Frederick Brooks

3CDs and more than 60 tracks - packed with the best of Deep House, EDM and Dance. These include Megahits by The Chainsmokers, Kygo, Burak Yeter, Martin Garrix, and more. This time, too, the Club Sounds offers plenty of good music, in addition to the latest selection. Some titles are celebrating on the CS 81 premiere and make a purchase particularly exciting. But also the tracks of the big artists and the numerous chart hits make the compilation absolutely recommendable.

Exciting accounts of eight anthems spanning nearly two hundred years, with a welcome emphasis firmly on recent works.

When Malaco Records started out in the late 1960s, the label that small Southern R&B companies looked up to was Stax. The Jackson, MS-based Malaco, like the Memphis-based Stax, focused mainly on deep-fried Southern soul in the beginning – only in 1968 and 1969, Malaco was a struggling young operation that was fighting to stay afloat. But ironically, Malaco would still be in business long after Stax's 1975 demise, and it would continue to favor classic soul long after most labels had moved away from it. When other black-oriented independents were putting out urban contemporary, rap and house music in the 1980s and 1990s.