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.

This evening, we’ve chosen three favourites from the year 1995. The first is one from George Duke, of all people. “Life And Times” was a firm favourite of Britain’s CJ Mackintosh at the time – but this remix by Doug Smith and Richard Payton of 95 North was the best of the bunch…

For our second selection, one curious trend in the 90s was to remix songs from the 1980s to promote something else. Here’s an example – Michael Bolton was releasing a Greatest Hits album that year, so how did his label decide they wanted to plug it? Er, by getting Frankie Knuckles to remix “Can I Touch You There?”.

Knuckles did a good job, unsurprisingly…

Finally, here’s something a little more on the underground tip from that year. Nowadays, Brian Tappert and Marc Pomeroy are the two men who founded and run Traxsource – but in the 1990s, they were a very successful house music duo called Jazz-N-Groove. This dub was one of their more underestimated moments…

More selections next Monday…