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theAngelcy
My Baby Boy
Plucked strings, a chorus of voices and Rotem Bar Or's raw tenor make this Tel Aviv folk song feel like a lullaby sung in a dark, uneasy time.
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Kings of Summer
Bright synths and Quinn XCII's easy vocal paint a memory of summers when you and your friends felt untouchable: the 2016 breakthrough of two school friends from Michigan.
Yoko Duo, Stimming
Close These Curtains (Stimming Remix)
Stimming wraps Yoko Duo's fragile song in velvet: a slow, organic deep house remix full of soft textures, a hushed vocal and the feeling of a room going quiet.
Whilk & Misky
I Want Your Lovin' (Edit)
Whilk & Misky's London soul-pop at its most direct: a warm, swinging groove and a voice that asks for exactly one thing, over and over, until you want it too.
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theAngelcy
My Baby Boy
Plucked strings, a chorus of voices and Rotem Bar Or's raw tenor make this Tel Aviv folk song feel like a lullaby sung in a dark, uneasy time.
filous, LissA
Feel Good Inc.
The Austrian producer filous strips the Gorillaz classic down to a delicate xylophone, plucked strings and airy beats, and LissA's light voice turns the old windmill anthem into a hazy daydream.
ayokay, Quinn XCII
Kings of Summer
Bright synths and Quinn XCII's easy vocal paint a memory of summers when you and your friends felt untouchable: the 2016 breakthrough of two school friends from Michigan.
Yoko Duo, Stimming
Close These Curtains (Stimming Remix)
Stimming wraps Yoko Duo's fragile song in velvet: a slow, organic deep house remix full of soft textures, a hushed vocal and the feeling of a room going quiet.
Whilk & Misky
I Want Your Lovin' (Edit)
Whilk & Misky's London soul-pop at its most direct: a warm, swinging groove and a voice that asks for exactly one thing, over and over, until you want it too.
Whilk & Misky
Get What We Want
Whilk & Misky blend acoustic warmth with electronic pulse on this track from My Round, Charlie Dickens' soulful voice and Nima Khaste's production chasing a simple wish: to get what we want.
Whilk & Misky
Clap Your Hands
The 2014 breakthrough of the London duo Whilk & Misky: a barefoot, bossa-nova-tinged acoustic song with handclaps for percussion, played on Zane Lowe's Radio 1 show and later carried onto dance floors by a Solomun remix.
Whilk & Misky
Babe I'm Yours
A hushed, smoky vocal floats over plucked folk guitar and a slow electronic pulse, turning a simple declaration of devotion into a late-night confession.
Waldeck
Memories
Waldeck sets Zeebee's smoky voice inside a crackling, sepia-toned ballroom swing, a downtempo daydream about a love that only lives on in memory.
WHTKD
Say to Me
WHTKD loops a soulful, pleading vocal over a warm, rolling deep house groove, a track that sounds like late afternoon turning into evening.
The Supermen Lovers, Jay Lamar, Jesse Oliver
Moments (Jay Lamar & Jesse Oliver Remix)
The Helsinki duo Jay Lamar and Jesse Oliver stretch Moments, a 2013 single by the French producer behind Starlight, into a warm, unhurried deep house glide of soft chords, rounded bass and wistful melodies.
The Supermen Lovers, Herr Styler, Cristine
C'est bon
A flirtatious slice of French pop-funk house from Guillaume Atlan's project, two voices trading lines over a springy bassline until the title becomes a shrugging, grinning verdict on the night.
The Supermen Lovers
Moments
A warm slice of French disco-funk from the man behind Starlight, where synths and a rubber-band bassline turn a fleeting moment into a long, glowing groove.
The Hacker, Mount Sims
Traces (Oxia Remix)
Oxia turns The Hacker and Mount Sims' cold-wave electro into a patient, rolling techno journey, all brooding synth lines and a build that keeps tightening the screw.
The Avener, Ane Brun
To Let Myself Go
The Avener wraps Ane Brun's fragile Scandinavian folk confession in a slow, rolling deep-house groove, turning a private surrender into a sunset dancefloor moment.
The Asteroids Galaxy Tour
The Sun Ain't Shining No More
A brassy, technicolour psych-pop stomp from Denmark, Mette Lindberg's helium-bright voice riding horns and a strutting beat that make heartbreak sound like a parade.
TEEMID, Joie Tan
Crazy (Radio Mix)
Gnarls Barkley's frantic classic slowed into a hazy deep-house lullaby: TEEMID and Joie Tan make Crazy sound like a confession whispered at four in the morning.
Solomun
Friends
Nine minutes of Solomun's signature deep house, released on his experimental label 2DIY4: Friends rides a supple, swinging groove and moody chords that keep rising just enough to keep a dancefloor leaning in.
Solange
Losing You
Solange and Dev Hynes wrap the end of a relationship in a skittering, eighties-tinted R&B groove: the 2012 lead single of the True EP on Terrible Records, with a Melina Matsoukas video shot in Cape Town's Langa township.
Santé, Richard Judge
Awake
Santé lays a deep, rolling groove under J.U.D.G.E's grave, soulful voice, six minutes of dark-room house that feels like the first clear thought after a long night.
Robin Thicke, T.I., Pharrell Williams
Blurred Lines
A cowbell-clacking, falsetto-laced funk-pop strut from Robin Thicke, Pharrell and T.I. that owned the summer of 2013 and then the courtroom.
Robin Schulz
Sugar
Sun-bleached deep house with a soul hook: Robin Schulz builds a sweet, bouncing groove around Francesco Yates and an interpolation of Baby Bash's 2003 'Suga Suga', a number one in seven countries in 2015.
Recable
Big Jet Plane (Recable Remix)
Recable lifts Angus & Julia Stone's wistful Big Jet Plane onto a gently rolling house groove, keeping the song's daydream of flying away intact.
Queen, The Miami Project
Another One Bites The Dust (A Skillz Remix)
A Skillz chops John Deacon's immortal bassline into a strutting breakbeat workout, keeping Freddie Mercury's swagger front and centre while the drums hit like a b-boy battle.
Polo & Pan
Canopée
Breathy duet vocals, bright percussive melodies and a lazy tropical groove: Canopée is Polo & Pan's invitation to climb into the treetops and forget the city for four and a half minutes.
Platinum Doug
Move On (Original Club Mix)
A punchy, no-nonsense club mix from the Swiss house producer Platinum Doug on Enormous Tunes, where a repeated vocal hook and a bouncing bassline push the dance floor forward bar after bar.
Peaches
Pickles
Peaches at her most gleefully filthy: Pickles rides a stark, rubbery electro beat while she raps about desire with a grin you can hear in every line.
Paloma Faith
Upside Down
Paloma Faith's brassy, swing-tinged retro-soul romp about a world turned on its head, with a stomping rhythm section and a voice that relishes every theatrical flourish.
Nu, Jo.Ke
Who Loves the Sun
Nine sun-warmed minutes of organic deep house from the Bar 25 world, where Jo.Ke's gentle, sing-along vocal drifts over a loping groove made for golden-hour dancing.
Noir & Haze
Around (Solomun Vox)
Solomun's vocal mix of the Noir & Haze single, Resident Advisor's remix of the year 2011: a rolling, bass-heavy deep house groove under Haze's aching voice, released on Noir Music and later licensed to Defected.
Nils Ohrmann
In Ya Face (Original Mix)
Six and a half minutes of bumping Berlin house from Nils Ohrmann: a cheeky vocal taunt, a springy bassline and a groove that never lets go.
Niklas Ibach
Hungry (Remix)
Niklas Ibach slips Dotan's aching folk-pop plea onto a soft deep-house pulse, keeping the ache while giving it somewhere to move.
Nicolas Jaar
Time For Us
A young Nicolas Jaar's slow, sultry minimal-house classic, a crooned vocal and dusty, swaying textures that famously sink from dance tempo into a long, swooning breakdown nobody wants to mix out of.
