Music suggestions needed......
Discussion
I am putting together a playlist for a wedding of two nearly 30 year olds.....
I have all the classic disco/dance tracks but would welcome suggestions of 'must have' dance tracks from 10-15 years ago. This is not a couple who want hip hop, rap or similar - more straightforward dance stuff really.
Suggestions very welcome.
AstonZagato said:
Good list - I'll have a listen to some of those as they're mostly unknown to me!depends whether you want full on end of teh night type dance music or what i'd call 'soft dance'.
softer being appealing perhaps to a wider audience that might not normally get into that genre:
only done this quickly so a cple of these are in the wrong 'list'
Clivilles & Cole - A Deeper Love (3:47)
N-Joi - Anthem (2:47)
New Order - Blue Monday (4:25)
Rosie Gaines - Closer Than Close (Mentor Original Mix) (3:50)
Stereo Mc's - Connected (5:06)
Living Joy - Don't Stop Movin' [Radio Mix] (3:13)
Livin Joy - Dreamer (3:17)
Rozalla - Everybody's Free (3:48)
Ultra Nate - Free (3:48)
The Soup Dragons - I'm Free (3:16)
Modjo - Lady (Hear Me Tonight) (3:01)
Xpansions - Move Your Body (2:28)
Stardust - Music Sounds Better With You (3:23)
M-People - Moving on Up (3:29)
Snap! - Rhythm Is A Dancer (3:53)
Robin S - Show Me Love (3:31)
D-Ream - Things Can Only Get Better [D-reamix Edit] (3:55)
bamboogie
Harder:
Paul Van Dyke - 1998 Binary Finary (Dream Trance Remix' 99) (3:19)
Armand Van Heldon - My My My (4:00)
Energy 52 - Cafe Del Mar(Thrre 'n' One Remix) (3:01)
Fat Boy Slim - Funk Soul Brother (3:58)
Ida Corr Vs Fedde Le Grand - Let Me Think About It (3:49)
Sash - Encore Une Fois (3:49)
ATB - 9PM (Till I Come) (3:15)
Bamboo - Bamboogie (3:25)
Barbara Tucker - Everybody Dance (3:45)
Booty Luv - Some Kinda Rush (3:52)
Da Hool - Meet Her At The Love Parade (2:40)
Darude - Sandstorm (3:42)
Storm - Time to Burn (2:51)
Deee-Lite - Groove Is In The Heart (3:17)
DJ Sammy - Heaven (3:35)
Eric Prydz - Call On Me (4:14)
Faithless - Insomnia (3:29)
Fatboy Slim - Rockafeller Skank (4:00)
Fedde Le Grand - Put Your Hands Up For Detriot (2:34)
Gala - Freed From Desire - (3:29)
Ian Van Dahl - Castles In The Sky (3:36)
Livin Joy - Don't Stop Moving (2:57)
Robert Miles - Children [Edit] (3:04)
Snap! - Rhythm Is A Dancer (3:53)
Zombie Nation - Kernkraft 400 (DJ Gius Remix) (2:53)
softer being appealing perhaps to a wider audience that might not normally get into that genre:
only done this quickly so a cple of these are in the wrong 'list'
Clivilles & Cole - A Deeper Love (3:47)
N-Joi - Anthem (2:47)
New Order - Blue Monday (4:25)
Rosie Gaines - Closer Than Close (Mentor Original Mix) (3:50)
Stereo Mc's - Connected (5:06)
Living Joy - Don't Stop Movin' [Radio Mix] (3:13)
Livin Joy - Dreamer (3:17)
Rozalla - Everybody's Free (3:48)
Ultra Nate - Free (3:48)
The Soup Dragons - I'm Free (3:16)
Modjo - Lady (Hear Me Tonight) (3:01)
Xpansions - Move Your Body (2:28)
Stardust - Music Sounds Better With You (3:23)
M-People - Moving on Up (3:29)
Snap! - Rhythm Is A Dancer (3:53)
Robin S - Show Me Love (3:31)
D-Ream - Things Can Only Get Better [D-reamix Edit] (3:55)
bamboogie
Harder:
Paul Van Dyke - 1998 Binary Finary (Dream Trance Remix' 99) (3:19)
Armand Van Heldon - My My My (4:00)
Energy 52 - Cafe Del Mar(Thrre 'n' One Remix) (3:01)
Fat Boy Slim - Funk Soul Brother (3:58)
Ida Corr Vs Fedde Le Grand - Let Me Think About It (3:49)
Sash - Encore Une Fois (3:49)
ATB - 9PM (Till I Come) (3:15)
Bamboo - Bamboogie (3:25)
Barbara Tucker - Everybody Dance (3:45)
Booty Luv - Some Kinda Rush (3:52)
Da Hool - Meet Her At The Love Parade (2:40)
Darude - Sandstorm (3:42)
Storm - Time to Burn (2:51)
Deee-Lite - Groove Is In The Heart (3:17)
DJ Sammy - Heaven (3:35)
Eric Prydz - Call On Me (4:14)
Faithless - Insomnia (3:29)
Fatboy Slim - Rockafeller Skank (4:00)
Fedde Le Grand - Put Your Hands Up For Detriot (2:34)
Gala - Freed From Desire - (3:29)
Ian Van Dahl - Castles In The Sky (3:36)
Livin Joy - Don't Stop Moving (2:57)
Robert Miles - Children [Edit] (3:04)
Snap! - Rhythm Is A Dancer (3:53)
Zombie Nation - Kernkraft 400 (DJ Gius Remix) (2:53)
Wife just bought me back to 90's soul groove and club classics. It's excellent.
