Its the beginning of the week, you want something to awaken you, jump you out of your seat in the cold run up to the Christmas holidays. How about a glut of spine tingling remixes?

- Foals - Hummer (Passions Remix) - Buy here.
First up is a remix of the now classic post-Klaxons party anthem, Hummer by Foals. Emerging this year as possibly one of the most exciting party bands to come to the surface since Skins forever engrained the Soulwax edit of 'Standing In The Way Of Control' on our brains as the only party song the cocaine loving over-16 will ever need. This is classic Foals, keeping all the beats and main vocal lines of the original, but infusing them with a floor killing cowbell line and a million-and-one French knob twists. Its a paint by numbers re-edit of something its hard to mess with without losing the integral appeal. While I'd love to hear something like a Diplo remix of this, it seems this is the best thats going to drop so far.

- Calvin Harris - Merrymaking (Kissy Sellout Remix) - Buy here.
Starting out with some Kate Nash style piano chords and scales, this soon descends into a bassy, flicky synth driven stomper. Keeping pretty light on the typical strong dance beats, it relies on reforming the already dancey riffs and synth lines while layering them over each other in increasingly affected ways, fabulous stuff. In a similar way to the Foals remix above, it manages to keep the original format of the song while sexing it up significantly. Fresh but sub-par take on an already incredible song by one of the most exciting remixers going at the moment.

- Bloc Party - Flux (Goodbooks Magnetism Remix) - Buy here.
This was given away free with last weeks copy of NME in the UK, along with remixes by JFK and Punks Jump Up, but for those of you who don't buy NME, or live out of the UK, here it is again. Its a cracking take on a song that isn't too perfect in its original incarnation. This remix adds some much needed structure to the song, breaking it up a bit, giving it some build and slowdown, seperating the choruses and verses out, all while wrapping it in this fantastic ramshackle electro sheen. Fabulous stuff!

- Ladyfuzz - Oh Marie (Jeremy Warmsley Gospel Truth Edition) - Buy here.
A predictably fantastic remix of the standout single from the only album by the now defunct Ladyfuzz. Once signed to Transgressive Records, putting on one of the best live shows I've seen in years didn't seem to keep this band alive and well. I can't seem to find why Ladyfuzz split, but it was news to me today. Shame. On this, Jeremy takes the vocals from the track, and in a similar way to his Mystery Jets remix, layers them over some soft bedroom-electro and ghostly sounds. Its like sticking Liz from Ladyfuzz in an antiques shop alone, adding some ghostly kids in to the mix, stiring it all around, and then recording the results. Fabulous stuff.

[MP3] Foals - Hummer (Passions Remix) - Buy here.
[MP3] Calvin Harris - Merrymaking (Kissy Sellout Remix) - Buy here.
[MP3] Bloc Party - Flux (Goodbooks Magnetism Remix) - Buy here
[MP3] Ladyfuzz - Oh Marie (Jeremy Warmsley Gospel Truth Edition) - Buy here.