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Love Games EP
   
Love Games - (5:22) 114 BPM
   
Back To You - (5:30) 105 BPM Hot
   
Love On A Summer Night - (5:35) 116 BPM
Review: Have you got your shiny My Byrite suit on, and is there plenty of wet look gel keeping your high-top fade looking sharp? Good, because we're in full-on 80s soul and boogie mode for this late re-edits EP from DJ Laurel, who's perhaps best known for this many contributions to the 'Katakana Edits' series. Sadly we can identify only one of the three source tracks - namely The McCrarys' 'Love On A Summer Night', a classic slice of jazz-funk from 1982. Elsewhere, though, 'Love Games' itself has a nice fat b-line and harmonised vox, while 'Back To You' is more of a syrupy, loungey ballad in a Barry White-ish vein.
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HOTDIGIT 120
23 Sep 24
Disco/Nu-Disco
Hide Away EP
Hide Away EPEXCLUSIVE
   
Hide Away - (5:02) 102 BPM Hot
   
My Love Gets Stronger - (5:01) 55 BPM
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FB 045
13 Sep 24
Disco/Nu-Disco
Makin' Sure EP
   
Only Be Sure (original mix) - (4:48) 120 BPM Hot
   
Only Be Sure (instrumental mix) - (4:48) 120 BPM
   
No Limit (original mix) - (4:19) 105 BPM
Review: Though most associated with the Katakana Edits imprint - a label he's contributed to countless times over the last decade - DJ Laurel has saved some of his most potent material for Discoholics Anonymous. There's much to admire on his latest missive for the fast-rising label, starting with 'Only To Be Sure' - a gorgeously summery, life-affirming dancefloor shuffler built around elements (including jazzy guitar solos, organ licks and group harmony vocals) borrowed from a dusty old soul gem. That comes in vocal (superior) and instrumental mix forms, while bonus cut 'No Limit' is another suitably summery (and rather sizable) dancefloor soul workout underpinned by a chunky, hip-hop tempo breakbeat and lashings of infectious piano motifs.
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DISCOANON 081
22 Jul 24
Disco/Nu-Disco
Hot Digits: Year Ten
Various
   
JB Dizzy - "Sunshyne" - (6:59) 91 BPM
   
Raw-Artes - "Sunday Service" - (6:53) 98 BPM
   
Ben Jamin - "Better" - (5:36) 106 BPM
   
Vibes4YourSoul - "Found Love" - (5:15) 106 BPM
   
Fingerman - "Head Bopper" - (6:52) 114 BPM
   
Tomas Malo - "Don't Strop" - (5:50) 113 BPM
   
Liam Dunning - "Feel About You" - (6:02) 115 BPM
   
Franco Sciampli - "Rock It" - (5:03) 117 BPM
   
DJ Laurel - "Sweet Melodies" - (4:36) 118 BPM
   
Monsieur Van Pratt - "The Best In Me" - (5:28) 120 BPM
   
Jays Edits - "Up West" - (7:43) 118 BPM
   
Frank Virgilio - "Afrikanism" - (5:30) 119 BPM
   
Lasso D'amore - "Brazil 23" - (6:12) 120 BPM
   
Chewy Rubs - "Bumpin' Boogie" - (5:29) 120 BPM
   
Stephen Richards - "Lift Me Up" - (7:04) 120 BPM
   
Fray Bentos - "Tinned Love" - (7:04) 121 BPM
   
Sunner Soul - "One More Step" - (7:09) 122 BPM
   
Dave Gerrard - "Paid In Beats" - (6:08) 123 BPM Hot
   
Downunder Disco - "Groovin' Too" - (6:45) 121 BPM
   
Appo - "G's Groove" - (7:28) 122 BPM
Review: Fingerman's Hot Digits label mark 10 years in the game with the release of this 20-track compilation, which spans various shades of house, disco, nu disco and boogie, and features contributions from respected names such as DJ Laurel, Fray Bentos, Chewy Rubs, Ben Jamin and of course Fingerman himself. JB Dizzy's languid 'Sunshyne' gets the ball rolling, before we move on to gospel-infused soul from Raw-Artes, classy disco balladry from Ben Jamin, straight-up boogie from Vibes4YourSoul, hot piano-driven funk from Franco Sciampli and more. Featuring a blend of re-edits and original productions, this is a collection that's well worth investigating.
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HOTDIGITMAXI 010
01 Jul 24
Disco/Nu-Disco
Katakana Edits Vol 146
   
You Like It - (4:29) 106 BPM Hot
   
Say You Love Me - (4:40) 108 BPM
   
Love Box - (5:21) 112 BPM
Review: Remarkably, the Katakana Edits imprint will soon notch up its 150th single release. Equally impressively, DJ Laurel has been involved in 18 of those. It's perhaps fitting, then, that he's at the controls for the re-edit label's 146th EP. He's delivered the goods, too, shuffling between 106 BPM disco-funk/boogie fusion (the lolloping beats, elastic bass, sing-along vocals and jangling piano riffs of 'You Like It'), subtly straightened out AOR disco/AM radio dancefloor soul ('Say You Love Me'), and deliciously warm, loved-up 80s soul ('Love Box', with its gorgeously dreamy chords, colourful melodies and heady bass). In other words, it's another rock-solid EP from Katakana Edits most reliable contributor.
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KE 9146
10 May 24
Disco/Nu-Disco
Play My Music EP
   
Play My Music - (4:52) 105 BPM
   
That's What Time It Is - (4:50) 105 BPM
   
Street Tough - (5:45) 100 BPM
   
Play My Music (Fingerman re-edit) - (6:58) 105 BPM Hot
Review: Best known for his releases on the Katakana label, DJ Laurel comes to Fingerman's Hot Digits with three new re-edits in a funk and soul vein. The title track reworks Wilson Pickett's cover of Eddie Kendricks' 'Don't Underestimate The Power Of Love', and is served up in two mixes: the soulfully chugging original and a beefed-up, nu-discofied remix from the label boss himself. Elsewhere, 'Street Tough' revisits the 1981 Ben E. King cut of the same name, while 'That's What Time It Is' is a 70s-sounding funk jam whose original source will have to go sadly unidentified.
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HOTDIGIT 115
19 Feb 24
Disco/Nu-Disco
Disco Sunset
   
