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2006 in Dance Music: The Long and Short of It - Jason Shawhan

From Jason Shawhan, for About.com

2006 In Dance Music: The Long and The Short of It.

Singles and Mixes:

1. Kyven – Never So Far Away
2. Mark Flash – Soul Power (Mike Monday Remix avec Piano)
3. Goldfrapp – Number 1 (Steve Angello Remix)
4. Prince – Black Sweat
5. Justin Timberlake – Sexyback (Peter Rauhofer Mix)
6. Pink – U + Ur Hand (Bimbo Jones Vox)
7. The Knife – Marble House
8. Spank Rock – Bump (Switch remix)
9. Cousin Cole – Atlantic Records; T.I. Clearance
10. Jewel – Only One Too (Lenny B Mix)


The Depeche Mode Award for Rejecting What is Easily the Best Mix of Your Song:
Goldfrapp, for rejecting Steve Angello's mix of Number 1.
Honorable Mention: The Killers, for rejecting Freeform Five's mix of When you Were Young.

Outstanding Popstar Project:
Paris Hilton. Great producers and remixers, outstanding pop songwriters, and massive media exposure. Sure, she's kind of a portent of society's collapse, but the whole experience around the Paris record has been entertaining and fun.

Remixers who made the world a better place this year:
Dave Audé, Sunshine People, D. Ramirez, Axwell, Steve Angello, Booka Shade, Girl Talk, Eric Prydz, Peter Rauhofer, Lenny Bertoldo, Bimbo Jones, Richard X, Freemasons, Cousin Cole, Switch.

Music Video of the Year:
Xiu Xiu – Boy Soprano

Greatest Hits Retrospective of the Year:
Moby – Go: the Very Best of Moby (Two-Disc Version)
Honorable Mention:
The Best of Depeche Mode Volume One (Two-Disc Version with DVD)

Albums of the Year:
Confuzed Disco compilation
Girl Talk - Night Ripper
Gwen Stefani - The Sweet Escape
The Knife - Silent Shout
Scissor Sisters - Ta-Dah!

My sincerest wish for 2007:
A unified response to global climate crisis, comprehensive Italo disco retrospectives covering 1980-1989, less hate in the world, stability in the British singles chart's eligibility requirements, perhaps a comeback for hip-house just to prove that dance and rap share common roots and can play nice together.

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