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Inspired by the BBC Radio One Essential mix, this is a wide-ranging 2 hour dance mix designed to work in your headphones or on a dance floor. It starts off with some weaponized pop sugar, but quickly becomes more complicated, blending together afrobeat, nu-disco, rap, post-punk, and deep house with a pulsing four on the floor beat. The whole thing is head and shoulders above any mix I’ve made, but the closing section, which starts with Williams’ cover of Love On A Real Train, contains perhaps the best and most inspired mixing I’ve done to date.
1. Joy Electric – Roolundria II [Plastiq Musiq]
2. MRTN – Slow (Final DJs Remix) [Top Billin]
3. Dragonette – Pick Up the Phone (Arithmatix! Remix) [Self Released]
4. Anna Lunoe & Touch Sensitive – Real Talk [Future Classic]
5. Pilotpriest – Rad [Self-Released]
6. Rihanna – Don’t Stop the Music [Island Def Jam]
7. Oliver – Control [Fool’s Gold]
8. Autoflash – Uprising [Self-Released]
9. Cyndi Lauper – Girls Just Wanna Have Fun [Epic]
10. Fela Kuti – No Possible (Joystick Jays Vulgar Distractions Edit) [Disco Delicious]
11. Jay Lamar & Jesse Oliver – Diamonda (Justin Faust Remix) [Discotexas]
12. L’Etranger – Skin [La Bombe]
13. Waze & Odyssey – I Want You You You [Throne of Blood]
14. Jonas Rathsman – Since I Don’t Have You [French Express]
15. E.S.G. – Moody (Frantic Freddie’s Mostly Harmless Edit) [99]
16. Fred Everything – Don’t Nobody (Hot Toddy Remix) [OM Masters]
17. Panthers – Goblin City (Holy Ghost! Disco Dub) [DFA]
18. The Rapture – How Deep is Your Love (Dimitri From Paris Remix) [DFA]
19. Maximum Balloon ft. Theophilus London – Groove Me [Interscope]
20. Knightlife – Serves You Right (Emperor Machine Remix) [Cutters]
21. Aesop Rock – None Shall Pass [Def Jux]
22. Bing Ji Ling – Home (Blackjoy Dub) [Lovemonk]
23. Missy Elliott – Pass That Dutch [Elektra]
24. Padded Cell – Triple X Sindrome [DC]
25. Gorillaz – DARE (DFA Remix) [Virgin]
26. Talking Heads – Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On) (Live In Tokyo) [Sire]
27. Chic – I Want Your Love (Todd Terje Edit) [Self-Released]
28. Talking Heads – I Zimbra (Forbes’ Beri Bimba Bootleg) [Sire]
29. Konk – Your Life (Party Mix) Sleeping Bag [Sleeping Bag]
30. Midnight Magic – Beam Me Up (Jacques Renault Remix) [Permanent Vacation]
31. Lindstrom and Christabelle – Baby Can’t Stop (Aeroplane Remix) [Smalltown Supersound]
32. Donna Summer – I Feel Love (Future Feelings Edit) [Self-Released]
33. Gil Scott Heron – I’ll Take Care of You (Mighty Mouse Remix) [Self-Released]
34. Cassian – I Love It [Nurvous]
35. Bag Raiders – Turbo Love (Jan Driver remix) [Fool’s Gold]
36. Jan Driver – Peaker [Boysnoize]
37. Justin Martin – Don’t Go (Dusky Remix) [Dirty Bird]
38. Williams – Love on a Real Train (Tangerine Dream Cover) (Williams Odyssey Mix) [Love Triangle]
39. Hugh Masekala – The Boy’s Doin’ It (Carl Craig Remix) [Verve]
40. John Talabot – Naomi [Permanent Vacation]
41. Zombie Zombie – Forêt Vierge [Versatile]
42. Kate Bush – Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God) (Louis La Roche Remix) [Self-Released]
43. Makeup and Vanity Set – The Cross [Self-Released]
44. Talk Talk – Happiness Is Easy (12” Mix) [EMI]
45. Talk Talk – Happiness Is Easy [EMI]