I used to make and listen to a lot of DJ mixes, but since I hung up my traveling headphones and retired to the obscurity of mixing at home, I also stopped listening to many other DJ’s work. I still keep my eye out for anything that looks interesting and have heard some great stuff this year from Burial, Tom Neville and a few others.

Today sees the release of the latest installment in the FabricLive series – mixed by the UK’s very own Simian Mobile Disco – and a handsome set it is too, full of top class glitchy and edgy dance music.

Unlike a lot of mix CD’s around, it isn’t crammed full of the latest radio friendly ‘choons’, but SMD have managed to dig through the crates and pull out some awesome electronic classics – Paul Woolfords – Erotic Discourse and the massive Flash by Green Velvet are in the mix, along with some odd-ball early 80’s pop from The Walker Brothers (Night Flights).

There are some great new cuts in the mix as well – the Serge Santiago remix of Blind by Hercules Love Affair and the fantastic Deadmau5 vs Jelo track ‘The Reward is Cheese’ which arrives at the end of the mid section of the CD, which is just a stupendous passage of the mix.

The whole things hangs together really well – either as a mix to settle down and listen to or something to be pumped up louder in the car or on the MP3 player – I’m loving it more every time I listen, and its inspiring me to get my headphones back off the shelf and put together a new mix, expect that this week.