- Future Sound of London - Papua New Guinea (Break Trance) (1992)
- For me, it doesn't get any better than this. When the bass kicks in, I melt.
- Papua New Guinea
- Hardfloor - Acperience 1 (Acid) (1993)
- This was one of the first techno albums I ever heard, and it's still probably my favourite. Crazy Germans and their 303's
- Acperience
- Orbital - Halcyon + on + on (Trance) (1992)
- Orbital is a pair of brothers. I think their mother took the drug Halcyon or something, hence the name of the song. It's beautiful and hypnotic.
- Halcyon
- Age of Love - Age of Love (Watch of for Stella Mix) (Trance) (1992)
- Sexy track. Brilliant for the time. Well, still blows me away.
- Age of Love
- Quench - Dreams (Trance) (1994)
- The extended version is also much more effective than the one everyone knows. It does everything a trance song should do.
- Dreams
- Li Kwan - Point Zero (1994)
- How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
- Point Zero
- Nexus 6 - Ab Chic (Acrid Abeyance Mix) (Hard Acid) (1994)
- Pretty hard grinding track, with an awesome buildup. These guys know what to do with a 303.
- Nexus 6
- Pump Panel - Ego Acid (Hard Acid) (1995)
- I love Pump Panel. It's Tim Taylor and another guy. This is such a fun and bouncy track. It makes me happy.
- Ego Acid
- Union Jack - Red Herring (Trance) (1995)
- Beautiful pulsating track making great use out of the phaser. The 303 plays a big part too.
- Red Herring
- Dj Misjah & Dj Tim - Access (Hard Acid) (1996)
- Hard grinding acid trance just the way I like it. One of the best rushes ever. Sounds kind of train-like.
- Access
- Poltergeist - Vicious Circles (Union Jack Rmx)(Hard Trance) (1993)
- Definitely one the hits from back in the day. This track apparently made someone "lose it." Psychedelic drugs may or may not have been invloved. This is taken from Discogs, "One of those tunes that still never fails to raise a smile. This is an immense track from beginning to end. The dark, stabbing, minimal beginning builds to a first breakdown and then make sure you've got reinforced party pants on because it's bouncy gurning idiocy all the way." I thought it was a good summary.
- Vicious Circles
- Marco Polo - A Prayer to the Music (Bedrock Mix) (House/Trance) (1995)
- This song is quite hard to find. Not acid at all, but probably this longest rush of any track I know, but well worth it if you make it to the end.
- A Prayer to the Music
- Underworld - Rez (Trance/House) (1994)
- One of the lesser known Underworld tracks, but it's my favourite. It was a single release. Nothing is better than listening to this at a sweaty rave with the sun coming up.
- Rez
- Public Energy - Three O' Three (Hard Acid) (1992)
- This is Jochem Paap, aka Speedy J. I would consider this the minimal, bare bones of acid. It's great and funky and hard as hell.
- Three O Three
- Sourmash - Pilgrimage to Paradise (Hardfloor Mix) (Trance) (1993)
- This Hardfloor mix is better than the original, only because the original sounds incredibly dated. Original vocal sounds make this track stand out.
- Pilgrimage to Paradise
- Jones & Stephenson - the First Rebirth (Hard Trance) (1994)
- NOT the crap Trance Allstars ripoff. This song made me cry once. It starts so simple, and builds to a masterpiece.
- First Rebirth
- Atlantic Ocean - Waterfall (Ravey Trance) (1993)
- Fun old track with a memorable hook. This will make anyone happy.
- Waterfall
- Rabbit in the Moon - Out of Body Experience (Trance) (1994)
- Sends chills down my spine.
- Out of Body Experience
- Underworld - Cowgirl (Trance/House) (1994)
- Everything, Everything, Everything. So original, and so great.
- Cowgirl
- Jonny L - Ooh I like It (Rave) (1993)
- I love this fun track. Too bad Jonny L started making Drum and Bass.
- Ooh I Like it
- Robert Armani - Circus Bells (Hardfloor Mix)(Hard Acid) (1996)
- The hook will stick in your head for awhile, but that's the point. Hardfloor is so bouncy and fun.
- Circus Bells
- Drax II (Trope) - Amphetamine (Trance) (1994)
- I first heard this track on a compilation called 5000 Ohms. It's exciting, emotional trance.
- Amphetamine
- Mory Kante - Yeke Yeke (Hardfloor Mix)(Acid) (1994)
- Another classic Hardfloor mix. This song will make you happy, I guarantee it.
