Instantly a clas­sic, Daft Punk’s “One More Time” is one of the best mod­ern dance hits out there.  The duo is cred­ited as play­ing an inte­gral role in devel­op­ing the French House music scene.  But, they also enjoyed main­stream suc­cess with synth pop tracks like this one.  Fea­tur­ing the famous vocoder line, horn sam­ple, and pump­ing drums, this is one of the best “feel-good” tracks ever made.

Meet Wal­ter Gib­bons, the pio­neer­ing DJ of the disco sound in the 1970’s New York club scene. Out shined by the emer­gence of Hip Hop and their sim­i­lar DJ tech­niques, Gib­bons was still con­sid­ered a DJ’s DJ by devel­op­ing extra­or­di­nary mix­ing capa­bil­i­ties.  Recently, one of his mixes, “Jun­gle Music”, was re-released to trib­ute him as one of the most impor­tant names in dance music.  Check out this selec­tion — “You Are My Love” by Sandy Mer­cer — a cut that’s exem­plary of that 70’s disco sound.

Stones Throw all-star, Dam-Funk, has been burnin up the music scene as of late — win­ning over the hearts of indie-rock lovers and hip-hop heads and every­one else in between.  With his addic­tive soul­ful funk that sounds like he straight from the 80’s, this guy is the real deal (with vocoders and all).  Check this slow jam “On & On” off his album Toeachizown.  It’s one deli­cious blend of smooth, cheesy funk.

Slated by James Mur­phy as his last album as LCD Soundsys­tem, “This Is Hap­pen­ing” lives up to the hype and is deserv­ing of being the clos­ing chap­ter to the alternative/indie dance legacy.  Check out this sin­gle “I Can Change”.  A bub­bly, upbeat track that’s sure to get you going in the morn­ing and de-stress you at the end of the day.

“Now” is the lead sin­gle off of the most recent album from BLD’s own King Britt.  Fea­tur­ing the sooth­ing voice of Astrid Syryanto, get lost in the pul­sat­ing and spacey vibe from one of the most respected names in house and dance music.  The full album, “The Intri­cate Beauty”, is avail­able now on Nervous/FiveSix and is report­edly King Britt’s last con­ven­tional dance album before he ven­tures into the experimental/electronic music realm.

After 7 years as the rulers of the play­ground under­ground, we take our award win­ning pre-school dance party out of the night­clubs and into boom boxes  world­wide with the first offi­cial sound­track to the inter­na­tion­ally acclaimed children’s event.    10 orig­i­nal songs cre­ated and crafted by leg­endary artist, pro­ducer and Dj King Britt with an A-list of special-guests includ­ing Mar­tin Luther, DJ Sta­tik, Cap­i­tal A, Lady Alma & The Baby Loves Disco Choir.  Here they all com­bine to rede­fine We Are Fam­ily for the new Mil­len­nium.   Don’t be sur­prised if you catch Mom & Dad lis­ten­ing (and danc­ing) long after the kids have gone to bed.

Pro­duced by grammy win­ning pro­ducer aaron “ace” levin­son (2006 best Salsa record­ing for the Span­ish Harlem Orches­tra) Baby Loves Salsa fea­tures some of the biggest and bright­est stars in con­tem­po­rary salsa music includ­ing band leader and singer Jose Conde (link). This track gets kids play­ing a com­bi­na­tion freeze-dance and Salsa — make sure to lis­ten all the way through.

by now Sharon Jones (link) is a house­hold name, but before she rose to the top of the charts she was with Baby Loves Jazz singing the part of Ms. Ella Ele­phant. Here she shines singing Old Mcdon­ald like you never heard it before accom­pa­nied by some of the great­est liv­ing jazz play­ers around includ­ing John Ellis (horns); Aaron Gold­berg (keys); Omer Avi­tal (bass) and Ali Jack­son (drums)

from the dino-5 (baby loves hip hop) comes this clas­sic track fea­tur­ing Char­lie Tuna (Juras­sic 5) as MC Trex; Prince Paul (De La Soul) as Dj Stegosaurus; Lady Bug (Diga­ble Plan­ets) as Tracy Tricer­atops; and more.  What about 10 harkens back to the days of clas­sic hip-hop meet­ing the old school kids show “The Elec­tric Com­pany”.  This entire album was voted #1 kids record­ing of 2008 by Urb Magazine.