Grandmaster Flash, White Lines

John Kelly mix of The Stone Roses’ – Fool’s Gold
or Nush – Nush

To be honest, I’m not really into the whole dance/nightclub scene music. However, years ago, some mates and I wandered into the Ocean Rooms in Brighton (I worked with them and they all shared a house in Brighton), high on MDMA, and they were playing a break-beat remix of a Public Enemy song (a group I love) and it left a lasting memory. An amazing version of the track.

Does that fulfill the brief?

Felix – don’t you want my love?

Michael Jackson – Wanna be starting domething

Insomnia. Awesome.

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2HpR-eEPgk[/video]

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uB_dYLTHsPA[/video]

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivr57dcs9-E[/video]

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhU_jZeSy9w[/video]

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWu0ciM-E5Q[/video]

And Binners was behind the bar 😯
Who knew?

Oh, and these:

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyAFrmafmKo[/video]

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSZsmSTmdlU[/video]

‘Course, depends what type of dance you mean – but this lot will do for a start. 😀

corporation of one – the real life

hehe.. I used to have a Smokin’ Records T-shirt back in the good old days.. I was dead proud of that T-shirt

I’ll chuck this in before I go to bed.. 😀

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMAkeZkGL7Y[/video]

Silence Delirium.

From various stages of my youth….

Gat Decor – Passion
Pulp – Babies
Greece 2000 – Three Drives on a vinyl
Charlatans – the only one I know

Swaying around with a can of Red Stripe, desperately trying NOT to inhale any smoke from a Marlboro red and generally being a bit of a tit. Happy days.

Cafe del Mar – Energy 52.

Maybe not the best, but certainly has the best memories 8)

Hard to pick a favourite but this always makes me happy/gets me dancing.

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxFX8DYyZs8[/video]

Dj Falcon & Thomas Bangalter – So much love to give
Paul Van Dyk – For an Angel
De’Lacy – Hideaway
DJ Jean – The Launch
Acen – trip to the moon part 2
808 State – Cubik

Too much Leffe to figure out how to embed youtube vids, but;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuqEbRzy_t8 (stag weekend tune, so memorable)

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AaKK7O-A0g&feature=youtube_gdata_player[/video]

THE best? 😕

Only one? 😕 😕 😕

That’s 100 times worse than asking which bike is best, or if you had 5000 children which one is your favourite, to me…

Argh!!! There are soooooo sooooo many greats.

To start… The Queen of Disco, Donna Summer’s I Feel Love, will go down in history as rewriting the rule books and introducing electronica to the masses.

Michael Jackson changed the game in a way never seen before, or since, with Thriller.

Sugar Hill Gang’s Rapper’s Delight brought Hip Hop to the masses, even if the masses was only the US for many years to come.

Timeless by Goldie brought what was Jungle, and turned into D&B primarily because of his influence, to the masses. Roni Size then catapulted the genre forward again in 97 winning the Mercury Music Prize with Brown Paper Bag.

Derrick May released Strings of Life on the world in 1987, and Techno was effectively born.

Or do you mean the track(s) that has the most meaning to us personally as individuals?

Wallop – if you’re talking the kid paul mix its def up there 8)

Fascinating rhythm

Hardfloor Acperience

Mills, Beltram, UR, Beyer, Hawtin, etc all have classic tracks but…

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJeXst5hjH8[/video]

Faithless – Insomnia
Cream – Godskitchen edit
Ebeneezer Goode – Shamen
Greece2000 – Dave Pearce remix
Hot Chip – Over and Over
Matt Darey – Binary Finary
Rank 1 – Airwave

And for a different approach:

Republica – Drop dead Gorgeous

Oh dear – There is no “best ever”
These are contenders though (turn it up to 11!) 😀

Operation Blade
Open Up
The Prophet

Just looked at billboulders, ‘kin avinit””

😀

Good shout on Fascinating Rhythm BTW patriotpro. A classic. (16 year old me+club full of fitness+microdot+that tune=good night out!) 8)

best ever cross over – lager/pills boy song?

Fighting fire. Breakage absolute stonker!!!!!!

And no mention of Fools Gold so far!
Which reminds me
=http:// https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1Ke19kxGp8&feature=youtube_gdata_player%5Dacid fuelled Roses – not fools gold btw.

BT Flaming June

Too many to choose from but Second Phase’s “Mentasm” would have to be in the running, surely?

Darude sandstorm

Black legend – the trouble with me

Prodigy no good start the dance

OT quartet – hold that sucker down

Will smith – boom shake the room

Fools Golds about 3 posts in..

If your talking dance floor fillers then MJ or Wham 🙂

For me, Farley Jackmaster Funk – Love Can’t Turn Around or The Blow Monkeys – La Passionara

And for any dance floor lovers who live in or visit Leeds, get yourself to Smokestacks on Lower Briggate. It’s an irrisistable mix of ska, funk, soul, hip hop, etc, my calves hurt just thinking about it 🙂

Voodoo Ray

Live version of Let Me Be Your Fantasy, only available on the b-side of Destiny. Took me over 5 years to track a copy down! Per-eBay days!!

Wind It Up by The Prodigy

I could go on but would still be here lunchtime.

Hmmm…how about Access, The Bells or Red 2. So many good times, so many lost brain cells…

Donna summer, I feel love
Joe cool, promised land
Jeff mills, steps to enchantment

For an Angel -PVD
I wanna give you devotion – Nomad
but my favorite and the biggest selling 12″ of all time ” Blue Monday “
i think I’ve just closed the post ?

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gci-YQ30pCw[/video]

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXBIrO-VlSM[/video]

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7olyhowRCs0[/video]

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABghwTfqCEU[/video]

Acperience 1 never ceases to excite me like no other track, but in terms of getting me dancing it’d probably be Jump Around 😆

Others on my short list
FSOL’s Papua New Guinea
De’Lacy’s Hideaway (Deep Dish mix of course)
Donna Summer I Feel Love
Faithless Insomnia

Actually I could be here all day. Time to turn the decks on

Great choons, love this sort of thread…