Various - Operazione Sole - Italian Pop Reggae, Dub & Summer Love AffairsOperation Sole like the summer, hopefully, imminent; Operazione Sole like the 1967 song by Peppino Di Capri, considered, perhaps wrongly, the first ska in Italy, but certainly the first to talk about Jamaica and upbeat rhythms. The record you have in your hand is intended to be a testimony to how much the sounds born in Kingston between the '60s and '70s had a significant influence on local pop. With the first explosion of reggae in England between

instantly recognisable and one of many highlights in the Scottish groups enviable discography

B2 Stars Will Fall

's mini documentary on YouTube:

Rosie Gaines came to notoriety when she became a member of Prince & The New Power Generation

Mic told us just how much it means to him to have “Much To Much” re-issued: “It’s an amazing feeling to have something you created almost 40 years ago still have relevance and even more amazing to be considered among the Northern Soul boogie anthems

a Sao Paulo-based singer and composer influenced by new MPB and other signature Brazilian sounds like Forro

And that's what we get here on this new EP for Beretta Music - four lush deep house joints with his smooth signature drum loops and gloriously incidental melodies

then rolls out some of his signature bassline and moody stabs on “A Tight Grip”

but she knew the Atlantic lay between them

philosophy and revolutionary history of samba (‘Sambo Mesmo Sem’)

most notably Detroit techno

‘Yoyi’ is far from a one-track album