“FoxTrot is one year old!! Can you believe we’ve had 12 months of solid girl-DJ tech and deep house nights in Hong Kong?! We are so grateful to all of our supporters over the last year! Come and help us celebrate one year of music curated by the best female DJs in HK, and also Ocean Lam’s birthday!”
Humdrum asked nearly 20 of Hong Kong’s house and techno DJs to share their five favorite tracks of 2012. Below are the year’s big tunes, secret weapons and floor-fillers that defined the sound of Hong Kong’s electronic underground in a year that it diversified and accelerated greatly.
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Matthew Dekay and Lee Burridge Fur Die Liebe
[All Day I Dream] A duo who’ve produced some forward-thinking dancefloor material, and the strings on this track get me every time.
Ry Cumin & Frank Wiedermann Howling (Âme Remix)
[Innervisions] I don’t usually go for big vocal tracks, but there’s something quite stirring about this guy’s singing – plus the track comes to a pretty powerful conclusion.
Barnt Geffen
[Cómeme] It was always fun watching the crowd when dropping this weird little number. Geffen is really nothing more than a beat and a fun little octave-driven synth line, but it drove people crazy every single time.
Maetrik The Poem
[Ellum Audio] I still prefer the stuff Eric Estornel produces as Maetrik over his Maceo Plex guise, and this track really sums up why: rib-shaking beats and simple but devastating basslines. Massive.
Ian Pooley CompuRhythm (Dixon 4/4 Treatment)
[Innervisions] Have such good memories of catching Dixon at Barcelona in Sonar this year, and he’s fast become one of my favourites. This is his best remix yet, maybe after the 2011 Singing rerubs.
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