BEST OF 2011 - DISKO

Here are some favorite disco edits from 2011, sorted roughly by tempo. You can listen to them by clicking on the player below or by clicking here. (More upbeat edits will be included in a later post.)

01.  Matthew Kyle - Off My Mind
02.  Late Nite Tuff Guy - You Abandoned Me
03.  Heion - Come Here
04.  Cosmic Boogie - Space Machine
05.  Jerome Derradji - Track 2
06.  Kastil - Baltimore Thunder
07.  78 Edits - Let Me Down Easy
08.  Rayko - Broadway
09.  Toomy Disco - Outstanding
10.  DJ Steef - That Loving Feeling
11.  DJ Butcher - Shake Your Body
12.  Gazeebo - Dimestore Hooker
13.  Let's Get Lost - Bender
14.  Ramboiage - Ready for Your Love
15.  Tiger & Woods - Gin Nation
16.  Superbreak - Spaced Out
17.  Sister S - Living Ecstacy
18.  Eva Gina - U Gonna
19.  Amine Edge - All Night Loop
20.  Rayko - Foreign Affair
21.  Coco Vegas - Heartbeat
22.  Get Down Edits - Inside My Love
23.  Eva Gina - Without You
24.  The Groovers - The Spirit
25.  Get Down Edits - Greatest Dancer
26.  The Owl - You Got the Stuff
27.  Leftside Wobble - Grapevine Boogie
28.  Tiger & Woods - Love in Cambodgia
29.  Munga - Quickie
30.  Deadly Sins - Feels So Good

BEST OF 2011 - TOP 30

Here are some favorite tracks from 2011, sorted roughly by tempo. You can listen to them by clicking on the player below or by clicking here.

01.  Body Language - Social Studies (Plastic Plates remix)

02.  Holy Ghost - Do It Again
03.  Crystal Fighters - At Home (Fusty Delight remix)

04.  Tiger & Woods - Gin Nation

05.  JKriv feat. Adeline Michele - Another Night (Greg Wilson version)
06.  Poolside - Do You Believe

07.  Jeremy Glenn - New Life
08.  Peter & The Magician - La Fiorentina
09.  Native Underground - Night Vision
10.  Mitzi - Morning Light (Revenge remix)

11.  Chemistry - Curious

12.  Alkalino & Blacklodge - Breaking Bad (JKriv & Lou Teti remix)

13.  Roberto Rodriguez - I Got

14.  Max Essa feat. DC Mathias - How Do You Feel?

15.  Kim Ann Foxman & Andy Butler - What You Need (James Curd remix)

16.  Only Children - Don't Stop (Crazy P remix)

17.  Natalie Walker - Cool Kids (RAC remix)

18.  Todd Terje - Ragysh
19.  Locussolus - I Want It (Lindstrøm & Prins Thomas remix)
20.  Weekend Express - Going to Chicago
21.  Miroir - Night Sky
22.  Kolombo feat. Michael Parker - Daylight
23.  Linntronix - Cool Out (Refresh)
24.  The Magician feat. Jeppe - I Don't Know What to Do
25.  The Miracles Club - So Hot (Club mix)
26.  Ichisan - House Dance Conference (Pete Herbert remix)
27.  Human League - Never Let Me Go (Aeroplane remix)
28.  The Rapture - How Deep Is Your Love?
29.  Tensnake - Something About You

30.  Yuksek - On a Train (Magician remix)

BEST OF 2011 - REMIKS (PT. 2)

More remix goodies from last year (continued from part 1)... a big favorite comes from Belgian producer duo Fusty Delights and their amazing rework of the Crystal Fighters track At Home.

Compatriots Lindstrøm and Prins Thomas made perhaps the most fun remix of 2011 with their reworked version of Locussolus' I Want It.

RAC has made plenty of remixes, including reworked versions of tunes by artists such as Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Two Door Cinema Club and Holy Ghost. Favorite Rac track is the remix of Natalie Walker's Cool Kids.

Another favorite is the Crazy P remix of Don't Stop by Only Children.

The Paris-based electro pop duo Jupiter released Sake on Kitsune in March of last year. The track was given a mighty makeover by Anoraak.

Italian nu disco producer Gregorio Assandri aka Cloned in Vatican reworked The Units track Passions of Patterns.

KDMS is a duo consisting of British electro pop singer Kathy Diamond and Polish producer Max Skima. Their song Tonight was given a retouch by Morgan Geist. (Click here for a pretty cool video featuring female gladiators behind bars.)

The mysterious duo Tiger & Woods (aka Larry Tiger and David Woods) produced one of last year's most acclaimed nu disco albums. They also took the time to make some remixes - here a reworked version of the Tensnake track Need Your Lovin.

Classixx aka the LA-based producer duo Michael David & Tyler Blake were responsible for the outstanding remix of Psychic City by Yacht, released in 2010. Last Year's fave Classixx remix is the duo's version of the Cosmic Kids track Reginald's Groove.

Yacht returned last year with the album Shangri-La, which includes the track I Walked Alone. Here's the Jacques Renault remix.

A final fave remix (listed here, though there are several others that could be included) comes from Glasgow-based DJ and producer Graeme Clark aka The Revenge and his version of the Mitzi track Morning Light.

BEST OF 2011 - REMIKS (PT. 1)

2011 saw plenty of amazing remixes. Favorite names include The Magician, Plastic Plates, Fusty Delights, Aeroplane and Perseus...

