Anthems 90s

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Lena Dunham’s Girls, Pussy Riot, Rookie magazine, Taylor Swift’s feminism: the seeds of all these things were sown by early-’90s activist punk bands like Bratmobile, Huggy Bear and Bikini Kill. It’s full of all his usual genre-mashing brilliance ± techno, acid house, breakbeats, IDM — but fuelled by an immense groove, which is probably just James showing that he can make Top 20-bothering hits whenever he bloody well feels like it.

It referenced generations of dance music that created it (the winding, acid synths, the stomping drums punchy enough to floor Godzilla), but also had something fresh and incredible coursing through it – it had da funk.

And somehow, it hits even harder now we know that Britney is finally free to live her life again, the way she wants. It also encapsulated breakbeat junkie DJ Shadow’s uncanny ability to construct new worlds by unearthing carefully chosen samples – in this case the piano line from jazz composer David Axelrod’s ‘The Human Abstract’ – and layering simple but hypnotic beats and melodies over the top.

Some may have been forgotten but this is very good value for money in terms of the amount of songs for your money.In Nikkie’s words: “Remember the first time you heard Insomnia ‘I Can’t Get No Sleep’ and that beat drops and you HAVE to put your hands in the air… get ready to party! The track's frantic sonar-infused sound shows us the dawning of an aggressive techno style that would soon engulf the collective's industrious and mechanical city. There are a ton of tracks from the Prodge that could be included in this list, but none sum up Keith Flint and Liam Howlett’s rowdy rave punks better than ‘Poison’. No decade is a musical monolith, but seeing the best songs of the ‘90s listed all in one place, the era seems especially scattered.

We could have picked a whole crop of Chems tracks: the club-dominating ‘ Hey Boy Hey Girl’, or their Britpop moment ‘ Let Forever Be’ or the endlessly funky ‘ Block Rockin’ Beats. Whack on ‘Fantasy’ next time your bus is stuck in a traffic jam and for a second, you might just think you're cruising down a California highway with the top down.On the cover of this 1995 remix 12" of Sarah McLachlan's 'Possession' by the diverse Tampa-based electronic outfit Rabbit in the Moon, the group used a quote from Mixmag Update which reads "Truly inspired. No wonder kids all over the world aspired to live in this version of inner city Los Angeles — and for a few years, the whole world did. It’s as if David Lynch wandered down from Twin Peaks to dabble in Seattle grunge: a rollickingly complex symphony of crunchy guitars, tripped-out lyrical content and rock-star bravado. Driven by Kathleen Hanna’s ferocious vocal and a buzzing synth line, ‘ Deceptacon ’ is its electrifying and very catchy highlight. Midnight Marauders’ cemented Tribe's jazz/hip-hop style, but two years prior, ‘The Low End Theory’ unleashed Tribe at its most dancefloor-friendly, with Q-Tip and Phife bringing the ruckus out the gate, then ceding the floor to up-and-comer Busta Rhymes, a 19-year-old wunderkind who would soon become hip-hop royalty.

A cookie set by YouTube to measure bandwidth that determines whether the user gets the new or old player interface. With a rising BPM of 125 to 137 beats per minute, this collection of classic 90s tracks will be a real boost for your Step, Dance, Aerobics, Spin, LBT/ Functional workouts and so many more. The legendary opening sample – taken from 1966 flick, ‘The Wild Angels’ – kickstarted countless nights out and spoke for an entire generation.Other bands tagged as such — Ride, Slowdive, Lush, Chapterhouse, The Telescopes — all did some wonderful things with noise and melody.