Long Island rapper Roc Marciano samples old soul and jazz records and Memphis horrorcore instrumentals to create his unique style of hip-hop.

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This powerfully emotional feminist anthem works like a sequel to Dolly’s Nine To Five, with a video to match.

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When it comes to jazz and classical music, the examples I like best are when they incorporate subtle electronic undertones. That’s the case here with German composer Ralph Heidel, though that element is almost  subliminal on this track, Wake Up.

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I was always put off listening to Viagra Boys because of their terrible band name. Which turns out to have been my loss.

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I fell in love with Ellen Foley’s album Night Out the moment I heard this bombastic and blissful opening track – We Belong To The Night. With its piano runs, crunchy guitars, loud drums and epic Wall of Sound production, it could have come from a female-fronted remake of Born To Run.

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Bowie’s album track Something In The Air from Hours was remixed with the addition of Mike Garson’s piano for the movie American Psycho.

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Here’s a deep cut from Santana… No, it isn’t. It’s by a school band from Nigeria called Ofege, recorded back in the early ’70s.

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Ghost Woman make the kind of atmospheric, moody music that instantly appeals to me – slow and spacey, trippy and twangy, jangly and hazy.

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Los Bitchos say of their sound: “We wanted to sound like Van Halen and Cocteau Twins… but from Turkey.” You can’t get much more niche than that.

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Valerie June breaks all the rules by taking on Mazzy Star’s unimprovable song Fade Into You and absolutely nails it.

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