Hi, I'm new here too. I just found out about this site a couple days ago. Normally I would lurk for awhile, but I need some help. I'm trying to put together a mix, and I need some suggestions.
The name of this mix is 'Heart of Danceness'. I want any listener to dance like hell to this mix, and by the end have gone insane, or at least have his or her mind blown. For mind blowing, I figure I gotta end with LCD's 'Yeah'.
The problem with me making a dance mix is that I'm not so knowledgeable with the dance genre. What I have so far owes heavily to pitchfork's singles list of a couple weeks ago.
Here are some of the tracks I like for the mix:
LCD Soundsystem - Yeah (Crass Version)
Daft Punk - Harder, Better, Faster, etc.
Annie - Chewing Gum
Beck - Girl
The Rapture - House of Jealous Lovers
Erlend Oye or Phoenix - If I Ever Feel Better
Ellen Allien - Alles Sehen, Sehnsucht
Bjork - Triump of a Heart
I was thinking of putting on Happy Valentine's Day by Outkast, you know, because it's timely, but in thinking about it now, I have no idea if it's danceable. Is it fast enough?
So, if you were designing a mix to reel people in and then drive them insane by blowing their minds, what would you put on?
Thanks for reading this far! Cheers!
― Nick Uh-huh (boghead), Monday, 14 February 2005 05:00 (twenty-one years ago)
you could do much worse than the ILM Top Tracks of 2004 list:
ILM TOP TRACKS OF 2004
I made a mix that's effortlessly, terminally danceable from that list, and I've found enough gems there for 3 or 4 more
a must: Millionaire by Kelis w/Andre 3000
another: Covered in Punk by Portabella
now I'm hooked to this site cos it's the only place I find out about great "singles"(fuck if I'm going to sit there and listen to commercial radio all day, whatever "ist" that makes me)
― tremendoid (tremendoid), Monday, 14 February 2005 05:25 (twenty-one years ago)
Naah, it's got to be "Apocalypse Never" by Pilldriver or "Don't fuck with a ruffneck" by Wedlock.
― Jacob (Jacob), Monday, 14 February 2005 05:43 (twenty-one years ago)
I've got mixed feelings on the album as a whole, but there are a couple of choice tracks on Dance Disaster Movement's
We Are from Nowhere.
― Will M. (Will M.), Monday, 14 February 2005 10:18 (twenty-one years ago)
I'm not terribly up on dance music on the whole, but I know I can't keep still when Ministry's "Jesus Built my Hotrod" is on. Good luck with the mix!
― Quilldriver, Monday, 14 February 2005 12:48 (twenty-one years ago)
right. beatmix....
so I'll just go google that now...
Seriously though, I am interested in music production programs. I'd love to put a danceable beat into Leaf House by Animal Collective. Any day now I'm gonna download Fruity Loops. And then there's Acid, and pro tools, and etc.
Anyone got a good intro website for this kind of stuff?
― Nick Uh-huh (boghead), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 07:36 (twenty-one years ago)