Selects: Simian Mobile Disco's top tracks of 2016

Each week, Mixmag invites the world's most revered artists to bring us an Apple Music playlist, hand-selected by them and curated especially for your listening pleasure.

Ahead of their headlining spot at the Los Angeles New Year's Eve celebration Minimal Effort, Simian Mobile Disco have arrived for the final Selects of the year. The playlist, while short, is a hand-picked list of James and Jas' favorites of 2016 that capture the spirit of a tough, but wonderful year spent out on the dance floor.

Finding a home (genre-wise) amongst the top-tier like Justice and Boys Noize, Simian Mobile Disco have continued to pushed far and past beyond the simple title of 'bloghouse', most recently releasing their 2016 album 'Welcome to Sideways' in November. It serves as proof that the duo are thoughtful and retain a high level of technical skill that is often hard to come by in modern electronic music.

New Year's Eve will see the pair up for a DJ set alongside Recondite, Matthew Dear as Audion, Stephan Bodzin and more, so expect to hear more than a handful of the below which they've named some of their absolute favorites of 2016.

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Hodge 'Personality Shift'

This is Hodge in mellow mode and it works just as well without the drums. For the functionally-minded, this makes a great intro for when the music before has been a bit fruity.

Blue Hour 'Lip Plate'

No messing about, 'Lip Plate' is just proper techno that makes no sense until breakfast time the next day.

Surgeon 'Bland Ambition Pt. 1'

Surgeon is the farthest thing from bland!

Dyad 'Illumine'

'Illumine' is loopy and dreamy but without going all wafty. Love it.

PAS 'Message From The Drone Sector'

One of the albums of the year for me for sure!

A Made Up Sound 'Take The Plunge' (Beat Mix)

I’ve been hammering this since I got it. AMUS confuses the room, then wins them back.

Second Woman '100407jd7'

Tracks like this are why I got into electronic music. Stuff that sounds like the the file is corrupted at first, and then it becomes really, really clear that it’s not... it’s perfect. It's not for everyone. If you want to play it out, you really need to pick what you put it between.

Physical Therapy 'Emotional Dub'

This track works in any room. Or at least any room that I would care to go into.

Roman Flügel 'Life tends to Come and Go'

It's so lovely. Just lovely.