Review: Armada Music continues to celebrate its 20th birthday with a series of suitably upbeat compilations. This one focuses on house music, offering up a swathe of genuinely seminal club cuts, crossover hits and feel-good festival anthems. It's a peak-time party starter pack that pits genuine old school anthems (Joe Smooth's 'Promised Land', Inner City's 'Good Life', Reese's 'Just Another Chance', the chunky extended dub of Chez Damier's 'Can You Feel It'), mid-90s Euro-house (Rene Et Gaston's luscious 'Valle de Larmes'), hands-aloft early 2000s gospel house (Praise Cats righteous 'Shined On Me', speed garage (Sol Brothers' 'Turn Me Out'), thumping filter-house (Phats and Small's once ubiquitous 'Turn Around' and Funk Deluxe's infamous Bob Marley remix), spicy Latin house (Afro Medusa) and a dash of piano-powered Detroit house (MK in his early '90s, pre-garage pomp).
Review: Yes, we can hardly believe it ourselves, but it's that time of year again - mulled wine, chestnuts roasting on open fires and all that. Now, we all may roll our eyes when we hear the inescapable refrains of Christmas tunes every year, but here's the thing: we all need them in our lives (imagine Christmas without them, it's simply not cricket!), but how many of us actually own them? Well, with 111 classics (from Bing Crosby to Elvis, Liberace and Alvin & The Chipmunks) packed on this album, it's safe to say you'll never have to worry about your festive soundtrack again (leaving us all more time to concentrate on the mulled wine and pies, hoorah!).
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