Disco Sunset (original mix) - (6:00) 120 BPM Hot
   
Disco Sunset (S. Nolla remix) - (4:45) 122 BPM
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SUFR 001
15 Feb 24
Disco/Nu-Disco
Katakana Edits Vol 141
   
I Can't Fight Your Love - (5:43) 105 BPM Hot
   
Perfect Play - (4:24) 110 BPM
   
One On One - (4:59) 137 BPM
Review: Has any re-edit imprint ever released more music than Katakana Edits? GAMM aside, we can't think of any. This EP of reworks from DJ Laurel is, astonishingly, the label's 141st in total. Predictably, the release gets off to a cheery and sun-splashed start via the lolloping, musically detailed 105 BPM disco excellence of 'Can't Fight Your Love', before DJ Laurel subtly ups the tempo on the swirling, string-laden, dewy-eyed disco-soul of 'Perfect Play'. Those seeking more up-tempo, peak-time-ready thrills should head straight for the gloriously grandiose disco-era Marvin Gaye style brilliance of 'One on One'.
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KE 9141
19 Jan 24
Disco/Nu-Disco
Katakana Edits Vol 138
   
Too Funky - (5:36) 110 BPM Hot
   
Melo Do Tagarelo - (4:51) 111 BPM
   
Maryline - (5:23) 105 BPM
Review: Katakana regular DJ Laurel returns with his latest contribution to the long-running series. First onto the re-editor's table for surgical rearrangement this time around is the mighty James Brown himself, whose 'It's Too Funky In Here' from 1979 gets reinvented as 'Too Funky'. Next comes 'Melo Do Tagarelo', which bites the 1980 Miele cut of (nearly) the same name - widely regarded as the first hiphop record ever made in Brazil - that married the Sugarhill Gang to exuberant Latin brass, before the EP's completed by 'Maryline', Laurel's take on Christian Gaubert's 1979 French jazz-funk gem 'Sweet Maryline'.
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KE 9138
17 Nov 23
Disco/Nu-Disco
Freestyle 4 Funk 9 (Compiled By Timewarp) #Tropicaldub
Timewarp / Various
   
Prosper & Stabfinger - "Popping The Clutch" (feat Jonie D - Timewarp Inc remix) - (4:16) 114 BPM
   
Timewarp Inc - "Winter Dub" - (5:17) 92 BPM
   
Funky Destination - "Dubby Brother From Jamaica" - (4:42) 90 BPM
   
Timewarp Inc meets Virginyah - "Out Of Control" (feat Rsn) - (4:25) 93 BPM
   
DJ Laurel - "Sambafunk" (feat Oleg Jagger - Prosper & Le Marabout remix) - (3:56) 108 BPM
   
Timewarp Inc - "Dubshine" (Beatit version) - (5:25) 105 BPM
   
Vito Lalinga (Vi Mode Inc. Project) - "Vrye Denke" - (4:03) 95 BPM
   
Funky Destination - "No One Can Stop Us Now" - (4:34) 70 BPM
   
Vito Lalinga (Vi Mode Inc. Project) - "Watch" - (5:34) 81 BPM
   
Timewarp Inc - "Look Within" - (6:20) 92 BPM Hot
   
Quincy Jointz - "Echo Chamber" (2023 mix) - (5:59) 94 BPM
   
Timewarp Inc - "Liberty Is Our Destiny" (feat Gobey - RSN remix) - (5:10) 100 BPM
   
Zamali - "Kings & Queens" - (4:42) 58 BPM
   
Funky Destination - "Ancient Babylon Soldiers" - (5:10) 150 BPM
   
AUditors DOmination - "Simoon" - (4:08) 98 BPM
Review: Timewarp Music's 'Freestyle 4 Funk' series reaches its ninth installment, which (somewhat confusingly) comes in four volumes, subtitled #funk, #disco, #tropicaldub and #downtempo. This is the #tropicaldub selection, for which you can essentially read 'reggae and dub' as label regulars like Prosper & Stabfinger, DJ Laurel, Vito Lalinga, Funky Destination and of course head honcho Timewarp Inc step up to pay tribute to the sound of JA - while still allowing, as with the #funk volume, plenty of scope for fusions with other styles, be they Latin (see DJ Laurel's 'Sambafunk'), Afro (see Lalinga's 'Vrye Denke') or hip-hop and breaks (see P&S's 'Popping The Clutch'), not to mention one fine slab of straight-up funk (Zamali's 'Kings & Queens') and, in the form of 'Simoon', the obligatory weirded-out closer...
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TMDG 249C
17 Nov 23
Funk
Tight In Nassau EP
   
Funky Nassau - (5:47) 112 BPM
   
She's So Tight - (4:24) 115 BPM Hot
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DISCOANON 062
11 Sep 23
Disco/Nu-Disco
Hot Digits: Year Nine
Various
   
