Bargrooves: The Ibiza Summer Collection

From the haunting opening bars of Cool Sunshine's "My Love From Recife", you know you're in good hands as Bargrooves 'The Ibiza Summer Collection' joins the dots between gentle balearia to mass dancefloor hysteria.

On CD1 we're led in gently through tunes like the electro-tinged "Bondi" by Seb Davidson and the funky house, horn-led vocal refrains of Anette Taylor's "Faith". Max Sedgely's classic "Happy" also gets an energetic rerub, courtesy of a Go Home Productions remix and we can now feel the start of the evening kicking in as the pace gets lifted. By the time the awesome electronic soundscape that is Djuma Soundsystem "Les Djinns" (check out the awesome Trentmoller remix) and the brilliant Wize's Heaven hit the decks, you know we are now truly locked in the groove.

CD2 strips it back again with pared-down vocal house from the likes of Tim Fuller on "Slightest Touch" and Ian Pooley and Majik J's driving piano-led "Heke". Before long though, we're back in the freak zone with the late-night deep house synth stylings of Kirk Degorgio's massive "Starwaves" and bassbin-blowing build up of Oliver Lang's "Dancing Girls". Finally, Swedish house don Axwell signs us off with his fat remix of Bob Sinclar's anthem "Feel For You", giving this stone-cold classic a hard electronic edge that brings it bang up to date with the summer '07 Ibiza sound.

Ignore clubland's doom-mongers and media morons who gang up to put the boot in, declaring that Ibiza won't be as good as it was and that Ayia Napa, Mykonos or someplace in Brazil that you've never heard of is the new Ibiza. They're wrong. Nowhere will ever take Ibiza's place, and no other album this summer will do more to celebrate people so gorgeous, the amazing weather and the unique Ibizan musical vibe as much as 'Bargrooves The Ibiza Summer Collection'.