What are the kids dancing to these days?

A 12-hour nu-grave set should suffice.

Gossip - Standing In The Way Of Control (Soulwax Mix)
Bloc Party - Positive Tension
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Date With The Night
Adam & The Ants - Prince Charming
Archie Bronson Outfit - Dart For My Sweetheart
The Earlies - Kelly Brown
Dj Shadow - Mongrel Meets His Maker
Tricky - Hell Around The Corner
Skream - Colourful
Broken Family Band - It's All Over

(I'm only half kidding)
Roots Manuva - Witness The Fitness
The Hives - No Pun Intended
The Fall - Totally Wired
John Martyn - May You Never
Shuggie Otis - Ah Uh Mi Hed
Broadcast Hammer Without A Master
Brian Jonestown Massacre - You Look Great When I'm High

Woop, that went a bit wrong. That's the soundtrack from Skins, so careful not to belittle anyone. Hahaha.

Be sure to play the kind of music that's discussed at length on ILM.

Drum and bass, chart rnb and second rate haircut indie.

I wasn't aware any kids listened to trance nowadays? Maybe then mean nu-metal trancecore e.g Enter Shikari

MUSCLES

http://musclesmusic.com/

please keep in mind.

I've been told there will be booze

Indeed. The erection section is due for about 10.20.

why don't you ask the audience? when i played a mate's daughter's prom a couple of years ago i primed myself by asking the kids to fill in a short questionnaire about their taste in music. it was extremely illuminating (although they were like 12 not 16-18).

can't they just get 16-18yr olds to DJ at these things?

there should be an ILX Junior board

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where did the propeller on cap thing even come from?

if they know the "Crank That" dance, you're set for the night

Great I'm thinking of a Muppet Baby version of Geir now.

Dj Shadow - Mongrel Meets His Maker
Tricky - Hell Around The Corner

mmm, dancey!

My daughter rrrrreally likes Justus Köhncke but not as much as the Miffy theme song which she wants on repeat every nighth. GAH!

16-18 years, not months nat

the Cupid Shuffle mostly

Is this a group of US 16 to 18 year olds? Cause if so, you betta have a whole lotta Soulja Boy, Sean Kingston, Rihanna, Rich Boy, Akon, Justin Timberlake/Nelly Furtado/Timbaland-y stuff, Shop Boyz, Fall Out Boy, Fergie, T-Pain, T-Pain, and T-Pain. Although the fact that they might even have a remote clue what trance is suggest this is not a group of US youngsters. Surely at least a bit of the above list would apply for you too, though.

Gossip - Standing In The Way Of Control (Soulwax Mix)
Bloc Party - Positive Tension
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Date With The Night
Adam & The Ants - Prince Charming
Archie Bronson Outfit - Dart For My Sweetheart
The Earlies - Kelly Brown
Dj Shadow - Mongrel Meets His Maker
Tricky - Hell Around The Corner
Skream - Colourful
Broken Family Band - It's All Over

(I'm only half kidding)
Roots Manuva - Witness The Fitness
The Hives - No Pun Intended
The Fall - Totally Wired
John Martyn - May You Never
Shuggie Otis - Ah Uh Mi Hed
Broadcast Hammer Without A Master
Brian Jonestown Massacre - You Look Great When I'm High

-- the next grozart, Friday, 21 September 2007 12:19 (2 hours ago) Link

the next grozart's mindgarden high school

i think djing for a bunch of drunken underage kids would also be considered a bit suspect in the states ... what strange nation is this kind of thing not frowned upon?

matt2 OTM

xpost - yea I was wondering that too, it's a school dance and alcohol will be served? for the kids or for the dj/chaperones/etc?

older stuff, even if you and i know it's really good (e.g. Prince) probably won't really resonate with kids that age

Yeah the oldest you could go ("I remember this from elementary school") is N'Sync or Destiny's Child (cause JT and Beyonce are still so prominent) and maybe some Nelly or Jay-Z or something. I dj at a college radio station (clarification: I'm 29 but if you were a dj there as a student, you are allowed to continue to dj there kinda like a community radio station. I ain't tryin' to hang with the college kiddies past my time you dirty minds, about 1/3 to 1/2 of our regular dj staff are as old or older than me anyway). Anyway, back to the point, I was asked to dj our annual 80's Dance (yes even current college kids are still strangely fascinated with dressing like Madonna and MJ) as an actual relic of the era last fall. Now the current college students who dj at the station are presumably "music fanatics" but I was appalled at the music they didn't know. To them, the ONLY Prince song that ever mattered was "When Doves Cry" (I was literally asked not to play anything else by him. I wasn't digging deep either, just wanted to pay "I Would Die 4 U" ) and Depeche Mode, Yaz, Gap Band, Cameo, Kool and the Gang, Shannon, etc pretty much do not exist in their minds ("I've never heard any of this. Don't play it"). And these folks were 19 to 21 years old. So, so bizarre. My points being, Mark Clemente OTM and it's incredible how quickly we all become relics.

we had a karaoke night in sixth form one time and the teachers let us bring beer in which was great.

A lot of them are probably into My Chemical Romance and Panic! At The Disco, but I realise those are hardly dancefloor killers.

Justin and Justice.

why don't you ask the audience? when i played a mate's daughter's prom a couple of years ago i primed myself by asking the kids to fill in a short questionnaire about their taste in music. it was extremely illuminating (although they were like 12 not 16-18).

