Two Piers Schallplatten & CDs

Review: If you want to get people dancing with wild abandon, you can't go wrong reaching for that gnarly 60s breakbeat sound. When fuzzed up guitars collided with pop and those irresistible big beats, the results were explosive, and now Two Piers have gathered together a solid two discs of heavyweight party monsters from five golden years of untamed floor fillers. When a compilation opens with Sonics' classic 'Shot Down', you know it's going to kick off from that point onwards. Further classics from Starlets, Count Five and Seeds amongst scores more make this a collection not to be missed.

Review: "The album was inspired by my many happy DJ nights promoting my club night 'Club Pod' down in Brighton in the 1990s and my love of all things Sixties Freakbeat. I wanted to put as many great tracks as I could on one compilation to hopefully bring across the feeling of sheer joy from spinning these awesome tracks in a club and seeing the place go off," says Mark McQuillan, the man responsible for this expansive compendium to a driving 1960s sub genre of UK and US guitar undergrounds. The Haunted, The Birds, The Wimple Winch, The Remains, The Kinks, The Eyes, The Shadows of Knight, and The Action, all make appearances. As do other bands that don't start with 'the'. For example, Davie Allan & The Arrows, Count Five, and Spencer Matthews Band (just kidding). If you know, you know.