Guaranteed Dancefloor-fillers/Dancefloor Killers

2. DANCEFLOOR KILLERS: What did you think would have this effect but actually left you behind the decks red-faced, the mirror ball's refractions cruelly mocking the now empty dancefloor? (Or what has a dj played as if in a spiteful calculated move to paralyze you whilst getting your freak on)?

The song that got me dancing around the dj booth the most was usually T. Rex's "Solid Baby", but I don't think it has that effect on most people.

And I own one Northern Soul comp, it's on Kent, and it's really good.

As for the more obvious choices, well, at the gay bar, they always go wild for "Pump Up the Jam". And last year's favorites were of the very obvious sort: "One More Time", "Get Ur Freak On", "Country Grammar", "Family Affair". At the rock club, it's usually "I Wanna Be Sedated" or "Blockbuster". I rarely played new records, they didn't want to know.

I think I mentioned this on another thread, but I used to love to piss off the boring old punk rockers at the club in NY I DJed at by playing Sparks, Klaus Nomi and Gary Numan. Maximum fruitiness! I wish I had some Pavlov's Dog.

I was surprised when the Pointer Sisters "Yes We Can Can" cleared the dance floor at the gay club. I guess it took too long to get going.

One song which is guaranteed to get people dancing wherever I go is Front 242's "Headhunter". I've never played that song and not had people dance. Likewise, "Give It Up" by The Goodmen, "James Brown Is Dead" by New York Style, "Now Is Tomorrow" by Definition Of Sound and "Gin And Juice" by Snoop Dogg always have made people boogie for me. My proudest moment, though, was getting everyone in my high school to dance to "The Bog" by Bigod 20. We played that song so much, people started requesting it.

lately:

Funk D'Void - Diabla works the floor....last time I was in a club and Parks & Wilson dropped that the place went mad.

Dirty - Dirty is also doing it lately.

Good songs-Felix Da Housecat-Harlot (Justin Robertson Remix). X-Press 2 Smoke Machine. Groove Armada-Superstylin. Agent Sumo-24 Hours.

Bad songs-PPK, whatever the fuck it's called. Royksopp-Poor Leno, the crappy remix does nothing for me.

It was followed by thee Hypotics and people stopped being giddy

the one record that'll always do it -

'wriggle like a fucking eel' by whitehouse

obvious: stevie "superstition" , bob marley "could you be loved"
parliament " flashlight", funkadelic "red hot mama"

rock : santana "smooth" , john lee hooker "the healer" , stones "gimme shelter" t.rex " 20th century boy, "smells like teen spirit.

drum'n'bass : bad co. " the nine" .j majik "the lizard". future cut " specialist . high contrast " make it tonight"

hip hop : ll cool j " the boomin system" , 3rd bass " words of wizdom" , stetsasonic " talkin' all that jazz"

breaks : plump dj's "scram" audioweb : policeman skank(freestylers remix)

killers...too many to mention..."hot in here" for me anyway

Scram is a good choice!

fillers: 'Danger High Voltage', Le Tigre 'Hot Topic', B52s 'Love Shack', House Of Pain 'Jump Around', Blackstreet 'No Diggity', Grandmaster Flash 'The Message', Freelance Hellraiser 'A Stroke Of genieus', Missy Elliott 'Get Ur Freak On', the whole of '2 Many DJs'

unless that WAS you.

Anyway, the obligatory floorfiller: Tomcraft "Loneliness"

KILLER: Silver Jews' "Old New York."

Luckily I've mostly DJ'd on the radio and in between bands - I can't handle the stress of picking dancefloor fillers all night!

Very few people at Harvard knew who The Prodigy were back in the early 90s, let alone Leftfield. People were still stuck on Erasure and Duran Duran (specifically "Stop!" and "Rio", two songs I have come to loathe like you wouldn't believe due to forced exposure).

-- Lord Gorlok (lordgorlok...), July 24th, 2003.

Seconded.

sure to get a fckng *morgue* movin.

anyone got anything to say about "move on up"?

BUMP. Great thread but it needs to be expanded upon.

anyone got anything to say about "move on up"?

