Everyone who’s experienced a stupendous clubbing night has surely asked the DJ for “one more tune!”, and often the DJs will comply. Well ladies and gents, pioneering producer Tom Middleton drops One More Tune, his latest mix album which sees a coupling of anthems and festival-spawned tunes – most of which are edited or “remodelled” in some way or another by the man himself. So in a way the album (two discs, one mixed and one unmixed) is basically a Middleton remix and edit package.

Middleton described the album as “a celebration of hand-picked past, present, and future end-of-the-night anthems.” Within the context of that quote, the opening tune, an acapella of a crowd roaring “One More Tune”, delivers the feeling of the vibe and experience that the listener is about to feel.

The acapella drops into the filtered beeps and airy background synths for his remodel of Last Rhythm’s Last Rhythm, which moves into the 91’ Mix of Tom Middleton’s One More Tune, featuring a really tribal bouncy lead synth and old-skool energy reminiscent of The Prodigy’s One Love.

We slip over to Budai & Vic’s All Night Long, and this one sets free all the worries with its euphoric and dreamy trance lead, bouncing in between the progressive beats. The Audiowhores remix of Mustafa’s Bom Demais drops a big room house remix, continuing the euphoric feeling with the diva vocals and the darkened laser driven club synths. Middleton maintains the consistency with his sparkly bass-driven remodel of Little Big Bee’s K.G.O., losing a bit of the euphoria in place of some extra wicked energy.

The closing of the album begins with Shur-i-Kan’s chilled soulful remix of Phuture Bound by Akabu, the jazzy lyrics over the sultry chilled out leading synth backed up by the funky bassline. Dropping over to Derrick May’s classic Strings of Life which gets a deep bassline treatment that drops in and out over a subtle swirly lead, supported with clapping builds and old-skool keyboard solos in the drops. The final closing, Tom Middleton edit of Joe Smooth’s Promised Land, aptly seals the album off with what one could say is a combination of classy vocal hooks, subtle old-skool elements with blurring the lines of progressive house over the last two decades.

One More Tune does have a real anthem vibe with the catchy vocal hooks of the mixes, which I’m not too sure would have worked quite so well with the dated nature of some of the originals, and the album has a wonderful consistency with the material Middleton delivers. The album isn’t just a time warp back to a compilation of Top 20 anthems, as Middleton’s magic touch seems to avoid that problem, leaving us with a sense of modernised dance melding with some of the old-skool.