Back catalogue: Funky/Club House

Review: Released alongside the Netflix documentary I'm Tim, this retrospective compilation stretches across the highs of Tim Bergling aka Avicii's output with a newly weighted poignancy. From festival-defining anthems like 'Levels' and 'Wake Me Up' to more introspective cuts like 'Lonely Together' and 'Heaven', it captures the emotional range that defined the Swedish artist's short but seismic career. The inclusion of previously unreleased material i including the wistful 'Let's Ride Away' and the 2016 Ibiza version of 'Forever Yours' i deepens the sense of unfinished brilliance, revealing sketches that still shimmer with intent. What emerges across the 21 tracks is less a victory lap than a reminder of how much Avicii changed the shape of mainstream dance music: layering acoustic intimacy with peak-time euphoria, wrangling EDM excess into pop structures, and making vulnerability sound colossal. It's a generous, if bittersweet, document of an artist still echoing in the music that followed.

Review: Since launching five years ago, Groove Culture has established itself as an essential outlet for groovy, musically rich club cuts that frequently blur the boundaries between disco, deep house, soulful house, jazz-funk and nu-boogie. It's this hybrid, party-hearty sound that founders Micky More and Andy Tee slickly showcase across this two-disc, fifth anniversary mix. It's funky, hip-shaking fare from start to finish, with some of the many highlights including the pair's sax-sporting remix of Jestofunk's 'Say It Again', the rousing horns and Dave Lee style disco/house fusion grooves of their Angela Johnson collaboration 'Time', the string-drenched disco-house swell of Serge Funk's 'Can't Get Enough' and the Idris Muhammad-sampling joy of 'Subway' by Right To Life.