I am after some inspiration for some other 'clubby' type tracks that will go down well with a mixed group of people. At present I normally play Insomnia, Sanstorm and the Logical song which all go down a storm no matter what the crowd. The trouble is I love this sort of stuff but I am not sure what is liked by the 'general public' and have wimped out of trying much else apart from The Launch.

Any suggestions welcomed.

Tell it to my Heart- Kelly Llorenna
True Love Never Dies- Flip 'n' Fill, Kelly Llorenna
I would Die 4 u- Space Cowboys
The Whistle Song- DJ alligator
Poison (club version) cant think of artist
Love and affection- Mr pink, program
ResuRection- 13 PPK
Sexy Eyes- DJ Cammy
No one else- Bushman
My Boy Lollipop- DJ Zitkus

That is just a selection I took from A few clubland albums which I use for clubbers nights...etc...

I usually play Sandstorm and Insomnia along with some of the older club tracks like Set Me Free - N Trance, Let be be your fantasy, For an Angel -Paul Van Dyk and possibly some Prodigy as well. Sometimes play things like Alice Deejay, Armand Van Helden and ATB with them as well.

I have never played Logical song at a gig but always wondered whether it would work with this type of stuff or not. I always thought it might be a bit too cheesy for the type of crowd that like the clubby stuff.

Out of interest has anyone tried out the latest mix of My My My by Armand Van Helden (funktuary mix) yet, does it go down well or not.

A few from the same era as the tracks you mentioned originally...

ATB - 9pm (till i come)
Dj quicksilver - bellisima
BBE - Seven days and one week
Sash - Encore un fois
Robert Miles - Children

Energy 52 - cafe le mar
Darude - Sandstorm
Delirium - Silence
Southside spinners - luvstruck
Faithless - Insomnia

for a start !

umm...

Gat Decor - Passion (Do You Want It Right Now)
Jaydee - Plastic Dreams
Mighty Dub Katz - Magic Carpet Ride
JX - Son of a Gun
Paul Van Dyk - For An Angel
Inner City - Big Fun

Tillman Uhrmacher - On The Run
Mauro Picotto - Like This, Like That
Storm - Time To Burn
Trevor & Simon - Hands Up
System F - Out of the Blue

No imagnation you lot....

yes the new version of my my my is working well with the right crowd...

them club land albums contain 98% of total rubbish and seem to be popular in the far north and wales...

god know why

for your typical down south crowd try mylo, beat freaks and other tunes that have crossed over..
should keep most people happy..

Prodigy

I think you hit it on the nail Leonna - the general public.
Like us, they will all have different personal tastes in 'club music'.

You can not go too far wrong in playing the 'anthem tracks' already suggested, variety is great.

Gauge the age and have fun with all sorts of old skool anthems as well as the modern stuff.

100 other track/artiste suggestions to note (in no particular playing order)

I didn't know there was any controversy surrounding Robert Miles???? As it happens i only ever play children when i play the "children of the sandstorm" mashup.

Also, although i wouldn't play gary glitter i don't think i've mentioned that ever before on the forum.. so not sure where you got that from!

Oh and marky, i would have suggested plenty of good modern funky/commercial house tracks.. but i didn't think thats what Leonna was asking about going by the tracks she mentioned in the original post...

Superstar--Love INC.

Top tune and all seem to like it.

Leonna there is no really such genre as club, well there sort of is....Technically its just music played in clubs, but lately implies anything slightly more harder and dancy than cheesy pop records.

Opinions vary widely on genre....personally I would call some of the stuff mentioned Old Skool Dance, there are a few piano classics mentioned and some funky house tunes...

I wouldn't worry about genres but stuff i would try going with things mentioned..

Groove Amarda - Superstylin
Pianoman - Blurred (great tune!)
Flip n Fill - I wanna dance with somebody
Special D - Come with Me

then some slighty different ones like

Loleata Halloway - Love Sensation
Starchaser - Love will set you free
Bob Sinclair - World hold on

This will vary an awful lot according to your audience.

I think that although people are trying to be helpful, none of those tracks would work at all at my crowds, more's the pity...

In some locations it is a Clubland scene..on the fringes of the city here they go down really well, but I can't stand them. I don't really do those kind of gigs, but through friends of friends you end up having to and you can't punish the audience for their taste.

More often what people want is Tiesto type stuff. Around here at least the taste is very much shaped by the local commerical dance station, which is a secondary radio licence catering for a specific market. If there is not one in your area, you may see if there is a "pirate" radio station.