Shalvoy - "Voodoo In The Back" - (5:51) 100 BPM Hot
   
Even Funkier - "Feel So Good Inside" - (6:17) 98 BPM
   
Ben Jamin - "Handle" - (5:42) 103 BPM
   
Raw-Artes - "Where's Waldo?" - (7:23) 105 BPM
   
Pete Ellison - "Pounds & Pences" - (5:07) 106 BPM
   
Mannix - "Disco Stomper" - (6:04) 110 BPM
   
Andy Buchan - "Dumb Disco" - (6:38) 114 BPM
   
P-Sol - "Gates Avenue" - (6:09) 115 BPM
   
Oldchap - "Are You Lonely" - (5:24) 115 BPM
   
DJ Laurel - "Party Party" - (5:01) 117 BPM
   
Fray Bentos - "Danced To Death" - (8:23) 116 BPM
   
Prisma Deer - "Never Be Over" - (4:28) 116 BPM
   
Down Under Disco - "On My Mind" - (7:10) 117 BPM
   
Ian Upfold - "Sparks Of Sun" - (6:54) 119 BPM
   
Ben Banjo-Field - "A Magic Land" - (6:19) 119 BPM
   
Solazz - "Just Think About" - (5:34) 119 BPM
   
Groovemasta - "Rock It!" - (6:36) 120 BPM
   
Fingerman & Chewy Rubs - "Block Party Bad Boy" - (6:28) 120 BPM
   
GMGN - "Krystal Times" - (5:32) 120 BPM
   
Pete Le Freq - "Dub Erection" - (6:28) 120 BPM
   
Lup Ino - "Winners Dance" - (6:25) 120 BPM
   
Sauco - "Feeed My Soul" - (6:58) 120 BPM
   
Stephen Richards - "The Supper Club" - (7:09) 120 BPM
   
JisCo DaZz - "I Need You" - (6:37) 122 BPM
   
Juan Moreno - "Time For Love" - (6:57) 122 BPM
   
Dexter Jones - "Dawn Wolfe" - (5:52) 123 BPM
   
JB Dizzy - "Strange World" - (5:38) 124 BPM
   
Barney Osborn - "Last Orders" - (6:53) 126 BPM
   
C. Da Afro - "Shake & Bake" - (5:37) 127 BPM
   
Barry Isaacs, Deemas J & The RITS Riddim Force Vs Jet Boot Jack - "Revolution De Yah" - (5:50) 128 BPM
Review: Arriving just in time for the summer season, Hot Digits delivers a compilation that is tailor made to soundtrack lazy, hazy days. Even Funkier's "Feel So Good Inside" is an irresistible, funk-fuelled disco groove, while Ben Jamin's "Handle" inhabits a similar space. Soaked in wailing guitar and soulful vocals, it's a wonderfully infectious track. Both Andy Buchan and P-Sol raise the tempo with string-filled disco workouts, while Fray Bentos' "Danced To Death" offers a more electronic take on this sound. The compilation does veer towards house on occasion - most impressively with the subtle drum builds and chord progressions on Down Under Disco's "On My Mind". In the main though, Year Nine impresses most when it draws on disco and funk influences, such as the raucous party jam that is label owner Fingerman's collaboration with Chewy Rubs, "Block Party Bad Boy".
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HOTDIGITMAXI 009
19 Jun 23
Disco/Nu-Disco
Katakana Edits Vol 134
   
Funky Sambaro - (4:47) 118 BPM Hot
   
Tomorrow's Day - (4:35) 116 BPM
   
Hold Back - (5:01) 110 BPM
Review: Vol 134 finds DJ Laurel back at the controls as he serves up three more reversionings of classic tracks. First to get the treatment is Chuck Brown & The Soul Searchers' 'Berro E Sombaro', an irresistibly danceable, Latin-flavoured cut from 1979's 'Bustin' Loose' album that recently saw a Record Store Day reissue and that was also revamped by Chewy Rubs a year or two back. Then it's the turn of Tomorrow's Edition's 'U Turn Me On' from 1981, before Laurel turns his attention to Chanson's 'Don't Hold Back' from 1978. All three will get 'em moving for sure but 'Funky Sambaro' stands out.
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KE 9134
02 Jun 23
Disco/Nu-Disco
Mostly About The Paper EP
   
Mostly About The Paper - (5:35) 116 BPM Hot
   
Pull My Strings - (6:00) 120 BPM
   
Hang On - (5:01) 113 BPM
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DISCOANON 050
20 Feb 23
Disco/Nu-Disco
What We Gonna Do
   
What We Gonna Do (feat Georges Perin) - (5:33) 108 BPM Hot
   
What We Gonna Do (feat Georges Perin - Jack Tennis remix) - (5:50) 111 BPM
   
Disco Toy - (5:13) 120 BPM
Review: Belarusian producer Lavr Berzhanin, AKA Dj Laurel, comes to Athens' Kraak label with a track starring Greek vocalist Georges Perin. The fruits of their labours are sitting on our Disco pages but would play just as well on soulful house floors, with 'What We Gonna Do' a midtempo chugger in which Perin's vocal sits atop a dense soundbed powered by piano chords and funk guitar chops. Jack Tennis turns up the brightness on the ivories and adds space disco stabs to give the track an uplifting, Ibiza-esque feel, before the EP's rounded out by 'Disco Toy', a struttier cut with more of an authentic 70s glitterball vibe.
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KRK 152
09 Dec 22
Disco/Nu-Disco
Katakana Edits Vol 127
   
Let Woman Be A Woman - (4:22) 110 BPM Hot
   
Shout It Out - (5:33) 108 BPM
   
Red Hot - (5:44) 110 BPM
Review: Volume 127 in the 'Katakana Edits' series finds regular contributor DJ Laurel back in the producer's chair once more. He opens his latest missive with a reworking of Dyke & The Blazers' 1969 funk/soul jam 'Let A Woman Be A Woman', and signs off with his take on 'Red Hot', a track culled from the disco-vibed 1979 debut solo album by former Supreme Mary Wilson. In-between you'll find 'Shout It Out', a rousing little number whose origins are unknown, but that's got a distinctly 'Schoolhouse Rock' kinda vibe about it. Good stuff all round, but 'Red Hot' takes the gold for this reviewer.
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KE 9127
09 Sep 22
Disco/Nu-Disco
Katakana Edits Vol 118
   
I Can't Help Myself - (4:09) 123 BPM
   
Let Me Be Good To You - (5:11) 118 BPM
   
Got Myself A Good Man - (4:15) 113 BPM Hot
   
Jubilee With Soul - (4:04) 104 BPM
Review: Hope you've got your soul shoes on because it's time to do some dancefloor struttin' in the company of DJ Laurel, as for this latest installment in the long-running 'Katakana Edits' series he turns to the 60s and 70s for inspiration. Tracks getting the treatment this time out come from Lou Rawls, Gladys Night & The Pips and most notably The Four Tops, who crop up twice - with 1965's 'I Can't Help Myself' and 1972's 'Jubilee With Soul'. Start with 'I Can't Help Myself' if you're of the Northern persuasion, or 'Let Me...' if you're looking for something a lil' funkier.
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KE 9118
18 Mar 22
Disco/Nu-Disco
Perfect Pitch Volume 2
Various
   
