Tunes that everybody can dance to

[Shum]

give the people what they want.. cotton eye joe, barbie girl, crazy frog, gangnam style

boh selectah!

[Harkat]

I've tried DJing my classmate's parties before, shit doesn't really work. The first time I had really low expectations so I played a bunch of bait electro house like Feed Me and shit, that worked all right I suppose, then I worked in some grime and prog techno and garage towards the end, it still sorta works. Next time, I try my luck with footwork, trap and garage/deep house only, and nobody dances. At some point, one guy even just walked up, pulled the plug and put on fuckin thrift shop off his phone. Wasteman. Anyways, it's a bit pointless for me to even DJ their fuckin parties at this point it seems, they don't give a flying fuck about mixing etc, they just want to hear their favorite tunes in a row. I reckoned Maya Jane Coles, Mercy VIP, RIP Productions etc would be completely danceable to everyone, but norwegian teenagers just fuckin suck I suppose.

[Forum]

[Laszlo]

im sure that most parties in london ppl dont appreciate meditating on mala weight

hopefully some Londoners will weigh in

Not sure i've heard 'Mala weight' at a house party since about 2009 tbh. Jungle/D&B, and garage has been the main constant since I was young. 'Tasteful' bro was a la mode till about 2011. Now it's house.

I heard top 40 stuff once at a house party. That was an anomaly (and it was in Brighton) but I suppose it depends on the circles you move in. In my experience if your into music then you've probably danced to the above more often than not at a house party. If you're not really a music fan and none of your mates are then i'd imagine top 40 stuff gets bumped out of laptop speakers in the corner of the room.

[jrkhnds]

Here it's dnb b2b berlin techno.
just put on any dj hype mix. Hazard if they're tru hedz.

[particle-jim]

Once had a party at my house, was having a mix and had just played a bunch of Kode9 and Mala tunes, some guy who I didn't even know (what was he doing in my house?) then walks up to me and goes "this is boring mate, put some dubstep on"

[syrup]

Venetian Snares

[Forum]

I don't even bother trying to put music on at house parties any more. I remember trying to play dubstep back when it was fairly new, it got turned off after about 10 seconds.

Funky always went down well



bangor

[jrkhnds]

yeh but funky is bait

[Liam92]

Surely this:







If not, your friends suck.

[thekuku]

I can strongly relate to that uncomfortable feeling when people don't like the music I'm playing in my car. Thing is - this is my car, and I don't want to listen to your skrillex or your lil wayne or your avicii so fuck off and deal with it yunno m8?

I don't even try playing my music at parties. People in 'merica just don't get it. I wish I lived in London. I have a whole theory that it has to do with the beat. The 2 step garage beat and breakbeats in general (except for hiphop, for some reason) are just not understood by most americans I don't think. We're used to a simple 4 on the floor. That's all we can handle. And people feel uncomfortable when they hear music that they aren't familiar with.

That's some serious overgeneralization here. I'm sure nights and guys like Ghetto Gothik, Kingdom, Club Chemtrail, UNO NYC guys, Total Freedom, Rizzla would welcome a good 2 step set. ''We're used to a simple 4 on the floor.'' tell that to RP Boo haha. Now I know these people don't form the majority of the scene in USA but why would they want too

top40's been pretty solid lately imo

What's your location? In Poland top 40 sounds like this


Airwaves in here are awash toxiiiic waste I don't even like Disclosure that much but when I heard them on the radio I felt bliss

[Labfive]

I've tried DJing my classmate's parties before, shit doesn't really work. The first time I had really low expectations so I played a bunch of bait electro house like Feed Me and shit, that worked all right I suppose, then I worked in some grime and prog techno and garage towards the end, it still sorta works. Next time, I try my luck with footwork, trap and garage/deep house only, and nobody dances. At some point, one guy even just walked up, pulled the plug and put on fuckin thrift shop off his phone. Wasteman. Anyways, it's a bit pointless for me to even DJ their fuckin parties at this point it seems, they don't give a flying fuck about mixing etc, they just want to hear their favorite tunes in a row. I reckoned Maya Jane Coles, Mercy VIP, RIP Productions etc would be completely danceable to everyone, but norwegian teenagers just fuckin suck I suppose.

I think it's just like that anywhere man...

[Forum]

Tbf people don't generally go to a house party to watch someone mix, you might as well just put a playlist on an mp3 player

[skell1ngton777]

i love all that euro dance stuff that has the goofy saxophone sound

i need to jump on that style

[Brewce]

any old top 40 hip hop tunes tht u like

[Harkat]

Tbf people don't generally go to a house party to watch someone mix, you might as well just put a playlist on an mp3 player

I didn't really want people to *watch* me mix, I was hoping they'd want to dance and that a good DJ set is the optimal thing to dance to. Was trying real hard too you know. Put on Katy on a mission, TNGHT, Joker, Rustie, Three 6 Mafia etc but no luck.

[chekov]

Once had a party at my house, was having a mix and had just played a bunch of Kode9 and Mala tunes, some guy who I didn't even know (what was he doing in my house?) then walks up to me and goes "this is boring mate, put some dubstep on"

ahahah wow

[volcanogeorge]

i dj'd an after party at someones house a few months back and played all the old-ish garage tunes that people my age grew up with. stuff like little bit of luck, flowers, sweet like chocolate, neighbourhood and a few newer tunes from like disclosure.

went down really well but that might have just been the crowd. the tune that went down best was when i finished the set with this:

[chekov]

quite lucky in that a lot of my mates are into decent stuff, thinking about it

if i'm on ipod selectah duties, usually just go for a bit of RnB or disco between usual stuff i'd wana play at parties to keep people that aren't as trainspotter as me dancing lol

[volcanogeorge]

^ yeah for real, i've played no end of student end of year balls and stuff and the stuff that always goes down best is early 00's r&b

always at least 3 cunce that ask for wonderwall