High energy dancing/raving music!

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High energy dancing/raving music!

So I’m definitely interested in DJing as a hobby and to-be-profession next year. Met up with Jester and he showed me some fucking awesome stuff and oh my god, if I thought I was keen before…

SOOO… When I picture myself behind a table with a laptop and a S4 and all the gear and whatnot, I definitely picture the most insane light show ever and a crowd that is having such a good time dancing to my awesome music that they wanna do it until they collapse! Now I know that with performing at house parties and what not, the energy levels in the music have to start off low while people are arriving, and get progressively higher while people begin drinking, and then finally hit the roof when it’s getting later into the night and everyone just wants to dance their asses off. (Of course learning last night to drop the energy every 5 or 6 songs so people can get drinks. Learned that last night ;D)

But I feel my track and music collection and knowledge is a bit lacking. I visit beatport and see lots of cool tracks that I can imagine being played in the beginning stages of parties, but still finding it hard to track down those intense ‘dance until you fucking break something’ tracks.

I mean like, ‘mainstream’ music is typically what’s played at the house parties that I’ve been to, and there are plenty of those type of pop songs that everyone just loves to sing and dance to. Those are the kinds of songs that I’d consider sing-along/medium energy, sing-along/high energy if you know what I mean. like Taio Cruz, Katy Perry, Kesha, Kylie Minogue etc. I’m after tracks that are mostly instrumental that have extremely high energy parts to them that are around the typical ‘mainstream’ music BPM.

Something like

(is soft in parts but the main parts are stuff that I know would make people go INSANE on the dance floor…)
But I’m having trouble finding songs that are like that, with all of the insane dance-your-ass-off beats and all.

I think my style when I get my gear together will be mostly mixing mainstream songs together with ‘non-mainstream’ instrumental DJ-specific tracks like the example above. People will be able to both sing and dance to songs they’re bound to know, and at the same time be able to feel the full force of the superior instrumentals in the more behind-the-scenes stuff.

Yeeeeeeeeeah.

So that’s the stuff I’m after. If anyone can name the specific genres/artists/songs that you know fit the description, or websites I can go specifically to find these specific types of tracks, that would be epic!

Thanks, ElmoNZ.

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we were still trancing it up at 6am mate. totally shattered now.

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Can never go wrong with trance music mate.

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this boys gonna be a star :slight_smile: set him up with an x1 and djm600 and he was away. a few more sessions and some of his own gear and he’ll be off like a rocket.

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cool Needs more PsyTrance.

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I raved for 13 hours to psytrance on my 18th birthday
true story.

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I raved for 7 days straight at Fullmoon, about 7 hours sleep in 7 days i think.

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Yes Yes…more PsyCandy please.

Must feed the animals…boooOOOM!!

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Haha holy shit man! We needa do some of that again this weekend, but without my friend haha :wink:

I’ve had a look at some of those genre’s and there still seems to be a lot of pretty trebley techno-stuff over the top of all of it. I’m looking for the awesome basslines like in my example and like in Golden’s “Phenomena” routine on youtube at 1:11
Stuff that I can layer mainstream songs over I reckon.

For some reason I feel like a lot of the trance stuff although it sounds really awesome and pumping, can seem kind of background-ish. Like people can feel the energy of it if they want to, or if they’re off the DF it can just be normal background getting-acquainted stuff. If you know what I mean. I want the energy to be pumping all the time.

Powerful.
Bassy.
Headbanging.
Limited other instruments.

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Stuff like The Island part II by pendulum is the kinda stuff I’m looking for =)

Post up some tracks :smiley:

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Here’s a few you might like:
Fire Power - Wolfgang Gartner
Warp 1.9 - The Bloody Beetroots feat. Steve Aoki
Mars - Fake Blood
Pyramid Song (Zed’s Dead Remix) - Radiohead
Handguns (Dada Life Remix)- Alex Gopher

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That shit is awesome man! Especially handguns and firepower. What genre’s would they be considered to be you reckon? o.O

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I can’t figure out if everyone in this thread is incredibly stupid or just assholes, but the track in the OP’s youtube clip might be the most boring piece of electronic music I’ve ever heard.

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have a cry mate.

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I’m confused…wait…maybe i’m not.

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Seriously? WTF?!

Dude, we’re going off what he’s asked us for. The Island Pt II, which as someone who very much dislikes most of the new Pendulum material, is a guilty pleasure of mine… but a bangin tune nonetheless. He wants tunes in a similar vein? Not my usual music but I know a few.
Just cause people like a certain kind of music doesn’t mean they’re stupid or assholes… he wants suggestions and we’re giving them, and you call us stupid or assholes for doing so? What are you on mate? Seriously, dump shit like this on some other forum. :rage:

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dude, there’s no need for insults mmkay? and thats definitely a exaggeration, i can easily think of worse tracks… that i thought was the shit a couple years ago lol

dude you totally named all the songs that everyone around me is into right now. i don’t pay too much to electro but i always hear these tracks every weekend. just added them to my (small) electro library :]

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although the commenters on the OP’s youtube track are really retarded.

“GRIIIIMMMMYY” and “NASSSTTTYY” on that kind of track? lolz

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no thats just you buddy.

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I can’t stand people who can’t be open minded with music. Trying to have a ‘different’ or ‘alternative’ taste in music and having little paddies about music other people listen to, just slots you into the same category as every other insecure 15 year old out there trying to be ‘unique,’ making you, ironically, just the same as everyone else…

You can’t truly be yourself until you stop caring about all that bullshit, until you stop being so damned hung up on your ‘musical individuality,’ until you stop trying to be different to everyone else and just do your own thing, your own way, regardless of people that hate on you for being truly more mentally free than you are…

I like almost all types of music, sure I have preferences, but why would I waste my time forming and defending harsh opinions on every track I listen to when I can sit back and enjoy it like it was made for? I mean who really even gives a fuck what you or I think about it anyway? No-one but the rest of the crowd of all the insecure ‘individual’ teenage music critics out there. So why waste your time? Don’t you have better things to do? Really?

I’m looking for stuff that I could play at a house party full of raving uni and high school kids that EVERYONE would enjoy dancing their asses off too (mainly ones that have the potential to be combined and mixed to create the same effect, like ‘Get Over It’), not just the ones with specific tastes for certain types of trance or electro or whatever. Not everyone would enjoy dancing to techno or trance, and I can’t say it’d be my favourite either. Mainstream stuff is brilliant material for any general scenario, but I already know plenty of them, so I’m hunting down tracks that can be mixed with them to create amazingly powerful dance mixes :smiley:

Oh, and I found another one :wink: