Best Of The Decade - Radio Style (17/12/09)

So we did our best to squeeze the entire decade into an hour and well, I think we made a reasonable attempt.

Alas, some artists we just couldn't fit in, heres a few that I would have definitely played if given just a little longer; The Arcade Fire (was actually meant to play Wake Up, but forgot), Klaxons, Bloc Party, Outkast, MGMT and Sebastien Tellier.

This was also our last show of 2009, I'd like to quickly thank a few people involved in the show: firstly too everyone who appeared on the show over the past few months; SanDJ(Sanjay Cheema), Michael "Semi-Pro" Donovan and Mike "Carol Service" Richards, secondly to ICRadio who make the whole show possible and thirdly, most importanly I'd like to thank everyone who tuned in throughout the year, hopefully you'll join us next year where we will still aim to bring you the tastiest offerings from the world of dance.

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Tracklisting :

Since I Left You - The Avalanches

Face to Face/Short Circuit - Daft Punk

Girls Girls Girls (Kanye West Remix) - Jay-Z

Can't Stand Me Now - The Libertines

Playground Love - Air

Soft - Kings Of Leon

Fell In Love With A Girl - The White Stripes

Someone Great - LCD Soundsystem

CASPAR'S SONG OF THE DECADE: 7 Days - Craig David

A Certain Romance - The Arctic Monkeys

Last Nite - The Strokes

Sheila - Jamie T

Shine Shine (AC Slater Remix) - Boys Noize

On Dancefloors - Metronomy

National Anthem - Radiohead

D.A.N.C.E. (Rehearsal Version) - Justice (on the show it cut out just before the good bit, click here to download the whole track)

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from On Dancefloors!

Radio Show 7 - HIP-HOP SPECIAL!!! (14/12/09)

We rounded of icradio.com's Hip-Hop week with our very own "On Dancefloors Hip-Hop Special," playing some our favourite hip-hop from the past 30years, we were joined in the studio by world renowned hip-hop DJ; SanDJ.

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Tracklisting:

Damn It Feels Good To Be A Gangsta - The Ghetto Boys

Mathematics - Mos Def

Passin' Me By (Joe Goddard (Hot Chip) Remix) - The Pharcyde

Empire State Of Mind - Jay Z ft Alicia Keys

Got Ya Money (Dre Skull Remix) - Ol Dirty Bastard

CASPAR'S SONG: I'm Housin' - Rage Against The Machine

Money Folder (Four Tet Remix) - Madvilliany

Lollipop - Snoop Dogg ft a Jazz Flute

La La La - De La Soul

Get Down - Nas

Rappers Delight - The Sugarhill Gang

Next week is our last show of the decade, so we will be having a 2000s special, playing what we(I) have been most impressed by over the past 10yrs and also some stuff we think might get big, hopefully you can join us on Thursday at 8pm www.icradio.com.

Hotel, Motel, Holiday Inn!

To kick off ICRADIO.com's "Hip-Hop Week." Myself and fellow DJ; SanDJ were asked to record a 2 hour mix of some of our favourite hip-hop records from the past 30 years.

You can listen to the result by clicking here: HERE (starts about 10mins in) enjoy.

And here is the tracklisting....

Breakadawn - De La Soul

Nothin' But A G-Thang - Dr Dre ft Snoop Dogg

Bonita Applebum (Why 12 vinyl edit) - A Tribe Called Quest

Loud Pipes - Ratatat

Mathematics - Mos Def

Puppets - Atmosphere

Passing Me By (Joe Goddard Remix) - The Pharcyde

Six Days - DJ Shadow ft Mos Def

DDT - Jurassic 5

Darkest Light - Lafayette Afro Rock Band

Show Em What Ya Got - Public Enemy

On The DL - The Pharcyde

Concrete and Clay - Jurassic 5

Lollipop - Snoop Dogg

Figaro (101 Remix) - Madvillian

Simon Says - Pharoahe Monche

Hustlin' - Rick Ross

Drop - The Pharcyde

Got Ya Money - Ol' Dirty Bastard

Sabotage - Beastie Boys

17 Years - Ratatat

Roller Skating Jam Named Saturday - De La Soul

Charlie Brown (DJ Mehdi Remix) - Ghostface Killah

She Wants To Move - N.E.R.D.

