Dance Energy - BBC2, 1990

[@breakfreak3181]

Man, I used to watch this as a 12 / 13 year old. Two years later, 14 going on 15, I was going to my first raves. Some of the best times of my life. I bought 'Total Confusion' back then. There were a few good record shops in Peckham that did house and early breakbeat. I went down the Jungle / DnB path later....I'm still on it!!

[@thingamajacky]

little did they know how classic and enduring Total Confusion would be. 35 years later it still kicks.

[@Trancetechniqueradio]

One of the favorites! Got it on vinyl ! I was the kid that went out with the ghetto blaster pumping out the TUNES back in the raving days! Rave ON Matey!

[@fenixvolt2777]

I was in the audience a few times, cannot remember for the life of me how we got tickets, but believe it was like going to a rave! The 90's were the best! We'd watch someone big from America, then go clubbing up west and bump into them! No lie, I met run DMC, public enemy, das efx loads of them!

[@alchamone8133]

Bought my copy at Kensington indoor market

[@harri7416]

As a 16 year old in 1990 this was ESSENTIAL viewing. When the BBC was half cool, before the reintroduction of Strictly Come Dancing.

[@TheReactor8]

Exactly, any over 20 would say: children show.

[@helpyousleep7386]

i was blessed to of been 16 in 1990 as well. also lived right near the south mimms services....

[@bungle3912]

This used to be on at 6.30pm, not in the middle of the night. Can you imagine this on BBC2 at 6.30 now?

[@noiseworks]

state sponsored hedonism

[@tnt90s]

Haha! Not a bloody chance mate. Miss those days badly :-)

[@MikusMusik]

totally - respect to Janet Street Porter for getting Def II on the BBC - the best music programming theyve ever done..Snub TV, Rapido and Dance Energy

[@Kiltskills]

I just said the same thing.... I can't even imagine the BBC scheduling it or anything like it at any time. A quality show which was stylish, informative, underground and fun. TV is dying out for shows like this.

[@lostintranslation1957]

After Fresh Prince if I remember rightly. Then you j7mped over to C4 for 7:30 ish for Desmonds(probably one of the best shows on tv). Then Lenny Henry with Delbert Wilkins when he was funny and wasn't 'Woke'.

[@JackAcid]

Homeboy, A Hippie, And a Funky Dred...oh my.life. How fucking ace is this after thirty fucking years?????!!!! A beautiful time in dance music when the hardcore sound was just emerging from acid and hip house. Just brilliant. Much LOVE TO YOU ALL WHO WERE THERE. XXX

[@bassbytes]

Ah yes great times, was 16 at the time, dance music the biggest influence and constant in my life ever since.

[@helpyousleep7386]

@@bassbytes troop trainers

[@rajeeb3500]

Daydreaming gives me shivers . Pure class

[@urbanwarrior3470]

Yep. Untouchable.

[@JackAcid]

Brilliant upload!!!! One of the most influential shows in my life. Knew aged 14 that I wanted to produce acid and rave music, let alone learn all the moves! Aahhh, take me baaaaaack....

[@milkyedmonds4150]

U know that... just wot I was saying...

[@timthegallant]

It was great there was a show for us youngsters playing the music we loved sl2,ragga twins,bizarre inc.this was celebrating the birth of dance music in the uk.young then,mid forties now.

[@Mynsinger]

the unmistakable voice of Sven Vath

[@davidb6681]

What a blast from the past!

[@thecardude762]

Taught me so many dance moves that I still use today 😅

[@swiftcee266]

Yes Bredda......lets have a dance battle!!!

[@GranTurismoRaceReplays]

This is a reminder when race was trumped by music and culture. The 90s was the best decade in history. Proof generation X are the most blessed in history.

[@ChillingCrowley]

Agree it was a great time to grow up. What colour or religion you were didn't seem to matter then. I'm sure there were racists and extremists around then but they weren't really visible. Now they all congregate online and share their fkd up ideas and racist conspiracy theories and basically radicalise each other. 30years ago young people would all come together and dance all weekend with every colour, race, gender or whatever and no-one gave it a second thought. The rave scene was so positive compared to nowadays. In my opinion once the pills started getting crap in the early 2000's is when that era came to an end and violence started getting out of hand. Just my opinion though

[@breakfreak3181]

Me and my mate say the 90s was peak civilisation....only half tongue in cheek!

