(Pschent/Creative Vibes)

Here’s an album to keep all us disco queens smiling long after our glow sticks fade, hallucinogenic Pan Pharmaceutical products wear off and our hearts stop palpitating.

After FG will keep away those post-party blues with its cheeky samples, quirky interludes and array of aural delicacies that had me thumbing through the dance music reviewer’s best friend, the New Collins Thesaurus, for superlatives. Even if your indie flatmates reckon it sounds like a badly tuned AM-FM transistor radio.

Coming from the fingers that guide Radio FG – a European house and electronic music station that’s not to be confused with our very own 2GB – After FG features over an hour of tracks from a variety of Teutonic lads, including Timo Maas and Tiefschwarz.

My first taste of After FG came after a vigorous night of hip shimmying at various establishments offering a dance floor and overpriced water. I certainly was not fit for operating heavy machinery, and it took a good five minutes before I realised a CD and cassette desk made for some very bad stereophonic ju-ju.

Admittedly, the opening track, Osiris’, sampling of a car alarm did little to soothe my schizophrenic post-self-medicating thoughts. But after reporting the neighbour’s car stolen, I sunk deep into a brown leather bean bag to allow my few remaining brain cells to float away with After FG’s electro-cackles, beeps and squeaks.

DJ G-Rom skilfully provides an electro-infused soundscape that takes you soaring skywards with Timo Maas and DJ Buck’s pounding tracks before gently carrying you over the gentle waves of Tiefschwartz. Invigorating, yet not overwhelming After FG strikes a Libran balance between a gentle groove and heart-racing electro-house mayhem.

Radio FG boasts a daily audience of nearly 184,000 listeners, many of who are zealous enough to tune in Sunday mornings from 5 to 9 a.m. for their fix of house and electronica. With a rush to rival the finest Bolivian nose candy, After FG is well worth pride of place on your CD shelf.