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Shir Khan / Various
Played by: Juno Recommends Disco
Review: 'Welt Am Draht' (or 'World On A Wire') was a cult German sci-fi TV show from the early 70s and while it's not explicitly stated, we're guessing that's informed the sound of this Shir Kham-compiled seven-track, seven-artist EP, which is replete with atmospheric, retro-futurist grooves, some of which - 'Balin Bali' in particular - would sound right at home on a sci-fi soundtrack. But it's not all John Carpenter synths and cinematic moodiness: cuts like 'And You' and 'High Energy' are aimed fair and square at the dancefloor. If tuff, proggy, Italo-esque vibes are what you're after this week, this is one to check for sure.
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EXPDIGITAL 249
12 Jan 24
Disco/Nu-Disco
12 Jan 24
Disco/Nu-Disco
Played by: Juno Recommends UK Garage
Review: Miura certainly haven't skimped on the remix budget for this latest bullet from Mexican producer Oscar Avendano AKA Levantine. 'Messages From A Star' in its Original form is a light and shuffly lil' nu-disco groover, but the package includes re-rubs to suit a wide range of tastes, with a sumptuous deep house pass courtesy of Steve End, a future garage-y mix from Lemtom, an M1-driven peaktime house/bassline mix from HARBISON, a wonkier nu-disco rub from Robbast, a bassy, understated mix from Ezra Collins and finally a spangly, hi-NRG-ish take courtesy of Kellit... you pays your money and you makes your choice!
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MIU 065TR
15 Sep 23
Funky/Club House
15 Sep 23
Funky/Club House
Various
Played by: Juno Recommends Disco
Review: George Kelly's Athens-based Chopshop celebrate 15 years in the game with this best-of compilation that takes in cuts from the likes of Groove Armada (via Greg Wilson), Situation, Andy Bach, Bodie Lee, HP Vince and more, many of which - as is entirely in keeping with the label's name, of course - draw heavily on source material from the past. Dave Leatherman & Bruce Nolan kick us off with 'Sunny Side Up', which reworks Osibisa's 'Sunshine Day', and from there on out it's basically a non-stop disco/disco-house riot, with Bodie Lee paying tribute to Inner City on 'Let Me Take You Dancer', Wild Cherry chopped and looped to glorious effect by Delly on 'Movin' To The Groovin' and Alejandro Maria stealing the day with 'A Lot To Live For', which should really be called 'Stabs To Die For'.
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MELT 1
21 Jul 23
Disco/Nu-Disco
21 Jul 23
Disco/Nu-Disco
Shir Khan / Various
Review: As the title makes clear, Shir Khan's 'Exploited Club Trax' series - which here reaches its' eighth instalment - is not bound by a complicated concept: it's merely about making people dance... and ideally in the most energetic, enthusiastic way possible. The long-serving DJ has once again selected plenty of no-nonsense, peak-time ready treats, all of which are guaranteed to get dancers in a spin. There's plenty to set the pulse racing across the 15 tracks on show, with our picks including the fiendishly sub-heavy, mid-90s piano house rush of 'Hurts' by Black Hawks of Panama (featuring vocals from Bisi), the Italo-meets-robo-disco bounce of Packim's 'Tanzen', a brilliant booty bounce revision of Aiwaska's 'Imagination' courtesy of DJ Assault, and the 8-bit electro-disco of Levantine's 'Disco Relaxation'.
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EXPDIGITAL 239
27 Jan 23
Deep House
27 Jan 23
Deep House
Review: A bit of a change of pace for Mexican disco producer Levantine here: where August's 'Pt 1' focused on rock-tinged, cosmic/Italo-inspired vibes, 'Further Excerpts From Disco, Pt 2' finds him in slightly more straight-up disco territory. 'Vilkan' gets the ball rolling, a midpaced instrumental roller that (very) vaguely recalls Salsoul Orchestra's 'You're Just The Right Size' - no samples involved, it just has a similar kinda feel. The killer to these ears though is 'Bosporus', which sits right on the deep house/disco cusp, sports some very fine jazz trumpet-work in the mid-section, and has pent-up dancefloor energy to spare.
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AD 048
13 Sep 21
Disco/Nu-Disco
13 Sep 21
Disco/Nu-Disco
Review: Three contemporary disco jams here coming courtesy of Levantine, a Mexican producer who cites his influences as "New Order, a blonde ex-girlfriend and Schopenhauer" and who prior to taking up the DJ-producer mantle played in both rock bands and synth outfits. It's perhaps unsurprising, then, that he's operating here at the cosmic/Italo end of the disco spectrum, a sound that 'Magnifique' emulates quite faithfully. 'Kind Of Magic' is similar in style but a little more Germanic and coldwave-y, but the standout for this reviewer is sitar-sprinkled opener 'Casual Encounters', with its decided overtones of psychedelia.