Frankee More - "It's Walter" - (3:44) 90 BPM Hot
   
Stephen Richards - "Cool Down" (Bully Boy Refix) - (6:46) 106 BPM
   
Vibes4YourSoul - "Dance All Night" - (5:38) 95 BPM
   
Those Guys From Athens - "Feel The Beat" - (5:15) 105 BPM
   
Pete Le Freq - "City Livin'" - (5:44) 106 BPM
   
DJ Laurel - "Consistency" - (4:30) 105 BPM
   
JR Dynamite - "Keep On Moving" - (5:10) 108 BPM
   
Ferdinand DeBeaufort - "Rita" - (6:19) 114 BPM
   
DJ Steef & Mr Bard - "Prove My Love" - (5:49) 112 BPM
   
SanFranDisko - "Trouble" - (5:35) 123 BPM
   
Flevans - "Take Your Time" (Disco Revision) - (5:12) 119 BPM
   
Bully Boy - "Looks Like Love" (Refix) - (5:41) 121 BPM
   
Sons Of Ecstacy - "You 2" - (5:11) 119 BPM
Review: Act of Sedition's latest expansive collection of re-edits and reworks, Perfect Pitch, is subtitled 'loose grooves for lazy days' and that's an apt description of the pleasingly warming, afternoon-ready soul, yacht rock and disco revisions on show. The vibe is mostly head-nodding rather than arms aloft, but that's no bad thing. You'll find plenty of playable fare amongst the 13 tracks on show, with our picks including the slow-motion disco-funk of Vibes4YourSoul's 'Dance All Night', Pete Le Freq's tasteful rework of Stevie Wonder classic 'Living For The City', the sun-drenched, loop-powered soul shuffle of Frankee More's 'It's Walter' and the percussion-laden South American disco-reggae madness of 'Rita' by Ferdinand DeBeaufort.
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AOSD 006
14 Feb 22
Disco/Nu-Disco
Money EP
   
Money - (6:06) 110 BPM Hot
   
Times Are Tight - (5:02) 120 BPM
   
What Have You Got To Lose - (5:05) 117 BPM
Played by: DJ LAUREL, FRAN DEEPER
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SPA 161
15 Oct 21
Disco/Nu-Disco
Sambafunk
   
Sambafunk - (5:33) 115 BPM Hot
   
Sambafunk (Prosper & Le Marabout remix) - (3:56) 108 BPM
   
Sambafunk (Vito Lalinga (Vi Mode Inc. Project) remix) - (5:29) 118 BPM
Review: He's probably best known for his many contributions to the long-running 'Katakana Edits' re-edit series, but DJ Laurel - Minsk native Lavr Berzhanin - does actually MAKE original music as well! Here, he teams up with Bruges-based vocalist Oleg Jagger on a sun-drenched (and fairly self-explanatory) slab of Latin-infused funk. Mix-wise, you can choose between the summery Original which puts fluttering Spanish guitar front and centre, an earthier, more stripped-back remix from Prosper & Le Marabout which foregrounds the chanted vocal, or Vito Lalinga's rerub, which is similar to the Original but with a slightly jazzier feel.
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TMDG 216
17 Sep 21
Funk
Katakana Edits Vol 110
   
What About You - (3:33) 118 BPM
   
Askin' For A Trouble - (5:15) 118 BPM
   
You Steppin Into My Life - (6:25) 110 BPM Hot
   
Don't Sneak On Me - (5:07) 100 BPM
Review: The unstoppable behemoth that is the 'Katakana Edits' series reaches Vol 110, with regular contributor DJ Laurel back at the controls. The EP opens with 'What About You' and 'Asking For Trouble', both of which draw on sadly unidentified sources - but think 60s soul/deep funk (Georgie Fame, maybe?) for the former, and blues/country-infused 70s soul for the latter. We then fast-forward to the disco and boogie era, with Melba Moore's 'You Stepped Into My Life' (1978) and the Michael Zager Band's 'Don't Sneak On Me' (1980) both getting the Laurel treatment. All four are very playable, making for a strong addition to the Katakana catalogue.
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KE 9110
10 Sep 21
Disco/Nu-Disco
Sweepin Off
   
Am I Gonna To Be The One - (6:06) 120 BPM Hot
   
Sweepin Off - (6:04) 112 BPM
   
Weak For You - (6:24) 110 BPM
Played by: Superbreak, Rayko, LEGO EDIT
Review: Perhaps best known for his contributions to the long-running 'Katakana Edits' series, DJ Laurel comes to Spain's Rare Wiri with three very classy disco/boogie re-edits here. First to get the treatment is 'Am I Gonna Be The One', a 1983 cut by Colors, the original of which was a Shep Pettibone production. That's followed by another 1983 gem, 'Sweepin' Off' by High Resolution, AKA Italian producer Stefano Gelante. The source material for closer 'Weak For You' remains unidentified, but you get the general idea! If you like your dancefloor grooves on the smooth 'n' sultry side, you'll dig this EP for sure.
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RW 113
31 May 21
Disco/Nu-Disco
Katakana Edits Vol 107
   
Don't Stop The Music - (4:37) 103 BPM Hot
   
Live Together - (5:32) 112 BPM
   
People Power - (5:21) 120 BPM
   
Stomp The Floor - (5:19) 100 BPM
   
You're Man Enough - (4:24) 120 BPM
Review: The latest in the long-running 'Katakana Edits' series features five funk reworks, three of which we can identify the source for: Timmy Thomas's 1972 classic 'Why Can't We Live Together', Billy Paul's 'People Power' (1975) and The Four Tops' 'Are You Man Enough?' (1973). 'Stomp The Floor' has us beat, though, and as for 'Don't Stop The Music' - well, it isn't the Yarbrough & Peoples one, and nor is it any of the tracks of the same name by K.I.D, Cascade, Bugz In The Attic, Supermax, Bits & Pieces or Brecker Brothers! But it's a decent lil' funk/boogie groove all the same...
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KE 9107
09 Apr 21
Disco/Nu-Disco
Freestyle 4 Funk 8 (Compiled By Timewarp) #Disco
Timewarp / Various
   
Funky Destination - "Come Back To Me" (Soopasoul instrumental remix) - (3:20) 59 BPM
   
DJ Laurel - "Sambafunk" (feat Oleg Jagger) - (5:33) 115 BPM
   
Funky Destination - "B.Disco Express" - (4:26) 110 BPM
   
Timewarp Inc - "Discogirls" (Aris Kokou Afro Disco Beats) - (4:41) 60 BPM
   
Afternoons In Stereo - "Party At Dick & Mimi's" - (6:49) 120 BPM Hot
   
Vito Lalinga (Vi Mode Inc. Project) - "Happy Feeling" - (5:21) 115 BPM
   
Quincy Jointz - "Rock On" (Diesler remix) - (6:22) 119 BPM
   
Timewarp Inc - "Yuil Disco Boom" (feat The Mage - Prosper & Stabfinger remix) - (4:37) 120 BPM
   
