A pet favorite of Paradise Garage DJ/founder Larry Levan,
who reportedly willed this song into the canon against the
tastes of his club denizens by spinning it repeatedly until
they cried uncle, "Heartbeat" maintains the
slowest BPM rate of any song on our list. (Slower than most
people's heart rates. Slower than most horses' heart rates,
even.) Taana's other major West End hit "Work That
Body" might've worked up a quicker lather, but
"Heartbeat" was the slow-fucking jam that
demonstrated unmitigated endurance, eventually becoming the
label's top selling single.