stay with dumonde, cosmic gate etc
the more 'underground' you go, the more you will lose the crowd

tho for some reason 2 great songs are
Al Janeiro-Voodoo
Parker and Clind-Generator
They have killed every crowd I use em on, but watch your levels to voodoo..it screams in high and lows

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here are some of DJ Dawn's tracklists...that should be the style you're looking for...the tracks in bold print are really good

01. Steve Castro - Be As One
02. Oceanlab - Clear Blue Water (Hennes & Cold Club Mix)
03. Trance All DJ Team - The Trance All Anthem (Gary D. Mix)
04. Voodoo & Serano - When I Rock (CJ Stone Atmosphere Mix)
05. 4 Clubbers - Children (Future Breeze vs. Junkfood Junkies Mix)
06. DJ Dean - Here We Go (Hard Stuff Mix)
07. DJ Choci & The Geezer - It's Beyond Control (Hennes & Cold Mix)
08. Hennes & Cold - The Sound Of Rock (Original Mix)
09. Derler & Klitzing - The Feeling
10. Y.O.M.C. - In My Mind (DJ Overdog Mix)
11. DJ Shog - This Is My Sound (Green Court Mix)
12. Marc Dawn - Expander (Flutlicht Mix) <-- !!!!!
13. Flutlicht - Icarus (S.H.O.K.K. Mix)
14. Hardenbrook - Time For Summer (Summerbreak Mix)
15. Rank 1 - Awakening (Benicio Mix)
16. Franchino - Ogni Pensiero
17. Marco V - G.O.D.D. (Original Mix)
18. Phasendreher - The Trip (Pro-Tech Mix)
19. Alphazone - Stay
20. Accuface - Let's Strike It Up
21. D & A - Demons (Spacecorn Mix)

01. Norman DJ - Go Back
02. Peter Luts vs. G-Bric - Pacific Wish (Fiocco Mix)
03. Brain Twinz - Voice Of Buddah (A-Side)
04. Futura - Far Horizon (Futura's 12" Mix)
05. JFK - Whiplash (Bad Habit Boys Mix)
06. Plastic Enemy - Double Speeded (DJs @ Work Mix)
07. Nexus - Next (Extended Version)
08. Wavetraxx - Freedom (Original Trance Mix)
09. Pulsedriver - Kiss That Sound
10. Discovery - Missing (Rocco Mix)
11. Full House - Scratchin' (Original Mix)
12. S.O.L. vs. Gat-cha - We Call It Techno (Pulsar Crew Mix)
13. Cosmic Gate - Hardcore (Kaylab vs. Chromedioxide II Mix)
14. Miss Shiva - Dreams (Cosmic Gate Mix)
15. The Matriarch - Ascent (Original Mix)
16. Wavescope - Onwaves (Original Mix)
17. Wavetraxx - The Rithem (S.Y.S. Mix)
18. Zero Vision - Going Down (Extended Mix)
19. Tomcraft - Overdose (Tony-H Poptech Mix)
20. Gigi D'Agostino - L'Amours Toujours (DJ Indurro Super Club Mix)

01. Charlie Lownoise - Starsplash (China Club Mix)
02. Klubbheads - Kickin' Hard 2001 (Central Seven Mix)
03. Collusion - Mutual Consent (Original Mix)
04. Svenson & Gielen - Twisted (Energy Mix)
05. Bush - Future (Part One)
06. S.Y.S. - The Colour Of Trance (Club Mix)
07. DJ Air - Alone With Me (Flutlicht Mix)
08. DJ Energy - Excelsis (S.H.O.K.K. Mix)
09. Mat Silver & Tony Burt - The Perfect Wave
10. Klubbingman - Welcome To The Club (Mat Silver Mix)
11. Brooklyn Bounce - Club Bizarre (DJ Scot Project Mix)
12. David Sgarbi - Feel The Drums (DJ Gollum Mix)
13. Re-Animator - Re-Wire Your Brain (D-Gor Mix)
14. DJ Yoeri vs. Franky Kloeck - Overdose
15. Spectrux - Flat Space
16. Silverblue - Step Back (Syntone Mix)
17. Megara - The Megara
18. Re-Flex - Babadeng (Sandra Flyn vs. Marc Van Linden Mix)
19. Amara - Rush
20. Peran Van Dijk - Good Time (Original Mix)

