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Nice read. I'm so glad I was born when I was. I dread to think what music I'd be into if I was born 5 years earlier..........long live dance music!!!

yeah me too.. 94-97 was the best years ever!!

wait till the next party drug comes.

Good Article but dont see why Jaxx are mentioned, they came a long time after The Prodigy / Big Beat etc... I guess with a new album out they tried to link them into a scene that had nothing to do with them historically

96 was by far the most defining year for dance music, that summer saw so many fuck-off releases with the likes of Leftfield, Prodigy, Underworld, Chems Orbital and not to mention all of the bigbeat anthems of that year.

Never again will I see Instrumental tracks like Block Rocking Beats at number 1 and being blasted out everywhere

I don't get it.

I know people that were born 5 years before me, and people that were born 5 years after me who are into all into the prodigy, chemical brothers, fatboy slim...etc...

interesting read, but it just seems like a nostalgia trip rather than a review

I was born in 93', so I guess I missed the best era of dance pretty much toddling around

Fucking hell I bought Wind It Up on tape with my pocket money the year you was born...

Ans so? :D I was born in 1992 when Experience was released

Im a 1987 baby

Think so too. Still, I'm absolutely happy with my birth-time, cos I grew up with the last moments of G'n'R, Mötley Crüe, Biohazard and all that jazz, and than one night when I was 12 or something, I heard this wiiiiccckkkked tune on the radio, unlike everyting I'd ever heard before. It was the most energetic, fast paced music I could imagine, full of energy and hectic beats, loaded with high pitched mickey mouse-vocals and fundamented with this real heavy swirling bass.
You all know what it was.

I still consider this my defining musical moment that set the waymarks right.
I also still love Mötley (been to their concert yesterday) and all this, but I for nothing in the world would swap this experience for something else - so yeah, for me it does matter pretty much when I was born.

10 years later I'd still be amazed of the Prodigys (older) music, but it wouldn't kick me as hard.
Prolly also cos I'd be contaminated by Neptunes and this kinda radio-crap already. 90's where a real good musical decade, but not popwise. 80's too were horrible, especially cloths-wise, but at least it was more musical.

Going too far again, sorry dudes. Boiled down to the core: My parents timed perfectly.