7 tracks that turned Love International into pure bliss on the Croatian coast

Midland, Main Stage, Sunday

Jim Stanton, Horse Meat Disco at Barbarellas, Tuesday

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With Midland's 2016 summer anthem and Mixmag tune of the year 'Final Credits' having only just receded from the mind, his label Regraded has returned with undoubtedly one of 2017's summer anthems and certainly one of the biggest tunes of this year's Love International.

Built around a sample from 'Til You Surrender' by Rainbow Brown, Fonda Rae's sole lead vocal collaboration with disco legend Patrick Adams, Gerd Janson & Shan have built on previous successful joint efforts for Running Back to offer Regraded yet another monster on this unblemished young imprint.

Midland and Job Jobse neglect their allotted main stage times on Sunday and choose to combine for an impromptu set in which Job plays Human League's 'The Things Dreams Are Made Of'. They are clearly having a great time but seem to push each other very much into disco territory with Midland's airing of 'Surrender' - a killer highlight. Simultaneously Prosumer is playing a typically brilliant, vinyl-heavy set of true deep house on the Beach stage while the anniversary celebrating Optimo are killing it in the Olive Grove. Far too much fun for one evening.

The following night, after a brilliant live set by true showmen Crazy P, Midland plays another back-to-back at Barbarellas. This one, with Ryan Elliott, in sharp contrast to his Main stage appearance is deep, techy and quite dark. The crowd erupts when they drop the B.Q.U.I.P Payless Pump Mix of 'Walk 4 Me' by Tronco Traxx. In 2017, before this audience, the track sounds less like the underground gay club hit it was when originally released in 1995 than it does an unabashed everyman anthem for a Utopian, multiple sexuality accepting society. Yes, Love International is a place where such dreams are realised.