Made To Dance Schallplatten & CDs

Review: The genius of the Made To Dance series lies in its mysterious creator - or creators - decision to add exciting, but classily executed, contemporary touches to re-edits of largely overlooked and lesser-known tracks. Our publicity-shy hero has hit gold once more on volume six, with A-side 'Osso di Sleppia' cleverly combining elements from an off-kilter tropical classic - think loose-limbed central American percussion, hilife guitars and snaking Clarinet lines - with raw-sounding electronic pulses and modular bass. 'Mustafa II Ribelle' is a little more raucous and righteous, offering a subtly tooled-up take on what sounds like a North African funk number.

Review: The Made To Dance mission is s simple but effective one - take some stone cold gold from yesterday and smartly, sympathetically re-edit it for modern dance floors. No one knows who is behind this project - or even whether it is one person or a collective - but who cares when the jams are this sweet? The seventh volume is another superb one with 'Yuda' bringing mad Latin rhythms, intense hand claps and chunky tribal grooves. On the reverse is 'Achili', which is built on pounding kicks as loose perc and steel drums all add fuel to the fire.

Review: Made to Dance has a simple mission operative and over its first five alases has so far nailed it each and every time. The unknown artist behind the music and the label strikes gold again here right from the off. 'Warebe' opens up with a big, retro tinged soul sound that has a sweet vocal and crisp drums next to deft synth twists and turns. It's disco with a twist, for sure. Flip the little blue 7" over and you'll find 'The Love Factor', a more tropical and deep cut groove. This one has snaking hi hats and retro-stabs, tumbling toms and languid bass riffs all shaking your limbs loose.

Review: The people behind the Made To Dance re-edit series keep their cards close to their chest, offering up little information about their identities or aims other than some admirable words about drawing on "different musical traditions going beyond classifications". It would be nice to know a little more, because their occasional releases - and this tidy "45" in particular - are really rather good. A-side "Lothar" sees the mystery scalpel fiends make merry with a Latin jazz number, to which they've added squelchy acid lines and a little more dancefloor weight. Arguably even better is percussive and funky flipside "Bad Bad Puma", a tooled-up disco-jazz number that cleverly blends glistening guitar solos, wild Hammond organs, loose-limbed drum-breaks and locked-in, house-style kick-drum patterns.

Review: Presented on a rather striking green vinyl seven-inch, the latest volume in the hot-to-trot Made To Dance edits series could well be the mysterious crew's finest work to date. Our pick of the pair is undoubtedly A-side "Olhos Negro", a lightly tooled-up rendition of a suitably spacey samba-disco number rich in rubbery slap-bass, typically Brazilian percussion, jaunty guitars, blue-eyed soul vocals and dancing horns. That said, the more stomping and celebratory "Senorita Get Down", a bouncy AOR disco number powered forwards by undulating bass, ear-catching piano stabs, mazy horns and winding synth solos, is also a sizzling, summery treat.