This slice of hypnotic, dubby disco came out of New York in 1984 and, as with most standout tracks from the time, still sounds totally fresh today. Apparently Ron Hardy used to beat the shit out of this at the Music Box, and you can definitely hear the sound that went on to influence the...

After unpacking my records from a recent house move, I rediscovered this absolute belter of a record. Somehow I’d managed to completely forget about it, and finding it again is one of the best things to come out of moving house so far. The original version is one of the Chemical Brothers’ better moments, but...

I got my hands on this new release from Mutant Beat Dance today, and having listened to both sides all the way through I have concluded that this EP is pretty ridiculous (in a good way). Mutant Beat Dance is a collaboration between 2 chaps from Chicago who happen to have names as brilliant as...

For some reason, I passed on this record when I first listened to it in Phonica last year. Thankfully I rediscovered it a few months later and was still able to pick it up, which is good because I bloody love it. Although I don’t like everything he puts out, there’s no denying there’s real...

This little diamond of a record arrived in the post for me today. It’s arrival was made even better by the fact it was delivered by the happiest and campest postman I’ve ever had the pleasure of meeting. He was singing Oh What A Beautiful Morning at the top of his voice to the whole...

First Simon’s post on the excellent Witch and now this. That’s two Italo posts in two days! Madness. Faces is much cheesier than Witch, and all the better for it in my opinion. There’s no getting away from the fact that the best Italo records are cheesy. They have a certain innocence to them which...

Hollie Cook’s self-titled debut album was without doubt my most listened to album of 2011. I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve listened to it and I’m still nowhere near bored of it. The album never tries to be big, clever or ground-breaking. Instead it’s nine tracks of the most perfect poppy dub...

So we’re starting to blog. How very exciting. Well I suppose I ought to post up a song that I am well and truly addicted to at the moment. Here’s the 12” instrumental version of Blood Hollins’ Don’t Give It Up.  I don’t really know that much about Mr Blood other than he was a...