01. Dumonde vs. Lange - Memory (Megara vs. DJ Lee Dub Mix)
02. Kai Tracid - Live Is Too Short (Energy Mix)
03. Topmodelz - L'Esperanza (Charlie Lownoise Mix)
04. Foggy - Come...Into My Dream (Club Mix)
05. Yanny & Gollum - Shadows & Lights (Original Mix)
06. A Nice - Orange Split (Frank-E & Mars-L vs. Charlie Lownoise Mix)
07. DJ Passion - Kingston Kitchen
08. Mellow Trax - Sway (Lars Palmas Mix)
09. Klinisch Tot - Klinisch Tot (Wiederbelebungs Mix)
10. Derb - In Africa
11. Speaker Freakz - Bass Test (Original Mix)
12. Cosmosonic - Alpha (Long Piano Mix)
13. Signum - The Other Side
14. X-E-Cute - Testos (Mind Blowerz Mix)
15. Arne L II - R.I.P.
16. Cosmic Commando - Slave 2 The Rave (Club Mix)
17. Dave Joy - First Impression (S.H.O.K.K. Mix)
18. S.H.O.K.K. - Isn't It All A Little Strange? (Krazy Nut Mix)
19. Meteor Seven - Universal Music (DJ Scot Project Mix)
20. The Trancecore Project - Circles (Charlie Lownoise Mix)
21. Rocco - Everybody

For your purposes, I recommend:

Alice Deejay - Better off Alone
Darude - Sandstorm
Cosmic Gate - Exploration of Space
Axel Konrad - R.U.F.F. Cuts
E-Wok - Go Back
Ian van Dahl - Castles in the Sky

These are all great club hits guaranteed to make everyone dance.

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www.kompulsor.com

Tracks for yhis purpose:

4 Clubbers - Children 2002 (Future Breeze vs. Junkfood Junkies remix)
Sylver - Forgiven
Lasgo - Something
Cosmic Gate - Melt to the Ocean
Beam & Cyrus - Thunder in Paradise (DJ Scot Project remix)
or
Brooklyn Bounce - Club Bizzare (DJ Scot Project remix)
Kosheen - Catch (Ferry Corsten remix)
Ferry Corsten - Punk
Goldtrix - It's Love (Trippin') >>> Not Trance but usually does the trick
Barthezz - On The Move (original mix)
Blank & Jones -Desire (original mix)

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Check My Music

kids love Dj Jean - The Launch

basically check out the CDS:

ministry of sound - clubbers guide to 2001 (or 2002)
ministry of sound - the annual 2002

there is also a mainstream chart:
http://www.muchmusic.com/electriccircus/charts/

stuff by prodigy, chemical brothers, or crystal method are good choices.

btw dude, i have to do the same thing, im djing for our grad early june. i probably have to play stuff they want me to play, which is fine with me.

I reccommend doing a music survey or something.

By the way, Shinobi, how the hell do you mix hip hop/rap??? any tips?

These are all extremely popular tracks that an inexperienced crowd would recognize and have made large US radio appearances:

Darude - Sandstorm
Zombie Nation - Kernkraft 400
Ian van Dahl - Castles In The Sky
IIO - Rapture (riva remix)
Alice Deejay - Better Off Alone
Sonique - It Feels So Good
Melanie C - I Turn To You

Erm, kids?

Kylie Minogue- Can't Get You Out of My Head, for a climatic finish. Won't go wrong with Sandstorm too.

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Melodic Progressive.

Better than sex.

Can't go wrong with with Iio - rapture(riva AND armin van buren mix) Chicks LOOOOOOVE this track!!!THEY FUCKING DIG IT!!!!!!
Marc Dawn - Expander (Flutlicht Remix)
Ocean lab - clear blue water( Above and Beyond mix)
Rank 1 - awakening(original AND ferry corsten mix)
DJ tiest - flight 643(original)
DJ tiesto - Lethal industy(original AND svenson & gielen mix)
Svenson & Gielen - we know what you did(johan gielen mix)
Alice Dj - better off alone(FUCKED UP TRACK, but i guess kids might like it)
Darude - sandstorm
Minimalistix - closecover(svenson and gielen mix)
4 strings - into the night(coast 2 coast AND original mix)

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Tom

I spun for a similar crowd once...here's what I did.

I played hiphop with the local DJ for most of the earlier part of the night, and then when it started to get late we dropped Zombie Nation - Kernkraft 400. I tried playing some stuff earlier, but it basically cleared the floor. Anyway, the ZN song got everyone up and bouncing because everyone knew it. You should try to open with songs everyone knows like Kernkraft 400 or Darude - Sandstorm.

Here's some other stuff that I would reccommend playing:

DJ Jean - The Launch
arrakis - the spice
ascension - someone
nick beat - technodisco (axel konrad remix)
delerium - silence (airscape or tiesto mix)
airscape - l'esperanza
mel c - I turn to you
robert miles - children (dream version) (probably towards the end, lighter, finishing track)
push - universal nation
binary finary - 1998
carl cox - phuture 2000
rank 1 - airwave
dj tiesto - suburban train
members of mayday - 10 in 01 (paul van dyk remix)

Good luck, I'm sure you'll do fine.

DJ Nuclear ~_^

hey, thanks everyone! I'll check these songs out, ive heard of a few, and some i'll need to give an ear to. I really appreciate it. And of course, i'll still be taking songs so don't stop after this post ^_-

what is your dj name? im from so cal too..