SOLID GOLD

Roberto Cravallo has dropped the EP Solid Gold from the Disco Era.

GREASE

Two recent edits of the Frankie Vallie title track for the movie Grease. The Flight Facilities rework can be downloaded here. The Disco Tech edit can be enjoyed in the player below.

RECORD COLLECTION

Mark Ronson's Record collection comes in different versions. Favorites are the Plastic Plates remix and the Perseus remix.

Mark Ronson - Record Collection (Plastic Plates Remix)


Mark Ronson - Record Collection (Perseus Remix)

BUST A DUB

Jona Saucedo from Mexico has released a three track EP on Bust a Dub. Favorite track is a dubbed out version of Ken Boothe - Is It Because I'm Black? (Back Over My False Dreams)



Here's the Ken Boothe original.

R'N'B RE-RUB

Here are some recent RnB edits... Streets of Haze from Australia has reworked the early 2000s club tracks Try Again (Aaliyah) and Wifey (Next)





Bydesign edit of Chante Moore - Love's Taken Over



Sleazy McQueen edit of The Cover Girls - Wishing on a Star

 

MIXED UP

Check out the latest mixtape from Onur Engin - Mixed Up In The City 5.

Onur Engin - Mixed Up In The City 5

Track List:

Kompleks - Space Talk
InnerWestSoul - You Were The One
Deadly Sins - Space Funk (Ds J'dore Edit)
D-Pulse - Velocity of Love (Hot Toddy Mix)
Nel Oliver - Dream On (The Revenge Edit)
Beatconductor - I Wouldn't Wanna Be Like U
Arthur Russell - How We Walk On The Moon (Youth Edit)
St.Tropez - Hold On To Love (Nirobi Edit)
Sammy Barbot - Mexico (Lovefinger's Barrio Edit)
Sofrito Specials - K-Danse (Frankie Francis Edit)

SWEET MISERY

Two recent soulful edits for a Sunday afternoon... first one out, Scratchandsniff rerub of Martha Reeves - Sweet Misery



Next up, Womack rework of The Spinners - Could It Be I'm Falling In Love

 

EPMEO GUEST MIX

Elektrik Soul guest mix for Epmeo

Slow Disco (Elektrik Soul) by Elektrik Soul

L2L MIKS

Loyal 2 the Life mix - all tracks remixed, retouched and reedited by Riccio.

BREAKING BAD

Here are some recent remixes from Lou Teti. Favorite track is Breaking Bad (reworked with JKriv).

Lou's Remixes by Tigers on a Leash

STORM QUEEN

Morgan Geist aka Storm Queen released the track Look Right Through last year. Here's a recent edit by Deadly Sins.

Here's the original.

NIGHT LIGHT

New four track EP from the House of Disco with some soothing slo-mo sounds. Opening track comes from Luminodisco, followed by the soulful Give Me Your Love by Rocco Raimundo. Next up, Matthew Kyles samples Toni Braxton. Last track comes from The Groovers who serves up a remake of the Lionel Richie dance floor classic All Night Long.

Night Light EP by House of Disco Records

RAYKO DISKO

Rayko has churned out an impressing number of edits during the last couple of years. For some of his sounds, check out his House of Disco mix posted earlier and the mixes in the player below. The Cosmic Disco mix contains nine of his own edits with It Must Be Magic as opening track. The mix for Feel My Bicep features eleven Rayko edits, including a revamped version of Some Kinda Lover by The Whispers as the opening tune...

MPB

Womack and Womack released the album Conscience in 1988, most known for the soul classic Teardrops. Another great track from the album is MPB (Missin' Persons Bureau). It was retouched by Frankie Knuckles the year after for his Paradise Ballroom mix.

More recently, Alkalino has reworked the Womack and Womack tune. His edit is featured on the five track Adultery EP On the Verge.

DC FUNK

It's fat and it's back. Fatback DC teams up for another evening of funk and soul delight - tonight at LIV on U and 11th.

