62 years old now, Robin Scott scored a massive hit with this M track back in 1979. A top 2 hit in the UK, Pop Muzik even hit #1 in America. The track featured Wally Badarou from Level 42 on keyboards, a band that Scott would later go on to work with. An instantly recognisable song, its 30-year anniversary seems appropriate enough an opportunity to revisit and remix – and these aren’t any old remixes.

Scott not only offers the original plus his own home demo, more rock than electronic, but Junior Vasquez, Steve Osbourne/U2 and new wavers Devo also offer up their own interpretations. Meanwhile, Dub Pistols offer a more modern dub aesthetic.

Elsewhere, Rob Quickenden’s stomping remix is really excellent, and does the best job of all to update Pop Muzik from 1979 to 2009, whereas the bombastic Sunshine State Remix shows how modern electronic music hasn’t always progressed in the most astute direction. Likewise the dumbed-down trance version by Olmec Heads, which barely references the original, while Rhumba Calzada’s Cuban/salsa cover is wonderfully bizarre.

This album will be more useful for DJs and such. For the rest of us mere mortals, 13 mixes of the same track can only ever be overkill – even if a couple of the mixes are right on the money.