edits
Disco Cuatro – CVLT Edits [DISCOS004]
Discos Capablanca is back… and you know its hot when they drop it! Two excellent edits from CVLT, somewhere between wave / cosmic / flamenco / psych blues.
VA – RDY #10 (Ron Hardy Edits) [RDY010]
Ron Hardy edits of ‘Sleezy D – Trust’, ‘B52’s – Planet Claire’ & ‘Acid Dreams’. The stuff the real djs were looking for.
Mango – Edits #1 [BLK001]
Two edits from Mango. A side is amash up with Paris Grey’s Don’t lead me, somehow made a bit more brittish with a broken beat and 90’s chill out zone, future sound of london strings. B side contains ‘Move’ which sounds like very early Chicago.
VA – RDY #9 (Ron Hardy Edits) [RDY009]
More Ron Hardy edit business from the vaults: First choice – ‘Let No Man Put Asunder’ (unreleased Ron Hardy Edit) and Jamie Priciple – ‘Your love’ (original unreleased version female vocals).
C.O.M.B.I. – S & T [COMBI010]
Emanating from Japan, and discovered by Eric Duncan (of RUB ‘N TUG fame). These Re-edit masterclasses would never have gotten outside of their native market. Luckily a helping hand from one of NYC’s most hyped party throwers has guaranteed a wider audience.! This release has another glorious duo of obscure but super high quality dancefloor friendly edits.
Sir Leon Greg – Warehouse Classics #1 [WAR001]
Warehouse Classics Vol.1 holds 4 killer tracks going from obscure disco to new wave, first popularized at the Music Box and rarely heard anywhere else. Sir Leon Greg (another incarnation of Perseus Traxx) jams out then reinforces some edits of forgotten classics with a raw & personal analogue treatment for a devastating full effect on the dance floor, that is a far cry from the proliferation of over-produced squeaky-clean software edits. These are basic, raw ideas thrown down quickly and capturing the energy on 1/4” tape before moving on to the next set of sounds. Musically, it’s as delightfully funky and uncomplicated as you’d expect, a mesh of disco tracks and heavy, effect laden, machine-funk.
VA – The Minimal Wave Tapes: J Rocc Edits Vol 2 [STH2295]
J Rocc steps up for the second and final installment of his Minimal Wave Tapes Edits, once again appearing on weighty vinyl and offering solitude for those DJs out there whose attempts to drop the likes of Ohama and Deux are frustrated by the inherent lack of quantized drum programming. J Rocc’s edit of Felix Kubin’s “Japan Japan” is a case in point, originally featuring on the recent second volume of The Minimal Wave Tapes, the rolling 4×4 electro groove that filled the opening bars soon mutated rhythmically into bastard vocoder pop. J Rocc wisely extends this opening loop before switching into the madness and then smoothing back into that groove. From here, J Rocc adds some extra weight to the titular elements of Ohama’s “The Drum”, teases out the inner uneasy primal techno workings of “Who’s Really Listening?” from Mark Lane and f*cks about with Deux’s “Game & Performance” brilliantly.
DJ QU – Reiterate Vol. 1 [RMG001]
Out from the skies arrives Reiterate Music Group, offering 4 older cuts with new interpretations. A side is on the Afro percussive tip, B is more on the disco funk side w/edits by DJ Qu.
Gay Marvine – Bath House Etiquette Vol.2 [BHE002]
Hypnotic mixes of hypnotic classics… Gay Marvine fixing ”Love Hangover” by Dianna Ross, I Need You (unreleased Tom Moulton mix)” by Sylvester, ”Daily Disco” by Yello and ”Emerald City Sequence” by Quincy Jones.
