Dear Fellow Dance Music Lovers,
This blog brings you the best in Dance Music and Club Classics; from early 87 (back in the daze) through to the present day.
For all those who rocked it all night until the early hours, to those that lived for clubbing and couldn't wait for the weekend to arrive. Enjoy and leave any comments on the blog or contact direct by email at pureclubclassics@live.co.uk
Really surprised that I've not posted this yet at this was a huge fave back in the day and a perfect last track of the night selection.
First released in 1991 it is just such a great track with some sumptious vocals from Nicole Williams.
More indie dance than pure dance, but as mentioned such a great track for last of the night and all joining in unity. I remember it being played last track at Cream once in the early 90's.
Still sounds amazing and it should have been much bigger than it was.
My love for Saint Etienne will always be everpresent.
They were without doubt one of the best Indie Dance bands of their generation.
I remember buying all their 12" releases in the early 90's and still have they in my collection. I then played Fox Based Alpha to death when that was released.
The ingenuity of Wiggs and Stanley was off the scale and the vocals of Sarah Cracknell were just heavenly (although they had a few diffferent female vocalists on some of their earlier tracks).
I've already posted lots of their tracks on the blog, this is probably one of their most commercial and less underground, but it is just a glorious track, so full of life and so energy and just so pleasant to listen to, one that never fails to bring a smile to one's face.
The lyrics and story in this are also great.
Life's for enjoying and listening to this is always a joyful moment!
Now there is a fair argument as this track in it's original version is so iconic and untouchable that any remix would not quite be worthy but this remix certainly challenges that.
Rob Dougan and Rollo have been behind so many amazing dance productions that their credibility is one of the strongest out there.
Coming together under their Our Tribe co-lab they produce a stunning remix with so beautiful piano and there familiar Our Tribe vibe.
It doesn't quite have the emotional conection of the Original Mix, but it is nonetheless a really great remix and another very fine production under the Our Tribe moniker.
I know I've already posted this track before, but it was different versions and as it is one of my all time favourite tracks (we even played it on our wedding day at the night do!), it is worthy of posting again.
This is the Richard X remix which differs to the original and the Weatherall remix, yet almost complements both of them.
It brings something else, but still retains that brilliant feel of the original.
A real timeless classic, that vocal by Moira Lambert will always melt me.
Again very Afro House inspired and very well produced.
As good as it is, I just wished they'd been a little more original with the piano which as nice as it is, very much gives Robert Miles - Children vibes (which as good as it was at the time - is now the earworm from hell).
However, that aside it still remains a great track, but could have been even better.
This is one which has been out for some time now, but another fine piece of Afro House vibes.
Very much inspired by the Keinemusik vibe, it has no Afro chants, but the style and formula is very much the same, with that lovely chilled vibe, yet a nice dance-ability feel.
These tracks have a really deep and emotional feel which just makes them generate such a highly charged energy.
Although Robin S is only really known for "Show Me Love" she made some other great tracks and this is one of them.
Courtesy of a stellar remix from Mr Morales, this certainly less commercial than "Show Me Love" but showcases her powerful vocals better and is a quality piece of house music.
Some great percussion in there as with all Morales remixes.
Another slightly forgotten classic from yesteryear.
Another fantastic piece of house music from 1991, which was just such an amazing year for dance music.
Arguably the greatest year ever? Quite possibly.
The tracks that were produced back then were of such a high quality as the scene was just maturing nicely and the club scene was probably at it's all time peak of popularity.
Such an amazing time to be alive and experience.
This is a superb track as was pretty much everything that David and Satoshi did when they worked together.
Great vocals from Sandee, superb piano and a real class house classic of a track.
You give good love to me!
Sandee - Love Desire
(David Morales & Satoshi Tomiie's' House of Def Mix)
This is an old classic from 1989 which never really got the respect and club play that a track of this quality deserves.
