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  1. 1Missing (Todd Terry club mix)Missing (Todd Terry club mix)Tracey Thorn's story of going back to a familiar street still feels private. Todd Terry puts it over an unfaltering house beat and gives the chorus a little lift with strings and bass. The floor keeps moving while Thorn lingers on the person who is gone.0
  2. 2All Is Full of Love (In Love With Funkstörung Mix) (1998)All Is Full of Love (In Love With Funkstörung Mix) (1998)First released Nov 1, 1998A voice that can sound almost suspended on the Homogenic album has to make its way through broken little bursts of percussion here. The gaps help you hear the breath at the ends of Björk's phrases. Funkstörung leave the melody intact enough that those interruptions feel like part of the…0
  3. 3Paid in Full (Seven Minutes of Madness) [The Coldcut Remix]Paid in Full (Seven Minutes of Madness) [The Coldcut Remix]Rakim's account of trying to get paid remains at the center of a much busier record. Coldcut let Ofra Haza's singing take up space alongside stray spoken voices and the looping beat. The pleasure is in hearing a concise rap track open out into a place where unexpected voices can answer it.0
  4. 4In for the Kill (Skream's Let's Get Ravey remix)In for the Kill (Skream's Let's Get Ravey remix)Skream says he already had the instrumental when he found the right voice in La Roux's single. You can hear why he waited. The low notes and wide spaces let her vocal hang in the air, which makes the late rush of drums feel as if the floor has dropped out from under it.0
  5. 5I Feel Love (Patrick Cowley Mega Mix / 12" Version)I Feel Love (Patrick Cowley Mega Mix / 12" Version)Cowley keeps the pulse that makes Summer's vocal feel weightless, then spends long stretches exploring the sounds around it. The little runs and arcs of synthesizer get enough room to become events in their own right. By the time Summer's voice returns, you have had a chance to miss it.0
  6. 6Radiation Ruling the Nation (Protection)Radiation Ruling the Nation (Protection)Mad Professor sends fragments of Tracey Thorn's vocal out into the echo. A line that once had the security of a verse can surface and vanish while the bass keeps going. The dub has its own drama in the stretches where you are waiting for the voice to reappear.0
  7. 7Girl, so confusing featuring lordeGirl, so confusing featuring lordeThe original wonders what is going on between two women who keep getting compared. Lorde gets a verse to reply here, and her account changes how Charli's opening sounds in retrospect. The beat can stay familiar because the new voice changes who has the floor and where the song ends emotionally.0
  8. 8Brimful of Asha (Norman Cook Remix)Brimful of Asha (Norman Cook Remix)Norman Cook speeds up the easy strum and puts a forceful beat beneath it. The song still sounds like somebody happily naming the records and singers they love. The extra momentum gives those names a different life, as though they were being passed around a room already dancing.0
  9. 9Push the Feeling On (The dub of Doom)Push the Feeling On (The dub of Doom)MK chops the sung words into a pattern short enough to feel like another instrument. The voice and the bouncing synth figure lean into each other's accents until a scrap of the original vocal has become the main event. That loop is the reason to choose this dub.0
  10. 10I'll Take Care of UI'll Take Care of UJamie xx gives Scott-Heron's low, deliberate voice a quick pulse and a piano figure that keeps lifting up into the space around it. The voice can still take its time with the offer of comfort. The beat makes it feel as though that offer has to be made while everything else is moving.0