Some absolutely beautiful records came out of the early days of dance music culture in the late 80s – mid 90s (some call it Rave) and have transcended through the years to still make perfect sense today. An innocence in delivery combined with not stuffing the life out of proceedings created these perfectly frozen in time moments, that many have imitated but rarely bettered over the years. The majority of these great recordings were born out of Belgium, Germany and Italy on hardware set ups with fairly limited computing situations, meaning sequencing on the fly, fiddly synth & sampler work created certain restrictions but also meant the elements you put in had to count! Here’s five still good to go and ONE that went under the knife by us…