Intro - The xx

The Message - Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five

I Wish - Skee Lo

Fix Up Look Sharp - Dizzee Rascal

Eye Know - De La Soul

Rapper's Delight - Sugar Hill Gang

Veronica's Veil (Erol Alkan Remix) - Fan Death?

C.R.E.A.M. - Wu Tang Clan

Damn It Feels Good To Be A Gangsta - The Ghetto Boys

Planet Rock - Afrika Bambaataa & The Soulsonic Force

Get Down - Nas

What's Golden - Jurassic 5

Drop It Like It's Hot - Snoop Dogg

Ma Baker - Boney M

Sill Dre - Dr Dre

Renegades Of Funk - Afrika Bambaataa & The Soulsonic Force

Renegades Of Funk - Rage Against The Machine

Real Eyes - Quasimoto

CheckThe Rhime - A Tribe Called Quest

Hermetico - Balkan Beat Box

I Gotcha - Lupe Fiasco

Ya Mama - The Pharcyde

Passing Me By - The Pharcyde

Electric Relaxation - A Tribe Called Quest

High Fidelity - Jurassic 5

Kick Push - Lupe Fiasco

Thanks for listening...

6... Radio Show 3/12/09

Thanks for joining us on our 6th radio show, where the main topic of conversation was vampires and mooncups, we also played some songs:

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Tracklisting:

Radio - The Avalanches

What Would I Want? Sky - Animal Collective

Got Yr Thing (Jesse Rose Remix) - Drums Of Death

Who's There (Malente Remix) - Riton and Primary One

Disco Monster (Seymour Bits Subsonic Monster) - LeLe

A Thing For Me (Breakbot Remix) - Metronomy

CASPAR'S SONG - Hey - The Pixies

Skip Divided (Modeselektor Remix) - Thom Yorke

Night By Night (Skream Remix) - Chromeo

Slotmachine - LeLe

Heads Will Roll (A-Trak Remix) - Yeah Yeah Yeahs

I Wish It Was Christmas Today - Julian Casablancas (not direct download click link to download)

Cheers for joining us on number 6...

Radio Show 5! 26/11/09

Sorry about the lack of posts, couple of radio shows behind now, but here is the tracklisting for the fifth show, with special guest; semi-professional footballer Michael Donovan.

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Tracklisting for numero 5:

Club Soda - Thomas Bangalter

Gummiband - Siriusmo

Infinity - The xx

Night by Night (Skream Remix) - Chromeo

Baby Can't Stop (Aeroplane Remix) - Lindstrome and Christabelle

CASPAR'S SONG: My Girls - Animal Collective

Lay it Down (Golden Filter Remix) - Peter Bjorn and John

Love Long Lost (Riva Starr Remix) - The Gossip

Heavy Cross (Siriusmo Dub) - The Gossip

Waves - Boys Noize and Erol Alkan

Waves (Gonzales Piano Remake) - Boys Noize and Erol Alkan

Thanks For Listening...

Radio Show 4?

Radio Show 3! - 12/11/09

Fingers crossed you enjoyed radio show number 3(listen again) more than Caspar did. I thought it was good anyway.

Moving on though, next week Sam's back and Caspar has promised not to insult listeners/show.

Anyway here is the tracklisting, one of my favourite tbh, remember you can listen again by clicking the word HYPERLINK .

Bangkok - Boris Dluglosch

High Pressure Days (Rory Phillips Remix) - The Units

The Boxer - Chemical Brothers

Lite Brite (Strip Steve Remix) - Das Glow

Crystallised - The xx

Billie Jean - Michael Jackson

CASPAR'S SONG: Loud Pipes - Ratatat ft Cool Catz

Hustlin' - Rick Ross

Bulgarian Chicks - Balkan Beat Box

Playground Love (Phoenix Cover) - Air

I Like This Sound - Youri Donatz & Franky Rizardo

Happy House - The Juan Maclean

Thanks For Listening...

I'm Many Things...

