Cafe de mar 98 voted best dance track ever

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old.Arcl1ght

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Cafe Del Mar etc

Cafe Del Mar is without a doubt a class tune, but for its worth there is nothing I can think of that beats Josh Wink and Higher State Of Consciouness (1996 or 1997 IIRC), You would have Pete Tong spinning on the essential collection. That and at the time it was heavenly. Pragha Khan is just old skool rave almost, total wank. Also N-Trance was out not long after with Set You Free which is remixed and out atm. But then you have good tunes like Greece with Three Drives, but for it's time and everlasting quality Cafe Del Mar does at least deserve a mention. Faithless too with Insomnia was a HUGE hit in dance land, god knows why that wasn't at least shortlisted.

Ah sadly those days are gone......but still now we have PPK - Resurection and about a billion other class tunes, shame were getting wank rave remixes :|
 
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xenon2000

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Originally posted by charliealpha
no way, best dance track ever? the world is full of some fucked up people I tells yer.

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My god you suck. I've lost all respect for you now.


I, for one, whole-heartedly agree with Cafe-Del-Mar being voted no1. Infact, there's no other tune I would have preferred to see at the top. And no i'm not a 'crasher kid. That tune revolutionised dance music; the build is gradual and subtle, with a perfect prog-techo groove fused under pefect production, leading up to a sublte breakdown. The chords alwys manage to uplift, without ever sounding cheesy or sickly, and I've never heard a single other moment in music with more impact than when the staccato riff kicks in. I've heard that record hundreds and thousands of times, and have never, ever gotten tired of it. Being voted no1 has had its legacy paid off.

Second up for me comes Saltwater (jesus christ, I agree with bodhi on something???) , followed by Xpander, Offshore, and Tiesto's mix of "The Silence". I'll admit to tunes like Saltwater being personal taste only, though.


Fyi, here was the MixMag Top 10:

1. Energy 52 - Cafe Del Mar
2. Paul van Dyk - For an Angel (cough *cheese* cough)
3. Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy (Awesome tune, total classic, but its hardly dance is it?)
4. Faithless - Insomnia (there you go, Arcl1ght)
5. FSoL - Papua New Guinea (see #3)
6. Sasha - Xpander (yes, yes, yes!)
7. Underworld - Born Slippy (i never understood this, a few chords, inaudible lyrics, then boom boom boom boom for the next 5 minutes, then end...)
8. New Order - Blue Monday (Anyone who has no respect for this has no right to live)
9. Prodigy - Out of Space (Not bad, I preffered their later stuff, myself)
10. Delerium - SIlence (Tiesto mix only please... and its a shame he had rinse and dry the formula for Urban Train, which sucked)

Josh Wink got a mention at 12 or 13, iirc. Its a great tune though.
 
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old.plightstar

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I think the best prodigy track has to be Charly, just for its comical value.
At the moment I love riva stinger the tall paul remix.

Injected with pioson the 3am mix is amazing and the 3am mix of like this like that by mauro picotto.
 
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lovedaddy

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Dont think anyone has voted for BT - Flaming June (think thats what its called).
Cafe Del Mar is bloody good tho (and just of note, I hadn't read this thread first, but I picked up the single this morning on the way out the house to play on the way to work, kind of spooky..)
 
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Wazzerphuk

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Originally posted by xenon2000


My god you suck. I've lost all respect for you now.


I, for one, whole-heartedly agree with Cafe-Del-Mar being voted no1. Infact, there's no other tune I would have preferred to see at the top. And no i'm not a 'crasher kid. That tune revolutionised dance music; the build is gradual and subtle, with a perfect prog-techo groove fused under pefect production, leading up to a sublte breakdown. The chords alwys manage to uplift, without ever sounding cheesy or sickly, and I've never heard a single other moment in music with more impact than when the staccato riff kicks in. I've heard that record hundreds and thousands of times, and have never, ever gotten tired of it. Being voted no1 has had its legacy paid off.

Second up for me comes Saltwater (jesus christ, I agree with bodhi on something???) , followed by Xpander, Offshore, and Tiesto's mix of "The Silence". I'll admit to tunes like Saltwater being personal taste only, though.


Fyi, here was the MixMag Top 10:

1. Energy 52 - Cafe Del Mar
2. Paul van Dyk - For an Angel (cough *cheese* cough)
3. Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy (Awesome tune, total classic, but its hardly dance is it?)
4. Faithless - Insomnia (there you go, Arcl1ght)
5. FSoL - Papua New Guinea (see #3)
6. Sasha - Xpander (yes, yes, yes!)
7. Underworld - Born Slippy (i never understood this, a few chords, inaudible lyrics, then boom boom boom boom for the next 5 minutes, then end...)
8. New Order - Blue Monday (Anyone who has no respect for this has no right to live)
9. Prodigy - Out of Space (Not bad, I preffered their later stuff, myself)
10. Delerium - SIlence (Tiesto mix only please... and its a shame he had rinse and dry the formula for Urban Train, which sucked)

Josh Wink got a mention at 12 or 13, iirc. Its a great tune though.
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Greatest dance tracks? I barely even consider most of them to be dance. Commercial magazine boolocks wank shit.
 
