With the sun setting on another stellar few months of lost luggage, sunburnt feet, lukewarm lager, cheap sunglasses, and disposable cameras, we've decided to take stock. It's been a great summer, but it's only been as good as the music that's been played. With this in mind we got in touch with some of our favorite DJs, and some writers as well, to ask them which tracks (old or new) have defined the summer of 2015 for them.
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Whether they played them out, produced them, or simply heard them in a dusty field somewhere, these were their responses. From hands-in-the-air house, to rumbling break-beats, every track is a resolute testament not only to how great the summer has been, but also how varied it has sounded.Paul Woolford - "MDMA""There is often quite a difference between the types of parties I get to play at during different times of the year. Winter is all about dark sounds and industrial beats, but come summer you want to have tracks that have a special uplifting vibe but still carry enough wallop in the bottom end to work the big floors and open air stages. "MDMA" was exactly that track for me this year. So good!"Hudson Mohawke - "Ryderz""Euphoric heater everyone's been playing out this year, perfect intro and drum fills. Never fails."Denis Sulta - "LA Ruffgarden""My favourite new producer. I only discovered him recently but wow I'm obsessed, playing this one every set and just goes off off off off off off. Next level party monster!"Dominica - "Gotta Let You Go (Bicep Edit)""This summer I was fortunate enough to DJ in both Ibiza and Croatia. Both sets were terrifying experiences and I'd rather not think about them. I just wanted to show off. I don't remember anything I heard in Ibiza and all I saw in Croatia was ten minutes of Skream playing the Shep Pettibone remix of "Bizarre Love Triangle" to a crowd of very confused shufflers. So I can't pick something I heard on my jaunts abroad really. Instead, I'll pluck for the organ heavy Bicep edit of "Gotta Let You Go" by Dominica because it's the best 90s house record ever made in the 10s. It's big, it's dumb, it's more fun than a weekend in Miami with CJ De Mooi."
Alan Fitzpatrick
S-Type
DJ Haus
Josh Baines (THUMP Staff Writer)
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Eats Everything
Teki Latex
Duncan Harrison (Bound Recordings)
Jimmy Edgar
Matt Walsh
Betty Bensimon
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Kerri Chandler
John Lucas (THUMP Contributor)
Lo Shea
Angus Harrison (THUMP Staff Writer)
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Kruse & Nuernberg
Redlight
Sam Wolfson (Executive Editor, Noisey UK)
T Williams
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