Some Mike Tyson Styled Wisdom:


Amen brother.

On Dancefloors On The Radio!!

We're back! Brodcasting live on http://www.icradio.com/ every Thursday 8-9pm.

Music wise here's what we got up to on the First Show (right click the underlined songs and you can download em):

Heads Will Roll (A-Trak Remix) - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
8000 - The Proxy
Poison Lips - Vitalic
I Was Drunk - Riva Starr ft Noze
Not Made For Love (Astronomer Remix) - Metronomy
CASPAR'S SONG: Empire State Of Mind - Jay-Z feat Alicia Keys
Mumba (Magan and Rodriquez Remix) – Danny Marquez and Tucillo
Seven (The Twelves Remix) - Fever Ray
What You Need (Zombie Nation Remix) - Tiga
Best Party Ever (Jordan Lightyear & Jimmy 2 Sox Remix) - Toecutter
I Think I Like It - Fake Blood
You Got The Love (The xx Remix) - Florence and The Machine
Send Him Back (Pilooski Edit) - The Pointer Sisters

LISTEN AGAIN TO THE FIRST SHOW HERE: HERE or HERE

Saturday Sample 2!

Ahh, its been a while, but hopefully this double Sample Saturday(Friday) will make up for it.

Firstly Jay-Z's Big Pimpin'



Intro sounds a little like Abdel Halim Hafez's Khosara.



And number 2, everyone's third favourite ed bangers, Justeeeece with New Jack.



Rips the vocals from funk classic "You Make Me Wanna Wiggle" by The Brothers Johnson.

Love 2.

Everyones favourite french duo are back with a new album "Love 2", nay not Daft Punk but Kings (with a capital K) of ambient-electronica; AIR. They have released a promo mix for the album, which sounds even lighter and happier than the Air of old, if thats possible. A new track "Sing, Sang, Sung" was debuted on their website last week.


I've been less impressed with their recent releases; Pocket Symphony and Late Night Tales didn't live up to expectations, but if this mix is any indication, we might have another moon safari on our hands. Well we can always hope.

Love 2 Promo Mix - Download [mp3]

The album is out on the 30th September 09.
And incase its shit, we've always got this:

Saturday Sample Numero 1!

I've decided that having regular features in da blog will encourage repeat custom.

On that note, every Saturday I is gonna post a sample. And to kick things off -
Below Sheila E with Glamorous Life, which was the insipiration for mysterious dutch duo; Dance Area's AA24/7.

Sheila E - The Glamorous Life

I Think I Like It.

Well I ain't the biggest Fake Blood fan, but I think I like it:


Fake Blood - I Think I Like It [Download Link]

Breakbot = Jesus.

Breakbot, on top of nearly all his remixes being amazing, hes now produced by far the best mix of 2009, smoother than whipped ice cream.

Downoload Link: Dance On Glass Mix - Breakbot

Check out his remix of Metronomy - A Thing For Me.

Here is the best tracklisting I could find:

The Coach House Rhythm Section - Time Warp
Alfonzo Surrett - Gimme Your Love
Mr. Oizo - Cut Dick
Midfield General - Disco Sirens (acapella)
Korja - My Mind (instrumental)
Vaughan Mason And Crew - Bounce, Rock, Skate, Roll (instrumental)
Superfunk - Last Dance In Copacabana
Cut Copy - Lights & Music (Boys Noize Happy Birthday remix)
PNAU - Baby (Breakbot remix)
Ladyhawke - Paris Is Burning (Alex Gopher remix) (instrumental)
Breakbot - Stereo Provolone
The Black Kids - I’m Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You (The Twelves remix)
Thomas Bangalter - Colossus
ZZT - Lower State of Consciousness (Justice remix)
Oliver Cheatham - Get Down Saturday Night
Stardust - Music Sounds Better With You
Yuksek - I Like To Play
Fred Falke - Last Wave
Guns ‘N’ Bombs - Riddle Of Steel (Para One remix) (acapella)
DJ Blaqstarr feat. Rye Rye - Shake It To The Ground (acapella)
Spencer & Hill - Back In The Love (Dave Armstrong & David Rubato Remix)
Revolte - Guess What
The Brothers Johnson - You Make Me Wanna Wiggle
SebastiAn - Momy
Chic - Everybody Dance (instrumental)
Metronomy - A Thing For Me (acapella)
Pino D’Angiò - Ma Quale Idea (instrumental)
Shazam - Luckier

The Hardest Working Man In Show Business.

