Running Back Mastermix: Front CD

For almost a decade from the mid 1980s onwards, Hamburg's Front Club was one of Germany's leading bastions of underground merriment. Although its roots were as a gay club for a discerning crowd that demanded better than the commercial fare that was on offer elsewhere, it went on to become a haven for underground dance music enthusiasts of all sexual persuasions. Here, resident DJs Klaus Stockhausen and Boris Dlugosch serve up a two-disc taste of life on Front's dancefloor, giddily joining the dots between experimental European synth-pop, Italo-disco, New York proto-house, early Chicago jack-tracks, electro-funk, Bobby 'O' Orlando style Fairlight-driven high-energy stompers, Detroit techno and much more besides. As you'd expect, it's a sweaty, celebratory and thrill-a-minute ride.