The ever powerful combination of Funk D’Void and Sian deal out another dose of dance-floor on their latest EP, A Wasp in a Wig. Following on from the success of both the Ginebra and A Raven Wheeling Overhead EPs this cements their place as heavyweight talents on Soma.

Sian is now becoming recognised as a truly unique figure in electronic music. His list of aficionados reads like a whos who of contemporary dance culture, from Luciano, Loco Dice, Ricardo Villalobos, Steve Bug, Carl Craig and M.A.N.D.Y to Sasha, John Digweed and James Zabiela. While Funk D’Void is a very well…

Deconstruction Records is back. In a joint venture between Sony’s Senior Vice President of A&R Mike Pickering, one of the label’s founder members, and Three Six Zero Group’s AnD press, the dance imprint has returned with a series of back catalogue releases before signing new artists later in the year.

The label’s first re-release is Sasha’s ‘Xpander’, digitally re-mastered at Abbey Road and available via Beatport for the first time in original and 7” versions. Following this will be Lionrock’s ‘Packet Of Peace’, complete with the seminal Chemical Brothers’ remix.

A decade on from its original release, ‘Xpander’ is…

It’s been a very positive year so far for the new DAR label, with Pig & Dan’s ace remix of Denis A’s excellent “Raver” (DAR003) causing a big commotion everywhere, the mighty “Tsunami” complete with a top notch techno remix by Wally Lopez has just hit the stores (Denis A’s minimal styled Dub Mix of this is getting a big thumbs up all over).

So now we come to the next installment…

Cuba is a cool melodic tech groover, that demonstrates Denis A’s ever evolving production skills perfectly. He’s dfininitely a man to watch in 2009. On remix duty…

2008 was a huge year for Christian Smith & John Selway, with “Total Departure” crossing over into virtually every major DJ’s record box, and becoming one of the biggest selling dance singles. Christian Smith also unleashed a solo single on Bedrock. “Flyertalk” was a searing big room monster that took everyone by storm.

Now, it’s looking like 2009 will be an even bigger year!

Once more, Christian Smith & John Selway show they are the masters of creating tracks that seem to push dancefloors ever upwards into ecstatic mass hysteria with “Mistral”. This time round they’ve found another variation of…