The travel agents in a particular area of this part of Europe tend to promote key locations in Spain, Ibiza, Crete, whatever and what the DJ played on the summer holiday is another huge influence among people who want to be trendy.

I think you could look for key influences like that.

I can almost guarantee you that what works CP's audience in to a storm will almost certainly not work for you, or CS, or the tunes that work for me. Unless they are in the charts.

Talk to punters, be really enthusiastic when they ask you for something you don't know..."wow, where did you hear that?.." etc etc

Where abouts are you based, TEE? It doesn't say in your user profile

Marky mark

n-trance tune! faithless!!!! progidy!!!!

Hi Richard.

Sorry for not answering sooner, the last couple of days have been sooooo busy! (great!). I normally visit my sites in a particular order, but lately I things have been going crazy and I don't get around to DJU, so I came here first tonight!

I am based in Ireland.

By chance I looked at the latest Clubland album online and they are not as bad as they were before, so maybe my comment was a bit out of place.

Some of the earlier ones weren't great.

But these bloody clubland albums still overlap the tracks - at least they don't ruin them completely by beat mixing them. I really hate that.

A bit off topic I know (okay very off topic) but re: the Alice Cooper comments I came across an excellent old track of his a couple of months back called welcome to my nightmare.

I heard it on a documentary on the biography channel, traced it on cd and it's been in my car ever since.

Very Doors like and an excellent track.

Here are some tracks that i think can work with general crowds -

Armand Van Helden - My My My (stonebridge remix)
Basement Jaxx - Oh My Gosh
Black Legend - You See The Trouble
Blaze - Most Precious Love (DF's Future 3000 Mix)
Bob Sinclair - World Hold On
Bob Sinclair - Love Generation
Bodyrockers - I Like The Way
Chocolate Puma - Always & Forever (Grant Nelson Mix)
David Guetta vs The Egg - Love Don't Walk Away
David Morales - Needin' You
Degrees Of Motion - Do You Want It Right Now (Haji & Emmanuel Mix)
Freemasons - Watchin
Gnarls Barkley - Crazy (Spencer Collective Edit)
Jamiroquai - Space Cowboy (Mayhem & Musaphia 2006 Mix) Orignal still works to
Junior Jack - Stupidisco
Lee Cabrera - I Want You
Mary J Blige - Be Without You (Blanco Mix)
Michael Gray - Borderline
Mylo - Muscle Car (Sander kleinbergs Mix)
Oakenfold Ft Brittany Murphy - Faster Kill Pussycat
Pussycat Dolls - Don't Cha (Kaskade Club Mix)
Rogue Traders - Voodoo Child
Rythem Fatal - Man In The Mirror
Shapeshifters - Incredible (Track 3 on the single cant remember the mix)
Solu Music - Fade (Grants Nelson Mix)
The Source - You Got THe Love (Shapeshifters Mix)
Teamsters - Feels Like Love (Morjac Mix)
Tom Novy - Your Body

That is just a selction of some of the tunes i tend to play in the more commercial bars and clubs. There is the harder stuff as well like:

Paul Van Dyk - For An Angel
Energy 52 - Cafe Del Mar
Paul Oakenfold - Bullet In The Gun
Faithless - Insominia
Grecce 2000 - Three Drives
Underworld - Born Slippy

Then of course the classics:

Orignal - I Love You B aby
Livin'Joy - Dreamer
Strike - You Sure DO
Nightcrawlers - Push The Feeling On
Atlantic Ocean - Watferfall
Bobby Brown - Two Can Play That Game (12" Is awesome!)
Ce Ce Peniston - Finally
Deee-Lite - Groove Is In The Heart
DJ Miko - Whats Up (very cheesey but always works)
DJ Quicksilver - Bellissima
Hyper Go Go - High
JX - Theres Nothing I Wont Do
Loveland - Let The Music Lift You Up
N Trance - Set You Free
Robin S - Show Me Love
Snap vs Run DMC - Rhythm Is A Dancer
Sublimnal Cuts - Le Voire Le Soleil
Wildchild - Renegade Master

Well that is most of the ones i play or sometimes play. At the end of the day its what you think works best with what crowd and we are all different.

Great list of top tracks there DJGAVT

I liked it in the days when dance music meant music you can dance to. Seems pretty obvious to me.

Now everything has to be labelled, or mis-labelled in this case.

Music is something generated by people who are called musicians.
They play things called instruments.
They read sheets with notes on called music.
Their sounds are original - even though sometimes copied (if that doesn't sound contradictory)

So wtf do we have technicians in record companies messing about on computers with samples of other people's genuine and original music to "create" (ha-ha) something called "Dance Music?"