Mount Sims, Toby Dammit
What's the Big Deal
Mount Sims trades the club for a scuffed, shrugging groove, with Toby Dammit of Iggy Pop's and Nick Cave's bands on drums: What's the Big Deal asks its question with a sneer and a beat that will not sit still.
Mount Sims, Jessie Evans
Andy of Jenny
A short, sharp electroclash track from Mount Sims' 2008 album Happily Ever After, with André Lang's live drums under the synths and the underground punk singer Jessie Evans adding saxophone.
Mount Sims
Together Alone
Cold machine rhythm and a detached croon from the American edition of Mount Sims' 2002 debut UltraSex, an electroclash meditation on being close to someone and still completely on your own.
Mount Sims
The Bitten Bite Back
Cold synth stabs and a deadpan, sneering vocal turn revenge into a dancefloor chant: Mount Sims at his most wiry, sleazy and defiant.
Mount Sims
Restless
Seven minutes of slow-burning tension, Restless loops a nervous synth figure and a stalking beat until the repetition itself becomes the thrill.
Mount Sims
No Yellow Lines
A night drive with the headlights off: grinding analogue bass, clipped drum machines and Mount Sims' cool, menacing croon from the darker side of electroclash.
Mount Sims
New Authority Volunteers
Mount Sims trades his electroclash gloss for the guitar-driven shadows of his post-punk turn, a short, tense blast of darkwave unease.
Mount Sims
Hellbent
Mount Sims at his most driven: a tight, menacing electro pulse and a vocal set on walking straight into trouble, one of the songs added to Happily Ever After...Again, the 2010 reworking of his darkwave album.
Mount Sims
Grave
A slow, cold-blooded crawl through synths, live drums and a graveside croon: Grave, from the 2008 album Happily Ever After produced by Thomas Stern, turns Mount Sims' taste for horror into five minutes of nocturnal dread.
Mount Sims
Good Service
Deadpan vocals, buzzing analog synths and a drum machine with attitude: Good Service is Mount Sims serving early-2000s electroclash with a sly, suggestive grin.
Mount Sims
Ashes
A smouldering piece of dark synth-pop that opens Mount Sims' 2004 album Wild Light: cold machines and a weary croon circle the remains of something that burned out long ago.
Michelle Gurevich
Lovers Are Strangers
Michelle Gurevich croons a deadpan, candlelit elegy for love gone cold, with lo-fi synths and a slow-dance sway that make heartbreak feel strangely elegant.
Michelle Gurevich
First Six Months of Love
A slow, smoky synth ballad in which Michelle Gurevich's deadpan contralto toasts the giddy first months of a romance while already hearing the ending coming.
Michael Jackson
Billie Jean
One of pop's most recognisable bass lines carries Michael Jackson's paranoid tale of a paternity claim, a tight, shadowy groove that sounds as sharp now as it did on Thriller.
Metronomy
Love Letters (Soulwax Remix)
Soulwax strip Metronomy's sixties-tinged pop down to a gleaming machine groove and rebuild it, six and a half minutes of neon disco-pop driven by the bassline and a slow-burning release.
Marek Hemmann
Gemini
Nine minutes of melodic German minimal from the Jena label Freude am Tanzen: Marek Hemmann's Gemini drives on a swinging house groove while synth patterns and funky tenor-sax licks twist around each other.
Marcus Marr & Chet Faker
The Trouble With Us
Marcus Marr and Chet Faker (Nick Murphy) recorded this disco-funk jam in four days in a Brixton studio in July 2015: a funk-flecked guitar riff and a soulful plea about a relationship going wrong, made into a reason to dance.
Marcus Marr, Nick Murphy
Birthday Card
Nearly eight minutes of sleek, disco-tinged house: Marcus Marr's springy production and bright synths carry Nick Murphy's smoky voice towards a long dancefloor release, the opener of their 2015 EP Work.
Mando Diao
Dance With Somebody (Radio Version)
Mando Diao trade garage-rock grit for a disco-rock floor-filler, a pulsing four-on-the-floor beat and a shout-along chorus about needing someone to dance with.
Lilly Wood and The Prick, Robin Schulz
Prayer in C (Robin Schulz Radio Edit)
Robin Schulz lifts a mournful 2010 French folk-pop song onto a bouncing deep house beat, Nili Hadida's bleak prayer and a looping guitar riff becoming a number one across Europe in 2014.
Lamomali
L'Âme Au Mali
The song that names Matthieu Chedid's Franco-Malian collective: Toumani Diabaté's cascading kora, the voices of Amadou & Mariam and Jain, and a pun on 'the soul in Mali', from the 2017 album Lamomali.
Labyrinth Ear
Navy Light
A three-minute haze of blurred synths, soft beats and a distant, weightless voice, Navy Light feels like city lights seen through rain on a night bus window.
Kölsch
Bloodline (feat. Tomas Høffding)
Kölsch's melodic techno meets the warm, weathered voice of WhoMadeWho's Tomas Høffding in Bloodline, a slow-burning track from 1983, an album about childhood road trips across Europe, that swells like a sunrise over the booth.
Kygo, Maty Noyes
Stay
Soft-focus tropical house from Kygo, with plucked melodies and a warm, pleading vocal from Maty Noyes asking someone not to leave just yet.
Kosheen
Addict
Deep, dark bass, insistent drums and Sian Evans' voice cutting through the fog: Addict opens Kosheen's Independence with the pull of something you cannot quit.
Klyne
Waiting
A slow, stripped-down slice of dark electronic R&B from the Eindhoven duo Klyne, where Nick Klein's soft, close-miked voice drifts over sparse beats and muted synths; the new song on their 2015 Closer EP.
Klyne
Paralyzed
A hushed, slow-burning slice of electronic soul from the Dutch duo Klyne, where a fragile falsetto floats over muted beats and a heart too stunned to move.
Klyne
Entropy
A hushed, late-summer slow jam from the Dutch duo Klyne, where a feather-light falsetto floats over soft keys, tropical-leaning drums and pulsing synths.
KlangKuenstler
Man On the Moon (Miguel Campbell Remix)
The British producer Miguel Campbell turns KlangKuenstler and Alice Phoebe Lou's 2014 moon song into a warm, rolling groove for Sunday Best, her voice floating weightless over a bassline that never stops gently pushing forward.
Klangkuenstler, Alice Phoebe Lou
Man On the Moon
KlangKuenstler wraps Alice Phoebe Lou's soft, folk-tinged voice in a warm, unhurried deep house shuffle that feels like a slow drive home under a full moon.
Klangkuenstler
Soul Digger (Original Mix)
A rolling tech-house groove with classic house warmth underneath: Soul Digger finds the soul in the machine and keeps the floor moving for almost seven minutes.
Klangkuenstler
Jam Master Jack (Original Mix)
A six-minute house workout from Klangkuenstler's early, groove-first years, built for the long middle stretch of a club night when the floor just wants to jack.
Klangkuenstler
Golden
A late-night techno roller from Klangkuenstler's 2015 debut on Great Stuff: a massive, rounded bassline, a nasty but beautiful sawtooth lead and a bed of vinyl noise that makes the dark groove feel strangely warm.
Kele
First Impressions
Kele Okereke opens his after-hours record Trick in a whisper: a cool, late-night house groove about the electricity of meeting someone new, sung with Yasmin.
Kav Verhouzer, BullySongs
Get What You Came For
Sunny deep-house chords and a warm, raspy BullySongs vocal: Get What You Came For is an easygoing dancefloor invitation that never pushes, only pulls you in.
KANT
Close to the Wire (Club Remix)
The Copenhagen production team KANT stretch Leo Stannard's aching vocal across a seven-minute club arrangement on Black Butter Records, melancholy piano chords and a steady deep house pulse turning heartbreak into something you can dance through.
Joss Stone
Less Is More
A teenage Joss Stone leans into a lilting, reggae-kissed soul groove and sings about wanting less with the husky authority of a singer twice her age.
