I’m still compiling my favourite Club/Dance tunes & films of the year (it’s proving more difficult than usual – Has it really been that bad a year?) but in the meantime here’s my best of the best singles of 2011 complete with videos.
10. Florence & the Machine ‘Shake It Out’
9. Nicola Roberts ‘Beat Of My Drum’
8. James Blake ‘The Wilhelm Scream’
7. The Horrors ‘Still Life’
6. M83 ‘Midnight City’
5. Foster The People ‘Pumped Up Kicks’
4. Adele ‘Rolling In The Deep’
3. Everything Everything ‘Final Form’
2. Bombay Bicycle Club ‘Shuffle’
1. Lana Del Rey ‘Video Games/Blue Jeans’
Here’s a link to some of my biggest tunes at the moment put together for Beatportal.com
So happy to announce that my next compilation, a new Renaissance Masters, is completed and due for release on October 10th. After a brief adjournment during a difficult time over the last year, it’s so good to have Renaissance back in the game just in time for their 20th anniversary next year. The planned celebrations are shaping up to be very special indeed. As for my album, I’m very proud to be the one asked to start this next chapter in the Renaissance story. I’m the only DJ to have been with them from the very start, through thick & thin, and this is my 12th album for them. I know a lot of you have you’re own personal favourite and I get many requests to recreate something similar to one of those old albums but they are of their own time & place. Going backwards is not something that interests me and is not what our scene is all about. I believe each album should try to capture the time of which they were made. So this compilation is strictly 2011. A veritable smorgasbord of electronic house. From deeper beginnings through to full on techno, I hope the blood, sweat & tears shine through. They bloody better do! 
Enjoy.
Following up the Digweed/Prydz/Tong supported ‘K Conundrum’, Global Underground, Renaissance & Brothers In Rhythm legend Dave Seaman & producer/writer to the stars Andy Chatterley (From Kanye to Kylie!) are back with a new single. Entitled ‘Battery Powered’, this no nonsense power driven slice of brash techno has been a secret weapon in Dave’s sets for almost a year now but finally been picked up by the Silence Through Music label. Alongside Dave & Andy’s storming original mix, remix duties have been taken up by Monaque, Alex & Filip & Montero catering for a wide selection of palates. The whole top notch package is available now.
