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Review: During the early 1980s, the music of New York producer Bobby Orlando ruled gay clubs, particularly in Europe. While he was responsible for putting together and producing a huge number of acts - The Flirts, The Bang Gang, Runaway, Barbi & The Kens etc. - it was with drag artist Divine that he enjoyed his greatest commercial success. His formula was simple: synthesizer-heavy, radio-friendly club tracks that borrowed heavily from Italo-disco, Hi-NRG, Patrick Cowley and Giorgio Moroder. It's interesting that the majority of the material on this Divine Greatest Hits still stands up to scrutiny today, particularly the deliciously camp "Shoot Your Shot", percussive "Jungle Jezebel" and Italo-goes-rap madness of "Psychedelic Shack".

Review: American greats Earth, Wind & Fire were very much one of their era's finest and most commercially successful bands. They define the funk, soul and disco sound of the 70s onwards and by 1998 had a huge arsenal of tunes to draw on for this, their Greatest Hits album. It came just a year after their In The Name of Love record and is packed with gold such as 'September' from 1978, 'Got to Get You Into My Life' from the same year and 'Let's Groove' from 1981 amongst many more. This version comes on limited and numbered gatefold 180-gram audiophile yellow vinyl.