Please share with me your favourite 90s house tunes

morning music

Follow Me - Aly us

I HATE that I sound like my parents, BUT the 90s was the last great decade of music. EVERY genre had a renaissance.

OF COURSE, that's an exaggeration but after like the early 2000s, music seemed to really turn into shit.

Does what it says on the tin!

[quote]I HATE that I sound like my parents, BUT the 90s was the last great decade of music. EVERY genre had a renaissance.

I was a kid in the 90s and there's nothing like getting together now with friends and playing all our old fave tunes. Of course it was our generation so we will of course say this, but I think we would all agree with you that this was the last great decade of music.

Thanks for the songs so far, R1, R2 and R3. I am going to listen to them all (already on the first one), just want to thank you in advance as house mixes are always really long, so it'll take me a hot minute.

Pump up the jam

Pump up the jam! Classic!

This one is from 2000, but it's also an example of something I really enjoy.

Thanks again for the music so far, guys!

Ooh, R3! I like that one, it's very unusual in places, keeps it interesting!

STEVE "SILK" HURLEY - Jack Your Body (Original Mix) 1986

Steve 'Silk' Hurley - Jack Your Body

We all reported to th4 dancefloor when this came on.

Still sounds as good as new.

It's time for the perculator.

Kim English - Treat Me Right (Jon Cutler Vocal Mix)

KRISTINE W - One More Try (1996)

Oh, shit. It's ON now...

Kristine W - Feel What You Want 1994

That Kim English track is mint, R12! She sadly passed not long ago .

"WE NEED SOME LOVE!"

these sounds fall into my mind

Crystal Waters - Makin' Happy

I've got the Key!

Crystal Waters - 100% Pure Love

Sorry, abt the multiple posts. I don't want to be like that Belinda Carlise guy.

Fucking HATED this song when it first came out--I was a SNOB--but get the camp now.

La Bouche - Sweet dreams

Ain't the vocalist dead?

use it up, wear it out

Mayhem on the dancefloor always ensued at the 2 minute mark

This is one of the first house tracks I heard on the radio (late 80's). Jack To The Sound Of The Underground (yo yo yo yo)

culture beat inside out

I worked with Crystal Waters and she was so lovely. Very unassuming but knew her shit in the studio, a real producer and writer. I'm gonna share this song from Mr Fingers, it's on the 'Party Girl' soundtrack (starring Parker Posey).

jam and spoon right in the night

Ten City - Thats The Way Love Is

Going a little deeper

Another one by Mr Fingers

Brings a tear to my eye

Oh R28 THAT'S. MY. JAM

R31 Goosebumps!! Were they from Detroit or Chicago?

Livin' Joy - Dreamer

Original version, kids. Not that recent shit

I'm in LOVE with this thread

More on the 'French Touch' side of house music that became big in the late 90s, but this is so lush and orchestral.

This music video always gave me huge bisexual vibes.

HRH The Queen Ultra Naté

Another one that is more late 90s European house than early 90s Chicago/NYC house.

California Dreaming

Can't say gypsy anymore. Can't say woman anymore. Can't say homeless anymore.

R37 YESSSSSS

Planet Soul - Set You Free

You couldn't tell me NOTHING when this song came on.

r39, then just say La da de da da

There are SO many as I was a total househead (and still am). It's crazy the stuff you can find on youtube now. Always a little weird hearing house tracks in isolation since obviously they were always part of a set or mix. Anyway, here's one that was always played and I loved. As with most tracks, there's multiple mixes of this; this is a shorter one.

I think this would be more techno or breakbeat but it's definitely on my list

DJ Icee - Tricks Theme

Alison Limerick - Where Love Lives (Knuckles & Morales Mix)

Jinny - Keep Warm

Brothers in Rhythm - Such A Good Feeling

Another.

Stephanie Mills - All Day, All Night (Def Mix)

De Groovy.

Not house but still worth a listen to:

I know there's a lot of love for Technotronic's "Pump Up the Jam," But I always preferred "Get Up"

You've got to wiggle it - just a little bit

You boys have really come through, there is heaps here to get my teeth stuck into! Thanks!

I looooove this song

Another favorite

Raise those hands!

It really is all good!

Happy Mondays + Junior Vasquez = 5am magic

This made Roxy jump: Juliet Roberts remixed to perfection

Rhythm is a Mystery - K-Klass. Slinky, classy Manchester house

Another Sound Factory banger: Y? - Kiwi Dreams

The 'It's over for me' break at 4:02 is brilliant

Everyone's first K-Hole: Elevator Up and Down - Interactive

More Juliet Roberts

Listen…… it’s getting closer…….