- Yeke Yeke
- Chemical Brothers - Chemical Beats (Acid Breaks) (1995)
- So funky. I like this better than Higher State of Consciousness
- Chemical Beats
- Tori Amos - Professional Widow (Armand's Star Trunk Funkin' Mix) (1995)
- Makes me want to dance. I love this song.
- Professional Widow
- Eat Static - Gulf Breeze (1994)
- AWESOME old trance. Not very well known.
- Gulf Breeze
- Orbital - Chime (Trance) (1990)
- Holy crap this is old. How do you define Orbital? Nothing else is like them.
- Chime
- The Ethics - To the Beat of the Drum (La Luna) (House) (1995)
- To the Beat of the Drum
- Nikolai - Ready to Flow (Trance) (1994)
- Ready to Flow
- Paragliders - Paraglide (Trance) (1994)
- Most of the Paragliders tracks sound similar, with flowing, carefree melodies.
- Paraglide
- Bucketheads - The Bomb (House) (1995)
- The Bomb
- Aphex Twin - Pulsewidth (Ambient) (1993)
- Kind of a creepy song, but isn't all Aphex Twin kind of creepy? Good to chill out to.
- Pulsewidth
- Drum Club - Sound System (Underworld Mix)(Trance) (1993)
- I usually am not a fan of vocals, but this one is great. Relaxing track.
- Soundsystem
- Vapourspace-Gravitational Arch of 10 (Ambient) (1993)
- VERY long intro, but well worth it. Vapourspace is Canadian, on Plus 8 records (Richie Hawtins Label)
- Gravitational
- Moby - Move (Rave) (1993)
- This is Moby when he wasn't ashamed of making techno.
- Move
- Leftfield - Space Shanty (Trancey House) (1995)
- Off of the "Leftism" album. This track makes you feel like you're a jet fighter or something, hehe.
- Space Shanty
- Orb - Little Fluffy Clouds (Ambient) (1990)
- I love the Orb. This track has a spoken word sample. I love the way the Orb adds little sounds here in there just to freak you out.
- Little Fluffy Clouds
- The Visions of Shiva - Perfect Day (Trance) (1992)
- A collaboration between Paul Van Dyk and Cosmic Baby.
- Perfect Day
- Altern 8 - Everybody (2 Bad Mice Remix) (Rave) (1993)
- My favourite Altern8 track. The vocals are so cute. Makes me think of gas masks and glowsticks, and ravers with A's on their shirts.
- Everybody
- C.J. Bolland - Sugar is Sweeter (House) (1996)
- I always connect this song with Professional Widow, probably becasue they came out around the same time.
- Sugar is Sweeter
- Cosmic Baby - Fantasia (Celestial Harmonies)(Trance) (1994)
- One of the first records I bought. The beautiful piano part doesn't come in until 5:30. Whoever said Robert Miles was the first to use pianos in trance, obviously never heard this.
- Fantasia (Celestial Harmonies)
- Dj Misjah & Groovehead - X-Pact (Hard Acid) (1995)
- This track has a great vocal sample that goes, "deeper inside myself." Like most Misjah stuff it's very hard acid. Really good, my 2nd favourite after Access.
- Moby - Go (Rave) (1992)
- see above
- Go
- Juno Reactor - Conga Fury (Goa) (1996)
- I'm not a huge fan of goa, but this one I love. It's very tribal sounding.
- Conga Fury
- Josh Wink - Higher State of Consciousness (Acid Breaks) (1995)
- Different funkier use of the 303 than many other tracks. If you don't know this song, you don't know much, do you.
- Higher State of Consciousness
- Hardfloor - Kangaroos and Bubbles (Acid) (1995)
- A great track from their "Respect" album. That album has fun track titles like "Mustard Pancakes." This is the last Hardfloor album I like, after that they went seriously downhill. I guess you can only be the masters of acid for so long.
- Kangaroos and Bubbles
- Dj Misjah & Dj Tim - Purple Road (Hard Acid) (1995)
- A less aggressive acid track, with a hypnotic sort of melody.
- Purple Road
- Green Velvet - Flash (Techno, House) (1995)
- This track has a vocal of some guy talking about kids doing drugs. You either love or hate this track.
- Flash
- Orb - Perpetual Dawn (Ambient) (1992)
- Groovy Orb track
- Perpetual Dawn
- Dave Clarke - Red 1 (Techno) (1994)
- Dave Clarke is one of the techno innovators. This album is a must have for anyone into techno of any sort. No melody in these tracks, just superb techno, which is also danceable.
- Red 1
- Bump - House Stompin' (Big Bump Mix)(House) (1994)
- Review from Discogs (better than what I could write)-"As the title tells us this one's a massive House stomper with a lot of saxophone, female vocals which received massive support by the NY Sound Factory DJs back in 1994. Especially Junior Vasquez pushed this tune." Can also be found on the Sasha/Digweed Renaissance Mix.
