NOW That’s What I Call An Era – Such A Good Feeling: 1988-1995 (3LP)

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NOW Music proudly presents the next release in our NOW Thats What I Call An Era series – Such A Good Feeling: 1988-1995 a euphoric celebration of a truly transformative time in music.

This stunning 3LP set pressed on blue, white and yellow vinyl showcases 46 essential tracks that soundtracked the dancefloors, charts, and airwaves from the late 80s through the 90s an era when dance culture reshaped the mainstream, soundtracked a generation, and lit up the charts across the UK and beyond.

LP1 Side A opens in style with Such A Good Feeling from Brothers In Rhythm, this collections inspiring titlefollowed by Black Box with Ride On Time the best-selling UK single of 89, and one of dance musics defining tracks. Massive club classics continue with C+C Music Factorys Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now), house anthems from Inner City with Good Life, and Dirty Cash (Money Talks) from Adventures Of Stevie V, plus dance-pop gems Not Over Yet from Grace, and Billie Ray Martin with Your Loving ArmsFlip the LP over for the pioneering Theme From S-Express, a chart-topper from 1988, before dancefloor earworms from Kenny Dope Presents The Bucketheads with The Bomb! (These Sounds Fall Into My Mind), Nightcrawlers with Push The Feeling On and People Hold On from Coldcut and Lisa Stansfield. The influential Beat Dis from Bomb The Bass is up next ahead of Tony Di Barts #1 The Real Thing, Saint Etiennes sophisticated dance-pop nugget Hes On The Phone, and LP1s closer from D:Ream with the Perfecto radio remix of U R The Best Thing.

LP2 kicks off with a run of electrifying Eurodance all massive club anthems. Rhythm Is A Dancer from SNAP! leads off; a UK No.1 and another defining track of the decade followed by smashes from Corona, Real McCoy, Dr. Alban, Haddaway, KWS and Cappella, before the side closes with the techno-pop of Opus III with Its A Fine Day The party continues on Side B with an irresistible lineup led by Deee-Lite with Groove Is In The Heart, their brilliant fusion of funk, house and pop that continues to be a massive floor-filler as is Dreamer from Livin Joy, a 1995 No. 1 smash, and vocal house classic Finally from CeCe Peniston. Urban Cookie Collective scored a huge hit with The Key, The Secret, which is followed by the rave energy of Oceanic, N-Trance, Felix and Utah Saints who sign-off LP2 with the epic Something Good.

Kicking off the final LP, Side A explodes into life with massive feel-good tunes:- Yazz & The Plastic Populations The Only Way Is Up a 1988 No.1 and landmark UK house hit ahead of 49ers with Touch Me and Baby D with their #1 Let Me Be Your Fantasy. Another run of floor-fillers from Rozalla with Everybodys Free (To Feel Good), JX with Son Of A Gun, Blue Pearls Naked In The Rain and U Sure Do from Strike follows and the side closes with the electronic acid house of Killer from Adamski that hit the top of the charts and introduced Seal and over on the final side, the collection moves toward it’s close with stunning and enduring tracks of the era opening with Soul II Soul & Caron Wheelers #1 Back To Life (However Do You Want Me) blending soul, R&B and club rhythms to perfection, while Beats Internationals fusion of dub reggae and house: Dub Be Good To Me (another chart-topper) follows with its iconic bassline and leads us into the stylish and smooth Turn On, Tune In, Cop Out from Freak Power. The journey through this incredible era is completed with genre pioneers The Prodigy with Charly, Infinity from Guru Josh, and closing with ambient house, Pacific – 707 from 808 State, and the timeless The Sun Rising from The Beloved.

An unforgettable journey through the sounds that defined an era:- NOW Thats What I Call An Era – Such A Good Feeling: 1988-1995 the definitive celebration of a golden age of dance music.