'00s Dance

The first decade of the 21st century is three-quarters over, but this overview of the post-millennial club soundscape packs enough juice for a thousand years of grooves and moves, from Kylie's mashed-up workover of New Order's "Blue Monday" through Daft Punk's mellow electro-funk ("Digital Love") to Fatboy Slim's resurrection of Jim Morrison for "Sunset (Bird of Prey)".

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You can slip into some of these grooves casually, like you're easing into a Jacuzzi, but others impel you to hit the ground running and stoke you into a hot funk before you have time to draw breath: one such is "Bingo Bango" by Basement Jaxx, which samples the Latinate brass of Bolivar's "Merengue"; another is the retro-electrifying "Jacques Your Body (Make Me Sweat)" by Les Rhythmes Digitales.

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Take your preconceived notions of dance music and re-filter them through the refracting prism of Isolée's microhouse: "Beau Mot Plage" creates a cascade of robotic pizzicato to futuristic effect without ever sacrificing the boogie. Belgium's Ian Van Dahl takes a more direct route to dance-floor euphoria with "Castles in the Sky" — an angelic vocal plus a warm sea of Balearic synth equals genius.

This starter decade of the 21st century — the zeroes, the noughts, call it what you will — has mashed-up enough styles and grooves to leave our great dance-floor nation dazed, confused, and blissed-out for years to come. Benny Benassi ("Satisfaction") has plugged us directly into his supercharged grid of electroclash, where we've begged him to crank up the voltage on his sonic cattle prod; Mylo has seduced us into believing that the seeds of the future can be found in the Latin-disco exotica of Miami Sound Machine; and Fedde le Grand has given Detroit house a shiny Euro upgrade. Bangin'.