Omar: “Keep Steppin’” (BMG)

‘Keep Steppin’ is a life-affirming ditty that preaches peace, love and understanding in a non-dogmatic way, to a poppy funk beat you can groove to. Five well-differentiated edits include reggae, rap and soul mixes by the likes of Darkman and Leena Conquest, whose voice is a creamy milkshake. “It’s never too late to do what you want”, “We all have our own ways of movin’” and other positive vibes abound, and as for a bloke singing “Gonna let go of this sexist baggage I am carrying”, well, that’s enough to cheer any fretful babe.