This year I'm doing something different...I'm going techno/dance/trance style with Halloween music. Why? For one, I'm tired of playing the same stuff. Either cheesy songs or songs I like and remember but the kids don't...Two, I've noticed the last two years in a row that the kids enjoy playing in the fog and dancing to the dance music. Three, I like it, hehe. I decided I want the kids to remember this Halloween night as super FUN, not so scary...even though I'll have some props of course and a graveyard to accompany the fog, lol. So, I wanted to give some suggestions on dance music and I'll try to remember where I got them from. I've searched for this playlist for almost two weeks now-so these songs have all passed my "super cool to dance to" test criteria.

DJ Droid- "The Darkside"/(The Darkness Clubmix)
----evil cool dance Star Wars Imperial March mix found it at Napster here:
Dj Droid-"The Darkside" hint: three day free trial or you can try to find it somewhere else by searching

Dr. Skendy- "Dark Sky" and "End of Time"
----free for download and awesome for Halloween at:
Dr. Skendy Songs

John B.- "Midnight Air"
----free download and good dance for Halloween at:
John B.-"Midnight Air"

DFB- "Dont Fear the Reaper" remix
----yes, a remix of Blue Oyster Cult's famous song "Dont Fear the Reaper" and it's cool to dance to! at:
DFB-Don't Fear the Reaper remix

Bart Klepka- "The Goblins' Ballade"
----free and really, really cool tune for Halloween! at:
Bart Klepka-"The Goblins' Ballade"

Mazedude- lots of fantastic songs at Overclocked Remix (game remix site) for free downloads!
----some suggestions would be all the Doom 2 song remixes are awesome and my favorite from him is "Dolls From Hell" from 7th Guest remix all at:
Mazedude song remixes

DJ Pretzel- also at Overclocked Remix
----cool free download from the game Ghouls 'N Ghosts called "Psycho Underpants" at:
DJ Pretzel-"Psycho Underpants"

Evanescence- "Bring Me To Life" (Make Me Real mix) free download top right at WebJay
----clubmix of the song...hint, check out other songs for download by searching at:
Bring Me To Life mix-Evanescence

Others to search for since I don't remember where I got them or have had them a long time:
Techno Syndrome 7/Mortal Kombat Theme
Terminator 2 Techno Mix-Trance
Toccata De Mole- Mannheim Steamroller
Tubular Bells- Mannheim Steamroller
The Final Countdown-techno 2000 remix Europe
Beverly Hills Cop techno remix
Zombie-The Cranberries remix
Living Dead Girl-Rob Zombie remix
Castlevania X techno-Helloween
Phantom of the Opera remix-Harajuku
Halloween theme techno mix
He's A Pirate(Pirates of the Carribbean) remix-DJ Tiesto
My Immortal remix- D-Code
Castlevania Vampire Killer techno-Castlevania game remix
X-Files theme mix- Blue Man Group

Anyway, those are some of the best ones I have for a Halloween dance type party mix. Enjoy and happy hunting.

Very nice post! I'm going to use a few of these myself. Thanks for sharing.

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ah thanks! They're legal, free and I'm just saving others time-much needed time during Halloween decorating, lol. I liked them so much myself I wanted to share. Hope the kiddies have lots of fun dancing to your tunes.

P.S. Some tunes come in Windows Media Audio format-may or may not cause a problem with burning or playback on some players...if so, convert using a freeware program such as this one I use:
Free Converter at Download.com or you can try searching for one you like at Download.com-remember to get freeware unless you want to pay or use trial versions.

If you're interested in dance music, and you're running itunes (much safer than limewire or those russian sites, and it supports the artists who make the music)

check this link -- the "euro club hits" series:

http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/M...Club+Hits+Vol+

techno has two meanings -- it's funny -- for europeans they mean stuff with no vocals, really underground "hard" stuff -- for americans, when they say "techno", often they mean what in europe is called "dance". And "dance" in europe is a lot more mainstream and pop-oriented

for "american" style techno (i.e. european "dance"), the best example I've found is this (itunes link):

http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/M...Club+Hits+Vol+

strangely it's called "euro club hits" ... which makes things even more confusing ;

for "european" style techno... i.e. the stuff with no songs, I recommend going to www.beatport.com and checking out the stuff in the "techno" section --

Anyone seen the movie "Grandma's Boy"? They played some Techno stuff on that movie because the boy genius video game invented was into it. It's ok, but most of what I've heard (like what's in that movie) is kind of monotonous. However, that is just the opinion of an old fart who grew up in the 60's and 70's...lol.

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