I love "Caught in the Middle" but prefer the album version.

Yo DJ pump this party . . .

[quote] favourite

More bangers n mash, guv?

Thompson Twins - Come Inside (Feedback Max house mix)

Kerri Chandler produced/mixed a lot of faves:

Inner City were proudly associated with "Detroit Techno" which to me is just a subgenre of house. And since we seem to be doing all inclusive club cuts I'd offer this. A more commercial track, but I still always loved it. As always, the specific mix is important, and this is my favorite.

Another Kerri Chandler track

Artie the 1 Man Party - A Mover La Colita

Rageous Projecting Franklin Fuentes - Tyler Moore Mary

L.A. Style - James Brown Is Dead

Good times! Janet and Luther of course

Everything starts with an E

Nutshell - Alice In Chains. Name - Goo Goo Dolls Lullabye- Shawn Mullins Interstate Love Song - Stone Temple Pilots My Friends - Red Hot Chili Peppers All Pearl Jam

You don’t seem to understand the assignment, R78

Reba “Keep Me Hangin’ On (Love To Infinity Mix)”

The 90s would have been much more boring without anything by Martha Wash and the crazy amount of sampling from Jocelyn Brown’s “Love’s Gonna Get You”

Black Box Strike it Up

"Get Huh" by The Ride Committee feat. Roxy

"If Madonna Calls" by Junior Vasquez

[quote]More bangers n mash, guv?

Hehehe. Sorry if I disappoint, but I'm not British. Opposite end of the world.

R81 According to the Independent, Loleatta Holloway is the most sampled female singer in popular music.

Jomanda - "Got a Love for You"

Sorry!

The KLF - 3AM Eternal (Live at the S.S.L.)

This thread has diverted from the house theme!

First time at the Datalounge, dear?

Many of these I'm hearing for the first time. Back in the 90s our most popular bars were much more into Stock Aitken Waterman. I mean to the point of telling a dancer of color in an amateur contest his tape broke and making him dance to a Jason Donovan track. But it seems it's all anyone could dance to. This is a top 10 U.S. city.

Love the thread! I actually made a playlist with my top 10 best house tunes but they are not just from the 90s. Can share if interested but here's just the one, my favorite from those days. It would lift the dance floor... Im so happy to have lived through it all, wonderful music, people and energy.

N-Joi - Anthem

This was my jam, baby.

"This thread has diverted from the house theme!"

Maybe, but that's okay (other than the poster posting Stone Temple pilots and RHCP songs). I enjoy hearing the general dance/club tracks people love from the 1990s, house or otherwise. I was/am a huge house music person and realize that "house" is a hard-to-pin-down genre that encompasses many subgenres and outgrowths. Sure, some of the tracks posted are just commercial pop/dance tracks, but so be it. There might have been a house-ish remix or maybe it was part of an overall mix that incorporated house music. But, even if neither, someone enjoyed dancing too it while out all night.

Billie Ray Martin - Running Around Town

Not only a great '90s dance song, but more than likely Ryan Murphy's inspiration for AHS Coven.

Love piano house. Circa 1994, it's a cover of Deniece Williams' original but prefer this dance remix

Pretty much any and everything by EBTG or Deep Dish.

Tracey's voice is heaven.

Side note, MK is still hot af pushing 50.

Danny Tenaglia can do no wrong.

This.

Gottta get up, gotta get up, gotta get up

Can't have house music without some diva take you to church vocals.

Hard to believe this came out so long ago in1990

Throw your head up in the air!

Basia - Cruising for bruising

Techno house

Your Love - Chic

Street drugs, dream drugs, free drugs...the never ending debate.

Classic

"The Queen's English"

Couldn’t resist.

Fun fact, Antonio Banderas was the vocalist on the European release of this single.

When you need a big bone black diva, in this case Rachel MacFarlane

Duane Harden sang on some great tracks.

Kym Mazelle in the house.

A fave

RIP Kim English.

More from the Strictly Rhythm label

Chill

Masters At Work could turn anything to gold, even Debbie Gibson.

Fav group from 90s

Always appreciate a big vocal track on a house song.

OMG, R122, I own a MAW compilation with that track. When I read the track list I was like, "huh?" because I don't remember it from the 1990s, or more likely I didn't know it was Debbie Gibson. But it totally works. Go on, Debbie.

A lot of classic house tracks are known more from the producer/remixer than the artist.

