AUGUST TRAKS

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Track List (songs roughly by tempo)

1) Let Me Down Easy (78 Edits)

2) Outstanding (Toomy Disco)

3) Rise (Get Down Edits)

4) Track 1 (Jerome Derradji)

5) Ready For Your Love (Ramboiage)

6) Ce Soir (Casinoboy)

7) Social Studies (Plastic Plates remix)

8) Another Night (Greg Wilson edit)

9) Inside My Love (Get Down Edits)

10) Morning Light (Revenge remix)

11) Curious (Chemistry)

12) Feels So Good (Deadly Sins)

13) Wanna Be With You (Craig Bratley)

14) Contagious (Rayko edit)

15) Try It Out (Gino Soccio)

16) Yatchiminou (Jimmy Hyacinthe)

17) Sweet Dynamite (Todd Terje edit)

18) I Want It (Prins Tomas & Lindstrom edit)

19) And You Know (Majesty's Pleasure)

20) Touch It (The Shack)

21) Going to Chicago (Weekend Express)

22) Won't You Talk To Me (Linosaur)

23) I Got (Roberto Rodriguez)

24) Love Is All We Need (Ultracity's Lost City Mix)

25) Look Right Through (Storm Queen aka Morgan Geist)

26) How Deep Is Your Love (The Rapture)

27) Let's All Chant (Social Disco Club)

28) Feel It Baby (Al Kent)

29) Lube Her Up (Gazeebo)

30) Spaced (Pete Herbert)

MIKSTAPE MADNESS

A new batch of mixtapes from around the world... Most of the mixes can be downloaded by clicking on the players below. First one out... From Brussels, Belgium comes Renaud Deru and Andy Faisca aka Mustang. Here's their August mixtape, featuring their latest track Shooting Love (extended mix).

From New York comes DJ JKriv aka DeepandDisco. His label recently released the debut EP Just Another Night featuring the lovely Adeline Michele on vocals. Besides putting out records, JKriv churns out disco edits. A favorite track is his rework of the Donald Byrd classic Love has Come Around, featured in his guest mix for Plastic Love.

From London, Britain comes the C90s. Here's the August mixtape featuring some smooth disco sounds. Opening track is Golden Super by Jan Driver, followed by the funky first track of the Jerome Derradji EP Play On.

Dancing Beats aka Yam Batalier is a Berlin-based nu disco and house DJ. He serves up a blend of old classics and new beats. Favorite track is the Berlin Machine edit of La Bionda's I Got Your Number.

Hungarian mix by Cosmic Boogie with a fresh batch of nu disco sounds, including Wanted Dub by Brevil.

Music for lovers from Athens, Greece by NTEIBINT. Opening track is the Danny Krivit dub edit of Love You More by Rene and Angela.

From Skåne, Sweden comes the disco dub maestro Drop Out Orchestra.

Downtown Party Network of Vilnius, Lithuania serves up some dance floor beats.

...and back to Belgium. Here's the latest installment in the Magic Mixtape series from Stephen Fasano aka The Magician as well as the latest mixtape from his former musical partner Vito De Luca aka Aeroplane.

 

LOVE IS

Sunday Soul! Nicholas edit of the Al Green classic Love and Happiness, released last year by Small World Disco.

STAY FREE

In remembrance of Nick Ashford, here are some recent re-edits of Ashford and Simpson. First track is my own edit of Don't Cost You Nothing from the 1977 album Send It.

Here's the Leftside Wobble version of the same tune, released by Kojak last year.

From Stockholm, Sweden comes the Disco Tech remake of the 1979 disco anthem Stay Free.

One more edit of the same song by DJ Valavanis from Greece.

FRIDAY FUNK

Friday funk, courtesy of Mark Lehart. First song out is Go and Get Some by Millie Jackson.

Luther Ingram recorded the album Let's Steal Away to the Hideaway in 1976. It features the funky gem I Like the Feeling.

Gene Redding was discovered by soul-jazz legend Etta James at a USO club in Alaska. Subsequently, he released only one album, Blood Brother, in 1974. Here's the title track.

Enchantment was formed in Detroit by Emanuel "EJ" Johnson, Bobby Green, Mickey Clanton, Joe Thomas and Dave Banks. They are best known for the songs It's You That I Need and If You're Ready from the 1977 album Once Upon a Dream.

A Taste of Honey released the album Twice as Sweet in 1980, featuring the track Rescue Me.