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)

Top 20 electronic music albums of 2025: Soulwax crank up their happiness machine

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

Soulwax: All Systems Are Lying (Deewee / Because)

Here's another Top 20 Banger – one of my absolute favourite electronic music albums of 2025.

Nuclear oblivion is upon us, the government is going to deport trans people to the moon, and all the CEOs are snogging the wrong people at Coldplay concerts. The world has gone to hell in a handbasket. But all will be okay because Soulwax are back.

This is unashamedly a pop album. “Pop” in the sense of music style, and “pop” as in a graphical punch that hits you between the eyes. A Lichtenstein BAM! There are plonky pianos, daft synth fills, giddy bongos, sparky acid, and a track called Constant Happiness Machine.

Just listen to that wriggly acid bass on the dizzy title track All Systems Are Lying. It’s massive. It’s like Daft Punk on a week-long bender. It’s like Giorgio Moroder farting down a plughole. It’s like… wonderful.

The Dewaele brothers describe this as “a rock album made without any electric guitars.”  Like Led Zep with zaps. And yet despite its flairs and flourishes, there’s a simplicity at the heart of Systems. Modular synthesisers, live drums, some studio gubbins, but not a whole lot more. It’s the ideas that keep things busy.

The early Romans didn’t have a name for January and February. Do me a favour. During the dizzly misery of the coming winter weeks, during that long characterless slush before the flowers start budding again, pop this album on your record player and/or streaming device. Add a burst of Soulwax colour to your grey life.

Hell can keep its handbasket. It's just nice to have Soulwax back.

See all of my Best electronic music albums of 2025

Best electronic albums of 2018: turn-offs and slow-baked smokers

Pah! Why hang out with the cool kids who made the final top 20 album list, when you could be here in the kitchen with all the losers that didn't make it?

Here is another clutch of almost-rans, headed by an album with highly processed r ‘n’ b vocals, usually a big turn-off for me. Has to be said, though: they worked amazingly on the slow-burning pseudo-grime sounds of Okzharp & Manthe Ribane’s Closer Apart (Hyperdub). On a similar vocal-led tip, I liked Silvia Kastel’s thoughtful “poetry of nothing” on Air Lows (Blackest Ever Black) and I was beguiled by the alienating mechanics and spooooky voices of Lucrecia Dalt unnerving Anticlines (Rvng Intl).

Now, I don't touch drugs these days: although I'm partial to the occasional acid house night, my raving days are long behind me. However, I strongly suspect that if I stepped within 50 feet of Thundercat’s Drank (Brainfeeder), I'd pass out on its slow-baked smokiness. I also lit a nostalgic glow-stick in tribute to the rave vocal samples (“you belong to meee”) and staccato-snared battle cries of RP Boo's I'll Tell You What! (Planet Mu) – he was on brilliantly creative form.

Love poems, YouTube videos and Danish graffiti inspired the wide complexity of Varg’s Nordic Flora Pt. 5: Crush (Posh Isolation). And, if you think about it, failure inspired Soulwax's latest album, because instead of coming up with an Essential Mix for Radio 1, they produced Essential (Deewee) instead. It was rough around the edges, but fun nonetheless. And finally, if sounds were colours, Lotic’s Power (Tri Angle) would be an endless tangle of rainbows as seen through a thousand Insta filters. Wonderful.





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