Maybe I should have named this thread: "collecting classic Progressive & Tech House from +-1997 to +-2003", but some of the tracks made in these years are so beautiful that "little pieces of Heaven" fits much better.
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Before I will start I will tell some more about myself and this music (I will do a short version :p): I don't know why I love house music so much. I'm the oldest child in the family on both sides and when I was around 9 years old I never heared house music before. Nobody in my whole family played it and also my friends didn't knew about it. At that time I only listened to piano music from my mom and some tunes on the radio. But on one day I heard some Dance Department sounds on the radio and I was like: "W O W, what is this kind of music ?". It feld really like a new world was opened and I recorded it on my cassette deck. It was really like magic for me and I couldn't stop listening, it just took me and it felt a bit like "my real home" :D.
The time went on and later I saw some commercials of upcomming trancy/club/progressive albums here in Holland. My first cd was "The World Of Trance" and I have to say that I still like it. It has some really clubby tracks on it with those lovely trancy melodies, I would say, real progressive. I also took this cd to school on friday's (our music day), but everybody was like:" wtf is this, give us the top 40 back ?", and I didn't understand it at all. I mean, why don't people don't like this ? :(
When I was about 12 I was hooked up to ID&T radio everyday. They were broadcasting all the special events in Holland and upcomming artists had their own shows. I was recording the hell out of my radio that time and I enjoyed it a lot, but still nobody did (ever) understand why I liked house music so much.
When I was around 14 I got my first job. In the morning I delivered the newspapers in my neighbourhood. Offcourse I always got my headphones on. In that time I switched from casette to mini-disc and I recorded everyday a show from ID&T for the next morning. I also recorded gigs from other stations and I was going insane on my bike. Actually it was really funny, I was never been to a club or something but I could smell the people and the energie in the rooms when I pressed the play button. At the same time I also imagined all the lasers and light effects. Golden times for me. Sometimes I was spacing all day long, and even on school I had to smash myself sometimes to keep myself awake. Some years later the radio went more and more commercial and at the end I had to quit because I couldn't believe that my lovely ID&T had destroyed himself (I really could cry) !
When I was 16 I had the opportunity to go to some small clubs in town and I have to say that I couldn't wait. Finally there with my friends and warmed up with some of my older cd's and radio shows it just went wrong. It was the biggest disappointment in my whole life. I didn't smell the energie, there were no lasers and the music was fucked up. Damn that was a bad night. In the months after that event I didn't went out. I was searching on the internet for the music that brought me into this world to start over again. I mean, at that time I really crashed and it felt like my little world collapsed because everything I believed in felt fake. At the end I found Sasha and actually I refound my happiness with especially his Prvilige Ibiza set. I smelled the energie again and I have to say that I owe this man a lot. I was going insane again and loved music again. In the first years I went with the man, but later I digged him out and went back in time again to the years 1997-2003. I rediscovered the music I liked so much and it feld like being 9 again :D.
Nowadays I'm still a huge music lover. I'm mixing my own tracks a little and I'm reviewing some albums and EP's for a little Dutch site. I'm following more and more artists and enjoy reading interviews. Found out why my first club experience was so fucked up and also found out were I could find the "real party's" :D. It's a shame that my friends still don't like this kind of music and because of that I have to go on my own to most of the party's, but for me it's all about the music and I love it.
After all there's still that little piece in my heart that sometimes says: "nowadays is nice, but please give me those 1997-2003 tracks from heaven back". What I want to do in this thread is to collect as many progressive and tech-house tunes from heaven that are made around 1997 and 2003 so I can relife my first experience with house again when I want to and when I need to. I also think that there are a lot of people who will also like a back up thread like this because this kind of music is just wonderful. So please, open up your old record boxes and share your lovely tunes.
I will start to give a little direction:
Joost van Bellen - Let Me Take You (On A Journey)
[video=youtube;CB4yNt7qPHU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CB4yNt7qPHU&feature=player_embedded[/video]
Breeder - New York FM (Joost van Bellen remix)
[video=youtube;39NHR7CvJuM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39NHR7CvJuM&feature=player_embedded[/video]
MRE - The Deep Edge (part 2)
[video=youtube;EiEaz4oehpk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiEaz4oehpk[/video]
BT - Remember (BT's Blue Memory Dub)
[video=youtube;Ijnn4QEyg24]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ijnn4QEyg24&feature=player_embedded[/video]
(offcourse you can also share your own memories in this thread)