Double CD of noirish electro-pop announces a new wave of credible Dutch dance

Feisty, top-drawer compilation from Californian shit-stirrers

Mix of new and old future-funk

Survey of the Norwegian avant-garde

Entertaining trawl of WEA's rap vaults

Cracking mod anthology from former NME receptionist and erstwhile chum of Paul Weller

The blues continues to pour down in reissues, compilations and box sets. Century Of The Blues is superbly assembled to commemorate the centenary of the day in 1903 when WC Handy encountered a "lean, loose-jointed negro" playing a guitar in the style he was the first to name "the blues". There's no attempt to claim the music as a contemporary art form, for the selection ends mid-century. Even BB King, the only name here who's still working, is represented by a 1950 recording.

Magnificent six-CD compilation of gospel roots

Philly soul classics and rarities from vaults of Atlantic, Atco and Warner Bros '72-'76

Two CDs, 30 more hits in a better world