Misiu kicks off the Heads High label in style, building on a style first hinted at on an edit 12" for Razor N Tape back in 2016. The mood on 'Darkness Falls' is swooning and romantic, steeped in stirring string refrains, earworm analogue leads and a sweet, disco-licked groove. 'Cascade' has a more bumping house feel to it, replete with diva vocal hooks and a nagging organ line. 'For Your Love' is the peak time, sun down anthem of the record, dropping in some treasured vocal hooks and tasteful peaks and troughs of energy. The record rolls out on the lilting charms of 'Bala', which uses a more eclectic palette to deliver a very different feel to the other three tracks and leave the possibilities wide open for Misiu's next move.

Donald Byrd was joined by tenor saxophonist Hank Mobley, alto sax wizard Jackie McLean, Duke Pearson on piano, bassists Doug Watkins and Reggie Workman and drummer Lex Humphries on this stunning session from 1960. It's a record packed with highlights, not least a powerful ballad on 'Little Girl Blue', or the hard bop swing of 'My Girl Shirl' and 'Lex', the last of those two in particular features a soulful solo from Mobley that really stays with you. This is part fo the Tone Poet series which places particular focusses on exceptional audiophile Blue Note LP reissues presented by Music Matters.

New year, new white label vinyl that you need in your life. This one comes from Adam "Admin" Wickens who is a lovely chap and fine DJ and producer who we havent heard from for a while. In the past he has impressed on Kolour Limited and Banoffee Pies and now goes deep across a pair of jazz tinged deep house gems. 'Step Into Light' has a louche beat and piano lounge chords over the top of the shakers, dusty hits and mellifluous pads. 'Reflect & Heal' then speed sup little but is just as soft, cuddly, and richly melodic for those late night sessions.

Samosa get super funky this new year with a four track offering packed with talents. Souldynamic opens up with the party starting 'Black Night' with its old and dusty disco vibes, soaring strings and brisling vocal. De Gama's 'Crocodile Boogie' is a a high energy affair with plenty of big Rhodes chords and twanging guitar riffs amping up the vibe then HP Vince gets a bit more smooth and seductive with 'My Baby Got The Blues', a Moodymann-esque sort of house cut. AlexNY closes with a clean and crisp disco pumper to complete a varied and vital EP.

It's been almost a full decade since the last Wagon Christ album from Luke Vibert. He is a producer who can do just about anything and has been right at the sharp end of any number of sounds for the last 25 years. The newly revived Wagon Christ project is sounding as good as ever here across 14 tracks of glistening electronics, dancing grooves and exquisitely colourful melodies that draw on dub, pop, boogie, synth, house, electro and techno but always come out with a very distinctive Vibert twang. The melancholic slow motion pomp of 'Special Designer Song' and chunky funk of 'Likewutchyadoo' are particular standouts.

Chicago's Boogie Munster Crew teams up once more with the Star Creature label for a second release of major disco goodness. Put together by Tim Zawada and Kool Hersh, the compilation picks up where the first instalment left off - with a bunch of holy grail private press Chicago boogie tracks that have all been officially licensed and sourced direct from the artists. Some of these tunes are not even on YouTube they are that rare. They've had slight DJ friendly edits to make them bang that bit more and that they surely will.

What You Gonna Do When the Grid Goes Down? is a mash up of tunes from a free album and plenty of classics. As such it bangs for hardcore fans but doesn't offer much new for anyone else. Guests like George Clinton and Cypress Hill, Mike D, AD Rock & Run DMC and DJ Premier all help make each track standout and the powerful likes of 'State Of The Union' will always need t be heard nice and loud, especially the line 'fear the combover' which is a perfect anthem for the outgoing 45th President of the United States. This special gatefold also includes inserts and stickers.

The Anjunabeats label has played a key role introducing newer, younger fans of EDM to more considered house forms which can range from deep to tech to trance-y. Someone who has been at the heart of that is Ejeca aka Trance Wax, who five years ago served up series of tunes that fused techno, trance and breaks into fun and exciting new forms that connected with a new audience. A limited edition run of vinyl bootlegs traded hands on Discogs for exorbitant prices and a cult following ensued and now they are all collected together for this first time on this deluxe LP.