Since my early childhood I like electronic sounds, synths and computers like the C-64 with the wonderful SID chip. The first list is about songs I was listening to when I was 15-21 years old. While I also liked some dance music at that time, I was mostly listening underground groups like Front 242, Skinny Puppy and Front Line Assembly then in high school Yello, Information Society, Cyberaktif, Depeche Mode, Kraftwerk, Sigue Sigue Sputnik, Clan of Xymox, to name a few.
This is a short and incomplete list of songs that had some influences on my past :
- A Split Second – Flesh
- a-ha – Take on me
- Alphaville – Big in Japan
- Art of Noise – Paranoimia
- Belinda Carlisle – Heaven is a place on earth
- Bobby McFerrin – Don’t wory be happy
- Book of Love – I touch roses
- Bronski Beat – Small town boy
- Company B – Fascinated
- Cyberaktif – Nothing stays (extended remix)
- Don Henley – Boys of summer
- Donna Summer – I feel love
- Duran Duran – The reflex
- Eddy Grant – Electric avenue
- Eight Seconds – Kiss you (when it’s dangerous)
- Eurythmics – Sweet dreams
- Falco – Rock me Amadeus, Vienna calling
- Force Legato – System (v1.0)
- Foreigner – I want to know what love is
- Giorgio Moroder – The chase
- Gowan – A criminal mind, Moonlight Desires
- Haddaway – What is love
- John Farnham – Age of reason
- Kansas – Dust in the wind
- Kate Bush – Running up that hill
- Laura Branigan – Self control
- M.A.A.R.S. – Pump up the volume
- Mamas & Papas – California dreamin’
- Manufacture – As the end draws near
- Martika – Toy soldiers
- Men without Hats – Safety dance
- Mr. Mister – Broken wings
- Nu Shooz – I can’t wait
- Paul Hardcastle – Nineteen
- Peter Schilling – Major Tom
- Rolling Stones – Anybody seen my baby
- Seal – Killer
- Shannon – Let the music play
- Simple Minds – Don’t you forget about me
- Styx – Mr. roboto
- The Bangles – Walk like an Egyptian
- The Cars – You might think
- The Marcels – Blue moon
- The Police – Every breath you take
- Toto – Africa
- Trio – Da Da Da
Then when I was 21, I went into my first « rave » party. It was one of the first here in Québec. Techno is what you hear the most but there are many styles in techno and the one that can give me shivers would be called « trance ». Again there are different styles in trance but I won’t go into that. I also enjoy « ambiant » a lot.
List below cover my 21-30 years old period with some songs I still listen today :
- 2 Digital – Because of my dreams
- Agnelli & Nelson – Everyday
- Akira Inc. – Superstring
- Albion – Air
- Anne Clark – Sleeper in Metropolis
- Antiloop – Analogue relaxation, In my mind, Signing off, Trespasser
- Apollo Four Forty – Stop the rock, Vanishing point
- Armin Van Buuren – Blue Fear 2003
- Art of Trance – Madagascar
- Astral Projection – Ambient galaxy, Cosmic ascension, Dancing galaxy, Nilaya, Tryptomine dream
- Ayla – Ayla (Taucher mix), Out of the light
- Basic Avalon – Firewalk
- BBE – Desire (full forces club mix), Seven days and one week (long)
- Bent – Invisible pedestrian
- Binary Finary – 1998, 1999
- Brooklyn Bounce – The prophet
- Cari Lekebush – Planet of drums
- Carl Cox – Phuture 2000 (hybrid remix)
- Central Seven – Missing (extended club mix)
- Chemical Brothers – 3 little birdies down beats, Hey boy, hey girl (extended), One too many mondays
- Chicane (featuring Bryan Adams), Don’t give up
- Chicane – Offshore (ambient Cafe Del Mar mix)
- CJ Bolland – Con spirito, Nec plus ultra, The prophet, The tower of Naphtali
- Cloud 69 – Sixty nine ways
- Club 69 – Drama (dramatic club mix)
- Culture grooves – Gringo
- Cygnus X – The orange theme (remix)
- D’Argento – This summer’s breeze (DeNiro)
- Daft Punk – Alive
- Danny Tenaglia – Elements
- Dave Matthews Band – Everyday
- Delerium – Innocente (DJ Tiësto mix)
- Destiny – Destiny angel 3
- Dido – Hunter
- Digital LoFi – Glare
- Dimorphic – Haunted strings
- Dirty Vegas – Days go by
- DJ Dean – World of fantasy
- DJ Energy and Tatana – End of time (extended mix)
- DJ Georgio – Apperception (dance theme)
- DJ Herby F – Brainsotrm
- DJ Jose vs. G-Spot – Wrong = right
- DJ Jurgen – Better of alone
- DJ Misjah & DJ Tim – Access
- DJ Misjah – Keep your love
- DJ Tandu – Velvet
- DJ Tibby – Eternity, Midnight (X-static trance mix)
- Dominion – The Gate (Renaissance club mix)
- Dove Beat – La paloma (power dove mix)
- Draft – Dombok Felett (liquid mix)
- Dumonde – See the light
