Glitterbox: Pump The Boogie! CD

Melvo Baptiste has been a big part of the Glitterbox story to date. He's not only a regular behind the decks at the Defected-own disco brand's parties in New York, Amsterdam, London and Ibiza but also mixed their "This Ain't No Disco" compilation earlier in the year. Here he serves up another cheery, party-starting three-disc mix that gleefully joins the dots between original disco and boogie (see killer cuts by the Emotions, Advance and Lee Curtiss), recent remixes of vintage dancefloor cuts, and the cream of the current nu-disco and disco-house crop. It's a familiar formula but one that Baptiste gets the best from, in no small doubt due to a mix of flawless mixing, superb tune selection and a love of life-affirming, vocal-laden songs.