MARK Freejack feels quite proud when he looks down the list of tracks which make up Rock The Dancefloor 8 compilation.

Not just because he is one of the brains behind the latest double CD, nor because a lot of the tracks he helped make famous by spinning them at his various residencies around Lancashire.

The fact is that Mr Freejack, along with his fellow DJs at Rock FM, know they are on to a surefire winner . . . because the punters helped pick the tunes.

Rock The Dancefloor 8 carries on the tradition with which the RTD series has made itself famous -- picking the tunes that have driven the area bonkers, but in some cases haven't done the business across the country.

Freejack said: "You get so many compilations out these days with the same tunes, just in a different order.

"They're fine to a point but the tunes we've got are the ones you don't get anywhere else, and are the ones which people have been asking for.

"We know this because they are the tracks people are demanding whenever I go into a club, the ones they want to hear on the radio and the ones they asked for when we asked people to tell us what they wanted on this album."

Plummet, Ultrabeat, XTM and the Friday Night Posse may not be names which trip off the tongue . . . and Steve "El Greggo" Gregory, who presents the show before Freejack on a Saturday night, admits it has been amusing hearing people ask for tracks which appear on the album.

He said: "That's the beauty of it. They are tracks people know as soon as they hear them but haven't necessarily picked up the name of. So we get people ringing up or coming to us in clubs and singing a line of the tune or humming it or something, which makes it a bit strange.

"But it proves that the tunes we've picked are the right ones."

And while some of the bigger tracks had to be ditched -- licensing costs made them prohibitive and besides, they're everywhere else anyway -- the lads have scored a major coup by getting Ultrabeat's Pretty Green Eyes on the CD. That's come courtesy of Blackburn-based All Around The World Records, who are due to release the single in the summer.

Freejack said: "That tune has been doing the business now for about four months and just gets bigger. The number of times people have offered money for my copy is amazing. To have this one on it is a big seller."

Steve added: "Originally, RTD set out to give people the big tunes which had been deleted but there's only so long you can do that for. This CD has the tunes you won't find anywhere else."

It is out on Monday and pre-sales have already doubled last year's offering, with Asda and amazon.co.uk among the retailers taking it.

A school tour has caused a frenzy over the CD, while a signing tour takes in HMV in Blackburn next Tuesday.

To nick a Freejack phrase, it looks as though "the kids'll love it."