If you need a little warm blood pumping through the veins of your dance music, then make sure you pick up Fedde Le Grand’s new ‘Toolroom Knights’, which features a gorgeous selection of cutting edge House, zesty European percussive beats and rolling Tech House.

Having discretely passed from international chart topping success with the ubiquitous ‘Put Your Hands Up for Detroit’ back in 2006, to establishing position as one of the industry’s premier DJ’s, Fedde Le Grand continues to purvey his talent to worldwide dance floors bringing his unique blend of fine House music in all its glorious forms.

Fedde’s first release on Toolroom; ‘Just Trippin’ was a huge anthem, cementing his status within the Toolroom family. Also producing under his moniker F.L.G, which allows Fedde to experiment with a more stripped-back, darker, minimal Tech House sound; he released his double A-sider ‘Amplified’ / ‘Pink Bird’ on Toolroom last year, garnering massive attention on the dark and sweaty dancefloors of the world’s best clubs. It only seemed right that Fedde be next in line for this illustrious series.

Reflecting his world renowned DJ sets, CD1 is mixed under Fedde’s F.L.G. moniker and delivers a stripped back attitude, manifested through the deployment of varied rhythmic and skittering percussive elements. Beginning deep, in a slick and smooth style, with tracks from the likes of Solomun and Ramon Tapia, the mix lays a distinctive groove. Tracks from Noir, Saeed Younan, Joey Negro, Mark Mendes & F.L.G.’s new exclusive for Toolroom; ‘An Old Technique’ are intertwined with flowing Tech House, as F.L.G’s craft fully winds up rolling beats, and sends them marching and stomping into a field of de-tuned vocal stabs and pressure-building peaks.

You will find bouts of light tribalisms and throbbing cuts on CD2, as Fedde Le Grand finds himself on his excursion into more underground tastes; a statement that sits comfortably in the grey and somewhat surprising area between House and Techno. The inclusion of tracks such as Joris Voorn’s remix of Steve Bug’s ‘Swallowed Too Much Bass’ results in an undulating, hypnotic but ultimately highly energetic and uplifting mix. Also featuring his remix of Fatboy Slim’s ‘Praise You’, Fedde uses tracks like Ntfo’s ‘Filter’, Mark Knight & Koen Groeneveld’s Toolroom smash ‘Put Your Hands Up’, alongside another compilation exclusive; Johnstar’s ‘Tick Tock Track’, to narrate full on Fedde Le Grand mode - a chunkier and tougher approach that indulges in epic gut-busting synth melodies.

Fedde’s mix simply inhales and exhales life, striking the right balance between refined Techno tweaks and genre-busting House music that provides a soundtrack that stimulates the ears and feet at the same time.

CD1 Mixed By F.L.G.

1. Solomun Feat. Ole Soul - Cloud Dancer
2. iO – Jeton
3. Joey Negro presents Akabu - Sax My Bitch Up (Audiojack Mix)
4. Raman Tapia – You Know
5. Neuroxyde vs Doomwork - Jazzy Stuff
6. F-Man & F.L.G. - An Old Technique
7. Noir & Westboy - She’s Got My Heart
8. Andreas Henneberg & Simon2 - Bolingo Gringo
9. Jaimy Feat. May-Britt & Michelle David - Take You Higher (Belocca Remix)
10. Mark Mendes & Mike Jacinto - Molly
11. Super Flu – Shine
12. Croatia Squad - Electric Masquerade (Daniel Portman More Carnival Remix)
13. Arado & Den Ishu - Uganda Express
14. Saeed Younan – Yeah Ha
 
CD2 Mixed By Fedde Le Grand

1. Ntfo - Filter
2. Steve Bug - Swallowed Too Much Bass Feat. Paris The Black Fu (Joris Voorn Remix)
3. Hauswerks - Chunk
4. Johnstar Feat. MC Spyder - Tick Tock Track (Julian Sennels & Ben Bastion Remix)
5. David de Valera – Say That (Loko Remix)
6. David Amo, Julio Navas & Gustavo Bravetti - Raw
7. John Acquaviva, David Amo & Julio Navas – Acquanamo
8. ICS – Workshop (DJ Madskillz Remix)
9. Chipi – Bumblebee PM Mix (Silvio Ecomo Remix)
10. Dean Newton – Boombox (Da Fresh Remix)
11. Mark Knight V Koen Groeneveld - Put Your Hands Up (Mark Knight Remix)
12. D-Formation - Weakness
13. Nicky Romero - My Friend
14. Fatboy Slim vs. Fedde le Grand - Praise You 2009 (F.L.G. Remix)
15. Marcus Kaes - Do Bing (Dominik de Leon Remix)
16. M-Tek vs Tim Priestley - Stalker (Disfunktion Remix)