D.I. Joe Posted April 28, 2013 Share Posted April 28, 2013 (edited) A question for all you ravers and clubbers! Sometimes with Fragile Sanity (mostly at one or two particular venues) we finish the night with a few dance tunes which often tend to go down well. We've been thinking about expanding on this for a while, as we are currently only playing three: I'm Not Alone - Calvin Harris Children - Robert Miles Insomnia - Faithless Children and Insomnia are both epic and classic tunes which everyone knows/remembers and always get the best reactions, but I'm Not Alone doesn't seem as popular as it did. We've decided that we'll replace that one this year, but none of us listen to much dance music, despite having fun playing it, so we are unsure what to play instead. Whatever we do replace it with needs ideally to be a timeless epic like the other two and not a 'fad' song, but Calvin did go down better when it was newer... Any ideas Basschat? Edited April 28, 2013 by D.I. Joe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.I. Joe Posted April 28, 2013 Author Share Posted April 28, 2013 Forgot to mention - the band setup is a four-piece: Guitar, Guitar/Keys, Bass, Drums Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGreek Posted April 28, 2013 Share Posted April 28, 2013 Easy.."Ride on time"...wicked bassline!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.I. Joe Posted April 28, 2013 Author Share Posted April 28, 2013 [quote name='TheGreek' timestamp='1367175780' post='2062219'] Easy.."Ride on time"...wicked bassline!! [/quote] I like! Might struggle with the vocals though! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve-bbb Posted April 28, 2013 Share Posted April 28, 2013 (edited) Kelis - Acapella Tori Amos - Professional Widow Scissor Sisters - Flithy n Gorgeous Witney/Freemasons - Million Dollar Bill Edited April 28, 2013 by steve-bbb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timmo Posted April 28, 2013 Share Posted April 28, 2013 I guess an epic dance track would be born slippy-underworld.Don`t know if it would be easy though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moonbass Posted April 28, 2013 Share Posted April 28, 2013 Rudimentary - Feel the Love Modjo - Lady ( Hear me tonight) Stardust - Music Sounds Better With You Superstar Lovers - Starlight I reckon a function band playing just dance covers would be great! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
risingson Posted April 28, 2013 Share Posted April 28, 2013 (edited) Huge French House fan so it's anything Thomas Bangalter related for me... Daft Punk (the new avatar ), Stardust (as mentioned above), anything from Roule and his stuff with DJ Falcon ('Together' is one of my favourite house tunes ever). Just hunt down what the samples were and utilise them. Example, 'The Music Sounds Better With You' is the snippet of Hiram Bullock's rhythm guitar part at the start of 'Fate' by Chaka Khan. Edited April 28, 2013 by risingson Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uncle psychosis Posted April 28, 2013 Share Posted April 28, 2013 I reckon you could have a lot of fun with "Out Of Space" by the Prodigy... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rexington Posted April 28, 2013 Share Posted April 28, 2013 Haddaway - What Is Love Calvin Harris/NeYo - Lets Go Faithless - Salva Mea Armand Van Helden - You Don't Know Me Darude - Sandstorm Prodigy - Everybody In The Place There's loads you could do stuff with... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iconic Posted April 29, 2013 Share Posted April 29, 2013 Castles in the sky.... what was that lady gaga one called? one of her first? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iconic Posted April 29, 2013 Share Posted April 29, 2013 From whats been mentioned thus far newish classics seem thin on the ground....unless its the age group here?!? .....if ya wanna go old skool....i often have a noodle on trip to trumpton urban hype....simple enough but great fun....hand out a few whistles etc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thisnameistaken Posted April 29, 2013 Share Posted April 29, 2013 There are plenty of good bass lines in Daft Punk, Justice and Basement Jaxx tunes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grahamd Posted April 29, 2013 Share Posted April 29, 2013 The bassline for We Are Your Friends is an absolute cracker Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve-bbb Posted April 29, 2013 Share Posted April 29, 2013 (edited) oooh yes basement jaxx - wheres your head at [url="http://youtu.be/5rAOyh7YmEc"]http://youtu.be/5rAOyh7YmEc[/url] Edited April 29, 2013 by steve-bbb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fumps Posted April 29, 2013 Share Posted April 29, 2013 I was an Acid Techno DJ so all the "club classics" in my scene was brutal "Reformation 2" by Lab-4, "Hostile" by Justin Bourne etc......but with your set up these would be a hard task lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.I. Joe Posted April 29, 2013 Author Share Posted April 29, 2013 Thanks for all the suggestions so far guys, I'll check them out! I'm all for a good bassline, but unfortunately we've got to think more about the popularity of the song than anything. Something that's as instantly recognisable as Insomnia (if there is another one out there!). Keep 'en coming! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prunesquallor Posted April 29, 2013 Share Posted April 29, 2013 (edited) You don't get more iconic than this. And, yes, it has bit of bass : [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egl0KRh8jcE[/media] Edited April 29, 2013 by Prunesquallor Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul_5 Posted April 29, 2013 Share Posted April 29, 2013 Theme from S'Express. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xgsjx Posted April 29, 2013 Share Posted April 29, 2013 Bunch of old farts! How about this for something more recent... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXx1CLAJ-OA I learned the bassline & it's actually quite fun for such a simple tune. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xgsjx Posted April 29, 2013 Share Posted April 29, 2013 Or there's Daft Punk's latest offering - Get Lucky... https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=OOlM5CDSoi8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.I. Joe Posted April 29, 2013 Author Share Posted April 29, 2013 [quote name='xgsjx' timestamp='1367241899' post='2063002'] Or there's Daft Punk's latest offering - Get Lucky... [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=OOlM5CDSoi8"]https://www.youtube....d&v=OOlM5CDSoi8[/url] [/quote] I had actually suggested this but the band decided maybe it's a little "too new" and that we could do it later in the year if it remains popular. I think it could be a good chance wasted though - imagine if Hendrix never played Sgt Pepper's because he thought it was "too new"... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xgsjx Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 I get met with the same in my band & I'm the oldest. As we've just formed, we're starting with a couple of covers & then we'll do some writing. Everything the band has suggested has been from the 90s. So the 3 tracks we're playing with are Come Together (The Beatles), Crazy (Gnarles Barklay) & Too Close (Alex Clare). Oddly enough, all those was suggested by me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lowdown Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgRBkjgXHro"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgRBkjgXHro[/url] Garry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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