John Newman, Kove
Love Me Again (Kove Remix)
Kove drives John Newman's northern-soul plea for a second chance into rolling drum and bass, the raw voice riding fast breaks and big, bright chords.
Jan Blomqvist
Big Jet Plane (Animal Trainer Remix)
The Zürich duo Animal Trainer fold Jan Blomqvist's hushed 2011 cover of Big Jet Plane into a rolling, late-night deep house remix, released on the Berlin label Dantze, where a longing vocal drifts above a patient, pulsing groove.
Jan Blomqvist
Big Jet Plane
Jan Blomqvist slows Angus & Julia Stone's folk lullaby into a long, glowing melodic-house drift, his weary vocal hovering over the pulse like a plane above night clouds.
James Newton Howard, Jennifer Lawrence
The Hanging Tree (Rebel Remix)
Jennifer Lawrence's eerie Mockingjay folk song recast as an uptempo, drum-heavy rebel anthem, the unaccompanied verse growing into a pounding march with strings and a dance pulse.
James Newton Howard, Jennifer Lawrence
The Hanging Tree
Jennifer Lawrence's bare, unpolished voice sings an eerie murder ballad from Suzanne Collins' Mockingjay, set to a melody by the Lumineers, that swells into a rebel anthem as James Newton Howard's orchestra gathers behind her.
Jain
So Peaceful
Zanaka's gentle closer, a reggae-tinged sway where Jain lets the album's travels settle into calm, sunlit contentment.
Jain
Mr Johnson
Handclap-light percussion, a bouncing bass and Jain's playful, slightly mischievous delivery make Mr Johnson one of Zanaka's sunniest little stories.
Jain
Hope
Jain's light, sing-song voice, her own drum programming and Yodelice's bass and trombone carry a small, sunny plea for a better world, the title track of her first EP in 2015.
Jain
Come
Jain's debut hit hides a lovesick lyric under a happy bounce: chugging guitar, bashful horns and double-tracked vocals, under three minutes of Afro-pop lightness that went to number one in France.
Jain
City
The closing song of Jain's 2015 Hope EP, produced by Yodelice: her bright, slightly mischievous voice riding a homemade-sounding beat that mixes pop simplicity with the rhythmic colours of a childhood spent between Dubai, Congo and Abu Dhabi.
Ivy Levan, CADRÉ
Like A Glove
Ivy Levan's smoky, swaggering vocal slinks over a sleek, bass-heavy pop beat, with a rap verse from Cadre: a track from her 2015 'swamp-hop' debut that fits its title, tight, dark and made to measure.
Infinity Ink
Infinity
Infinity Ink's Infinity is a bassline-led deep house anthem whose endlessly looped, half-whispered hook made it a platinum hit in Belgium and a club staple since 2012.
Imany, Filatov & Karas
Don't Be So Shy (Filatov & Karas Remix)
Imany's smoky contralto meets a sleek, pulsing house remix from Filatov & Karas, turning a slow seduction from a film soundtrack into a continental dancefloor hit.
Hindi Zahra
Old Friends (Remastered Version)
The slow, dreamy closing song of Hindi Zahra's debut Handmade, which she dedicated to her ancestors: a husky voice layered into a quiet choir, turning memory into something warm and quietly aching.
Hindi Zahra
Music (Remastered Version)
Hindi Zahra sings a love letter to music itself, her warm, smoky voice swaying over interlocking guitars and soft percussion that blend folk, soul and Berber roots.
Hindi Zahra
Beautiful Tango (Remastered Version)
Hindi Zahra's smoky voice glides over a lilting, desert-blues guitar and soft percussion in Beautiful Tango, a slow dance of a song that sounds like dusk in a small room.
Him_Self_Her, Kieran Fowkes
Gone Too Long (Original Mix)
A slow-rolling deep house groove under Kieran Fowkes' soulful, yearning vocal, the Leicester duo's Crosstown Rebels release made for the last, emotional hour of a night.
Her
Interlude
A brief, late-night breath on Her's first tape, the French duo's velvet electronic soul pared back to just over two minutes of mood, space and a slow, sensual glow.
Gotan Project
La vigüela
Bandoneon, guitar and Cristina Vilallonga's voice drifting over a slow electronic pulse, La Vigüela is Gotan Project's tango heading out into the open pampas.
Gorillaz, Neneh Cherry
Kids with Guns
A cold, clanking Gorillaz track from Demon Days where Damon Albarn's weary vocal and Neneh Cherry's spectral backing turn a nursery-rhyme melody into a quiet alarm about children and violence.
Gorillaz
19-2000 (Soulchild Remix)
The Soulchild Remix turns Gorillaz's woozy 19-2000 into a bright, bouncing cartoon road trip, a 2001 UK top-ten single and the title theme of FIFA Football 2002, with a chorus everyone remembers: get the cool shoeshine.
Gorgon City, Zak Abel, Dj Anna
Unmissable (DJ Anna Remix)
DJ Anna pulls Gorgon City's pop single into the dark: a heavy rolling bassline, Zak Abel's soulful voice in fragments and nearly eight minutes of late-night pressure.
Gorgon City
Ready For Your Love (CLOSE Remix)
Will Saul, remixing as CLOSE, stretches Gorgon City and MNEK's 2014 UK number four into a six-and-a-half-minute, dub-tinged deep-house journey, the soulful vocal echoing through a late-night haze.
Gorgon City, Katy Menditta, WEISS
Imagination (Weiss Remix)
WEISS stretches Gorgon City's Imagination into a six-minute, groove-led house workout for the 2015 remix EP, leaving Katy Menditta's voice to flicker in and out over the bass.
Gorgon City, Katy Menditta
Imagination
A sleek, sunlit house cut where Katy Menditta's soulful vocal floats over a rubbery bassline and crisp garage-tinged drums, built for the moment a club exhales.
Glass Animals, Gilligan Moss
Gooey (Gilligan Moss Remix)
Gilligan Moss stretches Glass Animals' sticky love song into a glistening electronic daydream of chiming percussion, warped vocal slivers and a slow-blooming groove.
Glass Animals
Gooey
Glass Animals' breakout is a slow, syrupy jungle of a love song, Dave Bayley's murmured vocal drifting over finger-snap beats, soft guitar and a bassline that oozes.
Gin Wigmore, Suffa, Logic
Willing To Die
Gin Wigmore's raw-throated hook meets verses from American rapper Logic and Hilltop Hoods' Suffa on a heavy, defiant anthem built over a sampled field recording.
Gin Wigmore
Written In The Water
Gin Wigmore snarls through a short, stomping blues-rock number from her 2015 album Blood to Bone, her raspy voice squaring up to fate, and splits its video into a two-part outlaw story.
Gin Wigmore
New Rush
Gin Wigmore's 2015 comeback single, co-written with Charlie Andrew, hits like a jolt of adrenaline: pounding drums and a chant-along chorus pushing her husky voice towards a fresh start after a stifling relationship.
Gin Wigmore
Man Like That
A stomping blues-soul strut in which Gin Wigmore's raspy, fearless voice lays out exactly the kind of man she wants, produced by Butch Walker for Gravel & Wine and later sung in a Heineken James Bond ad.
Gin Wigmore
Kill Of The Night
Gin Wigmore's smoky rasp prowls over stomping drums and a swaggering, bluesy strut, a midnight hunt sung by someone who fully intends to win.
Gin Wigmore
Dirty Mercy
Swaggering and swampy, Dirty Mercy pairs Gin Wigmore's raspy snarl with a stomping groove and a sly, sinister edge, the opening shot of her Ivory era.
Gin Wigmore
Black Sheep
Stomping drums, chanted backing vocals and a shout-along hook frame Gin Wigmore's gravel-edged voice in a proud anthem for everyone who never fit the flock.
Gabriella Cilmi
Left With Someone Else
A smoky, retro-soul kiss-off from Gabriella Cilmi's independent third album: an old flame walks out with somebody new, and a sparse arrangement leaves room for a vocal that is pure venom wrapped in velvet.
