Category Archives: disco

#441

November 17, 2020

A nice selection of songs and tracks that skirt soul/funk, disco, lovers rock, re-edits and deep house. Everything flows well – I have enjoyed listening to this one! My special fave is the Tavares re-edit, which has been cycling though my head while out on runs (always my best indicator of a track to watch!). Same goes for the re-edit of Marshall Hain (their track Dancing In The City), and the E. Live Ft. Chesta Blake track.

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Artist Song Release Label
Miroslav Vitous New York City Love Saves The Day (A History Of American Dance Music Culture, 1970-1979) (Part 2) Reappearing Records
Hysteric Letter From The Far East BEST003 La Bestiole Records
Terea Pretty Bird The Ladies Of Too Slow To Disco 2 How Do You Are?
GW & Henry In The CityReworkd Disco Mondo A&R Edits
Unknown Artist B5 Crossed Wires Light Sounds Dark ‎
Tony Verde Calypso Napoli Segreta Volume 2 NG Records
Tavares A Minute (Moplen Edit) A Minute / Can’t Hide A&R Edits
E. Live Ft. Chesta Blake Do Me Like That (Slight Extension Mix) Star Creature Vibes Star Creature
Charisma Everything Is Fine (Chuggy Discomix) Everything Is Fine Emotional Rescue
One Blood Every Dub Everything Is Fine Emotional Rescue ‎

Artist Song Release Label
Bajm Jezioro Szczęścia (Tamten & Fopa Nostalgic Rave Mix) The Very Polish Cut Outs Sampler Vol.7 The Very Polish Cut-Outs
Wilson Pickett Don’t Knock My Love (Part 1) Love Saves The Day (A History Of American Dance Music Culture, 1970-1979) (Part 1) Reappearing Records
Wilson Pickett Don’t Knock My Love (Part 2) Love Saves The Day (A History Of American Dance Music Culture, 1970-1979) (Part 1) Reappearing Records
The Patchouli Brothers ‎ Always Dancin Tugboat Edits Volume 15 Tugboat Edits
Al-Tone Simone Manuel Al-Tone Edits Razor N Tape ‎
Payfone Sofian (Loyal Remix) Sofian Leng
Q&A Revolving Mirrors Leng Label Sampler Leng
DJ Kemit Forbidden Love NDATL Special Edition 2020 *Covid Edition NDATL Muzik
Elia y Elizabeth Alegría (Demi Riquísimo Remix) Remixes De Oro Razor N Tape Reserve
Andrea Desidera Lenortape Side B (Excerpt) Copernicus Was My Grandad, Kepler Was My Uncle EN.KI.DU.NU

#438

October 20, 2020

Electronic, disco, soul/funk Record Store Day releases from 2020 Drops 1 and 2 in the first hour, quality 12″ singles in the second hour. Special attention to the Long Island NY band Cross Island, and the brand new 2020 A Certain Ratio record. The Bobby Moore track (Call Me Your) Anything Man has been running through my head all week. The second hour closes with tracks from two Ace 45th Anniversary 7”s. All tracks are aces in this show, no matter what label they are on.

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Artist Song Release Label
Caress Catch The Rhythm (7″ Edit By Mr. K) The Mr. K Edits (The Garage Box) Most Excellent Unlimited
Celestial Choir Stand On The Word (Edit By Mr. K) Stand On The Word Most Excellent Unlimited ‎
Human Race Human Race Human Race Gem Records
Marcy Luarks & Classic Touch I Don’t Want To Share Your Love Electric Murder Kalita Records ‎
Gaston Clap Song My Queen Soul Brother Records
RAH Band Float Producers Choice Atjazz Record Company
Halo Let Me Do It (Re-Edit) Let Me Do It (Re-Edit) Expansion
Bobby Moore (Call Me Your) Anything Man (Call Me Your) Anything Man Soul Brother Records
Sweet Music I Get Lifted (Call Me Your) Anything Man Soul Brother Records

Artist Song Release Label
Henry Greenwood Buffalo Dance Buffalo Dance A&R Edits
Cross Island East Of The Apple (Al Kent Remix) East Of The Apple Kalita Records
A Certain Ratio Taxi Guy ACR Loco Mute
Paul Robinson Come On Sister Come On Sister Emotional Rescue
One Blood Be Thankful (Lexx Discomix) Be Thankful Emotional Rescue
Arnold Shuffler And His Friends Love Love Black Pearl Records
Brenda Jones Super Stroke Super Stroke Expansion
James Knight & The Butlers Save Me Save Me Cat
Denise & Abe Ain’t That Lovin’ Ain’t That Lovin’ Ace
Rubba Way Star Way Star Ace

#428

August 4, 2020

Gulls Window Circus version of disco, presented with love for you to enjoy. Every track is well-chosen, but you must hear the final 2 tracks in part 2, me says. the Laurent Voulzy/Patchouli Brothers brothers segment is pretty crucial as well.

