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
Cracking track from 1991 with some great ethereal vocals and a nice new beat vibe.
The Voodoo Child Mix is a great remix by Moby, gosh that boy had some talent and is behind so many amazing dance floor tracks and many that appear on the blog.
Some of the tracks from this era just had a special feel to them and this is one very much in that category.
I've also included the HP Saucey Mix, although not as good, still has a nice feel and is a little more Ibizan Balearic in style, Justin Robertson on the remix on that one.
Both great tracks well worth a listen and rightly deserve PCC status!
I've been a bit disparaging to Moby on the PCC blog in the past and for that I can only apologise for over the years I've really come to appreciate his genius, proven by his amazing versatility, longevity and some quite epic tracks.
This is another cracker combined with a fantastic remix by the Freemasons from 2008.
Some of the Freemasons tracks and remixes from that era were on another level, also epic, closing bordering that line between commercial and underground, but always just keeping it (importantly) on the underground side.
The genius of Moby has only really hit me in recent years as I've come across more of his amazing tracks.
I'd previously failed to appreciate his outstanding ability to create such unique and effective tracks.
Hence when you get the genius of the Guvnor, Lord Sabre remixing one of his tracks you just know it's going to well, create "The Perfect Life" (at least for 8mins 36 secs).
Contains some great heavy percussion and hand claps and then drops that atmospheric break from Moby's - Go, which was also cleverly used in Twin Peaks.
Tracks like this made so much more sense on the dancefloor and were immense when dropped at the right time.
I went to see Simple Minds (a band who I have always loved) in Leeds last night and they were superb.
This was one of the highlights and although not one of their most famous tracks it is definitely one of their best. This is from 1981 and was totally ground-breaking at the time mixing synths and guitar.
It was also huge in many UK clubs in the late 80's and was a big fave at Shoom and other quality acid house clubs and parties.
Simple Minds - Theme For Great Cities
Due to it being such a fantastic track it was also copied and sampled many times and many of these new remakes and remixes were also huge club tracks also worthy of PCC status.
Probably the best and the most widely played was the great version from Corporation of One from 1988, especially the Oppy mix which contains all the great Tony Montana samples from Scarface and elements from Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody.
Corporation Of One - Real Life
(Oppy Mix)
The original mix of this track is also superb and doesn't contain all the samples and snippets and was probably the most widely played out in clubs.
Corporation Of One - Real Life
(Original Mix)
Another credible version which was released in 2001 was the Joey Negro influenced Raven Maize version which provides a bit of a heavier club beat/feel, and is very much an updated copy of the original Simple Minds version with the Real Life Queen vocal sample added. Still a great track though.
Raven Maize - The Real Life
(Club Mix)
Finally, to finish off the sequence their is also a very credible remix by Moby which is pretty much the Simple Minds version, but with a updated 2000s Depeche Mode-esque synth feel.
Simple Minds - Theme For Great Cities 2012
(Moby Remix)
All in all. all are great tracks in their own right, but all must pay homage, respect and their dues to the original brilliance to Simple Minds who over 40 years ago (1981) created a true ground-breaking masterpiece that it is still revered and highly regarded to this day by the club scene.
Although there are many remixes of these including some good ones by Rollo, Ferry Corsten and ATB, none of them IMHO quite capture the emotion and beauty of this original version.
Moby is true genius and has produced some real ground breaking tracks.
This is right up there with his good.
From that very first piano chord, you're in heaven.
On my thirteenth birthday I received cassette album entitled 'Everything Is Wrong' by Moby. Upon receipt of this gift it was played unendingly, until the inevitable occurred and the tape ended up getting chewed up and had to be discarded. That incident doesn't detract from Moby's opus being utterly spectacular in every respect. Although some of the tracks on it were a bit questionable, the presence of euphoric classics such as 'Feeling So Real' and 'Everytime You Touch Me' more than atones. 'Into the Blue' proved another highlight; an atmospheric ambient number in its original form featuring the plaintive warblings of Mimi Goese. The Beatmasters were commissioned to provide the single version, which they do with some aplomb, enhancing the chilled out nature of the original. Moby's own 'Simple' mix, also featured here, pares down the vocal and transforms the track into a piano monster of the highest calibre. Great album, great artist, great vocals, great remixes, great track.
As much as I like Moby, I could never abide his far-too-frequent forays into thrash metal.
The awful 'Animal Rights' album is the foremost example of this ill-advised genre-bending, and it was that opus from which 'That's When I Reach For My Revolver' was culled.
Barely listenable in its original form - unless you are a fan of Slipknott - the track has been completely deconstructed and remade by those stalwarts of the dance music scene, Rollo & Sister Bliss.
A building, hypnotic epic wrought in their own singular style, Rollo & Bliss' production values perfectly complement Moby's introspective vocal.
If ever there was an instance of a turd being successfully polished, then this remix is proof of that concept.
Now this was a big track back in the day, going all the way back to 1990.
It was an absolute stormer and I'm sure will be one of those tracks, which you may not know by the title, but as soon as you hear you will go "oh my good what a tune, used to love this one".
It's a really simple track, but oh so effective.
It's always been a big fave of mine.
You may also not be aware that Moby made this track, under one of his alias'. He certainly had a brainstorm when he made this. Lol.
A PCC for sure.
Enjoy!!!