Gabriella Cilmi
Cry Me A River (Live Version)
A sixteen-year-old Gabriella Cilmi takes Justin Timberlake's 2002 break-up hit into smoky, live soul territory with a three-piece band: a 2008 B-side recorded by Xenomania, her husky voice carrying all the hurt.
Future Forward, Mount Sims
Time for Livin
A long, strutting electro groove released on Kompute Musik, with Mount Sims' deadpan vocal riding a relentless machine pulse that barely changes and never needs to.
Future Forward Society, Mount Sims
The Creep (HV Thrillseeker Mix)
The HV Thrillseeker Mix stretches The Creep into a longer, harder club tool, with the menace of the original pushed through a relentless, driving groove.
Future Forward Society, Mount Sims
The Creep (Capri Mix)
A long, prowling electro mix that keeps its shadows close: The Creep in its Capri Mix stretches Mount Sims' sly menace over six and a half minutes of pulsing synths.
Future Forward Society, Mount Sims
The Creep
Future Forward Society and Mount Sims build a slinking, shadowy electro crawl, all low-slung bass, cold synths and a voice that seems to whisper from the corner of the room.
Foster The People
Pumped Up Kicks
A breezy, whistled indie-pop earworm with a chilling story underneath: the demo Mark Foster wrote and recorded alone in five hours, which went viral in 2010 and spent eight weeks at number three in the US.
Format:B
Chunky (Radio Edit)
A rubbery, swaggering tech-house stomper from Berlin's Format:B, built on a fat bassline and chopped vocals from Shorty Long's 1966 Motown single Function at the Junction, cut down to a radio-sized strut.
Flume
Holdin On
A chopped-up soul vocal, wobbling synth chords and a swinging, head-nodding beat: Flume's breakout cut is two and a half minutes of pure, woozy elation.
Faul & Wad, PNAU
Changes
Faul & Wad Ad build a sax-lit, bittersweet house groove around the children's-choir refrain of Pnau's Baby, a song about growing up that became a European number one.
FKJ
Lying Together
The neo-house track that introduced FKJ: chopped vocals, warm filtered chords and an elastic bassline wrapped into four and a half minutes of slow-burning, sunlit intimacy.
Ed Sheeran
Shape of You
A plucked marimba-like loop, a dancehall bounce and a flirtation that starts at the bar: Shape of You is the minimal pop machine that took over the world in 2017.
Dusty Kid
Nemur (Walls of Guitars) (Extended Version)
The Sardinian techno producer closes his debut album A Raver's Diary (Boxer, 2009) with an unexpected, tender song of layered guitars and his own fragile voice that swells into a wall of sound.
Depeche Mode
Wrong (Live in Barcelona)
Depeche Mode's jagged litany of mistakes, hammered out live in Barcelona with snarling synths, live drums and Dave Gahan relishing every bad decision.
David Lynch, Karen O
Pinky's Dream (Trentemøller Remix Instrumental)
Trentemøller strips Karen O away and leaves only the nightmare: a throbbing, sinister synth drive that sounds like a car speeding down a Lynchian highway at night.
Daft Punk
Get Lucky (Radio Edit)
Nile Rodgers' chicken-scratch guitar, Pharrell's easy vocal and Daft Punk's robot choir turn a four-chord loop into the most irresistible disco revival of the 2010s: the lead single of Random Access Memories, in its radio edit.
Daft Punk
Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger
A chopped funk loop and a robot reciting a workout mantra: Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger is Daft Punk turning a sample into one of the most quoted hooks of the century.
Daft Punk
Give Life Back to Music
The curtain-raiser of Random Access Memories: live drums, Nile Rodgers' guitar and a vocoder mission statement announcing that Daft Punk came back to make music breathe again.
Daft Punk
Giorgio by Moroder
Giorgio Moroder tells his own origin story over a click track, then Daft Punk unfold nine minutes of arpeggiated disco, live drums and strings into a time-travelling tribute to the sound he invented.
Daft Punk
Face to Face / Short Circuit
Recorded live at Bercy, Daft Punk fold the sunny house bounce of Face to Face into the jittery robot funk of Short Circuit, and the pyramid crowd goes up with it.
Daft Punk
Episode 3, Nile Rodgers
Nile Rodgers tells his own story in the third of Daft Punk's Collaborators films, a warm, funny portrait of the guitarist whose rhythm runs through Random Access Memories.
Daft Punk
Episode 1, Giorgio Moroder
Giorgio Moroder opens Daft Punk's Collaborators films, remembering the Moog, the dance floor and the perfectionism of the two Frenchmen who brought him back into the studio for Random Access Memories.
Daft Punk
Around the World
One phrase, one bassline and seven minutes of repetition: Around the World is Daft Punk proving that a loop can be a whole world on its own, and Michel Gondry's video turned its arrangement into choreography.
DJ S.K.T
Must Be A Reason (Radio Edit)
DJ S.K.T rebuilds the vocal hook of Wamdue Project's 1999 number one King of My Castle into a tight, sunny 2017 house edit for DFX, using a replayed sample rather than the original master.
DJ Patife
Sambassim (DJ Patife Remix)
Fernanda Porto's breezy bossa melody rides a rolling São Paulo drum and bass break, sunlit samba swing meeting rattling breakbeats and deep sub-bass.
DJ Fitchie, Joe Dukie
Midnight Marauders
Seven unhurried minutes of Pacific dub-soul from two Fat Freddy's Drop mainstays, Joe Dukie's honeyed voice drifting over a deep, patient bassline built for the small hours.
Corinne Bailey Rae
Put Your Records On
Corinne Bailey Rae's sun-dappled soul-pop single is a gentle invitation to let your hair down, all breezy guitar, soft horns and a warm voice telling you to grow into yourself.
Codec & Flexor
Time Has Changed (Original)
Cold, pulsing analogue-style synths and a detached vocal make Codec & Flexor's electroclash-era club hit sound like a rave remembered through frosted glass.
Clea Vincent
All that she wants
Cléa Vincent turns Ace of Base's 1992 hit into breezy, homespun French synth-pop, trading its reggae-pop strut for a dreamy, lo-fi groove closer to hip-hop and R&B.
Claptone, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Ghost
Claptone sets Alec Ounsworth's fragile, quavering indie vocal over a patient deep house groove, a dancefloor track that sounds like it is mourning something.
Chet Faker
Talk Is Cheap
A wistful, treated saxophone line, a lazy, warm beat and Chet Faker's husky croon make this Built on Glass lead single the definition of late-night electronic soul, and triple j's number one song of 2014.
Chet Faker
Gold
Chet Faker's smoky late-night soul over a slow, finger-snapping electronic groove, a minimal track that gets all its heat from his weathered voice and a bassline that barely moves.
Camel Power Club
Ourson
Soft beats, sunny loops and a sampled Son House blues voice: Ourson is a short, cuddly piece of French chillout, first a 2015 single and later part of Sputnik II, that feels like a teddy bear rendered in warm sound.
CLAAP!, S.A.N.T.A.N.A.
Dimanche
A slow Sunday-afternoon deep house cut from a Paris duo's debut EP on La Belle Records, all warm chords, an unhurried beat and Santana's soft vocal drifting in and out of the haze.
Broken Back
Happiest Man on Earth (Radio Edit)
Bright acoustic strumming over a gentle electronic beat, Broken Back's first single sounds like optimism earned the hard way.
Branko, SKIP&DIE, Fellow
Made of Gold
Branko's global club sound in miniature: an Amsterdam meeting with SKIP&DIE and Fellow on his debut album ATLAS, a gleaming, bass-heavy groove built for a crowd.
Bodyrockers
I Like The Way (Radio Edit)
A crunching dance-rock riff, a strutting beat and a hook about the way you move: Bodyrockers' 2005 floor-filler is pure, unashamed swagger.