Trotter - "At The Pool" (Atfunk remix) - (5:24) 120 BPM
   
Dogo Argentino - "2 Minutes 2 Midnight" - (5:17) 61 BPM
   
Timewarp Inc - "Disco Frisco" (feat Leon - Disco Funk edit) - (4:55) 123 BPM
   
Atfunk - "Something About You" (feat NavyRed - Video version) - (4:19) 120 BPM
   
Doctormusic Project - "Party Time" (feat DJ Steevo) - (5:05) 116 BPM
   
Dubstax - "Wiggly Bum" (radio edit) - (3:57) 122 BPM
   
Trotter - "Kingstown" - (4:28) 120 BPM
Review: What we have here are 15 contemporary funk and disco nuggets coming courtesy of prolific Greek producer Timewarp Inc and assorted friends and relations. There's a pleasing degree of stylistic variety on offer across the album as a whole, with tracks ranging from Afternoons In Stereo's cool, jazzy 'Party At Dick & Mimi's' to Dubstax's unabashedly cheesy yet strangely irresistible 'Wiggly Bum', via the sultry, sleazy boogie of Dogo Argentino's '2 Minutes To Midnight', a brace of deep house-leaning contributions from Atfunk, and Aris Kokou's Afro-percussive rework of Timewarp Inc's own 'Discogirls', making for a very checkable collection indeed.
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TMDG 200A
08 Jan 21
Funk
Katakana Edits Vol 104
   
Ha Chica - (6:10) 110 BPM
   
Struglin' Together - (6:09) 116 BPM
   
Up The Downstairs - (4:34) 113 BPM
   
Inside Your Love - (6:05) 115 BPM Hot
Review: The long-running 'Katakana Edits' series rumbles on, with regular contributor DJ Laurel back in the driving seat for #104. He's got us beat when it comes to source material for a couple of the tracks, but 'Ha Chica' is a tropical-style funk/disco cut sporting lively brass flourishes and an infectious sing-song vocal, while 'Strugglin' Together' has a mid-70s funk-soul vibe (think Curtis Mayfield, Bill Withers or even Gil Scott-Heron). Elsewhere on the EP, Laurel revisits William Wilson's raw, Ohio Players-esque 1978 funker 'Up The Downstairs' and Leon Ware's superb 1979 Minnie Riperton cover 'Inside Your Love'.
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KE 9104
27 Nov 20
Disco/Nu-Disco
Katakana Edits Vol 101
   
Everybody Needs Somebody - (5:54) 111 BPM
   
You Don't Fool Me - (6:08) 120 BPM
   
You Are My Everything - (4:44) 105 BPM Hot
   
Take Me - (5:03) 108 BPM
   
You're My Fabilous - (5:24) 120 BPM
Review: The 'Katakana Edits' series dives headlong into its second century with a five-tracker from label stalwart DJ Laurel, and the Belarussian re-edit don has dug nice and deep this time out. 'You Are My Everything' is based on The Real Thing's 'You To Me Are Everything' (1976) and 'Everybody Needs Somebody' and Ann Margret's 'Everybody Needs Somebody Sometimes' (1983) gets reworked as 'Everybody Needs Somebody'; the source material for the rest has our disco detectives beat (despite the nagging familiarity of that main riff on 'Take Me'), but that surely just makes these tracks even more effective as DJ weapons!
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KE 9101
14 Aug 20
Disco/Nu-Disco
Katakana Crate Diggin Vol II
Various
   