Yep - unlike Dancing in the Street, You Can't Hurry Love, Reach out I'll Be There, Twist and Shout, and others, it's not a dancefloor filler but a dancefloor killer for the old folks at a wedding.

sad but true, that.

All the best songs are dancefloor killers.

All the best Geir posts are thread killers.

What, now he doesn't approve of dancing?!??!

The best songs have enormous variations in tempo, beat and dynamics. Which makes, for instance, "Supper's Ready" useless for dancing.

man this is a great thread.

Great songs, a certain person making idiotic statements, what more could you want?

Fillers (most recently tested)

KC & the Sunshine Band - I Get Lifted (Todd Terje mix)
Hamilton Bohannon- Spread The Groove
Lyn Collins - Think (about it )
Mungolian Jetset - Smells Like Gasoline
Barkays - Holy Ghost
Chuck Brown - Bustin Loose
ODB - I Got Your Money
Medium Medium - Hungry So Angry
Schoolly D - Put your Filas On
Von Sudenfed - Rhinohead
The Sabres of Paradise - Wilmot
Trouble Funk - Hey Fellas
The Kinks - All Day and All of the Night
Stevie Wonder - Boogie on Reggae Woman
Mantronix - Bassline
Kitty Bronx - Solid Feet
James Brown - There Was a Time

Killers - Most of what people at dance parties request

If you ever DJ to a mexican crowd any song by Sonora Santanera is a filler.

Like, honestly, I've been going to all sorts of different events in Mexico for the past 10 years and everytime they start playing Sonora Santanera around midnight (Selena, too, sometimes) is the cue for people to stand up and fill the dancefloor.

Killers - Most of what people at dance parties request
OTM. From a wedding I was at last week: 'Brimful of Asha' (I didn't request it, but me and my wife were the only ones dancing).
Instant floor filler at that same wedding: Culture Beat - 'Mr. Vain'

Killers - Most of what people at dance parties request

So true!

From my own experience, and in the wrong context some of these would probably be killers.

Fillers:
Hall & Oates - Out of Touch
Mr Flagio - Take a Chance
Debbie Jacobs - Don't You Want my Love
Patrick Cowley - Menergy
Colonal Abrams - Trapped
Davina - Don't You Want It
Cajmere Feat. Dajae - Brighter Days (Underground Goodies Mix)

Killers:
Peekay - Up In The Air feat Phily. I once got the best reaction of the night playing this track, and was convinced I'd discovered the most underrated garage banger of all time. Next time I played it I completely misjudged the mood of the after party I was playing at, completely cleared the room and decided it was the worst track of all time.

Last nights fillers:
Fat Freddy's Drop - Shiverman
Missy Elliot - Work It
Chemical Brothers - Swoon (Lindstrom/Prins Thomas mix)
Kinks - All Day and All of the Night
Daft Punk - Get Lucky
Chi-lites -Stoned out of my Mind
Millie Small - My Boy Lollipop
Delroy Wilson - I Want Justice

killer:
Lindstrom - I Feel Space

As much as it pains me to say these 'hip hop' segment filled the dancefloor on my recent trip to a club in pto vallarta, as you can see people in mexico don't really know or care much about the genre:

macklemore - thrift shop
house of pain - jump around
naughty by nature - hip hop hooray
mia - paper planes
usher - yeah

I would dance unashamedly to the latter four.

Also whatever pitbull song is making the rounds.

:´(

I actually danced to all of those, so I'm guilty of charge. Hip Hop Hooray was a nice surprise, I very rarely hear it on clubs.

Also whatever pitbull song is making the rounds.

:´(

Tell me about it.

"Hip Hop Hurray" is just as much of a 'token rap song that gets white dudes excited' as "Jump Around"

i got some djing duties at a party the other night and while 'we are family' and 'good times' were obvious winners 'tell you (today)' completely cleared the dancefloor, i thought i was on a surefire winner and then i just felt sad.

Last night I heard Michael Jackson - PYT mixed before Estelle - American Boy and into some remix of Gap Band - You Dropped a Bomb on Me. It was pretty good!

I always keep Robyn on my iPod, cause when I go to a private party and my iPod becomes the source of music, sooner or later a girl will walk up to it and either put Robyn on or ask 'why is there no Robyn on here?'

