Dancefloors of Yester-year

Exploring, appreciating and re-discovering classic dance music, from disco onwards.

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Remember: Club Classics #4

Do you Remember... when club music has actual MUSICALITY?! here's another batch of 90s club hits that will remind you of what Saturday night used to sound like! ** ALL of these songs reached #1 on the Billboard Club play charts. CeCe Peniston, Crystal Waters, todd Terry, Kenny Dope, Annie Lennox, Aretha Franklin, Robert Owens and more!

#RunningPlaylist  -- CLUB CLASSICS #4

i’m starting running again, training for a 10K...  i want to share some of my mixes with you all out there who might be looking for some good workout/running music as the weather gets warmer

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Tony Humphries - This is the Sound of Tribal UK Volume 2

Classic 90s House mix from Tony Humphries highlighting the TRIBAL UK Label, featuring Deep Dish, Danny Tenaglia, Suzanne Palmer, Murk, Junior Vasquez and more!

Classic 90s House mix from Tony Humphries!

Download the mix here

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how do I DL the mix?

Which mix are you referring to? Mixcloud doesn't allow DLs, but I have posted links to download some of the classic DJ mixes features in my feed here

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Can't Play Around - 80s Dance Classics

this is a short and eclectic mix of 80s dance classics -- starting in 1987 with a Joyce Sims remix by C & C Music Factory, we head back in time through some Tee Scott and Larry Levan remixes, with electro, boogie and disco moods all the way through.

Late 80s vs Early 80s -- Jody Watley, Joyce Sims, Lacy, Paul Simpson, Tee Scott ... 80s dance classics!

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Feel the Classics #30 - Original NYC House

SERIOUSLY DEEP CLASSICS!! A flashback to the ultimate sounds of NYC House: gritty beats, lush synths and keys and soulful vocals. Featuring some legendary house music ARTISTS : Boyd Jarvis, Basement Boys, Frankie Knuckles, Colonel Abrams, Blaze and more!

the ultimate taste of the NYC House sound from the 80s -- tho we technically start in 1991 with Frankie Knuckles, we go deep into the synthy, electro and soulful 80s with Colonel Abrams, Boyd jarvis, The Basement Boys, Rockers Revenge and Sastoshi Tomiie.  it’s the unmistakable sounds heard at the Paradise Garage and Zanzibar, and on WBLS and KISS mastermixes -- gritty and edgy beats, balanced with lush keyboards and synths and soulful vocals.

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Whitney Houston was #1 on the Billboard Dance Club charts this week in 1993-- here’s the C & C Music Factory Dub .  fantastic production and remix work!

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New York House N' Authority - the Village (1990)

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Robert Owens - I’ll Be Your Friend (1992)

Produced by David Morales, this club classic hit #1 on  the billboard club charts the first week of 1992.

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S.O.U.L. S.Y.S.T.E.M. ft Michelle Visage - Its Gonna Be a Lovely day (Palladium House Anthem I)

#1 on the Billboard Dance charts during the first week of January in 1993 .. an ol skool classic!

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Following up on my previous post, here’s a 90s house classic from Kechia Jenkins– Going through the motions" released on Street Style records, a short-lived subsidiary of Easy Street records

. Written and produced by Blaze

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Kechia Jenkins - Still Waiting (1989) Dance classic from profile records.. notable for Danny Krivit's mixes on side 2, which happen to feature the keyboard work on Mac Quayle. Kenny Bobien also has a songwriting credit. Solid groove right here!

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Pam Todd- let's get together Classic disco track here-- makes me smile!

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First Choice - Love Thang (Tee Scott mix)  (1979)

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Vivan Lee - Music is So Wonderful (Wonderdub)

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King Britt live in Providence RI , 2006 at the Sound Session festival at Providence Black Rep

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Groove Patrol- lost in a groove (1992)