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ReActor

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Originally posted by Wazzerphuk


Greatest dance tracks? I barely even consider most of them to be dance. Commercial magazine boolocks wank shit.
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... as voted for commercial bollocks wank shit clubbers. And what the hell do they know? :)
 
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Wazzerphuk

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They know pretty much what they're spood fed, sadly.
 
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xenon2000

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Originally posted by Wazzerphuk


Greatest dance tracks? I barely even consider most of them to be dance. Commercial magazine boolocks wank shit.
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So according to you, the voted best dance track of all time should be something underground that no-one's ever heard of? Jesus, just because a record becomes popular that makes it commercial?
 
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Wazzerphuk

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Clearly you have no idea of what commerciality is, and what makes a track commercial. Another post of your bitter angry ways. Yipee!

<get rise out of xenon>
 
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xenon2000

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Originally posted by Wazzerphuk
Clearly you have no idea of what commerciality is, and what makes a track commercial. Another post of your bitter angry ways. Yipee!
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Clearly you are a complete moron.

Commerciality in this sense is crafting music for the sake of shifting copies instead of providing good music.

If a good track spends a year on the underground, then gets picked up and signed for shitloads by Tongy or the likes, and does well in the charts, it's hardly commercial. At least, not on the maker's behalf.
 
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Wazzerphuk

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Right in the fact you rose up and got annoyed at me clearly ripping the piss?

Yes. :)
 
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xenon2000

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no, just right about you being a complete moron.
 
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Sir Frizz

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xenon, why are you so bitter when you post here?
just wondering:)
 
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bodhi

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I agree with Xenon here, that Unfinished Sympathy and Papua New Guinea are in now way dance tracks. Have you tried dancing to the originals? Both fit squarely into "Alternative".

But anyhoo, despite my well known hatred of dance music, one or two songs do stand out as being good. I'm encompassing all forms of dance music here, and will throw in a couple of alternative songs aswell.

They are, in no particular order:-

Delerium - Silence (Tiesto of course)
Orbital - The Box
Orbital - Doctor? (cheese I know :) )
FSOL - We have explosive, Landmass
Fluke - Atom Bomb, Bullet, Absurd
Faithless - Insomnia, Drifting Away, God is a DJ
Maurico Picotto - Komodo
Jayson Torres - Slow Hand
Roni Size - Dirty Beats
DJ Zinc - 6 Million Ways to Die
that new ShyFX one

and pretty much anything done by Prodigy, Massive Attack, Chemical Brothers.
 
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Sir Frizz

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why is it Fat boy slim gets no vote, his "Half way between the gutter and the stars" album is class:)

rock on bird of prey
 
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Wazzerphuk

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Originally posted by the-frizz
why is it Fat boy slim gets no vote, his "Half way between the gutter and the stars" album is class:)

rock on bird of prey
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Because he, and his music is annoying and shite? :)
 
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Sir Frizz

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Originally posted by Wazzerphuk



Because he, and his music is annoying and shite? :)
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well afew awards here and there cant be too wrong, can they:confused:
 
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xenon2000

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Originally posted by the-frizz
xenon, why are you so bitter when you post here?
just wondering:)
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only when people piss me off :)

I just think that a track should be judged by it's musical quality, not how large it becomes.

Bodhi, respect :). Some good cuts in that list.
 
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Wazzerphuk

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Ahh the good old "he's one awards so he must be good argument".

*Points at the talentless drivel that won awards at the MTV awards*

etc.
 
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Sir Frizz

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hmmmm, well i'm sold to big names then...but i still know and respect zero 7- not such a large name now are they, and have any of you heard "Bent- Private road"?
 
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xenon2000

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/me gets mixmag....

OK, I'll list all tracks I've seen mentioned in this thread that made it in the top 100...

Da Hool - Meet her at the love parade - 66
Push "Universal Nation" didn't get in but "Strange world" was at number 77
Guy Called Gerald "Voodoo Ray" - 59
Chicane "Offshore" - 28
Orbital's 'Chime' - 47
Slam's Positive Education - 29
N-Trance "Set you Free" - 82 (the 2001 remix blew though)
BT - Flaming June - 38
RMB - Spring (Vocal Version) - NOWHERE haha... what genre is it anyway? Anywhere I could listen to a clip?

I guess thats answered a few questions :)
 
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Wazzerphuk

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I can rip and upload a copy, give people private messages to the URL.. if they want to check it out? Worth listening to anyway. If you don't want to, and stick to your guns defending yourselves it proves a lot.

Of course, if I were to upload the mp3 should only be kept for 24hour usage blah blah blah I hold no respoinsibility blah blah. You know the deal. ;)

Just covering my ass, TdC tought me well. :D
 
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xenon2000

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yeah yeah yeah, just let me hear the goddamn tune :p
 
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Wazzerphuk

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k, it's ripped and uploaded, see your pm xenon

if anyone else wants it, post here or pm me, bitches. :)
 
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