For many years the Opening and Closing parties of Ibiza’s Space nightclub have marked the beginning and the end of the famous Mediterranean island’s unique summer music season. Both events are a gathering of the world’s most party hardy old friends, and the DJ line-up can often reflect that, with ... read more

Cocoon ringmaster Sven Vath has put out a compilation CD to mark every summer he’s held his DJ residency at the legendary Amnesia club in Ibiza. This, the eighth instalment, dating from the 2007 season, highlights some of the music played during his record-breaking series of summer parties back in ... read more

Following on from the huge ‘Clubland Adventures Vol 1’ five (count ‘um!) CD set from early 2009, Defected return here with another 3 discs of highlights from their considerable musical vaults. Only a label with such a prolific and consistent output could go about celebrating 10 years in the ... read more

When Deep Dish – without question one of the most successful DJ partnerships of all time – increasingly started to DJ apart, it was widely acknowledged the reason was that the duo’s musical paths were moving in polar directions. While Dubfire has been a controversial if highly successful convert ... read more

Fans of live dance acts with a stadium-sized sound have been fairly hard done-by of late. Sure Orbital are back on tour and Basement Jaxx keep on firing out the carnival beats, but what about something totally fresh and inspired? The Japanese Popstars are three lads from Derry, Northern Ireland, ... read more

Dirty Pretty Things were back not only with their fantabulous name but with a peach of a single cover that was just adorably picturesque. Anyhoo down to the music... At the risk of being branded old fashioned and told 'that's the style init', 'Wondering' was indeed pretty in melody and ... read more

This is definitely classic Jamiroquai with the disco flavours and bass lines. They've been around for more than 15 years and this was a collection celebrating their many successes and 232 weeks on the UK album chart. The hits that everyone would recognise are 'Space Cowboy', 'Canned Heat' and ... read more

Lebanon born singer songwriter and one name wonder Mika released his 2006 debut single, 'Relax (Take It Easy)'. Already causing a fuss and landing himself some serious radio airplay, this was certainly one name to look out for. And it's not hard to see why. 'Relax' was fabulously flamboyant. It's ... read more

'The Phrase That Pays' was a 2006 single from the Chicago quintet The Academy is… and it came off the back of a very successful period for them. After selling out their first UK trip, the 'Ambitious Ones and Smoking Guns' tour, and supporting label mates Fall Out Boy, the myspace favourites were ... read more

Aggressive, disruptive, threatening, hostile and quarrelsome are just a few of the words these boys may have been subjected to by their school teachers. This is fight music, the kind of track that would have sat well in Football Factory or Green Street, a Stella drinking anthem for the lads and ... read more