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Today we highlight good tracks for your opening set in the 105-120 BPM Range. This BPM range can be difficult for a lot of people, so hopefully this will be helpful to a lot of people.
Boyz II Men – Motownphilly
Whitney Houston – I Wanna Dance With Somebody
Outkast – Roses
Crazytown – butterfly
Akon – Bananza (Belly Dancer)
Foxy Brown ft Jay-Z – I’ll Be
Babyface – There She Goes
Cassie – long way to go
beyonce – de ja vu
Jay-Z – change clothes
Notorious B.I.G. – nasty girl
t-pain/akon – bartender
ja rule – living it up
ciara – love sex magic
houston – i like that
Kevin Little – Turn Me On
LL Cool J – Phenomenon
Omarion – Entourage
Rupee – Tempted To Touch
Jagged Edge – Let’s Get Married
Usher ft. Peedi & Beans – Caught Up
Gnarls Barkley – Crazy
Ciara ft. Missy Elliot – 1, 2 Step
Janet Jackson – All For You
Michael Jackson – Bad
No Doubt – Hella Good
Nelly Furtado – Promiscuous Girl
Coolio – 1, 2, 3, 4 (Sumpin’ New)
Evelyn King – Love Come Down
Sean Kingston – Take You There
Shannon – Let The Music Play
Britney Spears – Break The Ice, I’m A Slave 4 U
Gwen Stefani – Hollaback Girl
Lil Kim – How Many Licks
Notorious B.I.G. – Nasty Girl
Justin Timberlake – Sexy Back, My Love (DJ Roctakon Remix), Like I Love You
Stevie B – Spring Love
Destiny’s Child & Nina Sky – Lose My Breath
Will.I.Am – I Got It From My Mama
Crystal Waters – 100% Pure Love
Flo Rida – Elevator
Snoop Dogg – Signs
Madonna & Justin Timberlake – 4 Minutes
Kristina DeBarge – Goodbye
Lumidee ft. Fatman Scoop – I Wanna Dance
The Pussycat Dolls – Don’t Cha (Part 1), When I Grow Up
Danity Kane – Damaged
Kardinal Offishall – Dangerous
Colby O’Donis – What You Got
o’neal mcknight – check your coat
mary j. Blige – just fine
akon – smack that
field mob – so what
ll cool j – control my self
Let us know what your playing. Leave a comment or email us at remixreport@gmail.com
What Up, I really like this list. Although, I am not an opening DJ yet..i am a beginning dj just getting gigs. I always play alot of these songs to get the night started and it always works…more songs in that BPM range can be…
Snoop Dogg ft. Dream – Gangsta Love
Alot Of Old School Hip Hop Tracks…Old School Hip Hop Tracks early in the night works wonders!
Justin Timberlake ft. T.I – If I
Mase – Feels So Good
Akon – Up & Down
Timbaland – The Way I Are
Kanye West – Paranoid
Asher Roth – She don’t want a man…
and the lady gagas from previous summers work…
thanks alot for some of the songs you put though, i forgot about a couple! Keep up the good work on the site i’m for sure and avid everyday visitor
and I def. drop crazytown all the time!
Not my favorite tempo range, but is def more manageable in an opening set.
MJ – Billie Jean
Timbaland – Morning After Dark (Braindead Mix), Give It Up To Me -Both didn’t really hit
Common – Universal (OG or Scene’s Biggie Blend)
Will.I.AM – Heartbreaker
Gaga – Papparazzi
Usher – What’s Your Name
Sean Paul – We Be Burning
Anything on the Coolie Riddim, I run Juke Girl and Move Ya Body
Anything on the Kopa Riddim : Turning Me On , Some Blend of Chris Brown’s Freeze I found on AV8
Chris Brown – Freeze ( OG and blend mentioned about)
Pitbull – Go Girl
Prince – Kiss
Roots – The Seed
MGMT – Electric Feel (Justice Remix & Steve 1der Blend)
Trick Daddy – In The Wind / Sugar
MIA – Sunshowers (Ghislain Porier Mix) – Shit KNOCKS
Jump Smokers – Flow So Sick
Pussy Cat Dolls ft Snoop Dogg + Kardinal Offishall – Bottle Pop
Kelis – Milkshake
Gusto’s Hollerback Girl x Daft Punk Blend
Rolling Stones – Miss You (Dre Mix)
Franz Ferdinand – Take Me Out (Hot Chip Remix)
JD & Jay! you guys are on point with this playlist. The only two I disagree with on the list is “Motown Philly and “100% Pure Love”. In Vegas those two serve as peak hour songs. I could see how Motown Philly could be used for opening if you play a verse or two,but in a headlining set we would just play the hook because the energy drops out right after. Although 100% Pure love is older and very commercial I would still play it later in the night,so I could follow with more house music. Just my opinion and honestly it’s not going to burn the headliner if you were to incorporate those two songs in your opening set.
