Does it help if you host a popular radio show as well as spend the rest of your life deejaying all over the place? It does for Dave Pearce, who reckons that apart from satisfying his Breakfast Show requirement for Kiss 100 FM in London, 1994 was probably the most hectic year of his life. This double CD contains some useful cover notes to highlight Pearce’s musical lifestyle, while containing some of the most vibrant 24 tracks of a truly fantastic dance year.

Getting stuck into the second disc of the album, the first track is by The Prodigy (No Good - Start the Dance) and if you want an action-packed fire-starter, then you know that you need not look much further than Liam Howlett for the energy. But it just goes on, for track after track of high-voltage, incessant house sounds including JX (Son of a Gun), Happy Clappers (I Believe), Judy Cheeks (Burning Up), Armand Van Helden (Witch Doktor) and Sister Bliss (Can’t Get a Man, Can’t Get a Job). How good does it get?

I flipped one album off the player and caught the first disc on the hop, another selection of classic dance tracks, starting with Strike (U Sure Did), which is just such a brilliant mix of the familiar vocalisation backed by a hotter than hot dance track. But it continues, with Billie Ray Martin (Your Loving Arms), The Night Crawlers (Push The Feeling On) and Loveland feat. Rachel McFarlane (Let the Music Lift You Up!). Other tracks from Tin Tin Out, Hyper Go Go and more from The Prodigy just dub your ears to death.

This is a fantastic trip down memory lane, to a time when the music was raw and exciting and it bears more listening, through which I shall defy you not to tap your feet and shake your head in time to the up-tempo sounds of a great year. Of course, Dave is still active on BBC 6 Music most Sunday nights but you might catch him on tour again this year. Does he ever get any rest? Who cares whether he does or not, with classy sounds like this, the more he is out and about, as far as I am concerned, the better life becomes.