With the holidays approaching quickly, the inevitable dirge of terrible club reworkings is in full effect (drum & bass reworking of ‘Good King Wenceslas’, anyone?) – but that doesn’t mean that amongst the turds there aren’t some genuinely enjoyable Christmas themed jams that you can play out maybe twice a year, every year.

Enter Horsepower, the union of Bart B More, Tommie Sunshine & RipTide. Wisely recruiting Teki Latex to drop some of his signature humor and pathos on the vocals, the track advocates you to skip eating frozen dinners alone at home and spend it rammed in a dark, sweaty room with lots of other people waving their hands around in the air.

Stream it on soundcloud below, and download it here:

Teki Latex, Tommie Sunshine, Bart B More & Riptide – Christmas In The Club

And if you like the track (or, even if you hate it) Horsepower advocates taking a minute to check out Dance4Life and Unicef’s charity pages, and maybe even opening up your miserly heart to donate something to them.

Horsepower & Teki Latex – All I Want For Christmas Is Techno by WeAreHorsepower

Here’s a booming mix of bassy goodness they made exclusively for Dazed Digital. The mix – according to the trio – is: “Next level shit from France, Paris Bass guide for beginners, L’ami Louis de la musique” with tracks from Sam Tiba, Canblaster, French Fries, Bobmo, Strip Steve, Para One, Das Glow and Brodinski etc.

The Escargot Brothers Vol.1 (Megaupload)

Great new track and video from French outfit Birdy Nam Nam, vocals courtesy of the one and only Teki Latex.

Grab the EP now over at Juno or iTunes or Beatport.

The title track “Feel U” sees him square off light, angelic r’n'b esque vocals and disco synths against stuttering bass sounds for THE late night club hit of the darker months to come.

“C?U?M” is dark and brooding with a beat that is reminiscent of fingers snapping and a steamy trade off of eerie, pitched down telephone messages as vocals suggests late night encounters of the rated R nature.

“Without You” continues on the darker side of Myrryrs productions. Light vocals emerge from a soundscape of whizzing synths and a slow, dragged out beat that inadvertently will make your head nod and your feet move.

The title track receives three remixes from acts spread across the US and Europe, they are full of vibes – albeit they’re all different.

L.A producer Samo Sound Boy comes hot off the heels from his EPs for prominent US labels Palms Out and Trouble & Bass with a pounding tropical bass remix that incorporates a driven vibe with huge synth stabs and the added twist of urging vocals.

Paris based maestros of that new French club sound – Bambounou and Teki Latex – lays it down Eurostyle with a twisting and jerking beat. Teki brings forth a yearning side of his characteristic swag to the table for what could best be described as an all out odyssey into sweatfueled basement clubs from Atlanta to Paris all filled with a pulsating body of people losing their senses to the sleazy neonlit dimension of the French maestros.

Meanwhile, Charlotte production duo Clicks & Whistles gives us a taste of what’s to come on Discobelle Records. They’re releasing a split EP with Seattle based producer cedaa later this autumn. Their anthemic six minute remix focuses on an addictive synthline that seems to be lifted straight off an 80′s 8-bit computer game, it sinks its hooks into your brain and won’t let go.

Listen to the whole EP below and then download the bonus remix from Voltron!

Myrryrs – Feel U EP by discobelle

Not a part of the original release package but no less exceptional is this Voltron remix, which adheres to a tightly paced early-rave workout including Footsteps shuffling down a hallway, tuning forks and a breakdown that sounds like two young dolphins in love who are communicating underwater, maybe plotting some kind of anti-human mutiny. Ecstatic, weird, fun dance music for the ages.

Myrryrs – Feel U (Voltron’s “Another Love Lost” Remix) (Mediafire)

Young US producer Myrryrs is the latest signing to Discobelle Records and his “Feel U EP” has been in the works for a couple of months now but still has us giddy with excitement. His influences are listed as the dark, the light and the drums, a holy trinity is certainly evident in his productions.

