The track I’ll be opening my next DJ set with
Stanislav Tolkachev: Blue Mood
I tend to reset the energy with something beatless or a little weird.
The track I always play to rescue a dancefloor
D’Marc Cantu: Fallen
This never fails to transport the crowd into a trippier headspace. One of very few records that literally never leaves my bag.
The track that currently gets the most rewinds
I’m probably one of the few Rinse-affiliated DJs who doesn’t go in for such a thing, although I’m partial to the occasional spinback at least.
The track I think has been unfairly slept on this year
In Aeternam Vale: Highway Dark Veins
The flip of the record is a fantastic 100bpm coldwave number, so I was as surprised as anyone when I found a raging, analogue peak-time ripper on the same record.
The track that got me out of bed this morning
Daniel Avery: Demos
He’s been sending me the demos that he’s been working on, and they’re a wonderful progression from where he left off with Drone Logic. He’ll be turning a lot of heads again when the tracks see the light of day.
The best track by my favourite new artist
Cassegrain: Blood Distributed As Pure Colour
An incredible live act, and very prolific producers. I love the way they’ve married an introspective Oneohtrix Point Never influence to a driving techno beat on this one.
The track I’d play to show off my eclectic tastes
Conrad Schnitzler: Ballet Statique
I recently made an edit of the beatless original. I can’t recommend his music enough.
The track I wish I’d never played
Kaspar Schadenfreude: Sex Spastik
It’s my mash-up of Plastikman’s Spastik and Tom Jones’s Sex Bomb. But then again, it was 2006, and nobody was particularly paying attention anyway.
The track I’d play at sunset in Ibiza
Outer Space: Memory Bomb
Most likely mixed into the likes of Fleetwood Mac’s Albatross.
The track that should have been a crossover hit
Rene Bendali: Tanki Tanki
If only in the Middle East! A fantastic and bizarre blend of Lebanese pop-disco-techno.
The track I’d play at my funeral
Any one of the beautiful, mystical, transcendental tracks from One Direction’s 43rd studio album.
Volte-Face plays Fabric, EC1, Fri. The Charlatan EP is out on BleeD on Fri 15 May