On a Ragga Tip never fails to get shit going.

'Call Me Al' used to get people dancing a couple of years ago, not sure about now though for some reason. Old nineties pop/rap/r'n'b - 'Return Of The Mac', 'Creep', 'NEver Gonna Get It', 'California Love', 'Keep Their Heads Ringing' etc always gets people my age on the dancefloor.

Into The Groove and Buffalo Stance both guaranteed.

"Blow the Whistle" and "My Neck, My Back"

New fillers and killers tested with a latin crowd:

F:

PATO BANTON - GO PATO
A BAND OF BITCHES - NORESTE CALIENTE
DEPECHE MODE - JUST CANT GET ENOUGH
GALANTIS - PEANUT BUTTER JELLY
JACKSONS - BLAME IT ON THE BOOGIE
SALT N PEPPA - SHOOP
MAJOR LAZER - LIGHT IT UP

IN 2016 THESE WILL DEFINITELY MAKE DRUNK LATIN GIRLS EXCITED, WHO KNOWS NEXT YEAR:

JOEY MONTANA - PICKY
MALUMA - BORRO CASSETTE
PITBULL - COMO YO LE DOY
JUSTIN BIEBER - SORRY
ENRIQUE IGLESIAS, NICKY JAM - EL PERDON

KILLERS (Oddly enough):

RIHANNA - WORK
DRAKE - ONE DANCE

If you live in Latin America there seems like there has been one or two Pitbull fillers every year for the past 10 years or so. Dude is a fucking party franchise in here it's getting ridonculous. This summer it's 'Como yo le doy' and 'Fun'. Last summer we had 'El Taxi' which was an annoying remake of 'Murder She Wrote', before that it was 'Timber' 'Dont stop the party' 'sube las manos pa arriba'...

I'll bet Pitbull's NBA Playoffs theme from 2014 would be a killer though

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HE3zoaE9Zh4

this year's too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1pi4Vt-PXY

'Work' is such a tricky one. I've seen it fill and kill. has to be dropped at exactly the right time

One Dance and Work I've mostly hear them played for warming up. They're floor killers if played even in remix form when people are already in the floor... They could work on a more sexy, mellow kind of dancefloor but good luck finding one.

The best songs have enormous variations in tempo, beat and dynamics. Which makes, for instance, "Supper's Ready" useless for dancing.

― Geir Hongro, Thursday, 16 August 2007 12:59 (8 years ago) Permalink

I just lolled at this eight years after the fact.

if i spun records a lot in a club i would always have it takes two and funky cold medina on me at every gig IN CASE OF EMERGENCY. no matter what club i was in.

So I usually host parties at my house and since many people from different backgrounds and age gaps turn up every now and then I try to keep it mixed and take request to place in line. I guess my selections make 70% of the playlist and the others have been added as requested. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't but here's a collection of highlights of the last 5+ reunions.

These are not all necessarily dancefloor fillers - I wasn't sure where to post - they mostly work for cocktail parties I guess but there's drinking and dancing going on - I'll keep updating as more parties ensue.