- House Stompin
- Beyond - Silver (Trance) (1993)
- A female vocal samples dominates this track. A minimal trance song.
- Silver
- Luxor - the Big Bang (Hard Trance) (1993)
- This song does it for me. Hands down, a perfect trance song.
- Big Bang
- Pete Lazonby - Sacred Cycles (Trance) (1994)
- Starts off with an Indian sounding man discussing life. Takes a long time to get going, but builds up to great trance.
- Sacred Cycles
- Lil Mo' Yin Yang - Reach (House) (1996)
- Another old housey track with a female vocal sample I like. Not sure what she's saying, which is the way I like it. Distorted vocal samples are what I prefer.
- Reach
- Marmion - Schoneberg (Trance) (1996)
- Schoneberg
- Dave Clarke - Wisdom to the Wise (Techno) (1994)
- A funky track. One of the more underrated on the album
- Snitzer & McCoy vs. Humate - Oh My Darling, I Love You (Hard Acid) (1997! oops)
- Great acid line, with an even better melody layered over top. The bass line is taken from BTO.
- Oh My Darling I Love You
- Pizzaman - Trippin on Sunshine (House) (1994)
- This is Norman Cook, aka Fat Boy Slim.
- Trippin' On Sunshine
- CLS - Can You Feel It (Rave) (1992)
- Definitely a rave classic.
- Can You Feel It
- Baby Doc & the Dentist - Catalan Rising/Catalan Dawn (Trance) 1994)
- Catalan Rising
- Elevator - Shinny (House/Trance) (1994)
- Shinny
- Clanger - Sea Dog (Trance) (1994)
- I really like the vocal sample in this track, which occurs over half way through.
- Seadog
- CJ Bolland -(Ravesignal III) - Horsepower (Techno) (1992)
- Horsepower
- Acen - Window in the Sky (Rave) (1993)
- Window in the Sky
- Messiah - Thunderdome (Rave) (1993)
- Thunderdome
- Wippenberg - Neurodancer (Hard Trance) (1995)
- Neurodancer
- Baby Doc & the Dentist - Tales of the Seraphim (Hard Trance) (1995)
- A seraph (Hebrew ????, plural ?????? Seraphim) is one of a class of celestial beings mentioned once in the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh or Old Testament), in Isaiah. Later Jewish imagery perceived them as having human form, and in that way they passed into the ranks of Christian angels. In the Christian angelic hierarchy, seraphim represent the highest known rank of angels.
- Tales of the Seraphim
- Adamski - Killer (Rave) (1990)
- Vocals by Seal.
- Killer
- Tempest - Salamander (Union Jack Rmx)(Trance) (1995)
- Tempest
- Capricorn - 20HZ (Rave) (1993)
- It sounds like a drum corps is coming at you.
- 20Hz
- Aphotheosis - O-Fortuna (Rave) (1991)
- From Discogs, (I should probably stop doing that), "the famous "O fortuna" track by Apotheosis..maybe one of my favorites of all times and lot of people love it also..it's so popular all over the world..we all know it was banned ...deleted out of the market because of the illegal use sample of the classical gospel music carmina burana originally writen and produced by carl off..this o fortuna track is just a piece of art . back in 1991 when i first heard it i was so impress of how smart techno house music can be ..this track is just amazing and is also a collectors item since is totally out of print and hard to find this days!!" Interesting!
- O Fortuna
- Deep Forest - Sweet Lullaby (Old Trance) (1992)
- Sweet Lullaby
- Union Jack - Cactus (Trance) (1994)
- Cactus
- Plastikman - Spastik (Techno) (1993)
- This cd cover is a sheet of LSD (not real of course). The album is called "Sheet One."
- Spastik
- Paul Van Dyk - My World (Trance) (1995)
- My World
- Faithless - Insomnia (House?) (1996)
- Insomnia
- Acen - Close Your Eyes (Rave) (1992)
- Close Your Eyes
- Faithless - Salva Mea (Housey Trance) (1997)
- Salva Mea
- Dj Misjah & Groovehead - Acid Energy (Hard Acid) (1995)
- More hard acid from these guys. I own a lot of Misjah stuff. My favourite genre is hard acid. (Really? I never would have guessed from all the hard acid tracks on this list.)
- Acid Energy
- Blue Alphabet-Cybertrance (Trance) (1994)
- Cybertrance
- Utah Saints-Something Good (Rave) (1993)
- This is kind of a rave cross-over type of song. It was on the popular top ten charts.
