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Servalan

Servalan

That Blonde Lad said:
Not TOTP related at all, but I’m confident that people who visit this thread can help.

I’m just compiling a playlist for a house party next weekend, and I’m looking for tracks that are basically similar to Inner City’s Whatcha Gonna Do With My Loving - so basically slow house jams from the late ‘80s/early ‘90s, so think house beats, house piano but mid tempo.

Here’s what I’ve got so far, am I missing out anything obvious?

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Loads of great suggestions on here already but I would add:

Ain't Nobody (Hallucinogenic Mix) – Chaka Khan
Love Is A Master Of Disguise (Frankie Knuckles Mix), Love Come Down - Eve Gallagher
Do That Again - Blue Moderne
Breathe Life Into Me (Frankie Knuckles & David Morales Remix), Contribution (David Morales Remix), I Never Felt Like This Before (Frankie Knuckles Remix), I Should Have Known Better - Mica Paris
You're My One And Only True Love (original 7") - Seduction
Keep On Walking' - CeCePeniston
Giving A Love That He Can Feel (Steve Silk Hurley's 12") - Tene Williams
Tripping On Your Love (Silky 70s Mix) - Bananarama
I'm Your Baby Tonight (Yvonne Turner 12") - Whitney Houston

Dunno how many of those are available on streaming, though – there is a wealth of great material locked in the archives!
 
Servalan

Servalan

Servalan said:
Loads of great suggestions on here already but I would add:

Ain't Nobody (Hallucinogenic Mix) – Chaka Khan
Love Is A Master Of Disguise (Frankie Knuckles Mix), Love Come Down - Eve Gallagher
Do That Again - Blue Moderne
Breathe Life Into Me (Frankie Knuckles & David Morales Remix), Contribution (David Morales Remix), I Never Felt Like This Before (Frankie Knuckles Remix), I Should Have Known Better - Mica Paris
You're My One And Only True Love (original 7") - Seduction
Keep On Walking' - CeCePeniston
Giving A Love That He Can Feel (Steve Silk Hurley's 12") - Tene Williams
Tripping On Your Love (Silky 70s Mix) - Bananarama
I'm Your Baby Tonight (Yvonne Turner 12") - Whitney Houston

Dunno how many of those are available on streaming, though – there is a wealth of great material locked in the archives!
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And how could I have forgotten this?!?

 
Servalan

Servalan

Vasilios said:
You might find some here!

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Have to say how glad I am to see 'C'est La Ouate' by Caroline Loeb in there – until this year, I thought I was the only British person who knew what track … I heard it in West Berlin (as it was then) in the mid 80s and fell in love with it then. I thought it would cross over and become a hit here but I think it was slightly too left field, so got lost in the mists of musical time.

BBC Radio 2 producer Johnny Kalifornia was the first person who put it in an Ibiza playlist earlier this year – and you are the second!

 
Vasilios

Vasilios

Servalan said:
Have to say how glad I am to see 'C'est La Ouate' by Caroline Loeb in there – until this year, I thought I was the only British person who knew what track … I heard it in West Berlin (as it was then) in the mid 80s and fell in love with it then. I thought it would cross over and become a hit here but I think it was slightly too left field, so got lost in the mists of musical time.

BBC Radio 2 producer Johnny Kalifornia was the first person who put it in an Ibiza playlist earlier this year – and you are the second!

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I may have snatched the idea off him as he's a friend!
 
That Blonde Lad

That Blonde Lad

Servalan said:
Loads of great suggestions on here already but I would add:

Ain't Nobody (Hallucinogenic Mix) – Chaka Khan
Love Is A Master Of Disguise (Frankie Knuckles Mix), Love Come Down - Eve Gallagher
Do That Again - Blue Moderne
Breathe Life Into Me (Frankie Knuckles & David Morales Remix), Contribution (David Morales Remix), I Never Felt Like This Before (Frankie Knuckles Remix), I Should Have Known Better - Mica Paris
You're My One And Only True Love (original 7") - Seduction
Keep On Walking' - CeCePeniston
Giving A Love That He Can Feel (Steve Silk Hurley's 12") - Tene Williams
Tripping On Your Love (Silky 70s Mix) - Bananarama
I'm Your Baby Tonight (Yvonne Turner 12") - Whitney Houston

Dunno how many of those are available on streaming, though – there is a wealth of great material locked in the archives!
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Thanks for these, there's quite a few on that list that I've not heard, but Frankie Knuckles especially does that sound really well so I'm sure they'd fit.

I will look forward to investigating them!
 
Servalan

Servalan

That Blonde Lad said:
Thanks for these, there's quite a few on that list that I've not heard, but Frankie Knuckles especially does that sound really well so I'm sure they'd fit.

I will look forward to investigating them!
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Frankie Knuckles and David Morales totally have that sound nailed and there are so many examples of that. This is what Frankie did to Eve Gallagher – lush pianos and strings abound:



David Morales did a brilliant remix of Caron Wheeler's 'Living In The Light' – very stripped down and haunting – but I don't think that track or indeed any of the UK Blak album is available anywhere now, on either streaming or CD.