Tullio De Piscopo - Stop bajon
Free Youth - We Can Move
Instant Funk - Got My Mind Made Up
Two Man Sound - Que tal America
Rawayana - Laberinto (Bosq Remix)
Altoparlante - Cambiarás
Franc Moody - Dream in Colour
The Brothers Johnson - Come Together
Me'Shell Ndegéocello - Who Is He and What Is He to You
Pato Banton - Go Pato
Mano Negra - Señor Matanza
Barrington Levy - Here I Come
Cymande - Getting It Back
Iseo & Dodosound - Chan Chan
Bareto - Elsa
Timewarp Inc feat. Emma Anagnostou - Afrofunk
Deelicious - Lonely Town Lonely Street
OutKast - SpottieOttieDopaliscious
George McCrae - Rock Your Baby (remix)
Marvin Gaye - Sunny (Baemon remix)
Sevyn Streeter - 23
Cube - Concert Boy
Lindstrøm and Christabelle - Baby Can't Stop
Michael Jackson - Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'
Róisín Murphy - Murphy's Law
Kendrick Lamar - Die Hard
K.P. & Envyi - Swing My Way
Victoria Monét - Jaguar
Mariah Carey - Fantasy (Bad Boy with O.D.B.)
Born at Midnite - Y o Y
Kylie - Love at First Sight (Ruff & Jam Club Mix)
Glass Candy - Rolling Down The Hills
Steve Monite - Welcome My Love
Jayda G - Both of Us
Cerrone - Hooked on You (The Reflex remix)
Gilberto Gil - Toda Menina Baiana (Ashley Beedle's Black Bahia Rework)
Pino D'Angiò - Ma quale idea
Punkin' Machine - I Need You Tonight
Chemise - She Can't Love You (Purple Disco Machine remix)
Fania All Stars - Ella fue (She Was the One)
Flans - Las Mil y Una Noches
Ora the Molecule - Here Comes the Hotstepper
CLUBZ - Cortes Modernos
Diana Ross - It's My House
Payfone - I Feel You (radio edit)
JD Hall - Into You (Johnathan Morning Mix)
Bruno Borlone - Blanco Bootleg
Simpson Ahuevo - Mextasis
Esteman - Noche Sensorial
The Change - Hora loca
J Balvin & Bad Bunny - Como Un Bebé (feat. Mr Eazi)
Wiley, Stefflon Don & Sean Paul - Boasty
Koffee - Toast
Rema - Calm Down
Drake - One Dance
Hadiya George - Hot Flavor (godmode smash bros rmx)
Capri - Tu Presencia (PAAX Tulum remix)
Nu - Palomita
Kermesse - Sunday Glide
Mr. White - You Rock Me
Cassius - Sound of Violence (Aeroplane remix)
Empire of the Sun - Chrysalis
The Weeknd - Secrets
The Weeknd - Starboy (kygo remix)
Pastora - Lola
Emmanuel - La última luna
Solange - Losing You
MØ - Slow Love
Honey Dijon - Why (feat. Nomi Ruiz)
Tensnake & Drama - Rooftop
2Pac - California Love
Nelly - Ride Wit Me
Mac Miller - Dang!
Tkay Maidza - 24k
Missy Elliott - WTF (Where They From)
Hotmood - You & Me
Girl Ray - Hold Tight
Gwen Guthrie - Peanut Butter (Larry Levan mix)
Stone Roses - Fools Gold (radio edit)
ESG - Moody
Blue Boy - Remember (Sure is Pure 7”)
The Cure - Close To Me
Robyn - Ever Again (Soulwax remix)
The Fixx - One Thing Leads to Another
Hall & Oates - Out Of Touch
A Tribe Called Quest - Can I Kick It? (J Cole remix)
Channel Tres - Brilliant Nigga
Laid Back - Bakerman (Soul Clap Remix)
Wiseguys - Too Easy
Little Simz - Point and Kill
Quantic - Sol Clap
Maria Conchita Alonso - Vamos a Bailar
Luis Miguel - Un Hombre Busca Una Mujer
Calo - Formas de Amor
TLC - Creep
Monifah - Touch It
Mark Morrison - Return of the Mack
Climax Blues Band - Couldn’t Get It Right
Lapsley - Operator (dj kozen remix)
Jack J - Thirstin
Social Lovers - Can’t Let It Go
Paul Simon - That Was Your Mother (Gui Boratto remix)
Toro y Moi - Ordinary Pleasure
Antonin - Ça fait du bien (polo y pan remix)
1da Banton - No Wahala remix
Dj Tunez - Cool Me Down

Here's on spotify
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6TqhZ0ZFr1OObnT7CEehNI

Mmm got cut off… not much left after but for completion purposes

Cont’d:

Topaz Jones - tootache
Kelly Rowland - work freemasons edit
Michael Jackson - PYT
Dua Lipa - levitating
Silk City - electricity

thanks so much for sharing this Moka. I've been listening to Stop Bajon almost daily since July, it's my new favourite! Now getting to grips with the rest of the playlist.

I don't know where in the world you are but a lot of the Italian / Spanish-language music was totally new to me. Pino D'Angio also seems like he will be getting some heavy rotation.

I want to go to Moka's for a party