Back catalogue: Funky/Club House

Review: The 2005 album 'The Upper Cuts' is a classic work of house music history that can still light up a dancefloor; a work of sadness and joy; darkness and light; profundity and release. If you want to know how French Producer Alan Braxe helped to create a new template for the French house sound in the early 2000s, right when French house needed it most; or how Braxe's gorgeously clean productions and evocative synth melody provided a bridge between the first wave of French house and the Ed Banger / Justice / Kitsune axis that followed; then your answer starts here.

'The Upper Cuts', rounds up several of Braxe's greatest hits, including the Bangalter collab 'Music Sounds Better With You' and - most prominently - his work with Fred Falke, a bass player Braxe met on military service. Braxe and Falke's union created some of the best house music records of the 2000s, with Falke's slinky, melodious and very funky bass lines fitting like a glove around Braxe's production know-how and ear for a melody. This newly reissued version adds seven bonus tracks including Braxe's iconic remix of Britney Spears' 'Anticipating' and two completely new tracks.