One of my wife’s employees at her store, Sarah C gave her a CD of her favorite dance tunes. Now, I’m a dance music snob, who would never normally play most of these tracks in any context, and many of you other dance music afficiandos probably wouldn’t either. I’d go so far as to say I actively hate the Captain & Tenille song, the Wham song, and I’m not so high on the Whitney Houston. But this isn’t for me, it’s for the people who don’t know “Shades of Jae” from “Firestarter.” It’s Pop. And most of these tracks are stupidly great dance pop — who can resist “Smooth Criminal” or “Walk Like An Egyptian?”
I ripped the CD and resequenced them so that I could do a smooth nonstop mix. I’m used to entire genres inhabiting the same 5 BPM range so I had to play some Ableton Live tricks to get things to add up.
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| The Bangles | Walk Like An Egyption |
| Survivor | Eye Of The Tiger |
| Kajagoogoo | Too Shy Shy |
| Sugarhill Gang | Rapper’s Delight |
| Madonna | Vogue |
| Michael Jackson | Smooth Criminal |
| Whitney Houston | Dance With Somebody |
| Cyndi Lauper | Girls Just Wanna Have Fun |
| Captain & Tenille | Love Will Keep Us Together |
| Bananarama | Venus |
| Eurhythmics | Sweet Dreams |
| The Buggles | Video Killed The Radio Star |
| The Weather Girls | It’s Raining Men |
| Michael Jackson | Beat It |
| Huey Lewis & The News | Hip To Be Square |
| Blondie | Call Me |
| Michael Sembello | She’s A Maniac |
| Eurhythmics | Sweet Dreams |
| Wham | Wake Me Up Before You Go |
| The Vapors | Turning Japanese |