Social Disco Club

Peaceful Warrior

2010-11-22T12:58:00.002Z

New single on "Is It Balearic? Recordings, out December.

Social Disco Club - Peaceful Warrior by Social Disco Club

"Is It Balearic follow up the monumental "Panorama Suite" from Max Essa with an allstar remixed package from Portugal's acclaimed Social Disco Club. ' Peaceful Warrior' is a laid back house groove in the style of Don Carlos 'Mediterranea / Alone' this has winter sunshine dripping all over mellow flutes and synths and a jazzy funky guitar lick before dropping a little acid - beautifully constructed nu-med House. On the remix Basle's up and coming nu-disco upstarts Pharoah Black Magic transform this into a eurodisco style dancefloor bomb along the lines of Aeroplane and Tensnake. Soft Rocks featuring Lovefingers Jesus Convention remix create of krautesque acid Balearic chugger of immense proportions -very special. Finally LA's finest alchemists Pacific Horizons weave their magic and produce an epic version with new bass and piano whilst accentuating the acid line."

Pre-Order at:
Juno
Piccadilly

Love For The Sake Of Love Edit

2010-11-17T12:28:00.005Z

Here's an edit / dj tool, whatever, i did last year or so, to play in my dj set's. Time for those who dig it do the same.

Preview:

Love For The Sake Of Love (Edit) (Free Wav Download) by Social Disco Club

Download Wav File Here

Daft Funk / Wild Bitch Out Now!

2010-06-25T13:27:00.002+01:00

My latest release on Hands Of Time rework sub label, "Gold", hit the shops today.
Been getting massive suport on this one, from people like Erol Alkan, Todd Terje, Horse Meat Disco, etc..

Full track previews:

Daft Funk - JUST IN AT JUNO! by Social Disco Club

Wild Bitch - JUST IN AT JUNO! by Social Disco Club

Get it on:
JUNO
PICCADILLY

Remix for Johnwaynes on Groovement

2010-04-21T18:16:00.004+01:00

Out today!

Vinyl 12" available at:
Juno
Piccadilly
Phonica

Johnwaynes - Falling Leaves (Social Disco Club Remix) by Social Disco Club

Johnwaynes - Falling Leaves (Full Speech) [GR010] preview by Jepe (Johnwaynes)

Latest Live Mix

2010-04-14T15:35:00.002+01:00

Hosted on Another Nigh On Earth

Disco Deviance Mix + Interview

2010-04-14T15:21:00.002+01:00

Hosted on the excelent Cool In The Pool website.

Unreleased Mix of Don Carlos "Alone"

2010-04-14T15:02:00.003+01:00

After more than one year tryin to negociate with the owner rights of "Alone" by Don Carlos, we came to a dead end, so, here's a wav download link of the remix/cover i did.

Enjoy..

Don Carlos "Alone" (Social Disco Club Unreleased Mix)

Alone (Social Disco Club Unreleased Mix) (Free Wav Download) by Social Disco Club

"The Way You Move" Out Now!

2009-07-22T15:45:00.003+01:00

The wait is over...
"The Way You Move" out now and is available in a record shop near you!

Vinyl 12": (Just a few)

Juno (Uk)
Piccadilly (Uk)
Phonica (Uk)
Flur (Pt)
Lighthouse (Jp)
Jet Set (Jp)
Nuloop (Fr)
Deejay.de (De)

Digital Download: (Just a few)

Juno Download
Beatport
Trackitdown
Audiojelly
Djdownload
Amazon

Im quite suprised with the massive feedback so far! here's a few feedbacks more:

I'm thinking life in Portugal must be pretty sweet... If this won't set the right mood, nothing will.
I'll be playing the Disk Jokke version most, although I like the GW version at least as much.
King DJ
(Bear Funk)

Really like the Greg Wilson version (played last week in Croatia) and the Original .. but will probably play the Disk Jokke version the most .. solid release ..
big ups lads!!
Bonar Bradberry
(2020 Vision Recordings)

Nice release, perfect for the aftersun before the night.
Jim Adam
(Lullabies in the Dark)

Really Diggin the vocals. Not enough 21st century disco includes vocals. Great way to make teh track stand out and connect with a crowd. Top release gents!
DJ Bwyse
(Talking In Stereo)

Nice release, the original version is my fave...
Steve Yanko
(Permanent Vacation / Truffle Music)

Fantastic Ep, Loving all the versions, edits and remixes it"s perfect summer tune all the way... Great production from SDC as usual. thanx
Baby G
(Eskimo / Superdiscoteca)

Great summery groover - love the remixes, will play & support
Obrigado!
Chris Duckenfield
(Popular People's Front / Swag)

I really like the GW version and the original - great to see Humberto and Rui working together. Porto in the house! I will be massively supporting this on The Smugglers Inn radio show.
Red Rack'em
(Untracked / Tirk)

Greg's and Diskjokke are both sounding very nice. playing on an ibizian beach this week and will definately be playing these.
Sean Brosnan
(Azuli)

Love the Greg Wilson and Disk Jokke remixes. Both v playable in disco and balearic situations. lovely. lovely.
Chris Coco

Loving this already on first listen. all the mixes are fantastic. go bearfunk!
Layne Fox
(40 Thieves)

Killer release... my fave bearfunk in the last few promos sent, will be spanking this over summer for sure. Preference goes to Greg & Diskjokke rmxz even though i love all the versions. Full support. RSPKT to the bear for this fonk.
Tristan Da Cunha
(2020 Vision Recordings)

Killer tune, been playing it all year and never lets me down...gregs mix smooths it over and joackims steps it up a level..10/10
Pete Herbert
(Reverso 68)

Great! Liking the vocal mix here.
Rob Mello

Original Mix & Inst is killer. Sounds really solid. Disk mix is also really good. Will be playing both.
Jim Bresse
(Hed Kandi / MoS Radio)

Wow sounds wicked, thanks!!
Danny Howells

Amazing release guys, feeling the original and Greg's version the most. Really loving Greg's I think its one of the best mixes he's done for a while! Congrats
Matty J
(The Agency)

Can't decide which to play first. love the laid back feel of gregs mix, kind of cosmopolitain and sassy! REALLY for the floos it's disk jokke - WOW. gimme gimme!
Jim Stanton
(Horse Meat Disco)

Possibly my favourite Bear Funk release to date, would love to try get it used on something. Cheers for sending
Shiv Kalaria
(i10Q)

Yeah, the greg wilson mix reminds me of dancing on the beach in ibiza, love it. great stuff.
Mark E
(Jiscomusic)

Great release!
Danny Krivit

Unreleased Edit On

2009-07-22T15:22:00.005+01:00

Adrian Dickinson from Touch Soul Sunderland Blog is kindly host an edit i did a couple of years back.

Here's the link

Kid Creole & The Coconuts - I'm Corrupt (SDC Re-Edit)

My Tribute To The King

2009-07-09T16:54:00.005+01:00

I will never stop helping and loving people, the way Jesus said to... He said, continue to Love, always Love...

Michael Jackson (1958-2009)

I Will Never Forget You...

2009-07-02T22:00:00.003+01:00

Thank you, and rest in peace...

Michael Jackson - Get On The Floor (Holy Ghost! Edit)

Hibernation Vol.1 on Bear Funk out now!

2009-06-25T20:35:00.006+01:00

"We’re not quite sure if Hibernation is the right title for our latest compilation album. We are definitely not sleeping! In fact we are busier than ever. So much amazing music out there… and so little time. Hibernation Volume 1 is the first of a new series of compilations. These unmixed CDs feature a few greatest hits of the previous months, the future smashes and some exclusives unavailable elsewhere.

Things open up with the slick vocal styling and chilled bar grooves of Social Disco Club & Maia and “The Way You Move”, our pal Greg Wilson on the edit. Ronda, Jan Ken Po (a new guise for Max Essa), King DJ and Billy Bogus/Sal deliver us some fine nu-disco gems. Old label favorite and Japanese buddy Altz gives us an exclusive track “Orympia Rocks” and label head-bear gets busy with Lindstrom with their collaboration Daybreak. Talking of Altz and Mr Kotey, there is a digital only exclusive mix of the Lordy track “Off With His Head”.

Things get all George Clinton with newcomers “Free Disco” and their Psychedelic Disco romp “Kelp Man”. Dutchman Roberto Auser gets filmic and leftfield with “Secret Can” while due Filipsson and Ulysees deliver some NYC house flavored disco beats. Florida based Sleazy Mcqueen gets his percussive groove on, while uber-cool French favorites Black Joy remix the Barbarella-esque Diaphonoids classic “Mermaids Of Lunaris”. Things end up on a more downtempo affair with Matt Playfords Weirdo Police project on the haunting closer “Ghost Boat”.

There we have it. A fine Bear-tinted slice of what’s at the cutting edge of today’s Disco spectrum."

HERE'S A NICE REVIEW ON INTHENEWS.CO.UK

In a nutshell...

Disco, disco and yet more lovely disco…

What's it all about?

Collection of nu-disco gems from one of the main players in the capital's basement electronic scene, Steve Kotey. Despite an ill-fitting moniker (Hibernation? In summer? What were they thinking?) it's a fine sift through the best bits of from his Bear Funk label past, present and future. The most notable are the Kotey Extra Band's collaboration with Norwegian disco macdaddy Lindstrom and a Greg Wilson edit of Social Disco Club & Maia’s The Way You Move.

Who's it by?

Bear Funk is the brainchild of sometime Chicken Lips collaborator and tape-op Steve Kotey. Such is the demand for the Lips, they entrusted a chunk of their djing duties to Kotey who jumped on the opportunity with both hands and carved himself a pretty large rep as a party starter in his own right. He's played records with plenty of big names including the likes of Harvey and Francois K and put together the Disco Italia compilation for Strut records. It's obvious that Kotey has this disco business running through his veins.

Likelihood of winning a trip to the Grammys?

If there were awards for services to funk, house and underground disco stylings, then the big bear's mantel piece would be creaking under the weight of accolades. It hasn't happened just yet...

What the others say

"Every song is fantastic and keeps to the Bear Funk disco stylings. I've chosen Greg Wilso'’s version of Social Disco Club & Maia (I also recently posted some Rui Maia originals) and Japan's Altz remix of Lordy, but I could of easily picked any of the songs. No fillers here." - Big Stereo blog

So is it any good?

If you associate the concept of disco with 70s wigs, the Village People and inebriated stag dos lurching around in flares necking alcopops, then you should set your preconceptions right and get your ears round this.

The roots of all good things electronic lie within the disco vibe, something that this Hibernation compilation manages to nail down with a series of strong looks and slap bass pinned down by a fresh backbone of groove. Altz's Orympia Rocks manages to balance a bassline made from utter filth with a suitably ridiculous surf guitar twang while Lindstrom and Kotey's cross breeding doesn't disappoint either, getting an afro-cosmic peacock-esque strut on. If you know your Disco Bloodbath from your Horse Meat Disco, then Hibernation will be right up your dirty alleyway...

TRACKLIST:

Social Disco Club & Maia - "The Way You Move" (Greg Wilson version)

Ronda - "Folana"

The Diaphanoids - "Mermaids Of Lunaris" (A Blackjoy disco mix)

Jan Ken Po - "Rhapsody In Leather"

Billy Bogus & Sal - "Terror Island" (Enzo Ponzio mix)

Altz - "Orympia Rocks"

Filipsson & Ulysses - "Fluffy Amadeus"

Roberto Auser - "Secret Can"

King DJ - "Ex Memory"

Sleazy McQueen - "One Extra Day"

Free Disco - "The Kelp Man"

Kotey Extra Band (Lindstrom & Stevie Kotey) - "Daybreak"

Weirdo Police - "Ghost Boat (Many People Died)"

HERE'S THE GREG WILSON VERSION OF MY TRACK WITH MAIA ;)

Social Disco Club & Maia - The Way You Move (Greg Wilson Version)

GET IT ON:

Juno

Ps.: "The Way You Move" will be out soon on vinyl 12" with the Original and Instrumental, plus the Greg Wilson Version and Diskjokke Retromix.

www.myspace.com/socialdiscoclub

www.myspace.com/ruimaia

www.myspace.com/djgregwilson

www.myspace.com/diskjokke

www.myspace.com/bearfunk

Blogs

2009-06-16T01:10:00.005+01:00

Just a quick message for all the people who have disco (or kind of) blogs...

Sadly, at this moment, i don't have to much time to dig across new, (or old), music blogs - and i know there's loads around.

So, if some of you have or know those i should check and add into my "Music Community" or "Community" list, please drop me a comment with the link.

Many Thanks!

Next 12" On Bear Funk

2009-06-08T15:58:00.003+01:00

The wait is over! 29th June is the oficial release date of the Bear Funk Release with my portuguese mate, Maia.

Here's a quick revue:

Portuguese based Social Disco Club (aka Humberto Matias) and Maia, delivers some laid back Mediterranean spiced disco groove. “The Way You Move” sleeks along with sultry keys, Latin groove, lazy percussion and all the flavour of an early-evening island vista.

Up on the edit is our pal Greg Wilson who rejigs like only he can, creating a more floor based mix. The original is all about the great vocals whilst new Norwegian Disco-don DiskJokke gives us his late 80’s Balearic sounding re-rub.. its Ibiza 88 all over again.. drop the deal friend.

A few feedbacks...:

Hope your well. Very nice release - like it and will play it, very nice midtempo disco burner.

Ace work!

Simon Lee (Faze Action)

I just got this yesterday, very cool indeed! Like the Diskjokke mix too...

Jaques Renault (DFA)

I simply love it! can't wait to hear more stuff.

keep up the good work!

Cheers,

Felix Haaksman (Dutch Rhythm Combo)

I love it. A modern classic. Been playing the GW Version for a while now to great response. Top track!

Dicky Trisco (Boogie Corporation/Disco Deviance)

Humberto, thanks for your new production!

Tony Carrasco (Klein & Mbo/Moonbase)

Love the original and Diskjokke retromix

Always in our sets

worf worf worf

The Barking Dogs (Discosafari)

A strong release, congrat, will play for sure

Hardrock Striker (Skylax/Cosmic Club)

Loving all the mixes, specially the vocal original

Rayko (Rare Wiri Records)

Tracklist:

"The Way You Move" (Original)

"The Way You Move" (Instrumental)

"The Way You Move" (Greg Wilson Version)

"The Way You Move" (Diskjokke Retromix)

Soundclips:

Social Disco Club (Myspace)

Maia (Myspace)

Sweet Lucy

2009-05-25T23:02:00.003+01:00

Raul De Souza, a native of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) is considered by international critics (Down Beat, New York Jazz Magazine, Rolling Stones and many other) as one of the greatest trombone players in the world. Multinstrumentalist, composer, he plays alto and tenor sax and percussion besides the trombone. Having recorded nine albums, winning numerous national and international awards he is the inventor of the Souzabone, an eletric trombone set at C, with the implement of a chromatic valve.

His album "Colours" is adopted at the Berklee School of Music (EUA) as a subject matter, due to the rhytmic and melodic variations it presents. He is an honorary ditizen of the city of Atlanta, Georgia (USA) and a member of the American Federation of Musicians, the Associated Musicians and the Associated Musicians of Greater New York.

He participated in many international festivals, and among them the Montreaux Jazz Festival (1978), the Playboy Jazz Festival (1979), the Monterrey Jazz Festival (1980,1981) and as Guilherme Vergueiro's special guest together with Wayne Shorter, Wallace Roney and Mads Vinding at the Heineken Concerts in S.Paulo and Rio de Janeiro in 1995.

Raul De Souza created and participated in many musical bands, such as "A turma da Gafieira" (with Altamiro Carrilho, Sivuca, Baden Powell, Edison Machado, among others), Sergio Mendes Bossa Rio, Elefant Blanc (in Paris), Blue Note (in New York), Impacto 6, Sanbrasil and RC7.

At the moment, after living, playing and recording in the US for many years, Raul is back in Rio de Janeiro, his home town, where he has dedicated his time to composing, performing throughout Brazil and recording with Brazilian aces, such as Antonio Carlos Jobim, Gal Costa, Leny Andrade among others and with international stars such as Lisa Ono, Selena Jones and Joyce Collins.

Raul De Souza - Sweet Lucy

Mindless017

2009-05-13T22:16:00.006+01:00

Ok, seems like my 2nd Mindless Boogie release was blogged... :)

So, for those who didn't have the vinyl release, here's a good chance to get the TUNES.

Ps.: my next releases on Boxmusic, Bear Funk, Eskimo, Disco Deviance, will be out very soon.
More updates in a couple of days..

Ca-The-Drals

2009-04-24T17:44:00.005+01:00

From 1976 through 1980, when disco was king, the music of D.C. LaRue ruled the underground and avant garde dance floors of the world. With #1 hits like “Cathedrals,” “Let Them Dance,” “Do You Want The Real Thing” and “Hot Jungle Drums & Voo Doo Rhythm” he was a major creative force behind a movement that evolved into the pop/dance music of the 80s, 90s and this current decade.

Making one’s mark as a spokesman for any genre on the first try is not easy but his premiere dance recording “Cathedrals” was such an influential hit that it prompted Casbox Magazine’s Aaron Fuchs to rave: “Cathedrals” is to discos what “Blue Suede Shoes” is to rock dance halls. By mid-1976 “Cathedrals” had become a top ten dance record throughout the world. D.C. LaRue was the first white male to ever hold the #1 R&B/Soul chart position in England. “Cathedrals” was the first commercially available 12” 45 rpm disco single in the USA and the only 12” single ever to be charted on the Billboard Magazine Top 100 Singles Chart before or since. And this was just the first in a string of D.C. LaRue musical firsts!

About the extended break on the 12” remix of “Indiscreet” (until now commercially unavailable) rapper Grandmaster Flash is quoted as saying: “It was the first Hip Hop break I ever heard…the start of all the Hip Hop and Rap beats to come.” That was 1976!

“Let Them Dance” (released in 1978) was the beginning of D.C.’s successful quest to change album tracks into radically different remixed 12” dance singles. And by 1979 his 12” remix of “So Much For L.A.” (from LaRue’s “Star, Baby” album) saw a remix containing new lyrics, revised arrangements, erased tracks, looping and sampling. It was the fruition of the consummate “cut and paste” recording. Needless to say, it was nothing like the original LP track!

And now, with a genuine world wide re-interest in the disco/dance music of the 70s, it appears that D.C. LaRue’s time has arrived once again. And his music continues to titillate the musical palette of the discriminating dance music lover around the globe via the world wide web. With each reissue and sample of one of his dance classics his enduring legend of fans are now being joined by a whole new group of people who are finding his work not only the perfect reflection of the dazzling disco era gone by but an example of an art that is even more relevant today…over 30 years later.

Back in 1981 the editor’s of GQ Magazine voted D.C. LaRue one of the 6 creative artists who would epitomize “success in the decades ahead.” Little did they know how right they were!!

D.C. LaRue - Ca-The-Drals

Dancing Digits

2009-04-19T23:31:00.004+01:00

The original mix of this obscure 80's disco track has been a huge tune for the likes of DJ Harvey / Daniel Wang and has subsequently become a highly prized slab of vinyl.

The Soft Rocks remake which was completely stripped down, (and all parts replayed with musicians including Alice Russell from Quantic Soul Orchestra), and turns out to be a fine piece of deep, disco house.

Hell yes, you need this in your life!

David Astri - Dancing Digits (Soft Rocks Remake)

Social Disco Club Dj Set at Discosafari (Milan)

2009-04-15T18:12:00.004+01:00

Just a quick link to the live mix at Discosafari in Milan.

Crazy Party!

Social Disco Club Dj Set at Discosafari

Guest Mix #5 Eddie C

2009-04-08T23:17:00.006+01:00

Im very pleased to have Eddie C, the Jiscomusic latest star, on the Guest Mixes series.

Eddie C lives in beautiful Banff, Canada in the heart of the Rocky Mountains, a mecca for skiers and outdoor enthusiasts, not a place you'd expect to find disco evangelists such as himself. Complemetary to his ski-bum lifestyle, Eddie C also has a fervor for record collection and quality music of all genres.

Raised on a farm in southern Ontario, he discovered said quality music, like many others, at a young age through late night radio and frequent trips to Toronto record shops during the golden era of Hip Hop and Acid House. Still a passionate record collector, his taste has become increasingly eclectic and as a DJ in a land of Lady Gaga/Nickelback mashups, it is most important for him to share his finds with others at local night spots.

DJing has been a way of life for him since junior high-school. Inspired first by Toronto's British infused rave culture of the early 90s and then by many trips to Detroit and Detroit-inspired Ontario cities, he was at the center of an incredible Techno and House culture movement at the time. Moving to Banff in 2000, just after the first Detroit Electronic Music Festival was a move he and his fiance, now wife, did not expect, but it turned out for the best as the music felt to be drying up a bit by then. At the same time he began buying old records for the first time, and started experimenting with sample-based music production.

As a producer, he has just released his first 12" on Jiscomusic out of the UK. Having spent the bulk of this decade focussing on Hip Hop production and searching for rare funk and oddball records to sample, he only recently delved back into disco and house music. Everything has felt to him like a natural progression musically, keeping on is what is so important. Everything comes full circle and we are on the cusp of something great!

Upcoming releases include a digital release remix on Toronto's own Pawn Shop Records due out this April; a limited edition 7" with Colin De La Plante (the Mole), in May; an EP of disco edits and original production for Karat Records of Paris this summer; a release for five20east out of Scotland, and a future 12" for Jisco with Mark E also coming this summer.

Tracklist:

01. House of House - The Rough Half (Whatever We Want)

02. Eddie C - Between Now and Then (CDR)

03. ? - Baby Cage (Moxie)

04. Manuel Gottsching - E2 E4 (White)

05. Mark E - Smokescreen (Sonar Kollectiv)

06. Dj harvey - Love Finger (Black Cock)

07. Eddie C - You're Welcome (Jiscomusic)

08. Joubert Singers - Stand On The Word (Hot Coins Remix) (Tirk)

09. Matrix - Stay (I Need Your Love) (Disconet)

10. Bill Withers - You Got the Stuff (Columbia)

11. Mike Burns - Everybody's Mantra (Disco Devil)

12. Herbie Hancock - Twilight Clone (Columbia)

13. Edwin Birdsong - Rapper Dapper Snapper (Salsoul)

14. Sylvester - I Need Somebody To Love Tonight (Fantasy)

Guest Mix # 5 (Eddie C)

Check out his Myspace for constant new music and dj mixes monthly.

Song For Mozambique

2009-03-02T17:48:00.005Z

Archie Shepp is a New York City native and alumnus of Goddard College. Archie started playing jazz in the early 60's and continues to dazzle audiences around the world playing tenor saxophone and piano, accompanied by his soulful voice. Currently residing in Massachusetts, he teaches music history as a professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Archie has collaborated with Cecil Taylor, John Coltrane and Yusef Lateef, as well as countless other jazz greats. Mr Shepp received the distinguished New England Foundation for the Arts Achievement in Music Award in 1995.

This version of "Song For Mozambique" goes into a completely new territory yet preserving the originals calm, soothing mood on his first interpretation with archie’s flowing sax and the often sampled vocals and the conscious spoken words floating on...

Archie Shepp - Song For Mozambique (Stilove4music Version)

Spunky

2009-02-23T00:03:00.003Z

During the 1970s, Bob James played a major role in turning fusion jazz more mainstream. "Angela", the instrumental theme from the sitcom Taxi, is probably Bob James' most well-known work to date, He is also well-known for the fusion classics 'Nautilus' and 'Westchester Lady', the latter from the album Bob James Three.

Very influenced by pop and movie music, James has often featured soloists, who add a jazz touch to his sound (most notably Grover Washington, Jr.). While best known for his fusion sound, James began In 1962, recording a bop-ish trio set for Mercury, and three years later his album for ESP was quite avant-garde, with electronic tapes used for effects. After a period with Sarah Vaughan (1965-1968), he became a studio musician, appearing with Stanley Turrentine and Milt Jackson on the 1972 album Cherry and with Turrentine on his following album Don't Mess with Mister T. (1973), and that same year was arranging and working as a producer for CTI. In 1974, James recorded his first purely commercial effort as a leader; he later made big-selling albums for his own Tappan Zee label, Columbia, and Warner Bros., including collborations with Earl Klugh and David Sanborn.

Two of James' songs – "Nautilus" and "Take Me to the Mardi Gras" from 1975's, are among the most sampled in hip hop history. "Nautilus" has been most famously sampled in Eric B. & Rakim's "Let the Rhythm Hit 'Em", Run-D.M.C.'s "Beats to the Rhyme", Ghostface Killah's "Daytona 500" and Jeru the Damaja's "My Mind Spray" amongst many others and the notes of "Nautilus'" bassline were played on a keyboard for Slick Rick's "Children's Story". The first four measures of "Take Me to the Mardi Gras" (a Paul Simon original) includes a bell and drum groove that is one of hip hop's fundamental breakbeats.

One of my faves from Bob James is "Spunky". Moodymann sample this song on one of his best productions "Shades Of Jae"..

Bob James - Spunky

(AVI) Part 9

2009-02-10T00:24:00.002Z

Here's one of the best 12's on AVI Records - That Thing by That Thing, here re-edited (*) by me..

Thanks JAZ ;)

(*) This edit was close to be released on one of my first re-edit 12's but didn't make it, so here it is at 320 kbps!

AVI Part 9
12' "That Thing" [AVI-12-196-D] (1978)

That Thing - That Thing (Social Disco Club Edit)

Map Of Africa

2009-01-27T14:25:00.003Z

"Map Of Africa" is a band featuring the combined forces of legendary DJ/musician Harvey and all around production genius Thom Bullock.

Having grown up together in the wilds of Fen-land East Anglia they have found their way into a studio built in the old barn of a commune compound deep in the woods and rivers of Northern New York State. From here they have single-handedly written and recorded their first album of songs that, though they are clearly the work of individual vision, can at times remind you of the bands Can and Hawkwind or for that matter Godley and Creme.

Harvey is known for his priceless Black Cock releases and having ushered in the current wave of re-edit hysteria as well as his unique remix and production style that along with his international DJ performances has kept him in a position of cult status amongst disco and dance connoseurs for the past 2 decades.

Bullock is most easily recognized for his role in his DJ partnership Rub n Tug but may also be remembered as the man behind the music of an earlier NY super nova; A.R.E. Weapons. Now as well as his work with Harvey he is recording an LP under the handle of Bobbie Marie and producing several other groups all for the super funky "Whatever We Want Records".

Map Of Africa - Map Of Africa

Happy New Year!

2008-12-31T01:10:00.004Z

Happy new year to all!

Here's a gift, (personal weapon), to close properly the (good) year of 2008..

Gichy Dan - Cowboys & Gangsters (Social Disco Club Edit)

Walking In The Rain

2008-12-05T17:24:00.003Z

Flash and the Pan was an Australian New Wave group (essentially an ongoing studio project) formed in the late 1970s by Harry Vanda and George Young, both former members of the Easybeats. George Young is also an older brother to Angus Young and Malcolm Young of AC/DC.

Until the release of "Waiting for a Train" in 1983 they had been a one-hit wonder in the UK, which was a coincidence as the expression 'a flash in the pan' denotes something that is only briefly popular. The duo gained further exposure through the track from their debut album, "Walking in the Rain", which was later covered by Grace Jones.

A big personal favorite for these raining days..

Flash & The Pan - Walking In The Rain

Again & Again

2008-12-01T23:49:00.004Z

Love De-Luxe was a disco studio group assembled by British producer Alan Hawkshaw. They had one chart entry: "Here Comes That Sound Again," which spent a week at #1 on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in 1979. Vicki Brown and Jo-Ann Stone provided the vocals and the track was technically credited to Love De-Luxe with Hawkskaw's Discophonia.

This is the re-edit i made to feet in my dj set's...Take me ages to put together!

Hope you all enjoy!

Love De-Luxe - Here Comes That Sound (Social Disco Club Re-Edit)

Mindless Boogie 017 (Social Disco Club Edits) Out Now!

2008-11-24T01:18:00.007Z

Finally, my new baby is available at the worlwide record stores!

Here's the Piccadilly revue:

"After doing such a great job on Mindless Boogie #14, Social Disco Club return with another three gems for the boogie repertoire! First up is "Clap Pat Clap Slap", a rework of evergreen 60s pop favourite "The Clapping Song" by Shirley Ellis. Needless to say, this being a Mindless Boogie, the tempo is taken down a notch or two, and there's some tabla drum wobbles and a 4/4 beat added. Sure to create complete mayhem on the dancefloor as everyone tries to follow those instructions while being a little bit worse for wear (trust me; as a serial clapping-in-the-club offender, only women will be able to do this). Also on a downtempo tip is a great soft rock cover of Tata Vega's "Get It Up For Love" (unless hers was a disco version of this!). Lastly, we get another 70s soft-rock-becomes-Balearic classic in the shape of Graham Nash's "Better Days", again, given the Social Disco Club treatment. Three big tracks make this an absolute must!"

"Unless hers (Tata Vega) was a disco version of this" - Yes it is.

Puddin

2008-10-29T23:56:00.003Z

Maynard Parker’s disco masterpiece “Puddin’” gets re-edited by Kenny Dope. As writer, arranger, and producer, Parker cooked up a funny desert here, as the lyrics spin: “Puddin is my true love, Puddin’ is my life” …say what?! What’s understood is the vibe, minimal and hypnotic.

Belles Farmes Estate - Puddin (Kenny Dope Re-Edit)

Slip Away

2008-10-16T16:31:00.003+01:00

Pat Metheny was born in Kansas City on August 12, 1954 into a musical family. Starting on trumpet at the age of 8, Metheny switched to guitar at age 12. By the age of 15, he was working regularly with the best jazz musicians in Kansas City, receiving valuable on-the-bandstand experience at an unusually young age. Metheny first burst onto the international jazz scene in 1974. Over the course of his three-year stint with vibraphone great Gary Burton, the young Missouri native already displayed his soon-to-become trademarked playing style, which blended the loose and flexible articulation customarily reserved for horn players with an advanced rhythmic and harmonic sensibility - a way of playing and improvising that was modern in conception but grounded deeply in the jazz tradition of melody, swing, and the blues. With the release of his first album, Bright Size Life (1975), he reinvented the traditional "jazz guitar" sound for a new generation of players. Throughout his career, Pat Metheny has continued to re-define the genre by utilizing new technology and constantly working to evolve the improvisational and sonic potential of his instrument.

Metheny's versatility is almost nearly without peer on any instrument. Over the years, he has performed with artists as diverse as Steve Reich to Ornette Coleman to Herbie Hancock to Jim Hall to Milton Nascimento to David Bowie. He has been part of a writing team with keyboardist Lyle Mays for more than twenty years - an association that has been compared to the Lennon/McCartney and Ellington/Strayhorn partnerships by critics and listeners alike. Metheny’s body of work includes compositions for solo guitar, small ensembles, electric and acoustic instruments, large orchestras, and ballet pieces, with settings ranging from modern jazz to rock to classical.

As well as being an accomplished musician, Metheny has also participated in the academic arena as a music educator. At 18, he was the youngest teacher ever at the University of Miami. At 19, he became the youngest teacher ever at the Berklee College of Music, where he also received an honorary doctorate more than twenty years later (1996). He has also taught music workshops all over the world, from the Dutch Royal Conservatory to the Thelonius Monk Institute of Jazz to clinics in Asia and South America. He has also been a true musical pioneer in the realm of electronic music, and was one of the very first jazz musicians to treat the synthesizer as a serious musical instrument. Years before the invention of MIDI technology, Metheny was using the Synclavier as a composing tool. He also been instrumental in the development of several new kinds of guitars such as the soprano acoustic guitar, the 42-string Pikasso guitar, Ibanez1s PM-100 jazz guitar, and a variety of other custom instruments.

It is one thing to attain popularity as a musician, but it is another to receive the kind of acclaim Metheny has garnered from critics and peers. Over the years, Metheny has won countless polls as "Best Jazz Guitarist" and awards, including three gold records for (Still Life) Talking, Letter from Home, and Secret Story. He has also won sixteen Grammy Awards spread out over a variety of different categories including Best Rock Instrumental, Best Contemporary Jazz Recording, Best Jazz Instrumental Solo, Best Instrumental Composition. The Pat Metheny Group won an unprecedented seven consecutive Grammies for seven consecutive albums. Metheny has spent most of his life on tour, averaging between 120-240 shows a year since 1974. At the time of this writing, he continues to be one of the brightest stars of the jazz community, dedicating time to both his own projects and those of emerging artists and established veterans alike, helping them to reach their audience as well as realizing their own artistic visions.

Pat Metheny Group - Slip Away

Social Disco Club 4th Release

2008-10-10T14:10:00.003+01:00

November will be the month of my 4th release.

Label is again Mindless Boogie, this time with 3 SDC tracks.

Tracklist:

A1. Clap Pat Clap Slap (Social Disco Club rework)

B1. 4 Love (Social Disco Club edit)

B2. Better Nights (Social Disco Club edit)

"One of the best Mindless Boogie!!!"

Aeroplane (Eskimo)

"Thanks a lot. Good work there!"

Ray Mang (Mangled)

"Bravo on the slow stuff! ND is great... be well"

Kon & Amir (B.B.E)

"Im in love with Clap Pat"

Scott K (Boxmusic)

PREVIEW

I have loads of releases coming out, so stay tuned!

Computer Incantations For World Peace

2008-09-25T16:14:00.003+01:00

Ponty is the son of a violin teacher, who began his instruction before he moved on to the Paris Conservatory. By the mid 1960s he had moved towards jazz, recording with Stéphane Grappelli and Stuff Smith. Ponty's attraction to jazz was propelled by Miles Davis's and John Coltrane's music, which led him to adopt the electric violin. Critic Joachim Berendt wrote that "Since Ponty, the jazz violin has been a different instrument" and of his "style of phrasing that corresponds to early and middle John Coltrane" and his "brilliance and fire".

Ponty subsequently worked with Stéphane Grappelli, the Mahavishnu Orchestra, and Frank Zappa, and appeared on more than 70 recordings. His symphonic style to jazz fusion made him a popular fusion artist of the 70's. In 1972, he featured prominently on Elton John's Honky Chateau album.

In 1977 he pioneered the use of the 5-string electric violin, with a lower C string. He sometimes also uses a 6-string electric violin called the Violectra, with low C and F strings – not to be confused with the violectra he played from the late 1960s to the mid-80s which had 4 strings, but tuned an octave lower. Ponty was among the first to combine the violin with MIDI, distortion boxes, phase shifters, and wah-wah pedals. This resulted in his signature, almost synthesizer-like sound.

Jean-Luc Ponty - Computer Incantations For World Peace

So Funny...

2008-09-15T19:09:00.002+01:00

It's funny the ignorance of some journalists...

...Nice party, very good organization, cool people dancing and enjoy my music.. until now all ok!, my surprise is when today i read the party article on a local newspaper...

"...varied songs like Beyonce..."

WTF??

The only thing i like on Beyonce is her ass!

So, just to you know miss journalist, what i play is the 1970 soul gem "Are You My Woman"
;)

I'll Always Love My Ana

2008-09-10T12:59:00.004+01:00

Formed in the early sixties, The Intruders were four Philadelphians, Sam "Little Sonny" Brown, Eugene "Bird" Daughtry, Phillip "Phil" Terry and Robert "Big Sonny" Edwards. Singing together since 1961, the group blended Philly's street corner doo-wop tradition with black gospel influences that attracted Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff to sign them to their fledgling record company, Philadelphia International Records.

In 1968, "Cowboys to Girls," written by Gamble and Huff, was a break-out million dollar seller that was considered to be the prototype for the emerging Sound of Philadelphia. Followed up by "(Love Is Like A) Baseball Game," The Intruders became known as innovators of Philly soul.

Robert "Bobby Star" Ferguson joined the group in 1970 and re-ignited their string of hit singles with "When We Get Married" and "(Win, Place or Show) She's a Winner." "I'll Always Love My Mama", a collaborative writing effort by Gamble, Huff, McFadden and Whitehead, was released in 1973.

The Intruders were essential in the evolution of the Sound of Philadelphia. In 1973, they joined Billy Paul and The O'Jays in a European tour that brought the Philly Soul overseas. They are credited as being a cornerstone of the Philly Sound and remain close to their Philadelphia origins.

The Intruders - I'll Always Love My Mama (12" Mix)

El Conquistador

2008-09-06T14:15:00.004+01:00

Actually nicknamed after his instrument, Johnny "Hammond" Smith was perhaps one of the more underrated soul-jazz organists of the style's heyday.
Born John Robert Smith in Louisville, KY, on December 16, 1933, Smith began learning piano as a child, idolizing Bud Powell and Art Tatum early on. After moving to Cleveland, Smith heard jazz organ pioneer Wild Bill Davis and decided to switch instruments; he made his professional debut on the organ in 1958, around the same time he was working as an accompanist for vocalist Nancy Wilson.

In 1959, he began recording as a leader for Prestige, an association that would last through 1970 and produce highlights like That Good Feelin', Talk That Talk, Black Coffee, Open House, Ebb Tide, and Soul Talk, among others.
As time passed, Smith's style got progressively funkier, and in 1971, he shortened his name to Johnny Hammond and moved to producer Creed Taylor's CTI label family.

Hammond recorded five jazz-funk albums over the next three years, including Breakout, Wild Horses/Rock Steady, and the Mizell Brothers-helmed Gambler's Life. In 1975, Hammond moved to Milestone and recorded the culmination of his move into jazz-funk, Gears, another collaboration with the Mizell Brothers that was reviled by purists and canonized by acid jazz fans. After a few more sessions for Milestone, Smith largely retired from jazz, settling in Southern California and investing in real estate. He began recording sporadically again in the '90s, but was stricken with cancer and died on June 4, 1997.

RIP

Johnny Hammond - Los Conquistadores Chocolates

Isaac Hayes Tribute

2008-09-04T14:22:00.003+01:00

Isaac Lee Hayes, Jr. (August 20, 1942 – August 10, 2008) was an American soul and funk singer-songwriter, musician, record producer, arranger, composer, and actor. Hayes was one of the main creative forces behind southern soul music label Stax Records, where he served as both an in-house songwriter and producer with partner David Porter during the mid-1960s. In the late 1960s, Hayes became a recording artist, and recorded successful soul albums such as Hot Buttered Soul (1969) and Black Moses (1971) as the Stax label's premier artist.

Alongside his work in popular music, Hayes was a film score composer for motion pictures. His best known work, for the 1971 blaxploitation film Shaft, earned Hayes an Academy Award for Best Original Song (the first Academy Award received by an African-American in a non-acting category) and two Grammy Awards. He received a third Grammy for the album Black Moses.

In 1992, in recognition of his humanitarian work, he was crowned an honorary king of Ghana's Ada district. Hayes also acted in motion pictures and television; from 1997 to 2006, he provided the voice for the character "Chef" on the Comedy Central animated TV series South Park.

RIP

Isaac Hayes - Ike's Rap II

Still The Best

2008-09-02T17:59:00.004+01:00

Vincent Montana Jr. (born February 12, 1928) is an American composer, arranger, and percussionist, most known as a member of MFSB and as the founder of the Salsoul Orchestra.

He is the spiritual father of the Salsoul Orchestra, the backing band for the many acts on Salsoul Records. The personnel of MFSB and the Salsoul orchestra overlapped substantially, and both groups were recorded at Philadelphia's famous Sigma Sound Studios.
By the dawning of the 1980s Vincent Montana had formed his own record label called Philly Sound Works (PSW) to put out his own product.

In recent years Mr. Montana has worked with famed house music duo Masters at Work, which has rekindled interest in his work. Ken Cayre, founder of Salsoul Records, has praised Mr. Montana's skill at scoring strings, brass, and diverse percussion in such way that it all worked within a dance recording. As Mr. Montana was among the first with his considerable training and skill to apply such scoring technique to disco-oriented recordings, it is safe to say he is a true pioneer in the field.

Montana and famed mixer Tom Moulton had a rocky professional relationship at Salsoul, most likely because Moulton was in the constant position of retouching Montana's work (this was Moulton's appointed profession). In reality, both men would seem to have little reason to be adversarial: They share a legendary status in dance music culture (Evidenced by Montana's invitation to work with MAW two decades after his peak period, the sleeve notes of Nuyorican Soul and the numerous web pages about Moulton).

Most recently, Vincent Montana Jr. has worked on 'New York City Boy' by the Pet Shop Boys.

Montana Orchestra - I'm Still The Best (Moogy Synth Mix)

Cash Money

2008-08-29T18:53:00.005+01:00

Obscure and very rare album, Disconnection is one of the most sought after releases on the Prelude Record label! Great, warm and soulful disco in the best 70's Prelude mode!

All the tracks were written and produced by Robert Holmes, and they're simple clubby numbers with a high-stepping groove and a nice dose of boogie-heavy funk. Some tracks have vocals by unnamed singers, but overall the strength of the set is its instrumental approach, especially on the tracks with keyboards that groove out in solos! Among the tracks: "Dead On The Case", the superb "Cash Money" and "Straight Up" with the 60s italian soundtrack style. A must have album!!

Disconnection - Cash Money

Hold Me, Touch Me

2008-08-27T21:26:00.003+01:00

The Canadian singer Caroline Bernier is an early protege of Canada's famed Tony Green, known as producer of Geraldine Hunt, Freddie James and of course, France Joli. His 1977 album with Carolyne however was not nearly as successful.

Caroline Bernier, her name also written on US releases as "Carolyne Bernier", is best known for "Hold Me, Touch Me", "Love (I Don't Wanna Hear About It)" and her stunning 16:40 track "Secret Agent Love". Her album is also noted for being orchestrated by Denis LePage (Lime) and recorded at Markos Studios. The same studio that would bring us Carol Jiani's mega-smash "Hit And Run Lover" a few years later. Caroline co-wrote two of the tracks with Tony Green and supplied the backing vocals.

Carolyne Bernier - Hold Me, Touch Me

Summer Rain

2008-08-26T12:54:00.005+01:00

Bebu Silvetti was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Since he was a little kid, he knew clearly what he wanted to do: devote his life to music. At age 15 he formed his first Jazz Trio, and at 18 he left on a cargo ship for Barcelona, Spain. There he worked in several Jazz Clubs and met the love of his life: Sylvia. He came to the US, then Mexico where he started doing some jingles, and struggling to launch his carreer as a composer and arranger.

Bebu Silvetti Bebu went back to Spain where he wrote "Spring Rain", (produced by Tom Moulton), and life changed. He arranged, composed and conducted LP's for Rocio Durcal, Rocio Jurado, Raphael, Daniela Romo, Pandora. Created original scores for several TV Series in Mexico, and finally started producing for his own company "NGS" and for others, reaching the peak of his carreer when working with Placido Domingo for whom he produced 3 albums, Luis Miguel, Vikki Carr, Vic Damone and Engelbert Humperdinck. He was the best when arranging strings.

Silvetti - Spring Rain

Back In The Business

2008-08-22T02:23:00.007+01:00

Been a long time since my last post... For multiple reasons i have to stop for a while; Divshare allows only 10gb of download and my account is all the time blocked, (now i am a pay user, so problem fixed); I was playing in Glasgow (Amazing town to drop disco beats!, lovely people), and Barcelona (playing / vacations); And working really hard for my next releases...

I think now on i will have more time to keep sharing some of the tunes i really enjoy.

To compensate the loose time, where's one 320 kbps edit i finish today:

The Earons - Land Of Hunger (Social Disco Club Edit)

Social Disco Club 3rd Release

2008-07-14T15:55:00.000+01:00

On the OOFT Music Blog:

"The 7th L.E.S.S. Productions CD has arrived today all shiny and new. We've got versions from the fantastic Social Disco Club (A top notch midtempo Tori dub) and DJ Mash (a nice disco-funk drop for the spotters) aswell as ourselves. All are WAV / AIFF / 1411KBPS quality as usual on the CD for the audiophiles and 100 numbered copies for promotional use. Available at the moment from Five20East and soon through a few specialist stores."

Free download HERE!!

SDC Live Dj Set #5 (Mindless Boogie Release Party)

2008-07-06T15:07:00.003+01:00

Another live dj set, this time on the Mindless Boogie release party at Trintaeum.

Social Disco Club Live Dj Set @ Trintaeum (04 July 2008)

Ps.: I will be playing in the 1st weekend of August at Glasgow, Scotland. I want to see there all of you, "Glasgow Disco freaks"! :)

01 Aug: BRUNSWICK HOTEL
02 Aug: IVY
03 Aug: SWG3 (Studio Warehouse Glasgow)

Summer In The City

2008-07-03T12:54:00.003+01:00

My new 12" just in at the usual record shops, and is already record of the week at Juno, Phonica and Nuloop!!

Store revue's

Piccadilly:

"Mindless Boogie time again, it has been at least a month! This time Peter Visti is on hand with a re-edit of The Lovin' Spoonful's 60s chart smash "Summer In The City", which gets rolled out in a weird disco/house kinda way, not dropping the lyric til right at the end. On side-B Social Disco Club re-edit The Hollies "Draggin' My Heels", over a whole side they turn the Balearic winner into a re-edited Balearic winner".

Phonica:

"The Mindless Boogie crew returns with a 12'' that justifies the labels reputation for pure unadulterated fun, without paying any attention to notions of cool. On the a-side Peter Visti applies his re-edit talent on the Lovin' Spoonful's "Summer In The City" - ideal for the searing heat of the summer... On the flip Social Disco Club chops and re-arranges the Hollies' "Draggin' My Heals"...

On the Phonica newsleter:

"Lots of things to mention this week – we've got all 3 of our featured UDG bags in stock so click on the box and check them out. Record-wise, its all about the two main disco edits of the week – the new moxie release finally arrived a few days late but its well worth the wait and the new Mindless Boogie – the best for a while arrived today – very seasonal"!!!

Samples:
Juno
Phonica
Nuloop

(AVI) Part 8

2008-06-14T16:47:00.005+01:00

David Williams' route to the top of the jazz world has been somewhat unconventional: it has taken him from Trinidad to London to New York to Washington, DC to Los Angeles and back to New York. But there is nothing conventional about brilliance, and as a bassist, that is what David Williams exemplifies. His sound is deep and resonant, his section playing seems effortless, his solos are rhythmic and compelling, and his intonation is flawless.

David was born in Trinidad; the island's rich musical heritage was made available to him in an invaluable way --- his father, John "Buddy" Williams, was a highly‑regarded bassist who led his own calypso band. David, meanwhile, went from piano at age 5 to violin at 6 and wasn't fond of either instrument. Although his father did not give him lessons, David watched closely and experimented with the bass on his own. He was also intrigued by the steel pans, and loved to play them. He started to play bass in earnest at age 12. When his sister was awarded a scholarship to study piano in London, David joined her, and studied bass at the London College of Music for a year.

David came to New York for a visit in 1969, and happened upon a workshop run by Beaver Harris, Grachan Moncour and Roland Alexander. When Jimmy Garrison didn't show, David sat in. One night Ron Carter came by and instead of reclaiming the gig, brought in his cello and encouraged David to keep playing. On a tip from Ron, David secured the bass spot with Gap and Chuck Mangione, and when he tired of that, followed another Carter lead to Washington, D.C. and promptly became Roberta Flack's bass player. The alliance lasted for two years, during which time David also worked with Donny Hathaway.

When he returned to New York, David was called to work in a number of situations: The Voices of East Harlem, Donald Byrd & the Blackbyrds (with whom David received his first gold record), a Brazilian gig at the Tin Palace led by Charlie Rouse. During this time he met Cedar Walton and his bassist Sam Jones; David subbed for Sam once or twice. George Coleman, Roy Haynes, Billy Taylor and Junior Cook were among the musicians who hired David; he also played regularly with Ornette Coleman before signing on with Elvin Jones for a twoyear stint.

In 1976, David moved to LA and got caught up in the studio whirlwind, appearing on about 20 AVI releases with disco, funk, fusion and pop groups. He played mostly Fender bass with artists including Herb Alpert and Hugh Masekela, David Benoit, Jermaine Jackson, Tuxedo Junction, John Klemmer, even Liberace. The disco hit "Le Spank" garnered him another gold record during this period. Soul is Free, his first album as a leader, was released on AVI in 1979.

AVI Part 8
Lp "Soul Is Free" [AVI 6040] (1978)
12' "Come On Down, Boogie People" [PRO-12-202-D] (1977)

David williams - Come On Down, Boogie People (12" Mix)

Social Disco Club Live Dj Set #4

2008-05-30T02:08:00.002+01:00

Been a long time since the last one huh?

Social Disco Club Live Dj Set @ Pitch (23 May 2008)

The Real Thing

2008-05-09T15:09:00.003+01:00

One of the funkiest albums Sergio Mendes ever recorded - a monster of a record that's filled with enough dancefloor groovers to have had a big impact on the soul market in the US! There's still elements of the older Mendes modes, especially in the way the vocals float nicely through the mix.
Overall groove is polished 70s soul, with plenty of jazzy touches, similar to the modern soul generation coming up on labels like Capitol or Elektra at the time. The group delivers a landmark version of Stevie Wonder's "The Real Thing", a killer stepper that's kept the album alive for years...

Sergio Mendes & The New Brasil '77 - The Real Thing

Social Disco Club 2nd Release

2008-04-29T20:42:00.005+01:00

Summer is coming and my 2nd release to!
After the big success of Barna Vs. Porto Ep on OCSID Music, (sold out in 1 month), im proud and excited to announce my next 12".
It will be a limited summer edition on Mindless Boogie with edits by me and Peter Visti.
Release date: end of June.

More new soon...

Strollin' On

2008-04-22T16:50:00.003+01:00

Jean-Marc Cerrone was born in Paris, France but hopped to London, England to record his first successful albums. A drummer, composer, and producer he first left Paris in 1975 to record what became his most popular LP Love In C Minor. He started producing and performing music at 18 when he worked as the Orchestra Leader at the Club Mediterranee.
Two years later he signed an exclusive contract with French producer Barclay, and recorded what he dismisses as uncommercial songs with little chance of broad acceptance. Cerrone was already a successful entrepreneur in Paris, he owned three large, influential record shops, but went to London when he couldn't find a French company interested in his more contemporary creation. In London, he contracted with Island Records to press 5,000 copies of his new recording.
They sold like hot cakes and when the smoke cleared, Love In C Minor had sold an astonishing 10 million copies worldwide, and established Cerrone as France's first disco superstar. Subsequent albums' Cerrone's Paradise (1977), Supernature (1977) and Golden Touch (1979), and Angelina (1979), all went gold to further enhanced Cerrones' Midas Touch. He started Malligator Records to release his work and others including Kongas, Don Ray, and Revelation - all had international hits. Other Malligator artists include balladeer Bobby Solo, and Rod McKuen. Atlantic Records distributed Malligator in the United States, and CBS Records everywhere else.
Cerrone's success waned in the 80's but he kept pumping out albums and producing product on others. Nothing, however, approaches his mega single "Super Nature," a 1978 release from an LP of the same name that left skid marks on the International Charts.

Cerrone - Strollin' On Sunday

I Don't Want You Back

2008-04-15T23:23:00.004+01:00

This is one of my favorites ever!
It can't have been a very big seller as it only spent one week at #20, before disappearing from the chart forever! Magically, this track manages to combine the sound of Chic, Roy Ayers and Patrick Adams.
After years of gathering dust, this track was finally revived in the late 80's by the likes of Norman Jay and Sean P on pirate radio.
Nowadays, it was become one of the most collectable and talked about disco 12"'s.

Ramona Brooks - I Don't Want You Back

The SDC Girls

2008-04-10T20:50:00.004+01:00

The Mary Jane Girls were the product of punk-funkster Rick James. The group (which in its early formation included Bride of Funkenstein Sheila Horne) began as James' background singers for his live show. In 1983, perhaps following the precendence of other artists with gimmicky girl groups like Prince's Vanity 6 and George Clinton's Brides of Funkenstein, Rick got four main ladies together for the debut Mary Jane Girls album. While the entire album was written and produced by Mr. James, the different songs and fantasy stage personalities for each of the women represented that there was something for everyone.

For instance, "Candi" (Candice Ghant) portrayed the classy diva. "Cheri" (Ann Bailey) played the part of a young, innocent preppy. "Maxi" (Kim Wuletich) acted as a wild leather queen. And lead vocalist "Jojo" (Joanne McDuffie) was sort of like a female version of Slick Rick, complete with beaded cornrows and an in-charge attitude.

Surprisingly, behind the glossy exteriors, this group packed a lot of talent and, in my opinion, their self-titled debut was one of the bright spots in early 80s R&B. It's songs "Candy Man" and "All Night Long" are bonafide "ol school" classics, combining Rick's very tuneful grooves with the ladies' melodic harmonies. And the temptuous "Boys," with it's lyric "You can call me any week /when you feel the need to freak," is a gem that rivals anything on SuperFreak Rick's own records.

For their second album Only Four You, released in '85, "Cheri" was replaced by Yvette "Corvette" Marine, playing the part of a wild 'n trendy girl. It spawned two top ten singles which were both funky, both typical Rick productions: "In My House" and "Wild & Crazy Love." And on side 2, each of the ladies has their own tailor-made song to sing lead on.

Unfortunately, two albums would be all the world would get from the MJGs, though they did record a modestly successful cover of Franki Valli & the Four Seasons' "Walk Like a Man" for the soundtrack of A Fine Mess in 1986. When Rick James parted ways with Motown in the mid-80s, the Mary Jane Girls got lost in the shuffle. And despite rumored plans to release a third album with the help of producers Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis, they disbanded in '87. Some years later, one of the members would sue Paula Abdul saying that it was mainly her vocals on the choreographer-turned-singer's Forever Your Girl album. And then a few other members were interviewed on a TV segment where they alleged that James had treated them badly while they worked for him. "Corvette" would wind up singing backup for Teena Marie in the late 80s.

The Mary Jane Girls - All Night Long

SDC Exclusive Edit On ANOTHER NIGHT ON EARTH

2008-03-21T18:46:00.003Z

For sure everybody, (the disco freaks!), know one of the best disco Blogs on the Web..., Run by Chris, based on South Africa, Another Night On Earth.

Once again and with pleasure, one of my edits is in exclusive on another blog. Check it, and show some love to Chris; he is a gentleman for share with us some of the best tracks on the planet.

Nice disco weekend to all! :)

Funkin' For Portugal

2008-03-18T19:32:00.003Z

Tom Browne (born October 30, 1954, Queens, New York), commonly referred to as "Mr. Jamaica Funk", is a jazz trumpeter who rose to prominence first through his early work with Sonny Fortune and for his 1980 single "Funkin' For Jamaica (N.Y)".

Browne originally played piano, having taken lessons from the age of 11. Turning to the trumpet, inspired by his collection of jazz albums, his first gig was in a Queens club, The Village Door. In 1975, he landed his first professional gig with Weldon Irvine.

From here he played with Sonny Fortune and Lonnie Smith and was later introduced to Dave Grusin and Larry Rosen at GRP Records via Earl Klugh. Grusin and Rosen signed him to GRP (via Arista Records) and Browne broke onto the music scene in 1979 with a highly acclaimed instrumental jazz fusion album Browne Sugar, although this was not released in the UK. His first real breakthrough came in 1980 with the release of "Funkin' For Jamaica", taken from his second album Love Approach. The single hit #1 on Billboard's Hot Soul Singles for 4 weeks, and was also a UK Top 10 hit, and featured the lead vocals of Tonni Smith.

Continuing his association with producers Grusin and Rosen, his next albums were Yours Truly (1981), including "Fungi Mama" and "Bye Gones", and "Magic" (1982), before he signed directly to Arista. Here he progressed into an electro style of jazz with "Rockin' Radio" from a 1983 album of the same name (which also included a final GRP production "Brighter Tomorrow"). In 1984 he recorded a final Arista album Tommy Gun, which featured Siedah Garrett singing lead on the leading moment "Secret Fantasy" produced by Maurice Starr. Also in 1984 he recorded with Fuse One on their Ice album.

He also recorded with Roy Ayers on "Goree Island", taken from his In The Dark album. Browne moved to Malaco Records and performed a large amount of session work. In 2000, Browne re-recorded "Funkin' For Jamaica" on Jazz FM's 101 Eastbound compilation album alongside fellow jazz artist, Bob Baldwin. The track re-utilised the vocal skills of Tonni Smith (featured on the original).

Tom Browne - Funkin' For Jamaica

SDC Dj Set On Radio

2008-03-17T19:27:00.006Z

Oxigenio Radio invite me to made a Dj set for a weekly program called "Last Night A Sj Saved My Life". With pleasure i accepted, because for me it's one of the best radios here in Portugal.
Like usual, i want to share it with all the people who keep passing by.

Here is the playlist:

01. Chic - I Want Your Love (Todd Terje Edit)
02. J. Jabre, Bibi & Mellow Dee - And You Dont Stop (SDC Disco Mix)
03. Earth Wind & Fire - Beijo + Giving My Love (BSMachine Remix)
04. Deodato - Keep It In The Family (Jellybean 12" Remix)
05. Roy Ayers - Can't U See Me
06. Best Friend Around - It's So Good To Know
07. Voyage - From East To West
08. Silvetti - Spring Rain
09. The Jones Girls - Nights Over Egypt

Social Disco Club Dj Set On Oxigenio Radio

Larry Levan Tribute

2008-03-07T18:06:00.004Z

Larry Levan is quite possibly the most beloved DJ in the history of Dance music. Larry Levan and his friend Frankie Knuckles experienced the first rumblings of Disco and what became Dance music as we know it in the early 1970's as precocious teenagers. They soon built personal connections into professional DJ opportunities. While Knuckles headed to Chicago as one of the acknowledged founders of House, Larry Levan helped move Dance music from the crash of Disco to a new eclectic stew that entranced mixed audiences of multiple ethnicities and varying sexual orientations. His residency at Paradise Garage is legendary. Unfortunately, Levan's own life came to an abrupt tragic end in 1992 but his innovations and his inspiration live on.

Larry Levan was born Laurence Philpot on July 21, 1954 in Brooklyn. Larry and Frankie Knuckles grew up amongst the New York City black gay bar scene. According to Knuckles they were introduced to each other by a drag queen who went by the name of Gerald and they both became part of the underground Voguing scene in which drag queens would compete against each other by throwing shade, or, in other words, visually demonstrating attitude. Levan and Knuckles quickly became entranced by the early Dance music scene in Manhattan, particularly after attending parties at David Mancuso's Loft. They were amazed by both the mixed nature (ethnicities and sexual orientations) of the crowd invited by Mancuso and the music itself. The two became well known on the club circuit and by 1972 had worked their way into helping out DJ Nicky Siano with setup at The Gallery. Larry Levan also began to hang out at Continental Baths and before long had managed to obtain a regular DJ gig for the Baths' small dancefloor. In 1974 the Continental Baths shut down and Frankie received a resident gig at SoHo Place, a new club modeled after David Mancuso's Loft parties.

After Richard Long, owner of Soho Place, made plans to shut down near the end of 1975, Larry Levan received a call from Michael Brody about a new club Brody was opening. The new club at 143 Reade Street was outfitted with a sound system built around Klipschorn speakers and designed with memories of David Mancuso's Loft in mind. Larry Levan had already developed a following and his reputation grew at Reade Street. The club developed notoriety for free-flowing drugs and a highly sexual atmosphere. With overcrowding and safety concerns mounting, Michael Brody was forced to close Reade Street, but before it closed he secured an agreement with Larry Levan that Levan would spin records at Brody's next club venture.

The new Dance venue opened by Michael Brody was Paradise Garage. With funding from Brody's partner Mel Cheren and a sound system designed by Richard Long, Al Fierstein, and Larry Levan himself, Paradise Garage began operation hosting construction parties in 1977 to raise funds to complete work on the club. The official opening took place on February 17, 1978. Among the New York City Dance music elite, Larry Levan quickly became known as the top DJ working in the top club in the entire city. Billboard magazine's Disco Convention voted Paradise Garage Best Club and Best Sound System in both 1979 and 1980. Larry Levan became known for his ability to completely control the mood of his crowds through changes in the music being played and manipulation of lighting and sound controls. He took his primary inspiration from the work of David Mancuso and Nicky Siano but then created an entirely new atmosphere. Larry Levan was the only resident DJ at Paradise Garage for its nearly 10 years of existence. One of Larry Levan's legacies is the Dance music genre called Garage named in honor of Paradise Garage. However, the Garage style, an updated elegant expansion of classic Disco rhythms and vocals, is merely one small part of the music Larry Levan would play on a given night. The music he played could veer from classic Disco to Rock, Punk, Rap, various sound effects and back again. The mood or message being delivered was all important, and the music was a vehicle for creating or delivering it.

Shortly after he began spinning records at Paradise Garage, Larry Levan moved into the remixing booth as well. With plenty of experience mixing various elements of Dance recordings live in the club, it was only natural that Levan would use his talents on recorded remixes. Among his early successes was a stripped down version of Instant Funk's I've Got My Mind Made Up in 1978 that ranks as one of the all-time great remixes. Among his other notable recorded mixes are Taana Gardner's Heartbeat, Central Line's Walking Into Sunshine, and Loose Joints' Is It All Over My Face?. In the early 80's Larry Levan took on production duties as well, most notably for The New York City Peech Boys' classic Don't Make Me Wait. Later in the decade he created notable remixes for Gwen Guthrie and Patti Austin among others. On record Larry Levan's music is noted for his use of synthesizer washes, Electro beats, and smooth, heavy bass lines that lay foundations for much of Garage and House to come.

By the late 1980's Paradise Garage was falling on difficult times. Owner Michael Brody was gravely ill from the ravages of AIDs and Paradise Garage elected to close with a massive final party September 26-27, 1987. An estimated 14,000 people walked through the doors in 48 hours. The club's closing was a serious blow to Larry Levan. He assisted Ministry Of Sound in England setting up a new club modeled on the spirit of Paradise Garage. Relatively brief residencies took place at The Choice, Mars, and Sound Factory. However, it was clear that many years of a punishing lifestyle including drugs was having a physical impact. Larry Levan embarked on a final tour in 1992 with Francois Kevorkian. Larry Levan passed away on November 8, 1992 three months after the tour concluded. Larry Levan's legendary status has continued to grow with the passage of time. West End Records continues to help sponsor parties every year to celebrate Larry's birthday, and his spirit lives on in the countless DJs, remixers, and artists influenced by his talents.

It's because of this gentleman i have this love and passion for disco.
Thank you Larry for the inspiration. Rest in Peace...

Man Friday - Love Honey

Exclusive SDC Mixtape On Hit Da Breaks

2008-02-20T17:58:00.002Z

Portuguese Blog Hit Da Breaks, make a post about Barna Vs Porto Ep release party's. I made an exclusive mixtape for them with the follow tracklist:

01. Will Powers - Adventures In Sucess (Dub)
02. Claudja Barry - Love For The Sake Of Love (Pete Herbert Edit)
03. Bangles - Walk Like An Egiptian (Todd Terje Edit)
04. That Thing - That Thing (SDC Edit)
05. Crown Heights Affair - You Gave Me Love (Greg Wilson Edit)
06. Reverso 68 - Piece Together
07. Steve Miller Band - Macho City (Harri Edit)
08. The Stranger - Shining Star (SDC Edit)
09. Pam Todd - Together (Mr. Chinn's Eternal Love Mix)
10. Inner City Express - Dance & Shake (Beedle's Heavy Disco Edit)

You Can download it Here

This is the dates im gonna play with Barna Soundmachine here in Portugal:

- 22 Feb - LUX (Lisbon) www.luxfragil.com
- 23 Feb - DUPLEss (Famalicão) www.dupless.com
- 01 Mar - TRINTAEUM (Oporto) www.trintaeum.com

Ain't That Enough For You?

2008-02-18T16:16:00.004Z

John Davis is an arranger, producer and musician. He is noted for creating several disco anthems during the late-1970s. He released his first album in 1976 with Night and Day. The 12" single of "I Can't Stop" was one of those original tunes. The album enjoyed minor success, mainly because of John's brilliant arrangements, but the mix for success was not the disco-tizing of standards, a practice that was common in 1976.

His second release with his band, The Monster Orchestra, was 1977's Up Jumped The Devil. By 1978, disco had reached its peak, so had John's career. With that peak came his third album, Ain't That Enough For You. The album was his most commercially successful release, featuring the self-title hit "Ain't That Enough For You."

1979's The Monster Orchestra Strikes Again! would be his final album release. The album had two stellar 12" singles. "Love Magic" would rival his previous success and go down as his second most notable track. While "Bourgie Bourgie" would become the definitive version of the Ashford & Simpson penned classic.

Disco died the next year and so too did The Monster Orchestra. In 1990, a remix of "(Feel The) Love Magic" was released and it became a club hit all over again. And in 1992 he wrote, produced and performed the "Theme From Beverly Hills 90210."

John Davis & The Monster Orchestra - Ain't That Enough For You (SDC Edit)

Guest Mix #4 Pete Herbert (Live @ Trintaeum)

2008-01-29T00:53:00.002Z

Pedro Bruschy (Photograph)

Another exclusive mix here on SDC Blog. No playlist on this one, sorry..., because it's a live set!
Pete Herbert playing 30 November 2007 at Trintaeum (Porto), and gently give me permission to record his amazing music.

Enjoy!

Links:

http://www.myspace.com/peteherbert
http://www.myspace.com/reverso68
http://www.myspace.com/lsbsoundsystem
http://www.myspace.com/superdiscoteca

Pete Herbert Live @ Trintaeum (30.11.2007)

I'm Back! For More...

2008-01-28T18:21:00.001Z

Even if many Modern Soul aficionados know the track "I’m back for more" well, very few people though can say who actually composed it: Kenneth "Kenny" Stover, of course!!!
Kenny’s career began thank to Harvey Fuqua, leadsinger of moonglows and well-known producer at Tamla Motown, who enabled his cousin "Kenny" to write his first songs for the prince of soul marvin gaye.

That is therefore in 1972 that Kenny wrote his first track you’re the man (part i & ii) that Marvin recorded during the session of what's going on . Before finalizing his album, theTamla Motown decided to test the potential hit of you’re the man (part i & ii) (to listen to absolutely) on 45s. Unfortunately, that track did not meet the expected success, and the Motown will not choose it for the album.

In the meantime, Kenny Stover made his first steps as a backsinger for Marvin on the cult track "Inner City Blues" from the same album.
After that, Kenny wrote a few hits such as the famous let's get it on for Marvin Gaye and a few tracks for other artists of the Motown such as "Diana Ross" with "Lovin', Livin' and Givin" on her album ross, …

In 1977 he created with 2 other accomplices, "Johnny Simon" and "Allen Few, the band leo's sunshipp they named as such because they were all 3 born under the sign of the Leo.
During the recording of their only album we need each other, Kenny composed the famous "give me the sunshine" and the great mellow hit "I’m back for more" that will be found the same year on the album of tavares : madam butterfly.
Unfortunately the band only made one album as "Johnny Simon" passed away before the album came out. But the year after, Kenny formed another band finished touch and they signed on the Motown a small success with the track need to know you better.

Considering the small success met by his two albums, Kenny continued to work in the shadows of artists like bobby nunn , peabo bryson , but "I’m back for more" will remain his best track and will later be recovered by worthy representatives like tavares, marlena shaw, al johnson, lulu and bobby womack and sampled by many rappers like will smith...

Leo's Sunshipp - I'm Back For More

Why Can We Live Together?

2008-01-20T20:14:00.001Z

Timmy Thomas (born 13 November 1944, Evansville, Indiana) is an American R&B singer, keyboardist, songwriter, and record producer, best known for the hit song, "Why Can't We Live Together?".

Thomas first attracted interest for his work as an accompanist with Donald Byrd and Cannonball Adderley, before working as a session musician in Memphis, Tennessee, and releasing singles on the Goldwax Records label. He had little solo success until he moved to Glades Records in Miami, Florida, and in late 1972 he released "Why Can't We Live Together?". This was a memorable and heartfelt message song distinguished by its soulful organ, stripped-down production with a simple drum machine, and impassioned vocals. The record topped the Billboard R&B chart, made the top three in the Billboard Hot 100, and Top Ten in many other countries including the UK.

He also continued to work on sessions for TK Records artists, including Gwen McCrae, and in later years as a producer.

Timmy Thomas - Why Can We Live Together (Peter Visti Edit)

(AVI) Part 7

2008-01-17T00:31:00.001Z

El Coco was the best-known of several projects by cult disco favorites W. Michael Lewis and Laurin Rinder, who produced, arranged, wrote, and played all the instruments on the vast majority of their material.
Their distinctive sound was partly a result of their jazz training, which showed up not only in their arrangements and chord progressions, but in the overall musicality and sonic imagination. Rinder had been a longtime session and touring drummer for rock and soul artists, and played on sessions at Motown and Muscle Shoals.
He met keyboardist Lewis in Los Angeles during the late '60s at an audition for the Standells; the two went on to play in a rock band called Joshua, and in 1973 were hired by the AVI label to play on some extended R&B remixes geared for danceclub play.
Thus hooked into the emerging disco sound, Rinder and Lewis began producing and recording their own tracks in 1975, issuing the LP Caravan under the fictitious group name El Coco (a drug reference).
Mondo Disco followed in 1976, as did Let's Get It Together, the point where they really hit their stride.
The title cut was co-written by singer Merria Ross and was a substantial club hit, breaking El Coco on the disco scene.
The title tracks on 1977's Cocomotion and 1978's Dancing Paradise were also successful, with the former (again co-written by Ross) ranking as El Coco's best-remembered outing. By this time, Rinder and Lewis were producing TV theme music as well, and began issuing side projects on the Butterfly label as well; these alternate guises included Tuxedo Junction, Saint Tropez, le Pamplemousse, Rinder Lewis, and the Rinlew Allstars. Following 1979's Dance Man, the duo retired the El Coco name to concentrate on their other projects; in the wake of the anti-disco backlash, they remained in television for a time during the early '80s before retiring from music.

AVI Part 7
Lp "Cocomotion" [AVI 6012] (1977)
12' "Cocomotion" [PRO-12-6012] (1977)

El Coco - Cocomotion (Part I & II)

Release Of The Week At Piccadilly!!!

2008-01-15T20:27:00.000Z

BARNA VS PORTO EP - Hip-Hop / R&B / Nu-Soul RECORD OF THE WEEK AT PICCADILLY!!!

With a little surprise (for me), my record was one of the releases of the week at Piccadilly. Im very happy!

"As you see, I've been having a bit of a round up in the ol' hip hop section, finding more than a few things that we missed right at the end of 2007, like the Paul Nice and James Pants battle tools LPs, Speech Defect 12" and (FINALLY!!) new Wu CD (vinyl's due in a week or so too!). Which leaves us with the Wax On sampler 12" (b-boy vs soul-jazz), hip hop-disco cut on the "Barna Vs Porto EP" and Lupe Fiasco album. I was going to make the Lupe Fiasco record of the week, but then US distributor Unique went bust last week, so don't know when we can get more copies... Instead I'm picking the "Barna Vs Porto EP" because you can't beat a bit of old school!"

Also, is one of the Disco / Nu-Disco best sellers at Juno.

Thanks to all the People who send me feedback!

A few more:

James Barrie (Contraflow/BBE Records) (ES)

Really f****g good 12"!!! I played the Julien Jabre & Gino Soccio tracks on my radio show this week. I need a physical copy of the 12".
Respect. James.

Benjamin Ferreira Jr. (Rraurl Mag) (BR)

I'm really happy with OCSID 2. It shows me how much we are musically connected. "Try It Out" is one of my favorite tracks ever. Great choice! Besides, Jacko and his "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough" got an unbelievable de/reconstruction on "Jump Up Let's Go". Last, but not least, you did a nice thing teaming up with the SDC guys, and their tracks (especially "And you don't stop") rock as well!

Darshan Jesrani (Metro Area) (US)

Hi SDC! This is Darshan from Metro Area.
I'm playing the BSMachine & Der Beat track in DJ sets - it will get a lot of airtime, I promise!
Props on the release!
Peace and be well, D

Barna Soundmachine & Social Disco Club - Barna Vs. Porto EP OUT NOW!

2008-01-13T18:22:00.000Z

Great news!
My new, and first, record is available now at Juno, Phonica, Piccadilly, Fat City...

Here's some Revues:

Piccadilly

After bringing us "The Soul We Lost" EP of Marvin Gaye reworks back in May 2007, the Ocsid Music label returns with another discofied outing. The Barna Soundmachine & Social Disco Club crew obviously know what they're doing because they've come up with some real treats here. The EP opens with a looped-up edit of Gino Soccio's "Try It Out" in disco-house fashion before dropping down into the electroid workings of BSMachine & Der Beat's "Jump Up Let's Go (Megamix 2)". On the flip things get hip hop-disco-breakin' with Julien Jabre & Bibi's "And You Don't Stop" featuring an old school rap by MC Mellow Dee - and you don't stop! Lastly we're back on the disco edit tip with an SDC refix of Glen Adams Affair's "Just A Groove".

Fat City

Barna vs Porto present a great-value-for-money EP here. The A-side winner being the stripped down-edit of Gino Soccio’s ‘Try it out’, the original was a big favourite of Sir Greg Wilson’s. However, my personal favourite is the Disco-rap of Julien Jabre and Bibi featuring MC Mellow Dee on rhymes. Fonky as hell, think Sugarhill Gang, well it’s definitely got us handclapping along in the basement.

...And Feedbacks:

Mark E (Jiscomusic) (UK)

Yeah like em all, will get a play out for sure.
Cheers,
ME

Dicky Trisco (Disco Deviance) (UK)

Been liking the disco mix of "And You Don't Stop" since you sent it before. Sorry never got back but been mad busy. Nice stuff.
Cheers
DT

Maelstrom (Solardisco) (UK)

Loving the EP. Good work fella.

Pete Herbert (Reverso 68, L.S.B., Bakazou) (UK)

Thanks for the tunes...love em!

Simon Lee (Faze Action) (UK)

Thanks for all the edits, will definatley make use of these.

Down Jones (Boogie Business) (BE)

Damn SDC, your E.P. is one of the hottest of the past few years. Absolutely top quality!
I totally LOVE all the tracks on your E.P. Every edit is a winner. Superb work and I'm definitely going to buy the vinyl (I'm a vinyl head)...
More of that!
KOEN

Fratelli Riviera (Bear Funk) (IT)

Great edits man!

Aeroplane (Eskimo) (UK)

Hi there, A1 & A2 for us! Cool edits! Will play, cheers! Thx!
Stephen/Aeroplane

Will Deluxe (Scifi/Criminal) (ES)

For me "It's Just A Groove" is the one.
Thx.
Will

It's a limited edition, so if you like it be quick!
To listen the all tracks:

OCSID Music
Social Disco Club
Barna Soundmachine

Trintaeum (January)

2008-01-05T15:27:00.000Z

Happy 2008! Do What You Wanna Do!

2008-01-05T15:02:00.001Z

T-Connection was one of those groups during the late '70s and early '80s that blurred the line between funk and disco. Unlike virtually all of their peers, they were from the Bahamas; led by vocalist, guitarist, and keyboardist Theophilus "T" Coakley, T-Connection's membership was fleshed out by Kirkwood Coakley (bass, drums), David Mackey (guitars), and Anthony Flowers (drums, percussion).
Shortly after the group's 1975 inception, they decided to relocate to Miami, FL, and ended up signing with Dash, an offshoot of Miami's T.K. Disco. The group's affiliation with that label spawned four albums released between 1977-1979; "Do What You Wanna Do," released in 1977, would become the most popular highlight of their career, reaching number one on Billboard's Disco Singles chart and also registering at number 15 on the R&B chart. Once their time with T.K. was up, they signed with Capitol and headed north to New York. Four more albums steeped in synthesized funk followed for the group until they opted to stop (the title track from 1981's Everything Is Cool peaked at number 15 on the R&B chart).
A number of retrospectives have hit record-store shelves since then; Classic Masters, released in 2002 by Capitol, is the best of the bunch.

T-Connection - Do What You Wanna Do (SDC Rework)

Best Discover Of 2007

2007-12-28T22:23:00.001Z

Ok. 2007 is close to end...

This year was very greatful to me... many changes, many good music discovered (and a chance to play it!), new record, hope 2008 still like this!
In this last post of 2007, i wanna share one of the tracks i enjoy more this year. It's not new, of course(!), but i only find it a few months ago.

I wanna thank all the people who give me strenght to keep on.

A GOOD 2008 TO ALL OF US!

Family Of Eve - I Want To Be Loved By You

Driving Home for Xmas

2007-12-22T14:04:00.001Z

Merry Christmas!

Chris Rea - Driving Home For Xmas (The Revenge Redub)

Exclusive SDC Edit On

2007-12-19T19:04:00.000Z

For those who enjoy my edits, reworks, whatever, there's a new one in exclusive for Electric Spanking Blog.

You can download it at 320kbps Here

It's one of my favorites, so dont sleep...

Sweet Dynamite

2007-12-14T20:15:00.001Z

Claudja Barry is one artist that continues to shine. Her first 12" single was "Sweet Dynamite" (Salsoul). Her most recent release "I Will Stand" (DonnaJean) topped the charts once again. In between these two it's been hits like the multimillion selling Platinum disco anthem "Boogie Woogie Dancin' Shoes" (Chrysalis), "Trippin' On the Moon" (Personal), "Work Me Over / I Will Follow" (TRS), "Down & Counting" (Epic), and "Good Time" (Radikal) that have maintained Claudja's presence on the international music scene. Her success has not been lost on the world of pop music: In Canada alone she's been nominated for nine Juno Awards (the Canadian Grammy) and was awarded the Juno for Best Female Artist.

Glamorous, multilingual and highly traveled Claudja has sung in some the world's best venues - among them Studio 54, The Saint, (NYC), The Palace (Paris), Budokan Hall (where she won the Silver Prize at the Tokyo Music Festival), and The Verona Arena (Italy). She is an artist whose stage presence, longevity, and performances have been noted and appreciated not only in the arena of pop/dance music, but also in film, theatre and television as an accomplished actress.

The demands of her millions of fans across the world have been answered with the chart-topping hit, "I Will Stand", and her return to the stage and screen. It is clear that Claudja has enjoyed longevity in the entertainment business, but she believes that even after all her success, the best is yet to come.

Claudja Barry - Sweet Dynamite (SDC Edit)

Nights Over Egipt

2007-12-10T01:38:00.001Z

The Jones Girls consisted of sisters Brenda, Valorie and Shirley Jones. They served as backup singers for Lou Rawls, Teddy Pendergrass, Aretha Franklin, and Le Pamplemousse (AVI Records). They worked with Diana Ross from 1975-78 and were the backup singers on Linda Clifford's 1978 album If My Friends Could See Me Now.
Their biggest hit was "You Gonna Make Me Love Somebody Else". The song broke the Billboard Magazine Top 40 at #38 in May 1979. The song was also a Top 5 R&B hit.
An additional hit followed in 1980, with the single "I Just Love The Man", charting at #9 in January 1981. The less successful, "Nights Over Egypt", (released in 1981, charting at R&B #23 in 1982) is currently a cult classic that receives more airplay on urban radio stations than their previous bigger hits.

Valorie Jones died on December 2, 2001 in Detroit at the age of 45.

God bless you Valorie.

The Jones Girls - Nights Over Egipt

Social Disco Club @ Trintaeum 1 December (Live Dj Set + Playlist)

2007-12-06T17:42:00.001Z

Social Disco Club Playlist @ Trintaeum (Not For This Order)

A Montain Of One - Brown Piano (Studio Remake)
Mark E - Good Times
Morgan Geist - Most Of All
Antena - Achilles (Phreek Plus One Typhoon Mix)
World Premiere - Share The Night (Breakdown Mix)
America - Horse With No Shame (Edit)
Mudd - Speilplatz (Quiet Village Deep Space Mix)
David Keaton - Space Patrol (SDC Edit)
Jago - I'm Going To Go (SDC Edit)
Mouzon's Electric Band - Everybody Get Down (SDC Edit)
Greg Wilson - Two Sides Of Sympathy
Barry Mason - Body! Get Your Body (Faze Action Edit)
Aeroplane - Aeroplane (Dub)
Julien Jabre & Bibi - And You Dont Stop (SDC Disco Mix)
Chic - I Want Your Love (Todd Terje Edit)
In Flagranti - Emotional R
Sam-Jam - Dance And Chant (Edit)
Roland Shwarz - Step In (Faze Action Remix)
Steve Miller Band - Fly Like An Eagle
The Popular People's Front – You Got Soul
Victor Davies - Fire (Afro Gigolo Soul Weekend Mix)
Pink Monkey Flowers - Rodando A Carmen (LSB Remix)
Tata Vega - Give Up For Love (Dim's Re-Edit)
Stacy Kidd - I Wanted You (Soul Element Mix)
Stargard - Wear It Out (Re-Edit)
Janet Jackson - R&B Junkie (Idjut Boys Edit)
Made In USA - Melodies (Edit)
Barbara Norris - Heavy Hitter (SDC Edit)
Alfredo De La Fe - Hot To Trot (Edit)
Tori Amos - Professional Widow (SDC Disco Mix)
Oto Gelb - He Dances All Night
The O'Jays - I Love Music (Part 1) (Edit)
Patti LaBelle - Music Is My Way Of Life (SDC Edit)
Macho - I'm A Man (SDC Edit)
Kasso - Walkman (SDC Edit)
Queen Samantha - Take A Chance (SDC Edit)
Kool & The Gang - Open Sesame (Todd Terje Edit)

Social Disco Club @ Trintaeum (01 December 2007)

Discocross

2007-12-05T23:43:00.001Z

Originally released in 1978 as a soundtrack to an italian TV-show, this legendary and super-rare Italo disco album features members of cult 70's electronic prog rock / horror soundtrack composers Goblin, with 3 long tracks, of strung out druggy dancefloor excess, arpeggios, animal noises, tribalpercussion, and eerie female vocals that give it a horror movie feel at times.

Giorgio Farina - Tawawa's

Les Edits Du Golem

2007-12-02T16:48:00.001Z

"He came to protect you.
He's growing every day.
He's made out of mud and letters.
He uses scissors to edit obscure tracks.
No one, except his master, could destroy him...
The time has come for the world to experience the power of the Golem.
Each release will be around a specific theme."

For the first one, the Golem dig 3 gems from overseas...
Sumak is an epic space-funk track from the middle east recorded in the 70's ! And never pressed on a 12" !!!
Klout is an edit of a reggae tune from the other side of the world...High infectious groove !
And Pyramide is a Disco/Balearic arabian song from late 70's...
These 3 tracks were never repressed and they are entirely re-mastered for maximum power !

Les Edits Du Golem - Pyramide

Guest Mix #3 Ilija Rudman (No Strings Attached + Time Stand Still)

2007-11-28T17:45:00.001Z

You know you're doing something right when Greg Wilson's knocking at your door. "He Approached me on Myspace a few months ago," recalls Croatian producer Ilija Rudman, "because he was into what he was hearing."

Although's he's been actively making music for almost a decade. The late 20's producer's really come into is own in 2007 with releases on Deep Freeze, Infant and Rong Music, successful studio ventures with Phonique and Spirit Catcher ("Night Vision" and "Inside (Good Idea)" respectly)and a deliciously deep disco-house cut "After Midnight" for Love Is War Music, the new label headed up by 1Gnition's Marcus J Knight.

Ilija's funk, analogue-heavy sound will appeal if Norwegian Balearik or 2020's electronic house rings your bell. But why's it happening now? Simple... "I've been collecting the original tools that the producers 20 years ago using to get that authentic electro-disco funk sound. So the tracks i make with this setup today, better things start to happen."

As well as engaging in more collaborations than your average rap superstar, he's stepping up the place at his own label, Red Music, the "eclectic disco" imprint he set up in 2003, with releases planned every month. So what can we expect to hear when he gets together with Greg wilson? "We're working on some re-edits but we're also making some original music as The Barbarella. It's the freshest thing i'm doing. This is something for the next year so maybe it's too early to talk about this, however."

Thanks Ilija for this lovely mixes, and for your symphaty.

Tracklist:
(No Strings Attached)

01. 'Slow To Speak' - You Should Have Known Better
02. Colonel Abrams - The Truth (Instrumental)
03. Toney Lee - Reach Up (Dub Mix)
04. Midnight Star - Operator (Edit)
05. Paul Hardcastle - Fly By Night
06. David Joseph - Nite People (Instrumental)
07. LakeSide - RelationShip (Edit)
08. David Joseph - You Can't Hide
09. Willie Colon - Set Fire To Me
10. Visual - The Music Got Me (Instrumental)

Guest Mix #3 Ilija Rudman (No Strings Attached)

Tracklist:
(Time Stands Still)

01. Feel - Let's Rock (Instrumental + Vocal Edit)
02. Feel - I'd Like To (Instrumental)
03. Toney Lee - Love So Deep (Instrumental Edit)
04. Class Action - Weekend (Instrumental Edit)
05. Mouzon's Electric Band - Everybody Get Down
06. Gino Soccio - Who Dunnit (Edit)
07. Touche - Wrap It Up
08. Michael Mauro - Talk To Me (Drum Loop Edit)
09. Colors - Am I Gonna Be The One (Instrumental Version)
10. Freda Payne – In Motion (Instrumental)

Guest Mix #3 Ilija Rudman (Time Stands Still)

Links:

www.myspace.com/ilijarudman
www.redmusicrecords.com/

Magic Fly

2007-11-24T18:08:00.001Z

Space is a French electronic music band, one of the most notable artists of the short lived Space Disco music scene (a variation of Hi-NRG Disco and part of 70's Eurodisco).

Space was founded in 1977 by Didier Marouani (also known as Ecama). The first three albums — Magic Fly, Deliverance and Just Blue — were an immediate and staggering success (they sold over 12 million records all over the world).
The album Magic Fly, which is widely considered to be their best work, was released in audio cd in 2001, 24 years after its original release. Although Didier Marouani left the band in 1979, the other two members Roland Romanelli and Jannick Top released in 1980 the album Deeper Zone under the name of Space. Then Space officially collapsed in 1981.

Space - Magic Fly (Echos From Other Space Edit By SDC)

Trintaeum (November)

2007-11-12T17:06:00.000Z

PEG

2007-11-10T19:21:00.000Z

"Peg" is a song by rock group Steely Dan (formed by Donald Fagen and Walter Becker), which was released as a single from their 1977 album Aja.

The guitar solo on the track was attempted by seven top session guitarists before Jay Graydon's version became the "keeper". Rick Marotta played drums on the track; and the distinctive whistling sound in the intro is Tom Scott playing the lyricon, a type of electronic wind instrument.

The song describes a young female in a questionnable debut scene or photo shoot. She is warned that those images may "Come back to [her]". Note the playful reference to mid-20th century cinema and perhaps less-than-savory Times Square movie houses or magazines in the chorus: "you see it all," then quietly "in 3-D!"

The version on this post is a intrumental edit of "Peg", included in the record "Community Service" [CS-1].

(AVI) Part 6

2007-11-07T17:20:00.001Z

Lowrell Simon (born March 18, 1943 in Chicago) is an American soul singer. He began as a singer in The LaVondells, which became The Vondells and enjoyed some regional success in the 1960s with the song "Lenore". When the Vondells broke up, Simon formed the group The Lost Generation alongside several Chicago friends, and the group scored several US hits between 1969 and 1974. After the band's breakup, Simon made contributions to the soundtrack to the 1974 film "Three the Hard Way", and wrote tracks for the 1976 debut album of Mystique, which featured other former members of The Lost Generation. He also wrote the tune "Dance Master" in 1974 for Willie Henderson and the 1979 tune "All about the Paper" for Loleatta Holloway.

In the late 1970s, Lowrell Simon began recording under only his first name. He signed to Liberace's label, AVI Records, and released an album in late 1979 entitled Lowrell. The album's second single, "Mellow Mellow Right On" b/w "You're Playing Dirty", was a #32 US R&B hit that year. The song has been sampled copiously, including by Massive Attack, Imagination and Common.

AVI Part 6
Lp "Lowrell " [AVI 6070] (1979)
12' "Mellow Mellow Right On" [AVISL 108] (1979)

Sound Of Silver

2007-11-06T18:46:00.000Z

For a future-disco hero, LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy is unusually self-conscious. Before you hear a single kick-drum sample on his excellent second album, Murphy seems to be intentionally setting the bar low, giving the massive, clattering dance-floor killer that opens the disc the awesomely pathetic title of "Get Innocuous."

The first LCD track, 2002's "Losing My Edge," was an anthem for aging hipsters everywhere; Silver's first single, "North American Scum," is about the existential crisis of being American at this particular historical moment. Even though it's difficult to imagine Murphy ever exhorting, "Everybody dance now," musically he owes a huge debt to house-music masters like Clivilles and Cole. Putting aside the world-weary Bowie-meets-Byrne vocals, the bulk of the tracks -- "Innocuous," "Us v Them," "Sound of Silver" -- could be lost late-Eighties dance classics. But somehow it all holds together as an album (the New Wave-y tunes "Someone Great" and "All My Friends" help), and by the end, ex-indie-rocker Murphy comes full circle, returning to his roots with the Pavement-meets-Morrissey comic lament "New York I Love You but You're Bringing Me Down."

Sample Pleasures

2007-11-02T15:01:00.000Z

Part Two of the bestselling Sample Pleasures series and Number 5 on the label. The Popular People's Front continue their sonic manifesto, combining samples in a classic style with 21st century tools, to craft another selection of heavyweight retro grooves & modern basement workouts to Soulpsychedelisize your party Focusing on less well known, but no less legendary tracks from the last days of Disco, Italo workouts, Hip Hop and stripped back modern jams, retranslating them into dancefloor smashing sample collages. New Artists Fat Camp & Gilen Nadlie contribute alongside the PPF boss man and Artwork Supremo Leozero.

Trintaeum (October)

2007-10-31T03:05:00.000Z

What A Devine Edit

2007-10-28T20:09:00.000Z

The fourth instalment of the Creative Use series is something special. Three edits done by a man renowned on the bearded disco scene, not only for his ridiculously good DJ sets, but his tireless digging for new (old) records that no-one else has got, or in most cases heard, here you get three examples of this.

My favourite, sounds a bit like "Benny And The Jets" at the start which could never be a bad thing, and the evolves into a sweet downbeat gospel / soul number.

Social Disco Club 1st Release

2007-10-26T14:12:00.000+01:00

This happens so fast...
My first release will be released on OCSID Music [OCSID002] and have already full suport from some good disco dj's arround the world, like Greg Wilson, Simon Lee (Faze Action)...
Out in December, will be available on the best usual record shops like Juno, Phonica, Piccadilly, Flexx, etc.

The record is a colaboration between me and Barna Soundmachine...

Tracklist:

Porto Side (Social Disco Club)

1. Julien Jabre & Bibi f. Mc Mellow Dee - And You Dont Stop (SDC Disco Mix)
2. Glenn Adams Affair - Just A Groove (SDC Edit)

Barna Side (Barna Soundmachine & Der Beat)

1. Gino Soccio - Try it Out (BSMachine & Der Beat Remix)
2. BSMachine & Der Beat - Jump Up Let's Go (Megamix #2)

Links:

www.myspace.com/ocsidmusic
www.myspace.com/barnasoundmachine
www.myspace.com/socialdiscoclub

To open your appetite, there is one track included in the OCSID001.

Guest Mix #2 Greg Wilson (Second Life)

2007-10-24T20:05:00.000+01:00

For this 2nd guest mix another (VERY) special one... Nothing less then Greg Wilson!
The men of the moment give us a fantastic mix with amazing and some unreleased stuff.

Courtesy of Mr. Wilson Himself... Enjoy!

Tracklist:

01. Elektrons - Get Up (Greg Wilson Version)
02. Queen - Another One Bites The Dust (Pete Herbert Edit)
03. Groove Armada - The Girls Say (Greg Wilson Version)
04. Sugardaddy - Hypnotise (Greg Wilson Version)
05. The Bionics - Love Chains (Greg Wilson Edit)
06. 1Gnition - Secret Sunday Lover (Greg Wilson Edit)
07. Mindless Boogie - Boogie (Extnd)
08. Gino Soccio - Try It Out (Barna Soundmachine Edit)
09. Urbalised Beats - Hollerback Drug
10. Talking Heads - Psycho Killer (Greg Wilson Edit)
11. Barna Soundmachine - Megamix #1 (Extnd)
12. DC LaRue - Cathedrals (Greg Wilson Edit)
13. Mindless Boogie - So Happy (Extnd)

Links:

www.electrofunkroots.co.uk/
www.myspace.com/djgregwilson

(AVI) Part 5

2007-10-24T19:40:00.000+01:00

Eastbound Expressway first appeared on the 1976 single "Danger Zone", a production by British DJ and producer Ian Levine.

Levine had originally intended the name to be Ian Levine and the Sounds of Summer but then changed it into Eastbound Expressway. Eastbound Expressway was then revived in 1978 when Levine was signing James Wells to AVI. One of the songs, "Never Let Go" was a repetitive funky dance groove. AVI loved the song but loathed Wells' wailing on top of it and asked Levine to take off his voice. "Never Let Go" was then released as an Eastbound Expressway 12" single which became a club hit early 1979, and AVI asked Levine to produce an album for it.

AVI liked the resulting album Levine delivered but they just didn't think it was as funky as "Never Let Go" so the album released under another moniker, credited to Croisette. Levine rushed back into the studio to record another album with a more groove-based sound which was released, credited to Eastbound Expressway, in the summer of 1979. As with many 70s studio projects, no line-up appeared on the cover. The vocals had been sung by Levine's usual crew of session singers in the London Trident Studios.

When Levine began producing Hi-NRG records for Record Shack Records in 1983, he revived the Eastbound Expressway name for the 12"s "Primitive Desire" (1983) - running 13½ minutes - and "Frantic Love" (1984), once again with a faceless group. Both singles were big hits on the Hi-NRG scene, the vocals being provided by three session singers, Norma, Shirley & Dee Lewis and one of Levine's other artists Laura Pallas.

Levine left Record Shack early 1986 and signed with UK label Passion Records where he assembled an actual line-up for Eastbound Expressway, consisting of Karen Freeman, Joycelyn Phillips, and Bonnie Anderson. The trio appeared on three successful 12 inches for the label, most successfully "You're a Beat" (a pun on Eurobeat which the Hi-NRG sound was now being labelled) and also submitted the track "Whiplash" for Levine's own label Nightmare Records, early 1989.

A compilation CD The Best of Eastbound Expressway, comprising all the recordings Levine did under that name, was released by Miami-based Hot Productions, Inc. in 1995.

AVI Part 5
Lp "Eastbound Expressway" [AVI 6068] (1979)
12' "Never Let Go" [AVI-12-238-D] (1978)

Guest Mix #1 Rui Trintaeum (Trintaeum Stereosound)

2007-10-19T22:45:00.000+01:00

Pedro Bruschy (Photograph)

Until now on, i gonna share the work of other talented musiciens/dj's. I think there are so many, good and unknown...

For the 1st one, im proud to introduce a very special Friend and Dj... Rui Trintaeum.

Rui Martins Pereira is the owner, programmer and resident Dj of Club 31 in Porto ( http://www.trintaeum.com/). His connection into the music starts on the earlier 80's, when he created the band'Culto da Ira' in witch one he was the bass player. This band has been the 2nd best one on the modern music conquest 'Rock Rendez Vous' witch has given them the opportunity of getting one of their tracks on the album released by this club. In 1986 he starts djing at 'No Sense' Club in Porto, suggesting new sound influences. An year later, he opens 'Loco Mosquito bar' in witch one he has been also resident Dj ,this time introducing danceable sounds. For about ten years has been out of this activity and returns on 1995 to open 'Trintaeum Club', assuming the djing during the week and betting in a dashing and proper music selection of national and international Djs for the weekend, witch made this club the one for music lovers and a marking place in Porto. Rui Trintaeum, as he's known, has a residence at Trintaeum '31 Stereosound' and besides that, played in many other places, clubs and music festivals. Along these years he played with many respectable artists as Carl Craig, Jonh Tejada, Recloose, Pepe Bradock, Âme, Henrik Schwarz, Lindstrom & Prins Thomas, Rainer Truby, Pete Herbert, Gilb'r, Boozoo Bajou, among others... In 2005 he joined Antony Millard and Wilson Edgar on the I.N.F.I.L.T.R.A.T.I.O.N. project (http://www.i-n-f-i-l-t-r-a-t-i-o-n.com/).

Tracklist:

01. Minnie Riperton - Lovin you
02. Marvin Gaye - What's Going On (Shhhhh Reconstruction)
03. Hot Rocks - Chopper (Extended Edit)
04. Lindstrom & Solale - Let's Practise (Wade Nichols Dub)
05. Vangelis - Let It Happen (Beatfanatic's Remix)
06. The The - Giant (Pilooski Edit)
07. Badly Drawn Boy - Promises (Reverso 68 Remix)
08. The Osmonds - III (Quiet Village No-Edit)
09. Ignition - Secret Sunday Lover (Original)
10. Blackjoy - Mostache (Prins Thomas Diskodub)
11. Mark-E - R+B Drunkie
12. Moodymann - I'd Rather Be Lonely
13. FletwoodMac - You Make Lovin' Fun
14. Tracey Thorn - It's All True (Martin Buttrich Remix)
15. Roland Appel - Dark Soldier

Links:

www.myspace.com/ruitrintaeum
www.myspace.com/clube31
www.trintaeum.com/

Are You Like It?

2007-10-18T17:46:00.000+01:00

More, More, More" was the signature song of Andrea True, who performed under the name "The Andrea True Connection".

The song was sent to the United States after being recorded in Jamaica; the idea for a single was brought up so True could make profits from a television commercial she was making in Jamaica (an attempted coup in the country hindered the ability for her to get her commercial profits in cash). Buddah Records liked the sound, and originally only released the song to discos in the winter of 1976. The popularity of "More, More, More" was immense. Widespread listener interest convinced Buddah to release the single commercially in the spring. The song rose to number four on the Billboard Hot 100 and number five on the UK Singles Chart.

The Love Boat

2007-10-17T21:01:00.000+01:00

September 24, 1977 - September 5, 1986

Cast:

Captain Merrill Stubing: Gavin MacLeod
Doctor Adam Bricker: Bernie Kopell
Bartender Isaac Washington: Ted Lange
Purser Gopher Smith: Fred Grandy
Cruise Director Julie McCoy: Lauren Tewes
Cruise Director Judy McCoy: Pat Klous
Vicki Stubing: Jill Whelan
Photographer Ace Evans: Ted McGinley
Emily Stubing: Marion Ross

Loveboat Mermaids:

Susie: Debbie Bartlett
Maria: Tori Brenno S
heila: Macarena Camacho
Jane: Nanci L. Hammond
Amy: Teri Hatcher
Patti: Debra Johnson
Starlight: Andrea Moen
Mary Beth: Beth Myatt

Set aboard the Pacific Princess, a luxury cruise ship which embarked each week on a romantic, sentimental, and often hilarious voyage across tropic seas. Three or four stories told on each telecast were interwoven and often involved the ship's crew, who were seen on the show every week.

Famous movie and TV stars were delighted to accept guest roles on The Love Boat's floating sound stage, combining work with travel to exotic locations. Most of the episodes were filmed on two real cruise ships, the Pacific Princess and the Island Princess, during their regular voyages from the Virgin Islands to Alaska. Paying passengers were invited to participate as extras.

Mother, Father, Sister, Brother

2007-10-12T02:50:00.000+01:00

MFSB (short for "Mother, Father, Sister, Brother") were a loose conglomeration of studio musicians who provided backing tracks for dozens of seminal Philadelphia soul recordings in the 70's. They later released successful singles and albuns as a stand-alone recording act.

Assembled by the production team of Gamble & Huff, MFSB was the house band for their Philadelphia International Records label and provided both the signature smooth Philadelphia sound that dominated the early 1970's for the acts who recorded at their Sigma Sound Studios, including The Delfonics, The O'Jays, Blue Magic, The Spinners, Teddy Pendergrass and Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes; and the "high hat" disco sounds that dominated the late 1970's with groups like The Trammps, First Choice, Ripple and Double Exposure.

And The Winner Is...

2007-10-10T17:20:00.000+01:00

... ARE YOU RE-EDIT?

Ok. Finally the result!
The winner is "p e c e" with "are you re-edit?" sugestion.

Like i said, the winner will win 1 Cd with some reworked stuff and 1 record (when released), but i am a nice guy, so... All the people who participate will win the Cd to!

For all who give sugestions, please send me your adress to here (by comment), or to myspace (by message). (www.myspace.com/socialdiscoclub).

To all who take some time passing by and "help me", MANY, MANY THANKS!

Ps.: Im gonna keep all the names because, im thinking soon start with a new record label and i will use other name, so...

SDC

Groovin' You

2007-10-01T23:02:00.000+01:00

One of the best solo records from Harvey Mason -- best known as the drummer on some really monster 70s funky fusion sessions (such as Johnny Hammond's Gears album) -- but a surprisingly well-rounded R&B artist overall! As with Norman Connors, another fusion drummer gone soul star, Harvey's working here in a style that mixes jazz influences with modern soul -- grooving things for a more mainstream audience, but still keeping things real underneath. The record's filled with guest appearances by fusion greats -- like Bob James, David Spinozza, Richard Tee, Lee Ritenour, and others -- and Jim Gilstrap sings vocals on a cut or two.

Getting Off!

2007-09-28T17:43:00.000+01:00

Another great compilation! I Love It...

Getting Off: The Seductive Sounds of 70's Adult Cinema is another porno music compilation - but with a difference; the emphasis is definitely on creating an atmosphere by using the music, with almost no dialogue/moaning/groaning as is the usual deal with porno music comps.

On closer inspection, Getting Off: The Seductive Sounds of 70's Adult Cinema is actually a compilation of genuine (licensed) 70's library music mixed with some music (lifted from DVD) from actual 70's and early 80's porno movies, with the library music here having every chance of actually being used in adult movies back in the day.

Whatever - with Getting Off: The Seductive Sounds of 70's Adult Cinema, the guys at Lucky Monkey Records have put together a great little compilation that definitely evokes that sexy 70's porno movie sound!

Track Listing:

01. L. Hurdle & F. Ricotti - Move On

02. Anton Scott - J. P. Walk (From "Boogie Nights")

03. Alan Tew - Gentle in the Night

04. Ray Davies - Power Play
05. Unknown - Nude Interlude #1 (From "Kinky Ladies of Bourbon Street")

06. Alan Hawkshaw - Hawkwind and Fire
07. Brian Bennett - Disco Fever
08. Roger Webb & Keith Grant - The Bends

09. Alan tew - The Heist
10. Unknown - Nude Interlude #2 (From "Downstairs, Upstairs")
11. Unknown - Carl's Cabana (From "Inside Seka")
12. Unknown - Fernando's Blues (From "Come Under My Spell")
13. Unknown - Nude Interlude #3 (From "Do You Wanna Be Loved?")

14. Unknown - Bang 'Em Hard (From "Inside Seka")

PS.: Seems like divshare dont work well right now, so the tracks will be available soon...

6 000 000 Steps

2007-09-24T01:09:00.000+01:00

Rahni Harris, (member of the great Dayton), released "Six Million Steps" in 1978 on the small Inspirational Sounds label out of New Jersey. Rahni Harris wrote Six Million Steps for runner, Andy West who was running 2500 miles to raise money for Muscular Dystrophy.

ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL FOR ANY DISCO LOVER!!!!

Social Disco Club @ Trintaeum 8 September (Live Dj Set + Playlist)

2007-09-22T00:51:00.000+01:00

Social Disco Club Playlist @ Trintaeum (Not For This Order)

Marvin Gaye - What's Going On (Shhhhh Reconstruction)
Gang Do Tagarela - Mêlo Do Tagarela (Instrumental)
Nancy Martin - Can't Believe (SDC Edit)
Skinny Joey - Area 45
Claudja Barry - Sweet Dynamite (SDC Edit)
Moodymann - Technologystolemyvinyle (Ali's Dj Friendly Edit)
Meco - Cantina Band Theme (Underdog Edit)
T-Connection - Do What You Wanna Do (SDC Rework)
C.J. & Co. - We Got Our Own Thing (SDC Edit)
Hot Chocolate - Cadillac (The Revenge Rework)
Midnight Wind - Rocket (SDC Edit)
James Brown - Dead On It (U-Tern Disco Edit)
Hamilton Bohannon - The Groove Machine (SDC Edit)
M.E. - R&B Drunkie
Secret Bob - Last Train To Oslo
Donna McGhee - It Ain't No Big Thing (SDC Re-Edit)
Alan Tew - Gentle In The Night
Donna Summer - Love To Love You Baby
Glenn Adams Affair - Just A Groove (SDC Re-Edit)
Funk Masters - Love Money (SDC Re-Edit)
Herois Do Mar - Amor (Sue Ellen Edit)
Blue Feather - Let's Funk Tonight (SDC Edit)
Bumblebee Unlimited - Love Bug (Slyde Edit)
Carlos Santana - Oye Como Va
L. Hurdle & F. Ricotti - Move On
Jean-Luc Ponty - Computer Incantations For World Peace
Aleem - Release Yourself (SDC Re-Edit)
Suzy Q - Tonight (SDC Edit)
Quando Quango - Love Tempo (Dub)
The Popular People's Front - Stop On By (LeoZero Edit)
Gatto Fritto - Clem's Bounce
Cat Stevens - Was Dog A Doughnut (Creative Use Re-Edit)
René & Angela - I Love You More (The Revenge Rework)
More I Get + Boogie No More (SDC Medley)
Jessie G - That's Hot (SDC Edit)
E.S.P. - It's You
Michael Jackson - Thriller
Odyssey - Use It Up And Wear It Out (SDC Re-Edit)
Alicia Myers - I Want To Thank You
Matt Orchestra - Nightime (SDC Re-Touch)
Hamilton Bohannon - Let's Start To Dance
Lindstrom - Another Station (Todd Terje Remix)
The Originals - Down To Love Town (Dim's Disco Re-Edit)
Kool & The Gang - Summer Madness (Live Version)
Sly & Robbie & Taxi Gang - Billie Jean
Marvin Gaye - A Funky Space Reincarnation (OOFT Music Edit)
40 Thieves - Point To The Joint (Electronic Boogie Band Remix)
Raw Silk - Do It To The Music (Dub)

Flashback

2007-09-15T22:05:00.000+01:00

Imagination was a trio from the U.K. that put a synthesized and often clubby spin on soul groups from the 70's. In fact, a couple of 70's groups have direct ties to Imagination. Leee John and Ashley Ingram spent time during that decade playing supportive roles in the Delfonics and Chairmen of the Board, prior to Imagination's formation. Along with drummer Errol Kennedy, vocalist John and bassist Ingram formed the group in 1981. By the end of that year, they already had their first album released and a minor hit in the form of that album's title track, "Body Talk." The group's second album, 1982's In the Heat of the Night, was their most successful, spawning a trio of U.S. R&B chart hits in the form of "Just an Illusion" (#27), "Magic and Lights" (#52), and "Changes" (#46). Those singles were even more popular in their home country, with the first pair reaching the top five. The remix collection Night Dubbing appeared the following year, as did the group's third proper album, Scandalous. The group's success fizzled until their mid 90's breakup (at the time, Leee John was the only remaining original member), though 1984's "This Means War" was able to put a dent in the U.S. R&B chart. John remained active in the entertainment industry, hosting U.K. television programs and continuing his recording career as a solo artist and collaborator. Since the group's split, several compilations have been released.

Made In PT

2007-09-09T23:48:00.000+01:00

I think most of the "disco people" knows "Made In USA - Made In USA" Lp, released in 1977 on De-Lite Records, specialy because he includes the superb "Melodies" (who have been re-edited on Moxie under the name "melodica").

This post is not about "Melodies"... Is about other great track included in the lp, called "Shake Your Body", here with a SDC Edit... ;)

What's Going On?

2007-09-09T18:29:00.000+01:00

"When would the war stop? That's what I wanted to know...the war inside my soul."
That was the question that inspired Marvin Gaye to create his most deeply realized record, What's Going On?. This 1971 album went against the grain at Motown, which had become mired by this time in its hit-factory mentality of the '60s. Berry Gordy even fought with Gaye over releasing the album. Fortunately the artist prevailed over the businessman, and Gaye's masterpiece reached the masses, generating a stellar response and record sales (three songs went all the way to number one). What's Going On? magically combines Gaye's deeply arresting vocals and socially conscious lyrics with the perfectly flowing sound of his fellow musicians, making the album the single greatest statement of musical genius to ever come out of Motown. Gaye uses the medium of music to preach, exploring with soulful eloquence the social ills of the day--drug addiction, environmental devastation, police brutality, taxes--themes that still resonate today. Despite his often bleak observations of the times, Marvin's overall message offers the promise of redemption. The overriding message of What's Going On? is ultimately one of hope: we can save ourselves ONLY if we can learn to "holler love, love, love across the nation/together and holy/we can claim love our salvation." Filled with the utmost of sincerity, Marvin sings almost as if divinely inspired, rising to new heights, free of any cliché R&B phrasings.

This Shhhhh Edit makes use of the outtakes for a mellow string intro and neat loops to bring out the groove, making the eventual appearance of Marvin's heart-rending chorus all the more soul-affirming...

Pop Dell'Arte 20 Years (Bloop Recordings)

2007-08-31T17:41:00.000+01:00

This release marks the 20th anniversary of the original 1987 release of “Querelle”, an amazing piece of music. Pop Dell’Arte have gathered mythic status in Portugal. Their frontman, João Peste, was responsible for one of the most progressive and interesting indie labels of the 80s and released everything from alternative pop to experimental electronica. Against all odds, Peste managed to keep Pop Dell’Arte going since the mid-80s, although with many line-up changes, and in the process recorded several modern classics of the portuguese scene.
The Glimmers got on board for the remix, that is an actualization of the original, because they are fans of the band. They included their version of the Adonis classic “No Way Back” on their Fabric compilation after playing Lisbon’s Lux where Zé Pedro Moura, the bass player from Pop Dell’Arte, is also a resident DJ. After that, the connection was obvious and this remix is further proof of that.
The Glimmers, of course, do not need any further introduction: they are among the finest crafters of sounds for the modern dancefloor and have here taken a classic and brought it to the 21st century.

Tracklist
A. Querelle (Original 1987)
B. Querelle (The Glimmers New Beat Flash Card Version)

Samples:

You can find this fantastic 12" on the usual best record shops.

Next Bloop release
Rocky Marsiano - Hold Of Me EP with Toby Tobias (Rekids) and Dubious (Bear Funk) Remixes

I wanna give my congratulations to my friend JOSÉ BELO

(http://hitdabreakz.blogspot.com/), for the amazing work he is doing with is labels:

http://www.myspace.com/blooprecordings

http://www.myspace.com/looprecordings

SDC Next Party

2007-08-30T13:35:00.000+01:00

I will be next saturday playing at industria porto.

Is the re-opening party of a legendary club here in portugal.

Step by step, disco is coming again...

TRINTAEUM September Program

2007-08-30T13:29:00.000+01:00

This is the september program of trintaeum ...

Once again, and like always, GREAT!

If you are close, dont miss it...