This is probably the easiest choice I've had to make when picking my Record of the Year. The sad thing about it though is the only reason I have this available to choose is because of the tragic death in 2014 of Frankie Knuckles.
This was originally released in the UK in 1989 but failed to make the Top 40. Frankie Knuckles was one of the DJs there at the birth of House music in Chicago as a regular DJ at the Warehouse nightclub and this was arguably his biggest tune at the height of the Acid House era.
He did manage to have three Top 40 hits in the 90s and remained a big name on the DJ circuit.
Aside from the age difference, what differentiates this from the EDM in the charts in 2014 is that this was innovative. It was taking risks doing something which hadn't been done before at least in a mainstream sense. Some of the EDM from 2014 is ok, but none of it is what I'd call ground-breaking and therefore none of it is anywhere near as good as this record.
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