There's also this Morales vocal dub mix of Londonbeat's 'I've Been Thinking About You', which removes the twangy guitar that I always found so cheesy in the original:



It's out of your chosen timeframe for your playlist, but Frankie's last ever remix, 'Blind' by Hercules & Lovechild, is also in the vein I think you want and worth listening to.

I'd better get back to work now …!
 
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That Blonde Lad

That Blonde Lad

Servalan said:
Frankie Knuckles and David Morales totally have that sound nailed and there are so many examples of that. This is what Frankie did to Eve Gallagher – lush pianos and strings abound:



David Morales did a brilliant remix of Caron Wheeler's 'Living In The Light' – very stripped down and haunting – but I don't think that track or indeed any of the UK Blak album is available anywhere now, on either streaming or CD.

There's also this Morales vocal dub mix of Londonbeat's 'I've Been Thinking About You', which removes the twangy guitar that I always found so cheesy in the original:



It's out of your chosen timeframe for your playlist, but Frankie's last ever remix, 'Blind' by Hercules & Lovechild, is also in the vein I think you want and worth listening to.

I'd better get back to work now …!
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Thanks again, I’ll check these out too
 
Vasilios

Vasilios

Servalan said:
Loads of great suggestions on here already but I would add:

Ain't Nobody (Hallucinogenic Mix) – Chaka Khan
Love Is A Master Of Disguise (Frankie Knuckles Mix), Love Come Down - Eve Gallagher
Do That Again - Blue Moderne
Breathe Life Into Me (Frankie Knuckles & David Morales Remix), Contribution (David Morales Remix), I Never Felt Like This Before (Frankie Knuckles Remix), I Should Have Known Better - Mica Paris
You're My One And Only True Love (original 7") - Seduction
Keep On Walking' - CeCePeniston
Giving A Love That He Can Feel (Steve Silk Hurley's 12") - Tene Williams
Tripping On Your Love (Silky 70s Mix) - Bananarama
I'm Your Baby Tonight (Yvonne Turner 12") - Whitney Houston

Dunno how many of those are available on streaming, though – there is a wealth of great material locked in the archives!
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Most of these aren't on Spotify :(
 
vivalaradio

vivalaradio

That Blonde Lad said:
Not TOTP related at all, but I’m confident that people who visit this thread can help.

I’m just compiling a playlist for a house party next weekend, and I’m looking for tracks that are basically similar to Inner City’s Whatcha Gonna Do With My Loving - so basically slow house jams from the late ‘80s/early ‘90s, so think house beats, house piano but mid tempo.

Here’s what I’ve got so far, am I missing out anything obvious?

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There'll be some in that playlist I made. You might want to add this too.

 
Servalan

Servalan

vivalaradio said:


There'll be some in that playlist I made. You might want to add this too.

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'Let's Push It' is fantastic – especially in this more muscular US remix by Tony Humphries (probably also not on streaming!):



Some great tracks on that playlist, especially 'Ghetto Heaven' by The Family Stand, which I heard the other day on an internet radio show and it still sounded brilliant!
 
Dennis

Dennis

Ooh, wait, this is my favourite genre. No time to check what's been mentioned yet, etc, but:







(underrated Shep gem)



(walked the runway in my bedroom to this)
 
Booers

Booers

That last episode wasn’t great - Therapy?, Reef, China Black, Black Grape (I don’t know that song so well but Kelly’s Heroes was ok) were all a bit shit.

And with Baby D they cut it before it went to the bonkers breakdown but.

Pulp were the best thing on it.

That Jacko megamix at the end was a bit random - it was only 2 songs! Was it on because of the HIStory album?
 
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heartmightmelt

heartmightmelt

Therapy? were a really important band for me back in the late 90s. One of the few rock bands to have a lead singer talk about teenage male attraction and bisexuality and to have that subtext in his lyrics was something I needed to hear - I don't need to tell anyone on this forum how much of straight male space rock music can be. I'm not particularly a fan of this song, "Stories", though. They did really well on the continent and their videos got loads of airplay on MTV Europe, which served them well in the UK charts at a time when UK radio was focused on Britpop. They struggled once MTV UK launched in 1997 and relegated rock music to a two-hour Monday midnight slot.

Booers said:
That Jacko megamix at the end was a bit random - it was only 2 songs! Was it on because of the HIStory album?
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I would think that's the reason. They were probably saving their showing of the "Scream" video for when it inevitably went to #1 the following week. [Narrator: however things did not come to pass...]

Edit: Now I'm on the following weeks episode and they say the video wasn't ready. I did a few Googles and there's a MTV News video clip on YouTube stating that the world premiere for the video was June 15th. Interesting, next time someone goes off on one about "Scream" not making #1 I can always reply with, "well maybe if the video had been out", and also, maybe if they hadn't overdid it with excessive single formats splitting the sales figures.

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