Fukkk Offf - I'm A Freak
Smoking hot electro-house zipper-bass work-out.
Roman Salzger - Sunday Night Shuffle
I'm a bit awed by the ultimate pleasure-synths in this insane peak-time cum track.
Marc Romboy & Blake Baxter - Undergroung Thang
Driving, chugging, rushy analog riff-texture anthem following up The Club from last year. Same formula but thicker and yet more streamlined.
Acid Jacks - Disco Shoes
Great electro glam, funny from the opening line: "You ran away to join a travelling freak show, start a riot, and end up at a rave"...
Miss Kittin - Hometown
Dreamy comedown anthem. Also nice: Kittin is High - Jojo de Freq remix.
Max Berlin - Elle et Moi - Joakim remix
Impossibly elegant rework. Gloss, depth, restraint... the slow disco track that destroyed me more than any other.
Midnight Juggernauts - Dystopia
Surprised and amazed by this hugely fun, very fresh feeling LP with genuine range and nods in all directions... psych glam disco space rock album of the year. From Australia.
Bass Kleph - Coup d'etat
Generally can't stand Breaks but this is huge wonky-pitch electro crossover.
TJ Kong & Nuno Dos Santos feat. Robert Owens - Merging
Magic deep house with Owens trademark soul-yodelling a trippy ode to spiritual dancefloor transformation.
Punx Soundcheck - In The Dark - Jor-El remix
Still can't get enough of anything along these post-electroclash lines... dark, downer synths, stiff white-disco 4/4, gloom vox. Any recommendations?
Xenia Beliayeva
I LOVE HER. The Queen of gloom-house (gothno?). Grinding glacial textures and frosty abrasion. Tracks like Hellraiser, Chocolate, Music, her guest-vox with Da Fresh or her massive take on Anthony Rother's "Don't Worry"... it's the coldest business (see also: Anthony Rother - So Good).
Escort - A bright new life, Starlight, All through the night
Hot live disco that for me highlights that sadly a lot of the beardo stuff errs towards the dull, chinstroking end of things.
Also: Eric Prydz, Woolfy, Woolfy vs Projections, D.Ramirez, Bart B More, Anthony Rother, Chaim, Guy Gerber, Shlomi Aber, John Dalhback, Hugg & Pepp, Ilya Santana, Lindstrom, Chromatics, New Young Pony Club, Paul Woolford, Spektrum, Hatiras, Daso, Q-force, SMD, Bodzin, Glass Candy, Studio, Slam, Armand van Helden, Lifelike etc.