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Dan will be DJ-ing at his sister鈥檚 50th birthday party next month - these are just some of the tunes that will get people dancing:

鈥� Odyssey 鈥� Inside Out
鈥� The Whispers 鈥� It鈥檚 a Love Thing
鈥� Shannon 鈥� Let The Music Play
鈥� D-Train - You're The One For Me
鈥� Cybotron - Clear

Ahead of this, he will be DJ-ing at a Kids Rave, at St Ann鈥檚 Well Gardens, this weekend, as part of the Brighton Festival.

Dan told us: 鈥淢y elder sister Cath (Hattie to her friends) is 50 in May, and we鈥檙e having a big disco party in June in a tent in my parent鈥檚 garden.

She鈥檚 a gardener, and always has 6 Music on while she chops down trees 鈥榥鈥� stuff. I have been given the job as DJ for the day, and more importantly, the night. She鈥檚 given me an insanely massive list of tunes to play. I have refused to play Simply Red.

The part of our musical history together that I鈥檓 most excited about re-treading is the late end of disco and 80s funk, soul and pop.We had quite a few good record shops in Aylesbury in the 80s. As well at Our Price, WH Smith and Woolworths (biggest in Europe!) we had Record House and Earth Records, the latter of which was where my sis would go to get the harder to find funk and soul 12鈥漵. A tiny place inhabited by long hairy men. Me and my friends were getting into Electro and breakdancing at the time, mostly through copied cassettes of the Streetsounds compilations and listening to Mike Allen鈥檚 Rap Show on Capital.

So there was a bit of a crossover in our musical tastes, even though I was younger, and of course, cooler. Ha!

Years later I would 鈥榖orrow鈥� some of her 12鈥漵 when I went to college and started DJing in Nottingham in the late 80s. There鈥檚 plenty of these tunes I still play now too. This selection is the cream of her massive list. (with a couple of my electro bangers squeezed in). I can鈥檛 wait to play at her party and drop all these beauties.

She鈥檚 great, and I love her very much."

Full list:
Shalamar 鈥� There it Is
Mary Jane Girls 鈥� All Night Long
Shannon 鈥� Let the Music Play
Xena 鈥� On the Upside
S.O.S. Band 鈥� Just be Good to Me
Aleem 鈥� Release Yourself
Cameo 鈥� Single Life
Newcleus 鈥� Jam on It
Odyssey 鈥� Inside Out
Wham! 鈥� Eveything She Wants
George Benson 鈥� Give me the Night
Cybotron 鈥� Clear
The Whispers 鈥� It鈥檚 a Love Thing
D-Train 鈥� You鈥檙e the One for Me
Steve Arrington 鈥� Feel So Real
Jocelyn Brown 鈥� Somebody Else鈥檚 Guy

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