Bobby Nourmand
Smokin' Joe
A laid-back, smoky slice of deep house where a rolling bassline meets a bluesy vocal: the Los Angeles producer's mystery track from The Magician's Magic Tapes, released on Potion in 2016.
Bob Moses
Tearing Me Up
Bob Moses stretch a smoky, heartsick vocal across a slow-burning deep house groove, all brooding guitar, rolling bass and late-night tension that never quite breaks; its RAC remix won a Grammy.
Blankets
The Hanging Tree
Blankets carries the Mockingjay murder ballad out of the woods and onto the dancefloor: a 2015 French electronic cover that keeps the song's hummable, unsettling melody and sets it to a pulsing beat.
Big Data, Joywave
Dangerous
A strutting, paranoid electro-rock stomp where Joywave's Daniel Armbruster sneers the hook over clipped funk guitar, heavy handclaps and a bassline built for headphones and dance floors alike.
Ben Khan
Savage
Two and a half minutes of warped, woozy funk: Ben Khan's cool falsetto slides over wobbling synths, guitar stabs and brass that sounds trapped inside a bubble.
Basement Jaxx
Galactical
Bright, bouncing and slightly unhinged, Galactical sends Basement Jaxx and singer Vula off into space on a house groove built for dancing in zero gravity.
Ayọ
Down On My Knees
Ayọ pleads for a lost love over acoustic guitar and a gentle reggae lilt: the 2006 debut single, recorded with a live band in five days in New York, that made a German-Nigerian singer a star in France.
Axwell, Max C
I Found U (Radio Edit)
Axwell's piano-lit house anthem distilled to under three minutes: a rolling bassline, a gospel-tinged vocal from Max'C and a chorus built for arms in the air.
Axwell
Feel The Vibe
Axwell's 2004 club record in its original long form: a pumping, filtered house groove that keeps building until the whole floor is lifted with it.
Avicii
Feeling Good
Avicii wraps the standard Nina Simone made famous in soft, swelling synths and lets Audra Mae's smoky, soaring voice carry a song about new dawns, recorded for a 2015 film about his own recovery from years of touring.
Asaf Avidan & the Mojos
Reckoning Song
A cracked, ageless voice over a few acoustic chords: the original Reckoning Song from 2008 is a campfire confession about growing old, four years before Wankelmut's remix turned it into a European number one.
Arctic Monkeys
Snap Out Of It
Alex Turner pleads with a lover to wake up from someone else's spell over a swaggering, hand-clapped shuffle and a chorus hook that sticks for days: the sixth single from AM.
Arctic Monkeys
R U Mine?
Arctic Monkeys turn a jealous late-night text into a riff-heavy stomp, with Alex Turner's rapid-fire wordplay riding a fuzzed-out, swaggering guitar line.
Arctic Monkeys
Do I Wanna Know?
A heavy, crawling riff, stomping handclaps and a late-night text that should never have been sent: Do I Wanna Know? turns romantic doubt into slow-burning swagger.
Anna Lunoe
Radioactive
Anna Lunoe's Radioactive, her 2016 debut on OWSLA, is a strobe-lit 'hyperhouse' banger sung in her own voice, all clipped vocal hooks, rave stabs and a low end built to rattle a festival tent.
Angus & Julia Stone
Big Jet Plane
Soft guitars, sibling harmonies and a daydream of flying away with someone: Big Jet Plane drifts in slowly and stays with you long after it lands.
Amy Winehouse
You Know I'm No Good
A slinking, horn-stabbed confession of infidelity from Back to Black, written by Amy Winehouse and produced by Mark Ronson with the Dap-Kings' players: retro soul with a lyric no 1960s girl group would have sung.
Alle Farben, Graham Candy
Sometimes
Alle Farben's sun-warmed deep house meets Graham Candy's quivering, unmistakable high voice in a wistful Berlin summer song about the days that do not go to plan.
Adam Freeland
Do You
Melodic synths crash into live drums and a snarling rock vocal: Do You opens Freeland's Cope with a breakbeat-punk jolt that sounds like a band and a DJ at war.
AWOLNATION
Sail
A slow, menacing electro-rock crawl that erupts into a howled confession, AWOLNATION's Sail is equal parts dread and release.
Codec & Flexor
Time Has Changed (Northern Lite Remix)
Erfurt's Northern Lite rework Codec & Flexor's electroclash-era club hit for the 2004 remix EP: a six-minute version that keeps the song's cool, detached refrain and gives it the band's own blend of electro and pop.
Louisahhh
Love Is a Punk (Vitalic Remix)
Vitalic reworks the opening track of Louisahhh's techno-punk debut The Practice of Freedom into a five-and-a-half-minute industrial club track, released on the album's 2021 deluxe edition by HE.SHE.THEY.
Hania Rani
Full Performance (Live on KEXP)
A serene, immersive 36-minute KEXP session recorded in July 2022: the Polish pianist and composer Hania Rani plays 24.03, Ghosts, Komeda Part 3 and Buka on piano and synthesizers, pieces that would reach her later albums.
Chicks On Speed
Euro Trash Girl
Munich art collective Chicks On Speed turn Cracker's 1990s alt-rock road song into a deadpan electronic cover: an early electroclash single, first pressed on their own Go Records in 1998.
Louisahhh
Like A Vice
A dark and pulsating techno track that closes Louisahhh's intentionally brutal 2017 EP A Trap I've Built, delving into desire, control and liberation.
Brazilian Girls
Karaköy
A walking-pace daydream named after an old Istanbul harbour district: Sabina Sciubba's supple voice and soft trumpets carry a song of wandering and missing someone, from Brazilian Girls' 2018 comeback album Let's Make Love.
Pigeon John
The Bomb
The Los Angeles rapper Pigeon John opens his 2010 album Dragon Slayer with The Bomb, a bright, bouncing single co-produced with General Elektriks' Hervé Salters from sampled live instrumentation rather than old records.
Electric Guest
This Head I Hold
A piano-driven, falsetto-led romp produced by Danger Mouse, 'This Head I Hold' was Electric Guest's 2012 debut single: retro soul-pop swagger wrapped around a reminder that you don't have to follow the steps society lays out.
C2C, Pigeon John
Because of You
'Because of You' by C2C featuring Pigeon John is a bright collision of hip-hop, electronics and soul from four French world-champion turntablists, with the Los Angeles rapper's warm voice riding a beat built by hand on record decks.
Bakermat
The River
'The River' is a short, warm house track from Bakermat's second album The Spirit (2021), a record the Dutch producer built from gospel, soul and folk material: a two-and-a-half-minute sketch of uplift rather than a club epic.
Lulu Rouge
Sweeter Than Sweet (feat. Alice Carreri)
From Lulu Rouge's 2008 debut Bless You, a slow, dub-shadowed Copenhagen downtempo track in which Alice Carreri sings Mikael Simpson's words over deep bass and spacious, echoing textures.
Lulu Rouge
Lulu's Theme (feat. Trentemøller)
Danish duo Lulu Rouge and their old ally Trentemøller in seven and a half minutes of nocturnal minimal house: reverberating dub bass, slow-building layers and a Basic Channel shadow.
Mickey Avalon
Ultra-Violence
A darkly comic outlaw ballad from Mickey Avalon's 2020 album Speak of the Devil, produced by Eli Meltzer as Smoov-E: two small-town boys, a shovel and a getaway, over a jangly guitar and a refrain that nothing in this world is free.
Kazy Lambist
Doing Yoga
The title track of Kazy Lambist's 2015 debut EP: a smooth, sunlit electronic pop song by the Montpellier producer Arthur Dubreucq, laid-back beats and a playful melody built for summer.
Eli
Faster You Fall
Eli Meltzer, better known as the Bay Area rapper and producer Smoov-E, borrows the swagger of early rock and roll for a short, cocky chase song built on one taunting refrain.
Saschienne
Knopfauge
'Knopfauge' is a track from Unknown (Kompakt, 2012), the debut album of Saschienne, the duo of Berlin DJ Sascha Funke and French singer and synth player Julienne Dessagne: minimal electronic music built on Moog lines and patient layering.
