Name me a better remix album list than Daniel Avery's remix album list

“Alright, name me a better remix album than this,” says Daniel Avery to the camera as he brandishes a CD copy of Nine Inch Nails 1992 release Fixed.

Avery has just released Tremor (Midnight Versions), a reworking of his own album Tremor which came out last autumn. The remixes have a bit of a boogy about them – as he puts it, these are “club edits aimed squarely at the strobe light”.

Remixes are clearly on his mind, because he recently posted on his socials a tribute to his favourite remix albums. He leads with the Nine Inch Nails album, and the artwork for Midnight Versions seems to be inspired by the Nails artwork.

But he then mentions another batch of remix albums that he loves. Let's go through them.

The Human League / The League Unlimited Orchestra: Love And Dancing (1982), a dubbier take on their Dare album

The Cure: Mixed Up (1990), various twelve-inch bits and related bobs

Massive Attack V Mad Professor: No Protection (1995) – ain’t no Protection from this level of dub wizardry

Björk: Telegram (1996), various remixes of her Post tracks

Primal Scream: Echo Dek (1997), with Bobby’s band reimagining their Vanishing Point album, and oh my word how good was this era of Scream

Two Lone Swordsmen: Peppered With Spastic Magic (2004), although please can we let that word die

Aphex Twin: 26 Mixes For Cash (2003), which I wilfully misunderstand in this blog post

Soulwax: Nite Versions (2005) – they “reshaped my brain as a teenager” says Avery

That's a cracking selection, my favourites being Mad Professor, Primal Scream and Aphex Twin. I'd throw in Dangermouse and maybe Pet Shop Boys too, and I know James's Wah Wah doesn't count but it pretty effectively remixed my brain. 

What is your favourite remix album? Write your answer on a postcard and immediately remix it into a shredder.

Daniel Avery's Tremor (Midnight Versions) is out now.

Further Fats: Music Order Remixed New (see what I did there) (2017)

Further Fats: Cover me bad – Block Rockin' Beats by the Chemical Brothers (2021)

Best electronic music albums of 2025: new bowels, my uncle's moustache, something about Berghain

This summary is part of a series, posting between 30th December 2025 and 3rd January 2026

Blawan – SickElixir (XL Recordings)

I have seen Blawan live a few times, and on each occassion, I had to contact the NHS and order new bowels. SickElixir has rightly been lauded for its distortion and bass badness. It's powerful beyond belief. It's like one of them grime acts have done a big dump not only over your home speakers, but over reality itself. I suspect it's going to be much copied.

Daniel Avery – Tremor (Domino Recording Co)

When my Uncle Augustus grew a moustache, I hardly recognised him. With a gang of vocalists leading the charge, including Alison Mosshart from The Kills and Walter Schreifels from Rival Schools, this is almost unidentifiable as an Avery album. I'm not entirely convinced, although it's very well done, and my fictional Uncle Augustus loves it.

Djrum – Under Tangled Silence (Houndstooth)

I wasn't expecting this. Djrum's third album leads with flowing piano, melodic ambience and a generous splatter of sinuous drum programming. I mean, he's plonked the piano before, but this is giving Kiasmos-levels of classical music energy. He's still got the grimy bass and acidic techno, but this is pushing the piano up the staircase more than before.

FKA Twigs – EUSEXUA (Young)

Here comes the new album from FKA Twigs or,  to give her her full name, Felicia Kenneth Alabaster Twigs. It's a reliably entertaining mix of airy electronica and pop vibes. She gains electronic music points because the influence of producer Koreless is evident – in fact, Koreless did the production on Drums of Death while flying to Berghain. Hardcore.

Nazar – Demilitarize (Hyperdub)

It's over to Angola for a truly unsettling album inspired by pandemic illness. No, wait, it's better than it sounds. This is a singular sound comprising what I assumed had been confident r'n'b tunes before they were smothered in a gauze of audio unease. The muttering. The scuzz. The broken production. It's like a glitzy dancefloor covered in insects... in a good way.

Polygonia – Dream Horizons (Dekmantel)

Going out of the house naked, flying naked through the air, fighting naked ninjas while naked – we've all had vivid dreams. On this latest album, Polygonia lays out a series of dream sequences with playful and pin-sharp techno. The staccato percussion tickles, and at one point a clipped vocal loop looks set to hypnotise you into unconsciousness. 

Surgeon – Shell~Wave (Tresor Records)

YES. Finally. An album with a tilde in the title. Do you know how long I have been waiting for this? Praying to Santa every morning for a tilde album. Never mind the mathematical symbols, Sheeran, what about the chuffing tilde? Anyhoo. This is Surgeon being brilliant Surgeon. Rowdy bangers, razor-sharp machinery. Even the ambient Dying feels like it's going to tear your face off. Delicious.

See all of my Best electronic music albums of 2025

Top 50 best electronic music albums of 2022: Silicon Scally, Daniel Avery, Bogdan Raczynski

     

Here are more brilliant electronic music albums. We're in the midst of the top 50, with me live blogging a handful of albums at a time until my fingers fall off. No particular order, just a general mulch of top 50-ness.

