The last weekend in August means Carnival time in West London. Sure to be a smash is MJ Cole's latest ‘AO’, featuring Serocee on his Prolific Imprint. Carrying on in the vein of his recent ‘Gotta Have It Funky Dubb’ mentioned in Bass:Files 8, the main mix hits all the right buttons with ragga chat, big bass and driving rhythm but it's Zed Bias' Wind Up Mix that's likely to be booming from the street corners with its ska/reggae-style intro and epic rewind breakdown before the beats hit hard.

Also sure to be heard is Zinc's ‘Killa Sound’. Out on Bingo Bass, the former drum and bass don continues his journey into the sound he's labelling crack house. The title track features breakbeat-fuelled 4/4 beats, wobbly bass, rewinds and lyrical styling from No Lay including the epic ‘No One Can Compete’ breakdown. There's also the similar ‘Move’, which features Foreign Beggars on the mic and the excellent ‘Submarines’ with a deeper synth-laden intro.

Sticking with the rough before the smooth, worth a check is the Latin breakbeat of Seiji's ‘Yo Voy’ remix for Novalimbas. It's on Cumbancha's ‘Coba Coba’ remix LP which also features Daniel Haaksman, Da Lata, Faze Action and Toni Economides.

Two artists who've appeared regularly in this column, Domu and Atjazz have teamed up with Croatian singer Yannah Valdevit on Development Music's second release. ‘City Madness’ EP follows the label's excellent debut release Zed Bias' ‘Sound Of Love’/’Change Your Mind’ from late last year. The title track is a broken jazz soul number with lush instrumentation in the style of Reel People or Incognito, but is probably best in the deeper A&D ‘4 The Summer’ remix, backed by Martin Iveson's characteristically intricate drum pattern. On the flip is ‘Info People’, a tighter deep house cut with a jazz-flavoured vocal slightly reminiscent of Miller Scott Project's classic 1994 tune ‘Gonna Be Alright’ on KMS. This also gets an Atjazz ‘Floor Dub’ and a bruk-tech twist in the ‘A&D Bruk Mush’ mix.

Iveson also pops up on Papa with an interpretation of Osunlade's 2004 track ‘Same Thing’. The remix is decent enough in his typical style but works best stripped back to yet another intricate drum pattern in the bonus beats mix.

Kay Suzuki's ‘Bi Polar’ EP is out on Souled's Fresh Minute Music. The Japanese multi-instrumentalist first came to notice with two brilliant broken beat tracks for the Co-Op club's ‘Co-Operation 3’ compilation in ‘07, ‘Feeling You’ and ‘Take It Easy’. This time he works house beats into his nu-jazz for ‘Something To Say’. The original mix is pretty hot, recalling the likes of Herbert and Pepe Bradock but the two remixes are even better. First, Altered Natives take it back to the bruk but best of all is the label boss’ Souled's Remake adding a hypnotic rimshot with chords and sub bass changes that need to be heard extra loud. Also included is the broken beat ‘Going Down’ featuring Nu-Jazz stalwart Colonel Red on vocals with added funk and cowbells in the form of Soul Parlor's take and the broken techno/future jazz of ‘Don't B Afraid Of Da Future’ which brings to mind Nubian Mindz.

Sticking with nu jazz, London label Broadcite bring out Vol 3 of their unplugged comps. This one has a tasty selection of tunes from various artists including Uschi Classens, Lazer Kru, D Stephanie, the aformentioned Colonel Red and Brooklyn's Yellowtail and ranges from soul to jazz to broken to house. Ruffness is provided courtesy of Troy with ‘No 1 Knows’. There's a slice of Japanese afrobeat, ‘Ramaja O’ from Koichi Sakai but the best of the bunch is the mesmerising jazz house of ‘My True Love’s Hair’ from Belgian producer David Borsu. In a similar vein to Henrik Schwarz's mix of Mark Murphy's ‘Love Is What Stays’ from ’07, it's based around a simple live bass loop and a vocal sample from Nina Simone's cover of the traditional folk song.

Over the last few years there's been a microtrend of live interpretations of classic electronic dance records. Three of the artists responsible: Christian Prommer's Drumlesson, Re:Jazz and Sonar Kollektiv Orchester have been selected by 4Hero to redo tracks from their ouevre along with the likes of Nu Tropic and Andre Zimma. Scheduled for an October release ‘4Hero Presents Extensions’ has 12 tracks ranging from faithful covers to reinterpretations. ‘Star Chasers’, one of the strongest tunes on ‘Two Pages’ (and given a house remix by MAW back in ’98) is taken even slower in Re:Jazz's downtempo jazz version, while the classic Universal Love is given a stunning remake by Sonar Kollektiv Orchester. Meanwhile the old school rave number ‘People Always Criticise Us’ is taken to Cuba by Vince Vella while Conceptions from 2001's ‘Creating Patterns’ is given a contemplative twist by Landau Orchestra.

Mishal Moore's jazz swing tune ‘Oh Lord’ comes with 11 remixes on Ill Friction but you can skip past all of them - including the original version - to go straight to Kenny Dope Gonzalez's mix. Firstly, he supplies a hard funk style in his Kay-Dee Versions 1 and 2 but even better is his afrobeat and winding synth-flavoured Kenny Dope remix which finally does justice to the great vocal.

Karizma last featured back in Deep Files 4 but I didn't get round to mentioning his latest album in last month's dispatch. ‘A Mind Of Its Own V2.0 - The Upgrade’ is on R2 and includes monster tunes ‘The Ganni’, ‘Beat Dis' and ‘Pffuck You’ as well as the single ‘Neccessarry Madness’ along with a few of his downtempo gems. Also on R2 is his aptly named ‘Stomp’ remix of Rhythm Of Elements' Praia - a perfect soundtrack down the praia for what's left of this summer.