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Artist Song Release Label
Escort Ride Slide Escort Records
International Noise Orchestra Gimme Your Lovin Marching In Time 1 Emotional Rescue
Antonio Sorrentino ‘E Prumesse Napoli Segreta Volume 1 NG Records
Bella Vista Mister Wong (Disco Dub – Jura Soundsystem Extended Edit) Mr Wong Isle Of Jura Records
Laurent Voulzy Plus D’Un Milliard De Filles (DoctorSoul – Mais C’est Toujours La Même Re-Therapy) TSTD Edits 04 How Do You Are?
The Patchouli Brothers PFS Tugboat Edits Volume 13 Tugboat Edits
N-Gynn Turkish Delight Hamam House – 4 Hamam House
Tigerbalm Ello Koko (Original Mix) Ello Koko Leng
Joy Rider Don’t Play With My Heart Tired Of Phoney RCA Gmbh

Artist Song Release Label
A Certain Ratio ‎ Skipscada Do The Du Soul Jazz Records
The New Mastersounds, Sulene Fleming Turn This Thing Around Turn This Thing Around Mukatsuku Records
Peaches Mann Get In Rhythm With God’s Love Tone B Nimble ‎– Soul Is My Salvation Chapter 5 Rain&Shine
Serenity Don’t You Worry Tone B Nimble ‎– Soul Is My Salvation Chapter 6 Rain&Shine
Gayle Adams All The Way (Vibes4YourSoul “Tonights Ze Night” Rework) TSTD Edits 05 How Do You Are?
Soul Supreme Check the Rhime Check the Rhime Soul Supreme Records
Karun, FlexFab What’s The Harm Extra Muros : Kenya FLEE
King Sporty Safari (Lexx Discomix) Safari Emotional Rescue
Liz Damon’s Orient Express Woota (Feelin’ Good) Woota (Feelin’ Good) Aloha Got Soul
Umberto Lumber Between Those Sheets International Disco Mafia EP Fatty Fatty Phonographics
Odyssey Inside Out (Remix by Al Kent) Inside Out (Remix by Al Kent) Million Dollar Disco
Blue Magic Welcome to the Club Love Saves The Day 2 Reappearing Records

#427

July 28, 2020

Something I haven’t done in a long time – a disco show (at least, Gulls Window Circus version of a disco show). If you think you hate disco, please listen: there is so much great music hiding under that much-maligned label. The best in that genre has an undeniable magical quality and is absolutely infectious. The Les Troubadours Du Roi Baudouin, Chuck Mangione and Salsoul Orchestra trio of tracks are must hears, and the Al Kent closer is for-tears.

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Artist Song Release Label
Forgotten Corner & Khidja Tatooine Moons The Sound Of Mercury Rising – Vol II Pikes Records
Poom De La Vitesse À L’Ivresse Too Slow to Disco Neo – En France How Do You Are?
Andres I’ll Wait 4 You Andrés IV Mahogani Music
Unknown Artist You Abandoned Me (Dave Mathmos Interpretation) TSTD Edits 03 How Do You Are?
Al-Tone Beggar Al-Tone Edits Lighthouse Records
June Evans No One To Love June Evans Tambourine Party Records
Moonoton Ta Ta Ka Din A Tan Hamam House 5 Hamam House
Jura Soundsystem Tiger Leone With You Isle of Jura Records
Paul Weller Mirror Ball On Sunset Polydor
Unknown Artist Star Light Party! Kaplan Records

