Music to Dance To

We asked our musicto curators a simple question: ‘What's a track that when you put it on - you can't help but get up and dance?’ This playlist is their response:

From the Curator — Paul Sims

‘The aim of Musicto is to bring people together via music and what better way to do this than combine all the musical knowledge of the Musicto family in a collaborative playlist to connect us to our readers and listeners, that is exactly what we did last month with the first playlist called ‘Music to Connect To’ curated by Aarushi Aggarwal of ‘Music to Be Alive To’.

This month it’s the turn of yours truly and with my list ‘Shake a Hoof’ being a slang term, meaning to dance, as in “I could shake a hoof to that” only one place we can go ‘Music to Dance to’

So how this works, each Musicto member is asked to anonymously send in a track on the theme of the playlist name, I then decide what I want to add and how to position them in the list, now Aarushi decided to add every track received, I’ve gone in a different direction and selecting tracks by how I wanted to make the list sound, changing tracks and swapping some out completely by using the submission as inspiration for something else, some with very tenuous links but I think I created something interesting with what was sent to me, anyway on with the music…’

Here’s the links to the tracks on Spotify and to the musicto curator that selected them:

• A Night To Remember M&M remix by Shalamar - Lyris, Music to Warm The Soul

• Sweet Thing by Mick Jagger - Tommi, Music to Celebrate Life

• FnkyJoy by Dux - Matt, Music to Groove You

• W.A.V.E by Emil Rottmayer - Öni, Music to Chill To

• Time (You and I) by Khruangbin - Maria, Music to Explore Everything

• Now U Got Me Hooked by Against All Logic - Abby, Music to Walk the Line

• Angele Ni Fie by Juls, Sango - Ka II, Music to Embrace the Feminine Future

• Tru Dancing by O’Flynn - Ruth, Music to Zone Out To

• Feel My Needs by WEISS & Purple Disco Machine - Hiram, Music to Follow Dreams

• Music-You’ve Made Me by KB - SK, Music to Explore Urban Afro

• Freedom! ‘15 by !!! - Jon, Music to Fight Evil

• Ghost Dub 91 / Let Us Unite by The Specials¹ - Chris, Music to Burn a Million Miles

• Allemaal allemaal by Fierce Ruling Diva - Psetta, Music to Scry To

• Tondo - Disclosure & Eko Roosevelt - Matt, Music to Escape Reality

• I Feel So Free (Lost Souls of Saturn Remix) by !!!² - Jon, Music to Fight Evil

• Ole by Osunlade - Paul, Music to Shake a Hoof

• I Feel Love (1979 Disco Club Mix) by DJ Pierre & Chic Loren³ - Jane, Music to Play in Your Vintage Mustang

• You Should Be Dancing by Bee Gees - Aarushi, Music to Be Alive To

• Sympathy For The Devil - The Rolling Stones⁴ - Sonya, Music to Dance Barefoot in the Grass

• Get Me Back on Time, Engine Number 9 by Wilson Pickett⁵ - Danny, Music to Blow Your Mind

• Karma by Black Eyed Peas⁶ - Caylyn, Music to Float Away Your Fears

• Lesson 2 by Steinski & Double Dee - Paul, Music to Shake a Hoof

¹ inspired by Chris’s selection ‘Ghost Town’ by The Specials ² inspired by Jon’s selection ‘Freedom! ‘15’ by !!! ³ inspired by Jane’s selection ‘I Feel Love’ by Sam Smith ⁴ inspired by Sonya’s selection ‘Miss You’ by The Rolling Stones ⁵ inspired by Danny’s selection ‘I’m a Midnight Mover’ by Wilson Pickett ⁶ inspired by Caylyn’s selection ‘Fergalicious’ by Fergie & will.i.am

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While many individual musicto curators contributed a track - it was Paul from Music to Shake a Hoof that sat down, listened to each track, listened to them again and then created the flow that you hear above. We think he did an amazing job - if you haven’t already - you should definitely check out his many, many lists - they’re all great!

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