- E-Razor – India (Brainbug remix)
- Electric Nature – It’s electric
- Energy 52 – Cafe Del Mar (et plusieurs remix)
- Evolver – Evolver (Majestic remix)
- Exit EEE – Mendhi
- Faithless – Don’t leave (euphoric mix), God is a DJ (Astral Projection remix), Insomnia, Woozy
- Filter – Take a Picture (hybrid mix)
- Force Mass Motion – Lost (in time)
- Fragma – Toca me (club mix)
- Freemind – Tranceform
- G Motion – Blue angel
- Gate – Open the gate
- Gee Moore – All fat boys dancing
- Greece 2001 – 2000 + one
- Ground Zero – Fallout (full blown mix)
- Hardfloor – AM-trip, Into the nature
- Hyperion – Ocean of light (club mix)
- Indoctrinate – Feeling you
- Insigma – Open your eyes
- Interspace – Discodroids
- Jark Prongo – Shake it (Club 69 trance mix)
- Jaydee – Plastic dreams
- Josh Wink – Higher state of consciousness
- Junk Project – Eclipse one
- Kai Tracid – Dance for Eternity
- Kamaya Painters – Cryptomnesia, Endless wave (Albion remix), Northern Spirits, Summerbreeze, Wasteland
- Karen Ramirez – Lies (Tilt’s Trinity mix)
- Knight Rider intro (televison theme show)
- Komakino – Man on mars
- Laurent Garnier – Acid eiffel
- Leftfield – Swords
- Legend B – Sexuality
- Lil Louis – French kiss
- Lili Fatale – Depuis que tu es parti
- Liquid – Orlando dawn (A & N mix)
- Lords of Acid – I sit on acid (remix)
- Lost Tribe – Gamemaster (Signum remix)
- Love Foundation – New way
- Lustral – Everytime.
- Madonna – Sky fits heaven (Sasha’s Drug fits face mix)
- Magic Tricks – A trip to venus
- Marc et Claude – La
- Mea Culpa – The child (original mix)
- Mega Mind – Transconnecting
- Michael Moog – That sound (full intention club mix)
- Miss Jane – It’s a fine day (ATB radio mix)
- Moonrush – Risky business (Arc in the Sky remix)
- Morphem – Hypnotone
- Mory Kante – Yeke Yeke (Hard Floor mix)
- Mox Epoque feat. Nina – I feel my…
- New Order – Blue monday (Hardfloor remix), Confusion (pump panel reconstruction mix)
- Nickelson vs. Fresco – World of love
- Nordlander – Discovery
- Nostrum – Mirror, Polaris, Talk
- Novy vs. Eniac – Pumpin
- Orbital – Halcyon
- Origin – Refined (bonus Club)
- Orinoko – Vila nova (Timo Maas mix)
- Overdrive – The great barrier
- Paragliders – Change me
- Paul van Dyk – For an angel (E-werk club mix), Introjection, Tell my why (The Riddle)
- Planet of drums – Acid over Manhattan
- Planet Perfecto – Not over yet ’99 (Breeder mix)
- Planisphere – The eyes of truth
- Plastic Angel – Schatten 99 (Talla 2XLC edit)
- Portishead – Over
- Prodigy – Smack my bitch up
- Quadran feat. Tasha – Unloveable (M.I.K.E. remix)
- R.E.D. S.E.C.T.O.R. – State department (club attack)
- Resistance D featuring Sophia Sands – Impression
- Robert Armani – Circus bells (hardfloor remix)
- Robert Miles – Children
- Ron Hagen & Pasca M – Forever
- Rui Da Silva featuring Cassandra – Touch me (Saffron mix)
- Sandra Collins – Flutterby (X-Cabs remix)
- Sarah McLachlan – As the end draws near (extended remix)
- Sash! – Adelante, Adelante (Dumonde remix)
- Sasha – Mr. Tiddles
- Seafield – Twisted
- Signum feat. Scott Mac – Coming on strong (remix)
- Soft Cell – Tainted love
- Sonique – It feels so good
- Star – Remote control
- Stardust – Music sounds better with you
- Sting featuring Cheb Mami – Desert rose (club mix)
- Stone Love – My love will surround you
- Sunbeam – Outside world ’99
- Sunscreem – Exodus (fire & ice mix)
- System 7 – Alpha wave (Plastickman remix)
- Technique – Sun is shining
- The Ambush – Everlast
- The Argonauts – Sommertag
- The Def Set – Ogo (Digital Blondes mix)
- The Grid – Rollercoaster (yellow submarine mix)
- The Sun Club – Wetsuit
- Three Drives on a Vinyl – Carrera 2, Greece 2000 (et plusieurs remixes)
- Trance Effect – This is not a mind trip
- Trancelate – Sweet music (Nostrum remix)
- Télépopmusik – Breathe
- Underworld – Rez
- Universal Heads – Humana
- Utah Saints – Highlander (CJ Bolland remix)
- Van Basten – King of the death posture (Attack version)
- Vector Mode – Nightwalk
- Veracocha – Carte Blanche (remix)
- Vimana – Dreamtime, We came
- Vincent De Moor – Between 2 fires, Eternity, Shamu
- Wavegenerator – Mental
- Way Out West – Intensify (Sleepwalkers mix)
- X-Press 2 – London express
- Y – Sweaney G.O.D., Through some burning bush, Tightrope
- Yahel – Voyage
- Yves Deruyter – Feel free
- Z2 – I want you
Here are my latest findings…
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