Artist Song Release Label
Les Troubadours Du Roi Baudouin Dibwe Diambula Kabanda Love Saves The Day (A History Of American Dance Music Culture, 1970-1979) (Part 1) Reappearing Records
Chuck Mangione Land Of Make Believe Love Saves The Day (A History Of American Dance Music Culture, 1970-1979) (Part 1) Reappearing Records
The Salsoul Orchestra Magic Bird Of Fire (Original) Magic Bird Of Fire Salsoul Records
Elkie Brooks The Rising Cost Of Love The Ladies Of Too Slow To Disco 2 How Do You Are?
Dinky Di Gold Wave (Remixed By Al Kent) Gold Wave (Remixed By Al Kent) Million Dollar Disco
Payfone Last Night in Sant Celoni Last Night in Sant Celoni Leng Records
Tommy Stewart Featuring Rahaan & Zernell Practice What You Preach (Zernell And Rahaan Edit) Luv N’ Haight Edit Series Vol.2 Ubiquity
Al Kent Pick Me Up (Say Goodbye) Pick Me Up (Say Goodbye) Million Dollar Disco

#227

February 23, 2016

Electronic show that spends most of the beginning in a vocal disco mode, taking a break to chill with the Jaime Read, then running to the close with instrumental tracks with a disco feel, throwing one last vocal hurrah with NYC’s The Dance.

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Artist Song Release Label
Marion Javius Waiting In The Wings Disco Love Vol 3 BBE
Donna Summer State of Independence (The Revenge re-edit) State of Independence (The Revenge re-edit) White Label
Flower Are You Mad Enough? The Best of Flower Montage Records
The Creams Let’s (Justin Van Der Volgen vocal version) Let’s My Rules
Andy Ash Trinkets & Things Carnival De L’Spirit Stilove4music
LeRoy Skai Skläsh Schamoni Musik
The Cosmologist Future Space (The Cosmologist 2014 Arkestral Manoeuvres In Outer Space) Cosmology Vol 4 Under The Influence
Loud-E Hey Mr DJ Hey Mr DJ Objects Of Desire

Artist Song Release Label
Loud-E Hey Mr DJ Hey Mr DJ Objects Of Desire
Jaime Read Is It Real What I Feel? On The Beaches Golf Channel Recordings
East Liberty Quarters Rays The 206 Rotating Souls
Hauke Freer Xk XK XK
80’s Child Bangkok Nights Bag Of Tricks Vol 1 Masterworks Music
Young Marco Untitled Untitled Camel Toe
Jaz Shrimp and Grits Shrimp and Grits Sixty Five
The Dance Slippery when Wet Dance For Your Dinner On Records
Yovav Magnetic Field Botanical Garden Malka Tuti

#176

November 11, 2014

English disco artist John Schroeder opens this show with his sole release as Hi Voltage Orchestra from 1979 – very nice… US DJ Osmose does a re-edit of James Brown ‘Down And Out In New York City’ on a Smokecloud 12″. There is a 2012 track from Detroit’s Theo Parrish follows. A jazzy MadDisco re-edit. Walter Whisenhunt (promoter for James Brown, discoverer and eventual spouse of Gloria Ann Taylor), collaborates with her on a 70s funk/soul monster. Back to Detroit with Rick Wilhite. Then back to 1981 for Arnies In Love, then forward to 1984 for Pink And Black. That’s just the first hour – explore and enjoy.

Pink And Black

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Artist Song Release Label
High Voltage Orchestra Midnight Blue Down To The Sea And Back Volume 2 Wonk
Osmose I Was Bedroom Disco Smokecloud
Black Merlin Ice House New World Fantasy Common Thread
Theo Parrish Black Mist (Extended Version) Hand Made EP Running Back
MadDisco Sugar Free MadDisco Edits Vol 5 Maddisco
Gloria Ann Taylor and Walter Whisenhunt’s Orchestra What’s Your Word Deep Inside You Music Gallery
Rick Wilhite My Life Is a Minimal Circle The MC Stilove4music
Arnies In Love Invisible Enough Wind Rock Sucks
Pink And Black Miss Fortune (Extended Mix) Sometimes I Wish Emotional Rescue

Artist Song Release Label
Pink And Black Miss Fortune (Extended Mix) Sometimes I Wish Emotional Rescue
Fernando feat Fiorucci Giant Desert (Vocal) Giant Desert Leng
Parada 88 You’re Gonna Miss Me Adventure Party International Feel Recordings
Invisible Menders Affected Porn Wax Eight Porn Wax
DW Edits Track 2 This Is The Music We Dance To Creative Use
Rocky Siffredo Slow In China Diavol Edits Vol. 2 Joe’s Bakery
Joe’s Bakery Una Splendida Giornata (Nassau Balearic edit) Diavol Edits Vol 1 Joe’s Bakery