First off, I wanna say I love what u guys are doing, it’s a great thing and helps all of us with enhancing our skills. I like reading over your opening set playlists, seems really similar to what I do. Gotta agree with you, too, when you say this BPM range is a little more difficult than others, cause it really is… you have to have the right tracks in line to get people out of their seats and keep ’em movin, and it seems that most bangers don’t fall in this category. Anyways, couple tracks I wanted to mention are :
Black Box – Strike It Up and/or Everybody Everybody
Yazoo – Situation
Lady Gaga – Just Dance and/or Poker Face (rarely ever play those tracks at primetime anymore)
Bobby Brown – My Perogative
Madonna – Music
Gorillaz – DARE
Daft Punk – Da Funk
DJs Mighty Mi & Steve1der – Electric Touch
DJ Ri – Johnny Cash – Ring of Fire(Drumline Refix)
Discotech – Knockin Boots(rework)
Discotech – Party Warp vol. 1
Discotech – Do Ya Think I’m Sexy (Bass Mix)
DJ Scarmixxed – Shake Your Booty
CeCe Peniston – Finally
DJ Scene – American Boy(The Breaks edit)
Mr.Cheeks – Lights Camera Action
Janet Jackson – If
Soul Decision – Faded
Ting Tings – Shut Up and Let Me Go
INXS – Need You Tonight
Fine Young Cannibals – She Drives Me Crazy (tend to follow this right behind INXS)
All-American Rejects – Move Along
DJ Super Scott – Listen to the Music
Indeep – Last Night a DJ Saved My Life
Queen – Another One Bites the Dust
Those are just a few that seem to work well for myself, hopefully that helps out others reading this post. Another thing I wanna add, to all DJs that don’t have a headliner behind them and are throwin the party all night… don’t be afraid to start off with some brand new top 40 tracks, 2 to 3 hours later u can still play them, it’s just you will get people up and dancing a lot faster, so it’s not necessarily “blowing your load too early”!
Here are some more for you guys. Hope it helps.
Petey Pabo – Freek a leek
Amerie – Take control
Black Eyed Peas – Joints & Jam
Lumidee – Crazy
Joe Budden – Fire
The Federation – I wear my stunna glasses at nite
Monifah – Touch it
Snoop Dogg – Sexual Eruption
The Dream – Walkin on the moon
Busta Rhymes – Light your ass on fire
Mark Ronson – Ooh Wee
UTP – Who’s your daddy
Hey guys,
first of lovin the blog keep it up.here’s a couple of tracks i also use in opening sets:
neyo vs michael jackson-because of you remix
kelis-milkshake
ja rule-body
janet jackson-so excited
lloyd-how we do it
lil mama-shawty get loose
missy elliot-pass the dutch
joe budden-pump it up
case-crooked letter
roscoe-i love cali
sway-saturday night hustle
sergio mendez-magalenah is turnin me on
mariah carey-im that chick
plies-hypnotized
deepside-booty music
pz out
Hehe, this shows that openers differ in different locations/venues, quite interesting. From the above comments I’d play some of them but a lot of them are more main set tunes although maybe not peak. Agree with most of remix reports picks though, good stuff.
Some I play that I think fit what you guys are talking about, for me would be:
Justin : Lovestoned / If I
Estelle: American Boy
Snoop: Signs / Beautiful / Thats That (bit lower BPM)
Ahmir: Welcome to my party (good opener)
JoJo: This Time
Joe: Ride Wit U
Beyonce etc: Fighting Temptation (towards end of warm up)
Donell Jones: You Know Whats Up
Foxy Brown: Big Bad Mama
Chantele Ft jim Jones: Turnin Me On
Jennifer Hudson: Spotlight (Rick Ross Remix)
Sean Kingston: I Can Feel It
Mary J Blige: I’m The One
Hope this helps someone out there. Keep up the good work fellas, love the blog.
Peace,
104
I appreciate this site instantly. I learned about you guys this morning on twitter and already bookmarked it. You guys are on point with this opening playlist. I also appreciate everyone for responding in the comments section. My hat’s off to you guys.