Never used the link provided but it was the only one I can find that isn't an illegal torrent.
http://www.juno.co.uk/products/back-to-life-90s-so...
Never used the link provided but it was the only one I can find that isn't an illegal torrent.
http://www.juno.co.uk/products/back-to-life-90s-so...
NoNeed said:
Wife just bought me back to 90's soul groove and club classics. It's excellent.
Never used the link provided but it was the only one I can find that isn't an illegal torrent.
http://www.juno.co.uk/products/back-to-life-90s-so...
I'm going to be busy tomorrow.........Never used the link provided but it was the only one I can find that isn't an illegal torrent.
http://www.juno.co.uk/products/back-to-life-90s-so...
Thanks
nda....
no idea how you're playing the music or indeed what size of the venue is....
so forgive mne if you've thought about this.
if you're doing the so called 'simple' mp3 route worth checking that you've equalized your recordings, plaued on a system teh differences between track levels will obviously be much more apparent than through headphones on a portable device.
there are free programs out there that you can use yo get the levels somewhere near each other. But perhaps you're using something more sophisticated?
if you'fe hiring pa type speakers and its a decent sized room worth thinking about getting an extra smaller pair of spkrs, i find that especially with longer rooms its a nice way to get ambient music levels through teh room - otherwise you can get a huge volume at the dancefloor end which does your ears in and still down teh room guests can get more 'boom' than musical content as the bass obviously carries further than the highs.
and a final thought - you mentioned your pals ages, but not the ages of those that are attending. again hope you dont mind a cple of thoughts. many folks that host parties tend to think about their own age group and not aunt flo or unclde albert. i'm no dj but have a bit of dj software so get asked by pals for help with 'do's and like you use playlists. i tend tyo ask the hosts what teh running order is for their day/night and i split the music into 2-3-4 sections.
within each section there'd be a flip round of the genre/decade to make sure that uncle albert gets the odd 60's/70's or whatever else would be appropriate, so in theory no one during the bulk of teh session has to endure more than 10/12 mins or so of stuff that's not their thing.
Typically the sessions would be: 'jukebox' = light background music that covers a wider genre/age group, teh sort of stuff that might be on in a pub and that changes frequently. second would start to get progressively more 'foot tappy' - still a mix of 'pop' with livelier songs thrown in, rolling into 'floorfillers' - again depends on ages but some songs will tend to work whatever teh age group and then if the 'do' is right for it a burst of soft/harder dance tunes toward the end of the evening.
if you've got the T-Shirt apologies........
no idea how you're playing the music or indeed what size of the venue is....
so forgive mne if you've thought about this.
if you're doing the so called 'simple' mp3 route worth checking that you've equalized your recordings, plaued on a system teh differences between track levels will obviously be much more apparent than through headphones on a portable device.
there are free programs out there that you can use yo get the levels somewhere near each other. But perhaps you're using something more sophisticated?
if you'fe hiring pa type speakers and its a decent sized room worth thinking about getting an extra smaller pair of spkrs, i find that especially with longer rooms its a nice way to get ambient music levels through teh room - otherwise you can get a huge volume at the dancefloor end which does your ears in and still down teh room guests can get more 'boom' than musical content as the bass obviously carries further than the highs.
and a final thought - you mentioned your pals ages, but not the ages of those that are attending. again hope you dont mind a cple of thoughts. many folks that host parties tend to think about their own age group and not aunt flo or unclde albert. i'm no dj but have a bit of dj software so get asked by pals for help with 'do's and like you use playlists. i tend tyo ask the hosts what teh running order is for their day/night and i split the music into 2-3-4 sections.
within each section there'd be a flip round of the genre/decade to make sure that uncle albert gets the odd 60's/70's or whatever else would be appropriate, so in theory no one during the bulk of teh session has to endure more than 10/12 mins or so of stuff that's not their thing.
