I'd really love to tell you I danced on the set of Soul Train, but I can only fantasize. Love From the Sun will bring all those daydreams flooding to you on a wave. If you watched the show back when Don Cornelius was hosting, you know what I'm talking about: Herbie Hancock, Curtis Mayfield, Marvin Gaye, Al Green -- classic R&B and soul acts that you could watch perform for free, every Saturday night (seems amazing when you consider the schlock they put on MTV's TRL). Ubiquity's Love From the Sun compilation throws together all of those elements and some jazz sensibilities, and their artists add their own electronica (mainly ambient techno or house) spin.

If you weren't lucky enough to cut your teeth on '70s and '80s soul and R&B, here's your chance to meet it on present day-terms. Your uncle Mac's record collection may be cool, but Love From the Sun is danceable in a different, and no doubt to you (I'm speaking to the general Splendid demographic here) more familiar way. As One's "Undefeated" synth and drum machine percolates smoothly through a heavy London soul/acid jazz mixture, with club-friendly results. The transitions are so cleanly segued that it'll take you a few heartbeats to realize that the track has changed; the move from "Undefeated" to the Beatless' title track, for instance, is seamless. The woman's voice grooves on the single loop, singing "Love from the sun" over and over in a mellow style that naturally enhances warm and fuzzy feelings. E.W. Wainwright's "The Healer" incorporates faster beats for funkier dancing, but the feel is more organic, as he draws his drums from traditional African jazz. Greyboy's "Hold it Down" shouldn't be missed, either -- he incorporates raps into loops of ecstatic noise, over hand-drum recordings and tweets.

If you were partying sans DJ, you could throw this disc on at the slow bits (2:00 to 4:00 a.m., before things heat up again) and never have to change it -- a huge plus for purchasers. Even if you buy this disc just for yourself, though, you'll be pleased. Any Ubiquity CD is worth your time, but Love From the Sun is particularly worthwhile. It brings a mixture of luscious London licks and classic urban noize directly to your living room for a Soul Train of your very own. You won't even have to sit through any commercials.