One of our fave dance tunes of 2014 comes courtesy of Parisian Jean-Baptiste de Laubier aka Para One and the infectious throwback 90s piano driven house vibes of You Too.

Do yourself a favour and get all up on UK dance producers Blonde and their killer single Foolish featuring Ryan Ashley.

 

We recently caught up with J-rad from everyone’s fave 8 piece indie rock pop psych funk party rockers Eagle and the Worm and he waxed lyrical about his fave jam of 2013…

My fave track of the year, Primal Scream’s 9 minute riff layered, sax sampled psych jam, fittingly titled “2013”
 

You got to hand it to the Swedish House Mafia. They patented their high pitched screech, dropped a global Number One with a clip that erased memories that Led Zeppelin ever played Knebworth and then got the hell out while the getting out was good. That left us with everyone from Gaga to Im riding the screech until the time when it has become so common place that it will be underpinning the next Good Guys ad.

In the 1995 movie “Party Girl” there is a great scene where the DJ character Leo (Guillermo Díaz) comes home and finds that his record collection has been reorganized according to a variant of the Dewey Decimal system.

 

Click on the image above to see an interactive infographic showing the evolution of western dance music over the last 100 years in under 20 seconds. Cool stuff. 

Not enough people knew who Romanthony was.

That’s because to most people the visual they knew for him was this:

 

So he was hard to recognise, even when Daft Punk took the filters off and showcased his beautiful voice:

 

There seems to be a vogue for some deep house music around and about.

Tunes we know like Hot Natured’s Benediction and Infinity Inc had a flavour of something soulful over sunset beats.

Which may or may not have led a route toward Daft Punk “Get Lucky” & Robin Thicke “Blurred Lines”. More soul, less slam.

But this one is one I hadn’t heard but like a lot. “Free Your Mind”
 

This new “unofficial” video below for Knife Party’s ‘Internet Friends’ surfaced over the weekend. Directed by Thomas Kanschat, it’s pretty damn amazing for a fan made video and comes across looking like a slick big budget production normally reserved for “official” vids

I just read Bill Brewster’s brilliant book “The Record Players” (written with Frank Broughton).