Sunshine Bossa

Right now it's a miserable rainy gloomy day outside, so a lazy Sunday listening to tunes makes perfect sense. Nothing cheers up the mood better than a ray of sunshine bossa nova.

So how about a bit of Buscemi & The Michel Bisceglia Ensemble to brighten up the day. Nao Falo Portugues (Jazz Rework) [feat. Fay Lovsky] is taken from the LP Jazz Works from 2008. The original appears on the 2007 LP Retro Nuevo.

Feel the warmth!

Faker gets away with it

Standout track from Chet Faker's new LP Built on Glass released this month. 1998 is a grandiose sound of gritty soulful electronica with house snares and slo-groove soundscapes, an interesting arrangement.

His real name is Nick Murphy, but a sincere tribute to the legendary jazz trumpeter Chet Baker is a lot cooler name for the Australian artist.

Talk is Cheap the lead single from the album is getting all the airplay at the moment, it's an accomplished debut that sounds very much of the day. Ever since his indie-soul cover of Blackstreet’s 1996 R&B anthem No Diggity back in 2012 he's been on the radar, it's good to hear the quality control is maintained on this impeccable debut. Recommended.

All That You keep Doing

This funk fuelled bomb of a tune is a year old this month and I'll never get bored of it, there are quite a few remixed versions of it, Joe Goddard, Ben Pearce and The Emperor Machine to name a few.

But I'm sticking with the Chicken lips original, a heart-pumping funk-laden disco baseline and Charmaine Baines’ soaring soulful vocal. Timeless!

About time we had something new from the Stafford based production duo of Andy Meecham and Dean Meredith.

Tweak your nipples!

Infectious hypnotic groove from Berlin-based producers Massimiliano Paglara and Jules Etienne aka Egyptian Nipples, Bottle Of Mine features on the Back but Half Remixes five-track EP, receiving the remix treatment from Jay Shepheard.

The baseline is fucking huge!

The Feast of the Broken Heart

New York's Hercules & love Affair come storming back with a new LP The Feast of the Broken Heart, and it's out May 26 via Moshi Moshi. This tune Liberty features the unmistakable vocal of John Grant, Andy Butler has this uncanny knack of bringing in obscure vocal talents to feature on his signature brand of dirty beat house and disco blends.

Following in the footsteps of Antony Hegarty the surreal voice of Grant sounds amazing out of context of his own material. Grant also features other tracks along with Krystle Warren, Rouge Mary and Gustaph.

It's all unashamedly in yer face, welcome back!

Lose your mind

Funky Disco mavericks Chromeo tease out another tune from their fourth-coming LP White Woman, Come Alive features a guest spot from Chaz Bundick of Toro Y Moi.

80's synth sounds still in full force with a highly polished sheen, funk guitars that Nile Rogers would be proud of top it off to keep the disco groove on target.

You got me writing...

Metronomy's big slab of indulgent pop Love Letters gets an extensive make-over from dance-floor connoisseur's Soulwax. Adding a typewriter beat the Soulwax brothers pump-up the disco vibe keeping in the mad meandering trumpets and infectious looping chorus. All sounds very DFA and is an epic take on a short sharp piece of pop brilliance.

Are we gonna get a remixed version of the Love Letters album like they did with The English Riviera? lets hope so!

Sick with Fever!

Great to have new material from the Black Keys just in time for the start of the summer. First new track Fever is a relatively pop-rock sound that hits the heights of previous LP 2011's El Camino, Danger Mouse's production is very much in effect on this track, with shades of Broken Bells in the pop sensibilities. Doesn't feel like it's been 3 years since their last LP, and that's probably because I'm still playing it!

New album is officially released May 13, Turn Blue is produced by Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney with Danger Mouse. Whoa!