Stop Playing With My Mind & this one are my fav Barbara Tucker tracks

You couldn't escape this one for about a year after it came out. I loved it at first, but eventually got totally sick of hearing it.

Rozalla - Everybody's Free

R123 And here’s the original, Someday - Cece Rogers

R122 is totally correct about the Masters At Work powers of turning a sow's ear into a silk purse.

This is a stonking remix.

R90 It really hasn't

CARTOUCHE - FEEL THE GROOVE(1990)

Drop that ghetto blaster!!

Alison Moyet - Whispering Your Name

Love U More (Shiner/Valentine Mix)

That rubberised bassline... more BOUNCE to the ounce!

R127 this song brings back pleasant memories of a nicely toned blonde guy in a tight black t-shirt and tighter white jeans at Revolver in LA, dancing to it in his own little world, when the song first came out.

Loved Loveland feat. Rachel McFarlane

R136 Loveland featuring Rachel McFarlane's "Don't Make Me Wait" is also awesome

OP here. Still haven't had a chance to go through many of the songs, but I am so excited when I have some free time (working this weekend, dammit!). But just wanted to add two songs I do know about into the thread that I don't think have been added yet. I remember hearing these as a kid, and they both have that kind of dark sound to them that I really like, similar to the song I posted originally. I am assuming they could both be considered "house".

Olive "You're Not Alone":

And "Hold That Sucker Down":

....

House music: all about the love and happiness

R86 Can you feel it, Baby? I can too...

^ [R86] Let's try that again with a working link.

Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch featuring Loleatta Holloway - Good Vibrations

Heavy D & The Boyz - Now That We Found Love ft. Aaron Hall

KWS - Please Don't Go

Salt 'n Pepa - You Showed Me

Kym Sims - Too Blind To See It

Armand van Helden, You Don't Know Me

Marshall Jefferson/Move your Body

Lindy Layton - We Got the Love

Late 90s disco house classic - summery beach vibes.

Soulsearcher - Can't Get Enough

This.

CeCe Peniston - We Got A Love Thang

Cathy Dennis - Just Another Dream

(And, no, that is not Rick Astley on backing vocals)

Let's slow it down a little bit. I'm going to get a drink.

Miss Shirley Bassey!

love r56 ! thanks never heard it before...

BTW if my house friend steve from montreal (whoopi goldberg ghost) ...if you are out there i love you! it's me T!

Bizarre Inc - I'm Gonna Get You

The house remix of Amy Grant's "Baby Baby"

What about this one?

(Incidentally, Goldfrapp do a really lovely cover of this too. Not house though, obviously)

A good happy sing along track

Another goody from 90s

More mainstream

[r137] Another awesome Loveland classic

There's like 10 mixes of Brighter Days - really varied mixes too. This was BIG when I was clubbing. It's can be almost annoying in isolation, but it was always a lot of fun in the club

1 of 2 Todd Terry collabs feat. legendary dance divas Martha Wash & Jocelyn Brown

90s gay anthem

There's an excellent Masters at Work compilation (one of many) called Strictly Masters at Work or Strictly MAW, highlighting and mixing together songs from the Strictly Rhythm label People have posted several already. Another:

r3 MAW (here as Kenlou) & India were a great combo. MAW (1/2 of which is well known Lil Louis Vega) was such great house producers & remixers

Another influential house producer was Murk, here as Funky Green Dogs

Uncanny Alliance, "I Got My Education"

There's better, longer versions with big intros and middle sections. Linking a short edited version because people will recognize the song right away.

More Miami madness with Murk / Funky Green Dogs - Fired Up!

Early to mid 90s Euro house was so catchy, but for the life of me, I couldn't distinguish Corona, La Bouche, Real McCoy, Culture Beat, Le Click, etc.

C+C Music Factory - Here We Go Let's Rock & Roll

Marc Anthony, before he decided to become a salsero and, eventually, Mr. J-Lo.

Dannii Minogue - This Is The Way

Haddaway - What Is Love

LONNIE GORDON - Happenin' All Over Again

Good jam

Halcyon and On and On and On and On!!!

Moby "Besame" (apologies in advance for the home-brew graphics of this YT clip but I can't find the track anywhere else on that site).

You bitches haven't mentioned me yet?

Lighthouse Family - High

Madison Avenue - Don't Call Me Baby

Mousse T. feat. Hot 'n' Juicy - Horny '98

Was this considered house or more remix of mainstream single?

It's a house-y mix of a mainstream single. Lisa had many.

