As far as ‘Euphoric Trance‘ (aka ‘Anthemic Trance’) goes, things kind of peaked for me back around 2000 and one of the all time classics of this genre was Rank 1’s ‘Airwave’. And guess what, there’s a really cheesy video for it too. Still a great track irrespective of genre . Its highly unlikely that Rank 1 will ever come close to this masterpiece.
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Rank 1 Official site
Remember when MTV was really great for catching really meaningless pop videos as a quick fix you’d talk about in the pub later (hey, I’m from England). Now you get that fix at YouTube.
Anyway this is the really erm, meaningless video for ‘Jumbo’ welded to a rather good electro-ish, pop-techno tinged outing from the sometimes great Underworld.
Jumbo is taken from the 1999 album ‘Beacoup Fish’. Buy
OK then from today I’m hoping to add at least one dance music related video post from around the web, if this doesn’t happen straight away its because I’m also in the middle of a webhost move and a site update which means a new version of Word Press (which this site runs on) and a new site look. All this should be done over the weekend so bare with me if the site vanishes for a while. It’ll be back !
Anyway. I found this interesting clip from an Australian documentary called ‘Melbourne Shuffler’ which tracks the roots of the Melbourne rave scene and dance craze from the late 80s . There’s a two disc DVD available via mail order.
The musical roots of the 99th Floor Elevators are steeped in old hi-NRG, Euro dance and heavily influenced by people like Giorgio Moroder, 80s PWL, Record Shack, Bobby Orlando and later the playlists of the great Tony de Vit, amongst others.
In this vein back in 1999 there was a great Euro hit by producer Carlo Resoort under the name Alena. ‘Turn It Around’ had a great hook and a fantastic vocal with a thumpingly addictive dance mix from the Space Brothers which I have somewhere on a Wonderboy DJ double pack.
Being in Florida since May 2003 means that I’ve been woefully out of sync with whats going on in Europe so I completely missed a new version of the track by 4 Strings which sticks pretty close to the original (close but not as good) and charted in the UK in 2004. Naturally the video has found its way onto YouTube so you can check it out, though if you really like it I recommend you seek out the Space Brothers excellent ‘Rethink’ version on Wonderboy.
Space Brothers
4 Strings on MySpace
Buy. Alena ‘Turn It Around’ from Gemm
If you havn’t already noticed there’s a pretty huge link directory attached to this blog. Floorelevators.net is bulging with 3000+ hand picked websites generally related to DJing, DJ’s, dance music and the music industry. Its a world wide thing so not just US or UK centric, though there is a slant towards those two countries.
I’m currently having a clean out of all the dead links and am looking for something a little more up to date to present the data in a nicer more up to date fashion. Maybe something akin to Del.icio.us. We’ll see.
Anyway, have a browse around as there’s a stack of useful info in there, from online radio stations, vinyl stores, record distributors and 12 inch vinyl pressing plants and the like.
It’s pretty old fashioned technology (using a creaking PHP script), its not Web 2.0 or anything but the directory is still one of the most popular results for ‘Dance Music Industry’ if you search in Google, Yahoo, Ask and MSN.
