Deadmau5

The last couple of years have seen Canadian super-producer Joel Zimmerman, aka Deadmau5 (it's pronounced dead- mouse, not dead-mau-five), become one of the biggest names in modern dance music. Astonishingly, this has been managed without a sniff of mainstream airplay, however it seems that 2009 is the year that will see his music jump the fence from the dance tent to it's new home on the main stage.

Radio 1 listeners will already be familiar with the sublime I Remember,which popped up inside the top 40 and managed regular daytime rotation. New single Ghosts n Stuff is an altogether more ballsy affair, with fat four-on-the-floor and Justice-style synth runs, the single edit features vocals from Pendulum's Rob Swire. Ignore that and download the instrumental version below as well as his bangin' remix of The Prodigy's Everybody In The Place.

Deadmau5 - Ghost n Stuff

The Prodigy - Everybody In The Place (Deadmau5 Remix)

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Esser

Subject of a massive amount of hype, both in the blogosphere and the mainstream music press, and owner of what is really quite silly hair, you might be inclined to give Esser's debut release Braveface a miss. Not so hasty we say, because rather than sounding like some snotty nosed, Shoreditch-bothering, accent-borrowing brat, Ben Esser's first effort is full of simple, honest electro-pop gems.

Debut single Headlock sounds a bit like Metronomy and Kid Carpet playing computer games together. Its ace.

Esser - Headlock MP3 (Buy From Itunes)

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