Ashley Beedle, Dave Jarvis & Diesel - The Trials & Tribulations Of Heavy Disco (2012)

Ashley Beedle has been using the Heavy Disco moniker as a cover for his dancefloor-burning re-edits for the best part of six years, during which he's released just a handful of well-loved 12" singles. Here, he expands the project into a full-length, collecting together much-played faves (that infamous version of "Running Up That Hilll", the curious "Dark Star", Stevie tweak "You Haven't Done Nothing") and previously unreleased scalpel cuts. For those of a soul, disco and Balearic persuasion, there's much to enjoy, from the screaming, shirts-off stomp of "Lift Every Voice" (a classic house rework) and "I Wanna Be Where You Are", to the delightful cock-rock silliness of "Frankenstein" and atmospheric Rod Stewart re-cut "I'm Losing You".