See the full countdown here.

Silicon Scally: Field Lines (Central Processing Unit)

The bleeps, the bass, the 8-bit vibes. This is electro for electro-heads, with a whole load of 80s film feels to boot. But unlike some other electro albums, it isn’t purely robotic. Amid the mechanical beats is a melodic warmth that gives everything way more heart than you’d expect. Carl Finlow quit a furniture design degree for this. Quite right. Screw those tables.

Daniel Avery: Ultra Truth (Phantasy Sound)

“Let’s fray every edge,” said Danny A about his fifth studio album. Can I call him Danny A? Too late, I’ve said it. This is by far the most low-key album from Avery: a techno titan turns inward with a collection of thoughtful, atmospheric instrumentals. Inspired by, among other things, the Deftones and David Lynch. Includes a stunning tribute to Andy Weatherall. Utterly replayable.

Bogdan Raczynski: ADDLE (Planet Mu)

“This revered drill and basser delivers his first studio album in fifteen years…He’s dumped the farty Nintendo bleeps and firework breaks of 2007’s Alright!. Any clattering percussion seems sonically banished to a room next door, supplanted by a polite vibraphone haze and melodies of heat-melted circuitry. All the whimsy of 2001’s MyLoveILove with all the maturity of years. Revere once again.”

This is part of a series of the Best Electronic Music Albums of 2022. Read it all here.

60 best electronic music albums of 2021: Daniel Avery, Danny L Harle, DJ Seinfeld, Don Zilla & Eli Keszler

Fat Roland's Best Electronic Music Albums of 2021 presents five more brilliant albums:

Daniel Avery – Together In Static (Phantasy Sound) 

This album accompanied an especially written socially-distanced performance at Hackney Church in late May 2021. The last time I went to Hackney, I stayed in a miniature pod with black walls, and I've still not recovered. Nothing claustrophobic about this album though, despite Avery's knack for hot buzzy techno. Shaking techno rhythms lead to wandering analogue meanderings lead to, as the album progresses, genuinely optimistic IDM instrumentals. It's like a flower gradually opening: the release is glorious.

Danny L Harle – Harlecore (Mad Decent)

This album sees London producer Harle take on the personas of four people: DJ Danny, MC Boing, DJ Mayhem and DJ Ocean. Boing is the hyper one, Ocean is the chilled one... look, I haven't got time to introduce them all now. Just grab a Carling from the fridge and mingle with them in your own time. Harlecore is massive fun. There's banging euphoric rave, Scooter-style stadium crowd-pleasers, breezy 1990s drum and bass, hyper Italo piano house, and even a happy hardcore Golden Brown. Super daft. 

DJ Seinfeld – Mirrors (Ninja Tune)

This is a second album of Barcelona-sun drenched vintage house from a Swedish producer previously best known for his "lo-fi" vibes. Recorded in Berlin and Malmo, this feels like a much more polished Seinfeld, all very sharp and snappy and Bicep-y. He filters UK garage into something much more sultry, and ain't afraid of a big fat French disco slam-down. One of those albums which is bound to be on lots of end-of-year lists. And yes, he named himself after the US sitcom. Better than DJ Everybody Loves Raymond, I suppose.

Don Zilla – Ekizikiza Mubwengula (Hakuna Kulala)

This is the debut solo album from Don Zilla, from Uganda's Nyege Nyege collective. The collective's name refers to the urge to dance. However, those expecting a party feeling will only be partially sated. A party, yes, but soundtracked by pummelling thuds, growling mechanics and machinery assaults. At points it sounds like it's taking arms against its listener, but it also sounds every concrete basement club in every techno city. Uncompromising, and all the better for it. Take your coat off, this party's just getting started.

Eli Keszler – Icons (LuckyMe)

This hugely proficient percussionist and Oneohtrix Point Never collaborator brings us his tenth album. The tracks are jazzy and laced with complex beats, often tumbling into scattered ambient mood boards. The drums are perfectly poised, and know when to withdraw when the atmosphere needs it. Nice work. Apparently you can buy Eli Keszler candle too. It's got top notes of mandarin, black pepper and carrot. That might be the most interesting thing I've learned about a percussionist all day.

This is part of a series of the Best Electronic Music Albums of 2021. Read it all here.

Best electronic albums of 2020: fifteen

15 – Daniel Avery –  Love + Light (Phantasy Sound)

I was really looking forward to seeing Daniel Avery at the Orbit Stage at Bluedot Festival this year. I would be there with my little pink tent, Ugg boots, chocolate fountain, Scalextric set, a full-size Victorian wardrobe: all the camping essentials.

Instead, his third album Love + Light can only point towards the live experience incanted in its thrumming bass drums, electrostatic basslines and machine-smoked synths, then, later in the running order, the pastoral glows of a post-club sunrise.

The great thing about this album is that the loud, thumpy club tracks don't carry the album on their own, although we all love a pumping loop in the face. It needs the softer tracks, and there's a beautiful moment somewhere between A Story In E5 and One More Morning when the spirit of early Aphex lands on this album and gives it a blessing.

