Ten of this pack's twenty cuts come as 'Intro Clean' edits, and that exact half-and-half split with the straight 'Clean' versions tells you what it was built for: the added intro is the handle these classics, recorded long before anyone worried about blending them, never had. It fits the profile of AV8 Records, a New York-based remix service specializing in DJ packs with extended, intro and clean edits, alongside original production.
For opening the floor, the sensible picks are Imagination's 'Just An Illusion', with an intro and 4:10 of mid-tempo groove, or Stevie Wonder's 'Do I Do', whose 5:04 leaves room to work the way in. Wonder returns with an intro edit of 'I Wish', and he's not the only double: KC & The Sunshine Band, Kool & The Gang and the Pointer Sisters repeat too, so you can build mini artist blocks without ever leaving the pack.
Peak time and its traps
For the high stretch there's obvious, well-edited ammunition:
- 'Celebration' (4:59) and 'Y.M.C.A' (4:30, with intro): the two guaranteed singalongs, better spaced out than played back to back.
- 'I'm So Excited' (4:15, intro) into 'Automatic': the Pointer Sisters mini block covers both the climb and the plateau.
- 'Thriller' at 6:14 with an intro: the longest cut on the record, more centerpiece than transition.
Two booth warnings: 'Boogie Shoes' runs 2:13, useful as a jolt or a bridge but with no room for long blends; and the pack's only remix, Donna Summer's 'Bad Girls' in Gigamesh's hands (5:20), is your card for floors that don't run on pure revival. The logical closer is already flagged: Yazoo's 'Only You', the pack's lone synthpop moment, intro edit at 3:32, the kind of ending that dims the lights without switching anyone off. Abba opening the tracklist with 'Chiquitita' is alphabetical order, not a suggestion: the running order here is yours to write.
Sources: AV8 Records · ReverbNation
