Jonesing for some disco edits action now that you’re back at boring old work? Why not make DJ DSK’s DNA Edits Volume 3 your first choice of purchase in the new year? After all, the A-side is his dope edit of 1979 cut Love Thang by all-girl Philly disco outfit – er – First Choice. Need something a bit more 80s to get an even greater numbers of ladies on the dancefloor? Try the flip
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DJ DSK: DNA Edits Volume 3 (Vinyl 7″)
THE PENDLETONS feat. GIZELLE SMITH: Keep It Working (Jacques Renault remix)
On the one hand, news that the Jacques Renault remix of The Pendletons’ Keep It Working is rather old – it’s been out nearly a month after all. On the other hand, if the PR comes out on the same day as the release that does tend to eliminate any lead time. So it’s just possibly you aren’t aware that New York disco commando Jacques Renault has taken the disco/ soul-jazz crossover Keep It
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RITA RAY: Disco Stu
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Not for the first time, Estonia, of all places, staggers with a spectacular slice of soulful music – in this case Rita Ray single Disco Stu. Now, I realise that title might make it sound like a song about a bloke who wrangles trolleys in Asda car park Monday to Friday and lives only for the weekends when he becomes the local Tony Manero. But it’s not. What it is is a stupidly
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CANNON & MIRRORBALL: Black Rhythm Rap/ Makin Time (Vinyl 7″)
So successful was Cannon & Mirrorball’s last set of cut n paste disco antics for the Disco Bits label that they’ve been invited back again to do another 45 – Black Rhythm Rap b/w Makin Time. The latter cuts up Loleatta Holloway’s 1980s hit Love Sensation for a funky nu-disco excursion and in doing so reclaims the track as a sample source from the clammy hands of 90s Italo-house casualties Black Box. For the monkey though, it’s
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SANTA SEMELI AND THE MONKS: Where Is The Disco In This Town?
Looks like today has become ‘disco day’ this week on MB so what better time for London-based outfit Santa Semeli And The Monks to ask (with tongue firmly in cheek) Where Is The Disco In This Town?. Like they don’t already know. Coupling a pumping but funky late seventies groove with the Bowery-flavoured campness of the video (performance artistes and arch looks abound), the outfit fully
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MOMO SAID: Sunny Side Of The Street
Momo Said finds the Sunny Side Of The Street for the lead single off his forthcoming second album Break The Rules which follows in early autumn. And it’s very much the side of a street that is not merely sunny but forever NYC disco-central circa 1977 judging by the chugging four-to-the-floor Earth Wind & Fire meets Indeep-style funky disco on offer here. I reckon if he topped that off with a
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KOKORO DISCO-SAN: Isla Fantasía b/w Sonic Feeling (Vinyl 12″)
Uncannily dropping at the same time as a colossal heatwave is scheduled to hit Europe comes double tropical disco biscuit and vinyl 12″ Isla Fantasía b/w Sonic Feeling from Barcelona trio Kokoro Disco-San. Who says you can’t rely on the weather? Isla Fantasía is six-plus minutes of pumping, Brazilian-inflected four-to-the-floor action while B-side Sonic Feeling is the only
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NICOLE WILLIS & BANDA PALOMITA: I Call Your Name (SMOOVE remix)
You’re Nicole Willis, you’ve got a brand new band (Banda Palomita), you’ve got a brand new musical bag that’s heavy on the 80s influences and you need a remix of your electro boogie single, I Call Your Name. So who you gonna call? No, not Ghostbusters! You’re going to call Smoove and get him to don his disco hat, and I think we all know that is a very ‘disco’ hat indeed. He’ll probably
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CALENDER: Hypertension (+ HOTMOOD edit)/ Ritmo Latino (+ VOODOOCUTS edit) (Vinyl 12″)
Having got the gap between releases down to around a month, the Matasuna Records crew now shave off a few more days and just for jollies make sure the release is a twelve inch to boot. A what? Oh yes – sorry kids – back in the day there were two sizes of vinyl record, one of which was a whole foot across! Indeed between the late seventies and the noughties, 12″s were the DJ standard in dance
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SMOOVE & TURRELL: Mount Pleasant Remixed Vol. 1
Aye, aye – Smoove & Turrell unlock the stems for a trio of cuts off their recent Mount Pleasant long-player and step hastily back as a horde of remixers steam in to get their scaly claws into the Geordie pair’s neo-disco and soul. Emerging bloodied and torn but triumphant from such a Darwinian bloodbath are Valique, Basement Freaks and Dr Rubberfunk. Clutched in Valique’s scarred
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