[inukage0029]

Hello everyone.

Im here looking for some advice to freshen up my music collection.

Heres how it started: A few months ago, i was at a pretty big party with a bunch of friends. The drinks were good, the people were awesome, the turnout was impossibly large, but the music SUCKED! So i ran outside, grabbed my ipod, and booted the DJ to the bar. All i wanted to do was make a quick on the go playlist, put it on shuffle, and enjoy the rest of the party. As it turns out, everyone loved the music. I played all the basic popular dance stuff, including some Daft Punk, Benassi, some Deadmau5, and a load of other stuff. Everyones attention turned away from the booze and toward the amazing music. I really got caught up in it all, and i love teaching everyone about new music. I want that to be the last party where i listen to crappy hip-hop all night.

Now that i have found something i love doing, i was wondering if anyone could give me some advice on other, maybe less known Dance-able DJs for me to look into. Im sick of playing just pop stuff, and am looking to expand my views. This may be House, Hardstyle, Vocal Dance, basically anything that is easy to dance to with a great beat when you crank it up.

Head-fi has some of the most diverse and knowledgable music lovers around, and i figured this would be the best place to expand my horizons.

Thanks a bunch!

 

[selkin]

It depends on the crowd you play to.
I think you stick with the pop thing (daft punk benassi deadmau5 etc) and you can't get wrong.

btw are you sure you know what is dance music ?
hip hop is one of the ultimate dance genres tbh. real hip hop I mean, not 50cent and and the others..

so anything with funk in it is pretty danceable...techno, drumandbass, hardcore, breakbeat, downtempo, house, oldschool stuff.... you name it. it's all about the listener's attitude, his or her love of music/dance. and free thinking.

some stuff that comes to my mind and I think is popular but still good:
YouTube - Alter Ego - Rocker
YouTube - Simian Mobile Disco - Hustler
YouTube - Rex The Dog - Prototype
YouTube - Utah Saints Something Good '08 : Download OUT NOW!!
the french line
YouTube - Justice ft Uffie - The Party
YouTube - Justice - D.A.N.C.E
YouTube - Mr. Oizo Flat Beat oizo's other stuff a must too

the classics of bigbeat of course:
YouTube - Apollo 440 - Stop The Rock (High Quality)
YouTube - Chemical Brothers - Under the Influence
fat boy slim, royksopp,
YouTube - Soulwax * E-talking


some less popular easier stuff:
YouTube - Luke Vibert - I Love Acid
YouTube - Skeewiff - Skeewiff vs Big Les
YouTube - DJ Format ft. MC Abdominal & MC D-Sisive - 3 Feet Deep
YouTube - DJ FORMAT FEATURÄ°NG ABDOMÄ°NAL
YouTube - Kid Koala - Fender Bender
YouTube - Bonobo - Noctuary
more "dancy":
YouTube - Jammin/DJ Zinc - Go DJ
YouTube - Stanton Warriors Blue
YouTube - BAD COMPANY-DOSAGE-2002
YouTube - PMT - Necromancer
YouTube - 138 Trek - Ganja Kru (feat MC GQ)
YouTube - Daft Punk vs. Boys Noize


and so on
hope some of them are new to you as this is not the freshest list, but I think a good place to start

oh almost forgot, you should watch this too YouTube - Soulwax - Too Many DJs

 

[inukage0029]

i was thinking as dance to be along the line of modern.... electronic would be a good term. I personally love the older dance tunes, but i was trying to match the genre I have found myself loving to play (Benassi is a good style to stem off of... its hard, its bassy, its got a good continuous beat... everything that makes people want to get their butts off the couch and move). Thanks a bunch for the suggestions, by the way!

 

[discoscience]

Really great suggestions, especially Rex the Dog and Alter Ego. Really digging this new electrohouse movement. You should also check out Boyz Noise, he fits in nicely between your Justice/Simian fare. That being said, I would recommend almost anybody off the Kitsune label

Especially Yelle!
YouTube - Yelle "ACDG" Remix Electro VaVan Treaxy St4nl3y94.sky

As far as DJs go, I really only like listening to minimal DJs these days (like Magda, Richie Hawtin, Alex Smoke, Ricardo Villalobos) and very few find the style as exciting (more cerebral and groovy as opposed to dancefloor-filler). I think James Zabiela is an endless inspiration though.

