Essential Tunes Selection: Ska
Added: November 17, 2008
The second in our series of essential tunes featured the SKA Genre. From it’s Jamaican origins in the 1950’s it has been a very popular genre of music especially with the Mods and Skinheads in the 60’s and then on to the 2-tone revival in the 70’s. It still continues to fill floors today, so we thought it would be a good idea to showcase the 5 most popular Ska tracks you can play to satisfy all ages. Ian Forest, our Technical Officer was given the task which he delivered to perfection at last nights Shownight. Here are the tracks he played in order…
- Toots & The Maytals – Monkey Man
- The Specials – A Message To You Rudy
- Bad Manners – Lip Up Fatty
- Madness – Nightboat To Cairo
- Lionrock – Rude Boy Rock
The final track was a curveball, an obscure track from the 90’s that doesn’t get a lot of play, but fits right in with the original Jamaican sound. Hopefully you will find the above tunes rock your floor at your next event – don’t forget to leave feedback and let us know how you got on!
Essential Tunes Selection: Line Dancing
Added: September 22, 2008
One new feature of the SEDA Show Night is the ‘Essential tunes selection’. This is the feature where we pick a small selection of essential tunes for a particular genre which are tried and tested by an expert DJ in this field.
On Sunday 21st September 2008, our President Theo Loyla presented the following Line Dancing tunes:
The 5 tracks were:
- Red Hot Salsa by Dave Sheriff for Red Hot Salsa (very popular easy classic)
- Now I can Dance by Tina Arena for Into The Arena (classic intermediate)
- Last Night by Chris Anderson & DJ Robbie for Chill Factor (classic intermediate)
- If You Wanna Be Happy by Dr Victor & The Rasta Rebels for Crazy Foot Mambo (easy intermediate & No 1 on Line Dance dj’s playlist chart)
- Headphones by LeAnn Rimes for Head Phones (intermediate & No 1 on latest dancers chart)
For further information, step sheets, music links and up to date info go to www.linedancermagazine.com
Essential Tunes Selection: Drum n Bass
Added: July 21, 2008
One new feature of the SEDA Show Night is the ‘Essential tunes selection’. This is the feature where we pick a small selection of essential tunes for a particular genre which are tried and tested by an expert DJ in this field.
On Sunday 20th July 2008, I presented the following Drum n Bass tunes, all of which work wonders on my dancefloors.
- DJ Marky, Stamina MC & XRS – LK
- Peshay feat. Coordinate – You Got Me Burning
- The Qemists – Stompbox (Spor Remix)
- Prodigy – Voodoo People (Prodigy Remix)
- Pendulum – Hold Your Colour (Album) feat. the following songs in particular…
- Prelude
- Slam
- Tarantula
The Pendulum – Hold Your Colour album is incredibly useful, I would recommend you buy the whole CD, there are deals on this album in some stores. I played Prelude into Slam as a continuous play, this is most effective when introducing a DNB set from something else!
Incidentally, whilst introducing the feature I was playing Goldie – Inner City Life.
Many thanks,
Brian Mole.