, just less intensively when compared to 1991-2005.
OLD WEBSITES
- Click this link to view old websites, from 2000 till halfway 2008, warning: huge load and much horizontal scrolling.
- And click this link to view more old websites, from halfway 2008 till June 2011, also huge load and much horizontal scrolling.
(In case you are interested in the history of my sites.)
Besides links to my webradios, this site is filled with lots of songs to try. They are in the narrow bar on the left.
As long as I like it: everything (no purist talk here, when it comes to specific genres...), but in practice there's an emphasis on sound instead of lyrics. Expect lots of funky drums, grooves, riffs, horns, bleeps, chords and exotic instruments.
And in general, I like a natural feel (also when it's in fact 100 % electronic) and a dynamic sound, lacking obvious loudness wars. And forced hipness is simply not my cup of tea. But there will always be exceptions, with an undefinable 'x-factor'.
Simple: If a song is even more to me than 'very nice', really outstanding, it will be added to the site. Besides these tracks, there's a huge amount of other tracks I really like, just not enough to mention here.
About the year of release/on which page you can find the tracks I add: I see the - first - year of release mentioned at Discogs as right, or (if I can't find the track at Discogs, and have to search other sources) the 'oldest' year mentioned. Also if it became a hit one/two/more years later. I'm very consequent when it comes to that, very clear.
ABOUT MYSELF
I'm born in 1981, Dutch and female. My personal music history, because it's relevant on a site like this:
I'm listening to pop music since 1990, starting with my fathers cds/lps, with pop/rock oldies, some classical music, some 70s compilations with music like Boney M and Luv, and some typical Dutch stuff like BZN; some people would call it corny. No modern pop/dance yet (the Dutch children act Kinderen Voor Kinderen not counted; officially, KVK part 11 was my first cd).
That phase started halfway 1991. I especially started to like dance music, and for the next one and a half decade to follow, I wouldn't listen much to golden oldies anymore.
Till 2000 most dance I listened to was extremely commercial; a huge 2 Unlimited obsession, during from 1992 till 1996, included.
The period after that, it was still commercial but in a more grown-up way. That era started about December 2000/January 2001, after discovering an internet station (Dancenet.fm) playing groovy tunes, like Daft Punk - One more time.
In the next couple of years to follow, my devotion to dance music (especially the 'serious' side of it) would reach it's peak. Discussing all the stuff on discussion boards, buying Hed Kandi cds, buying dance magazines and obsessive downloading included. I was standing right in front of the current trends.
I remember myself getting quite tired of everything, late 2004/early 2005.
After a long break from enjoying music in an intense way (a period of breathing space) and making the decision to take it more easy in the future, 2005-early 2008 turned out to be the transition period to now.
Besides dance music (in 2005 heavily influenced by the French station Underground FG, playing quite subtle kinds of dance), I started to like more and more other kinds of music, and the way of producing records got more important. I didn't complain much about things like 'overproduction' and 'loudness wars' before, but I started to notice it.
When it came to music released before my time, something not really getting my attention the years before, I started save, with exploring the 1988-1990 era: De La Soul, Soul II Soul and all the others. Because there seemed to be a certain click. And in 2006, I started to like music released before that, often many years before my birth. Yeah, the oldies were back...
In general my taste was becoming more laidback, and the amount of funky elements also increased. Early 2008, Studio Brussel's De Hop (presented by the founder of internet station Laid Back Radio, and the same kind of music) was a huge influence. Discovering that, in combination with Miles Davis' track Pharao's dance (in the same period), was the reason the penny dropped finally.
Since Spring 2008, nothing has changed anymore (while the entire 2003-early 2008 era was VERY experimental; I can assure you I've not mentioned everything above). I'm still listening to dance music nowadays, just less intensively when compared to 1991-2005.
OLD WEBSITES
- Click this link to view old websites, from 2000 till halfway 2008, warning: huge load and much horizontal scrolling.
- And click this link to view more old websites, from halfway 2008 till June 2011, also huge load and much horizontal scrolling.
(In case you are interested in the history of my sites.)
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I’ve got the right version on two cds: Jong… snel… wild 4, and a cd called ‘Van Diepen’s Dance Department’.
http://www.musicmeter.nl/album/50432
http://www.musicmeter.nl/album/121448
That version of Cappella – U Got 2 Know, isn’t it from a Megadance or Technotrance cd?
I have it on my mp3 player, but not on cd (got it from a friend who ripped it from a cd).