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Charity album that’s as listenable as it is worthy

This two-disc charity covers album offers a little something for all musical tastes and a few laughs from FM104's breakfast show.

A battle of wits and humour as well as musical talent, Duke Special and Neil Hannon put on quite a show in a musical face-off with no declared winner.

Dublin is to get a new 12 Nights Of Christmas festival, which will be putting on shows in some of the city’s finest music emporiums.

The ‘80s pop revival gathers apace with Nik Kershaw, T’Pau, Bananarama and – calm yourself ladies – Rick Astley making appearances in the Here and...

The line-up here is practically an argument for the extinction of mankind. I mean, Keane? Even on their own they’re worse than global warming.

Clone impresses with this split release. Orgue Electronique’s ‘On A String’ is pure Chicago hedonism, the tight, doubling up claps setting the scene...

The standard rarely drops below decent, and there are sustained periods of excellence, too.

The second split Spectral release sees James T Cotton bang the acid box, emitting low slung 303 emissions and heavy duty claps on ‘2 Keys’. He’s joined...

Force Of Nature’s remix of Ana’s ‘Shift’ plants a heavy, pulsing backing underneath the Japanese pop band’s floaty melodies and fey guitar lines,...

The fourth instalment sees Bee Low deliver menacing, bleepy minimalism and Antonelli and Norken & Deer conjuring up the kind of warm, widescreen chords and...

The soundtrack for the previous Spiderman film had a strong thread of emo and hard rock running through it. This collection has moved more towards...

Alex Cortex launches the celebratory EP with the droning bass and razor sharp percussion of ‘Freakwave’ and Reade Truth dives to uncharted depths, with...

A Tribute To should’ve been a godsend: a selection of Joni’s finest tunes, sung by a host of special guests. The reality, as one might guess from...

‘I Gave You Away’ is a return to what Dear’s Audion project does best, teasing the grimiest, dankest sounds from his 303. It’s in good company here:...

‘Tuning 4’ is all about subtlety: My My’s version of Duoteque’s ‘Amarcord’ starts off innocuously, but morphs into a wave of building, droning...

Combining new school Italo bombs like the Syd remix of Pauli vs. Tyrell’s ‘Little’ with hard to find remixes of Clone classics like Unit 4’s...

Mobilee surprises with this remix package: Sebo K turns GummiHZ’s ‘Isolate’ into a camp vocal-led Chicago track, and Prosumer steps back in time to...

You may think the Trenton guys are a bunch of scarf wearers fannying about on Macs in lofts in Mitte, but Till von Stein & Aera’s contribution seduces with...

Worthy projects do not always make for interesting music, but this is quite an exception.

Troy Pierce takes Chelonis Jones’s ‘Deer In The Headlights’ down an ominously dark direction. But the best remix here is Pierce, Heart Throb and Konrad...

Focusing on Motor City techno’s love of deep textures and marrying it with dubby German sparseness, the slamming yet evocative ‘Bloom’ by Keith Kemp...

Jacek Sienkiewicz’s ‘Time Starts…’ gets the remix treatment. Etiop represents the harder, bleepier end of glitch. There’s also a broken beat remake...

Get a cross section of the Irish music industry to record/re-record tracks in their native tongue, thereby focusing the attention of the very group of people...

Not every German producer churns out textbook minimalism and Holger Flinsch has opted for an alternate path on ‘Hexenlaub’, the highlight of this split...

Not as strong as its predecessor, but ‘Part 2’ is notable for Putsch 79 and Alden Tyrell’s spaced out melodic Italo and the majestic claps and nagging...

Woody McBride dusts down the bandanas for the third ‘Acid’ episode. Mike Acid delivers bass sucker-punches on ‘Ultra Disko’; McBride hits hard with...

Not an official release in the strictest sense, this in-store sampler serves as a timely reminder – if one were needed - of the quality, variety and...