Back in 2023, Parisian jazz-funk-meets-disco outfit Chatobaron partnered with 21st century disco icon Dimitri From Paris on the superb 'Chez Madame La Baronne'. At the time, the Idjut Boys were called in to remix it, but only one of their suite of takes was released. Hence this killer four-tracker on their own Bite The Day label. It's typical of the long-serving duo's wild, wonderful and frequently deliciously dubbed-out work. While the opening 'Le Fouet version' is a rolling, spacey, sun-splashed and only lightly dubby dancefloor excursion, the mix which follows - the 'Grosse Bite version' - is a wonderfully trippy, percussion-rich drum dub smothered in tape delay and space echo; in other words, a classic Idjuts interpretation. Over on the reverse, the 'Sac Plain' version is a proper Idjuts dub that flits between spacey drop-outs and extended groove sections, while the closing 'Sac Vide version' is a sunrise-ready ambient delight.

Billy Woods returns with Golliwog, his first album in two years, following 2023's Maps. While that record was a sharp, introspective travelogue, this one souses into a far darker pool, where fever dreams of horror, satire, and Afropessimism collide, and in whose underwater nooks phantoms lurk in the intertext, and undead figures, possessed dolls, and ghostly cars slip through time. Conveying this dark, weltering sonic backdrop are a crack fleet of producers: The Alchemist, EL-P, Kenny Segal, Conductor Williams, and Preservation. A disorienting, layered triumph, and an abandoned carnival of sound, flickering with life amid deviant-diasporic dances in the dark.

Sunday down-toolings with Challenger Deep's Swiss favourite Luss, offering another slow-cooked 12" plumbing the dub genre's deepest trenches. The Challenger Deep operating base is still mysterious to us, and for all we know - and for all we hear - we could easily believe their HQ/packing house could be an underwater station on the abyssal plane. 'Natural Nature' collapses the old Darwinian binary with tube-shot, bubbly deep dubstep sound design and perimetric beats precision. 'Waves' clambers ashore, after a well-rested gangplank walk, to find deeper ricochets and molluscan shapes in the clouds.

Heart-melting US soul group The Whatnauts' 1981 single 'Help Is on the Way' is a funk-disco-boogie delight with an infectious bassline and a groove built for steppers. It is likely recognisable to many as the sample source for De La Soul's 'Ring Ring Ring (Ha Ha Hey),' and also echoes in Fat Larry's Band's 'Act Like You Know.' Equally iconic is the B-side, which is Isaac Hayes' Ike's Mood, from his 1970 album ...To Be Continued. A soulful, jazz-tinged masterpiece that has been sampled nearly 200 times, its lush brass, crisp drums and unforgettable piano hook form the backbone of classics by Nas, Mary J. Blige, Massive Attack and Biz Markie. Snap it up while you can.

Dimitri From Paris gets his mitts on another stone-cold classic, this time Loose Joints' 1983 NYC mutant disco classic 'Tell You Today' - AKA the belated follow-up to Arthur Russell and Steve D'Aquisto's more celebrated debut single 'Is It All Over My Face'. On the A-side, you'll find the legendary Parisian producer's 'Special Mix' of the pair's full-length 1983 original. Wisely, Dimitri teases out the low-slung punk-funk groove before introducing Loose Joints' vocals, pianos and wayward horn solos. Arguably even better is his version of Russell and D'Aquisto's alternative 'New Shoes' take - a wild dub disco translation that was split into two parts on the 1983 release. Here, DFP has edited portions of those two mixes together to create an epic, 15-minute revision that's worth the entrance fee on its own.

Mr Wong Edits is back with the boss at the buttons for a second superb collision of some classic r&b, soul and pop sounds on this limited edition one-sided bomb. 'Ain't No Teardrops' collides a couple well known and every teen hits into something brilliantly new, but with plenty of the hallmarks of the originals left in place for ultimate reactions in the club. Big drums, tambourines, claps, vocals and funky bass make this one of the best mash-ups we've heard in some time.

Reggae pioneer Stranger Cole, active since the 1960s, celebrates his 83rd birthday with Royal, a new album produced by Boss Capone of The Upsessions. Following 2023's Kings and Queens, this record features 11 fresh tracks that echo the golden era of Jamaican ska. Though the origins of reggae are debated, producer Bunny Lee credits Cole's 1968 track 'Bangarang' as the genre's starting point. Decades later, Cole remains as creative as ever and now inspired by a nostalgic tour bus moment recalling his 1960s work with Patsy Todd, Royal feels like a heartfelt tribute to his roots in that it is timeless, soulful and full of history.

Edita Music kicks on with a third various artists' instalment that plays with some fun samples and fresh retro future disco sounds. Rebolledo is up first with a twist on MC Miker G & DJ Sven's 'Holiday Rapsody' that rises on 80s drums and with Italo melodies, then the Sascha Funke edit of a euro dance classic is sure to land well with the contemporary revival of such sounds. Perel brings a fascinating dub depth to evergreen pop singalong 'Toxic' and the best is saved till last with stomping raw Italo disco energy of Marcello Giorda's edit of Groupe Hypertension's 'Aventure Prodigieuse.'