It's got to be big.

Masters at Work could do no wrong in the 90s. The cracking remix of the Repercussions has never appeared on a MAW compilation.

More soulful house. The late, great Kim English with Mood II Swing - "Learn 2 Luv"

And this one...guaranteed to send the dancefloor up in flames. The Godfather of House, Frankie Knuckles, taking us to church with his epic remix of Sounds of Blackness featuring Ann Nesby on vocals.

Yeah, nothing really compares to 90s soulful garage house.

Hearing certain of these gives me chills. I was very sad when I aged out of dancing and clubbing without looking like an unwelcome old fool. I am still sad about this. It stings almost as much as the loss of my looks and value on the international meat markets.

I know I can go out, and I occasionally go to clubs but I know at 60 I'm "gramps over there". I would love to see Miss Kittin and the Hacker at Fabric this Sat. Caroline is 48 so I suppose I should just go cause all the old farts like me might come out.

And my sob story over, here is Danny Tenaglia perfection:

OP if you want to hear a great mix, Danny Tenaglia Global Underground Athens 1999. So slinky and glamorous.

Another Tenaglia epic:

R189, it's crazy to me that you posted Repercussions. I was really into "acid jazz" in the 1990s - Soul II Soul, Brand New Heavies, Incognito, etc. I group Repercussions with that genre and listened to that album a lot. I believe it was the group's only album. They never caught on big, so that someone is posting it here just makes me smile.

And you're right about MAW. They could turn anything into a legit house track.

I forgot to add - while I loved Repercussions and bought that album when it was released, I was not familiar with the MAW remix.

Hearing this tonight takes me back to being a ravenous sex club slut.

For you OP

Another for you. Fantastic all the hits

Apt group name for happy house track

Aretha Franklin - A Deeper Love

I had been planning on (& procrastinating about) starting a thread about this very topic for like 3 months. I'm kinda bummed that OP beat me to it and that I've missed the first 200 posts, but I'm glad that someone did it!

Like OP, my own Club/Circuit Days started after the 90s were over. I was a child in the Late 80s and throughout the 90s. So my exposure to good House Music/Remixes at that time came from the countless 12" Record/Cassette/CD singles I purchased back then. And radio shows like "John Garabedian's Open House Party". By the time I was old enough to legally hit the clubs myself (2003 or so) the sound wasn't the same. 00s house was all over the place, more ambiant, more repetitive and less reliant on vocals/divas. In short, several steps down from the previous decade!

So many favorites to choose from but Judy Cheeks' 'So In Love (The Real Deal)' is an old favorite. Particularly the "Frankie Foncett Vocal Mix". I was fascinated when I learned that the song was originally intended for the late Disco Diva/Former Harlette, Sharon Redd. Miss Redd wrote & sang the hook but died before she was able to record the whole song.

The "Phat 'N' Phunky Club Mix" of Cher's 'Believe' is a fucking masterpiece.

" By the time I was old enough to legally hit the clubs myself (2003 or so) the sound wasn't the same. 00s house was all over the place, more ambiant, more repetitive and less reliant on vocals/divas. In short, several steps down from the previous decade!"

It all morphed into EDM and became mainstream. I'm really not a house snob, and I posted earlier that I enjoy seeing all the mainstream dance tracks that may or may not be "house." Plus house was always an amorphous genre with a 50 subgenres and of course overlapping with commercial "dance" music. And a lot had to do with the DJ and how they mixed a set. Some could make great mixes from not-great standalone tracks. In my mind there is "classic" house, but my "classic" may not be someone elses.

Agreed R204. And again, because of the way I was exposed to House Music in the Late 80s and throughout the entire 90s (Pop Remix Singles & Radio), my taste & knowledge of House Music from that decade leans commercial. But as you know, there's still some AWESOME House within those confines! It truly was a golden age of Dance Music. Up there with the Disco Era of the 70s IMO.

Hans Grøttheim's "Extended Dance Mix" of Boy George's 'The Crying Game' was House Brilliance & better than the original mix. I'm pissed that it isn't available on any streaming platform!

Years before she hit it big as the frontwoman for Republica, singer Saffron released this KICK ASS jam titled 'One Love' as a solo artist. I prefer the full "Original Mix". This one may take a few listens for you to fully appreciate it. But when you do, you'll be blown away. The breakdown at around the 04:30 mark is downright orgasmic, it's so good!!!

