Clubland advice.

[fullcontact68]

Hi,

A local WMC which I do regular work for, has asked if I could do a clubland night, "stuff like Clubland bounce, classix,smashed. 80's stuff is best"

Unfortunately, I don't have much knowledge in this area as I've never been asked for this before, and not something that I was into in my teenage years either.

It's always good to try something new, so I'm trying to do some research and find out what to play.

I would be grateful if someone could give me examples of relevant tracks, so I can look at building up a half decent play list.

Many thanks.

[Excalibur]

Great fun. ;) Never drop below 128 BPM all night, take the bass bins, and leave your mic at home. Simples. :D

Now I'm far from being an authority on this, but the titles you've been given will point you in the reight direction. If I remember aright, Classix is a triple album, as the name suggests of Classics. Bounce is an even faster style, Blackout Crew-Put a Donk on it being one I get asked for. I'm not sure about 80's, personally, I'd have said 90's/noughties, but what do I know? :confused:

There is a series of Clubland CD's, have a bash on Spotify, and see what floats your boat.

A few artists I'd be looking at:
Flip and Fill, Basshunter, Milk Inc, Livin' Joy, Reel 2 Reel, Phats and Small, MC Sar, JX, Strike, Oceanic, Micky Modelle, Cascada, Scooter, and Avicii.

Many of those had chart sucess, and a huge amount of those will appear on Now albums. I'm sure others will be along with better advice soon. Surprising as it may seem, I really love playing that sort of thing, although unsurprisingly, I lean towards the chart side of it. Hope this helps. Spotify and Amazon/iTunes will help you so much.

[funktions]

ahhh the wonders of happy hardcore ... the wife loves it, good to keep you going all night. yea 128 -140 all night just gets abit boring for me all sounds the same. wiggan pier cd's are good for ideas

[Excalibur]

wigan pier cd's are good for ideas

That's it! I was thinking of Manchester for some reason. :o

[Nakatomi]

You won't be able to go far wrong by looking at stuff from Tidy Trax for bounce & .Scouse House' but to be honest late 80s into 93,or so was more about rave & house than the styles mentioned as far as I know. Back then add I recall the only stuff higher than 135bpm tended to be breakbeat or jungle.

Personally bounce / hardcore etc are like nails down a blackboard to me. It's all those silly pitched up vocals. Ugh.

As for leaving your Mic at home... Do not! Somebody's bound to wanna be MC. :lol:

[Nakatomi]

See also Lisa Lashes, Tony De Vit (To The Limit) & Lisa Pin-up, Amen UK (Passion), Porn Kings (loved their 'Up to no good' - used to drop that one all the time when I worked a club in the 90s).. not forgetting most of the Nukleuz label output.

You might also want to try a live mashup or two, too .. though I have to confess I only did this to take the p*** out of the style - doing something like dropping '500 miles' by The Proclaimers over the top at a suitable point (you might need 20% pitch range for this to work though, and being able to loop the background will be handy too). Unfortunately for me, this had the opposite effect of what I intended & it brought the ceiling down. Totally served me right!

Start practising your spinbacks & deckstops now :D