Next 12" On Bear Funk

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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)

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Song For Mozambique

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)