90's Dance & Old Skool Classics

Thought it was a gonner but found my old tape of the Top 10 Chart, Best of 1989 Garage & House, from Stu Allan’s Key 103 Sunday night show. Think he said it was from sales at Spin Inn record shop in town.
Anyway, I know it’s not technically 90s, but might as well post them here, as they are all massive club tunes. Some proper underground stuff, some tracks that everyone would know & expect.

No 10: Reese (aka Kevin Saunderson from Inner City) - Rock To The Beat (Mayday mix). Was probably about as hard as it got at Nude at the Hacienda iirc - you agree mate? @Didsbury Dave

 
chesterbells said:
Thought it was a gonner but found my old tape of the Top 10 Chart, Best of 1989 Garage & House, from Stu Allan’s Key 103 Sunday night show. Think he said it was from sales at Spin Inn record shop in town.
Anyway, I know it’s not technically 90s, but might as well post them here, as they are all massive club tunes. Some proper underground stuff, some tracks that everyone would know & expect.

No 10: Reese (aka Kevin Saunderson from Inner City) - Rock To The Beat (Mayday mix). Was probably about as hard as it got at Nude at the Hacienda iirc - you agree mate? @Didsbury Dave

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Great stuff mate. I bet that tape’s brilliant. The Saunderson track is definitely early techno and reminds me of this with the exact same 303 bass sound. This one’s made in Manchester by Mike Pickering - big blue of course.

 
Didsbury Dave said:
Great stuff mate. I bet that tape’s brilliant. The Saunderson track is definitely early techno and reminds me of this with the exact same 303 bass sound. This one’s made in Manchester by Mike Pickering - big blue of course.

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Ah yeah, remember getting that on a compilation - North, sound of the underground - or similar. Brilliant.

No 9 in the chart:
Gimme The Music - Finchley Road.

The music - even the techno based stuff - had so much emotion back then.

 
No 8:
Vicky Martin - Not Gonna Do It

Another old skool garage classic.
The other one I loved from that year was Dionne Come Get My Lovin’ which I’m amazed never made the top 10.
This from Vicky is sublime though

 
chesterbells said:
Ah yeah, remember getting that on a compilation - North, sound of the underground - or similar. Brilliant.

No 9 in the chart:
Gimme The Music - Finchley Road.

The music - even the techno based stuff - had so much emotion back then.

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I’ve got that North compilation too. That’s where I remember it from. Keep em coming mate.
 
No 4 in the chart, the track that was everywhere, but I think Pickering/Deconstruction might have been the earliest to champion it, and before it went mainstream it was definitely played on the proper club nights.

Ride On Time

 
At No 2, another one of the harder tunes that Park & Pickering played and also regular at Thunderdome & the rest. Frank De Wulf was probably my favourite producer around 89/90, and Liaisons D I also remember He Chilled Out, Sirenas.

But this was the one - used to give it plenty to this - and it stayed as an underground track ;-)

Future FJP

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And yeah, so this was No 1.
I was never a big fan at the time, I recall thinking it was a bit of a gimmick track tbh.

Anyway, here’s the full 10 min version of French Kiss.

Anyone else got any big tunes from 89 that aren’t featured in this Top 10 ?
I did love Get Real by Paul Rutherford from Frankie, Beloved’s Sun Rising, Roxanne Shante’s Sharp As a Knife, and The Mackenzie’s Party People, to name a few.

 
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