This song by Ethyl Meatplow always brings back to "1984" @ Crobar in NYC's East Village. I spent many Sat/early Sun on their steam-filled dancefloor moving to this:

Ethyl meatplow & MK = match made in heaven. NYC's East village in the 90s

Sorry for the double posts.

Somebody further upstream mentioned the incomparable legend Mr. Frankie Knuckles without posting one of biggest club hits:

The definitive remix of Clivelles & Cole’s “Pride”. Only Deborah Cooper, please, not that trash Aretha remake.

A photo montage of the legendary Amsterdam club iT. Track is “Vanish Me” by Musique de Marque. Dutch house was faster because they had the best pills.

Undercover - Best Friend

In the U.S. (at least) the group Cleopatra is considered a Bubblegum Pop/R&B, One Hit Wonder, Brit Import who made a little noise with their single 'Cleopatra's Theme' in 1998. And I suspect the success of that song was only because the group was signed to Madonna's Maverick Records label at that time.

In its original form, the song was forgettable Pop of the day. But Booker T's "Booker T's Mass Fusion Lick" retains none of the original feel. Instead opting for a kick ass groove, with only the vocal chorus consistently looped.

This mix was a mainstay on DirecTVs Music Choice "House" Music channel in the Late 90s.

R212 that is not house music.

R213 isn't house music either. Sheesh

Sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet house

R10, Armand Van Helden couldn't miss with 'You Don't Know Me', since he pretty much just looped Carrie Lucas' immortal Disco jam, 'Dance With You' from 20 years prior to that.

The "MK Movin' Mix" of M People's 'Movin' On Up' still packs a punch. From what I remember there were a few other excellent mixes of this song. But this is the one I remember most.

House music by the book: repetitive 4/4 time measure, synthesizer piano riffs, BPM in low 100s, and frequent female vocal (here courtesy of early house legend Adeva)

M People is light, for house. That mix only gets slightly interesting at 4 mins in.

Obscure track but you'd probably recognize it clubbing in the mid-90s in wee hours of morning

1989 but I think it sneaks in... a hip house jam from Monie Love

Another fav

The other K Klass track that caused mayhem - Let Me Show You

try again honey.

Hello Ma Baby (1899) by Arthur Collins

....

You're joking, R228.

Another great remix from MAW. Groove Collective "Whatchugot"

Sylvester-influenced singer Byron Stingily used to fill the floor at my local teen club with his 'Get Up (Everybody)'. It also was in constant rotation on DirecTV's House Music channel.

I fell in love with the "Mousse T. Radio Mix" (that was used as the primary mix) and rushed to Sam Goody to order the maxi single. I ended up liking Mousse T's Extended Mix" & the "Mateo & Matos Mix" just as much.

Here's the "Mousse T. Extended Mix".......

Here's the "Mateo & Matos Remix" of Byron Stingily's 'Get Up (Everybody)'. Looking back, this is probably my favorite.

M People - Open Your Heart

THIS remix — at :46 — of Culture Club's "Miss You Blind" that was in the Mizrahi doc Unzipped

R22 Coincidently, that’s also the title of my favorite porno movie.

You know you can see, gurl!

Memories of dancing no the terrace at Cavo Paradiso in Mykonos as the sun rose over the Mediterranean.

Such a good tune back in the day

Dance diva Inaya Day on vocals

For those aficionados of house music or dance music in general, or particular DJ sets, Mixcloud is a great free app to download

Wamdue Project - King of My Castle

Try again...

Wow! Thanks for this thread, lots of good listening for me!! Used to hit Canal St. in the 90's guys selling their own mixes on cassette. Had one I loved, called, Basketball. Like a numbskull I lent it to a friend before copying it, & now gone for years, have never been able to find it. It was genius.

If any DL sleuths can point me where to hear it again..man I would be such a grateful bunny!!

R242 Wamdue is pure electro. NOT HOUSE.

Some people just want to post something, anything? Even if it's not house?

What's the name of this song?

His Groovejet (feat Sophie Ellis-Bextor) is more well known, but this earlier Spiller's instrumental was awesome

Blaze had a lot of good tracks and remixed a lot of people.

Speaking of Blaze... we remember House!

An absolute favorite. Blaze made me think of this because I think they remixed it for a different artist. Or that could be a different Spread Love.

The gatekeeping bore who keeps posting “that isn’t house” lacks the PLUR spirit.

House subgenres, dear. Different paths to the same vibe.

Plus, while it's a house-centric thread, it became about general 90s club music - whether straight ahead pop, generic "dance," house in any of its myriad variations including remixes of highly commercial songs, "techno," electronica, etc.

