#90's dance

1990s Techno Playlist

One of the things that really stinks about Spotify is its complete lack of good electronic music. Now, they have gobs and gobs of EDM bile and gunk, and you can still find plenty of good electronic tunes on there, but you’re really not getting anywhere near a full picture if that’s where you go to find your electronic music.

But there’s two labels that they do have a lot of material from: Paris’ F Communications and the Netherlands’ Djax-Up-Beats. So that’s how I’m starting the first iteration of this 1990s techno playlist—with dank songs from those two labels, except for the opener, which comes from Warp Records’ landmark Artificial Intelligence compilation.

This playlist is ordered as chronologically as possible and links are provided below to songs that have been posted about previously in order to give them more context:

Musicology - “Preminition” Deepside - “Prelusion” Ron Trent - “Altered States (Remixed By Carl Craig)” Deepside - “French” Scan X - “Yantra (Open Mix)” Robert Armani - “Ambulance (Remixed By Armando)” Robert Armani - “Invasion (Remixed By Spasms)” Purple Plejade - “Blanche” Juantrip’ - “Louis’ Cry” Laurent Garnier - “Astral Dreams (Headphones Mix)” Lady B - “The Groove Is Going” Glenn Underground - “The Unborn” Taho - “2019″ Mike Dearborn - “Razorsharp”

But there’s even more F Communications and Djax-Up-Beats stuff that’s on YouTube and not on Spotify! Plus, I added two back-to-back different versions of Underworld’s classic UK hit, “Born Slippy”: a remix by close Underworld associate, Darren Price, and a version that appeared in a Fatboy Slim mix in which he mixed out into probably my favorite downtempo track of all time, “At the River” by Groove Armada. Also a sweet aquatic tune by Dave Angel, too, called “Artech.”

Alaska - “Lost In Alaska (The Eurotrancery Mix)” Feedback - “Heaven” Renegade Legion - “The Weeping Waste” Laurent Garnier - “Planet Sex (S&R In Psycho Sex On Planet Earth Mix)” Feedback - “Rainfall (Edit)” Dave Angel - “Artech” Choice - “Acid Eiffel (Live At Wake Up Paris)” Underworld - “Born Slippy (Darren Price Mix)” Underworld - “Born Slippy” [Fatboy Slim re-work] Chaotik Ramses - “Crying 202 (Live At The M.A.D. - Lausanne)” Scan X - “Futuristic Funk (Live At The Liquid Room - Tokyo)” Laurent Garnier - “Dance 2 The Music (Live At The Rex Club - Paris)”

Playlist is also on YouTube Music.

Scan X’s “Yantra (Open Mix),” the least techno of techno songs on this playlist, deserves special mention, too, for the sole reason that it might actually be the first piece of trap music ever made? It’s from 1993! Does anything else come even close to that 🤔?

I want to be able to go out comfortably as old times😔