[@Michelle_Schu-blacka]

Some heads are grandparents now. How mad is that?!?!

[@fd5927]

Yeah ❤❤❤❤ Memories ..... Damn ..... what a time ..... DEF II. Normski ... Dance Energy .... an old white dude here .... why I'm "Proud" to be BRITISH in 2024. Such happy memories back then.

[@benitolazio8193]

You think you are part of their culture ? Hilarious

[@fd5927]

@benitolazio8193 "their culture" please explain "their". That sounds a bit offensive, to be honest. Hilariously sad.

[@Arrian1111]

Great memories of this era ... juxtaposed with my own two left feet scenario! I'm in total awe of that girl in the cap.

[@patrizio7]

Yo yo yo yo yo Normski. Used to love watching this.

[@DoloJones]

Didn’t realise until recently how formative this show was for my whole life. Like a curated KZbin playlist all in one show. So ahead of its time.

[@Indicasativa55]

I remember this 😂😂😂 thankfully jungle came soon after

[@papanoel3999]

I was 14 in 1990,and I always watched dance nrg, always. Thank you for uploading this little piece of TV gold, and it was only like a few weeks bk that I was talking to a mate of mine, reminiscing about this.

[@rallyburnz2simracing416]

I watched this as a kid...man the memories...thanks for upload

[@NevasoftHQ]

HHFD - Total Confusion 🤯… EPIC TUNE 👍

[@mrbigdiscoparty4671]

P H A T ... so good to remind me how exciting these times were

[@acidphaze]

Dam! Danny Rampling on the decks. The Sound Of Shoom - I Hate Hate. What a song, how relevant is this today.

[@MrDaveya]

Home boy, hippy & a funky dread was ‘his’ group; he/they released a pukka track in ‘91/92. I’ll have to search for title but I recall it as a great track

[@Househead1200]

@@MrDaveya Total Confusion, Mr D?

[@swiftcee266]

No way? .....never knew that bruv.@@MrDaveya

[@lorjon68]

@@MrDaveya Have a word! Danny's group was 'Sound of Shoom'...the clue's in the title of the club he ran and the fact that he's dancing behind a keyboard on the show you just watched. Casper Pound was the Hippy in H,H and a FD and it was his group.

[@lorjon68]

@@swiftcee266 No way exactly.

[@fionag.3621]

Thank you for this! One of my favourite ever TV shows...

[@Smiff74]

I used to love watching this on a Monday evening.

[@RunOfTheHind]

Ha. I remember the 3 months that LA Gear were in fashion here. Shortly before Ewing 33s...

[@Ashfaq1999]

Great pioneering dance music programme 👊

[@Onestepbeyond89]

Was the go to program back then 😎

[@YaxkinRetrodisko]

Im 47. as a Dj and music producer this is the kind of shows that i would love to have in my "teen's" Now i realize that i was not lost on my music influences. in Mexico we never used to have those kind of exposure on tv kust mags. the UK scene is no doubt unique

[@milkyedmonds4150]

Dance energy contributed to alot of us "as english" to progress when we was still in the latter of what america had to offer... we lapped it up, and respect to dance energy for being one of the first. God bless normski.... 😂 blessya mate....

[@JLF74uk05]

Nice one for uploading. Loves this in the 90s. Total confusion absolute tune.

[@adamsmith7058]

Homeboy, A Hippie, And a Funky Dred, ha ha used to know those boys. Ended up here totally at random. Was not expecting to see this. Seems like a different world, though oddly the same. Many of the artistic gestures our generation made are still prevalent today, with a little evolution of course.

[@Househead1200]

A great time to be 17. Where I'm from we never had the fashions, decks and records though!

[@Onestepbeyond89]

Haha just spotted me old mate shovell on percussion he will be pleased 🎉😂

[@conradtwonine9414]

"I think it's time to make the floor burn" and so it happened in clubs everywhere... and no, nobody was pulling out their stupid phones to record, people were actually dancing all night long... good times!

