Hot on the heels of last year’s retroactive post, here are my twenty favorite dance tracks from this past year. I cheated slightly, as the Yotto track is actually from 2022, but it’s new to me and also the perfect opening track for this list. This year’s list is a lot of deep or progressive all the way through, with some piano, disco, and tech house in the middle to really get the house party going.
Chicane released a pretty good album this year, so he appears twice. I think Nevertheless is an amazing opening or closing track and had trouble deciding where it should go here; in the end, it felt right as the closer. The Paavo and Spencer Brown collaboration is the emotional peak here and brings back memories of Anjunadeep Explorations this past summer, where the two of them were the closing set of the entire festival and they finished with this track.