Keep Love Alive Mix - Best of 2010

A compilation of my favorite tunes from 2010, enjoy.

1. Sophie Zelmani - If I Could (Version Lindbæk)
2. Seu Jorge and Almaz - Cirandar
3. Kasper Bjorke - Heaven (Prins Thomas Diskomiks)
4. Lindstrom and Christabelle - Love Sick
5. Rodion - Alagos Cowboys
6. Tiago - Motorcycles (Neville Watson mix)
7. Moodymann - It's 2 Late 4 U and Me
8. David August - Music is the Place To Be
9. Midnight Magic - Beam me up (Jacques Renault mix)
10. Ooft! - Umbilical Chord (Ooft! Dub)
11. Duckbeats - Repeat Prescription
12. Space Dimension Controller - The Love Quadrant

Toby Tobias - Space Shuffle (remixes)

New vinyl additions to the Keep Love Alive collection are more and more rare these days (mostly downloads now, ssshh) so here is a round up of 2009 so far. Toby Tobias' Space Shuffle was one of the best albums of 2008 and here is a great batch of remixes. While Tensnake are deservedly getting lots of attention right now the winner is Dave Ellesmere's mix of Schoon, a no-nonsense house track for big bassbins. Tough skippy drums with all the right repetitive stab sounds that I'd love to hear played at the little Secret Sundaze wood at Love Box although I'm sadly not going this year, boo. Buy one here and perhaps you too could enjoy a 'head pressed to the speaker stack in the living room' moment soon.

Meanderthals - Andromeda (Idjut Boys mix)

What do you get when you cross the UK's finest proponenets of deep and laid back electronic sounds ...

... with one of Norway's finest proponents of deep and laid back electronic sounds?

You guessed it.

Dan and Conrad team up with Rune (see previous post) for an album as the Meanderthals and what you get is all pretty chilled. This remix is hardly uptempo but there's something about the heavy drums and tribal sounding percussion that reminds me of Soul II Soul at the Africa Centre (circa 1986??) So classic sounding dance music that deserves to be rumbling on a big sound system stack somewhere this summer. Buy it here

Rune Lindbaek - Bonat Synthesiser

Rune is a leading light of the Norwegian nu-balearic-cosmic-call it whatever scene, though apperas to be much less prolific than fellow Scandinavians such as Lindstrom, who is a collaborator here. A collection of brilliantly wonky, wierd, squelchy nu-balearic-cosmic-sounds where even the most 'up' moment on 'Nautilus' is still pretty laid back. Check it here

House of House - Rushing to Paradise

Expensive but worth the investment, these Whatever We Want releases seem to be pressed in limited quantities. This is the best of the bunch so far for me, a steadily building, deep house track that exlodes with a rousing vocal and piano finish. Seems to be sold out from the places I normally shop ...

The Doves - Kingdom of Rust (Prins Thomas mix)

More from the bearded Scando-house mafia. A decent Doves outing gets a folky, funky, electronic makeover from Prins Thomas and backed with a great Still Going remix too. Worth tracking down.

Discossession - TV Scene

A rare, new vinyl addition to the Keep Love Alive collection. Here is a version of Linda Di Franco's Balearic fave 'TV Scene' released in Japan by Discossession. Featuring a great Soft Rocks remix (thanks Piers!) and the blissful, floaty 'Celestial Mix'. Copies of the expensive Japanese import seem to have disappeared from the UK stores so buy it online at Jet Set records in Japan.

Sunburst Band - Man of War (Henrik Schwarz Remix)

Brand new, sounding so good, so CLASSIC get it here

Moton Records - Give It Up

Essential new release from Diesel and Dave Jarvis, I think 'Give it Up' is an edit of this Hugh Masekela 12"



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