Colm's Now album has some fab dance choons: Rozalla, Utah Saints, Baby D, KLF, U96, Prodigy* (though I'd go obvious with Firestarter), RAF, Source especially....

 

 

(* which gives me an opportunity for another anecdote repeat - a few years back I was clubbing at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern Duckies on Sat nights and they put on Smack My Bitch Up just as an elderly gentleman (it's a very mixed crowd of ages, but not the very young) with a walking cane in one hand and a pint in the other managed to squeeze past me and gyrating others to find the only empty spot by the steps he could stand and enjoy. "Legend" I thought, not letting disability and age stop him going out! :lol: )

These are my faves from the 00s list - bold I already have, italics are the one I'll be prioritising getting...

 

Scanty Sandwich - Because Of You

Chicane (feat. Bryan Adams) - Don't Give Up

Moloko - The Time Is Now

Madison Avenue - Don't Call Me Baby

Sonique - It Feels So Good

Spiller (feat. Sophie Ellis-Bextor) - Groovejet (If This Ain't Love)

Zombie Nation - Kernkraft 400 (DJ Gius Remix)

Delerium (feat. Sarah McLachlan) - Silence (Remixes)

Daft Punk - One More Time

Rui Da Silva (feat. Cassandra) - Touch Me

M&S presents The Girl Next Door - Salsoul Nugget (If U Wanna)

Fatboy Slim - Star 69 (What The F**k) / Weapon Of Choice

Roger Sanchez - Another Chance

iiO - Rapture

X-Press 2 (feat. David Byrne) - Lazy

Junior Senior - Move Your Feet

Tomcraft - Loneliness

Benny Benassi presents The Biz - Satisfaction

The Shapeshifters - Lola's Theme

Michael Gray - The Weekend

Soul Central (feat. Kathy Brown) - Strings Of Life (Stronger On My Own)

The Chemical Brothers (feat. Q-Tip) - Galvanize

Bob Sinclar (feat. Gary Nesta Pine) - Love Generation

Tom Novy (feat. Michael Marshall) - Your Body

David Guetta vs. The Egg (feat. Chris Willis) - Love Don't Let Me Go (Walking Away)

Fedde Le Grand - Put Your Hands Up For Detroit

Booty Luv - Boogie 2Nite

Mason vs. Princess Superstar - Perfect (Exceeder)

The Chemical Brothers - Do It Again

Groove Armada (feat. Mutya Buena) - Song 4 Mutya (Out Of Control)

Robyn & Kleerup - With Every Heartbeat (I just ordered this earlier today, I can't believe I didn't get this sooner - me of all people!!!)

Freemasons (feat. Bailey Tzuke) - Uninvited

Utah Saints - Something Good '08

Eric Prydz - Pjanoo

Guru Josh Project - Infinity 2008

Kid Cudi vs. Crookers - Day 'N' Nite

Calvin Harris - I'm Not Alone

Chase & Status (feat. Plan B) - End Credits

We actually had a debate on the 00s dance forum before declaring With Every Heartbeat as dance because it obviously is very synthpop too. It being thread contributor Lenny/Midge's favourite song ever played a bit of a role in us allowing it to be dance #1 on the thread!

It definitely was classed a dance single at the time, albeit a very synth pop styled one and obviously Robyn wouldn't really be dance nowadays - I think Kleerup had generally focused solely on dance music though.

Prodigy* (though I'd go obvious with Firestarter),

 

 

But Firestarter wasn't a rave tune :(

 

If you have Dropbox I can send you the mp3 pack, artwork and all.

 

It only took me 4 years to make it :D

I've just extended the definition of classic dance even further than Only You to include 'Raspberry Swirl' :kink:

 

 

Well it's a dance tune but is it essential or classic? :lol:

Colm's Now album has some fab dance choons: Rozalla, Utah Saints, Baby D, KLF, U96, Prodigy* (though I'd go obvious with Firestarter), RAF, Source especially....

(* which gives me an opportunity for another anecdote repeat - a few years back I was clubbing at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern Duckies on Sat nights and they put on Smack My Bitch Up just as an elderly gentleman (it's a very mixed crowd of ages, but not the very young) with a walking cane in one hand and a pint in the other managed to squeeze past me and gyrating others to find the only empty spot by the steps he could stand and enjoy. "Legend" I thought, not letting disability and age stop him going out! :lol: )

 

haha, brilliant!

 

I do love “Smack My Bitch Up”, particularly the video although I never saw it at the time for obvious reasons. I think YouTube still has it banned anyway, but personally I think it is a brilliant video because of the way that it really gets you thinking about gender stereotypes, and your own unconscious biases. Keith Flint's death really cut me up, their music really did soundtrack much of my life growing up. I remember when someone brought in “Breathe” to play in schoool on non-uniform day and being completely blown away. I hope I'm like that guy when I get older, with my enthusiasm for big breakbeats undimmed.