Typically the sessions would be: 'jukebox' = light background music that covers a wider genre/age group, teh sort of stuff that might be on in a pub and that changes frequently. second would start to get progressively more 'foot tappy' - still a mix of 'pop' with livelier songs thrown in, rolling into 'floorfillers' - again depends on ages but some songs will tend to work whatever teh age group and then if the 'do' is right for it a burst of soft/harder dance tunes toward the end of the evening.
if you've got the T-Shirt apologies........
greengreenwood7 said:
nda....
no idea how you're playing the music or indeed what size of the venue is....
so forgive mne if you've thought about this.
if you're doing the so called 'simple' mp3 route worth checking that you've equalized your recordings, plaued on a system teh differences between track levels will obviously be much more apparent than through headphones on a portable device.
there are free programs out there that you can use yo get the levels somewhere near each other. But perhaps you're using something more sophisticated?
if you'fe hiring pa type speakers and its a decent sized room worth thinking about getting an extra smaller pair of spkrs, i find that especially with longer rooms its a nice way to get ambient music levels through teh room - otherwise you can get a huge volume at the dancefloor end which does your ears in and still down teh room guests can get more 'boom' than musical content as the bass obviously carries further than the highs.
and a final thought - you mentioned your pals ages, but not the ages of those that are attending. again hope you dont mind a cple of thoughts. many folks that host parties tend to think about their own age group and not aunt flo or unclde albert. i'm no dj but have a bit of dj software so get asked by pals for help with 'do's and like you use playlists. i tend tyo ask the hosts what teh running order is for their day/night and i split the music into 2-3-4 sections.
within each section there'd be a flip round of the genre/decade to make sure that uncle albert gets the odd 60's/70's or whatever else would be appropriate, so in theory no one during the bulk of teh session has to endure more than 10/12 mins or so of stuff that's not their thing.
Typically the sessions would be: 'jukebox' = light background music that covers a wider genre/age group, teh sort of stuff that might be on in a pub and that changes frequently. second would start to get progressively more 'foot tappy' - still a mix of 'pop' with livelier songs thrown in, rolling into 'floorfillers' - again depends on ages but some songs will tend to work whatever teh age group and then if the 'do' is right for it a burst of soft/harder dance tunes toward the end of the evening.
if you've got the T-Shirt apologies........
Thanks for taking the time to post all of that - very useful.no idea how you're playing the music or indeed what size of the venue is....
so forgive mne if you've thought about this.
if you're doing the so called 'simple' mp3 route worth checking that you've equalized your recordings, plaued on a system teh differences between track levels will obviously be much more apparent than through headphones on a portable device.
there are free programs out there that you can use yo get the levels somewhere near each other. But perhaps you're using something more sophisticated?
if you'fe hiring pa type speakers and its a decent sized room worth thinking about getting an extra smaller pair of spkrs, i find that especially with longer rooms its a nice way to get ambient music levels through teh room - otherwise you can get a huge volume at the dancefloor end which does your ears in and still down teh room guests can get more 'boom' than musical content as the bass obviously carries further than the highs.
and a final thought - you mentioned your pals ages, but not the ages of those that are attending. again hope you dont mind a cple of thoughts. many folks that host parties tend to think about their own age group and not aunt flo or unclde albert. i'm no dj but have a bit of dj software so get asked by pals for help with 'do's and like you use playlists. i tend tyo ask the hosts what teh running order is for their day/night and i split the music into 2-3-4 sections.
within each section there'd be a flip round of the genre/decade to make sure that uncle albert gets the odd 60's/70's or whatever else would be appropriate, so in theory no one during the bulk of teh session has to endure more than 10/12 mins or so of stuff that's not their thing.
Typically the sessions would be: 'jukebox' = light background music that covers a wider genre/age group, teh sort of stuff that might be on in a pub and that changes frequently. second would start to get progressively more 'foot tappy' - still a mix of 'pop' with livelier songs thrown in, rolling into 'floorfillers' - again depends on ages but some songs will tend to work whatever teh age group and then if the 'do' is right for it a burst of soft/harder dance tunes toward the end of the evening.
if you've got the T-Shirt apologies........
I was a professional DJ in France in the early 80's (not something I normally admit to) at a massive club near Geneva - triple Technics decks and two Revox reel to reels. Christ, it was sooooo different then! I also have a recording studio, so I have all the gear (and no idea!).... I'm actually going to be using an iPad with an app called 'djay' and am pretty excited about doing it. That, in turn is going to be fed through a small Mackie desk and onto a large PA system. 'Apple don't fail me now' would be an appropriate thought!
There's around 200 guests, mostly in their late 20's early 30's and probably a fair smattering of folk in their 50's +
Your tips are very welcome - particularly splitting the set lists to reflect the different ages, I will break up my playlists a bit to enable me to do this. Also the smaller speakers is a good idea - I can do this as I have an excellent pair of Rodgers studio monitors which would be ideal for this.....
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