Anthems 90s

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Close your eyes and listen to that soaring melody, that soaring voice (Liam never sounded better) and try to forget what a dreadful load of shit they eventually became. Twenty years later, Swedes are still lurking in the shadows of pop music’s biggest hits, making this often-forgotten group one of the decade's most overlooked musical prophets. But ‘Soon’ (the climax of MBV’s one-of-a-kind album ‘Loveless’ ) was the glorious apex of the movement’s ‘sonic cathedral’: a seven-minute confection of breakbeats, blushing and blooming guitar tones and vocal coos sweet enough to hurt. Mixmag will use the information you provide to send you the Mixmag newsletter using Mailchimp as our marketing platform.

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Beck hit the scene with ‘Loser’, but he became the Beck we know with Odelay , a Dust Brothers-produced masterpiece of deep grooves, goofball prose and endless bleeps and blops. These artists include DJ Sneak, Boo Williams, Paul Johnson, Eats Everything, Latmun, The Advent and more.Welcome to the home of the Old Skool Anthems: a 5-piece live band, recreating the greatest dance-pop floor-fillers from the 90s and early 00s. Nirvana weren’t the only ’90s act to thumb their noses at the mainstream after releasing a breakthrough album. Bought this for my gym iPod - works a treat because the songs roll into one another with no silent breaks. No one before or since has done more to justify the gangsta rap lifestyle than Christopher Wallace, on the lead single to his immense debut album ‘Ready to Die’. Perhaps best known from its role in the bathroom club scene in the movie Basic Instinct, 'Blue' by Chicago artist William LaTour is a track that played a pivotal role in bringing dance-pop and new wave elements into early house sounds.

A great album, like a few other reviewers have said, there's a few not so good tracks, and the first two CDs are the best, but overall it's still an amazing and uplifting album.

Released on NYC label Strictly Rhythm in 1995 and recorded at his Ovum Sound Studios in Philadelphia, Josh Wink's hard house meets acidbreaks belter ' Higher State of Consciousness' came into the scene as an extraterrestrial invader and nearly blew the heads off of everyone. A cookie set by YouTube to measure bandwidth that determines whether the user gets the new or old player interface. Semi-Charmed Life’ is their biggest, most enduring hit, a song whose ear-worm bubblegum licks sugarcoat the fact that it’s a lurid tale of druggy malaise. M.’ is like a thesis statement for Wu’s entire philosophy, steeped in kung-fu geekery, RZA's game-changing beats, and the whiplash between Method Man’s smooth flow and ODB’s feral slurring.

It may not be your preferred tune while coming up on an acid trip, but none the less, it's a intensely minimal and well paced burn that builds from the bassline up with a sinister perfection.

The result in this case is a lazy, hazy, luscious slice of ambient hip hop – a stoner’s sonic paradise, if you will – that you could happily leave on repeat without getting bored. The opening track from ‘Ill Communication’ is as much a mission statement as it was a showcase of their playful, cocky, oddball musical prowess: Here was a hip-hop track steeped in feminism and bravado in equal measure, with an iconic flute loop ready to be embraced by hip-hoppers, grunge fans, riot grrls, punks and anyone else within earshot. Like the Seattle superstars on ‘In Utero’, Dorset’s very own Polly Jean Harvey turned to punk rock recording engineer Steve Albini (known for his raw, unvarnished sound) for her second album ‘Rid of Me’. Driven by Kathleen Hanna’s ferocious vocal and a buzzing synth line, ‘ Deceptacon ’ is its electrifying and very catchy highlight. They took a Macca ballad from 1980 about the dangerous sport of waterfall-jumping and totally transformed it into a heartrending urban drama with a killer chorus.