Fatback Mix

1) Twiceashigh-Sir Froderick
2) Pacifics - Digable Planets
3) Down By Law (’On the Bugged Tip’)- Fab 5 Freddy
4) Return Of The B-Boy - The Pharcyde
5) Shine (Main) - Luther Vandross & Chic
6) ManWomanBoogie (feat. Amanda Diva) - Q-Tip
7) Give Me the Night (Single Version) - George Benson
8) Rock Steady (Alternate Mix) - Aretha Franklin
9) Turn On Your Love Light - Bobby “Blue” Bland
10) Me and Julio Down By the School Yard - Paul Simon
11) Something Down Inside of Me - Fontella Bass + Others.
12) I’m Walkin’ - Fats Domino
13) (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher & Higher (Rock Savage Mix) - Jackie Wilson
14) Parrty (Part 1) - Maceo & The Macks
15) Live At The Basement - The Shake Up Connection
16) MoneyGrabber - Fitz & The Tantrums
17) Midas Touch - Midnight Star
18) Erotic City - George Clinton Parliament Funkadelic
19) Ease On Down the Road #1 - Diana Ross, Michael Jackson & Quincy Jones
20) Walk Right Now - The Jacksons
21) Another Star - Stevie Wonder

INNER WEST SOUL

InnerWestSoul from Sydney, Australia has released the edit Crown Jewels on Disco Deviance.

 

Crown Jewels and other ISW edits are featured in this guest mix for the House of Disco.

 

Track List

1. Intro (story of my life)
2. Crown Jewels - InnerWestSoul (Disco Deviance)
3. Falling In Love - Surface (InnerWestSoul Tight As You Like Edit)
4. After The Dance - Krystol (InnerWestSoul + DFP Re-Re-Edit)
5. You Used To Hold Me So Tight - Thelma Houston (Deep and Disco Version)
6. This Beat Is Mine - Vicky D (InnerWestSoul Edit)
7. Changes - Alena (Ron Basejam Remix)
8. Get On Up And Do It Again - Suzy Q (IWS Mo Congas Edit)
9. The Live Sound - InnerWestSoul (Disco Deviance)
10. Hudson Square - Homework
11. Fun Lovin Bliminal - InnerWestSoul Mash (Unreleased)
12. Casanova - Loletta Holloway

U + I

Britsh soul-funk group Delegation released the album Eau de Vie in 1979, featuring the two favorite tracks Heartache # 9 and You & I. Deadly Sins reworked the latter for a two track EP released earlier this year.

A more recent edit comes from Casual Encounters.

Here's Delegation performing the song on Dutch television.

MEHDI RIP

DJ Mehdi RIP (20 January 1977 - 13 September 2011)

SHE'S GONE

She's Gone is an early Hall & Oates favorite taken from their folksy album Abandoned Luncheonette released in 1973. The song is based on John Oates being stood up for a date on New Years Eve and Darryl Hall going through a painful divorce. Here's the ES edit.

...and here's the original. Unfortunately the sound quality is quite poor, but it's a pretty cool video. You gotta love those hairdos. 

WEEKEND VIDS

Azari & III has released their self-titled debut album. Here's the video for Manic.

New video from Tyson - After You're Gone

Video for the Hercules & Love Affair remix of Trickle Down by Processory

BREAK DANCE PARTY

Break Machine is best known for their mega hit Street Dance which came out in 1983. The single appears on the album Break Dance Party released the year after. The title track of the album is an old school party jam, now reworked by Osvaldo Wilson from Bilbao, Spain.

 Here's the video to the original.

NEED U TONIGHT

Punkin Machine recorded the disco stomper I Need You Tonight in 1981. The track was produced by Jerry Cucuzzella. Here's the H-Track edit from a couple of years back.

A more recent edit was released this summer by Let's Get Lost (track number two in the player below).

HOW DEEP IS YOUR LOVE

DISKO MIKS MADNESS

Here's a batch of fresh disco tapes. Most of the mixes can be downloaded by clicking on the players below... First one out is the Disco Deviance mix by Pete Herbert and co-spinner Dicky Trisco for the late July Vintage Festival in London. The mixtape contains back to back favorites such as the BT Express classic Does It Feel Good To You, the Ron Basejam remix of Alena's Changes, an edit of the Diana Ross disco anthem Upside Down and a remake of the Hall & Oates classic I Can't Go For That.