Fray Bentos - "Body Down" - (6:29) 120 BPM
   
DJ Laurel - "Galaxy" - (5:06) 119 BPM Hot
   
Timewrap - "Girls On Drugs" - (5:07) 120 BPM
   
Morlack - "L.machine" - (8:21) 128 BPM
   
FabioLous Barker - "Into The Disco Scene" - (5:41) 125 BPM
   
RocknRolla Soundsystem - "Culture" - (8:35) 107 BPM
   
Fray Bentos - "White Men Can't Funk" - (6:30) 115 BPM
   
DJ Laurel - "Jam Jam Jam" - (5:43) 116 BPM
   
Morlack - "WIPE Mo" - (5:42) 121 BPM
   
Timewrap - "Kabashaka" (Acid Vox) - (5:06) 120 BPM
   
Streamer - "ID" - (4:45) 122 BPM
   
Timewrap - "Listen 2 This" - (9:42) 120 BPM
   
FabioLous Barker - "Lets All Chant" (Nobody Move The Body mix) - (8:35) 122 BPM
   
DJ Laurel - "Zina" - (5:10) 120 BPM
   
Goji Berry - "Mama" - (4:04) 110 BPM
   
FabioLous Barker - "La Cotorra" - (6:50) 118 BPM
   
Hawwis - "Descarga" - (5:09) 123 BPM
   
Morlack - "Across The Floor" - (3:37) 109 BPM
   
Fray Bentos - "Magic Work" - (7:11) 115 BPM
   
Belabouche - "Sneakin Up Behind You" - (7:12) 102 BPM
   
Fray Bentos - "Night And Day" - (5:25) 121 BPM
   
Timewrap - "Moneybomb" - (6:21) 110 BPM
   
SOKA - "Grease" - (6:14) 115 BPM
   
Timewrap - "Pick It Up" - (7:09) 108 BPM
   
DJ Laurel - "I Can't Stop Ya" - (5:08) 100 BPM
   
Timewrap - "Run Blind" - (3:31) 102 BPM
   
Vagz - "No More" - (4:13) 101 BPM
   
DJ Laurel - "Windy City" - (5:18) 116 BPM
   
Morlack - "Rainbow Mash" - (4:25) 122 BPM
   
Fray Bentos - "Gangster Flap" - (8:17) 124 BPM
   
Morlack - "Sossego" - (4:53) 112 BPM
   
DJ Laurel - "Lost In The Crowd" - (5:14) 111 BPM
   
Streamer - "Public Disco Enemy #1" - (3:24) 116 BPM
   
Hawwis - "Amiga" - (5:57) 116 BPM
   
Padcore - "Boogaloo" - (2:10) 100 BPM
   
Morlack - "Terapeutica" - (5:10) 116 BPM
   
Funkin Basstards - "N.H.L" - (3:48) 101 BPM
   
Padcore - "Mexico" - (2:52) 96 BPM
   
FL - "Last Monk" - (3:23) 89 BPM
   
DJ Laurel - "I'm Always Dancing To The Music" - (4:51) 91 BPM
   
G. Niotis & J. Pronoitis - "JB World" - (4:07) 90 BPM
   
MCurdit - "Brooklyn Bount Sq" - (3:49) 94 BPM
   
Padcore - "Pride" - (2:55) 93 BPM
   
Streamer - "THINK... You Better!" - (4:55) 107 BPM
   
Padcore - "J5" - (3:19) 98 BPM
   
DJ Laurel - "More Shame" - (5:07) 104 BPM
   
Padcore - "Sweetback" - (3:26) 90 BPM
   
Morlack - "Wop" - (5:00) 116 BPM
   
Streamer - "The Fastest Gumbo" (feat Young MC) - (3:26) 85 BPM
   
Padcore - "Track 02" - (3:43) 120 BPM
Review: Katakana Edits first compilation, 2017's "Crate Diggin", was an epic collection of high-grade re-edits, mash-ups and reworks packed to the rafters with tried-and-tested dancefloor treats. This belated follow-up is even more epic, with the popular label squeezing in no less than 50 tracks that variously touch on riotous disco-funk, dub disco, new wave, disco-rock, deep funk, Afro-boogie, swamp funk, Latin beats, boogie, pitched-down chuggers, boogaloo, hip-hop and everything in between. You'd expect that standard to be high - it is a "best of" collection after all - and it is. If you need an instant armoury of scintillating club cuts, look no further.
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KE 9100
08 May 20
Disco/Nu-Disco
Katakana Edits Vol 97
   
Hi Jack - (5:43) 118 BPM Hot
   
Sure Thing - (6:10) 100 BPM
   
Zina - (5:10) 120 BPM
   
Never Change Lovers In The Middle Of The Night - (4:46) 98 BPM
   
When Love Is New - (6:32) 115 BPM
   
Bateu, Doeu - (5:11) 100 BPM
Review: The latest in the 'Katakana Edits' series comes once more from label regular DJ Laurel, who delivers six soul/funk/disco cuts that, as a rule, seek simply to update the source material for contemporary floors rather than rework anything too radically. That source material this time out includes Herbie Mann's 'Hijack' from 1974, Millie Jackson's 'Never Change Lovers In The Middle Of The Night' from 1979 and Arthur Prysock's 'When Love Is New' from 1976 on a straight disco tip, as well as the lounge-y, Latin vibes of Carmen Costa's 'Bateu, Doeu' from 1973 - the other two have us beat, but all six cuts are very playable.
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KE 9097
20 Mar 20
Disco/Nu-Disco
Katakana Edits Vol 92
   
All I've Got - (6:09) 112 BPM Hot
   
Feel The Need In Me - (5:01) 118 BPM
   
Battend Ships - (4:54) 107 BPM
   
Cookie - (4:50) 76 BPM
   
You Take My Heart Away - (5:36) 95 BPM
   
Annie Mae - (5:21) 105 BPM
Review: Under the DJ Laurel alias, Lavr Berzhanin has proved to be one of Katakana Edits' most reliable re-editors of recent times. We've lost count of the number of EPs he's delivered for the prolific imprint, but they're all rather good - as is his latest expansive effort. There's much to get the blood pumping across the six-track salvo, with our favourites including the rubbery, bouncy and glassy-eyed disco bliss of "All I've Got", the soaring, horn-heavy soundscape disco-soul shuffle of "Battend Ships" [sic], the blue-eyed soul goes drum and bass bounce of "Cookie" and the wah-wah guitar sporting two-step soul goodness of closing cut "Annie Mae". In other words, it's another rock solid collection of tried and tested reworks.
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KE 9092
18 Oct 19
Disco/Nu-Disco
Katakana Edits Vol 87
   
Hot Pents (Heavy Funk) - (4:26) 110 BPM
   
Windy City - (5:18) 116 BPM
   
Stop Your Teasing - (6:57) 120 BPM Hot
   
I Don't Need Nobody Else - (4:29) 102 BPM
   
Hot Pents - (4:05) 110 BPM
Review: Lavr Berzhanin (DJ Laurel) returns with five more re-edited dancefloor nuggets from days gone by. Or perhaps four because, confusingly, raw funk-soul jam 'Hot Pents' comes in two near-identical versions, one 4:06 long and credited to Heavy Funk, one 4:26 long and credited to DJ Laurel. Go figure! Elsewhere, 'Windy City' reworks Lou Rawls' 'Dead End Street' (a 1967 spoken word cut that predated both Last Poets and Gil Scot-Heron), 'Stop Your Teasing' draws on an unknown disco source for inspiration, while finally 'I Don't Need Nobody Else' adds a little more dancefloor oomph to Eddie Kendricks' 1981 soul jam of the same name.
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KE 9087
05 Jul 19
Disco/Nu-Disco
Katakana Edits Vol 82
   
You Don't Have To Go - (4:04) 106 BPM
   
Hate Hate (DISCO rework) - (4:58) 112 BPM
   
Hate Hate (FUNK rework) - (4:58) 112 BPM
   
I'm Always Dancing To The Music - (4:51) 91 BPM Hot
   
Stay By Me - (4:46) 115 BPM
Review: Five more vintage cuts get a 21st Century refix from the ever-prolific Katakana camp, this time with DJ Laurel at the helm. The Chi-Lites' 'You Don't Have To Go' from 1976 is first to get the treatment, followed by Razzy Bailey's 'I Hate Hate', a 1974 country-soul gem that was something of a northern soul anthem and here gets served up in Disco Rework and Funk Rework flavours. Those first three rubs are all quite faithful to their respective originals; more liberties are taken with Benny Golson's 1978 rare groover 'I'm Always Dancing To The Music', which gets a boogiefied makeover and an added rap vocal, before finally Sam Cooke gets funked up and just slightly retitled on 'Stay By Me'.
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KE 9082
26 Apr 19
Disco/Nu-Disco
Katakana Edits Vol 76
   
