Club Classics 2

Journey with us, as we guide you through the evolution of A-list dance and club music, where remix and electronic tweakery are the tools of glorious, bangin' sound mutation. For starters, Tiësto fuses hard beats to a classical trance vibe with his version of Samuel Barber's "Adagio for Strings", better known as the sad music from Platoon.

A couple of tracks from 1991 stand out from this next batch of classics: Rozalla had moved from Zimbabwe to London before scoring huge, and earning the moniker "Queen of Rave", with "Everybody's Free (To Feel Good)", while the Bassheads illustrate their mastery of the sample by dropping an Osmonds riff into "Is There Anybody Out There?"

Your rocket ride to the galaxy of stellar club tracks continues as we enter worlds where all sound is hard and synthetic: a futuristic fix for humanoids and automatons alike. The techno-minimalism of Lindstrøm's "I Feel Space" defies gravity, and Fischerspooner's "Emerge" uses juicy electronic crunches in the service of rhythm.

There's something for every breed of clubber in this, our second Essential repository of the greatest dance tracks known to man, beast, or DJ. Old cuts are dusted down, polished up, and reenergised (Mylo vs. Miami Sound Machine); great bands are processed through the beat machine (U2's "Lemon" – the Perfecto mix); familiar sounds are supercharged and replayed (Les Rythmes Digitales, aka Stuart Price, upgrades the funky '80s); and guest stars are drafted in ("Lazy" featuring David Byrne). As wicked as it comes.