Headman
Moisture (Headman Club Version)
Headman's own club version of Moisture, his song with the singer Luca Santucci: a sleek, hypnotic nu-disco and house groove stretched for the dance floor, a bonus track on the 2016 deluxe edition of his album ON.
Bonaparte, Acid Pauli
Not Today
Berlin's dance-punk ringmaster Bonaparte and the electronic producer Acid Pauli, once of The Notwist, trade a sly, defiant refrain in a 2020 single that sings from the point of view of something humanity has wronged and now asks for rescue.
Sworn Virgins
Burning Off My Clothes
The B-side of the anonymous London disco project Sworn Virgins' 2018 12-inch on Soulwax's DEEWEE label: a driving, chugging late-night cut that The Vinyl Factory called a Harvey-esque freak-out for saturated nightcrawlers.
Aloe Blacc
I Need a Dollar (Live)
A hard-times plea set to a Brooklyn retro-soul jam: Aloe Blacc's 2010 hit, the theme of HBO's How to Make It in America, heard here live in Berlin in 2011, where a chorus about a job lost and a dollar borrowed is made for a room to sing.
IDLES
The Wheel
IDLES' song about the cycle of alcoholism passed from mother to son, from their 2021 album Crawler: a menacing one-note riff, heavy chords and Joe Talbot howling a gospel-preacher call, here in a live KEXP session.
C.A.R
Idle Eyes (Roman Flügel Remix)
Roman Flügel turns C.A.R.'s cold-wave Idle Eyes into patient, hypnotic minimal house: a rattling bassline, spiralling keys and pads that swell slowly toward a euphoric peak.
2raumwohnung
Somebody Lonely and Me (Nacht)
The night side of a song recorded twice: 2raumwohnung's 2017 single sets Inga Humpe's German verses and English refrain over a darker, 1980s-flavoured synth arrangement, one of two versions on their double album Nacht und Tag.
Indiana
Solo Dancing
A hypnotic, synth-driven song about dancing alone, the 2014 single that took the Nottingham singer Indiana to number 14 in the UK and became the centre of her debut album No Romeo.
Northern Lite
Trusting Blind
The 2001 debut single of Erfurt's Northern Lite, released on their own 1st Decade Records: techno roots turning into electronic pop, with ambient pads, a steady bassline and a slow build toward a driving finish.
Mafia Klvb
Credit Card
The closing track of Mafia Klvb's 2022 debut, made with Pilocka Krach and Mommo G: underground lifestyle rap that turns the credit card into a symbol of excess and the persona into the point.
JPattersson
Elevator
A laid-back fusion of dub, reggae and deep electronic beats from East Germany: JPattersson's 2016 Elevator, the title track of an EP that also carries its own dub version and two remixes.
Inigo Montoya
.E.S
'Inigo Montoya - .E.S' is a hypnotic fusion of electronic beats and introspective melodies, creating a dreamlike atmosphere that invites listeners into a reflective journey. The track's mysterious soundscape makes it both haunting and deeply engaging.
Anthony Rother
Brainshaker
A pulsating electro track from Anthony Rother's 2006 album Super Space Model on his own Datapunk label: machine rhythms, hard synthesizers and a chanted list of names that turns into the hook.
Alic
Going Down In A Blaze Of Glory
A seven-minute slab of psychedelic techno from the German duo Alic, released free on their own netlabel Digital Diamonds in 2012: punching drums under slowly shifting atmospheric layers.
Ultraísta
Smalltalk
'Smalltalk' is the 2012 lead single of Ultraísta, the trio of Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich, drummer Joey Waronker and singer Laura Bettinson: layered synthesizers and afrobeat-minded drums under a plea to stop the small talk, heard here in Four Tet's garage-shuffle remix.
Mélissa Laveaux
Needle in the Hay
Mélissa Laveaux, a Montreal-born singer-songwriter of Haitian descent, recasts Elliott Smith's bleak 1995 song for percussive finger-style guitar, double bass, claps and drums on her 2008 album Camphor & Copper.
Marbert Rocel
Hush Now
A soulful downtempo song from the German trio Marbert Rocel's second album Catch A Bird: Antje Seifarth's gentle voice over soft, slowly unfolding electronics, made for winding down.
Fischerspooner
Emerge
'Emerge' is Fischerspooner's debut single and one of the defining records of electroclash: a pounding, theatrical electro-pop anthem from a New York duo that began as a performance art piece about entertainment.
Felix Da Housecat
Madame Hollywood (feat. Miss Kittin)
'Madame Hollywood' by Felix Da Housecat featuring Miss Kittin is an electroclash single that plays the glamour of stardom deadpan: a Chicago house producer's taut electro beat and a French voice that sounds bored by fame.
ACRAZE
Do It To It
Orlando producer ACRAZE turned the vocal of Cherish's 2006 R&B single into a two-and-a-half-minute tech house track that spread through DJ sets before it was released and reached the UK top ten in 2022.
Tinush
Sandburg
'Sandburg', German for sandcastle, is the title track of the Berlin producer Tinush's 2014 EP on Crosswalk: seven minutes of melodic deep house, later cut to a three-minute radio edit, with remixes by Alec Troniq and Umami.
The xx
Crystalised
'Crystalised', The xx's 2009 debut single, is minimal indie pop at its most intimate: a muted guitar riff, a sparse beat by Jamie xx, and two voices, Romy Madley Croft's and Oliver Sim's, answering each other verse by verse.
The Police
Roxanne
Sting wrote 'Roxanne' after seeing street workers near the band's Paris hotel in 1977: a plea to a woman to leave that life, set to off-beat reggae guitar and a tango-like rhythm, the A&M debut single that became the Police's signature song.
Lucky Luke
Cooler Than Me
The Lithuanian producer Lucky Luke's 2019 electro-house reworking of Mike Posner's 2010 debut hit, released on Columbia/B1: a song about feeling snubbed, turned into a laid-back club anthem that became a radio hit in France a year later.
Klangkarussell
We Want Your Soul
'We Want Your Soul' is Klangkarussell's remix of Adam Freeland's 2003 anti-consumerist breakbeat single: the speech-synthesizer verses and Bill Hicks sample of the original, slowed into a long, hypnotic house groove on the album Netzwerk.
Groove Armada
Superstylin'
Groove Armada's 2001 single fuses house with dancehall, reggae and dub over a speed-garage bassline, with MC M.A.D. on vocals and a live horn section; a UK number 12 and a 2003 Grammy nominee.
Gorgon City
Hard On Me
Gorgon City's sleek, late-night deep house meets Maverick Sabre's raw, soulful voice on Hard On Me, the closing track of their 2014 debut album Sirens: a plea for gentleness carried by a steady, rolling groove.
Gabriella Cilmi
Cry Me a River (Cover)
A teenage Gabriella Cilmi takes Justin Timberlake's 2002 break-up hit out of Timbaland's beatbox-and-clavinet production and sings it as a stripped-down soul lament, her husky voice carrying all the hurt.
Freeland
Under Control
The lead single of Freeland's Cope swaps the guitar riff for a roaring synth and puts Kurt Baumann's deadpan vocal over breakbeat-bred drums: electronic rock with a raw, defiant edge.
Fort Minor
Remember The Name
'Remember The Name' by Fort Minor is an anthem of perseverance: Mike Shinoda and Styles of Beyond trade verses over a cello loop and a chorus that breaks success down into percentages, a song that became the soundtrack of sport.
Eurythmics
Sweet Dreams (Ibiza Deep Summer Remix 2015)
An uncredited 2015 deep-house rework of Eurythmics' 1983 synth-pop classic: Annie Lennox's cool, haunting vocal set on a laid-back summer house beat, a lesson in how a famous bassline survives any remix.
