This week is just booming with great musical offerings. I can hardly keep up with all the great music. My CD player almost blew a circuit, of course it may have been because of all the dancing around I was doing! The first great piece is from Masterbeat Entertainment, S.P.F 2006 Summer Party Favorites. That is exactly what it is! DJ Brett Henrichsen had put together a 2 CD compilation with such greats as Claudja Barry and Goldfrapp. This is a must have for the summer, and don't forget the official Opening and Closing Games party sponsored by MasterBeat and Atlantis Events. See the ad in this issue of BOI Magazine. There's nothing like taking on the big issues, and that's exactly what India.Arie does on her powerful third album Testimony: Vol. 1, Life & Relationship. The title alone is an unmistakable signals that in the more than three years since her last Grammy winning album. In 2001, NYC-based dance music duo iio ripped the seams of the dance scenes jeans with the release of its chart-topping single, "Rapture." A heady fusion of house and pop buttressed by an infectious disco-driven bass line, the sing-along party anthem immediately caused a stir on dance floors from Ibiza to London. Now, the group has finally resurfaced with the release of its hotly anticipated debut CD, Poetica. This is a Great Summer fun CD. Pet Shop Boys have consistently created some of the most interesting, entertaining, and substantial dance and pop music of the last two decades. Now, twenty years after the release of their first album, the Boys return with their ninth album, FUNDAMENTAL, an infectious blast of pop and dance music, available June 27 at regular retail outlets and at www.rhino.com. Also available June 27 is a limited-edition deluxe version of FUNDAMENTAL which includes an eight-song bonus disc, FUNDAMENTALISM, consisting of five remixes of FUNDAMENTAL tracks and two songs unavailable elsewhere: "In Private," with Elton John and "Fugitive," produced by Richard X. The disc also includes a remix of "Flamboyant," originally included on PopArt, Pet Shop Boys' greatest hits collection. For more than 30 years, rumors have circulated of a never-issued Diana Ross album of jazz standards recorded around the time of her triumphant star turn in Lady Sings The Blues. Recently, these archival recordings were discovered in the Motown vault. The resulting album, Blue , marks the long-overdue debut of what David Ritz, esteemed author and writer of the album's liner notes, calls "some of the most emotionally satisfying music Ross has ever made." Blue includes all twelve of the original tracks ­ all of which are previously unreleased, plus four bonus cuts from the recording sessions which took place in late 1971 and early 1972.