Electronic: Clean Bandit

Chances are you've already heard of Clean Bandit. The British electronic group scored a major worldwide hit in 2014 with their song Rather Be. But let's back up a little to 2010, the year that the group unofficially released their first single. The song, Mozart's House, is quite a minimalistic electronic song but features parts of Mozart's String Quartet No. 21 in D major, creating a unique blend of styles. Follow-up songs Telephone Banking and A&E continued this trend. The latter one by the way starts with a beautiful chorale by Bach called O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden.

All through 2014 Clean Bandit kept collaborating with different vocalists while still maintaining their string-heavy sound. Slowly but steadily however the minimal electronic sound started to shift more towards house music. Songs like Extraordinary and Come Over are still pretty catchy but Real Love and Stronger are a bit too poppy for my taste. Earlier this year however the group released Tears, which is again a brilliant song where strings and beat are seamlessly merged.

Clean Bandit's latest song (featuring Sean Paul & Anne-Marie) is called Rockabye and probably one of my favourite songs of the year.

Other favourites: UK Shanty, Dust Clears and Heart on Fire

Check out more songs and remixes on the Clean Bandit official YouTube channel.