Samo Sound Boy, Clicks & Whistles and Teki Latex & Bambounou all contribute ‘pon remix duty, all of which you can hear in full on Soundcloud. Highlights include Teki getting his existential longing charged thugged out love rap on and Samo Sound Boy layering pounding chants overtop the original that add a sense of dancefloor urgency to affairs.

Not a part of the original release package but no less exceptional is this Voltron remix, which adheres to a tightly paced early-rave workout including Footsteps shuffling down a hallway, tuning forks and a breakdown that sounds like two young dolphins in love who are communicating underwater, maybe plotting some kind of anti-human mutiny. Ecstatic, weird, fun dance music for the ages. Grab it below, and keep on guard for when the EP drops August 25th!

Myrryrs – Feel U (Voltron’s “Another Love Lost” Remix)

This video/track is for all you Curb Your Enthusiasm fans out there, which definetely includes our friends from La France – Teki Latex and DJ Orgasmic AKA Sound Pellegrino Thermal Team who also happen to bring down the house with their new “Bassface” remix EP (out on August 8th). Now do the Larry David!

Sound Pellegrino Thermal Team celebrates three years of spaced out genre bending with two club friendly instruments of destruction as one of the most hilarious, inventive and constantly unmimicable labels in the game.

First thing’s first, “Bassface” takes us back to the days of Miami and Atlanta Bass music, made for the rollerskating rink, but with an added macabre 808 trap feel and venomous digi-medieval undertones.

However, the one that’s really going to get everyone’s attention seems to be “Pretty Pretty Good” – not only is it a shimmering burst of woodblock percussion, panting and g-funk laser blasts in the background, but it’s an obvious nod to the infamous HBO cult sitcom Curb Your Enthusiasm, which is maybe the best unmined use of dance music source material up unto this point.

Sound Pellegrino Thermal Team EP is out on iTunes now, CONSUME.

Also, Teki and Orgasmic have their own online store now, and while there’s no vinyl there, there are plenty of stylish pieces for the tech-house Karl Lagerfeld in you.

French producer/dj/entrepeneur Teki Latex (who we consider to be Discobelle family) is involved with so many cool projects, the latest one sees him collaborate with Norwegian cognac brand Bache Gabrielsen for a limited edition bottle of VSOP Cognac and of course we get some music to go with the release of this collaboration. The track “Zodiac” (production from Bambonou, remixes from Das Glow and Panteros666) where Teki rap/sings over a laidback, synthbased futuristic dance beat. The whole EP is offered as a free download via the campaign website so get over there and get your drink on…

Teki Latex – Zodiac EP (zip file, via Bache Gabrielsen x Teki Latex)

“This mixtape is a round up of my recent collaborations and remixes organized around a little exercise: each track of mine is mixed in and out of tracks that have somehow influenced said Teki track. My taste in electronic music covers quite a wide spectrum and the tracks i co-produce and/or chose to put some vocals over are sometimes going in different, some might think opposite directions. With this mix i was trying to explain the weird logic behind it all, to show why it all makes perfect sense to me by highlighting the missing links between my works. I also wanted to demonstrate how my tracks and the directions i choose to take in my music are (humbly) made to be interpreted as “missing links” between these classic tracks I love. As usual with most of my solo mixes this was mixed completely live with my CDJs in the mighty computer room, so please excuse the occasional “ruggedness” of it: this is how i like it, and i hope you will enjoy it too. Make sure you grab a copy of our “5th Dimension EP” when it drops May 2nd on Marble!”

Teki Latex – Missing Links Mixtape by Marble Music

Tracklist after the jump.

Akufen – Deck the house
Noob – Powder (Para One & Teki Latex remix)
Soul Clap – Lonely C (feat. Charles Levine)
LOL Boys & Teki Latex – Modern
Miss Kittin & The Hacker – Stock Exchange
Para One & Teki Latex – Deep Sea Creatures
Arpanet – Illuminated Displays
Para One & Teki Latex – 5th dimension
Robert Hood – Clash
Myrryrs – Feel U (Teki Latex & Bambounou remix)
Ramadanman – Work Dem
Canblaster – Clockworks (Para One & Teki Latex remix)
Jam city – Magic Drops
Funkin matt Feat. Teki Latex – Get Loose (Canblaster remix)