Friend of (the) house Jacques Renault can do no wrong in our book! The Brooklyn-based DJ, Producer, Let’s Play House-co-owner and jacques of all trades is back at it again for 2013, providing us with a stunning double A-side on his own imprint. “Back To You” is the type of disco influenced house banger that comes to light, when one’s not some knucklehead with a wifi modem, but a classically trained musician with a bullet-proof understanding of dance music. The release features a remix by Parisian bearers of hope “Paradis”, who’ve already put out amazing stuff on Beats in Space and who manage to live up to all high expectations once again. We have the Paradis remix right here as a free limited download! You should put this on your portable device and play it while heading over to your local record store to pick up also the vinyl record… Talk about a no-brainer!

Countless artists have expressed their appreciation for the city of love in versatile ways. Usually, this circumstance is a pretty good indicator for quality works of art – since one doesn’t just dedicate any type of output to a place so special. Mexico’s 22-year-old boy wonder La Royale joins this tradition in an appropriate manner: “Paris” on top notch imprint Electrique Music delivers just the pulsating big city groove one’d expect! Stream it right here and try to get your hands on this release in order to have it at your disposal on the road. Since, typically for Paris, it does the job wherever you are. To quote the great Hemingway: “If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.”

Clubfeet are five synth-pop-aficionados from Melbourne you should keep on your radar for 2013. Joyce Muniz is a Brazilian-born DJ, Producer and vocal artist residing in Vienna, who managed to make quite a name for herself over the past couple of years with her energetic DJ sets and productions. On New York City’s very own Plant Music – run by the legendary Stretch Armstrong and Dominique Keegan – these two worlds gently collide and  result in just the sexy bassline-driven and multifaceted type of track you’d expect. Muito bom!

Charlotte Bendiks is a Norwegian DJ and Producer, who, when she’s not playing out or working on sassy music, likes to chill naked in a jacuzzi with a glass of Möet in each hand. Well, we drink to that! To hear what she’s all about, stream her track “Too Hot To Handle” right here, flaunting a tricky and sexy groove, topped by obscurely animating vocals. In order to understand the lyrics and the track in its entirety, one needs to be fluent in a number of languages, with body language being the most important one…

The quiet storm-tronica-wave just won’t seem to come to an end – and boy, are we relieved! George Maple is, just as you’d expect by the name, an attractive woman from Australia that loves to lay her sultry voice over synth-fortified heartbreak-arrangements. It’s kind of ironic that she’d release music perfectly fitting the cold temperatures on the – from her perspective – other side of the world these days… but again, we’re more than relieved to have her accompany us through these cold and short days. We’re sure you’ll be just as relieved to have her in your life, so remember where you heard about her first!

For this intercontinental dance fest Australia’s Japan Aircraft team up with the American producer Romeo’s Fault to rework his first single “Goose Bumps”. Released on Continous Cool this pop infused disco groover is just the perfect track to keep you in party mood during the last day of the weekend.

For the second half of 2012 there was only one “Stallion On The Dancefloor”, a Korean guy called Psy. For 2013 the tiger-suited, cowboy-hatted Briton I, Tay Stayness decided to claim the crown for himself. His disco-funk influenced song might not be as blatantly catchy, but it is equally funny.

The Parisian duo Bot’Ox never was one for the fast paced dance tracks and always preferred the more “krauty” sound instead. But this ultra-slow new track by Cosmo Vitelli and Julien Briffaz came as a surprise none the less: it plays more like the intro to one of Luc Besson’s early films and not at all like a pop or even dance tune. A great move from the two Frenchmen and an essential download to get you into the mood for the upcoming album Sans Dormir!

What else to expect from the cheeky Portland duo YACHT than to release a summer tune in the middle of winter? Well, actually quite a lot, since this bands never seizes to surprise. But as for now this summer song, describing the state of mind of total freedom during a second summer (or something like that), shall be enough.