Incidentally, you can watch Avery's set from Bluedot's A Weekend in Outer Space. Which reminds me, I mustn't forget to take my 42-inch plasma screen next time I'm camping.

 

Browse the rest of the Best Electronic Albums of 2020

I recommend three, oh, three great acid tracks

For a couple of days last week, I took over @303OClock, a Twitter account dedicated to posting acid tracks twice a day at 3:03 O'Clock.

I thought I would record my takeover here, because Twitter is ephemeral like mist or memory or biscuits, while a blog post is forever, like Jesus or shame. 

The brief was my favourite acid tracks from 2010–2019, and although I don't think my choices were especially original, I was pretty happy with my selections.

Takeover this week from music journo and all-round good egg Fat Roland. Have a read of some of his work here https://t.co/aBjf8KGqFm @FatRoland

— 303 OClock (@303OClock) April 30, 2020

Recent takeover people have included Perc Trax, DJ Food, EOD and Ghostly International. So no pressure then.

Fat Roland Takeover 1. Hardfloor - Good Lack Scharm. "I can't have an acid list without my first love Hardfloor. Of all their 2010 tracks, this sounds most like them getting back to their build-em-up roots" #acid @FatRoland https://t.co/L7AIpNQ25y

— 303 OClock (@303OClock) April 30, 2020

Hardfloor's Good Luck Scharm isn't easy to come by, and I was pretty dismayed at the booby nonsense in the homemade video. Still, I chose this track because there's nothing more cobweb-clearing than Hardfloor in full tweak. It's so nice the boys have kept going: in lockdown times, I have to work on my motivation, and this is exactly the energy I need.

Fat Roland Takeover 2. Daniel Avery - Drone Logic. "A mean little shuffler that gets overtaken by big fat acid nonsense. Just gorgeous." #acid @FatRoland https://t.co/qDH5ypMFwL @danielmarkavery

— 303 OClock (@303OClock) May 1, 2020

I was disappointed not to be seeing Daniel Avery at this year's Blue Dot festival, a wonderful shindig whose 2020 event fell foul of the coronavirus crisis. I chose Drone Logic not just for the Chemical Brothers-style scuzziness, but for the sheer joy you can get from a very basic acid melody. In the words of Robert Leiner, it's a kind of magic.

Fat Roland Takeover 3. Ceephax Acid Crew - Legend Of Phaxalot. "I've loved Ceephax's King Arthur fun these past few years, so it has to be the one track that's wedged in my mind. Like a sword in a stone. Or something." #acid @FatRoland https://t.co/He3N3vbD8T

— 303 OClock (@303OClock) May 1, 2020

And finally, Ceephax Acid Crew's Legend of Phaxalot. I could have chosen any number of his works, especially from his brilliant 2020 album Camelot Arcade.  This was my comfort-listen choice: I can't imagine life without Ceephax.

I've banged on about my love of acid before, including hearing it on odd-shaped speakers, how I would make acid house parties compulsory, and, er, how acid house is for losers. Um...

Do give @303OClock a follow for a twice-daily dollop of acid. It's not only an antidote to all major diseases, it also makes you better looking and will instantly make you a millionaire. Citation needed. 

Further Fats: "Apart from Dizzee Rascal and the Script, of course..." (2014)

Further Fats: Ten slices of shallow-fried Twitter whimsy (2020)

Beefy metal from top producers Jon Hopkins and Daniel Avery

Danny and Jonny have done swapsies.

Daniel Avery and Jon Hopkins have remixed each other on a limited edition 12-inch. Hopkins has beefed up Avery's airy track Glitter, while Avery has dirtied up Hopkins' C O S M. Both are great versions, especially the latter: I love a good metallic snare.

Daniel Avery is a Bournemouth producer who's twiddled knobs for Little Boots and Metronomy. He had the fourteenth best electronic music album of 2018. Jon Hopkins is a former keyboardist for Imogen Heap, and he once should have won the Mercury Prize instead of James Blake. Jon had the twelfth best electronic music album of 2018.

Grab some listens here.





Further Fats: Luke Vibert's remix of A Little Bit More (2007)

Further Fats: Music Order Remixed New (see what I did there) (2017)

Best electronic albums of 2018: fourteen

14 – Daniel Avery – Song For Alpha (Phantasy Sound)

Daniel Avery makes his music in a shipping container next to the Thames river. It’s a bit like series two of The Wire, but less unionised. Ah. The Wire. I really must watch that again.

Apologies – I’m getting nostalgic. Which is kinda relevant, because Avery’s second album Song For Alpha evokes classic Aphex Twin and the early days of 1990s dub techno.

The undulating acid of Stereo L or the smoky ambience of Citizen // Nowhere takes me straight back to Rephlex or Beyond or Rising High Records – but with a modern twist because every track here is powerful enough to flatten a dancefloor.

Whether Avery is smuggling drugs under the noses of the port police while failing to control his ambitious yet volatile drop-out son is unconfirmed. That was a Wire reference, by the way.



Scroll all of the best 2018 electronic albums by clicking here.