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Best of 2025 - Part 1

feat. Tom Rowlands, Ollie Rant and May Lavie & Medicine 8

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Happy New Year and welcome to the CTRL Z Newsletter. This week we start our series on the best of 2025 with three killer tunes. First up one half of the Chemical Brothers delivers a stellar tune on Erol Alkan’s Phantasy Sound label. Next up we have a tune from Deadbeat Records’ Deadbeat Breaks vol. 1 VA. Finally Medicine 8 step up to remix May Lavie to great effect.

In the newsletter this week we have tunes from:

  • Tom Rowlands

  • Ollie Rant

  • May Lavie & Medicine 8

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Tom Rowlands - We Are Nothing

Ollie Rant - Lisa Lately

May Lavie - The Poem (Medicine 8 Remix)

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