Grossstadtlichter – Grossstadtlichter (Kinky Lovers Edit) [CRJAK014]
“Ok so here’s the last installment in the Creme JAK series. We feel there’s not much to add to this concept and over the past few years this kinda musick has found the foothold it lacked when we started this lil’ enterprise in the heydayz of beige vanilla Minimal. In any case it seems fitting to go full circle and draw the curtains with an epic disco anthem that might not be JAK perse, but at least coulda woulda shoulda been caned back in the dizzies in all the places that mattered ese! You see, House is a feeling and blablabla.. So here’s a final one up your purist backsides as this mystery strap-on crew cuts and tape edits its way through a molten bucket of Swiss cheese and ends up with a dead hooker in the trunk in the process.”
River & Phoenix – Castle Rock EP [TAIN009]
Stand by us with this ode to childhood, youth and adolescence. Three brave hits that evoke the sweet innocence of days long gone, Chucks, striped tees and the question what kind of creature Goofy really is. For all you outsiders and insiders. A creative original Young Edits effort.
Eros – Eros 03 [EROS003]
Third and final EP from Eros, and it’s another great ep with some rare lost classics from the raw, decadent and formative birth of club music re-programmed for modern floors. Naughty, haughty edits coming with the proper late ’80s Sheffield-Chicago warehouse vibes. Rocking drum machine chops and Inner City vibers on the A-side, Hardy-esque edits and amyl-huffing happy-happy vibes on the flip.
Psychemagik – Heelin’ Feelin’ [PJPN001]
Psychemagik are back and this time it’s a limited edition issue of their Healin’ Feelin series edits on CD. Ass Nation, Make it Mellow, Diamond Star, Upskirt, Milky Way, Boogie Drome, For Your Love and Aldeia De Ogum are all present and correct and are joined by two previously unreleased and totally exclusive edits, Andalucia evokes images of sun drenched skies and dusty Andalucian mountains and a fresh drum heavy reworking of one of the duo’s first ever releases, on Discoteque Wreckers, Runnin’ Pt 2, that seems bound for dancefloor glory.
The Black Electro Orchestra – ElectroMusica Popular [TTHR-DR014]
New release by Tevo Howard under his The Black Electro Orchestra project, reinterpreting classic pop songs by Culture Club, Joe Jackson, Eurythmics, Depeche Mode and Madonna.
VA – Blackdisco XI [BD011]
Blackdisco Volume XI pushes forward into new territory (and with a new aesthetic) by welcoming a group of three deep diggers who shun musical trends and their inherent fakers. Dea, Albion & Spacelex combine their vinyl-mining efforts to unearth some real diamonds from the rough. Dea’s cut Malaka its a floater with a funky sailboat vibe, while his complimentary cut Taubat takes the tired jungle disco vibe to new level with its triumphant synth-led chorus, an absolute stunner that could be extended for 20 minutes. On the flip, Albion spoons water over the coals, steaming up the joint with an uptempo percussion bomb as if Santana had a disco secret, and Spacelex rides us out with a sexy rock groove complete with mysterious male voiceover, almost as if someone lowered the volume to whisper in your ear.
VA – RDY #8 (Ron Hardy Edits) [RDY008]
Amazing 3 Ron Hardy edits straight from the basement… A1 brings ‘I Need you’ from Sylvester, more than 7 minutes of pure maddness. On A2 we get the brillant & timeless ron hardy mix of Robert Owens cult track ‘your mind’. On the B an obscure track called ‘Hardy goes acid’.
VA – Secret Mixes And Fixes vol.14 [FIX014]
Secret Mixes and Fixes brings more tight edits from The Fanstasy, Detroit…Bill Withers, AR & Machines, Chris & Cosey and Everyday People.
Rayko – Rayko’s Doo Doo [ASR550]
Rayko’s debut on American Standard label is a typically infectious reworking of a disco oddity, replete with the sort of chugging bassline and snapping percussion that teases people onto the dancefloor.
VA – RDY #7 (Ron Hardy Edits) [RDY007]
Amazing 3 tracks straight from the vaults of one of the original house music creators Ron Hardy, featuring the ultra rare “Love & Happiness” from First Choice, here the incendiary version from the master himself. On B1 we get the brillant & timeless Ron Hardy mix of J Geils Band “Flamethrower”. B2 another mega rare version of Streetlife’s “Tearin Down The Walls”.
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