James Brown; raised in a brothel and imprisoned for armed robbery at 16, but still went on to become one of the most influential artists of the modern era, sampled everywhere from The Stone Roses to Public Enemy.



If everyone danced like this, I would just live in clubs.

Ahh, Good Shoes are back!

I love indie band photos.

I'll be honest I'm a little bit disappointed that I've completely missed the fact that Good Shoes have returned. (I contribute this to the declining relevance of hype machine as a resource, I used to swear by it, now its popular list is simply a hotch-potch of mash ups and "insert famous name" remixes.)

Back on topic, in 2007 the band released their debut album "Think Before You Speak" full of sharp, catchy melodies and strokes-esque spiky guitars. Creating an album full of infectious indie-pop hits.
They are now back with a new single "The Way My Heart Beats" which is available for download on the bands website (which is always nice). At 2mins30 its more a songlet, rather than a full song but after a couple of listens I was reminded just how much I like this band.

Currently they are touring "heavily" and are playing London at some Oxfam shop with The Editors on the 1st October. I think I will be in attendance.

Download Link: Good Shoes - The Way My Heart Beats

Daft Mix

I'll admitt this isn't the most up to date/current post, but after hearing this mix I felt it needed to be brought to the attention of the widest possible audience. (which begs the question; why am I posting it on this blog)

Anyway I recently came across a french website with a huge selection of Daft Punk Mixes , for those whos French isn't tres bon, I've worked out that telecharger means download or something. So have fun, my pick of the mixes so far is Thomas Bangalter Mix @ WE Club (download link), which features the absolute cream of 90s house along with some, lets say, "experimetnal" transitions, recorded all the way back in 1999, true class.

I've decided to add a feature to the blog; "Musical Facts" (the name might change to something catchier when I've got my creative hat on.)

Musical Fact #1 : Who remembers this camp classic? :



Well D.I.S.C.O. was in fact written by one Daniel Vangarde aka Daniel Banagalter, the father of young Thomas offa Daft Punk. Daniel also made a "Japanese operatic-pop" concept album with fellow frenchman Kluger; "Le Monde Fabuleux Des Yamasuki" I got the album last week and it is quite simply amazing.

And that was musical fact #1, stay tuned for more.

Enjoying Your Twenties?

So, my first post proper and it's Your Twenties in the firing line, the London based band fronted by Gabriel Stebbing, former bassist and keyboardist of 2008 stars; Metronomy. Earlier this year Stebbing left Metronomy for good to focus on recording with Your Twenties.

The band released their first single "Caught Wheel" in November of last year, with it's catchy chorus and driving guitars it was unsurprisingly a big hit on the indie scene. Their latest offering is Billionaires, which has the added bonus of being produced by the legendary Stephen Street of Blur and Smiths fame. The result is a summery pop gem , perfect listening for these long rainy days.

No date has been set for the album release, assuming they will make one, but the sooner the better!

You can catch them at Borderline in London on September 10th.

Download (mp3): Billionaires - Your Twenties

Decleration Of Intentions

Hello and welcome to "On Dancefloors" a blog forged in the never ending depths of summer boredom. This is my attempt to contribute in some way to society, the extent of this contribution remains to be seen.

Anyway, down to business, as the title suggest this blog is primarily a musically themed one, where I hope to offer up the best new releases in the genres of indie, electro and well anything really. I may stray off these topics occasionally and I apologise in advance.

In combination with this blog, there will be a weekly radio show starting in mid september of the same name, I will be hosting it with fellow DJs; SanDJ and Humbert Humbert. More information to come.

My name is Mack.

ps: So this isn't a completely uneventful post, I'll include the inspiration for the name of the blog:

(of the album Nights Out by Metronomy, probably my favourite album of 2008)