Music that gets people on the dance floor?

[Nicky H]

I actually like that one with Calvin Harris - our lass takes piss out of me for dancing when it comes on

[Adam_W]

lol

People only playing

Although there seems to be a big thing about people asking for music on here, personally I don't get it - they argue dig your own, but where's the harm in sharing a good track?

In the olden days people would say 'check the white label by blah blah'

Don't see any difference

What styles do you play?

Electro, house, deep house..complextro, dubst...
I'm doing a 10-11 set and was thinking I'd play some deep house or house with some vocals then.. maybe some reggae/dub? progress it later on into the night with more electro? idk. haha

[Nicky H]

Out of all that all I can help with is deep house mate,

Just got these 3 recently and all are excellent:

http://www.beatport.com/#release/mai...-cheval/826740

http://www.beatport.com/#release/shelter/848310

http://www.beatport.com/#track/so-lo...al-mix/3045633

[Ed Paris]

songs with rihanna singing on them

you´re out! rihanna songs are considered as bangers! please read before post. booyah!

[NathanWard]

Kickstarts by Example works for me. My last few gigs have been 7pm-1am, and I normally play that around 9-9:30, when people are drunk enough to start dancing.

[jprime]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Y9Jz...eature=related

[jsa83]

any thing that gets girls to dance. ...

[Bamfs01]

I'm new to djing, but not listening to music. Been into that since I was 6. Anyway, I think the correct answer is:

It depends.

On your crowd, the time of night, the club, how drunk people are, the age of your audience... You can even get queues based on what people are wearing.

I've only played for free. When I do, I've known at least a few people in the crowd. I start of playing things I think they will like and gage interest based on that. Pick anything top 40 from the 1960's forward. Yes, it can be harder to blend and mix, but if you really don't know your crowd, I wouldn't be as worried about that as I would be worried about picking stuff people recognize and enjoy dancing to. 1/2 the time they're gunna be too drunk to care if you're blending songs, fading them out, or quickly cutting to the next one anyway.

Just stay away from beatmatching unless you know you've got it. In my limited experience, cutting over quickly is better than train wrecking.

[ralphdagza]

cupid shuffle

[jsa83]

vic - wobble