Other Vintage Festival spinners include Disco Bloodbath, Leftside Wobble and legendary disco and electro funk DJ Greg Wilson. Here's Wilsons live mix from the festival. Opening track is the New York remix of Relax by Frankie Goes to Hollywood (which can be downloaded here), followed by Gino Soccio - Try It Out. Third track is the Cheryl Lynn disco stomper Got To Be Real, followed by other stompers such as Can't Fake the Feeling by Geraldine Hunt and a Cosmic Boogie edit of Talking Heads - Slippery People.

Newcomers to the disco scene are Tiger & Woods aka Larry & David. This mysterious duo released the debut album Through the Green earlier this year, which contains a sweet batch of disco edits and slo-mo sounds. Here's their mix for Beats in Space.

Disko Selectors aka Deeman & Roi Canda from Valladolid, Spain has selected some recent disco sounds. Favorite tracks include brand new edits from Majesty's Pleasure and Pete Herbert (posted previously here and here) - as well as the Todd Terje edit of Land of Hunger. (The Terje track can be downloaded here. For more Terje edits, click here).

Superbreak has released a new EP of disco delight (posted previously) and put some recent tracks into this Cosmic Soul mixtape. It includes edits of some all time fave early night jams such as Rien Ne Va Plus by Funk Factory (reworked by Gazeebo) and Don't Tell Me Tell Her by Odyssey (reworked by Superbreak).

Here's another live mix - this one by London-based DJ Rory Phillips. Opening track is the Kraftwerk classic The Model, followed by the Prins Tomas and Lindstrom remix of Locussolus - I Want It. Included in the mixtape are some of Phillips' own remixes, as well as remixes by Jacques Renault and Aeroplane.

1979... It's dancing time! The Legendary 1979 Orchestra serves up a 2 hour live mix recorded at the Poolsize Fest this summer. Opening track is The Groovers edit of Minnie Riperton - Inside My Love (posted previously), followed by music from Tipo, Jimmy The Twin, Volta Cab, Kastil, Nicholas, dbo, Jeremy Glenn, Alkalino, Social Disco Club, Munga & Deep&Disco, Rayko, Andrew Clarke, Tensnake and the 1979 one man band himself.

Three in a row... Trujillo aka Andres Astorga from Caracas, Venezuela presents his August sounds. Opening track is a re-edit of the Mtume classic Juicy Fruit... Tony Johns presents some of his favorite things, including one my favorite tracks of the year - the Ooft rework of Melba Moore's Love's Comin' At Ya (Make U Mine)... Only Children released the track Don't Stop earlier this year (posted here), which is included in their mix below. Other tracks are the Disco Deviance edit of Aretha Franklin - Jump to It and the latest Todd Terje track Ragysh.

Time to cool down and chill out. Cosmic Boogie serves up a sweet batch of soulful mellowness. DJ Same presents some AOR disco sounds, including reworks of Al Green and Dolly Parton. Last out is the Disco Tech after party mix.

AOR Disco Edits 10

Disco Tech - After Party Mix

WRONG LOVIN

Here's the latest ES edit - a reworked version of the Millie Jackson classic If Loving You Is Wrong I Don't Wanna Be Right.

PLASTIK

Plastic Plates is the artist name of Felix Bloxsom from Sydney, Australia. He's currently residing in Los Angeles where he has churned out an impressive series of remixes during the last year. A favorite track is the reworked version of Social Studies by Body Language.

Another big favorite is the rework of Set Fire to the Rain by British singer-songwriter Adele.

Other good tracks from Plastic Plates include reworks of Human League, Sia and I Blame Coco.

The latest track from Plastic Plates is a pretty decent remix of Mark Ronson's Record Collection featuring MNDR on vocals.

SPACED OUT

New EP from Superbreak dipping into the funkier side of disco. Favorite track is Spaced Out (number three in the player below).

SPACED

In our gala-a-xy... You can't trust everyone that you meet... So go the lyrics to the 1970s disco gem Spacer performed by French pop singer Anny Chancel aka Sheila and B. Devotion. The single was produced by Chic and sold over 5 million copies world-wide.

Pete Herbert has reworked the tune for his first PH Edits - out now (track number four in the player below).

Here are two more vintage videos in which Sheila performs Spacer with her dancing partners Black Devotion.