My 12" collection

 

Dance

Adamski - Killer

Atlantic Ocean - Waterfall

Black Box - Ride On Time

Blue Pearl - Naked in the Rain

Chemical Brothers - Hey Boy, Hey Girl

Daft Punk - Aerodynamic

Daft Punk - Around the World

Grace - Not Over Yet [Perfecto Mixes]

Orbital - Satan [Live]

Snap! - Rhythm is a Dancer

The Shamen - Boss Drum

The Shamen - Hyperreal

Tori Amos - Hey Jupiter/Professional Widow

 

House

A Guy Called Gerald - Voodoo Ray

Bomb the Bass - Beat Dis

Hit House - Jack to the Sound of the Underground

Jeff Wayne - Eve of the War [ben Liebrand Mix]

Krush - House Arrest

Krush - House Arrest [Mixes]

Lil Louis - French Kiss

Mory Kante - Ye Ke Ye Ke

S-Express - Superfly Guy

S-Express - Theme from S-Express

 

Rave

Felix - Don't You Want Me?

KLF - 3AM Eternal

KLF - Last Train to Trancentral

KLF - Last Train to Trancentral [Mixes]

KLF - What Time is Love?

Nomad - (I Wanna Give You) Devotion

Quandrophonia - Quandrophonia

Rozalla - Everybody's Free (To Feel Good)

The Prodigy - No Good (Start the Dance)

The Prodigy - Out of Space

Together - Hardcore Uproar

Utah Saints - Believe in Me

Utah Saints - Something Good

Utah Saints - Something Good '08 [White label]

Utah Saints - What Can You Do For Me?

 

Synth Pop/Electro Pop

Bronksi Beat - Smalltown Boy

Depeche Mode - Enjoy the Silence

Desireless - Voyage Voyage

Erasure - Blue Savanah

Erasure - Love to Hate You

Eurythmics - There Must Be An Angel (Playing With My Heart)

Eurythmics - You Have Placed a Chill in My Heart

Holly Johnson - Love Train

Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart

New Order - 1963-95

New Order - Blue Monday x2

New Order - Confusion

New Order - Here to Stay [Remixes]

New Order - Perfect Kiss

New Order - Regret

New Order - Round and Round

New Order - Round and Round [Remixes]

New Order - Run 2

New Order - Shellshock x 2

New Order - Singularity

New Order - State of the Nation

New Order - Subculture

New Order - Temptation

New Order - True Faith

New Order - True Faith [Remixes]

New Order - True Faith '94

New Order - Tutti Frutti

New Order - World (The Price of Love)

Pet Shop Boys - Always On My Mind

Pet Shop Boys - It’s a Sin

Pet Shop Boys - Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)

Pet Shop Boys - So Hard

Pet Shop Boys - What have I Done to Deserve This?

 

Trance

BT - Flaming June

Chicane feat. Bryan Adams - Don't Give Up

Delirium - Silence

DJ Sakin & Friends - Nomansland (David's Song)

Jan Johnson - Flesh

Motorcyle - As the Rush Comes

Paul van Dyk - For an Angel

Rui da Silva - Touch Me

Safri Duo - Played Alive (The Bongo Song)

System F - Out of the Blue

Three Drives - Greece 2000

Veracocha - Carte Blanche

William Orbit - Barber's Adagio for Strings [Ferry Corsten Mix]

 

Other

Aphex Twin - Windowlicker

Enigma - Sadness (Part 1)

Orbital - The Box

Massive Attack - Protection

 

Oooooo you have As The Rush Comes! I want that but it's always so expensive and I haven't quite convinced myself I should spend that much yet.

Only 1 of that whole list was purchased off the internet - True Faith. Everything else I found in second hand music shops (I got Killer in an Oxfam), at record fairs or as gifts from a mate.

 

I love the buzz of finding something on my 'to buy' list in a shop. :heart:

Edited March 2, 20214 yr by Colm

That's an amazing collection Colm, I'm incredibly jealous! I agree that half the fun of collecting these (now obscure) records is the challenge of the hunt to try and find them. “As the Rush Comes” was an early Doctor Blind #1 from Jan 2004 - knocked off by Franz Ferdinand (“Take Me Out”).. if nothing else I was eclectic!

 

This morning I had 6Music on in the office at work and they played “In Yer Face”, “Playing With Knives” and “Dominator” back-to-back.

 

It was very distracting!!

This morning I had 6Music on in the office at work and they played “In Yer Face”, “Playing With Knives” and “Dominator” back-to-back.

