Yeah, I had Nothing But You on single.
Generally though, this was actually probably an all-time low for dance music, part of the 2002-2004 era where all the stalwarts of '90s club culture began to seriously struggle (magazines shut, clubs closed, record labels went out of business, acts like Leftfield and Orbital called it a day) but none of the new '00s hotness (microhouse, Kompakt, minimal, dubstep) had really risen up to replace those stalwarts.
Those of us who started listening to EDM in this period are probably the most dislocated in history, because all the styles and sounds we were hooked in on were very rapidly discarded and derided before our tastes had chance to properly form. When we were ready for the standard '90s kid second tier of musical development (namely, prog) it was nowhere to be found, replaced instead by this weird bleepy bloop techno shit. While the '90s veterans could either move on ("yeah man, I always loved Spastik") or safely retreat into smug semi-retirement, with years of MDMA-blurred halcyon memories to sustain them, we were left with nothing but a feeling of confusion and loss. It seems no coincidence that many of those inducted between 2002-2004 seem inordinately interested in '90s dance music, with an ineffable sense of nostalgia for some golden era they never actually danced through.
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Mixes:
> Back To Deep [Deep Trippy House]
> Terra Nova [Modern Progressive Trance]
> Rough & Ready [Modern Trance]
>A Different Energy [Good Modern Trance]
> The Edale Mix [Panoramic Beats]
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