Yuksek

Review: French producer Yuksek has released rather a lot of music over the last 15 years, though this appears to be his first ever collection of re-edits. You'll want to check tasty opener "How I Love To Dance", a lolloping rendition of a quirky and obscure disco number rich in Patrick Adams style instrumentation and well-placed dub delays, while the drum-heavy "The Beat" features waves of wonky percussion, a pulsating bassline and plenty of sweaty FX. Elsewhere, "Think Of You" is a head-bobbing revision of an AOR disco/disco-rock cut that sounds like it could have been re-edited by Eric Duncan, and "Dance In Disco" is a seductive Gallic disco chugger rich in heavily accented English vocals and jazzy electric piano solos.

Review: Some serious cross-border collaboration going on here, as French producer (and Partyfine founder) Yuksek joins forces with Belgian twosome Villa. "Showbizz" more than lives up to its name, delivering a hot-to-trot, mirrorball-friendly fusion of rubbery slap bass, crunchy house beats, spiraling nu-disco electronics, delay-laden vocals (including, bizarrely, a section that sounds like it was provided by a toddler on helium) and cheery boogie synthesizers. Defected favourites Purple Disco Machine provide the obligatory flipside rub, beefing up the beats, emphasizing a funk-fuelled guitar riff and generally making "Showbizz" feel like a disco-house anthem in the making. We suspect we'll be hearing this quite a lot in the weeks and months ahead.