The Good Music Dance Collection, Volume 1

Description

The Good Music Dance Collection, Volume 1 is a multi-artist electronic dance music compilation released in Europe on Alliance Music in 1995. Featuring Hydro’s cover of “Beyond These Shores” by Iona, and Disco Saints’ covers Newsboy’s “Shine”, as well as Scott Blackwell’s remix of DC Talk’s cover of “Jesus Is Just Alright”.

Liner notes:

For far too long the idea of praise, worship and dance living side by side has been thought impossible – ungodly even. But dance has always been at the centre of human expression – just look at David, Miriam or Moses – and now, at last, the myth is being exploded.

Sanctified dance is one of the fastest growing slyles in Christian Music and, through bands like the World Wide Message Tribe and Re:Fresh, the genre is being used for more than just ‘Christian entertainment’ – in their experthands the sounds of today are being used to reach the latest generation teenagers for Christ. On a different level, projects like Jumping In The House Of God, Dance House Praise and Hymns In The House provide accessible worship songs for those with roots in the dance/club culture.

This is music to dance to. Whether at a Christian ‘rave’ or in your own home – that’s up to you. But thes artists are providing a positive alternative to what’s available elsewhere.
So enjoy this Good Music Dance Collection.

At last! Somebody’s seen the need to provide Christendom with a low-priced (£4.99 CD/£2.99 cassette) dance music sampler that could help overcome those “I wonder if this is any good” doubts that plague the sanctified dance fan in UK Christian bookshops. Filled to the brim with 16 recent and brand new tracks (so filled in fact, that several tracks have had to be edited), this is one of the best bargains in a long time. Everything from chill-out to garage, handbag house and techno is covered from bands as diverse as Hydro, Minds Of Men, Sozo and the Raving Loonatics. Two tracks even appear from some of this year’s Forefront remix singles with Rebecca St James and Geoff Moore And The Distance putting in an appearance. The World Wide Message Tribe pop up twice with «Life (Eternally)» and a “Demo Mix” of «We Don’t Get What We Deserve» which is the only mix on the CD which can’t be found elsewhere. That’s perhaps my only quibble. I would have liked to see a few more exclusives and I’m not sure that the tracks chosen are necessarily the best ones from the given albums. But those are fairly minor points and it’s perhaps worth buying just to hear the fantastic «Power In The Blood» from the ‘Hymns In The House’ album. [Dave Drodge, Cross Rhythms, December 1995]

CD tracklist:

01. The World Wide Message Tribe – Life (Eternally)
[from the album Dance Planet, N-Soul Records 1994]
02. Sozo – Purity
[from the album Purity, N-Soul Records 1994]
03. Re:fresh – I’ll Always Believe In You (Keep Spinning)
[from the album Spin, Orange 1995]
04. Minds Of Men feat. Tracy Riggan – Higher Power
[from the album Cross Rhythms – Sanctified Dance From The U.K. Underground, N-Soul Records 1995]
05. DC Talk – Jesus Is Just Alright (Retro Mix)
[from the album Free at Last Extended Play Remixes, ForeFront Records 1994]
06. Virus – Blind
[from the album Analogue, N-Soul Records 1995]
07. Prophecy Of P.A.N.I.C. – Jesus Christ Is Lord
[from the album Manic Panic, N-Soul Records 1994]
08. Hydro – Beyond These Shores
[from the album Spiritualisation, N-Soul Records 1995]
09. Various Artists – This Is Your Hour
[from the album Jumping In The House Of God, Movation 1995]
10. Various Artists – Power In The Blood
[from the album Hymns In The House, Essential Records 1995]
11. Disco Saints – Shine (Hype Mix)
[from the album Dance House Praise, Straightway ‎1995]
12. The World Wide Message Tribe – We Don’t Get What We Deserve (Demo Mix)
[from the album We Don’t Get What We Deserve, Movation 1995]
13. Rebecca St. James – Side By Side (Brother’s Keeper Mix)
[from the album Rebecca St. James Remixes, ForeFront Records ‎1995]
14. Code Of Ethics – Take Control
[from the album Arms Around The World, ForeFront Records ‎1995]
15. Geoff Moore & The Distance – Godgottaholdonme
[from the album Evolution Remixes, ForeFront Records 1995]
16. Raving Loonatics – God Is Real
[from the album My King, N-Soul Records 1993]

Note: Simultaneously released on cassette and CD by Alliance Music.