I did the same thing a year ago (also kids aged 16-18; some of the girls were slightly indie-y, as you can tell from the list), and luckily I still have the e-mail:

Songs we like:

Junior Senior – Shake your coconuts
Har Mar Superstar - DUI
Foo Fighters
Franz Ferdinand
The Streets
Scissor Sisters
Strokes
Robyn – konichiwa bitches
Hi tack - say say say

Songs we like from the 90s:

Backstreet boys
Five
Mmmbob, Hanson
S club 7
Rednex
Vengaboys
Scatman
Try me out

Songs we like from the 80s:

Madonna
Girls just wanna have fun
Michael Jackson
The Clash
Wham
The buggles, video killed the radiostar
Rivers of babylon
The cure

Songs we like from the 70s:

jackson 5
hippy hippy shake
Beach Boys
Beatles
Elvis
Aretha Franklin
Ramones
Knock on wood
Boots are made for walking

Songs we are sick of:

Sean Paul
Beyonce + destinys child

Also, the list below = disaster. Just so you know. I mean, "Ah Uh Mi Hed"!!! (Great song, though.)

Roots Manuva - Witness The Fitness
The Hives - No Pun Intended
The Fall - Totally Wired
John Martyn - May You Never
Shuggie Otis - Ah Uh Mi Hed
Broadcast Hammer Without A Master
Brian Jonestown Massacre - You Look Great When I'm High

Thanks for suggestions so far. This is not in the US but in New Zealand - the kids are basically listening to the same things though. Yeah, with the older stuff I don't want to fall into that "I don't know this, I won't dance to it, this sucks" trap... Depeche Mode, Yaz etc... would sadly not go down well.

They'll flip out if you put on DJ Sammy's "Heaven." MAYBE "One More Time," "Starry Eyed Surprise," or "Days Go By." Otherwise, crank dat soulja boy.

oh, in NZ I have no idea. If it were the US rap would be the only way to go.

Yeah, Rap will be very prevalent but I'm stumped on the trance. They want something with a good beat, I'm guessing it needs to be recent.

Starry Eyed Surprise

SO TRANCE

that's a pretty great one and i know for a fact that everyone knows it. any other ones like that, other than the ones you listed prior?

the kids only dance to joe bataan's 'mestizo,' if they know whats good for them

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTiAU-w1KyI

You could definitely play some Fatboy Slim...and this would, too.

Also, this one would probably be a hit.

this would work*

ok, word is that i need wordless hip dance music, techno/trance kind of stuff. these kids appear to be pretty hip.

Justin and Justice.

Sounds like this could be the way to go. Find more crappy electro house which is everywhere at the moment (in Auckland at any rate, where are you?).

MUSCLES

In my experience, if you just play the whole of the Pendulum CD and then go for a pint, you will have made their nights come true.

I hear that My Chemical Romance are "this generation's Nirvana".

Ice Cube - Put Your Ass Into It
ODB - Baby I Got Your Money
Blackstreet - No Diggity
TLC - Creep
R. Kelly - Ignition (Remix)

-These are always standard "retro" hip-hop/R'n'B here

Violent Femmes - Blister in the sun

-I have yet to go to a teen disco that didn't play this song

Fergie, JT, My Chemical Romance, The Killers, Britney, Xtina, Usher, Something from High School Musical.

Bee: I'm in Auckland, yeah

http://poundforpound.blogspot.com/2007/06/justice-essential-mix-52007.html#3971546938211003165

Songs we like:

Junior Senior – Shake your coconuts
Har Mar Superstar - DUI
Foo Fighters
Franz Ferdinand
The Streets
Scissor Sisters
Strokes
Robyn – konichiwa bitches
Hi tack - say say say

Songs we like from the 90s:

Backstreet boys
Five
Mmmbob, Hanson
S club 7
Rednex
Vengaboys
Scatman
Try me out

I find it funny how the 00s picks are considerably more cutting edge than the 90s ones. It seems like those kids still like what they used to be into as kids, not quite discovering that there was more to the 90s than that. :)

But, if they can still say with a straight face that they do like Rednex, Vengaboys, Corona and Scatman John, they I guess you should go for something similar from the 00s, as that would obviously be more danceable than Foo Fighters or Franz Ferdinand.

Surely it's a case that novelty records appeal more to little kids than adults and that the cheesy songs they remember as kids stay with them into adulthood

seriously Tricky? wtf i wouldnt even dance to that list and i love some of those artists

i dont know how 'dancey' you mean

if you want dance then just go for remixes of popular songs

Killers - Mr Brightside, When You Were Young (JLC remixes)
Fall Out Boy - Dance Dance (Lindbergh Palace Remix) etc.

if you want music kids dance to then just play Killers, FOB, MCR, Rihanna, that Sean Kingston song etc. in there original mixes

Im in Auckland too and I have a 17 yo sister btw

the only older songs they might get

Nirvana, Foo Fighters, Chronic 2001-era Dre, maybe some Boyz II men for slow jam moments, stuff like that

splates, what would you say are some other remixes of popular songs that'd work with these kids?

DJ Shyboy - What Goes Around The World (Daft Punk Vs Justin Timberlake)
Fall Out Boy - Thnks Fr The Mmrs (Lindbergh Palace Remix)
Justin Timberlake - LoveStoned (Kaskade Remix)
Rihanna - Dont Stop The Music (Wideboys Club Mix)
Killers - Read My Mind (Pet Shop Boys Stars Are Blazing Mix)
Mason Vs Princess Superstar - Perfect (Exceeder)
Sneaky Sound System - Pictures (Tonite Only Remix)
Rihanna - Umbrella (Jody Den Broeder Lush Mix)
Timbaland - The Way I Are (Axwell Remix), (Icons Club Mix)

theyll go down alright, but i suspect youll be better off just playing them 'smells like teen spirit' or something

theres a mashup of Nelly Furtado's Say It Right with 'Children' thats hilariously cheesy but surprisingly fun floating around too

Uffie- Ready to uff