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Your essential guide to the very best in dance and electronica from the year 2013!

Join Pete as he takes you on another journey through an epic year in dance... 2013. As part of it, there are standout tunes from the likes of Avicii, Armin van Buuren, Wilkinson, Chase & Status, Calvin Harris, Martin Garrix, Hot Natured and many more. Plus, Pete rewinds an archive interview with Daft Punk who returned in 2013 and we relive Solomun's set from the Radio 1 Dance Weekend in Ibiza at Ushuaïa.

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Music Played

  • Armin van Buuren

    This Is What It Feels Like (feat. Trevor Guthrie)

    • Positiva.

  • Duke Dumont

    Need U (100%) (feat. A*M*E)

    • Blase Boys.

  • Wilkinson

    Afterglow

    • Ram.

  • Klangkarussell

    Sonnentanz (Sun Don't Shine) (feat. Will Heard)

    • Island.

  • Sebastian Ingrosso

    Reload

    • Positiva.

  • Avicii

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

    • Positiva/Virgin.

  • Daft Punk

    Get Lucky (feat. Pharrell Williams)

    • Columbia.

  • Calvin Harris

    Under Control (feat. Alesso & Hurts)

    • Columbia.

  • Chase & Status

    Count On Me (feat. Moko)

    • MTA.

  • Rudimental

    Waiting All Night (feat. Ella Eyre)

    • Asylum Records / Atlantic.

  • Avicii

    Hey Brother

    • Positiva/Universal.

  • Avicii

    Wake Me Up

    • PRMD / Island Def Jam.

  • Disclosure

    White Noise (feat. AlunaGeorge)

    • Island.

  • Mat Zo & Porter Robinson

    Easy

    • Ministry Of Sound.

  • Martin Garrix

    Animals

    • Spinnin Recs.

  • Wankelmut & Emma Louise

    My Head Is A Jungle (MK Remix)

    Remix Artist: MK.
    • Virgin EMI.

  • Storm Queen

    Look Right Through (MK Remix)

    • Ministry Of Sound.

  • Tube & Berger

    Set It Off

    • Kit Ball.

  • Richy Ahmed & Kevin Knapp

    The Drums

    • Hot Creations.

  • Joris Voorn

    Ringo

  • Chris Malinchak

    So Good To Me

    • Ministry Of Sound.

  • Francesco Rossi

    Paper Aeroplane

    • D:vision Record.

  • Hot Natured

    Reverse Skydiving (feat. Anabel Englund)

    • Hot Creations.

  • Ninetoes

    Finder

    • Kling Kong.

  • George FitzGerald

    I Can Tell By The Way You Move (Paul Woolford Remix)

    • Domino.

  • Green Velvet

    Bigger Than Prince

    • Circus Recordings.

  • Kölsch

    Der Alte

    • Kompackt.

  • Savas Pascalidis

    Supermen

  • Adrian Harpham & Chromeo

    Hot Mess

    • Business Casual.
    • Backyard Records.
    • 001.

  • Rudimental & Foxes

    Right Here (Hot Since 82 remix)

    • Cream Ibiza 2014.
    • New State Music.
    • 217.

  • Foals

    Late Night (Solomun Remix)

    Remix Artist: Solomun.
    • Warners.

Broadcasts

  • Sat 7 Feb 202619:00
    BBC Radio 1 Dance
  • Sunday19:00
    BBC Radio 1 Dance