Desert Island Disco: Toes in the Sand - Hands in the Air

This week's Desert Island Disco-er reckons the first track at the party will set the tone for rest of night ahead. And so, with that responsibility we let listener, Paul Gover take control of the 6 Music dance floor.

"Like any good party I believe it's the first track that sets the scene for the night ahead, the first track gets everyone to the floor, can't go in too strong, can't play your best hand so early in the night - once the beach is jumping throw in some crowd pleasing classics and then slowly build up the tempo and as the sun hits the sea and the moon starts to rise crank up the tunes with some old Skool rave - can't fail.

Toes In The Sand - Hands In The Air

1. Gonna Make You Sweat - C&C Music Factory - (uplifting American dance classic - arguably the first cross over hip-house on our shores)
2. Let the Music Play - Shannon (released in 1983 but still as fresh as the day it was pressed, timeless classic)
3. Hear the Drummer Get Wicked - Chad Jackson (Get your groove on and get wicked - a song made entirely of samples from James Brown to Kool and the Gang via Soul II Soul)
4. Baby Got Back - Sir Mix-A-Lot ( before the world knew the word twerk this offensive and arguably objectionable classic got dance floors bumping, grinding and slapping - classic)
5. Jump Around - House of Pain (middle class boys that should have known better found themselves cussing and jumping around to this tune - no dance floor was safe from linked arm jumping)
6. It's Like That - RUN DMC (the tune that to this day results in the dance floor breaking up to form dance gangs for dance offs - jump in...)
7. Make The World Go Round - Sandy B (New York City Dance Classic - sounds like so many other songs but has stood the test of time)
8. House Music Baby - Mark Wilkinson (proof I'm not stuck in the 90s - a brand new track - admittedly it sounds like a 90s classic but that's not the point - 20s years of House)
9. Good Life (Buena Vida) Inner City (1988 dance anthem ahead of its time, overshadowed by Black Boxs Ride on Time, Good Life is in my view the first cross over dance tune)

10. Ride on Time - Black Box (putting aside the fact that Katrin Quinol lip synced to Loleatta's Holloway's disco classic this is still a great tune - it's no Good Life but it's still a classic)

11. Groovejet - Spiller ft Sophie Ellis-Bexter (Ibiza Classic, a few bars in and automatically transported back to the white isle, sun beating down and warm breeze on your skin)

12. It Just Won't Do - Tim Deluxe (changing the tempo with this Latin inspired dance number)

13. Something Good - Utah Saints (for a kid who's only exposure to Kate Bush was his parents 12inch Wuthering Heights single this was a revelation - aggressive house - first gig I ever went to - good times)

14. Set You Free - N-Trance (proof that if you have faith you can make it - you will - this song was released 3 times before being a hit - and is my all time fav song - in fact thinking of having a choir sing a slowed down version for my civil partnership equalisation - plus it has air-horns and a thunder storm in it - what's not to love)

15. Insanity - Oceanic - (My all-time old Skool rave favourite - dream trippin all the way back 21 years when the future was as bright as the lasers in the sky)

I hope you guys have enjoyed our dance on the beach, time to shake of the sand, shower off the sweat and then have a sit down with a long class of something cold and refreshing."