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Urban75 Album of the Year 1993

Elpenor said:
This is a compilation so not eligible but I remember buying this on cassette from Boots.

Quite a lot of cheesy dance music on it but some bona fide crackers; I liked it when I was 12. Anyway not eligible!

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Various - The Best Of Dance 93

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Not a patch in the previous year's "Rave '92" though, sadly :p
Various - Rave 92 - 24 Massive Rave Hits Of The Year
 
Speaking of Uk hiphop I bought the Irish/Brit Marxman album 33 Revolutions per Minute that was released that year . A brave attempt at tackling issues of racism, colonialism and domestic violence, their single Sad Affair was banned by the BBC for including a line that had "tiocfaidh ár lá" in it.


 
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I'll mention this album ( mainly as its raining and I'm delaying doing the washing up) - Little Axe's Never Turn Back although tbf it was a Japan only release in 1993 and came out in 1994 to the rest of the world as The Wolf That House Built

 
I got a copy of this back in 1993 and had forgotten all about it till I saw it mentioned on the RYM 1993 lists.
I should of paid more attention to it as it's not bad, sort of Laurie Anderson type spoken word with Jah Wobble basslines. Later rereleased under her proper name, Leslie Winer.
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© - Witch

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Also liking the Insides - Euphoria album
 
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Indeliblelink said:
The Blade album, "The Lion Goes From Strength To Strength" is worth a spin too.
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Blade - The Lion Goes From Strength To Strength

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I helped finance that album.

He did it totally DIY, getting people to pay for it in advanced and then posted it out to them once he'd recorded and pressed it. Pre-internet crowdfunding.

I was at New Cross Station after some gig or something (might've been after a Deptford Free Festival - my memory is hazy, because I'd been to a gig or something) and he came up to me, explained his project, seemed like a genuine bloke, took £10 for the album + £2 p&p, wrote my name and address on a scrap of paper with loads of other names & addresses and some time later the album turned up.

I think I sold it in my big 'I'm skint & unemployed' vinyl clear out 20 years ago. Another one I regret selling 😪
 
Of the three Now albums released in 1993, I'd say Now 26 was the best. I'm not quite sure why Relax is on there (a re-release?), but it's also got Boom Shake the Room, Creep (Radiohead, not TLC), Anything for Love, Open Up and Pray.
 
stavros said:
Of the three Now albums released in 1993, I'd say Now 26 was the best. I'm not quite sure why Relax is on there (a re-release?), but it's also got Boom Shake the Room, Creep (Radiohead, not TLC), Anything for Love, Open Up and Pray.
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My first Now. Some corkers on there you didn’t mention:

Go West by the Pet Shop Boys, Comin On by The Shamen, What is Love by Haddaway, Mr Vain by Culture Beat and Feels Like Heaven by the Urban Cookie Collective
 
Elpenor said:
Mr Vain by Culture Beat
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RIP Torsten Fenslau, the man behind Culture Beat, who died in a car crash on 6th November 1993. A pioneering DJ/producer, a central figure in the Frankfurt sound, as happy putting out underground house/techno/trance on his Abfhart label as he was bothering the charts with euro-dance. Often found behind the decks at the legendary Dorian Gray club at Frankfurt Main airport, tag teaming with with Carlos Peron. Died too soon :(
 
I went to the Whirl-Y-Gig once in 1993. Far too polite for me, with kids running around, cups of tea, pseudo-hippies everywhere and the slightly cringe parachute at the end around midnight.

But 1993 was the year of ethno-dance.

The biggest album was Transglobal Underground's Dream of 100 Nations. There's a good album in there somewhere if The Worst Rapper In The World could've just shut the fuck up.

Better was the Global Sweatbox Remix album, with mixes from Sabres Of Paradise, Adrian Sherwood, Jah Wobble and Fabio Paras.

Speaking of Fabio Paras, his Soundclash Republic put out The Birth of Shiva Shanti, which is perhaps closer to progressive house but is squarely in the scene and is actually great.

Coming from a different angle is Culture Clash, where some Bhangra artists turned to house/trance, creating a great fusion of the sounds. Maybe it's nostalgia, but I still love this.

But even as the ethno-dance sound was taking off, something was brewing in 93; something that would blow those pseudo-hippies' minds. Within a year Goa trance would be all most of the scene would care about.
 
hah thats a funny memory, i went once mustve bee around 93 too i think...was at shoreditch town hall....a friend took me...she loved it...my memory was just sitting on a chair all night at the side with a balloon attached like being at a shit kids birthday party and not knowing anyone :D must've stayed till the end as i remember the parachute. Wasnt for me

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it looks better than i remember in my mind...id probalby be better able to appreciate it now tbh
i guess acid is what youre meant to take for the parachute to be any good

got any jungle in guy?
 
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I went only once. All I remember is that I took an E and it had the bizarre effect of making me unable to have a wee. I spent all evening repeatedly going to the loo with no luck. I was fucking dying for a wee and it was all I could think about all night. I was panicking thinking I might never piss again. And then there was the parachute.....
 
Spandex said:
RIP Torsten Fenslau, the man behind Culture Beat, who died in a car crash on 6th November 1993. A pioneering DJ/producer, a central figure in the Frankfurt sound, as happy putting out underground house/techno/trance on his Abfhart label as he was bothering the charts with euro-dance. Often found behind the decks at the legendary Dorian Gray club at Frankfurt Main airport, tag teaming with with Carlos Peron. Died too soon :(
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Just 3 months after hitting UK No 1. Definitely gone far too soon.

I was too young to understand music really in 1993 but I’ll see what I can find on Spotify of his more sophisticated stuff that you’ve flagged.

I remember a kid at school (later on he became an economic advisor to George Osborne) singing “I know what I want and I want it now, I want you, cos I’m mr vain” before a lesson and everyone taking the piss out of him.
 
I'm still not sure if this is the worst album of 1993**, but it definitely has one of the best titles :)



** j/k it's a chaotic masterpiece really
 
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