- Messiah - Temple of Dreams (Hardcore) (1992)
- Contains a sample from the movie, "the Running Man."
- Temple of Dreams
- Utah Saints - What Can You Do For Me (Rave) (1991)
- What can you do for me
- This Chemical Life - Wired (Acid Trance) (1996)
- This song is not very well known. I can't find it on mp3, I only have it on vinyl. It's really good, I don't know why it's not more popular.
- Orbital - Lush 3-1 (Trance) (1993)
- Orbital are really in a class all their own.
- Lush 3-1
- Moby - Thousand (Trance) (1993)
- This song held the record for the fastest BPM's. I don't know if it still holds that title.
- Thousand
- The Prodigy - Everybody in the Place (Rave) (1991)
- Everybody in the Place
- Underworld - Mmm Skyscraper I Love You (Trance) 1993)
- Mmm Skycraper I Love You
- Humate - Love Stimulation (Paul Van Dyk mix) (Trance) (1993)
- Love Stimulation
- Banco De Gaia - Heliopolis (Trance) (1994)
- Heliopolis
- Balil - Parasight (Trance) (1993)
- Parasight
- Blunted Dummies - House for All (House) (1993)
- A classic release from the Plus 8 offshoot Definitive label.
- House for All
- JX - Son of a Gun (House) (1994)
- Son of a Gun
- The Prodigy - Charly (Rave) (1991)
- Charly
- Emmanuel Top - Turkish Bazaar (Trance) (1994)
- "The music was new black polished chrome And came over the summer like liquid night."-Jim Morrison
- Turkish Bazaar
- Armand Van Helden - Funk Phenomena (House) (1996)
- Funk Phenomena
- Gusto - Disco's Revenge (House) (1996)
- Gusto
- Union Jack - Two Full Moons and a Trout (Trance) (1993)
- Preceded Red Herring. It was one of my favourite trance songs, until I heard Red Herring.
- Underworld - Dark and Long (Dark Train) (Trance) (1994)
- Hypnotic and dark. I first heard it on a tape I bought in New York, lying in bed in a seedy hotel. Good times! It is used very effectively in the movie "Trainspotting" when Renton is coming off of Heroin.
- Dark Train
- Art of Trance - Orange (Trance) (1995)
- Octopus
- It's a Fine Day - Opus III (Trancey?) (1992)
- The vocal sample in FSOL's - Papua New Guinea is taken from this song.
- It's a Fine Day
- Art of Trance - Octopus (Trance) (1995)
- Paragliders - Bagdad (Humate Remix) (Trance) (1993)
- Mostly an Oliver Lieb solo project.
- Bagdad
- Bedrock - For What You Dream Of (House) (1993)
- Also in the movie "Trainspotting."
- For What You Dream Of
- Salt Tank - Eugina (Trance) (1996)
- Salt Tank
- Barbarella - My Name is Barbarella (Trance) (1992)
- Barbarella is a collaboration between Sven Vath and Ralph Hildenbeutel. Barbarella is a crazy old film starring Jane Fonda. Also where Duran Duran got their name.
- My name is Barbarella
- Odyssee Of Noises - Troya (Trance) (1994)
- See above. (plus some other guys)
- Troya
- Hallucinogen - LSD (Goa) (1996)
- LSD + Goa = Time well spent
- LSD
- Omni Trio - Renegade Snares (Hardcore/Jungle (1993)
- This doesn't really fit on the list, but it's the only jungle song I like, so I thought I would add it.
- Renegade Snares
- Katana - Erotmania (Trance) (1994)
- Hypnotizing track with an odd vocal sample, and bells, that you'll either love or find really annoying.
- Erotmania
- Me and Jack - Viva House (House) (1993)
- How can you not know and love this track? It is pure rave love.
- Viva House
- Caucassus - Our Dream (1994) (Trance)
- Our Dream
- Cygnus X - Superstring (1996) (Trance)
- Superstring
- X-Tracks - Plan '94 (The Voyage) (1994) (Trance)
- Plan '94
- Chicane - Offshore (1996) (Ibiza Trance)
- Jon the Dentist - Global Phases (1996) (Acid Trance)
- Global Phases
- Love Inc. - Trans Atlantis XS (1992) (Trance)
- Mike Ink is Love Inc.
- The Goodmen - Give it Up (1994?) (Tribal House)
- Speedy J - Pullover (1991) (Techno)
- Brainchild - Synfonica (1994) (Trance)
- Completely forgot about this one, my VERY bad.
- Astral Projection - Mahadeva (1995)
- Goa, goa, gone.
- Way Out West - The Gift (1995)
- DJ Rap - Divine Rhythm (1992)
