Holiday Remixed, various artists (BasicLux)

This time around they call it New Style Lounge, but it's more of what we hear on the Reindeer Room and Om Records collections -- complex but danceable beats, electronic effects, droning accompaniment pads overlaid with vocals and deconstructed melody lines. The liner notes tell us to listen for elements of "nu jazz, deephouse, discohouse and drum & bass." A mixture of cut 'n pasted classics like "Hark the Herald Angels Sing," "Little Drummer Boy," "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen," "Greensleeves" and "Auld Lang Syne" and originals like Bryan Ogden's "Home for the Holidays," "Ask Yourself" by Sunday People, "Awaken" by the Source and "Winter Wait" by Electric Brother, along with Mudfish's version of a Spanish classic, "Los Peces en el Rio." This is actually pretty listenable, although more in a background music sort of way -- but its danceability is the real calling card. From 2003. The same people also produced The Mistletoe Lounge in 2006, a similar collection.