I didn’t know until Claps - My Love recently popped up in my YouTube feed.
It’s the Italian original, released a year later in the UK as Collapse.
Quite a different story walking into a record shop in England asking, “Have you got the Claps, my love?”
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I feel better now, years of shame… 
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anthem: (def) a rousing or uplifting song identified with a particular group, body, or cause
first heard drifting out of a car above a deserted beach in the west highlands of Scotland (Camusdarach for those that knows) on my birthday in March '89
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What a summer that was.
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Club Classics Vol 1 & 3ft High & Rising were/are summer '89 for me
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Yes! Did Lovesexy come out that year too?
Think that was '88, he did the Batman soundtrack that summer i think
I remember that Docco, the Tube had a hand in it I think.
Seeing Tim Westwood here takes me back. We all used to give him so much grief at all of the events he hosted or played at. He always seemed quite at ease with a hostile bunch of erberts screaming at him to f#ck off every time he opened his mouth. Never really got the all round respect that someone like Rodigan got.
I’m 41 and typically for all of my closest musical friends from back in the day I was the young one. I don’t remember not listening to hiphop. I took the Beasties “license to ill” to school in a shitty cassette Walkman in first grade (the year it came out) and my mom wrote my name on the tape so nobody could steal it. Still have it with the writing lol. Even the first house I can remember was just straight pop music: C+C Music Factory, Cece Peniston, Crystal Waters, KLF, etc. I got into underground music around 91 and it was mostly rock based including industrial and EBM type stuff though I didn’t even know to call it that. I resisted rave music (still do mostly lol) because it seemed so cheesy to me, this was around 93 when I was first in high school and the older kids who went to raves would play me some of this stuff. It wasn’t until late 95 that my gf’s brother taped me this CD:
This kinda brought together my love for punk’s energy but the vibe of hiphop R&B and dancehall that I loved. That’s when I started going to rave parties.
Still took until closer to 98 when I heard good house music, it was being played by “techno” DJs and was shit like Recloose, Rick Wade, Moodymann, etc. Also they were playing lots of detroit techno shit like Derrick May and good euro techno like Basic Channel. That’s what set me off down this path.
I got into electronic music via The Happy Mondays at about 10 or 11 years old. Me and my dad were at my Uncle’s house and he was showing my dad a video of a Happy Monday’s concert. They were kind of taking the piss at how bad it was, Ryder’s singing, how fucked up they looked (At 11 I just thought they were drunk) etc… but I was mesmerised by this for some reason and later that afternoon decided to go to Woolworths and buy a Monday’s record which turned out to be the club mix of Hallelujah. From that point forward I was buying anything with that type of sound that were crossing over into the charts, things like Tricky Disco, Adamski, 808 State, Technotronic. It wasn’t until maybe a year or 2 later that an older cousin introduced me to some rave tapes, I think the 1st one I ever heard was by Grooverider and the 1st one I bought on my own was definitely by Carl Cox.
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I remember the kid I used to sit next to in history pulling out the 3ft high and rising and foxbase alpha cassettes and playing them on his Walkman. One of those epiphany moments.
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I remember going abroad on holiday for the first time when i was 14 in the summer of '89, it was with all the other scally kids from our local youth club ,we travelled by coach & boat from Manchester to just outside Barcelona, my older cousin who was at university down South ( the first member of the family to go to Uni, the pride of the family) came along because he was helping out as one of the Youth workers, he brought along his Walkman & a copy of 3ft High & Rising, i’d never heard of the album or the group at the time.
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Loving those stories.
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I know right, sadly feeling v old as a consequence!
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For me it was ‘Tony Prince’s Disco Mix Club’ on Radio Luxembourg and ‘Mike Allen’s Hip Hop Show on Capitol’. Three records that made me sit up and go ‘WTF’ from that time:
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All those electro albums a mate used to get sent from USA by a relative and I remember the Adonis 12" arrived in one package and that was our first intro to House. I somehow still have the 12" and Sugar Hill Gang comp that nobody wanted…
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I must have missed this post first time around.
My parents weren’t particularly musical. Or cool for that matter, but in 1990 when I was 10 years old, they bought me this comp which I became totally obsessed with.
This would have been my first entry into dance music. I was hooked. I’d seen illegal raves on the news, and I remember thinking how cool they were. Not just the music, but the whole rebellion of it all. Unfortunately at 10 years old, I was too young to experience any of this music outside of my bedroom.
I didn’t have a cool older sibling or anyone else who could introduce me to deeper parts of the music, so I just hoovered up absolutely everything I could from the media of the time. Prodigy - Experience and The Shamen - Boss Drum were big albums for me.
When I got to high school, it was all that mid 90s Scottish rave music, Ultrasonic, Marc Smith, Bass Generator etc. I just embraced it all and never looked back. Got my first set of turntables in 96 and the rest is history.
My first ‘Walkman’ wasn’t a Sony. It was a Bush! And I didn’t use it for music. I used it to listen to audio books from the library!!
Extended BASS System though! 
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This one for me too.
Aged 15, Daryl Pandy on Top of the Pops doing Love Can’t Turn Around then Jack Your Body getting to No1 then the House Sound of Chicago comp which I copied on tape from a class mate whose older brother had it on vinyl. From then on I was obsessed with Chicago House and used all my pocket money to buy imports from Jumbo Records. Plus Beastie Boys, Public Enemy, Schoolly D (got into all these before I was even 16). House Hallucinates, Techno!, and the BCM History of House boxset etc etc.
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Apparently the guy who designed the Walkman specified two headphone jacks because he thought music should always be for sharing. (Where’s the Bluetooth equivalent?)
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