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December

Chris Rusu Get Silly Just a really big tune basically. BIG, I say!

Azari & III Reckless With Your Love Remaking late 80s sweatbox house with added psychodrama. Well done Azari! Well done Third!

Wetdog Frauhaus! Dramatic no wave-doo wop. Not appalling, brilliantly.

Riton and Primary 1 Radiates (Joker mix) Purple reigns.

Sade By Your Side (Neptunes remix) Hey Pharell, you can’t improve on perfection. Not even with the same kick-kick-tsch schtick of yours that was old seven years ago.

November

Sidney Samson feat. Wizard Sleeve Riverside (Let's Go!) Big room electro anthem… “Riverside Mother F**ker!”

Primary One & Riton Radiate Worth it for the lazer funk alone.

Private My Secret Lover Pretty much an 8-bit Jacko tribute. Cheesy as F**K.

Kid Sister Right Hand Hi (Riton vocal dub) Our new fav “hi” thing, after -hats and -NRG.

Animal Collective What Would I Want? Sky A song, A+ song title.

Filthy Dukes Nonsense In The Dark (Skull Juice Dub) What was easily the Dukes’ finest moment is now possibly Skull Juice’s. This is like electronic rain. Hearting it big time.

Shy Child Criss Cross 7 min plus disco paced epic from NY duo – get it free from shychild.com

Boy Of Girl Hot Chocolate Boy Sort of OK.

Au Revoir Simone Another Likely Story (Aeroplane Remix) What do you mean it’s not summer anymore? Join in the denial with yet another sparkling Aeroplane remix. Neon Indian one is good too.

Joe Goddard Apple Bobbing (Four Tet remix) Fellow Elliott-Schooler adds fractured strings and lovely vocals to JG’s plinks. Delightful, in every single way.

October

Lemonade Bliss Out Tropical Sun Can’t Compare with extra chimp noises. Somehow, it doesn’t suck.

Popof Faces 'Uch Funky cut-up vocals make way for… BASSLINE, BASSLINE, BASSLINE!

Hot Toddy Feat. Ron Basejam I Need Love (Morgan Geist remix) Smooooooth. Synths, pianos, chugging bass… gradual Balearic build up. It’s got everything.

Darkstar Aidy’s Girl Is A Computer Charming 12” of precise, crafted bass. Music to re-arrange record collections to, and worlds around.

Peaches I feel cream We feel bored.

Ali Love Diminishing Returns Voice of the Chem’s Do It Again in Italo disco inspired pop effort.

Floating Points Vacuum Boogie A smooth ride through the cosmos. This is funky at its most refined.

September

Riton & Primary 1 Who's there? (Style of Eye Remix) Guaranteed to get any dancefloor jumping around like a jack-in-the-box.

Noob & Brodinski Peanuts Club Tribal, twisted and completely insane. Mad monkey mayhem on Turbo.

Heartbreak We're Back Vitalic’s remix is even more Italo and muscular than the original.

Amanda Blank Make It Take It Rapid fire rap pop from sometime Spank Rocker. Bam!

August

Drums Of Death Got Yr Thing Sonic wrestling and hyper electro from the Glaswegian bloke-Peaches.

Vitalic Your Disco Song The Frenchman’s back and he’s not changed his sound much (it’s still ace). Will still appeal to fans of both Italo disco and Justice.

Cold Cave Love Comes Close Sparse NY no wave justifying hype. Kind of sexy, I think. Excellent cover, too.

OOIOO Arminico Hewa First impressions – spiky, shouty, exciting Japanese psyche. Sound of band growing down not up.

Passion Pit To Kingdom Come Loving the Grum remix – eye-closed, head-shaking stuff. Let’s go dancing. Like, now.

Deastro Toxic Crusaders Euphoric song from Ghostly’s avantpop savant. Probably soundtracking John Hughes’ ascent to heaven.

July

Terror Danjah Gremlinz (The Instrumentals 2003-2009) [Planet Mu] OH.MY.DAYS. Infinity out of ten.

Memory Cassette Call & Response EP [Acephale] Finally picked this up on import – aaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh, basically.

Delphic This Momentary 2nd single from Manc techno rockers is a stirring anthem released on Kitsune.

Stricken City Songs About People I Know [PureGroove] Pretty indie from everyone’s favourite new band, sounds like flower-filled jam jars, old films, Postcard Records, rain. Lovely, of course

Fist of Facts Fist of Facts EP [CLAREMONT 56] Sal P of Liquid Liquid’s side proj. Best 80s NY drummer + disco + dub x (best band name eva) = 10 2 the power of awesome

Riton Who's There Brill spook house with killa chorus hook from Riton & Primary 1.

