Recommend me some "Dance" music

[Michel]

I say recommend me some Dance Music, because I don't know what else to call it, but there are a number of groups listed below I enjoy...

I know nothing about club music, so would appreciate some education...

I just like listening to it when on the underground, etc, but don't know where to go...

Some stuff I like:

Prodigy
Saint Germain
Stars of the Lid
Orbital...

Stuff you hear on Radio 1 on a Friday night....

What could I get to get some structure to my listening?

[Mark]

Check your PM, Michel.

[Novi]

Sasha and Digweed, all their Northern Exposure stuff.

But then again, I'm still languishing in mid-90s clubland. This stuff has nostalgic value for me . Those were the days ...

I don't really listen to progressive house anymore though.

[Mark]

Sasha and Digweed, all their Northern Exposure stuff.

But then again, I'm still languishing in mid-90s clubland. This stuff has nostalgic value for me . Those were the days ...

I don't really listen to progressive house anymore though.

Sasha & Digweed - superb! Those early Renaissance club mix CDs. Just the best. And wasn't the first Northern Exposure great? Ooooh: Banco De Gaia - Last Train to Lhasa. Top album. And Union Jack's 'There Will Be No Armageddon'. Takes me back.

[Novi]

Sasha & Digweed - superb! Those early Renaissance club mix CDs. Just the best. And wasn't the first Northern Exposure great? Ooooh: Banco De Gaia - Last Train to Lhasa. Top album. And Union Jack's 'There Will Be No Armageddon'. Takes me back.

Mark, I believe you and me, we be of similar vintage .

We're both hopelessly out of date, by the way .

[Mark]

Mark, I believe you and me, we be of similar vintage .

We're both hopelessly out of date, by the way .

Indeed. You mid-30s? Me = 34. And yes, we are hopelessly out of date. But by God, did that music kick ass. It was still fresh, not recycled as so much of it seems to be these days.

Were you a club kid? I wasn't. Couldn't square with the scene, but loved the music. Then in '97, classical music finally got the upperhand. I've never looked back. (Okay, maybe I have, but just for old time's sake. )

[toledobass]

I like some of Paul Oakenfold's stuff.  You might give his stuff a try.

Allan

[Mark]

I like some of Paul Oakenfold's stuff.  You might give his stuff a try.

Allan

Another blast from the past! Seconded.

[bwv 1080]

Early 90's Bill Laswell project with William S Borroughs voice-overs




Electronic music from Kinshasa - electric thumb pianos + car parts ( http://www.crammed.be/konono/ )



Last techno Ministry Album - after that it was more Metal.

[orbital]

Prodigy
Saint Germain
Stars of the Lid
Orbital...

This list does not exactly resemble DJ dance music. To your list I'd definitely add Chemical Brothers (Dig Your Own Hole album might just be the best of its kind) and probably Crystal Method too.
Orbital are no more 

[71 dB]

I say recommend me some Dance Music, because I don't know what else to call it, but there are a number of groups listed below I enjoy...

I know nothing about club music, so would appreciate some education...

I just like listening to it when on the underground, etc, but don't know where to go...

Some stuff I like:

Prodigy
Saint Germain
Stars of the Lid
Orbital...

Stuff you hear on Radio 1 on a Friday night....

What could I get to get some structure to my listening?

Well, get first all Prodigy albums Experience, Music for the Jilted Generations, The Fat of the Land and Always Outnumbered Never Outgunned). That's top quality modern dance music. For excellent but little older stuff get S'Express' Original Sountrack and Intercourse. That's the best modern dance music ever. Also, The Beatmasters' Anywayawanna and Life & Soul are excellent. For combilations The best ones are the "Chapters" by XL-Recordings. Highly recommended. Orbital isn't of the highest quality but nice addition to the collection too. Snivilisation is their best album imho.

I have listened to modern dance nearly 20 years and I think I have huge knowledge and understanding of it.

[Mark]

As promised, Michel, I've uploaded some ripped samples from just one dance mix set (I'm sure you know that a 'set' is what a DJ plays at a venue or for a recorded mix). There are 14 tracks on the CD, but you'd never know it: the mixing is near seamless. And that's what you want from a DJ - not just someone who can read a crowd and play the appropriate tracks to create the right mood, but one who can also blend those tracks flawlessly.

All but one of the samples here on this hastily created site were ripped across tracks on the CD ... basically, I want you to hear how the DJ (in this case, Dave Seaman) has meshed the various tracks beautifully. The music itself is a mix of what was once considered underground club stuff (i.e. not commercial crap), with a slant towards uplifting trance and house.

Let me know (any of you who listen) if you like this. It's a snapshot of my musical past. The final sample, by the way, is an old favourite, and features a vocal dub by Power Circle over Chicane's classic 'Offshore'.

NB: Incidentally, for maximum listening pleasure, you want the bass response set somewhere between 'loosened ceiling joists' and 'waking the dead'.

[orbital]

Orbital isn't of the highest quality but nice addition to the collection too. Snivilisation is their best album imho.

How about In Sides ? 

[71 dB]

How about In Sides ? 

All Orbital albums are good, better than 99 % of the modern dance music out there. The best Orbital tracks are wonderful but few.

[AnthonyAthletic]

Dance Music,

Pomp & Circumstance No.1, Orb & Sceptre, The Dambusters March

Doesn't everybody?

[PSmith08]

Er. Well...ahem. Yeah. Not that I'd know, but:

I've always liked Cascada's Everytime We Touch album for dance(ish) music. Their version of "How Do You Do!" has a bit more energy than Roxette's original. Some of Eric Prydz' stuff is OK. His "Call On Me" (essentially a remix of one line from a Steve Winwood song) caught on here in the States, more for the video than the song, but it isn't bad. Darude's "Sandstorm" always does it for me, too.

Of course, it bears noting that I tend to use top-40 pop stuff, from throughout the last twenty or so years, for this function. The dance stuff I know usually bubbles up into the "mainstream."

[sunnyside_up]

All but one of the samples here on this hastily created site were ripped across tracks on the CD ... basically, I want you to hear how the DJ (in this case, Dave Seaman) has meshed the various tracks beautifully. The music itself is a mix of what was once considered underground club stuff (i.e. not commercial crap), with a slant towards uplifting trance and house.

Let me know (any of you who listen) if you like this.

Love it, Mark!!! Took me back to some wonderful times when I was living in London in the early '90s. I've not listened to my old Northern Exposure, Global Underground and Renaissance CDs for a while .... great times... I wasn't really a club kid but my friends used to run private events and parties....*eyes glaze over in a nostalgic reverie*.....

[71 dB]

For DJ mixes I recommend DJ Mark Moore's mixes:

Poptartz (4 CD set: Mark Moore, Al Mackenzie, Boy George & Sister Bliss)

House of Handbag: The Nuovo Disco Collection

Trust the DJ: MM01

[Mark]

Love it, Mark!!! Took me back to some wonderful times when I was living in London in the early '90s. I've not listened to my old Northern Exposure, Global Underground and Renaissance CDs for a while .... great times... I wasn't really a club kid but my friends used to run private events and parties....*eyes glaze over in a nostalgic reverie*.....

You're welcome, my dear.

[rubio]

I'd highly recommend Daft Punk, Basement Jaxx and Leftfield (all true classics!!!):

   

Or maybe some excellent Brazilian drum'n bass?