90s Dance Hits

[Hitcore]

As someone who became a teenager in the mid 90s and always had a thing for music with a beefy beat, this was a golden age to starting to go out. There are so many legendary dance hits from this decade that instead of creating a ton of separate threads I'll just confine them in one nice thread.

Starting with a track that was an absolute hit:

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2 Unlimited, had many dance hits, but I'd say No Limit is by far their most iconic one, with its catchy tune and high energy bass. It was massively popular, especially in The Netherlands, as 2 Unlimited was based there. I remember everyone in my school just playing this all the time. And my sister had the CDs as well, which I taped it from for on my Walkman.



Oh boy, there's going to be a lot of nostalgia in this thread!

 

[Retro]

omg Hitcore, what have you started here?!

No Limit is really good, but my favourite is Get Ready for This from 1991! I've got a soundtracker version of it on the Acorn Archimedes that features a CGI stick figure dancing to it. It's in stereo, sounds fantastic and the whole thing fits on an 800K floppy disc!

This one is the right length, but sounds a bit different, better than the version I remember, in fact.

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And of course, here's the obligatory instrumental. It's an official one according to the video description, too.

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[Retro]

On No Limit at 3:06 you can see the legs of the cameraman in the reflection!

 

[Hitcore]

Get Ready For This is a classic! Wasn't this their first hit? Great to see it again. I forgot to mention in my opening post that everyone is encouraged of course to post their favorite 90s dance hits as well!

CGI stick figure on 800K floppy

I gotta see that, is that something you could post or link to?

On No Limit at 3:06 you can see the legs of the cameraman in the reflection!

Oh dear. I've seen this clip tons of times, but this I have never noticed. Now I will never unsee it!

 

[Retro]

Get Ready For This is a classic! Wasn't this their first hit? Great to see it again.

You're right, it was. This is their discography:

2 Unlimited discography - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

I gotta see that, is that something you could post or link to?

I've had a Google, but alas I can't find a video for it, I guess no one posted it as it's so obscure. I'd have loved to, but while I've still got the hardware, it's not going to be so easy to get it working tbh. Don't have the table space for a start and my Acorn A3000 (effectively a single piece A310 with a newer, debugged version of the chipset) is now 36 years old and may not even work. After all that, it's quite possible that the floppy disc has degraded in that time, too.

You're right though, you'd have loved it. Never say never.

Anyway, while I was Googling 2 Unlimited, I came across this gem, in instrumental form no less. Check it out.

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[Hitcore]

Never say never.

Bummer, but I understand completely. Indeed, who knows, maybe some day.

in instrumental form no less

Your favorite form! Awesome. To me the vocals are iconic, though. In particular Anita Doth's voice gives it that little extra groove, for me.

Twilight Zone is a good example of this. There is the radio version and the rap version. The radio version is basically just Anita:

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And the rap version is a whole lot of Ray:

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I'm definitely Team Anita.

And I suppose this one is for you then:

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(there's only a "do you feel aaaaaaallllright?!", the rest is fully instrumental).