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DJ MAGAZINE HYPE CHART / (COLUMN) ONLY FOR DJ’S (FRANCE)
RADIO FG - BEST OF DJS CHART (PANELLIST)
1 Richard Grey / One More Time / Grey’s Subliminal Mix / Subliminal
Despite its premature ageing of Daft Punk’s magnum opus, Grey’s mix is a peak time fire-starter. I do hope that this is not a precursor to the Daft Punk remake tsunami !
2 Axwell, Angello, Ingrosso & Laidback Luke / Leave The World Behind / Original / Axtone
Scorching crossover vocal house from Deborah Cox and the fantastic four that sets the scene, raises roofs, lifts you up and closes any party like only they know how.
3 McLloyd / Tembisa Funk / Jokers Of The Scene / Positiva
Percussive like a woodpecker beating a military tattoo, dramatic like a thunderstorm, sprawling like the countryside and twisted like a rave dancer – this is next level stuff.
4 Vandalism / Bucci Bag / Original / Vicious
Vandalism rewire Andrea Doria’s ‘Bucci Bag’ with a farting bass and shimmering keys to make it a peak time essential.
5 Avicii / Record Breaker / Main / Vicious Music
I never thought pizzicato strings could be as epic or even rock as hard as this but they do. It’s clean, clear, sharp and very well executed.
6 Tom & Jerry feat Abigail Bailey / Touch Me / Master / Interlabel
Of the available reworkings of Rui Da Silva’s ‘Touch Me’ this is by far the best with its pulsating, progressive / trancey undercurrent and soulful sexy vocal.
7 Fatboy Slim vs Koen Groenveld / Rockerfeller Skank / Koen Groenveld / Southern Fried
Koen wobbles Fatboy Slim’s lovehandles with his relentless, progressive tech workout.
8 Sebastian Ingrosso / Laktos / Main / Rèfune
Ingrosso’s ‘laktos’ has a lava-lamp like flow then drops into a bass and beats excursion that is more tightly compressed than chicken mcnuggets
9 Pancake / Don’t Turn your Back / Sander Van Doorn / Spinnin
Iron filings, magnesium flashes, squeaking mice, itching powder, goose feathers and a dissonant keyboard make this the delicious afterhours epic that it is. Dare to be different.
10 Albin Myers / Times Like This / Dada Life / Nero
Dada Life turn the thumbscrews, amp up the voltage then drop a pitch shifted synth and burping bassline that has the crowd enraptured when that ‘ready’ bell rings!
11 BeatThiefs vs Suzee X / Feelin Nina / Original / Promo
Many have tried and failed to make Nina Simone’s melancholic ‘Feeling Good’ dancefloor friendly The BeatThiefs succeed with this chunky, upbeat builder.
12 Beathiefs vs Stuart Baybrooke / Jack Your Body / Original / White
Simple, commercial and effective update of Steve ‘Silk’ Hurley’s house classic that brings the divas to the dancefloor.
13 The Nycer Feat Sean Clarx / Naked / Mischa Daniels Dig Deeper / Work Machine
Mischa Daniels cuts the vocal for a haunting and melodic instrumental which drives the dancefloor like a good chauffeur drives a Bentley.
14 Various / Made in Netherlands EP / Original Dutch / The Bomb / Made in NL
You can’t go wrong with DJ Quintin vs Jean’s ‘original dutch’ with its dark, brooding keys, thudding kick and aide memoire and ‘The Bomb’s plague of bees, wasps and hornets.
15 Kraak & Smaak / Squeeze Me ft Ben Westbeech / Fedde Le Grand / Jalapeno
Main room mayhem from Fedde with a relentless beat, lots of transformed synths and keys, plenty of white noise plus the bluesy vocal edge of Mr Westbeech.
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