hey hoopstars!

i just happened on to this thread, and it's funny, i did a gig in cabo this past week-end and happened to choose basement jaxx's "do your thing" which xta mentioned at the beginning of this thread, for my fire hoop number. it's really fun to hoop to.
i love hooping to funky house, lots of drums, tablas, tribal (dj kramer has some great cd's) sometimes i can really get into hooping to esoteric, slow stuff (hable con ella from the soundtrack of the movie by the same name), theatrical sounding stuff. i can get into psy-trance occasionally, but most times it's too dark for me.
i'm from south africa and there's some great mbaquanga and kwaito to hoop to - they have what i call ass-flipping beats (if you've ever seen south african tribal dancers, you'll know what i'm talking about - ;} ). there's a south african band called brothers of peace and i love hooping to them. also tkzee, but they're a little more disco. for a more middle-eastern flavor, ekova's "soft breeze and tsunami breaks" has some great songs to hoop to.
when we were getting ready for the gig this past weekend, we put together the following list of possible songs to perform to (we were doing fans, fingers, poi and hoop, so not all songs were for hooping).
Shiya Isceffe/Brothers Of Peace
Touch The Sun/Original Soulboy
Reach 4 Freedom (DF's Vocal Mix)/Marques Wyatt
SFM/Basement Jaxx
Do Your Thing/Basement Jaxx
Firestarter/Prodigy
Nectarios / Phoenix (Vigi & Nectarios Mix)/Hybrid
phoenix/?
Out Of Control/Chemical Brothers
Emit/Collect (Rennie Pilgrem's Agatha Stomp)/Zero

You newbies did just fine :)

My latest search for music involves finding songs that are almost stereotypical choreographed numbers, like "Fever" becomes a sexy sultry song, the James Bond theme or Pink Panther theme gets sneaky spy moves.. y'know. Any ideas welcome, in terms of a song that automatically makes you think of a particular genre and style of movement!

X.