Saunabeat

Glorious. It must be the cold weather but I've been itching for some decent new electroclash and the new DJ Kicks mix from Tiga, of American Gigolo fame, is just the tonic. It pushes all the retro buttons all those comps were pushing a year ago, but this time you can dance to it and, significantly, Miss Kittin isn't on it. Tiga covers Felix & Miss Kittin's "Madame Hollywood", transforming it from the usual robofrost into a torch song sounding uncannily like Soft Cell, which it turns out is exactly the right thing to do. Martini Bros' "The Biggest Fan" is another Almondalike, and there's an actual Soft Cell instrumental on there too. So, Soft Cell.

The liner notes are brilliant, too.