It's a curious thing that while advertisers and executives are busily pulling their cash out of all things dance related, certain people seem to be dancing harder and happier than before.
This has less to do with a perverse masochism than a sense of relief that while the commercial dance tracks might still be shooting to the top of the charts (look out for the abomination that is 'Oh Chihuahua'), the saturated over-exploitation that came with commercial success is starting to be cleared away.
The field is once again open to the areas of dance music that in one way or another push against the flow.
For the last ten years the London based outfit Sancho Panza have stayed faithful to their belief that throwing a good party is more important than making a shed load of money.
To this effect they're notorious for spending weeks creating elaborate sets for one-off parties - a practice that, in terms of time alone, would have been kicked out of any self respecting business model ages ago.
This isn't to say they're shy of spotting a business opportunity. It's just they're not about to give their customers less than the 100% Sancho experience.
And 'Float', their second Notting Hill Carnival accompanying compilation, is an obvious way of adding value into their lovingly created Carnival parties.
But, more importantly, it's a celebration of their own version of August bank holiday good times and as such it's laced with fun, humour and superb party tunes.
CD 1, mixed as is becoming tradition by Jimmy K Tel, begins with a skit set in an old people's home with an aged women trying to recall a track's killer bassline.
"You know, it's the one that went dum, dum, dum.." she says as an old man splutters: "They all went like that."
The track she's trying to recall is Triangle Orchestra's 'Where's The tape' and it is well worth remembering.
K-Tel isn't on a mission to introduce listeners to anything new here so much as get the party started, which he does to great effect with such superb bass line disco house fodder as Organic Audio's 'Good To Go', Slope's 'Bass Check' and Street Corner Symphony's 'Symphonic Tonic'.
Matt Brown's opening skit takes the opposite approach, with an unhinged kid twittering on about a picture he's done at school.
As you may have guessed his CD traditionally takes a more forward-looking approach, which isn't to say that it's any less funky.
Opening with Brett Johnson's 'Temptation and Lies', it moves into Ewan Pearson's soon to be massive remix of Seelenluft's excellent 'Manilla', goes through DJ T's distinctly Sugar Hill for the Naughties track 'Philly' and settles into the groove with Alexander East's hypnotic 'Excite'.
Two shining examples of party music as it should be played in one package.
Must be a Sanch-O'clock.