I am a hardcore "househead" and there's plenty of house variations I don't like. I really enjoy hearing what people were dancing to in the 1990s, no matter of it's actually house music or not.

Recommend some DJ Shadow!

R252 - your wish etc.... 'Midnight In A Perfect World' - after hours chill-out perfection

Thank you r253!!!

I love this thread. Bookmarking it. But only one link to Deee-Lite? C’MON, people!!

Speaking of Deee-Lite, I always loved this super chill remix. Not so much for dancing, but just chilling out. There's a longer version of the same remix.

This is my fav Deee-Lite mix (>30 yrs ago!)

Deee Lite's World Clique album came out my senior year of high school. Groove is In the Heart was a hit and the song was omnipresent. Not everyone liked it, but it was pop music of its time. I had no idea, living in my Midwestern small town, that Deee Lite was connected to New York clubs, gay people, etc. Lol.

Mom whistling "76 Trombones" while folding laundry in 1993.

Speaking of whistling:

A huge improvement over the non-remixed version

I love that remix, R261, but I love the original too. A lot of house or dance remixes are of songs that are already fairly upbeat, maybe even already "dance" songs. But the original Space Cowboy is basically just a chill R&B/Acid Jazz cut. I think I own the Space Cowboy maxi-single with five or so mixes.

RuPaul - Supermodel (You Better Work)

blah blah blah blah blah slapback to the gatekeeper blah blah blah. Guess what? Viola Wills is NOT HOUSE of any genre.

I liked the camp of this when it was played

Later Inner City - all about the progressive build up to the 1:2 punch: the key change at 2:30, then the drop at 2:45. Paris Grey's voice is so pretty.

Late night jam remixed by 90s/00s omnipresent Junior Vasquez of Sound Factory fame. What a great space, where I ran into an ex-boss, who was trying to pick me up - good times.

Is she singing Happy Ho in a reprise?

R244 PLEASE kill yourself.

Some early Ralphi Rosario & Latin house

Fav CeCe song & mix (w/faux slow start)

Thanks to YouTube again for hosting obscure old house jams like this one.

My favorite 90s house tune

I want to contribute, as well. House club banger. Those 90s nights with my homies at Nell's!

Stone Roses - Fool’s Gold.

"Peace in the Valley" and of course, "Free, Gay & Happy" songstress, Sabrina Johnston fronts this better track (me thinks)

The original is a really nice R&B joint. I love what was done with it here:

Can't believe how much stuff is on youtube. Anyway:

House is a feeling.

Totally loving this thread!! Keep it coming, guys!!

Kevin Saunderson after Inner City, remix by Dave Lee (aka Joey Negro)

Joi Cardwell -- "Listen to your mother..."

Yazz - One True Woman

Coldcut - People Hold On ft. Lisa Stansfield

EVERYBODY DANCE NOW!

I will always love this song. So many great memories of my childhood.

"The Bomb" by The Bucketheads has been (rightfully) posted multiple times. Great song.

Fun fact: The main sample used in the song is "Street Player" by Chicago.

Fun Fact 2: The Bucketheads is a Kenny "Dope" Gonzalez project. Yeah, that Kenny "Dope" Gonzalez, one half of Masters at Work and behind many songs on this thread already.

Released in 2000 but definitely has the 90s vibe.

Remembering the lovely shapes dancers threw to this one at Ohm Club in Madrid that summer.

Kathy Sledge with remake of Stevie Wonder's "Another Star," mixed by Roger Sanchez.

Technotronic - Move This

Club 69 - Let Me Be Your Underwear

Love the melody on this

Another good house track with falsetto vocal like r292

Real McCoy - Another Night

Here we go:

House mix that borders on disco starting with the slow build to the up tempo portion

As heard in the film classic Party Girl:

I'd love a Strictly Rhythm documentary. Or house music documentary generally.

I bought a book, "Do You Remember House?: Chicago's Queer of Color Undergrounds" since I'm gay, black, and clubbing in Chicago in the 1990s. I expected a joyous read, recounting music, people, clubs, fashion, dance styles, etc. that I had experienced, while also learning about what I had not experienced, what I missed. There were definitely references to things I knew and that was cool, but the book was so disagreeably academic it sucked the joy out of it.

I may have bought this way back when on a maxi cassette

One of my favs

Upbeat techno house

[quote]but the book was so disagreeably academic it sucked the joy out of it.

I hate when that happens. There was a book I recently ordered on a subject I thought was fascinating and it was that driest thing I've ever read. I thought: "how do you make this topic boring?!"

