Track Information: 1. High Contrast - Tread Softly (Hospital Records) - "Taken from High Contrast's awesome album 'Tough Guys Don't Dance', this is without doubt the most understated D&B record of the past twelve months. Listen to 'Tread Softly' on a home system and what comes out of the speakers is a gentle, docile D&B track with effervescent musical qualities. Listen to it on a club system however and it sounds just as menacing as anything you could expect to hear. High Contrast has a real knack of getting the balance just right when it comes to weighing up musical & club elements in his tracks, and this is perhaps the best example. Absolutely superb."

2. Alter Ego - Why Not?! (Skint) - "Alter Ego is perhaps most famous for his chart-bothering 'Rocker' amongst the mainstream dance fraternity, but delve into his catalogue and you'll find a plethora of similar records with just as much charm. Recent single 'Why Not?!' takes the best bits of the kooky style of 'Rocker' and the club quirk of 'Gehts Noch' and bastardizes them into an electronica masterpiece which sounds just as much as it has come directly from the dancefloor of Space as it has a game of Super Mario! It's a bit too out-there to succeed the commercial success of 'Rocker' but expect this to stick around on the underground for a long time to come."

3. Passions - Emergency (Kitsune) - "The rumour mill is rife at the moment with talk of this track being licensed to one of the world's largest major record labels and with this particular style of thrash-electro currently in vogue (in the UK particularly), this has all the hallmarks of a mega-hit in the making. Currently revered by both the nu-rave fraternity as well as the die-hard electro fanbase, 'Emergency' could well be making a serious imprint on the dance scene in 2008."

4. Wu-Tang Clan - Life Changes (Bodog Music) - "This album certainly isn't the Wu-Tang's finest musical moment to date, but it does house some pretty spectacular records. 'Life Changes' instantly lept out at me when I first heard this album, in particular as it's their tribute to the late, great former band member Ol' Dirty Bastard. It's Inspectah Deck's moving verse on this which really makes it stand out and it is up there with P. Diddy's 'I'll Be Missing You' as one of the best modern tribute records of the last few years. Well worth checking out, if only for the sentiment."

5. Calvin Harris - Acceptable In The 80s (PIAS) - "This will already be extremely well known to our UK customers as it charted here last year and went onto become one of the biggest tracks of the summer, but to our customers in Europe and America, get ready to get addicted to this! Fusing an infectious analogue lead with an instantly catchy vocal, 'Acceptable In The 80s' is an electro-inspired pop masterpiece which has 'radio' written all over it. Also worth checking on the album 'I Created Disco' are the tracks 'Merrymaking At My Place' and the satirical cut 'This Is The Industry'. Superb stuff."

6. Jay Shepheard - Pipe N Sneakers (Compost) - "Deep house is one of those genres where if you get it right, you're almost guaranteed Deity-esque status within a matter of days. If you get it wrong however, your name is seemingly tarnished beyond repair. Thankfully, Jay Shepheard falls into the former category and 'Pipe N Sneakers' is rightly considered one of the best tunes in this genre from the last year. It's deliciously simple and funky and centered around an old skool-esque melody which sounds like it has come right off of a Korg M1 or Minimoog. Sometimes a record's simplicity is its most defining characteristic and that's most definitely the case here."

7. Dada Life - This Machine Kills Breakfasts (Alphabet City) - "Crazy by name, absolutely totally tonto by nature! It's fairly impossible to categorise this record but I'll give it a go - "QuirkyDirtyFunkyElectroGlitchHouse" - or something to that effect anyway. Dada Life has a reputation for delivering tracks which are somewhat out of the ordinary and this is most definitely the best example. Thankfully it doesn't stray too far from the beaten path and is a superb track filled with quirky rhythms, banging basslines and heavy beats. If you're looking for that defining 'what the f*ck was that?!' record for your sets, you need to check this out!"

8. Fabio Stein - Panic Mode (Maelstrom) - "Whilst I'm on the subject of straying from the beaten path, this is another great example! Fabio Stein is known for his no-nonsense, driving tech-trance sound but with 'Panic Mode' he completely throws off the listener by turning in a driving hard house monster! Centered around an old-skool riff, this is absolutely banging stuff and is a perfect record to use when looking to boost some instant vigor into your sets. It's like a musical equivalent of a can of Red Bull; loaded with energy, probably quite bad for you but you don't care anyway and, er, slightly green. So probably not much like a can of Red Bull at all then..."

9. Opium Jukebox - Smells Like Teen Spirit (Invisible Records) - £If you're after re-edits of Nirvana then this should satisfy! Make no mistake however, this is seriously weird. It's extremely difficult to imagine what was going through the heads of Opium Jukebox when they put this together, but whatever it was it must have made perfect sense to them at the time! If you love the original then there's a good chance you might hate this, but if you're of an open mind and love hearing leftfield renditions of classic anthems, check the preview and see if this does it for you."

10. Phuture - Acid Trax (Trax) - "Finally to round off the list this month, here's an anthem which probably is more deserving of the title "classic" than most other records. Released originally in 1987, Phuture's 'Acid Trax' was officially the first dance record to use a Roland TB303 synth in the way we've come to know and love it and although it was met with hideous disdain at the time, now exists amongst dance purists as one of the key records which kick started the modern dance music movement. A real slice of history, and an essential must-have-in-your-collection track for all serious dance music fans."