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Tell me some good techno while rolling.

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est:
oh man, it depends on what you are on.  I'm going to assume e or speed I guess & give some general dance recommendations accordingly.

older Chemical Brothers like Surrender, Dig your own hole and their live mix album Brothers gonna work it out are all pretty good.  my first experience with chemicals was at a Chemicals show, just after Surrender.  it was goddamned awesome.

the first two Daft Punk albums are excellent, as is most of Felix da Housecat's mix albums.  Carl Cox's live set at the Big Day Out a couple of years back was pretty goddamned good, also.  Soulwax's recent album (can't remember the title) and Tiga's album Sexor are pretty good, but even better if you can get some of the remixes people have done.  If you like mashup stuff then Soulwax/2manydjs's live sets are very very good, as are ones by the Avalanches and the Bang Gang.

also, if you are into commercial dance mixes I guess you could do worse than checking out the Ministry of Sound range, especially the Breaks albums put out by Kid Kenobi.  I am also presently listening to a compilation put out by a mob called "Vicious" that is called "Clubwork vol 2"  It seems good enough!

as for individual songs, I would recommend:

- Royksopp, 49 Percent (Angello & Ingrosso Remix)
- Freeform Five, No more conversations (Mylo remix)
- Sharon Phillips, Want2/Need2 (Trentmoeller remix)
- The Knife, Silent Shout (Williams Acidic Circuits mix) & We share our mother's health (Trentmoeller remix)
- Annie, Chewing Gum (Mylo remix)
- Tonite Only, Danger (The bomb)
- Moguai, Freak & Get On   <- (2 songs)

dance music is sometimes hard to recommend for, because a lot of artists will release an entire album's worth of stuff, most of it sounding "ok", but then someone will remix a song off it and it'll blow your head off.  Then some asshole will grab a whole bunch of the really big tunes and compile them into one album, but absolutely fucking murder the mixes.  It's very hit and miss sometimes.

Generally if you look for remixes by Trentmoeller, Mylo, Soulwax, Timo Maas, Dirty South or um, what's his face, Arman van Helden they will be pretty ok!

elcapitan:
I'm totally undecided on Dirty South. On the one hand, they are hideously commercial, derivative, uninspired, etc...

But holy shit. Their stuff goes nuts when it's dropped in a club.

est:
Yeah, after reading your addition before mine I've been sitting here trying to think of something extra to post.  I mean, I know that the MoS stuff is mostly commercial shit, but sometimes that's what I'm in the mood for, especially in a club, because everyone knows it and is into it and the place explodes, and when you listen to it afterwards you remember how much fun you were having, etc.

That's kind of what I was trying to get at when I said what I did about the compilation albums.  For the most part the mixes are fucking terrible, and I know that John Course in particular seems to mix songs from artists he likes(/promotes?) up in a really "windowshopper" fashion, maybe in an effort to get you to buy the full version?  I get kind of cynical about some of the mixes, I guess.  On the other hand though, I have heard some really good songs on these albums that I may not have encountered otherwise, so I'm torn.

est:
oh, also: Straight Ahead by Tube & Berger is something that you pretty much can't not love on pills.

elcapitan:
For sure. The thing about dance music is that there is so much of it, and unfortunately, a lot of it is totally forgettable. Any twelve-year-old fuckwit can lay down a 4/4 beat and put some bleepy keyboard run over the top of it (I have been this kid).

I basically take the option of just downloading as much as I can find and sifting out the good stuff. Because I DJ, it's always good to have a wide library to fall back on. Another point is that you can usually tell the style of music by the artist name, once you've run into them once or twice. Many artists actually use a bunch of pseudonyms so as to differentiate (Ferry Corsten is the obvious one - he released music as Gouryella, System F, Moonman, Veracocha, and many many more, and for the most part, they sound stylistically quite separate).

You live in Sydney, so you do have a better option than I do. Buy a turntable, and go and cruise the vinyl shops. You will always, always find something new and interesting that way.

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