Jam Jam Jam - (5:43) 116 BPM Hot
   
I Will Get You Some Help - (4:55) 119 BPM
   
Going For Another One - (6:01) 127 BPM
   
Just A Metter Of Time - (4:59) 116 BPM
   
Shame - (5:54) 126 BPM
Review: Chopshop regular DJ Laurel returns to Katakana Edits - an imprint he's graced a number of times before - with a five-track selection of tried-and-tested revisions. He begins with a rolling revision of a full-throated disco-funk slammer ("Jam, Jam, Jam") before whipping off his shirt and dancing towards peak-time disco release via the spiraling madness of "I Will Get You Some Help". Those seeking loopy, piano-driven peak-time insanity should head for the bluesy brilliance of "Going For Another One", while "Just A Matter of Time" is an epic, everything-but-the-kitchen-sink slab of synth-laden AOR disco. Fittingly, he finishes with a bustling, tooled-up take on Evelyn "Champagne" King classic "Shame".
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KE 9076
18 Jan 19
Disco/Nu-Disco
Katakana Edits Vol 70
   
I Can't Stop Ya - (5:08) 100 BPM Hot
   
It Only Happens - (4:07) 108 BPM
   
The More I Want - (5:37) 120 BPM
   
Give Me My Heart Back - (4:32) 95 BPM
   
Come On - (4:45) 95 BPM
Review: The Katakana Edits series reaches #70. DJ Laurel - also known for his work on Greek label Chopshop - is once more in charge of the virtual razorblade and sticky tape for this latest collection, which draws largely on source material from the 70s soul pantheon. 'I Can't Stop Ya' adds an outsourced spoken vocal and some fine sax noodling to a Ty Karim nugget of (nearly) the same name, 'It Only Happens' lends the late, great Aretha some extra lounge-y swing, while 'The More I Want' dares to take on the Teddy Pendergrass classic and actually manages to get away with it.
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KE 9070
26 Oct 18
Disco/Nu-Disco
Katakana Edits Vol 66
   
SO|KA - "Grease" - (6:14) 115 BPM Hot
   
DJ Laurel - "Lost In The Crowd" - (5:14) 111 BPM
   
DJ Laurel - "All Or Nothing" - (5:02) 96 BPM
Review: Volume 66 of the Katakana Edits is nothing but vibes from start to finish, and surely exactly what we need in the blazing summer months - edits, edits, and nothing but more edits! SO|KA's opening "Grease" is a dubby, weighty house chugger that blends effortlessly with juat about any form of dance tune, while DJ Laurel's "Lost In The Crowd" is a disco charmer that leads with horns and is backed by pumping beats, leaving the final "All Or Nothing" to provide the seductive charms thanks to a gentle r&b charm. Beautiful stuff.
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KE 9066
22 Jun 18
Disco/Nu-Disco
Katakana Edits Vol 62
   
DJ Laurel - "Galaxy" - (5:06) 119 BPM Hot
   
Hawwis - "Camina" - (5:34) 115 BPM
   
Hawwis - "Descarga" - (5:09) 123 BPM
   
Cuz Electric - "Leroy Loves Ya" - (5:47) 100 BPM
   
G Niotis & J Pronoitis - "JB World" - (4:07) 90 BPM
Review: 62 collections deep and still blazing up any party in a 1000 mile radius; Katakana deliver yet another fun and funk-fuelled package. All laced with a heavy rhythmic theme, attention to groove detail is paid throughout as we're treated to range of classic and deeply dug edits. "Galaxy" sets the tone with a sleazy strutting war cry before we're hurled into a Latin frenzy on both the sultry "Camina" and the bull-fighting "Descarga". Elsewhere "Leroy Loves Ya" brings the soulful touch and "JB World" closes with a little psychedelic mystique.
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KE 9062
27 Apr 18
Disco/Nu-Disco
Katakana Edits Vol 56
   
Fray Bentos - "Body Down" - (6:29) 120 BPM Hot
   
Fray Bentos - "Night Giver" - (7:20) 120 BPM
   
DJ Laurel - "Yes I Know" - (4:03) 105 BPM
   
DJ Laurel - "More Shame" - (5:07) 104 BPM
Review: Oh dear, the Katakana edits are back once again, and that means pure and vibrant disco-house vibes for all shapes and sizes. Fray Bentos returns in fine style with two cuts, starting with the bumpy, utterly groovy "Body Down", followed by the deeper, more majestic jazzy feel of "Night Giver" - oh, those strings! DJ Laurel's up next, bringing through some proper stylish funkiness with "Yes I Know", sampling the late, great Pino Daniele on the vocals, while "More Shame" goes for the tribal touch, pushing through some lovely horns and a magnificent sway of seductive trumpets for that sexy feel. Yet more Katakana goodness!
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KE 9056
02 Feb 18
Disco/Nu-Disco
Katakana Crate Diggin
Various
   
