Album

Ex-Mr Joan Collins' Willy Wonka years

Post-Bonzos solo outing from 1970 for the future Ron Nasty

Eighties 'fireside soul' queen's first album in 10 years

San Francisco art-punks' laptop party

All-star salute to one of America's finest talents

All-too-brief mini album

Sixth album unites Rochdale's biggest ever musical export with producer Trevor Horn

Bootleg-quality live recordings from '96

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.