Hi Guys,
Here are some tracks that i’d recommend:
B.I.G – Mo Money Mo Problems
Mark Ronson – Ooh wee
Chaka Khan – Ain’t nobody
LL Cool J – Headsprung
Nelly – Flap your wings
Destinys Child – Bug a boo
Foxy Brown – Bad mamma jamma
Diana Ross – Upside down
Jenifer Lopez – Feeling so good
Will Smith – Man in black / Miami / Will 2K
MJ – Remember the time
Kid Rock – All summer long
Kraak & Smaak – Squeeze me
Nas – You owe me
Blackstreet vs Cameo – No diggity (dj twister)
Kool and the gang – Hollywood swinging
Justin Timberlake – Rock your body
Janet Jackson – All for you
Craig David – Hot stuff
Gym Class Heroes – Cloths off
Madonna – Open your heart / Holiday
YYT – Dangerous
Nely Furtado – Say it right
Kool And The Gang – Fresh
Prince – I wanna be your lover
Sister Sledge – We are family
Whitney Huston – How will i know
I really love what you are doing and started to be addicted to this site. Checking it everyday right after @ and fb : )
Love the site (by the way)… keep up the good work!!
Here are some good openers in that range (not specific to any genre):
Mark Ronson Ft. Ghostface & Nate Dogg – Ooh Wee
(works well into the Dani California (DJ Scene Edit) – try it!)
Zhane – Hey Mr. DJ
Ice Cube – Bop Gun (One Nation)
50 cent vs. Bee Gees – Stayin Alive In the Club
Beastie Boys – Hey Ladies
The Dream – Ditch That…
T-Pain – Bartender (Manny Faces Remix)
Kool & the Gang – Jungle Boogie
Howard Jones – Things Can Only Get Better
Naked Eyes – Promises, Promises
DJ Felon – Check Your Coat (Party Break)
Dizzee Rascal Ft. Calvin Harris – Dance Wiv Me (Benny Black Edit)
Steepen Wolf – Magic Carpet Ride (Greg J Edit)
DJ Aristocrat – California Dreamin’
Beastie Boys – Brass Monkey
Ying Yang Twins – Drop
Pittsburgh Slim – Girls Kiss Girls
Gorillaz – DARE
Hot Chip – Shake It Over and over (Diplo Mix)
Let me know what you think…
GREAT LIST of 105-120 opener material listed by JD, Jay Spring and everyone here. I have a recent set I did at Apt. 24, San Fran a few weeks ago on Beezo (http://www.beezo.net/djs/audio1) The range is 96-115 for the first hour before hitting them with more powerful tracks. Here’s the playlist and some ideas some of yall might be able to use.
Rhymefest feat. Phonte – Say Wassup
Raphael Saadiq feat. Q-Tip – Get Involved
Fabolous feat. Keri Hilson – Everything Everyday Everywhere
DiscoTech x Jay-Z x En Vogue – Blue Magic / Hold On
Ja Rule – Clap Back
Bangloose feat. Fergie – Grey Goose
Ludacris feat. T-Pain – One More Drink
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud – Do The James
James Brown – The Big Payback
Maino feat. Swizz Beatz – Million Bucks
Erick Sermon feat. Redman – React
Donny Goines feat. Che Grand & Izza Kizza – She Likes
Kid Cudi – Make Her Say
Gwen Stefani – Rich Girl
Jagged Edge – Where The Party At
Max-A-Million – Sexual Healing
Mariah Carey feat. Da Brat – Heartbreaker
DJ Greg J x Mims x Chemical Brothers – Galvanize Like This
B.O.B. feat. Bruno Mars – Nothing On You
Koffee Brown – After Party
Ying Yang Twins – Wait (Bounce Loop)
Amy Winehouse – Fuck Me Pumps
Busta Rhymes – Light Your Ass On Fire
Greg J x DJ Brandon Lee – Ring Of Fire (Klutch Beat Remix)
Lady Gaga – LoveGame
DJ Phase x Lady Gaga x Pitbull – Love Jangles
Benzino – Rock The Party
Snoop Dogg feat. The-Dream – Gangsta Luv
Mary J Blige feat. Drake – The One
NERD – Lap Dance
Selau – A Man That Goes
La Sonora Dinamita – Que Nadie Sepa Mi Sufrir (Woody Edit)
La Sonora Dinamita – Mil Horas (Woody Edit)
Rupee feat. Daddy Yankee – Tempted To Touch (Remix)
Amerie feat. TI – Take Control (Krayz Edit)
Showbiz & AG – Soul Clap
DJ Robway – Wu Tang Jackson
Memphis Bleek – Still Ill
DJ Greg J x The 45 King – Get A Dirty 900 Number
The Cataracs – Club Love (Audio1 Blendit)
Ultramagnetic MC’s – Poppa Large
UMC’s – One To Grow On
LL Cool J – Jingling Baby
Naughty By Nature – Get To Know Me Better
Pink feat. Redman – Get The Party Started (Sweet Dreams Remix)