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.
Genre
dance
37 tracks.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.