I’ve always liked the DJ-Kicks series especially when the compilers are not shy about going deep for their audience. Following suit, electro-pop darlings Chromeo have put together an impressive selection of various strands of disco, successfully flexing their record collections (an original copy of Toba’s “Moving Up” could easily set you back a C-note) while educating their fanbase to the music that influenced them and informed a new generation of artists.

Though I find myself wishing the boys let some of the tunes run a bit longer than they do, their contribution to the DJ-Kicks series is an effective sampler that documents a bygone era of dancefloor sounds: sounds that have seemingly crept back into pop music, or possibly never left at all.

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