 

[selkin]

o yeah James Zabiela! and all the others you mentioned too. they're great.
also something I like to listen to (well much more than watching it...)
YouTube - TIGA - Sunglasses at night


yepp minimal is pretty good. like it alot
I like electro, IDM, experimental hip hop as well. maybe prefer it a bit more.
YouTube - Claro Intelecto - Peace Of Mind
YouTube - Lawgiverz-luv (maybe the only full track on utube. a shame really)

YouTube - Si Begg - Buss
YouTube - Radioactive Man - Uranium
Jnr Hacksaw on MySpace Music - Free Streaming MP3s, Pictures & Music Downloads
SOTEG (Son of the Electric Ghost)
ADJ
Pathic
Trentemoller
Tipper
Buckfunk 3000
Fibla
Heralds of Change
Planet Boelex on MySpace Music - Free Streaming MP3s, Pictures & Music Downloads
Ed Chamberlain on MySpace Music - Free Streaming MP3s, Pictures & Music Downloads (check the Styge here this is really a great laidback electro funk tune)
ben mono on MySpace Music - Free Streaming MP3s, Pictures & Music Downloads
Ochre on MySpace Music - Free Streaming MP3s, Pictures & Music Downloads check REM Sleep Research..
Andy Page on MySpace Music - Free Streaming MP3s, Pictures & Music Downloads

but I guess these are a bit far from benassi so.... not really helpful to the OP

well best dance DJs imo
inukage0029: I think almost anything with a decent kickdrum and a good bassline will do the job. get popular, well known tracks like the ones deadmau5 or benassi's producing (sry at this moment I can't even reacall that dutch superstar DJ-s name either.. wait a minute: there we go, it's Tiesto and Armin van Buuren)

but of course something like Yelle! is good. it's very catchy and sexy (the music I mean, not those metrosexual kids in the video

)
boys noize is already there if you see closely discosience

ohh some more plus:
M.A.N.D.Y. and Mylo is a must too
mylo interview ignore the foreign ad at the start.
mylo mentions some names I would check out if I were you

 

[discoscience]

Haha dude, Tiga's videos are awesome!
YouTube - Tiga- You Gonna Want Me

Some cool stuff you've posted that I've never heard. You're probably helping me more than the OP haha.

Okay, just to keep with the videoroll this thread has evolved into here's some more recommendations that may or may not help the OP haha


Bodyrox (okay this is old as hell but I dig the video. especially if you can find the uncensored version. yeah)
YouTube - Bodyrox ft.Luciana - Yeah Yeah

Calvertron
YouTube - Calvertron - Everytime (Original Mix)

T. Raumschmiere - The man who brought the Schaffel beat back to techno
YouTube - the game is not over

Stephan Bodzin, James Holden, Nathan Fake. A few progenitors of melodic minimal/pixie-house (which can work wonders on the dancefloor, especially late in a set)
YouTube - stephan bodzin - sonnenwind
YouTube - James Holden - A Break In The Clouds
YouTube - Nathan Fake - The Sky Was Pink James Holden Remix

Superpitcher + Michael Mayer = Supermayer
YouTube - Superpitcher - happiness (m.mayer mix)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dn9XmHFVPoTons of artists on the Kompakt label you could check out as well.

Minilogue
YouTube - Minilogue - Hitchhiker's Choice

Byetone
YouTube - Byetone - D.O.A.T. (excerpt) The ultimate art school project? There's some really neat stuff on the Raster-Noton label that I find quite appealing as of late.

Gus Gus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4edyf5hq63M
I wish more groups performed music like this. Epic!

 

[nvkid909]

check out Laurent Garnier. he is absoluteley amazing because of his huge vocabulary in dance music. mostly what you would call 'a party' but he will do this with house, techno, breaks, acid house, even some hip-hop elements in there. he has this almost cult like following evrytime he's in London. one thing i will say is his sound can often be described as 'international'. i mean, if your crowd are bored of usual hip-hop then you can do this, or you could find any specialist genre / artist / dj from anywhere & throw that at them. but he will definitely get people jumping.

guess it's alot easier in europe where you have this crowd, that crowd.... or just a drinking crowd with commercial dance.

personally i can't stand what we have in the uk that calls itself urban / r&b i'd be more inclined to swap it for something that's actually urban (junglistic) & intelligent, like ventian snares. that'll get a response!

 

[dallas]

for some great progressive house/trance check out Jaytech. He's putting out some really great stuff on the same label as Above & Beyond (Anjunabeats). His "Everything is OK" album is amazing. Also check out his podcast as well as Matt Darey's and Above & Beyond's "Trance Around the World" podcast and Any Moor's "Moormusic" podcast. All great stuff. And I can't forget to mention Markus Schulz. He just put out a compilation called "toronto 09" on Armada, and his Global DJ Broadcast podcast/radio show is great. ok, that's my 2 cents.

 

[selkin]

wow, some of them went to the favorites at that instant I've heard them

great videos, it's really helpful for me too. in fact I could really use some advise on this stuff as I didn't spend much time with this housey stuff yet.
thx for collecting them into one bunch

OP: today I've just heard a music that I could'nt remember first:
Eric Prydz

btw avalanches ?

 

[selkin]

Laurent Garnier yepp, a big name!!
venetian snares

oh, and what about Switch and his fidget house.. it deserves a word or two

this Calvertron - Everytime (Original Mix) brought into my mind. this Everytime is a crazy tune, I like the way it updates the 90's house sound into this lushy bass goove thing. good sh1t.