Dance Music of the 00s .. Ambient / Dance / Trance / Techno ...  What are your favourites?



ATM, my favourite artist is Darren Styles, one half of the hardcore duo Styles and Breeze.  His recent '08 singles 'Right By Your Side (w/ N-Force) and 'Discolights' (w/ Ultrabeat) as well as the '05 hit 'Heartbeatz' (as Styles and Breeze featuring Karen Danzig) are all songs I listen to quite a bit.  He also co-wrote the song 'Pretty Green Eyes' by Ultrabeat, which is still my favourite song of 2003



Inclding the Darren Styles songs mentioned above, here's some more recent (within the last two years or so) dance hits I really love ...

♦ Now You're Gone - Basshunter featuring Mental Theo's Bassheadz
♦ Dota - Basshunter
♦ All I Ever Wanted - Basshunter (His album 'LOL <(^^,)>' has the aforementioned, the original 'Boten Anna', plus a techno version of 'Jingle Bells')
♦ Black and Gold - Sam Sparro
♦ Daddy O - Wideboys featuring Shaznay Lewis (Being a fan of All Saints, naturally I was drawn to this song)
♦ Going Wrong - Armin Van Buuren featuring DJ Shah and Chris Jones
♦ Music Takes Me - Stonebridge (This one is the title track to his fantastic 2007 album that also contains the next two songs ..)
♦ SOS - Stonebridge
♦ Close to Heaven - Stonebridge
♦ Sexual Healing - Alibi vs. Rockefeller (Believe it or not, I listened to it several times before I realized it was a Marvin Gaye cover)
♦ Get Down - Groove Armada featuring Stush
♦ Song 4 Mutya (Out of Control) - Groove Armada featuring Mutya Buena
♦ The Question is What is the Question - Scooter (Contains elements of the 70s Dutch classic 'How Do You Do' by Mouth and MacNeal)
♦ Jumping All Over the World - Scooter
♦ Dare Me (Stupidisco) - Junior Jack featuring Shena (A new vocal version of his 2005 hit that samples the Pointer Sisters song 'Dare Me')
♦ Cry For You - September
♦ Body Crash - Buy Now! (samples the 1978 disco classic 'Let's All Chant' by Michael Zager Band)
♦ Love is Gone - David Guetta featuring Chris Willis
♦ Watch Out! - Alex Gaudino featuring Shena (A throwback to that 1982 Pigbag classic 'Papa's Got A Brand New Pigbag')

As far as techno dance goes, all I can think of right now is "Satellites" by September....which I believe came out two years ago. When I first heard that song, it was on a muzak system at a coffee shop, and I happened to be on one of their internet computers. I didn't know what the song was called or who sang it, but it sounded really upbeat and catchy. So I google-searched some of the lyrics I managed to catch...and found the answer there! So last year, I found a link to it on Youtube and bookmarked it so I could come back to it and listen to it. 8)

My vote goes for Crunk and Snap Rap!  :D

Okay, sarcasm aside...I enjoy a lot of techno. One of my friends got me listening to Daft Punk awhile ago and I've really liked them ever since. I've also listened to a lot of other random techno artists, but I don't know the names of the songs or groups.  :-\\

Techno, Electronica and Drum n Bass are all what I consider "Dance Music". None of which I enjoy though. :-\\

My vote goes for Crunk and Snap Rap!  :D

Okay, sarcasm aside...I enjoy a lot of techno. One of my friends got me listening to Daft Punk awhile ago and I've really liked them ever since. I've also listened to a lot of other random techno artists, but I don't know the names of the songs or groups.  :-\\



I love Daft Punk. I find myself listening to "One More Time" and "Digital Love" all the time. 8)

Adam Freeland - We Want Your Soul
- Anyone who ever wondered why computer geeks tend to be fussy about issues of digital privacy, loyalty cards, and direct marketing... needs to hear this song.

Sarah Vaughan - Fever (Adam Freeland Remix)
- Found this by accident while digging on We Want Your Soul.  It's Sarah Vaughan's original vocals (and samples of the original audio) from 50 years ago, overlaid across an infectious groove.  It sounds as fresh in 2005 as the original did in the 40s.

Juno Reactor - Just about anything they've done.
- If you don't know Juno Reactor, but you remember the highway chase scene in The Matrix: Reloaded, well, that's them.

Crystal Method - Again, just about everything they've done.
- On any road trip longer than 45 minutes, put in Drive: Nike Original Run (2006) for either the first 45 minutes, the last 45 minutes, or both.

Casting a broader net, I've gotten into the mash-up thing.  A Plus D is consistently strong in the mash-up area.

Going back a ways -- Evolution Control Committee got the ball rolling about 20 years ago, and they're still going strong.  They're more performance art (and you've gotta check out their videos, particularly "Rocked by Rape" and "I Want a Cookie") than club music, but you haven't lived until you've seen them grab a random audience member, spin the Wheel of Mash-Up, and then proceed to mash up whatever two songs the Wheel lands on.  If that means it's Britney Spears and Led Zeppelin, then that's what they mix.  Awesome.

There's gotta be more than these, but this is a first pick (in random order):

Cygnus X - Superstring (Rank 1 Remix)

Motorcycle - As The Rush Comes

Bomfunk MC's - Freestyler

Delerium feat. Sarah McLachlan - Silence (Tiësto Remix)

Darude - Sandstorm

Martin Solveig - Rocking Music

Sensation White Anthem 2003

Gigi D'Agostino - l'Amour Toujours

Missy Elliott - 4 My People (Basement Jaxx Remix) (still not the version I was looking for...)

PPK - Resurection (sic!)

Tomcraft - Loneliness

Zombie Nation - Kernkraft 400

The Age of Love - The Age of Love (I know, it's not from the 2000's... but it's so darn good! - and I don't mean the video)

Kosheen - Hide U (no music video. There are videos, but those are different versions of the song.)

Kosheen - Catch

Benjamin Bates - Whole

David Guetta - Just A Little More Love

David Guetta - The World Is Mine

David Guetta - Love Is Gone

Love Generation-Bob Sanclair(thats a good song!)

"Check Your Coat" by ONeal McKnight and most Rihanna songs. Maybe not pure dance music, but has those influences.

Alot of great dance tracks above.

Not sure what style Poni Hoax's "Antibodies" is, but it is danceable and I love it:

http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=kRIaP5LQNBE


Also, like anything from Fedde Le Grand, Stonebridge, DT8, Haji & Emanuel, etc.

Just remembered two more. Couldn't find the videos on YouTube.


Sweet Coffee - Don't Need You (I know this song had a video, set at a laundromat)

Drummatic Twins - Feelin' Kinda Strange (don't recall a video for this one)

Some good ones in the mention everyone :)


Tomcraft - Loneliness


The ex-girlfriend of a guy I work with wrote this song and gave it to Tomcraft.  I had a hard time believing it at first, but he swears it's the truth.  I like Tomcraft, most especially his song "Silence"



"Check Your Coat" by ONeal McKnight and most Rihanna songs. Maybe not pure dance music, but has those influences.


influences of dance music yes, but those songs are more R&B.  How to tell if it's dance music or not?  If it charts in the US Top 40, then it's not Dance Music :D

Check this out ...

New at #86 in Canada:  'Cry For You' by September 8)

Though it has been many years since a Dance song hit the Top 40 in Canada, I'm surprised at how well some songs have done here ...

'Love is Gone' - David Guetta featuring Chris Wllis
'Going Wrong' - Armin Van Buuren featuring DJ Shah and Chris Jones
'Now You're Gone' - Basshunter featuring Mental Theo's Bassheadz
'What Hurts the Most' - Cascada