Music that you can dance to.

• Having trouble in the morning? Can’t quite get to the bounce-to-the-ounce level that you need to be functional? Kid Dyno’s “Wake Up And Smell The Rave” mix can help you get moving. Any mix that starts with Bach, drops in some Chemical Brothers, Green Velvet, Wang Chung and Technotronic in along with broad variety of electro-influenced nu-rave tracks before ending with a Daft Punk slow jam is guaranteed to make me happy. (Please note that some language in this mix, particularly near the end, may be NSFW.)

• If the above tickles your interest, but you’re looking for something with a bit more of a hip-hop flavor, check out Le Greve General’s live set from earlier this month, also over at Trash Menagerie. Nelly Furtado, The Klaxons, Justice, and Armand Van Helden all make appearances in this lively, infectious mix. (Again, NSFW language in this, unless the phrase “Fuck that shit, niggah” is something that gets dropped around the water cooler.)
• If these sound too “new school” for you, then Here’s Graeme Park and Mike Pickering at the Hacienda in August, 1989. Full on hands-in-the-air house and late-80s hip hop and lots of pianos.
• I keep pondering putting together another ambient mix thing along the lines of this one from 2005. (Why ambient? Because it’s easier than dance music, and I’ve a distinct theme in mind. Mostly the former.) Would that be of interest?