Nialler9’s 13 current favourite tunes for the dancefloor

Here are Nialler9’s current favourite tunes for dancing. Whether it’s at Lumo Club, our forthcoming new weekly club night Spacer in Lost Lane or this Saturday at Hang Dai Chinese, these are the tracks close to my heart at the moment. Follow the Nialler9 DJ Chart on Spotify for the full list.

1.

Mind Enterprises

Ballare

The Italian producer continues his fruitful mining of his country’s Italo-disco roots with this bright bop that he says was an attempt “to create some sort of contemporary version of ESG’s classic tune ‘Dance’.” Ballare is of course, Italian for “dance.”

2.

Bileo

You Can Win

This is the sound of the last sweep of tunes at a fringe summer festival tent that should have ended an hour before but kept going til the early morning. Pure brassy happiness for dancing with friends when you should be in bed.

3.

Hammer

L’Orange

Irish electronic music has been united in North and South in its international breakthrough status over the last few years as names like Bicep, New Jackson, Krystal Klear and Or:la are among the brightest names in dance music. Not far behind is Hammer, the Belfast producer Rory Hamilton who has been quietly releasing quality roving house music with melodic intent. ‘L’Orange’ is his latest peak.

4.

Royksopp

The Girl & The Robot feat. Robyn

A Robyn deep dive reminded me of this electro-banger, a sharp and bombastic track played at Lumo last week.

5.

Nocturnes – Jordan

Company B Fascinated (edit)

Jordan is back on the edit front with four edits on his own Nocturnes label and my highlight is the euphoric edit of Company B’s ‘Fascinated’. There are turns also for Alisha’s ‘All Night Passion’, Anne Clark’s ‘Sleeper In The Metropolis’ and Deee-Lite’s ‘What Is Love’.

6.

Moving Still

Al-Disco Haram

Dublin producer Moving Still has been on a roll with his recent Arabic-inspired edits and an EP to boot. ‘Al-Disco Haram’ is my electro-squelching favourite on the Nail Shop release.

7.

Lauer

Fanta Korn Tanker

A percussive chugger from the German on Uncanny Valley’s recent release and a followup to his album Power.

8.

Space Dimension Controller

Beyond Pulso IV

SDC doing what he does best for R&S – interstellar space techno grooves.

9.

Air Zaïre

Shojo Showdown

The latest release on Pleasure Of Love following on from Mix & Fairbanks’ Edits comes from the South Florida producer and this B-side is a groover. It’s on Juno but limited to 300 12″s.

10.

Roy Of The Ravers

1999

My highlight from the Roy Of The Raver’s latest release is ‘1999’ a slow-rolling acid romp that builds and builds into an almost euphoric French house synth rush to match its 13-minute running time. Epic.

11.

Blackbones

Homeward Bound

My favourite from BlackBones 004 from last summer, an edit of Patrick Cowley’s ‘Going Home.

12.

Model Nice

Cravo Amargo (Pépe’s “Space Pilot Academy” Remix)

This will sound good at our new weekly club Spacer starting in Lost Lane on April 12th with guest Cian O’Ciobhain. Space disco buzzing.

13.

New Jackson

Every Home Should Have One

Every track on New Jackson’s recent EP Romancecar on Permanent Vacation is a doozy so it’s hard to pick a singular favourite but today, I’m plucking for this lush vista.

The Nialler9 DJ Favourites playlist on Spotify