Destination Overground: The Story of Transglobal Underground

The original Transglobal crew are still working together, with and without Natacha Atlas, whose solo star has shone in the decades since she hooked up with Nick Dubulah and co in the early 1990s. There have even been recent live outings, keeping alive TU's shared vision of shared cultures: crosscurrents, cross-hairs and crossed wires sizzled with energetic and alternating currents of Occident and Orient fused into pop, via early computer recording, cassette tape, turntables and live instrumentation. Theirs was a floating fourth-world of grooves, loops, dub and bhangra mixed with Middle Eastern melodies and Atlas' distinctive vocal styles – all of this decades before the political sin of cultural appropriation, at a time when record stores and recording product still existed on a mass scale, and music was marshalled under genre labels that rarely, if ever, met face to face. Collectives like Transglobal Underground erased that divide between East and West, world and pop, and created a space for a whole range of musical cultures to meet, fraternise and fertilise.

This nostalgic set - the early 90s seem a world away from today's splintered dystopia - focuses on the group's apogee, with byways taken through later cuts from 2013's Les Nuits and 2007's Moonshout. It's full of life and heat and drama, and it's good to have that TGU ethos in the here and now.