Super selections and wonderful words by our favourite four-to-the-floor expert, The Insider. 

AL ZANDERS / DO YOU REMEMBER / A-Z RECORDS

Al Zanders brings pure happiness to A-Z Records. Bursting with sunshine, Do You Remember, uses only the good notes to inspire maximum joy and pleasure to positive dancers and dancefloors. Al is known for being incredibly nimble when it comes to jumping about genres, bending and blending them to form his own trademark sound. This approach pretty much sums up the garage house title cut. The B-side, Augmentor, treads a more serene, mid-tempo path. Thoughtful, wistful, and little melancholic. If Larry Heard did Balearic (oh, but he does! Sceneries Not Songs?!- Rob) this is exactly what it would sound like. 8/10 

TERRACE / THERMIONIC / CYPHON RECORDINGS

It’s a real thrill to see new material from Hanover-based techno legend Stefan Robbers. One of the founders of the ground-breaking Eevo Lute Muzique, here, he drops the Thermionic E.P. on Jimpster`s Cyphon Recordings. Known for pure whiteout minimalism under his Rec and ConMan monikers, as Terrace he delivers four diverse tracks of perfectly produced dancefloor electroncia, full of warmth and emotion. Techno Soul. The pieces range from the deep, edgy Territorial, via the more subtle Thermon, and the colourful, uplifting Woodward, to the fierce, hotwired groove of Ritual. 9/10 

REUBEN VAUN SMITH / DA CUCKOO YAYA / UBIQUITY

Reuben Vaun Smith may well be one of Leeds` best kept secrets, but I believe that this is about to change. This Yorkshire lad has soaked up music influences from all over – his old man runs a highly respected venue in Pontefract – and, from a young age, began honing his skills in the family garden shed. Following lauded long-players via the mighty Soundway, he’s now releasing the stacked and packed Da Cuckoo Yaya on another of the world`s leading labels, Ubiquity Records Inc. An album of warm, soulful, outernational sounds, globe-trotting, Yorkshire-born boogie, this is the perfect heatwave soundtrack, and his most complete work to date. 8/10 

HENK DONKERS / CONTACT US IMMEDIATELY / WOLF MUSIC 

Wolf Music received these tracks anonymously. The accompanying note  asked for no credit, no praise, or dollars. They just wanted their music out in the world. So right now there’s a sweepstake going on as to just who Henk Donkers is. Is it Frits? Is it Medlar? Who knows… but if you anyone does know the label would like you to Contact Us Immediately. The opening Without You knocks down doors from the off, with some punchy, rolling garage-house goodness, which features South East London vocalist Ell Murphy. Both Dope and With Your Love invoke the 1990s. The former with a heavy dose of acid. The latter with its breakbeat and warm vocal sweetness. Closing the E.P. is the psychedelic, tripped-out, Pink Horse. 8/10 

ZEYNEP ERBAY / HEALER / NUNORTHERN SOUL 

Phil Cooper welcomes Turkish musician Zeynep Erbay to the NuNorthern Soul roster with the arrestingly beautiful Healer. Listening to the record, it’ll come as no surprise to learn that Zeynep spent many years studying at a classical musical conservatory. Her elegant piano playing colours everything on the E.P. She also did a stint at the Red Bull Music Academy, and has previously released music on Compost and Soul Clap. The story behind the music concerns a whale’s emotional search for her lost family. Her sense of longing, and hopelessness, balanced by hopefulness vibrates within the arrangements. Phil brings onboard two remixers to amp up the vibes, but it’s Marshall Watson’s mix that`s the winner for me. His version of Healer Whale blending dubby disco and Nu Balearic to stunning effect. 8/10 

HIATT dB / 11PM – TIL / RAZOR-N-TAPE 

Brooklyn’s Razor-N-Tape have been on an unstoppable run, and it doesn’t falter for a second on this new release from Hiatt dB. The first US signing to Bradley Zero’s Rhythm Section International, a couple of years back, Hiatt hails from Texas but took his Southern sounds even deeper south, setting himself up in New Orleans’ hot and spicy climate. There he hosts his own party, Mystery Zone, and label of the same name. He also has a travelling sound system. The self-built stack coming out for Mardi Gras. On 11pm-Til – named after an undefined DJ set – Mr. dB explores his own blend of house, breaks, funk, and acid. Packed with live instrumentation and vibrant organic production it’s a record of pure Southern swamp music that really kicks. 10/10 

FELIPE GORDON / ERRARE HUMANUM EST / WIDE AWAKE 

The career of Colombian renaissance man, Bogota’s finest, Felipe Gordon, for the last two years has been on a constant climb. He’s  created, crafted, dancefloor hit after dancefloor hit for notable labels such as Shall Note Fade, Razor-N-Tape, Local Talk, and Clone Royal Oak. Now, in association with Clone, Felipe launches his own label, Wide Awake, with his deeply personal debut album, Errare Humanum Est. Translating from the Latin to ‘To err is human’, on this mammoth ten-tracker he revisits some forgotten sketches. Fusing complex combinations of jazz and house, the DJ, producer, and multi-instrumentalist travels through a whole host of genres. Elegant, delicate piano, and vocal cameos from the man himself, countering the acid and breakbeats. Musically rich, and featuring some timeless, memorable compositions, this is not totally about the club. Whacking it on headphones, it becomes a real a holistic listening experience. That doesn’t mean that it won’t work on the floor, but do yourself a favour, by grabbing a greedy glass of red, and / or rolling a fat one, while you kick back and explore each glorious corner of this mind-blowingly good LP. 10/10.