Talk and share knowledge on rare records, sources of new samples, vinyl, diggin, etc
By LZ Roberts Wed Mar 23, 2011 6:08 pm
Can you name 4 commercially available tracks that would make you go CHOON!!! if you heard them in a bar or club.

Like a few people on the forum I do a bit of DJing in a bar, but I am getting a bit tired of sifting through endless mountains of Kack to find anything half decent.
Now and again some of you post up references to a really inspired track. So I thought it would be quite interesting if everyone could post up 4 of your fav tracks.

For additional inspiration you might like to include a couple of these choice titles:-
OBVIOUSLY :- a track that everyone knows & likes, except that it may be big where you are but on the other side of the world no-one may of heard of it yet.
OLD SKOOL :- something outstanding that comes from way before 2000.
GUILTY PLEASURE :- a track that you think is going to embarrass you but secretly everyone else will probably like it too
ITS NOT CLUB, BUT ITS GOOD :- Just to give you Metal fans or Country & Western fans a go (PS - what are you doing with an MPC)

Well here's mine:-

OBVIOUSLY: Dj Fresh - Goldust
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQPAN5dGbmc

OLD SKOOL: A Guy Called Gerald - Voodoo Ray
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivr57dcs9-E

Soulution - Dj Butterface & Datgirl
Not on You Tube but is on Spotify - available through iTunes

Shunda K - Here I am to Save the World (Nite Club Remix) - other versions aren't so good
Not on YouTube but on Spotify. - available on iTunes


Thanks Everyone. and keep it friendly.
By jimmie Thu Mar 24, 2011 4:54 am
Waaaaaaay too many immense tunes to mention.
A quick think made me pull out 'David Joseph - You Can't Hide (Your Love From Me) (Larry Levan Remix)' - B side on one of the 1983 releases. It's not on youtube either.
Love it.

MFSB - Love Is The Message (Larry Levan Remix) is smoking too. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtQ4kGyR9Vg. I always loved EPMD's - It's Time To Party... Played that tape to death on my walkman when I was 13.
By Em.p.cee.j Thu Mar 24, 2011 5:40 am
Ole Skool: Digital Underground- Do Watcha Like (the only hip hop song aside from Straight Up Menace with a true piano solo. Somebody correct me if I'm wrong... )

Guilty Pleasure: Tear the Club Up Thugs ft. Hot Boys- Playa Why Ya Hatin (aint embarrassed by it tho... thats my shit)

Local Shit: K-Deezy- In My Hood (no matter where I am; bar/club/chevy... this shit gets me hype.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=so1PZM51ibM

More "local" Shits: J Dilla- Y'all aint ready (heard it at St. Andrews the first time I went. First time I witnessed hip hop in all its elements... nostalgia, I guess.)
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By scoobylol Thu Mar 24, 2011 5:06 pm
Obviously: D-Bridge & Vegas - True Romance... at least at the clubs I frequent. That bassline will destroy any club, in any set, at any time, forever.

None dnb, I'd say... Tensnake- Coma Cat, massive in Ibiza last year, great summery tune.

Old skool: Some classic MJ or James Brown.

On a jungle tip though, for me it'd have to be DJ Crystl- Warp Drive.

Guilty pleasure: That new Britney tune... and quite a lot of grime. Streetfighter Riddim by D double E is a bit of a smasher.

It's not club, but it's good: Burial's remix of Be True by Commix, because it's f*cking epic. Or some tunes by Jan Jelinek off the "loop-finding-jazz-records" LP.
By mr.pleasant Fri Mar 25, 2011 4:53 pm
two tough guys..... Issac Hayes
take dem clothes off.... Frank N Dank
lets get down ...... Rapheal saddiq & D.j Quik
off thee wall.... Micheal Jackson

just a few chunes !!!
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By JUKE 179r Mon Mar 28, 2011 9:58 pm
When I used to DJ at pubs back in East Anglia for the older aged crowds (30+), I would always use these (not in any order):

"Don't stop me now" - Queen (gotta be aware of the tempo... alternates from a slow to a fast BPM)
"Livin on a Prayer" - Bon Jovi (cut out the music on chorus of "livin on a prayer" and hear everyone signing it)
"Billy Jean" - Michael Jackson (This always gets the females wanting to dance)
"I'm gonna be (500 miles)" - The Proclaimers
"Funky Cold Medina" - Tone Loc
"You See Trouble with me" - Black Legend

Some songs are corny but they do the trick.