Kevin Rowland called them ‘the coolest band on the planet’ – and in the early 1980s, London collective Blue Rondo a la Turk were certainly iconic. In a capital drowning in synth-pop, they threw musical lifebuoys to those who wanted some substance to dance to. Named after the Brubeck B-side, helmed by DJ Chris Sullivan and featuring a Wild Bunch line-up of vocalists, guitarists, horn players, jazz dancers and percussionists from Barbados and Brazil, Blue Rondo were punks in Zoot suits, playing tunes that curled moustaches from 50 paces. This, their critically-acclaimed 1982 debut, spawned smash hits including ‘Coco’, ‘Carioca’ and the sambatastic ‘Me and Mr Sanchez’ (the theme tune for that year's World Cup in Brazil). Three decades on, here it is on CD, cutting through the current crop of mainstream crap with time-proven tunes and sharp tailoring. A bonus CD features remixes by the likes of Youth and Andrew Weatherall. Blue Rondo still have plenty of fat to chew on.