However, posting these gems helps to raise that awareness of great tracks from yesteryear that we might have missed, not heard or completely forgotten about.
When I'd been running this blog for the first 5 years or so I thought there may come a time when I ran out of tracks to post, but I now realise that will never happen as there are simply still so many great tracks out there waiting to be unearthed and posted.
I have several thousand in my database labelled of PCC status, hence there is no end in sight.
In the meantime sit back and enjoy some more classic house music.
Steve Anderson needs no introduction to the PCC blog as he has probably had more tracks posted than any other remixer/producer which is just pure testament to his true genius.
Here he is with another fabulous remix of a pretty ordinary track, until Steve spreads his gold dust on it.
Lots of sumptuous piano as may of his remixes gives it some real life and vibrance.
Sometimes it's just nice to play catch and post some classic tracks which have been true PCCs but were probably so overplayed at the time that I just didn't feel the need to post them.
This is a fine example.
This was such a great track when it first came out in 1996, but became so overplayed and commercial that it became a bit tiresome and even tedious.
However, it still sounds great even now and rightly deserves it's status on the PCC blog.
It certainly was a great track back int' day and does still great almost 30 years on.
Really surprised I've not posted this before as it was one of the quintessential disco tracks.
It is also probably one of the most widely known and widely liked (hence maybe why I've not posted yet).
Produced in 1983 - 40 odd years on it has lost none of it's appeal and still sounds fantastic.
Superb vocals, great lyrics and first class production it is a true disco masterpiece and rightly deserves it's position as one of dance music's most iconic tracks.
I have only one thing more to say "Let the music play!"
One of the great things about dance music is it's ability to easily re-use recreate and enhance.
The musical arrangements which were used to create all the classic disco tracks will probably never be repeated due to the cost to assemble the collective of musicians, hence why all these old classics are so frequently sampled.
However, it's great to also pay homage to these old classics and this is one such truly fabulous track.
It's now almost 50 years old, but still sounds amazing.
The vocals are just superb and the production is amazing, not to mention all the great instruments, especially the piano and sax.
You will of course recognise that amazing piano riff which David Morales used so effectively in his hugely popular "Needin' U" track from 1998.
However, I much prefer this amazing original - just a pure timeless classic.
Love this remix and delighted to be posting my first Marvin Gaye track on the PCC blog.
I totally love all the Motown tracks and as a young teen it was one of my most emphatic musical loves and quite possibly shaped by musical tastes for my lifelong of dance music.
The beauty about this music was the quality of the vocals, them amazing production and the use of so many fantastic instruments.
This has fantastic vocals, but for me it is the strings that really make this, the violins in this are stunning and really shape the track.
Bananarama were great and one of the original girl bands.
They were huge in the early 80's and although very commercial with a clever remix they also had a great dance vibe.
There are quite a few of their tracks already posted on the blog.
This one is an epic reworking by DJDiscoCat - I always love his remix work, extending classic tracks, utilising the track "best bits" and relayering them to make them sound even better.
By this stage the rave scene was very clearer splitting into the more dressed up club vibe of the Hac, Back To Basics, Renaissance, Venus etc vs the Hardcore scene and my foot was truly in the Hac, B2B camp.
The whole mask and glow sticks thing was never my bag.
That said there were still lots of great tracks from that rave/hardcore side which although never played at the nation's more glam clubs were still great tracks.
This being one of them.
This one steals heavily from Nitro Deluxe's - Let's Get Brutal - a huge house classic which was posted many years ago on the PCC blog.
An amazing piece of production capturing two outstanding talents who have been consistently leading the way in their respective sub-sectors for the last 30 years.
I've always been a huge The Cure fan, they have always created music which is unique, trailblazing and despite not being aimed at the dancefloor has always had great remix-ability.
Bring in the studio and dance music talents of Oakey and you have a true masterpiece.
The title is quite right this is hugely cinematic and would be a great score for an emotional movie scene.