Various, Billy Paul, Damn Sam The Miracle Man, Labi Siffre, Boris Gardiner, Harlem River Drive, Niki Aukema, Ronnie April's Positive Energy, Sounds Of The City Experience, Lou Rawls, The Fifth Dimension

Philadelphia Soul

Strings, vibes and a four-on-the-floor hi-hat: the soul record that quietly built the disco floor.

D.C. Go-Go

Percussion that never stops: congas, cowbell and crowd chants holding one groove across a whole night.

Lagos Afrobeat

Twenty-minute grooves, one chord, horns stacked like bricks, and a drummer rewriting what time means.