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Pram – Dark Island

Seventh album from Leeds post-rockers

Hip Hop – Old School, New School

Mixed bag of fodder, including 2Pac outtakes and journeyman rap

Dirty Three – She Has No Strings Apollo

Sixth album from Melbourne trio

Short Cuts

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Grand Drive

Raynes Park-based champions of Americana reissued

Miss Kittin – Felix Da Housecat

Retro techno par excellence

Electric Dreams

Four re-releases spanning disco innovator's career

Analyze That

Bobby and Billy return in flat sequel

Big Beach Boutique II

The first gig since Castlemorton to make front-page news, Fatboy Slim's massively over-attended 2002 beach-front hoedown was greeted as armaggedon by the Daily Mail but, as this film shows in fact consisted of a bald man in a Hawaiian shirt playing 19 records very loud. Watch 200,000 ecstatic bodies moving in unison to "Born Slippy", though, and you'll realise the Mail had a point. Goosebump-inducing. DVD EXTRAS: Interview with and full commentary by Norman Cook, choice of playing the tracks in your own order.

The Guru

Typically inane British comedy which reduces centuries of Asian culture to a Carry On joke. Jimi Mistry, not an actor you want to see doing the Macarena, is a bozo mistaken for an expert on all matters carnal. Spotting a chance to whip her kit off, Heather Graham, the 21st-century's Greta Scacchi, turns up as 'love' interest. Imagine, if you will, Bombay Dreams starring Robin Askwith.
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