On a wet Monday morning after Danielle Bandelli had gently rocked the Cosmic pants off Horse Meat Disco and the Idjut Boys had helped open the East Villlage in Old Street, this little gem landed on my doorstep. Long before the broadsheets decided Cosmic was to be the sound of the Summer, the Chicken Lips collaborator Steve Kotey was releasing music by those who wanted to add a little space dust to their disco. This 2 CD package (CD1 mixed by Kotey and CD2 by DJ Kent) shows why Bearfunk 12”s are staples with the likes of Bandelli and the Idjuts. Alongside space funk gems from Nordic producers Lindstrom (with the heavy Larry Young-like moog frenzy  of ‘Drums of Life’), Rune Lindbaek (collaborating with the Idjut Boys on ‘Laisn’) and Todd Terje (mixed by Prins Thomas) sit three great tracks by Italy’s cosmic wunderkind Fabrizio Mammarella, a few obscurities from the likes of Giorgio Sancristoforo and a stunning version of Giorgio Moroder’s teutonic disco classic ‘Sooner Or Later’ by Steve Kotey and Chaz Jankel. (Andy Thomas)