Desert Island Disco: My Feelings For You, Have Always Been Real

Friday means we’re dropping you off, once again, on the sandy shores of our Desert Island Disco. This week’s playlist comes from listener Gordon Stribling, “a not-quite-30-year-old weekday office monkey and weekend music junkie.”

“The first track that came to mind was Cassius' 'Feeling for You', which was one of my favourite French house/disco tracks from the time that I was really starting to get into electronic music and DJing. This set me off on a nostalgic trip back to the late '90s and early 2000s when I was desperate to start my clubbing career but was just that bit too young to do so. Though I was massively into trance back then (and still am!), I remember many of the dodgy mixes I submitted to music magazine and club DJ competitions around that time were peppered with funky, disco-tinged tunes.

'To Be in Love' by Masters At Work has such an irresistible hook that it had to go in there. Trisco - 'Musak' and Silicone Soul's 'Right On' make me think of the Ibizan sunshine. 'Given Up' by Mirrorball took a bit of digging - I remembered there being an awesome disco house track on the Multiply label with a cracking vocal but couldn't remember what it was called, so I scoured my record stash, found it, and was transported back to the day I found it in Streetwise Records in Cambridge all those years ago.

'Ripgroove' by Double 99 pretty much passed me by at the time as I shunned anything UK or speed-garagey. However I've since heard it played out numerous times and it never fails to destroy the dancefloor. I remember Toddla T playing it at Sheffield's Tramlines festival last year and the whole place going nuts despite the fact that most of the people there would have only been a year or two old when it came out. Truly timeless.

As for what I'd wear on the Desert Island Dancefloor? Seeing as this era of dance music conjures up the image of Fatboy Slim busting out the beats in loud shirts I'd have to opt for the Hawaiian, complemented by the obligatory glowsticks for when the sun goes down.”

• Cassius - Feeling for You
• Mylo feat. Miami Sound Machine - Dr Pressure
• Masters At Work – To Be In Love (Full Intention Vocal)
• Groove Armada - Superstylin'
• Double 99 - Ripgroove (Original 1997 version)
• Silicone Soul - Right On! (Steve Lawler Vocal Remix)
• Jean Jacques Smoothie – 2 People
• Mirrorball – Given Up
• Fatboy Slim – Love Island
• Trisco – Musak (Wonderland Avenue Remix)
• Scanty Sandwich – Because of You
• Black Legend – You See The Trouble With Me
• Static Revenger – Happy People
• Blue Adonis – Disco Cop
• Minimal Funk – The Groovy Thang (Da Beatmunga Remix)