Birdy Nam Nam The Parachute Ending Pining 4 Justice? This is co written by the duo with the Parisian turntablists. Like Giorgio Moroder meets The Prodigy.

June

Time & Space Machine Children of the Sun Pulsin’, floaty psych disco from Wizards Sleever Richard Norris.

Shit Robot Simple Things Todd Terje version is fab and loooooong wiv xtra cowbell action. Good robot!

The Units High Pressure Days Electronic punk anthem gets squelchy summer rmx from Durrr’s Rory Phillips. 30 yrs old n fresh as eva.

Various Kitsune Maison Compilation 7 Most diverse & best 1 4 a while wiv ace trax from Delphic, Phoenix, Crystal Fighters, 2 Door Cinema Club and a crazy xtra track from Maybb.

May

Magistrates Heartbreak Hot n sticky pop wiv infectious melody. Summer soundtrack, Essex style.

Friendly Fires Jump In The Pool The Wild Geese rmx is imNse. Like early 90s piano house!

Hockey Learn To Lose Bit of a C&W tinge 2 this 2nd Hockey single. They r deft wiv a melody tho.

Little Boots New In Town Boots proves worth on credit crunch baiting single – who needs cash when sex is free eh? Like Kylie but wiv wonky synths.

Yuksek Extraball Amanda Blank shouts over this f-ectiv electro stomper from nu French sensation.

Two Door Cinema Club Something Good Might Work Sparkly Irish guitar pop perfect 4 the sunshine.

Hot Chip Take It In Xclusive nu track on their Bugged Out Mix. Falsetto sung chorus is well lush.

April

Man Like Me London Town Best yet from MLM as he harks back 2 a buzzing LDN during the height of UK garage.

The Maccabees Love You Better 1st taste of 2nd album from Brighton boys sounds like kissing @ the disco. Set 2 b soundtrack 4 a 1000 teenage make-ups n break-ups.

The XX Crystalised 4 19 yr olds, 2 lead singers (boy/girl), 1 hypnotic debut. Luv their lush n lo-fi harmonies.

Toddla T Shake It T hooks up with Herve 4 ghetto house action, c’mon get naked, naked!

Lady Sovereign Jigsaw Sov goes pop. Bit like Betty Boo on the 149 from Dalston. Like the 1 that rips The Cure.

Jack Penate Tonight's Today Blackheath boy does steel drum vibez n big chorus. Micky Moonlight mix 2 is the 1 say Bloggers crew & we agree. Feels like summer.

March

El-B The Roots Of El-B 15 well rare darkside tunes from 00-02, all by South LDN old skool UKG hed El-B. Still sound ruff today. S’all bout da swing.

Royksopp Junior Rtn 2 form 4 album 3. Lotsa female pop stars inc Robyn n Lykke Li chimes wiv the times.

LA ROUX In For The Kill Vid 4 nu trk frm big-haired chik looks lik Human League (ask ur older bruv). & da musik’s lik a robot frm 1984, as sum1 1c sed.

Arthur Russell The Sleeping Bag Sessions Blink n u’ll miss it comp of AR’s early 80s proto-hiphop+disco tracks. Heartbreaking, predictably

Mr Oizo Positif Rave still v. much on with LFO remix 4 French renaissance man. Spiky, noisy, jerky techno!

Bonnie Prince Billy Beware Alt.cntry beard dun nuff LPs. #17(?!) More of da same dis time. Gr8 if u luv Devendra. Sounds like hippie waste man bizniz if not.

The Big Pink Velvet LDN duo get all Placebo on l8st single. Mean n moody suits em.

Yo Majesty Don't Let Go Closest the Yo’s r going 2 get to a luv song. They manage 2 get through it without swearing 2.

Moon Unit Connections Ex Psychonaut Paul Mogg is involved in this Italo Disco pop trio. Like early Simple Minds with a female vocal.

February

Phoenix 1901 The Parisian blue eyed soul boyz r back! Fab free download frm wearephoenix.com.

In Flagranti Brash & Vulgar Dirty-bugger space disco.

Hockey Too Fake From Oregon but v.v. NY. Strokes meets LCD. 2001 revival is go.

Marina & The Diamonds Obsessions Brilliantly skewed pop from versatile female singer whose name don’t start with L.

The Filthy Dukes This Rhythm Sam LOTP sings on Camden trio rocky ravey tune.

The Prodigy Invaders Must Die Title track of album 5. Guitars turned up passed 11.

Empire of the Sun Walking On A Dream Hot shit from down under. Nu Fleetwood Mac innit.