AnnenMayKantereit x Parcels
Can't Get You Out of My Head (Cover)
AnnenMayKantereit and Parcels join forces on a stripped-back cover of Kylie Minogue's 'Can't Get You Out of My Head', trading the original's cool electronic pulse for Henning May's rough voice and close band harmonies.
Asian Dub Foundation
Flyover
The synth-heavy opener of Asian Dub Foundation's Tank: churning drum and bass, a dub-friendly chorus and the band's political urgency, at the start of an album written in the shadow of the Iraq War.
Funky Fat & Digitaria
You Bring Me Down
Two Brazilian acts, the Belo Horizonte trio Funky Fat and the duo Digitaria, meet on Jamie Jones and Lee Foss's label Hot Creations in 2012: a slower, electro-slanted house track of soaring synths, grumbling stabs and breathy vocals.
Roseaux
Walking on the Moon
The French collective Roseaux and the American soul singer Aloe Blacc turn the Police's 1979 reggae hit into an unhurried soul song, the most famous track of their 2012 album of covers.
Fatboy Slim
Sunset (Bird of Prey)
'Sunset (Bird of Prey)' is Fatboy Slim's 2000 single built around Jim Morrison's voice, sampled from the Doors' 'Bird of Prey': a slow-rising, sun-bleached dance track whose video sends a 1960s fighter pilot on a hallucination.
Nina Simone
Sinnerman (Felix Da Housecat's Heavenly House Mix)
'Sinnerman (Felix Da Housecat's Heavenly House Mix)' sets Nina Simone's ten-minute 1965 recording of a traditional spiritual about a sinner with nowhere to hide inside a four-and-a-half-minute house groove, for Verve Remixed 2 in 2003.
Fernanda Porto
Sambassim
Fernanda Porto's own Sambassim: the São Paulo composer's song that fused samba and bossa nova melody with electronic beats and helped name a style, drum 'n' bossa.
Róisín Murphy
Primitive
The slow, string-laced turn on Róisín Murphy's 2007 electro-disco album Overpowered, co-written with Ill Factor and arranged by Philadelphia soul veteran Larry Gold, heard here in a live performance from the album's era.
Pilocka Krach
Discolight (Hrdvsion's NSD Mix)
The Canadian producer Hrdvsion (Nathan Jonson) remixes Berlin experimental artist Pilocka Krach's 'Discolight' into a five-and-a-half-minute club track, the lead side of a 2012 remix 12-inch on Greatest Hits International.
Michelle Gurevich
Party Girl
'Party Girl' is the home-recorded title song of Michelle Gurevich's 2007 debut, made under the name Chinawoman: a slow, deadpan contralto ballad about nightlife that became her best-known song and gave its title to a Cannes-winning film.
The Horrorist
One Night In New York City
'One Night In New York City' is The Horrorist's dark techno story of a naive suburban girl's night in the city, first released in 1996 on his own Things To Come label and a German dance number one in 2001, told in a cold spoken voice over a driving machine beat.
Nancy Sinatra
Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)
Nancy Sinatra's 1966 version of Sonny Bono's song, built on Billy Strange's haunting tremolo guitar, is a hushed ballad of childhood love and betrayal that Quentin Tarantino revived over the opening credits of Kill Bill.
Feist
My Moon My Man
The first single from Feist's The Reminder (2007), co-written and produced with Chilly Gonzales: a sly, piano-led indie pop song about love and longing, danced through an empty airport at night in Patrick Daughters' video.
Waldeck
Midsummer Night Blues (feat. Zeebee)
'Midsummer Night Blues' is a song from Viennese producer Waldeck's 2007 album Ballroom Stories, written and sung by Zeebee: late-1920s ballroom swing seen through modern production, with the crackle of shellac and a summer night's melancholy.
Luca Malina
FCKRZ
'FCKRZ' is a 2021 single by the Viennese singer Luca Malina, R&B-inspired pop about the darker side of relationships, produced by Luca Pivetz with guitar by Lukas Koffler and a self-made video.
Caravan Palace
Lone Digger
Caravan Palace's 2015 single fuses 1930s-style swing with club beats and Zoé Colotis's voice, and its animated video of a brawl in a bar full of animals made it one of the most-watched electro-swing tracks ever.
Pomplamoose
Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger
Pomplamoose's 2019 cover of Daft Punk's 'Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger': a robot anthem built from a sample and a vocoder, replayed by a live band with real keys, bass, drums and human voices, and filmed so that everything you hear, you see.
Portugal. The Man
Feel It Still
Portugal. The Man's Grammy-winning sleeper hit: a quick, swinging slice of psychedelic funk-pop that borrows its melody from Motown's Please Mr. Postman and rides one of the decade's most recognisable basslines.
Cardi B
WAP (feat. Megan Thee Stallion)
'WAP' is a bold and provocative hip-hop track by Cardi B featuring Megan Thee Stallion: a minimal beat, a looped Baltimore club chant and two rappers trading explicit, joyfully unapologetic verses about desire.
alt-J
Breezeblocks
A lullaby with teeth: alt-J's 2012 breakthrough wraps an obsessive love song, borrowed in part from Where the Wild Things Are, in plucked guitar, close harmonies and a refrain that piles up until it will not let go.
Clawfinger
Biggest & The Best
'Biggest & The Best' is the lead single from Clawfinger's 1997 self-titled album: Swedish-Norwegian rap metal with industrial programming, aimed squarely at people who think they are almighty.
Whilk & Misky
Darklands
'Darklands' is one of the first two songs the London duo Whilk & Misky ever wrote: a slow-burning blend of blues guitar, electronic production and a voice that starts quietly and ends up belting, from their 2014 debut EP The First Sip.
Vitalic
You Prefer Cocaine
A pulsating electro track from Vitalic's 2001 Poney EP on International DeeJay Gigolo: driving machine beats and a snarling synth riff that capture the raw energy of the early-2000s dance floor.
Tubbe
In Berlin
The queer electropunk duo Tubbe, who moved from Munich to Berlin in 2013, set the small-town dream of the big city against its confetti, noise and 1-euro-shop reality, a 2015 synth-pop single from their Audiolith album Keine Arbeit lieber Tanzen.
Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs
Garden
Orlando Higginbottom's breakthrough as Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs: lush synths, a dance-floor pulse and Luisa Gerstein's voice, first on a 2010 Greco-Roman EP and then a 2011 Polydor single that soundtracked Nokia's Lumia adverts.
Timo Maas
Shifter
Timo Maas's 'Shifter', featuring MC Chickaboo, is a driving 2002 single from his debut album Loud: German club production at the meeting point of house and breakbeat, with an MC riding the groove; a UK top 40 hit.
The Chemical Brothers
The Salmon Dance
The Chemical Brothers hand the microphone to Fatlip of The Pharcyde for a deadpan rap about a fish-inspired dance: a bubbling, funky detour on their Grammy-winning 2007 album We Are the Night.
The Chemical Brothers
Star Guitar
'Star Guitar' is The Chemical Brothers' slowly blooming 2002 single, built on four bars of acoustic guitar sampled from David Bowie's 'Starman', and the song behind Michel Gondry's famous one-shot train-window video.
Sleaford Mods
Tweet Tweet Tweet
'Tweet Tweet Tweet' by Sleaford Mods is a gritty post-punk rant born on a dismal bus ride, aimed at people lost in their phones and at the politics of 2014 England, filmed here live for KEXP in 2023: one man pressing play, one man spitting fire.
Nouvelle Vague
Too Drunk to Fuck
Nouvelle Vague turn the Dead Kennedys' punk satire into a hushed bossa nova sung by Camille, a 2004 cover whose softness makes the lyric more absurd and more unsettling than the original's noise.
Mirwais
Naïve Song
Mirwais, the former Taxi Girl guitarist who would soon produce Madonna's Music, sets a vocoded voice against stop-start acoustic guitar and retro synths: a 2000 French electro single that reached number two on the US club chart.
Miike Snow
Paddling Out
Miike Snow's 2012 lead single sets sing-along melancholy over glitchy piano chords and a four-on-the-floor house beat, recorded in a Stockholm studio once used by ABBA.
