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Your essential guide to the very best in dance and electronic music from the year 2012!

Join Pete as he revisits a gold medal worthy year in dance music. Expect music from the likes of the Swedish House Mafia, Rudimental, Calvin Harris, Rampa, Julio Bashmore, Duke Dumont, Hot Natured, Maribou State, Todd Terje and BICEP. Plus, we head to Ibiza for a live PA from Jessie Ware and Sebastian Ingrosso gets in a versus with Alesso on the Radio 1 Dance Rewind.

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Music Played

  • Swedish House Mafia

    Don't You Worry Child (feat. John Martin)

    • Virgin.

  • Porter Robinson

    Language

    • Ministry Of Sound Recordings.

  • Rudimental

    Feel The Love (feat. John Newman)

    • Asylum Records / Black Butter Records.

  • Calvin Harris

    Sweet Nothing (feat. Florence Welch)

  • Otto Knows

    Million Voices

    • Refune/ Mercury.

  • Duke Dumont

    The Giver (Reprise)

    • Blase Boys Club/VirginEMI.

  • Disclosure

    Latch (feat. Sam Smith)

    • PMR.

  • Maribou State

    Scarlett Groove (feat. Saint Saviour)

    • Southern Fried Records.

  • Julio Bashmore

    Au Seve

    • Broadwalk Records.

  • Infinity Ink & Alan Dixon

    Infinity

    • Glitterbox Recordings.

  • Hot Natured

    Benediction (feat. Ali Love)

    • FFRR.

  • Avicii

    I Could Be The One (Nicktim) (feat. Nicky Romero)

    • Positiva/Virgin.

  • Zedd

    Clarity (feat. Foxes)

    • Interscope Records.

  • Flashmob

    Need In Me

    • Defected.

  • Meggy

    Everything

    • Defected.

  • Pryda

    Allein

    • Virgin.

  • Madeon

    Icarus

  • Bicep

    Vision of Love

    • Feel My Bicep.

  • CamelPhat

    Watergate

    • Nervous Records.

  • Ben Pearce

    What I Might Do

    • MTA Records.

  • George FitzGerald

    Child

    • Aus Music.

  • Sebastian Ingrosso & Alesso

    Calling (Lose My Mind) (feat. Ryan Tedder)

    • Refune Records.

  • Hard Rock Sofa & Swanky Tunes

    Here We Go

    • Axtone.

  • Deniz Koyu & Calvin Harris

    Tung! vs. Feel So Close

  • Alesso

    Years (feat. Matthew Koma)

    • Refune Records.

  • Coldplay

    Paradise (Acapella)

    • Parlophone.

  • Michael Calfan

    Resurrection (Axwell's Recut Club Version)

    Remix Artist: Axwell.
    • Spinnin' Records.

  • Swedish House Mafia

    Greyhound

    • Virgin.

  • Swedish House Mafia vs Nari & Milani & Laidback Luke

    Atom / Leave The World Behind

    • EMI.

  • Miike Snow

    Devil's Work (Dirty South Remix)

    Remix Artist: Dirty South.
    • Sony.

Broadcast

  • Sat 31 Jan 202619:00
    BBC Radio 1 Dance