Rising German DJ Micha Moor teams up with one of Offer Nissim’s favorite female voices to create a progressive House track that gets you on first listen and has you turning it up just a little louder each time you hear it. The track is built around the conceit of falling in love as someone’s world being broken: The routine is shattered after letting someone penetrate walls of protection. All that’s punctuated by arch-like chord progressions and a thundering bass line that drops out at key moments to underscore the drama. Additionally, an incredible ensemble produced remixes, including Inpetto, Itay Kalderon & Mr. Black, and Nissim himself.

This song really was a collision. Originally an instrumental track by Avicii called “Penguin,” and later made into a vocal track called “Fade Into Darkness,” Leona Lewis recorded her own vocals to the track, claiming that the instrumental had been sent to her to “work on.”  Avicii claimed no knowledge of this and sued Leona and her label but eventually settled after Leona’s camp conceded to credit both artists on the track as a “collaboration.” The result of this debacle is actually rather nice. Leona’s first real dance single shows she can do more than just power ballads and can move a dance floor as well. Remixes provided by Afrojack, Alex Gaudino & Jason Rooney, Cahill and Nay Ray … not surprisingly no mix by Avicii.

Anything Kirsty Hawkshaw vocalizes is a thing of beauty. She could sing the Starbucks menu and make baristas cry. While this is the third time BT and Kirsty have teamed up to create art together, the starkness of its sublime beauty is all the more standout against the backdrop of all the jagged electro and acidic sounds that have become their musical zeitgeist. “A Million Stars” is a healing song about letting go of pain, tapping into the energy around you, and the promise that “You will feel love again/After the rain” — all delivered in delicate silk thread-like high notes atop BT’s beautiful guitar strums and rounded beats. Remixes by Myon & Shane 54, Sultan & Ned Shepard, Airwave, Digital Stories, et al.

She’s finally back. After two years of battling her record label in a suit over distribution, JoJo has signed on Interscope Records. The voice we fell in love with five years ago is finally gracing the airwaves again. “Disaster,” the lead single from forthcoming album Jumping Trains, has JoJo blowing over a pop rock power ballad backdrop about the demise of a relationship and underscores a vocal prowess frankly absent from pop for years. No remixes have shown up, and I’m not entirely certain this is the type of track that will get that kind of treatment. No matter; in its original format, the track has me hitting repeat.

So maybe this is only a promotional tool for The Voice, but that doesn’t stop it from being a brilliant piece of pop. The track combines Maroon 5’s radio rock sound with a clubby dance beat. Christina sings the hell out of her lines as if reminding the world,“ I can still do this!” Adam Levine’s delivery is taut and effortless and sounds as carelessly beautiful as he is himself. Highly remix friendly, the track has been given official — Cutmore, Michael Carrera and Soul Seekerz — and bootlegged treatments in myriad styles, including Sex Ray Vision and Funk3d.

This combination seemed to come completely out of left field, but the union of these two forces is pretty heavenly. The Nightcrawlers, whom clubbers will remember from their dubby 1995 un-singalongable yet ubiquitous “Push the Feeling On,” team up with Taio Cruz, the Euro Soul-cum-American electro-pop crossover breakout, to create “Cryin’ Over You.” “Cryin’” sounds exactly like the arrangements John Reid sang as The Nightcrawlers, but with the exponentially stronger pipes of Taio pushing the product into the realm of epic. And when you add in the contributing remixers, including Freemasons, Cahill, LMC, Kenny Hayes and Jorg Schmid, this is a top contender for 2011 late-summer anthem. Taio’s had a long road to American pop relevance from Euro obscurity, but it’s nice to see someone like him unafraid to pay a little homage to the sound of his townspeople.

Everyone knows that good things happen when stars align: love; opportunity; a black president. So when five align at once, you better hold onto something heavy and anchored and brace yourself for what’s coming your way. In the Air is a new collaboration between three super-producers — Morgan Page, progressive House’s darling of the moment; Sultan & Ned Shepard, clubland’s rapidly rising royalty; and BT, the Godfather of modern electronica — and one unique vocalist, Scottish crooner Angela McCluskey, best known for her hypnotic contribution to Telepopmusik’s “Breathe.” Lyrically, Angela proclaims the change she feels coming, the looming fear that love is going to become heartbreak, and the feeling of desperation over how to respond to what she cannot stop from happening (read: pain made pretty). No remixes as of yet, but this one’s ripe for additional interpretations.

This song is one of the reasons progressive House is the amazing amalgamation that it is: the combination of beat-driven inertia, sweeping trance-like melodies and stark sublime vocals. Recently employed as the opening track for a Morgan Page podcast mixshow, “Black & White” leaves an instant impression and sets an otherworldly atmosphere in place without all the pesky smoke machines and freaky fantasy rave imagery. Amba Shepherd’s breathy vocals delicately proclaim, “Every day it’s like I’m dreaming in black and white/You are all of the colors missing in my life.” How can you not get at least a little tripped up in those words and bits of imagery? The four-track digital single includes the original and Joan Reyes’ “Closing Mix.” While not extensive, between those two variations you’ve got all you need.

If ever there was a tailor-made summer jam, this is it. Half of the Top 40 at the moment are songs about dancing, drinking, clubbing or stripping. The other half are about love. As simple as it sounds, “Put Your Hands Up” is a standout from all of those because it combines the two intentions to make conditional upon the other: “Put your hands up if you feel love.” Blam! Gold. Any DJ who plays this not only has the crowd jumping to the beat, but also has them drunkenly thinking about who they love that’s justifying the action. Over thinking it? Come on, you know it’s true. To top it off, “Hands Up” has been served with a full remix package, including mixes by Basto, Bimbo Jones, Nervo, and (applause, applause) Pete Hammond. Kylie’s in the middle of a world tour, so put your hands up if you’re willing to sleep with someone for tickets.

Everyone loves a dirty girl. Natalia Kills is a British singer/songwriter who describes her style as “dark sounding pop music.” It sounds a lot like Gaga’s “Just Dance,” complete with Akon tagging Konvict Music in the first seven seconds. Having garnered recognition as a No. 1 unsigned artist on MySpace Music, “Mirrors” is her breakout release following 2009’s “Zombie” video. It’s also the first official single from her forthcoming debut album Perfectionist on Interscope. A fun song to ruin good sheets to, “Mirrors” is about spirited sex: “Turning the lights out/Tighten the handcuffs/And the mirror’s gonna fog tonight!” It even includes a promise to make your “love grenade” explode. Bless her. Remixes by Moto Blanco, Tonka, Doctor Rosen Rosen, Frankmusik and Chris Moody.