Oscillating tween trad Latin sounds like Mariachi to rap rock & metal influence this is Molotov from Mexico City.
I had their debut album in the car & used to drive to it quite a bit. Mix of diff styles kept things interesting in days of only 6disc CD changers all the way back in the boot of the car. This'll be later 90s. Fair warning their lyrics are often NSFW if you have any Spanish.
This song is such a pillar of the end 80s thru 90s Madchester scene but endured beyond it sort of doesn't quite entirely fit in to my brain that people may have never heard it.
If an urn of my ashes, are getting scattered in to the waves before everyone goes for a good session in the pub, this song should probably be playing on whatever the equivalent of bluetooth speaker is at that point.
Some really innovative music has come out of Bristol, especially in the 90s. The album Maxinquaye was an epicenter instigator for the TripHop scene. The video is nearly as hypnotic as the track.
The Madmax inspired music video is a good laugh & well worth a watch. I always find myself both thinking I'd take more of the DnB section, but also this '98 track was cleverly packaging Drum N Bass for people who hadn't tried it. Small enough bites to get used to the idea. Leave them wanting more.
Incidentally the Apollo 440 remix is great, but you'll miss the vid.
It's incredibly reductive to try & pick between the sheer amount of fantastic Dave Matthews Band tracks. Quite often they put together a lot of complex arrangements, syncopated rhythms, time signature & technical stuff going on in DMB, bit like many Sting tracks. DMB sounds great, it doesn't let the cleverness take over the listenability.
Crowd just swaying. Drinking in the notes, rhythm transfixed. They let you a moment's silence to breathe & there's this surge through the audience when they take it up again.
Playing the crowd as much as playing the instruments. So good live.
I may be risking the wrath of Stranglers fans but it made me think on to the Dub Pistols rework. 😂 I remembered this song as being a bit NSFW, before NSFW was a thing.
We were mostly flickering shapes in the dark dancing round a clearing in a forest with a genny for the sound rig & desk, and minimal lighting coming from a big fire pit, some scattered torches lighters & the night sky. Start of the 90s. Might be a bit on the nose to share Ebeneezer Goode, so here's...
Across all those different big nights out of the 90s. For me 1 track stands tall with a foot in all camps. You'd hear it in bars, in night clubs, in dance venues with techno heads suddenly going bouncing hiphop for a min, in house parties, in rock nights. It got play in every camp.
The Prodigy loved to provoke & break the rules. Banned from basically everywhere this (tougher to find now) music vid caused a huge stir when it was released.
A lot of fairly predictable types of people lined up to say this video marked the end of society.