Kutiman
Inner Galactic Lovers
'Inner Galactic Lovers' is Kutiman's 2015 song assembled from parts recorded by 24 freelance musicians in a dozen countries: an ethereal, funky collage in which every player was hired online and never met the others.
Klangkarussell
Moments
A warm deep house song from Klangkarussell's 2014 debut album Netzwerk, sung by Will Heard, the English voice of the Austrian duo's UK hit Sonnentanz (Sun Don't Shine).
K.Flay
High Enough
K.Flay's breakthrough answers a decade of songs about getting high with a question, what if I'm already high enough: breezy rhythm, bubbly guitar lines and a sing-song flow produced by Mike Elizondo.
Joris Delacroix
Epoque
Joris Delacroix closes his 2018 album Night Visions with Epoque, seven minutes of melodic deep house in which soft, piano-trained melodies ride a steady, driving pulse.
Jan Blomqvist
Time Again
Jan Blomqvist's 2014 summer hit sets his soft, echoing voice, Felix Lehmann's Rhodes piano and two guitars over a minimal deep house pulse, the sound of the Berlin 'concert techno' he helped bring to big stages.
Her
Five Minutes
'Five Minutes' is the second single by Her, the French duo of Simon Carpentier and Victor Solf: clean-cut, R&B-tinged pop of finger clicks, rippling guitars and layered vocals, from their debut Tape #1.
Gregory Porter
Don't Lose Your Steam
Gregory Porter's up-tempo lead single from Take Me to the Alley: a warm, gospel-rooted jazz-soul song of encouragement, carried by his rich baritone and a small acoustic band.
Felix Da Housecat
Silver Screen (Shower Scene)
Felix Da Housecat's 2001 electroclash single: a melody sampled from The Flirts' 'Passion', Miss Kittin's cool, spoken-sung vocal and a lyric of starlets and cameras, the record that opened Kittenz and Thee Glitz.
Deluxe
Tum Rakak
'Tum Rakak' is a song by Deluxe, the moustachioed band from Aix-en-Provence: a funky live-band groove in B-flat minor with Liliboy singing a gleefully absurd lyric about curiosity, party crumbs and a truck that reeks in the heat.
Dead Kennedys
Too Drunk to Fuck
Dead Kennedys' 1981 single sets Jello Biafra's satire of a moronic party over East Bay Ray's breakneck surf-punk riff, and became the first UK top-40 hit with the word in its title, despite a BBC ban.
Björk
Kata rokkar
Before her solo career, Björk sang Icelandic popular songs and jazz standards with a veteran piano trio: Kata rokkar, from the 1990 album Gling-Gló, is a short, playful glimpse of that side of her voice.
Basement Freaks
Soul Intoxication (Lonely Boy's Detox Dub)
Los Angeles producer Lonely Boy strips a funk track by the Greek producer Basement Freaks down to a hypnotic house dub, issued on Jalapeno Records in 2013 and later picked up by French lounge compilations.
Alif Tree
Forgotten Places
'Forgotten Places' is a hushed downtempo piece by the Marseille producer Alif Tree, built around a sampled voice of the jazz singer Shirley Horn and released on Compost Records in 2006: nu-jazz that sounds like a memory being replayed.
Zwicker
Oddity (feat. Olivera Stanimirov)
'Oddity' is a discofied highlight of Zurich producer Zwicker's 2009 album Songs of Lucid Dreamers on Compost Records: propulsive beats, a funky bass line and xylophone under the voice of guest singer Olivera Stanimirov.
Ryan Blyth
Once Twice feat. Rachel K Collier
'Once Twice' is a short, uplifting house track by Ryan Blyth with the Swansea singer and producer Rachel K Collier on vocals, premiered in 2016 on the Love & Other channel: bright beats, a sung topline and a hook built for the dance floor.
Pilocka Krach
La Luna Y El Sol
A track from Pilocka Krach's 2017 double album Sugar Cane & The Lost Amigos, a tour diary pinned between Mexico, Detroit and Berlin: raw sampled cuts and growling synths in the Bar25 veteran's electro post-rave style.
Paul Oakenfold feat. Pharrell Williams
Sex 'N' Money
Paul Oakenfold's breakbeat and hip-house collision with Pharrell Williams: a pulsing, provocative 2006 single about the pull of desire and money, with an animated video that ends in a warning.
Mount Sims
How We Do
A dark, pulsing piece of electroclash from Mount Sims's 2002 debut UltraSex, released on Gigolo in Europe and Emperor Norton in the US: gritty machine beats, minor-key synth melodies and a cool, defiant vocal.
Miss Kittin
Frank Sinatra
'Frank Sinatra' is one of the founding anthems of electroclash: Miss Kittin's deadpan spoken vocal over The Hacker's raw electro, a cool, satirical portrait of fame and excess that still fills dancefloors.
Louie Austen
One Night In Rio
'One Night In Rio' by Louie Austen is a tongue-in-cheek electro-lounge story from 2001: a Viennese hotel-bar crooner, then in his fifties, counting off a tour from Rio to LA to Moscow and complaining about a taxi, with backing singers echoing every line.
Lekota
I Used To
Lekota's I Used To combines nostalgic melodies with a modern electronic sound, creating an emotive and introspective listening experience.
Kollektiv Turmstrasse
On The Streets (Let Freedom)
Hamburg duo Kollektiv Turmstrasse's 2009 'Let Freedom' remix of Federleicht's On the Streets: melancholic, melodic house of deep beats and slowly unfolding synths, from the label that later released their album.
Justice vs. Simian
We Are Your Friends
Justice's remix of Simian's 'Never Be Alone', first pressed on Ed Banger's second release in 2003 and reissued as 'We Are Your Friends' in 2006: a UK top 20 hit whose video won Best Video at the MTV Europe Music Awards.
Jorge Ben Jor
Take It Easy My Brother Charles
Jorge Ben's 'Take It Easy My Brother Charles' is a two-and-a-half-minute samba-soul classic from his 1969 album: a swinging guitar, Trio Mocotó's percussion and a warm word of caution to a 'brother of color', half in Portuguese, half in English.
Gabriel Vitel
Burn It Down
'Burn It Down' by Gabriel Vitel is a dark, six-minute minimal track from the German songwriter and indie dance live act's 2014 debut EP on Ipoly Music, built for the dance floor rather than the radio.
Controller 7
Get Ready for the Young Folks
A 2007 mashup by the San Jose producer Controller 7 that lays the Temptations' 1966 'Get Ready' a cappella over the rhythm section of Peter Bjorn and John's 'Young Folks', two songs forty years apart that line up uncannily well.
Bronski Beat
Small Town Boy
Bronski Beat's 1984 debut single turns a gay teenager's escape from home into a falsetto-led synth-pop anthem, built on a sequenced octave pattern and remembered for Bernard Rose's stark video.
Amanda Blank
DJ
'DJ' by Amanda Blank is a heartbreak song dressed as a club track: over a Diplo and Switch beat, the Philadelphia rapper asks the DJ to turn it up so she can dance a bad relationship away.
Marcu Rares
Camimosa
An eighteen-minute minimal track by the Romanian producer Marcu Rareș, the title piece of his 2018 EP for the Romanian minimal techno label Welter Records.
Lipka
No More Beer
A Geneva duo stops the party to break the worst possible news: a wry, shout-along electro-indie track in which the DJ is told to cut the music because the beer is running out.
Ladytron
Seventeen
Ladytron's 2002 single: whirring synthesizers, two cool, interlocking voices and a minimal lyric that takes a swipe at an industry obsessed with youth, shiny and throwaway on the surface and dark underneath.
Chris Lorenzo & The Streets
Take Me as I Am
Birmingham bass producer Chris Lorenzo and The Streets' Mike Skinner meet on a fast, ferocious slice of drum and bass: tight drums, tearing bass synths and Skinner's dry, conversational vocal.
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