ROCKNROLLA SOUNDSYSTEM - "Thank You" (Stripped Groove mix) - (6:43) 112 BPM Hot
   
Disco Funk Spinner - "Night Strangers" - (4:47) 116 BPM
   
Dim Zach & Deem - "Check It" - (6:25) 112 BPM
   
Timewrap - "Blind Band" - (7:12) 122 BPM
   
SO|KA - "Hapinness" (Dirty dub Redaction) - (7:41) 110 BPM
   
Disco Funk Spinner - "BreakFast Jam" - (5:28) 111 BPM
   
FabioLous Barker - "Into The Disco Scene" - (5:41) 125 BPM
   
Goji Berry - "I Need" - (3:20) 119 BPM
   
FabioLous Barke - "Sing" - (5:58) 114 BPM
   
RocknRolla Soundsystem - "Give The People What They Want" - (7:48) 107 BPM
   
Doctormusic Project - "The Real Thing" - (6:59) 124 BPM
   
Fray Bentos - "Hot 2 Trot" - (8:11) 120 BPM
   
Little Prince - "Getting Down To Cuba" - (6:40) 118 BPM
   
FabioLous Barker - "The Boogie" - (7:53) 110 BPM
   
Amir Pery - "Watch The Dub" - (3:38) 115 BPM
   
Morlack - "Totally Connected" - (5:31) 100 BPM
   
DJ Laurel - "Right On" - (4:14) 72 BPM
   
Timewrap - "Jazzme" - (6:21) 117 BPM
   
SO|KA - "Loviness" - (8:12) 107 BPM
   
Morlack - "Train" - (3:53) 109 BPM
   
RSN & Mister T - "Dig It" - (3:58) 95 BPM
   
Zemerald - "Wicked Drummer" - (4:04) 110 BPM
   
ManJah - "Decidete Mi Amor" - (3:12) 92 BPM
   
The Worldstylers & DJ Clairvo - "Hello Everybody" - (3:36) 105 BPM
   
Mister Vagz - "Stopper Wayz" - (4:53) 105 BPM
   
The Worldstylers & DJ Clairvo - "Rub A Duby Stylee" - (4:29) 108 BPM
   
Morlack - "Ring My Bell" - (4:29) 115 BPM
   
Timewrap & Mr Vagz - "Soul Fingaz" - (2:43) 126 BPM
   
Vida G - "Nu Soul" (Maikon remix) - (4:47) 98 BPM
   
DJ Clairvo & Dr Ivan - "El Diablo" - (4:12) 99 BPM
Review: This decidedly epic collection marks Katakana Edits's first foray into the compilation market and is designed as a "best-of" style outing. It boasts 30 reworks, mash-ups, remixes and re-edits gleamed from the prolific imprint's first 50 singles. Naturally, club-ready material comes thick and fast, with a multitude of genres - think swamp funk, disco, dub disco, electrofunk, Italo-disco, hip-hop, reggae and dancehall - and wide variety of tempos represented. Naturally, some of the reworks tend towards the well known, though there are also plenty of rubs of lesser-known gems for those who want to dig deeper than familiar peak-time anthems. Most importantly, the standard remains impressively high throughout.
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KE 9055
22 Dec 17
Disco/Nu-Disco
Katakana Edits Vol 54
   
Goji Berry - "I Need" - (3:20) 119 BPM
   
Little Prince - "Getting Down To Cuba" - (6:40) 118 BPM Hot
   
Goji Berry - "My Man" - (3:44) 109 BPM
   
Goji Berry - "In The Heat" - (6:58) 98 BPM
   
DJ Laurel - "Right On" - (4:14) 72 BPM
Review: The 54th EP from prolific rework imprint Katakana Edits is a triple-header, featuring hot new cut-jobs from Goji Berry, Little Prince and DJ Laurel. The latter's "Right On" is an undeniably sweet and soulful affair, with the producer underpinning slick '80s soul vocals and rising disco-funk horns with a low-slung, filter-heavy breakbeat groove. Although Little Prince's "Getting Down To Cuba" is an undeniably cheery peak-time affair - he adds a little house flavour to a Caribbean disco classic - the undoubted star of the show is Goji Berry. The producer serves up a trio of edits, with the hybrid Italo-disco/ electro-funk jauntiness of "I Need" and slow-mo, saucer-eyed vibes of "In The Heat" standing out.
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KE 9054
18 Dec 17
Disco/Nu-Disco
Soul Weapon
Soul WeaponEXCLUSIVE
   
You Are The 1 - (5:05) 102 BPM
   
Gun - (3:58) 106 BPM Hot
   
Stay With Me Tonight - (4:41) 105 BPM
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TJ 038
14 Aug 17
Disco/Nu-Disco
The Invasion
Various
The InvasionEXCLUSIVE
   
Planet Jumper - "Get It Where It Needs To Go" - (8:00) 115 BPM
   
Phil De Burn - "Wallflower" - (5:31) 116 BPM
   
Limpopo - "Talk For You Baby" - (5:49) 105 BPM
   
Chuggin Edits - "Galaktika" - (6:22) 108 BPM
   
FabioLous Barker - "Something About U" - (6:45) 91 BPM
   
Alfa Flite - "Starcrossed" - (7:19) 118 BPM Hot
   
Funk Bank - "Jamming With The Thunder" - (3:29) 116 BPM
   
Kellini - "Fordelskortet" - (6:58) 120 BPM
   
BOI - "The Gift" - (4:58) 120 BPM
   
C Da Afro - "I Can't Deny" - (5:20) 117 BPM
   
Disco Funk Spinner - "Names In Heaven" - (7:08) 112 BPM
   
Nicko Marineli - "One Night In The City" - (7:08) 112 BPM
   
Dee Bunk - "Little Brown Eye Girl" - (5:47) 121 BPM
   
Andy Buchan - "More Love" - (5:53) 112 BPM
   
Belabouche - "Stop" - (10:38) 119 BPM
   
Don Dayglow - "Bobby On The Beat" - (5:04) 115 BPM
   
Adato - "Marimberos" - (8:00) 120 BPM
   
DJ Laurel - "See So Far" - (5:40) 105 BPM
   
Saskin S - "Jungle Fight" - (4:59) 126 BPM
   
Steven Angel - "Endless Loops" - (5:04) 122 BPM
   
Urban Grooves - "Fire On The Dance Floor" - (7:10) 120 BPM
   
Manack & Zwins - "Disco Flight" - (8:16) 101 BPM
   
Mark Stone - "Get Funky" - (5:47) 114 BPM
Review: Thunder Jam's latest release is something of a sprawling epic; a 23-track "Invasion" featuring some of the hottest names in the re-edit and nu-disco scenes, alongside contributions from lesser-known talents. There's much to admire throughout, from the low-slung boogie bass and cut glass disco strings of Phil Da Burn's "Wallflower" and the spacey synth-funk of Funk Bank's wiggly "Jamming With The Thunder", to the bouncy disco/New Jersey garage fusion of BOI's "The Gift" and the straightened-out sunshine soul of Dee Bunk's "Little Brown Eye Girl". Throw in solid contributions from Don Dayglo, Belabouche, C Da Afro and Andy Buchan, and you've got a pleasingly varied set of floor-friendly excursions.
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TJ 040
10 Apr 17
Disco/Nu-Disco
Surfing Jam
   
Surfing Jam - (3:40) 120 BPM Hot
   
Kak Familia Tvoya - (4:01) 122 BPM
   
Tishina - (3:53) 117 BPM
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002123
01 Jun 15
Disco/Nu-Disco
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