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Your essential guide to the very best dance music released in the year 2002.

Step back into 2002 - a year when dance music was moving at full speed. Electro house was making waves, garage was splintering into new directions, and pop was fully embracing club sounds. Pete showcases some of the standout tracks from that era, featuring artists like Shakedown, The Chemical Brothers and Junior Jack, along with the anthems that defined Radio 1鈥檚 legendary trip to Ibiza.

And in the Radio 1 Dance Rewind to close the show, we revisit a defining moment in UK dance music history: Fatboy Slim鈥檚 unforgettable free gig on Brighton Beach, which drew an astonishing 250,000 people - over four times the crowd that was expected.

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Music Played

  • Shakedown

    At Night

    • Defected.

  • David Guetta

    Love Don't Let Me Go

    • Parlophone.

  • Praise Cats

    Shined On Me (feat. Andrea Love)

    • Subliminal Records.

  • The Chemical Brothers

    Star Guitar

    • Virgin Records.

  • Together

    So Much Love To Give

    • 搁辞耻濒茅.

  • DB Boulevard

    Point Of View

    • Illustrious.

  • Kylie Minogue

    Come into My World (Fischerspooner Mix)

    Remix Artist: Fischerspooner.
    • Parlophone.

  • Code Blue

    Keep Control

    • Code Blue.

  • New Order

    Blue Monday

    • Factory.

  • Benny Benassi

    Satisfaction

    • D:vision.

  • Junior Jack

    Thrill Me

    • Thrill Me.
    • Play It Again Sam [PIAS].
    • 1.

  • Timo Maas

    To Get Down

    • Perfecto.

  • Scissor Sisters

    Comfortably Numb

    • Comfortably Numb.
    • Polydor.

  • Paul Oakenfold

    Southern Sun (DJ Tiesto Remix)

    Remix Artist: Ti毛sto.
    • New State Music.

  • Layo & Bushwacka!

    Love Story (Vs Finally)

    • XL Recordings.

  • Basement Jaxx

    Do Your Thing

    • XL Recordings.

  • Moby

    In This World

    • Mute / BMG.

  • Cassius

    The Sound Of Violence (Narcotic Thrust Mix)

    Remix Artist: Narcotic Thrust.
    • The Sound Of Violence.
    • Virgin.
    • 1.

  • Jakatta

    My Vision (feat. Seal)

    • Rulin Records.

  • X鈥怭ress 2

    Lazy

    • Skint.

  • The Streets

    Weak Become Heroes

    • Original Pirate Material.
    • 12.

  • Shy FX & T Power

    Shake Ur Body (feat. Di)

    • Ebony Recordings / EMI.

  • High Contrast

    Music Is Everything

    • Highly Contrasting.

  • Underworld

    Born Slippy

    • Born Slippy.
    • Junior Boy's Own.

  • Fatboy Slim

    Right Here, Right Now

    • Right Here Right Now.
    • Fin People.
    • 1.

  • Camisra

    Let Me Show You

    • Altra Moda.

  • Fusion Orchestra

    Farfisa

    • Wireless Music Recordings.

  • Mr Hermano

    Hypnotista (Ambient Dub)

    • Disorient.

  • Space Cowboy

    I Would Die 4 U

    • Southern Fried Records.

  • Tim Deluxe

    It Just Won't Do (Dub Mix)

    • Underwater Records.

  • All Saints

    Pure Shores

    • London.

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