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156 tracks.
Saschienne
'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.
Bonaparte, Acid Pauli
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
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.
C.A.R
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
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.
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.
JPattersson
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
'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.
Marbert Rocel
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.
Felix Da Housecat
'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
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', 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', 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.
Lucky Luke
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' 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.
Eurythmics
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.
Gorgon City
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.
Freeland
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.
Asian Dub Foundation
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.
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.
The Horrorist
'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.
Róisín Murphy
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.
Pomplamoose
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.
Nina Simone
'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.