The Magician aka Stephen Fasano is a Belgian producer who used to be the other half of electro pop outfit Aeroplane. His old mate Vito De Luca still produces and releases tracks under the Aeroplane banner and have churned out some pretty good remixes himself (listed further below).

Fasano released his first EP as the Magician with the track I Don't Know What To Do featuring Jeppe. It was later followed by the three track Twist EP on which he collaborated with French electro pop artist Yuksek (under the artist name Peter and the Magician).

Their combined artistic talents resulted in two additional tracks. First of all, Fasano added his magic touch to Yuksek's Always on a Train, one of last year's fave remixes...

The Yuksek track is taken from the album Living on the Edge of Time. It also features the song Always on the Run, which the two of them remixed together, once again under the artist name Peter and the Magician.

Another memorable album from 2011 came from the amazing Swedish singer Lykke Li. Luckily, the track I Follow Rivers was given the magic touch by none other than Mr. Fasano in this outstanding remix...

One more remix from The Magician, this one of Beni - It's a Bubble.

Another favorite remixer is Plastic Plates aka Felix Bloxsom. Originally from Sydney (Austrialia), he currently resides in California, from where he has churned out an impressing series of high quality remixes of artists such as Adele, The Human League, Sia and Body Language.

I had the pleasure to experience a club night featuring Felix Blossom and Stephen Fasano at U Street Music Hall last year. Both dropped a sweet batch of electro pop and nu disco stuff including several of their own remixes. Felix has even retouched Stephen's track I Don't Know What To Do.

Body Language is Angelica Bess, Ian Chang, Grant Wheeler, and Matthew Young. The Plastic Plates remix of the song Social Studies is one of last year's favorite tracks. 

Another big favorite is the Plastic Plates remix of British singer-songwriter Adele and her song Set Fire to the Rain.

80s synth pop band The Human League made a comeback last year with the album Credo, released by British indie label Wall of Sound. Plastic Plates remixed the track Sky.

Another amazing retouch of tracks from the Credo album comes from Vito Deluca - Stephen Fasano's former musical partner, better known as Aeroplane. Here's his remix of Never Let Me Go.

Processory aka Jori Hulkkonen & Jerry Valuri released the EP Recovery Measures last year. It features the track Nightfall which was given a mighty makeover by Aeroplane. (Click here for a pretty cool video featuring some vintage movie clips.)

Another favorite remixer is Perseus. Here's his Summer of 83 mix of the Jeremy Glenn tune New Life - out on Future Classic last summer.

Another cool Perseus remix - this one of Mark Ronson's Record Collection.

For more fave 2011 remixes, check out part 2...

BEST OF 2011 - VIDEO

AUGUST TRAKS

Check out my latest chart on Juno.

Track List (songs roughly by tempo)

1) Let Me Down Easy (78 Edits)

2) Outstanding (Toomy Disco)

3) Rise (Get Down Edits)

4) Track 1 (Jerome Derradji)

5) Ready For Your Love (Ramboiage)

6) Ce Soir (Casinoboy)

7) Social Studies (Plastic Plates remix)

8) Another Night (Greg Wilson edit)

9) Inside My Love (Get Down Edits)

10) Morning Light (Revenge remix)

11) Curious (Chemistry)

12) Feels So Good (Deadly Sins)

13) Wanna Be With You (Craig Bratley)

14) Contagious (Rayko edit)

15) Try It Out (Gino Soccio)

16) Yatchiminou (Jimmy Hyacinthe)

17) Sweet Dynamite (Todd Terje edit)

18) I Want It (Prins Tomas & Lindstrom edit)

19) And You Know (Majesty's Pleasure)

20) Touch It (The Shack)

21) Going to Chicago (Weekend Express)

22) Won't You Talk To Me (Linosaur)

23) I Got (Roberto Rodriguez)

24) Love Is All We Need (Ultracity's Lost City Mix)

25) Look Right Through (Storm Queen aka Morgan Geist)

26) How Deep Is Your Love (The Rapture)

27) Let's All Chant (Social Disco Club)

28) Feel It Baby (Al Kent)

29) Lube Her Up (Gazeebo)

30) Spaced (Pete Herbert)

JUNE TUNES

Check out my Juno June Tunes chart...

Track List

Do It Again (Holy Ghost)
Broadway (Rayko)
Gin Nation (Tiger & Woods)
New Life (Jeremy Glenn)
La Fiorentina (Peter & The Magician)
Dirty People Shout (Gazeebo)
Body Rock (Hotbox)
Heartbeat (Coco Vegas)
Without You (Eva Gina)
You & I (Deadly Sins)
S&M (Rayko)
Lonely Days (Drop Out Orchestra Dub)
All I Heard (Bonar Bradberry Remix)
Tuesday (Lovebirds)
Superhigh (Ilya Santana Mix)
Rock the Joint (Reverso 68 Mix)
Sex Beat (Mustang Instrumental)
Breaking Bad (JKriv & Lou Teti Remix)
The Underground (Drop Out City Rockers)
Fast & Loose (Cosmic Boogie)
Night Vision (Native Underground)
Disco Biscuit (Cosmonauts Italian Version)
White Horse (Jessica 6)
Ragysh (Todd Terje)
Night Sky (Miroir)
Handsome Man (Sparkle)
La Voix (Isolators Instrumental)
Turn On (Humerous Norwegian Disco)