[@agfagaevart]

Kid & Play

[@jdnlindo4168]

😢😢😢 I miss those days so much.

[@ChillingCrowley]

This used be on about 6 o'clock on BBC2 on Tuesday evenings if my memory is right 🤔

[@jfanningnnnn]

Also adding my love for uplaoding this... I didn't know the show back in the day as I was in the US and back then, foreign TV remained foreign. Utterly love this show...!!!!!!

[@criticalmass3829]

Just wonderful.

[@gubilasco9022]

I used to VHS record most of these episodes, still have 'em somewhere

[@kumachan9311]

RESPECT EVERY TIME

[@italodiscorevival]

16.40 - Demonstrated the shift around 1990/1 where the Chicago house style was starting to morph in to more of a garage-new York Italian direction.

[@lorjon68]

Actually more demonstrative of the UK House scene merging with Acid Jazz.

[@172Break]

HHFD - still sounding amazing!

[@smokedoggbaby953]

THIS IS DRUM N BASS'S GRANDFATHER...let it be known 😂 JUNGLE IS ITS DAD!!!

[@mfdacreator]

mad content from back then, great times man

[@myxanoz9742]

I've never seen this before. Thanks a lot!

[@psvhangoveral]

There are some cool cats in that crowd

[@AA-gx4ok]

awesome !! thanks for putting this up !

[@giuseppe397]

Dee cee lee is fit. She was fit on the Guru track "No time to play".

[@JamesConstableDeadly]

anyone else capturing the top 10 and youtubeing these tracks ? or at least the ones you dont know..?

[@lauraclark5818]

I love this! !!!! Thanks for sharing. Xx

[@mylittledaddy9137]

This is not your average chit chatter 😂

[@lawrencejones2014]

Does anyone know the name of the track played in the background of the story about the sneaker war in the US? I've a feeling that it's the original version of a remix that came out around 94/95, thst I've been trying to find for many years now. I always thought that the track was either by BBR or BBL streetgang but i don't know the track's name? It's the one with the sample, "ooh, aah, the funky revolution", the same as was played in the background of the sneaker article. It's a long shot asking for help here but the world works in mysterious ways! Thank you

[@nebberington]

Nice little appearance from the Planet Core Productions boys

[@frankieaglow]

a panoply of peoples black, white, brown expressing themselves as one! PLUR

[@garywoollard810]

Thanks for this been looking for this ages.

[@DAPSGDP]

DIAMOND!!!

[@KatieBland-p1v]

Samson!!! ❤

[@lukeriely4468]

Please, does anybody know the track they play during the part about LA Gear footwear? I need to find it. The listing in the "more" tab does not contain it. Thanks.

[@fnk101]

Yes Ski.. .In Jus We Trust..

[@newtronix]

This was so uncool at the time! The BBC trying to be underground!

[@edgar5598]

Who's the female with the baseball cap?

[@darrenspiers2003]

Who was in this.. Names please! 🙂

[@АленсШехорец]

Такое было в 80-х на MTV😆

[@Josephrace1991]

What is the name of the opening tune in the beginning?

[@mhaqone4023]

Can't stand stillski😂, still remember him like it was yesterday.

[@christopherkennedy314]

Like watching Going Live in an E

[@jameskid81]

playing the right version of found love......

[@Spoonman455]

YO this is amazing. Anyone know where I can find more archived episodes of Dance Energy?

[@yggdrasil7942]

Internet and while you're there, you can still get the Dance energy CD album.

[@rayskitten78]

Horrendous noise they stopped showing the Fresh Prince for this?

[@patkelly8309]

Normski e e e e e

[@hawrify2148]

27:16 haha sven vath with hair

[@patkelly8309]

Its time to hate hate again

[@Djconan1978]

Track at 23:00 anyone?

[@noiseworks]

daydreaming...

[@garywoollard810]

Ex Wham too.

[@benitolazio8193]

And Spike Lee still dresses like a 12 year old

[@fd5927]

Keyboard TROLL ALERT. TROLL ALERT !! TROLL ALERT !!

[@Mynsinger]

is that Ralf Little (Anthony from The Royle Family)?

[@helpyousleep7386]

poor normski having to give his BBC to janet street porter to get his own bbc show...