Blast your mid-week blues away with the lovely Ray Barretto, who is our wonderful provider of today’s SOTD! Aw, thanks Ray! Taken from his 1963 album On Fire Again (Encendido

Slightly keeping with the vampire theme of yesterday (ahem) today’s newly formed RECORD OF THE DAY was simply too good for a Single of the Day’ accolade.  Why? Well read on

Wind down your week with this funk classic from Gordon Staples and The String Thing! Gordon Staples was the concert master for the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, who famously played on

Aneet may sneer, but I am a self-confessed Elton John mega-fan (although that stops dead at 1979′s horrendous disco album, Victim of Love; they all did a disco album at some

The world famous Tom Tom Club are the provider’s of today’s chirpy SOTD.  L’Elephant is one of the many delightful highlights from their seminal self-titled 1981 debut album, and is

Electronic pioneers Can have always been a bit funky. From the disco silliness of I Want More to the hypnotic Vitamin C, the group’s influence stretched further than the usual

German label Macro, have recently unearthed some rare recordings by disco and HI-NRG legend Patrick Cowley. Recorded in the early eighties with close friend Jorge Socarras, the sessions, recorded under

(“Welcome back, my friends, to the show that never ends…” Except it does end, it ends here. I have no idea why I’m quoting Emerson, Lake and Palmer, but anyway…

You might recall I was banging on about musicians appearing in films last month. When I was writing that, erm, piece I decided to limit my selection to include only films in which the rock and

Released on Butterfly Records in 1979, Hott City’s Feelin’ Love is today’s super spaced-out Single of The Day! Taken from their studio album Ain’t Love Grand, the track’s sexy blend

It’s boring old Monday, so let’s brighten it up with a bit of brilliant bongo action (not that sort of bongo action, you saucy sods!) from Michael Viner’s Incredible Bongo

Released on Champion records in 1985, this is a super-duper slice of funk fuelled soul from Rene and Angela.  A popular underground hit, ‘Secret Rendezvous’ is a swirling and gorgeous

One of my favourite Metro Area songs ever, this bubbling track from 2006 seems to sound better every year. Does that mean the quality of ‘dance’ music is generally declining

This slightly tongue in cheek synth-pop track was the title track of former Tangerine Dream founding member Pete Baumann’s 1981 album ‘Repeat Repeat’. Baumann shared production duties on this record