 

It was very distracting!!

 

:wub:

 

 

 

 

The break down in As the Rush Comes (Gabriel & Dresden Sweeping Strings Remix) is one of my favourites in all of the trance genre. I was surprised to find out they were American.

 

 

I have Now Trance in the pipeline too. I can't decide if I want to do radio versions or club mixes.

Edited March 2, 20214 yr by Colm

I love the buzz of finding something on my 'to buy' list in a shop. :heart:

I've got a local record shop but it very rarely has anything in it that I'd want to buy - certainly not much in terms of electronic music. It's the type of shop where they still get obsessed with talking about the latest Paul McCartney release or the fact they've found a NM copy of a Genesis album. :(

 

I've never been to a record fair - I should google for local ones when we're allowed to actually be in the same room as other people again! Part of my problem is that I'm exceptionally picky about what I buy, online I only ever buy mint or near mint because I hate crackles on records and I don't like used looking sleeves - a fact that will probably come as a surprise to precisely nobody.

I'm not that picky. My copy of Hey Jupiter/Professional Widow is in tatters. I prob only spent €1 on it.

 

I would say half my stuff comes from the record fair that we have here, a few times a year. It is a UK one so it's most likely one that travels around the UK too before coming to Dublin. I've bled them dry of all the 80s stuff that I want. They didn't seem to be replenishing very much theas few times I went. There's a really good shop in Belfast too. That's where I got double pack of the two House Arrest 12"s.

I've managed to find all the Now's on vinyl from 10 to 19. :wub:

 

I love going into record stores, always have. As a kid I'd spend an hour in the local independent one every Monday scouring the racks to see what I wanted to spend my money on.

 

I have to limit myself these days as I end up buying things that I don't even want that much just because they are there. In some ways online buying makes me more focussed - although I totally get what you mean about stumbling across something you've wanted for ages.

 

I find the knack online is to find shops that don't specialise in the type of music you're looking for. I picked up Tori's Professional Widow for £10 in mint condition - yep it's quite a lot but I've seen it selling for waaayyyy more than that so it's almost an investment, albeit one I will never sell :lol:

 

Joins the love club for Motorcycle-As the Rush Comes!!!!! one of the best dance songs ever!

 

I just checked and I have 3 different 12" for Tori Amos Professional Widow,

one from UK with PW/Hey Jupiter (Professional Widow Armands Star Trunk Funkin Mix, Hey Jupiter Dakota Verson, Talula-BT Synethasia Mix)

one from UK with PW remixes (Mr Roy Cosmic Cottage Mix, Mr Roy 7" Edit, Armands Star Trunk Funkin Mix, Just Da Funk Dub)

and one from US with PW remixes (Armands Star Trunk Funkin Mix, Just Da Funk Dub, MK Mix,MK Vampire Dub)

Joins the love club for Motorcycle-As the Rush Comes!!!!! one of the best dance songs ever!

 

Reflect ft Delline Bass - Need To Feel Loved is another good dance song with a similar sort of vibe to it from the mid 00s.

Edited March 2, 20214 yr by TheSnake

I'm way too late to provide any inclusions that won't already be here but just wanted to say that I loved reading through this topic :wub:

 

I built on my very small dance singles collection a bit just before lockdown hit! My biggest local independent record store is great for dance, the owner was really helpful and even ordered in Basement Jaxx - 'The Singles' for me after he could see me buying a couple of their singles in there *.* must resist the urge to buy job lots of dance singles now :lol: I think I'll just stick to buying a couple whenever I visit the independent stores as I go down enough vinyl rabbit holes online as it is.

 

For now I just have:

 

Artful Dodger - Movin' Too Fast (feat. Romina Johnson)

Basement Jaxx - Jump n' Shout

Basement Jaxx - Oh My Gosh

Chocolate Puma - I Wanna Be U

Fatboy Slim - Right Here, Right Now (yellow vinyl + a CamelPhat remix one too)

Jean Jacques Smoothie - 2 People

Meck - Thunder In My Heart Again (feat. Leo Sayer)

Paul Hardcastle - 19

The Prodigy - Out of Space

Room 5 - Make Luv (feat. Oliver Cheatham)

 

Quite 2000s heavy right now. Definitely want to build on 90s in the future.

 

Also sharing the 'As The Rush Comes' love... :wub:

The Chocolate Puma one is a great choice Jade, I knew it when I was a child in the form of Follow The Leader by Nigel and Marvin, a childrens party fave back then.

Annoyingly there are quite a few comparatively recent inclusions I’d like but simply can’t get. Kiesza’s Hideaway for example doesn’t ever appear to have had a 12” release.