I admit, sometimes (okay, most of the time) I’m at a loss for words describing the music you hear on this here blog. During the day I work hard to translate health and social policy research into language most people can understand, then I share this information with people who should care.
Listening to the 50+ daily submissions we receive gives me a reprieve from office life, but at the same time finding ways to tell you about these tunes becomes daunting, especially because these releases deserve a huge amount of credit, free of cliche and the tired descriptions.
Here then is my apology for talking shit. Sorry.

VALERNA sent us a whack load of original material and choice remixes they’ve done about a week ago and I’ve been listening to them all quite a bit since then. At first, these tunes drowned in the volume of material coming our way. Tonight they made their way to the surface – and I sincerely hope they make it to the top of your aural pleasures and into your beatport downloads.
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MP3: Silk – Freak Me (Valerna remix) ♥♥♥
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MP3: Something a la Mode – 5am (Valerna remix) ♥♥♥
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Stream: Valerna – Up the Punx! (original mix) ♥♥♥
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MP3: Valerna – Moonrocket (original mix)
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MP3: Busta Rhymes – Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Can See (Valerna remix)
FELIX CARTAL need no introduction. Here’s a robotdisco-influenced electro floor burner of a remix that stutters and rolls in all the right places.
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MP3: Valerna – Look Ma No Pants! (Felix Cartal remix) ♥♥♥
MANALOGUE’S ROBOT FUNK MIXTAPE
Here’s a bit of a rushed mix I did for THE SHAKE, a weekly radio show LOTEK and I do every Friday night on KICK FM. Lotek and I are both out of town this week, hence the mix. It starts off with a bunch of robotdisco jams and gets into some house-flavoured breaks and ends with nu disco and tech house.
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MP3: Manalogue’s Robot Funk Mixtape
Tracklist:
01. Titan – Star-T (Night Drugs Remix)
02. Kovary – Dancin’ (Tits & Clits Funky Remix)
03. Yolanda Be Cool & DCUP – We No Speak Americano (Original mix)
04. Fake Blood – I Think I Like It [Tommie Sunshine & Figure present EC$TACY EDIT]
05. Malente – I Like It (Riva Starr’s Remix)
06. Duck Sauce – Grand Steppin’ (Original Mix)
07. Kultur Colombo – 1 2 3 Breakbeat (Original Mix)
08. Strip Steve_Breakin_Lorenz Rhode Remix
09. Justin Martin – Get Low (Original Mix)
10. Chromeo – Don’t Turn The Lights On (Christian Martin Remix)
11. Sébastien Tellier – Kilometer (A-Trak Remix)
12. CLASSIXX feat Jeppe – I’ll Get You (Original Mix)
13. BlackDisco – Go Girl!
14. The Rapture – W.A.Y.U.H (Claude VonStroke Pantydropper Vocal Mix)
15. Chicks On Speed – Wordy Rappinghood (Playgroup Rx)
16. Justin Timberlake – My Love (Diplo Remix)
17. The Glass – Wanna Be Dancin (Nadastrom Dub Edit)
18. Adam Freeland – We Want Your Soul (eigo Remix)