#171

October 7, 2014

1976 disco produced by Tom Moulton by the band Touch starts off this show on good feet. That feeling is continued in the next two tracks, when Floating Points take us in a new broken beat direction. We return on a disco/re-edit track with Riccio, before Ruf Dug gets a bit abstract and Pat Les Stache breaks out the wah-wah petal. The African sound flirted with by Pat Les Stache blooms in Auntie Flo (and several others in part 2), then we get lost deep in the jungle with Jose Manuel in the most pleasing way he does. Listen to part 2 and make your own summary – be assured it fits in exactly with the feel of part 1.

Twisted Soul Collective

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Artist Song Release Label
Touch Energizer The Message From Brunswick Ultra-Vybe
Twisted Soul Collective Do A&R Edits Vol. 7: Do A&R Edits
Terrence Parker Your Love DownTown Sounds Classics Volume 3 Fatty Fatty Phonographics
Floating Points Sparkling Controversy Sparkling Controversy Eglo Records
Riccio Put Some Love In Your Life Editorial 10 Editorial
Ruf Dug Ruffy’s Day Out Magnetic Atmosphere It’s A Lectric World
Pat Les Stache The Spirit Rides Again The Spirit Rides Again Kojak Giant Sounds
Auntie Flo La Samaria Future Rhythm Machine Huntleys & Palmers
Jose Manuel Samsara (Original) Samsara It’s A Lectric World

Artist Song Release Label
Jose Manuel Samsara (Original) Samsara It’s A Lectric World
Issa Bagayogo Filaw (Soft Rocks Remix) Black Rox 1 Black Rox Brighton
Amadou & Mariam Ce N’est Pas Bon (JD Twitch edit) Ce N’est Pas Bon (JD Twitch edit) Autonomous Africa
Space:tricks India World Series One Stupid Human Music
DJ Nature & Kuniyuki Groove Chase (Kuniyuki Ver.) DJ Nature & Kuniyuki EP Soundofspeed
MadDisco Sugar Free MadDisco Edits Vol 5 Maddisco
Red Axes Chew The Gun Highlife Vol 4 Highlife Edits

#170

September 30, 2014

Full-on re-edit show that includes disco (Luke, ChannelXXX), jazz (Lay-Far), sun-drenched sounds (Naphta, Suonho, Torn Hawk), reggae (John Milk), minimal wave (Cha Cha Guitri, Garçons) and deep house (Tiago, Telephones, Grauzone, Roisin Murphy, Vakula, Fatima And The Mamluks, Japan Blues). I like all the tracks, but insist you listen to the Tiago, Suonho and ChannelXXX tracks.

Cha Cha Guitri

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Artist Song Release Label
Luke I Love You (Frontera Dub) Down To The Sea And Back Volume 2 Wonk
Naphta Age Of Sun Solar Empire EP Transatlantyk
Tiago Sem Titulo Sem Titulo Interzona
John Milk The Fool (John Milk Disco Reggae Mix) Disco Reggae, Vol. 2 Stix Records
Telephones Lotusland (Sunrise Mix) Lotusland Love On The Rocks
Lay-Far Quality Hours (Lay-Far Re-edit) Secret Weapons Basic Fingers
Grauzone Love Of My Own (Ilo warped edit) By Special Request Lo Fi Edits
Roisin Murphy Ancora Tu (Daniele Baldelli & Marco Dionigi Wired Mix) Mi Senti Remixed The Vinyl Factory
Suonho The Ghetto 74 The Ghetto 74 AK

Artist Song Release Label
Suonho The Ghetto 74 The Ghetto 74 AK
Vakula Identification Bandura003 Bandura
Fatima And The Mamluks Hassan (Razormaid Dub) Yalla Yalla Emotional Rescue
Cha Cha Guitri Art negre French Synth Wave (St Etienne 1981) Born Bad Records
Garçons Re Bop Electronique (Red Axes Edit) Re Bop Electronique We Release Whatever The F*ck We Want Records
Japan Blues Half Deaf Pulse Brasserie Heroique Part Two Berceuse Heroique
Torn Hawk Money Becomes Only Itself Bad Deadlift L.I.E.S.
ChannelXXX How We Do In NYC (edit) Mangiami 001 EditChannel