We've got a pretty eclectic group of music lovers working the controls here, so each week, we put together a batch of our favorite tunes for your listening enjoyment. We do this on the regular, so keep hitting up the Work & Playlist tag to see the latest sounds we love.
Logam “Hypnotic” (Quadrant & Iris Remix)
Logam’s Santoku Records continues to live up to its reputation for delivering smoking tech-funk drum & bass bits with deadly precision. While the imprint continues to float just beneath the radar, those days are numbered as monster bits like this choice re-lick from fellow Stateside heavy-hitters Quadrant and Iris tear on through. From the insistent, breakbeat-driven intro that gives way to an ever-evolving soundscape of futuristic grooves, this is one of those celestial bits that hit you right where it hurts, conjuring up visions of floating through the stars in the process. —Chris Muniz
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Todd Terje & the Olsens “Disco Circus”
I’m bummed I missed this one when it dropped in June, but I’m happy it’s in my life now. The original Martin Circus tune “Disco Circus” was released via Prelude Records in 1979 and will forever be one of my all-time favorites. The original has been remixed way too many times to count over the years—with mediocre results—but this Todd Terje edit (included in his release The Big Cover Up) is one of the handful of re-rubs I’ve heard that not only does the original tune justice, but comes packed with an extra layer of energy and vitality not previously felt. It goes a-du-bu-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum, and the rubber-band breakdown will surely have you bouncing your way to the dancefloor in style. —Boojie Baker
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Steve Bug “Those Grooves”
This song came back into my life on Monday, and I couldn’t be happier about it. A friend of mine had set up his CDJs at a house we were at, eventually got bored, and walked away from his equipment, leaving a mix on for the rest of us to listen to. Exhausted from Nocturnal and half asleep, I lay on the couch and stared blankly as the mini disco lights he’d set up projected a few dim colors through the room. As Steve Bug’s “Grooves” was mixed into the track list, my mind immediately flew back to hearing this a few times after its 2012 release. Maybe it was because of the long weekend or the sleepy mood in the room, but hearing this track again was nothing short of ethereal. —David Matthews
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Rusko “Everyday” (Mt. Eden Remix)
Here’s your completely unexpected, but totally appreciated, remix of the day: The Mt. Eden dudes tackle Rusko ’s five-year-old classic “Everyday” in their own special way. I get the feeling the New Zealand duo has been sitting on this one for a while, anxiously awaiting that critical moment for the perfect release. While their remix seems random, it feels and sounds mad fresh and raw. A horn call, befitting the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, takes the reins, and there’s no looking back. There’s a bit of dubstep, a bit of trap, a bit of this, a bit of that, and before you know it, you’re back on the repeat button. The phrase “sleeper hit” was created for jams like this. —John Ochoa
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Chris Lorenzo “Foot & Mouth”
It seems there is a never-ending army of bass house bandwagoners riding the hype right now, but I don’t really blame them. The genre is one of the biggest and baddest floating around the festival circuit these days, and it appears to only be getting stronger by the second. Chris Lorenzo was my first introduction to what was then called the Birmingham bass sound, of which he was one of the very firsts to be repping it before it was the cool thing to claim. Most people called it “house & bass” back then, before it started to spread to other parts of the world—like in the US, where AC Slater has been incubating it through his Night Bass brand. Lorenzo himself has been on board with the NB agenda since day one, and he’s adding more heat to their catalog with another two-track club tool. “Foot & Mouth” is my pick of the two. It’s a wompy, swampy number replete with siren samples, badman bars, woofer-blistering basslines, and enough wobbles to make your toes curl. The rest of the bass house followers have a lot to learn, it seems. —Sam Yu
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