As we get ready to say farewell to another Monday, it’s time for our usual look back at the increasingly extensive archives of the dance music world. Each week, members of the team pull out three choices from dance music history, ranging from well-known to those which have been forgotten over the years.

Kicking off this evening is a record that was an absolute nightmare to get hold of when it was first released in 2000. Only 999 copies were pressed on vinyl – but such was the demand that the record was pressed on another label the following year. This time around, it included a genre-bending remix by a Dutchman called Sander Kleinenberg…

Next up, it’s a bit of a mysterious one. Ears To The House hasn’t been able to establish the entire story here – but we understand that this is an unreleased Masters At Work remix from 1993 of a Ray Charles and Quincy Jones song called “I’ll Be Good To You”. Quite why it was never released is unknown – although given that Ray Charles was one of very few artists in that era who controlled his master recordings, it’s entirely possible he simply didn’t like it.

As for how this ended up online, copies ended up on bootleg vinyl in the 1990s and have presumably been ripped to digital since…

And finally, we write a lot about Detroit on these pages – but what are our favourite tracks to come out of the city? Well, there’s a lot – and we’ll go into that in more detail in the near future. But if we had to choose one of our firmer favourites, it would have to be “Don’t You Want It” – released by Mad Mike Banks with an outstanding vocal performance by Davina Bussey.

It’s a bit house, it’s a bit techno. We like it…

More selections next Monday…