At work, I sometimes find myself wishing for the convenience of my home music collection in order to select some suitably fantastic tunes. Without a portable music contraption to carry my music along with me, I instead rely on the web for my daily allotment of musical awesomeness. I listen to internet radio, to the podcasts of friends, or to last.fm. Lately, though, I’ve tapped into a remarkably broad library of muzak that has provided me with ample musical ammunition: it’s YouTube, folks.

The ’Tube lets you create custom playlists from any movie on the site. Harnessing this simple feature, I put together my first YouTube playlist. It’s called Please Begin Dancing Now.

Heavily indebted to Bruce Mans’ The New Balaeric podcast, this playlist consists of quirky electronica — danceable indie stuff that you’d probably hear in commercials. In fact, the first track is straight off the recent iPod Touch commercial. This collection ends up being a pretty enjoyable, breezy little list of songs, and I hope you dig this foray into fun and simplicity as much as I have.

The Playlist:
1. Cansei De Ser Sexy - Music is My Hot Hot Sex (Don’t worry, the song isn’t actually sketchy)
2. Project Jenny, Project Jan - 320
3. LCD Soundsystem - Daft Punk Is Playing At My House
4. Le Tigre - Fake French
5. Fujiya & Miyagi - Collarbone
6. Beck - Ghettochip Malfunction (Hell Yes)
7. Death From Above 1979 - Black History Month (Alan Braxe Remix)
8. Justice - D.A.N.C.E
9. Prototypes - Who’s Gonna Sing?
10. Junior Senior - Can I Get Get Get
11. Gorillaz - Kids with Guns
12. Simian Mobile Disco - It’s The Beat
13. LCD Soundystem - Tribulations
14. Datarock - Fa Fa Fa

A quick note: This video playlist contains videos I’ve never actually watched – I can’t vouch for their goodness, or warn you of their badness. I just click play, and let the music rock me into a trance of productivity.

That’s all. Please begin dancing now.