Dear Fellow Dance Music Lovers,
This blog brings you the best in Dance Music and Club Classics; from early 87 (back in the daze) through to the present day.
For all those who rocked it all night until the early hours, to those that lived for clubbing and couldn't wait for the weekend to arrive. Enjoy and leave any comments on the blog or contact direct by email at pureclubclassics@live.co.uk
The one thing that always inspires me to continue posting on the PCC blog is coming across old favourites which really should have been posted a long time ago due to their PCC status, but for whatever reason have been overlooked, forgotten about or on the odd occasions gems I've never heard before.
This one falls into the old classics I'd forgotten about and is a cracking track laden with piano.
Z Factor are another alias of the omnipresent Joey Negro aka Dave Lee.
Another cracking track from Incognito with two very fine remixes.
Baby I love everything that you do.....for me!
This T-empo remix is excellent and a lot more housey than their customary epic remixes, it is nonetheless top notch and right up there with the high standard they set.
IMHO it outshines the S-Man remix which is also very good (as per usual).
Incognito were one of those music acts which were a bit dull for my tastes, but came alive when remixed effectively as Roger S has done on several of their tracks.
Another huge banger of a remix from my all time fave dance duo, the legends that were Chris and James.
One of the great perks of running this blog back int' day was "meeting" them through it and having their contribution and input.
This is in their traditional remix vane, just an absolute banger with lots of great piano and so much uplifting energy.
Chris and James made some amazing, amazing tracks many of which are posted on the PCC blog.
It always saddens me that they not truly got the acclaim their musical genius deserved.
However, they can bask in the glory that their tracks and utterly timeless and still sound amazing to this very day.
Hats off to you chaps!
I'll be giving you my body and my soul!
P.S. If you've never checked out their Essential Mix from 1994 (of course it's on the PCC blog - it still remains as the greatest mix set of all time IMHO.
Now this one rips and steals from everywhere, particularly The 49ers Touch Me, which stole from Aretha Franklin's "Rock-A-Lott". I could go on but I might be here all day there are that many samples in here.
Still that was the way it was in 1991 and is no different today.
That aside, this is still a cracking old skool track, definitely a little dated now, but still a little cracker!
It's been a while since I've posted a Frankie remix.
Boy the legend produced some fantastic tracks, this is another sensational remix right up there with his best stuff (but to be honest everything he ever touched was golden).
Love everything about this track, great vocals, great vibe, great feel and of course Frankie's sensational piano sprinkled in aplenty.
It's been a while since I posted some trance and to be honest I need to post some more as there are still so many epic tracks from the late 90's which are worthy of PCC status.
This is a delightful track with some fantastic complimentary male and female vocals.
Feeling this way, makes me feel like falling!
Laura Hallet's vocals are angelic, why wasn't she on more tracks?
Or maybe she was under an alias (sounds very much like Maria Nayler)?
I quite often slag off the (poor) quality of many of todays supposed top dance tracks as many are pretty poor and just constantly ripping off and regurgitating old classics from back int'day.
However, it always great to hear new tracks which just take my breath away.
This is one such track.
It has a pretty slow build up and although good it's just doesn't reveal what's about to come next; an absolutely sensational piano break down which is just heaven.
His remix work is always so perfect, bringing the best out of the artist and lengthening the track in all the rights places to just simply prolong the enjoyment.
I really miss the use of "proper instruments" on current tracks and this one has some great musical production.
A stone cold classic and much better than the Pasadena's cover.
Blue Amazon were pretty amazing and everything that touched was just supreme.
This is right up their with some of their best.
Strap yourselves in it's an epic 15 minute journey, but one that keeps you fully engrossed throughout.
Layers and layers of superb progressive house at it's very finest and building and building until that heavenly peak with those delightful piano chords and the helicopter/chopper blades sound effects.
Just so chilled and with those heavenly chimes, it just puts you in another place.
This has featured on many Balearic albums and rightly so, as it epitomises that Cafe Del Mar scene.
I've also included a more recent Charles Shillings remix, which is pretty good and very similar just a little bit faster and punchier, but still containing the great aura of the original.
When I hear this track I instantly think of the Chris & James Essential Mix session which they did live on Radio 1 back in 1994.
It is still to this day the best DJ mix set I have ever heard and still sounds brilliant almost 30 years later.
It was posted on the PCC blog many moons ago, so make sure you check it out if you've not heard it.
By hook or by crook most of the tracks from that mix set have managed to make their way onto the PCC blog, just because they were all pretty amazing.
This is probably a lesser know one, but fabulous all the same.
It's a great track by the notorious Annabella Lwin, possibly most famous for posing naked on a Bow Wow Wow album cover as a 14 year old back in 1982. (It certainly wouldn't happen nowadays folks!).
The track is ballsy and contains lots of sex chants, underpinned by a really hypnotic groove.
It's a really great and unique track, typical of the Chris & James ear for obscure gems.
I wasn't quite sure what to make of this when I first came across it, as the Portishead version is so iconic and such as classic.
However, as with pretty much everything they touch Heaven 7th have done a great job and kept true to the original whilst adding a bit of extra fizz and their customary dance/crossover vibe.
Maybe not one for the purists, but I can guarantee that this would rock dancefloors if dropped at the right time.
It starts with a chuggy laid back vibe and then in true TE form it kicks up to a pounding, throbbing beast. Then bid tempo is drops back to the slow laid back vibe, only to ratchet up again.
It owes a lot to U2's - Where The Streets Have No Names and uses that riff very well.
All in all a cracking track which keeps you fully engrossed from start to finish.