[Music] Your 3 Song DJ Set

[Stato]

To further annoy those who complain of too many music threads. Choose your DJ set from a music genre diluted to three songs. The first should be either a grower or an attention grabber that gets people onto the floor; the second should be a classic that loads of people into the genre would dance to or sing along with; the third should be your signature track, something you play that other DJs might not, an obscure album track, a novelty song or something different by a well known artist. At the end suggest a couple of other genres that others could try.

To start, my classic era Motown set:

1) Heat Wave - Martha Reeves & The Vandellas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XE2fnYpwrng

2) This Old Heat Of Mine - The Isley Brothers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_9M6kRfJes

3) Every Little Bit Hurts - Brenda Holloway

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ub5x1V2v3uQ

Anyone want to try either

New Wave of British Heavy Metal, or

70s/80s UK Ska?

 

[Weststander]

Great idea for a thread. I love dance and electronic music.

 

[Stato]

Or you could pick your own genre if you like...

 

[Icy Gull]

Going a bit hippie here


I’d start this track about 1 mins 30 secs in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNCT6pA5I9A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8DJP6XYGDQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGGW4IezbC4

 

[Stato]

Going a bit hippie here

Nice segue from Roxy into a song later covered by Ferry.

 

[Stato]

Great idea for a thread. I love dance and electronic music.

I've never been much of a fan of techno, but had a listen and that 'Age of Love' tune is really good.

 

[Ernest]

Great idea for a thread. I love dance and electronic music.

I remember dancing to this in Majorca in 83

 

[Ernest]

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Can't rsist this:

The first should be either a grower or an attention grabber that gets people onto the floor;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1yUP0l-b_M

the second should be a classic that loads of people into the genre would dance to or sing along with;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwBIqmpUavc

the third should be your signature track, something you play that other DJs might not, an obscure album track, a novelty song or something different by a well known artist

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3-IPG-XnaU

 

[AmexRuislip]

From my dodgy dj'ing discos, whilst in RAF

 

[Weststander]

I've never been much of a fan of techno, but had a listen and that 'Age of Love' tune is really good.

I'm with you on that, I love Trance, not Techno. Age of Love is often thought of as the first Trance track.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Now going back to my Hungry Years days, all playd in 1976, before the idiot Stuart smashed the record...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbmWs6Jf5dc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zSrkb5pkrQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aP5ikQpTR3c

 

[Stato]

Can't rsist this:

In the true tradition of NSC, it didn't take long for the genre to become Scandinavian techno. I'm game. What about the Scandinavian eighties craze for garage rock?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlJhhKvhZLY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqgiBWQhhdU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KX6PwP2YU0

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Loving this. OK, arly 80s shoegaze....more twitching than dancing...shuffl on the floor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ak1bckaKS4

Time to jiggle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mEBzTzyc3I

and the anthem, the floorkiller of the Luv Affair in Vancouver in 84

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sL-wu5oa1w

 

[Grombleton]

Instead of sticking to one genre, I'm gonna think of it as the 'school disco', so the first two songs will follow the same theme, but the last is the 'slow' song that gets the people together at the end...

 

[Weststander]

A narrow range, but I'd have loved to have heard this little lot in a club (I was too young and it was too far to go to the Hacienda in the early 80's):







Heavenly.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Now I move to later 80s....OMFG!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCtp6ea3wkQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnpwuRlXbhk

How I LOVE a bit of Shona

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbLL5mekc34

 

[Stato]

but the last is the 'slow' song that gets the people together at the end...]

That was initially going to be my suggestion, but some genres don't go much on the slow songs.

This one does:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IKBAyxULAo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GvD_NQrLFo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipPS2iHg_3I

 

[Weststander]

1990's - so great for dance music.

 

[Barnet Seagull]