Another awesome house mix from many yesteryears

Exactly, R302

Nomad - Devotion

Chanelle - I'll Keep Coming Back

This one was huge in the L.A. clubs in the mid-90's.

The Outhere Brothers - Boom Boom Boom

(probably not considered a full-on house jam, but it has enough house-ish elements to qualify for the thread, IMO.)

I can't believe this wasn't posted yet. Still huge in 90s clubbing culture.

LOVED this jam.

LOVED this jam.

Damn, I'm missing the 90s now.

Jody Watley - I'm the One You Need (1992)

A bit on the chill side, but with some definite house elements.

The entire "A Night at the Roxbury" soundtrack is full of the best 90s club music too.

"The kids call it house, or hip-hop..."

Also, listen to some old school Chicago House. Julian Jumpin Perez, Bad Boy Bill, The Hot Mix 5, Gene Hunt (he still flies out to Coachella), there's just so many! Check out DJ Cratebug. He's local (Chicago) and does some killer edits and old school sets. Old WBMX and WGCI Chicago mixes, you can Google and find all this online. I was a teen in Chicago in the 80s and just turned 21 in 1990 and these were awesome years for dance music! Say what? House Music All Night Long!

You're in my hut now!

Green Velvet anyone?

Not quite 90s but this was a banger in the early 2000's

Initial thought was Love Sensation but not exactly; from where's this sampling? Regardless a good "tap feet, shake head" tune

Classic

You got me runnin'

More Barbara Tucker

The sample in R322's song is a glorious house track in it's own right. The Horn Song

R315, did you ever go to Red Dog, right near the intersection of of North Ave., Milwaukee, and Damen (if I remember correctly) in (pre-gentrified) Wicker Park? Great club for house music.

Deep Dish were one of my favourite producers/remisers bak in the day. Lovely work on Gabrielle's 'Rise'

Lenny Fontana ft. Carole Sylvan "Everything You Do"

Speaking of Lenny Fontana...

Sandy B. "Feel Like Singin'"

Thanks to everyone for suggestions above. So many great house tunes from 90s that am now able to add to YT playlist.

RIP Angel Moraes

One of the best hooks of 90s dance music and unfortunately Hex Hector (of many mainstream dance remixes fame) was originally unaccredited as producer in liner

R190 not house, at all, 100% not house. Carry on.

I'll House You by The Jungle Brothers

Only because almost every brother with a third leg seemed to drop their inhibitions in the straight clubs when this song came on.

So many good memories. God must have been on my side because so many entered "my hut" and I remain clean to this day.

Green Velvet at R317, came out in 2001, not the 1990s and its is not house at all, it is electro, by a huge electro star. But do carry on participating even though you are sharting anything old tune out your ass.

t.A.T.u. was a great House duo, the soundtrack to my 90s. Great times at Sequins in Blackpool!!!

Yes indeed r119. Saw her perform on Fire Island 7/4 ages ago and she was amazing. Cheating here by couple years but Everyday's my favorite song & remix

Is this considered an early house song? Or is it just "house" in the name? I'm kinda obsessed by the dancing, haha.

Before publicized "personal struggles" Whitney and prime period of Thunderpuss remixes, this isn't house but it's okay

Classic deep house

Thanks partly to Pete Tong for making this more popular

Needin U by David Morales

From almost 30 years ago

Another RIP (died of Covid last yr)

Ultra Naté - Party Girl (Turn Me Loose)

No R337. Your song is NOT house. Some of you seem to have no ear. House is a stylie of dance music. It's not "any dance music made in certain years. For crissakes.

House started in the mid 80s. This song is considered one of the first house tracks. Much early house music is VERY basic sounding, Drum track and a few syncopated sounds. Neither elaborate sounding disco nor UK garage and Electronic. No wall of sound. All that came later to house, in the 90. 80s house was simple and grounded.

Thanks, R345, but you could've said that nicer. I am interested in learning. I was just asking because the song is called Sky My House Band. I wondered if that was more what really early House was due to the name. Often the way music starts off is somewhat different from house it is during its hey day too (see Disco).

I appreciate the information, however. Thank you.

I love these boys dancing. Wiggida wiggida wiggida wack - it was my house bop in the 90s when I was shop bottom at William Taylor Son. Good times!

THen why don't you google around a bit. The Internet put a world of info and entertainment at our fingertips. Your selection at 337 is attic/Techno which started and evolved concurrently with House but as quite different sounds at the start. . Eventually they bled into each other, about 10 years AFTER house started, which was 84 85. So 95. more or less. Here an article for you.

