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71 tracks.
Headman
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.
Indiana
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.
Anthony Rother
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
Funky Fat & Digitaria
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.
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.
Vitalic
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.
Klangkarussell
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).
Joris Delacroix
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
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.
The Chemical Brothers
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.
Ryan Blyth
'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.
Paul Oakenfold feat. Pharrell Williams
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
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.
Kollektiv Turmstrasse
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.
Bronski Beat
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.
Marcu Rares
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.
