Last night’s incendiary set by The Prodigy is the last one I watched at this year’s Glastonbury – and the first where I really wish I was there.

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Like some ultra-sweet confection that rots your teeth, this novelty chart topper from 1999 is just so addictive you can’t help but love it. The appeal is a combination of three things: its infectious trance beat, that twangy Hawaiian guitar figure, and the breathy bedroom vocal.

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The sun has come out at last and this tune takes me back to the dancefloors of Ibiza where I wangled my way on work freebies a few times in the early ’90s.

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Not gonna deny I am biased when it comes to promoting local artists, so I make no excuse for posting Rose Gray’s tribute to our shared home borough in her ethereal techno tune Hackney Wick.

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Rave duo Altern 8 took Acid House and Rave culture into the charts in the early ’90s with their blend of outrageous outfits and infectious dance tunes.

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Bomb The Bass, the studio project of Tim Simenon, shot straight into the singles chart in early 1988 with their sample-heavy debut single Beat Dis.

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Hackney girls Mel & Kim followed Britain’s first house single with the global chart-topper Respectable in 1987.

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No prizes for guessing why this one popped into my mind this week as Los Angeles battles the terrible wildfires.

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Is this classic late-period disco? Or is it prototype ’80s dance-pop? Frankly, who cares when it sounds like this?!

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In their heyday in the early 1980s, it was impossible to ignore pop-soul trio Imagination with their infectious dance hits and flamboyant front man Leee John.

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