Music to spin to, Tell us your favourite music to dance to

Just a Ride by Jem is pretty fitting, or Nasty Girl by Aniya Day if your a girl and spinning with fire or strobe. I tend to spin to Romanticide (Nightwish) no reason why other than its a great song, suitible for spinning or no :P

Alter Ego - Rocker

This is a brilliant piece of electro wieredness. Loads of tempo changes and bizzarre noises. Perfect for spinning to IMO.

Beethoven's 9th symphony, second movement.

120 BPM the whole way through...

the orb, or banco di gaia are cool to play to, i like music that feels like liquid and isn't too spikey.

Has anyone actually put a poi spinning cd together???

Would be interested in gettign a copy if you wouldnt mind! Will pay!

I feel that the chedda has got to be represented in full force, ie hixxy,breeze and styles,dj bluecore. Generally i like it fast,hard,happy and bouncy. And thats how i spin, have i gotten hurt, yea, do i mind, not really. If you all have seen fraggle spin, you know what i mean and if you havent, hit me, ill send you some super underground unrealased renegade limited edition no purchase nessesary footage.

my mate scotty made up a CD that he spins to. he called it "burn" im still trying to get a copy of it, cos its wicked to spin to, but hes still puting finishing touches on it.

Morning light, by concord dawn is good

I've allways gotten along with Reggae, tho not particlurly fast stuff. Good Ole' Bob Marley or even his son Damien have just got a nice flow to the music.

Psy/Goa tracne is a lil to fast for my current level of skills right now, tho those music festival do attract the 'very easily impressed pill heads' great for a quick ego boost

plug it in _ basement jaxx

"Tunnel Vision" John Petrucci,
"Buck Dich" Rammstein,
"Judith" A Perfect Circle,
"Romanticide or Slaying the Dreamer" Nightwish

hmm music

skinny puppy
prodigy
wumpscut
apoptygma berzerk
VNV Nation
Ku-whump by madman
i got a few thousand songs i could go through so i'll stop now ^O^

hmm ive only ever done poi to happy hardcore and gabber which it goes great with in my opniion, and also at a house party some of us did poi to manu chau (i think thats the wrong spelling) then aphex twin, which led me to the conclusion that once your really good, and know loads of different moves, then poi can go well with any music as you can express yourselves in many ways (pace, action, movement, fluidity etc) that match the tunes with your poi.
Though with my flags i just love to dance really slowly to classical music with my flags

In no particular order

'To The Lighthouse' - Patrick Wolf
'Sleep the Clock Around' - Belle & Sebastian
'Rearviewmirror' - Pearl Jam
'Blood Beat' - Patrick Wolf
'Banquet' - Bloc Party
'NWO' - Ministry
'Chase the Sun' - Planet Funk
'Sorry' (Mens with Guns Remix) - Madonna
"Fasten Your Seatbelt' - Pendulum
'Hyperballad' - Bjork
'Eurodisco' - Bis

Well im glad this was made!

I put together a cd too spin too and it goes like this...

01 - Bebel Gilberto - Tanto Tempo - Peter Kruder Remix
02 - Annie Lenox - And I Miss You
03 - Goldfrapp - Beautiful
04 - Bananarama - Move In My Direction
05 - Shiny Toy Guns - Le Disko
06 - Daft Punk - Da Funk
07 - Ladytron - Seventeen
08 - Planet Funk - Chase The Sun
09 - Daft Punk - Electronic Funk
10 - Alice In Videoland - Got To Go
11 - Goldfrapp - Strict Machine - Benny Benassi Radio Edit
12 - Queen Of The Damned Soundtrack - Tricky - Excess
13 - The Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams Are Made Of These
14 - The Knife - Heart beats
15 - Gorillaz - Dare

Just a quick edit ive realised Ive got more songs on it allready than I will need so its finished.


Im putting together another cd this time with more classical music to spin too, so far ive only got a few it goes like...

01 - Bond - Gyspy Rhapsody
02 - Bond - Explosive
03 - Bond - Shine
04 - Bond - Quixote
05 - Bond - Oceanic

Im not making a bond cd but there just the ones ive found so far, any suggestions would be helpfull, plus im recomending all those up there there really easy to spin too.

Promise you won't laugh, now...

My other half is a Morris dancer, who also plays the melodeon for the sides she dances with. Although I am no great fan of the music myself, I do find the jaunty, dotted rhythms and moderate tempos ideal for learning new moves and practicing transitions. In Dulci Jubilo is pretty well the default tune in my head for these occasions.

In the meantime I'm still a beginner and have yet to learn to dance properly, let alone come up with any sequences; but when I do, I'll possibly be looking at these three tracks to start with:

Jacques Loussier - J.S. Bach : Prelude No.2
Pizzicato 5 - Concerto
William Orbit - Cavalleria Rusticana

deat h metal

Put on Minnie Ripperton - Les Fleurs and everyone starts doing flowers lol

spinning - psy trance

dancing about to - rock n roll / glam / metal

Hey. Just thought I'd input. I really like salsa latina type music to spin to as I totally dance and spin all together and enjoy it so much more.

An unusual choice is the Shakira ft Wyclef Jean- Hips Don't Lie. I totally love it.

Seriously, use anything you like! i usually go serious drum.n.bass, but i've done staff and poi to everything, from crystal meth to adieumus. fire is what you want it to be!

my new fave song to spin to is the Pulp Fiction theme: Miserlou by Dick Dale. lol i love it

hello all... mmm i am new here... well almost...

my favourite music... drumming... there is nothing better than poi when your friends are playing drums... awsom!

well kisses to everyone!! And thanks to all who was at Play festival because i learn and had a real good time!!

Hello, fellow newbie!

I've just been reading this thread for inspiration as I've struggled to find music I can spin well to. There's lots of tunes I'm going to try now.

So far, I've been spinning to: Arpeggiator - Fugazi
Enter, Space Capsule - Gerling
Better Do Better - Hard-Fi
Too Human - The Rakes.

I'm definitely going to have a go with Bloc Party later.

The Faint!

+1 on the faint

Masters Of The Universe, by Juno Reactor, is excellent. But I spin to anything with a beat thats slow enough to be possible and fast enough to keep the poi in the air and the staff moving...

dirty hardstyle as played on most "underground" sound sytems


tune 1


tune 2

dirty, grimey, muddy but so enlightening and re-energising
*WARNING..................nahh sod you this is my music of choice

Anything that's also good for Morris Dancing

Ha ha a gothic/electronica band called The Birthday Massacre for me... but classical metal is always good and most electronica music in general really!