A group who of course need no introduction, Groove Armada bring us their latest mix to celebrate their popular two day London festival the Lovebox Weekender. The dynamic duo touch on everything from soul, drum n bass, break beat and of course a heavy dose of the funked up house and electroclash that they are known for.

Tom Findlay has the honours of the first disc, opening with the amusing outing Collar Bone from English band Fujiya & Miyagi. Some great guitar workouts in this one that just make you wanna bop your head. Keeping in a fairly poppy vein we are presented with Junior Boys Too Young, a nice vocal track with plenty of underlying synths. One of my favourites on the disc is Chemise’s disco groove She Can’t Love You, still sounding fresh from 1982. One of the tracks that didn’t make it onto their most recent studio album Soundboy Rock, by the name of Feel The Same As You is on here. A great nu soul/house workout with a vocal track to die for. As mentioned there is a healthy slab of electro house sounds here such as the excellent Kissy Sell Out remix of Mark Ronson’s Stop Me and Hot Chip’s Boy From School!!!!! (the Erol Alkan re-work). Not keeping things on the straight and narrow, Findlay throws in world music oddity Cler Achel from Tinariwen, 60’s rock influenced A Minha Minena from The Bees and the heavily sampled Rapture from Blondie. Closing out the disc is the filthy gritty North American Scum from LCD Sound System.

Andy Cato is up next opening with Curtis Mayfield’s lesser known track Billy Jack, with great guitar and horns in this undiscovered gem. One of the better grooves on this disc is Tim Love Lee’s One World, nice heavy bass in this percussive vibe before we move into the mid 80’s classic Josephine ( Cato’s Terrace edit) from Chris Rea. Great guitar in this slow burning synth pop gem. Local boys The Presets feature twice on this album, with Beams and Summer Of Love. Both excellent tracks in their own right. Cato’s closes with melancholy folk song Cinder and Smoke from Florida based Iron & Wine. Excellent stuff.

As all great festivals should this album packs a broad range of music from a large pool of talented musicians into a small amount of time, with outstanding results. Findlay’s disc is definitely the best in show however, the leaps in style that work with Findlay don’t seem to quite get there with Cato, but it is still a good mix nevertheless.

In a word: Fun.