Home Alone (On the Night Before Christmas), various artists (Smash the House)

Belgian producer/DJ duo Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike founded Smash the House records back in 2010, and as near as I can establish this 2020 release is the label's first Christmas album, a compilation featuring label artists. As you might gather from the label founders' DJ heritage, this is club music/EDM pretty much from start to finish. As for the "Home Alone" reference, there is a version of the original theme from the movie in this style by Ummet Ozcan & Jaxx & Vega, and a title song for the collection with no connection to the movie by Dimitri Vegas alone. The only other original tunes are "Christmas Time (feat. Jeremy Oceans)" by Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike, Armin van Buuren & Brennan Hart, which starts slow but builds to a medium tempo dance number, and "Wonderful Dreams (Holidays Are Coming)" by Klaas, a solid composition that might benefit from a pop or folk ballad treatment, though this performance is perfectly fine. The remainder of the album is basically EDM arrangements of familiar holiday tunes like Coone's "The Nutcracker," 3 Are Legend, Brennan Heart & Toneshifterz' version of "Deck the Halls" featuring Timmy Trumpet, "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" by Dimitri, Mike and R3HAB, the Shakin' Stevens number "Merry Christmas Everyone" by VIZE and Dimitri, "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas" by Quintino, "Do They Know It's Christmas" by NERVO & Tiscore featuring Polina Vita, "Feliz Navidad" by F4ST, "Jingle Bells" by Bassjackers, "Last Christmas" by MATTN, Sylver & Dino Warriors, "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" by Angemi, Wolfpack & Polina Grace, "Jingle Bell Rock" by Blasterjaxx & Tony Junior, "Rocking Around the Christmas Tree" by Harris & Ford, Slade's "Merry Xmas Everybody" done by Dr. Phunk, and, almost inevitably, Mariah Carey's "All I Want For Christmas is You" by Dimitri, Mike & Brennan Heart. If your holiday mixes are meant for the dance floor, you'll want some of this for yourself.