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I

• Sascha Funke - Mango
  Mango (Bpitch Control, 2008)
• Dominik Eulberg - Adler
  Heimische Gefilde (Traum, 2007)
• Gui Boratto - Atol
  Division Ep (Harthouse Mannheim, 2006)
• The MFA - The Difference it Makes
  The Difference it Makes (Border Community, 2001)
• Popnoname - The Movement
  Surrounded by Weather (Italic, 2008)

II

• Booka Shade - Charlotte
  The Sun & the Neon Light (Get Physical, 2008)
• Lifelike - So Electric
  So Electric (Different, 2008)
• The Honeydrips - Fall from a Height
  Here Comes the Future (Sincerely Yours, 2007)
• Junior Boys - In the Morning
  In the Morning 12″ (Domino, 2006)
• Ratatat - Wildcat
  Classics (XL, 2006)

III

• TV on the Radio - Staring at the Sun
  Young Liars Ep (Touch & Go, 2003)
• M83 - Don’t Save Us from the Flames
  Before the Dawn Heals Us (Mute, 2005)
• School of Seven Bells - Half Asleep
  Alpinisms (Ghostly International / 2008)
• Ulrich Schnauss - On My Own
  A Strangely Isolated Place (City Centre Offices, 2003)
• Fuck Buttons - Lisbon Maru
  Tarot Sport (ATP, 2009)

IV

• Soulwax - NY Excuse
  Any Minute Now (PIAS, 2004)
• Yo Majesty - Club Action
  Club Action 12″ (Domino, 2008)
• Metro Area - Miura
  Metro Area (Environ Records, 2002)
• M.I.A. - Galang
  Arular (XL, 2005)
• Jimmy Edgar - I wanna be your STD
  Color Strip (Warp, 2006)

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I. Rich, melodic technopop tunes that sit halfway between club fare and home listening. It seems these are pleasant enough for almost every type of audience to enjoy.
II. Highlights from out electropop collection. Very likely they were designed to appeal a very specific niche with all those requisite sharp-edged, Casio-based noises and 80’s samples that make them feel like good old friends to us in the mid-twenties demographic.
III. It’s hard to think clearly when exposed to any sort of saturation of the senses. You’re being forced to trust your animal instincts. How could anyone avoid thinking about steaming sex while  there’s a hazy, ethereal, swooping, swirling wall of sound coming out of the speakers? Maybe you were distracted. Try again.
IV. Yet another playlist filled with patches. After giving it some thought I think that the one thing these songs do have in common is that they incursioned in sounds which eventually became cliché; the pan-global influence, grime, electro, disco revival, hip-house. Regardless of fatigue I still remember them with fondness and it will be hard for me not to look back in a few years and realize how much these sort of songs helped define the promiscous musical environment in which I lived in for the better part of the decade.