Comet Gain went back to the garage for their DIY album Réalistes in 2002, with this big dirty ballad one of its highlights.

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El Michels Affair make impeccably crafted cinematic instrumentals recreating the sound of late-Sixties and early-Seventies funk and soul.

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Sibling duo Tonstartssbandht have released 17 albums in as many years without breaking through to the mainstream with their experimental sound.

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WhoMadeWho are a Danish trio from Copenhagen with an ever-evolving array of diverse musical influences who began in the mid-2000s.

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South London girl Joy Crookes channels the ghost of Amy Winehouse in her infectious summer song When You Were Mine, with its video shot in Brixton Market.

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Sade’s smooth song is given a glorious makeover by New York producer Danny Krivit with Boyd Jarvis’s organ solo to the fore.

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I’ve never been a jazz-funk fan and the vibraphone would be very low on my list of favourite instruments, ranking alongside the flute and just above the ukelele. But I’d have to make an exception for Roy Ayers.

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In a month when we lost some big names in music – Marianne Faithfull, Roberta Flack, Rick Buckler of The Jam – the death of Bill Fay may have passed without much attention.

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It’s impossible to forget this tune once you’ve heard it because it lives inside your head for ever and will pop back whenever you hear the word Milkshake for the rest of your life.

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Asian Dub Foundation team up with Iggy Pop on a new version of his  Stooges classic No Fun, recorded in Miami in 2007 and released on the ‘Punkara’ album the following year.

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