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A guest performer credited on another artist's track, usually as "feat.": a rapper's verse, a singer's hook or a second voice. Features bring together different styles and audiences and are central to hip-hop, R&B and dance music.
Read more on WikipediaAn invented identity that a musician performs as: a mask, a character, a cartoon band or a pair of robots. A persona lets artists play with fame and image, keep their private selves hidden, and make the character part of the music's meaning.
One phrase is answered by another: a lead voice and a choir, a vocal and an instrument. It comes from African and African-American traditions and runs through gospel, soul, funk and house.
A new version of a recording made by reworking its parts: changing the beat, harmony, tempo or structure, often by another producer. A remix can turn a ballad into a club track.
The Supermen Lovers, Herr Styler, Cristine
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.
Santé, Richard Judge
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
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.
Mount Sims, Jessie Evans
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.
Kygo, Maty Noyes
Soft-focus tropical house from Kygo, with plucked melodies and a warm, pleading vocal from Maty Noyes asking someone not to leave just yet.
Kölsch
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.
Kele
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
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.
Ivy Levan, CADRÉ
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.
Him_Self_Her, Kieran Fowkes
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.
Gorillaz, Neneh Cherry
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.
Claptone, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
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.
Branko, SKIP&DIE, Fellow
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.
Big Data, Joywave
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.
Lulu Rouge
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.
Mafia Klvb
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.
Fort Minor
'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.
Waldeck
'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.
Roseaux
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.
Cardi B
'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.
Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs
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
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.
