JAMES ROD - The Mistress `[With A Twist Vol 3] Handshakes

We enthusiastically described volume two in Handshakes' 'With a Twist' series as "possibly 2025's most essential disco compilation". So how does this sequel from the Denver-based disco re-edit specialists fare? There's certainly plenty to set the pulse racing amongst the 14 edits, reworks and bootleg revisions on show, with our picks of a very strong bunch include the swamp funk/house fusion of Winkar's 'Sidelines', the lightly disco-flecked deep house dustiness of Funk Hunk's 'Get It On Tonight', the elastic, slap bass-sporting boogie/R&B/house hybrid 'Simple As' by Emneshed, the acid-flecked nu-disco chug of Mike Disco's 'Super Bond', the dub disco heaviness of 'Space Craft Boogie' (a second missive from Funk Hunk) and the similarly inclined excitement of scene stalwart James Rod's 'The Misstress').