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The new DJ-Kicks album by The Glimmers, Mo Becha and David Fouquaert, once known as The Glimmer Twins, is a dizzying blend of disco, punk, funk, electro, & house. In their skilled and dextrous hands, disco no longer sucks and acid house?s unparalled energy has been revitalised. Those with the inside skinny have long known this: for the last five years The Glimmers have been dance music?s best kept secret, and, as such, its saviours in waiting. Disco is the main axis upon which these 18 tracks swing, but this is not the disco from Saturday Night Fever lore. In Hamilton Bohannon?s 1979 classic, "The Groove Machine"/ "The Boogie Train" (exclusively re-edited by the Idjut Boys for this album), is a disco wholly suited to New York?s famed Paradise Garage. On Rub ?N Tug?s magical (again exclusive) re-edit of Chicago?s "I?m A Man", blues-y rock is re-born as hypnotic disco. Conversely, the first three tracks Bis?s "Shack Up," Peaches "Lovertits," and Big Two Hundred?s "Approach & Pass With Contact" are examples of the nefarious new wave disco. Far from being the faceless and featureless linear DJ mixes of old, The Glimmers have invested their DJ-Kicks debut with a musical schizophrenia that would be certifiable if it weren?t so goddamn funky. It?s mixed up, but it?s cohesive: it has its eyes on the future and it?s heart in the past. It brings to mind the best works of Andy Weatherall, Derrick Carter and Trevor Jackson, yet has a unique charm that is all its very own. It is without doubt the best advert for freaky dancing in 2005.