The snark is because you came off as lazy and having no ear for different genres of dance music,.

that should read "acid / techno" damned spellchecker.

Have a nice day. If you are interested in something don't be lazy and expect others to do your work.

R334 Can you give us an update on killing yourself? People who procrastinate are THE WORST.

R351 - didn't you say your House divas are Julie Andrews, Mistinguett, and Buffy Sainte-Marie? Go back to listening to them and chill out.

R352 I don't even know who the FUCK those people are, Bruce. I'm not a spring chicken, but not yet ready for assisted living.

[quote]The snark is because you came off as lazy and having no ear for different genres of dance music,.

Dude. This is a FORUM. It's for people to talk with each other, exchange ideas. Some of us like to have conversations with people. I wouldn't bother coming here at all otherwise. I know I can google things. But I want to converse with YOU.

No one is expecting anyone to do any "work". That is a silly thing to say. But there are many people on this site who were there at the time and have knowledge and I want to hear from THEM. That's why I started this thread in the first place. And I'll continue to have discussions with people because that's how I like to communicate. Thank you.

I get all that R354, OP, and you are correct. I was having snarky fun with people posting disco hits from 1980. 1980! Your thread is great with lots of great dance tunes. It's kind of lazy to post any old shit just to participate, That's all. Carry on.

Now back to the our regular programming: r225 think you meant this with its distinguishable synth piano riff

R356 - LOL yes, I did. I double posted the Monie Love track from a few posts above!

Prefer this to the hyperspeed house mix of this Euro house dance single

I do you, you do me (repeat). This was towards the end of the happy, piano house period around mid-90s.

Raise your hands

R343 reminds me of Vancouver BC when it was still gritty and the scene was fun.

This track also gives me great Vancouver flashbacks.

Love Tribe - Stand Up - some great mixes spanning a ton of sub-genres. "Stand up Throw your hands to the sky..."

This was fun even with the rap infusion

At the turn of the millennium. Black Science Orchestra & Alison David "Sunshine"

R355, thanks, I appreciate it, and I legitimately appreciate your contributions too x

[quote]Green Velvet came out in 2001, not the 1990s and its is not house at all

Given you're such a purist on house music, shocking that you didn't know Green Velvet's other monikers made some of the greatest house records ever, including Dajae ("Brighter Days") and Cajmere ("Percolator"). And "Flash" came out in 1995. If Curtis Jones from Chicago who used to spin on BMX ain't house, then nothing is.

Obscure, uplifting house

Lovestation - Love Come Rescue Me

I'll concede to you on Brighter Days, of course.

The Gods Of Disco, Chic, meet the Kings of House, Masters At Work.

The other single from the Chic-ism album: Your Love, was also boss.

This one went to No.1 on the Billboard club play list but was also big in underground clubs like Shelter NYC. The ubiquitous Masters at Work featuring Xaviera Gold.

Though she got them w/"Another Sleepless Night" & "Don't Lose the Magic", I prefer this Shawn Christopher song which didn't hit #1

r134 I really like this one too

Phenomenal thread, OP. The memories! All trance, all the time.

Good memories indeed. 1995 seems to have been banner year for vocal house music, as was on this Allister Whitehead house collection

This isn't a "banger" - an intense dance cut. I always found it more reflective and wistful. I'm linking the Vocal Mix but I know it more from the instrumental Paradise Guitar Mix, but I can't find it on youtube (yet).

MC B feat Daisy Dee - Crazy

Anthony White - Love Me Tonight

D'Bora - Going Round

Steve "Silk" Hurley

Does this one fit?

Also, does that synth sound that starts at 3:38 have a name? It's the sound I most associate with house music.

R382 yep, that's a house mix.

Yes! R381 one of my all time favorites!

I'm FINALLY getting around to some time to really delve into this thread. I have to thank you guys so much, there is so much fantastic stuff here. You've all really come through. Cheers, again!

This is more drum n bass but dance floors in the mid 90s reached a fever pitch when Sugar Is Sweeter came on.

R387 you've just ent me down an Armand Van Helden remix rabbit hole. So many bangers 96, 97, 98....

This thread is prescient. Drake and Beyonce are about to put classic garage house on the charts.

Does this count? it is a remix of Michelle Gayle's Sweetness. It sounds nothing like the slower single version but it reminds me of nights out clubbing in London in the early 1990's

Loved this one too

Last one

I'm enjoying this one at the moment: