Dance music that isn't dance music?

I want to put together a techno set that doesn't include any actual techno at all.
While looking around for examples, I thought I'd throw this out to ILM and see if anyone had any thoughts on this?
Happy to widen the search beyond techno if you like, so if there's a jazz tune that sounds like drum'n'bass, feel free to post it here.

I'll post what I have so far.

Thomas Ades - Asyla III: Ecstasio

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvHslxJ9Zqw

A modern classical piece that took direct influence from a techno compilation:

From Wikipedia:

So I bought some techno music and listened to it, just quietly, to get the structure rather than blast my head off. I realised that, in techno, you have to repeat things 32 or 64 times. So I tried to orchestrate it one night in my living room, repeating all these figures over and over, on this massive score paper, 30 staves to a page. At 3am, I went to bed and, as I sat there, realised my heart had stopped beating. I thought, 'Christ, I'm having a heart attack'. I rang the hospital and then they sent an ambulance. My heart gradually started again, but very shallowly. The ambulance took me to the Royal Free, where I waited for two hours among other Saturday night casualties. And finally a doctor saw me and said, 'You hyperventilated'. I thought, 'Thank God. It's not my heart, it's just my brain...'

— Thomas Adès, The Independent, 27 May 1999

Ben Charest - Cabaret Aspirateur

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtX9dZRWpVs

I've played this cut from the Triplets of Belleville thread at raves. It's ostensibly made with a hoover and bicycle spokes.

The Monks - Monk Time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MmSl0xu0ec

Same with this one. The relentless 4/4 and bizarre callouts work really well with more traditional club beats laid over the top.

My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult - A Daisy Chain For Satan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uN0yI-ambNY

Good luck dropping Ecstasio in there though, it's very panicky and has always struck me as (very ostentatiously) 'evoking' club music rather than trying to imitate it.

That should be the Acid & Flowers mix, can't listen at work.

Recently posted both on the "spookily ahead of its time" thread but:

Igor Wakhévitch - Rituel De Guerre Des Esprits De La Terre

https://youtu.be/lNcTePruv3Y

Aksuk Maboul - 'Saure Gurke'

https://youtu.be/bLW2zPUawS4

http://www.discogs.com/Charles-M-Bogert-Sounds-Of-North-American-Frogs/master/398125

bernard woma: ghanaian genius:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCzvkSDeRVk

http://www.discogs.com/Charles-M-Bogert-Sounds-Of-North-American-Frogs/master/398125

― massaman gai, Thursday, February 11, 2016 8:31 AM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

listening to this over Göttsching's E2-E4 right now, sounds great

from that recent Beatrice Dillon & Rupert Clervaux percussion & sampler album:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySTJLhylLpk

laraaji + drum machine jams:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKKj4Zgsc_w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFyrZzn_84c

Good luck dropping Ecstasio in there though, it's very panicky and has always struck me as (very ostentatiously) 'evoking' club music rather than trying to imitate it.

Yeah I think that's why it's so good and why it would make an interesting drop. Not saying it would work on regular dance floors, but it would be an interesting experiment, especially if the set was 'Villalobesque'

I've always thought this disco tune from 1979 sounds like a house track, with recurring vocal and horn samples, and a constantly modulating synth riff that sounds like a 303:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qeY0XCUNkSA

Also, wasn't there some guy in the late 90s who's whole thing was doing tunes that sound like techno on "real" instruments? His artist name was something like oObO or something, can't remember...

yeah there's stuff like Brandt Brauer Frick Ensemble, Nik Bartsch's Ronin (that's mostly crazy time signatures though). lots of drum ensemble music. i have this album by a group called Bateria Por Favor that's really well-recorded samba batucada stuff, it's not really online though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrOVaqdYxuM

M'Boom

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BrjVq5iUsc

Some Hip Drum Shit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrdw9sBWi6U

Here's a George Duke synth jam from 1973 that sounds like beatless techno:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YT5XcQwdYbA

Here's some Finnish proto-techno from 1968... Unlike most other example of proto-techno avant-garde synth music, this one has a proper beat:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktPopMt6Zh0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDluEia22oA

I saw Hieroglyphic Being play this in a club once. It went off