Album

New York imprint's bumper pack of freestyle punk-funk

Evergreen hipster's tasteful remixes compiled

Shelved second album from recently rediscovered singer-songwriter

Mad Gregorian astral-rock from 1971

Awkward genre-bending from Glaswegian grunge trio

Sophomore offering by Portland pop-folkies is a concept album of sorts

Welsh punk tykes enjoy a nice scream

Hip-hop popster gets rich telling girls to bend over

PERFORMANCE

In the early '80s, energised by hip hop and electro, New Order produced a string of acts for Factory under their short-lived studio moniker Be Music, the results of which were greeted with indifference on these shores. Quite why is hard to fathom since, as Twice As Nice attests, tracks like "Sakura" by Section 25 and "Motherland" by RFATP were taut, bewitching slices of robo-funk that still excite today. The other producers herein (Arthur Baker, Mark Kamins and Donald "Dojo" Johnson of A Certain Ratio) all had their moments, too.