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AD 047
09 Aug 21
Disco/Nu-Disco
09 Aug 21
Disco/Nu-Disco
Various
Played by: Juno Recommends Disco
Review: There's a pretty obvious clue in the name as to what kind of music you're going to find here! What makes this compilation from Greek label Chopshop stand out, though, is that the usual suspects are, for once, notable by their absence: there are contributions from Tonbe and HP Vince, as well as label boss George Kelly, but many if not most of the artists involved here will be new names to many if not most listeners. As such, it's a collection that's well worth investigating, packing 15 uptempo tracks - largely original, if heavily sample-based productions, rather than re-edits - that are long on funk basslines, handclaps and cowbells. What's not to like?
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NUDISCO 01
30 Apr 21
Disco/Nu-Disco
30 Apr 21
Disco/Nu-Disco
Various
Review: With 17 tracks from nearly as many artists to choose from, you certainly can't fault this nu-disco collection from Rafaell Cancian's Brazilian label About Disco on the VFM front! It's hard to pick holes, too, when it comes to musical variety, with tracks ranging from the rock-tinged funk/soul vibes of Imanol's 'Improv' to the fierce acid meltdown that is Panko Samuele de Santis's 'Caldo Caldo', and calling at pretty much all stations in-between - albeit it's straight-up nu-disco jams from the likes of Jehan and The Secret Soul Society, and raw funkers like JB Boogie's 'Night Drive', that actually work best to these ears. Worth investigating for sure.
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AD 03
26 Mar 21
Disco/Nu-Disco
26 Mar 21
Disco/Nu-Disco
Review: Sporting a history with labels like Chopshop, Editorial and About Disco, Mexican producer Levantine brings his sound to the HQ of Ilya Santana with this four-track Cosmic Sessions EP! Honing in on a neon-lit '80s sound the tracks here find themselves caught up between proto-electro, Italo disco and a touch of synth wave. At its most ghouly is the Goblin-esque arpeggios of "Forever Leather" next to the industrial wave and fetish disco of "La Disco Delle Tenebre". Get your break in the clouds through the spiralling and Rocky Horror show theamtics of "Passato Prossimo" with "Punk Love" getting a shade more hardcore with its spiraling synth and bassline to make Giorgio Moroder smile.
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AR 015
12 Mar 21
Coldwave/Synth
12 Mar 21
Coldwave/Synth
CrystalEXCLUSIVE
Review: There's something of a nostalgic, late 90s feel to 'Crystal': with its dreamy female vocal, fluttering guitar and heavy use of the filters, it sits somewhere between Balearic prog and filter disco ? la Spiller, and evokes memories of Ibiza in the days before they roofed over the terraces. The fairly self-explanatory Monsieur Van Pratt Sax Remix has a slightly more uplifting, soulful vibe, while the EP's completed by bonus cut 'Keep On', which centres around a squelchy, early 80s-sounding bass riff and has an echo-y, presumably sampled boogie-style vocal to match, the overall effect recalling a long-lost Larry Levan remix.
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DPSNS 17
01 Nov 19
Disco/Nu-Disco
01 Nov 19
Disco/Nu-Disco
Played by: Juno Recommends Disco, Tonbe, Rayko, BRENDON P, LEGO EDIT, 80's Child, Stephen Richards (DiscoDaze)
Review: Grab the Malaria pills and sun cream: sometime Moiss Musdic man Levantine is taking us on a tropical disco excursion. As you'd expect, it's a humid and sweaty affair. He breaks us in gently via the jaunty synth bass and rainbow synths of "Cosmic Love", before urging is to whip off our shirts to dance to the walking bassline, restless cowbells, sharp strings and hard-wired guitar riffs of "Liquid Disco". "Desire" sees the experienced re-editor craftily reworking a piano-heavy chunk of sleazy, leftfield disco, while "Il Rumore" is a fuzzy but rolling revision of a relatively recent revivalist Afro-disco cut. A happy finish is providing via the filter-heavy disco-house pump of swirling closing cut "Starvue".
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ED 88
09 Jul 19
Disco/Nu-Disco
09 Jul 19
Disco/Nu-Disco
Various
Played by: Valique, FINGERMAN, Superbreak, J&M BROTHERS, LeSale, BRENDON P, LEGO EDIT, 80's Child, Stephen Richards (DiscoDaze), Sould Out, Nightmares on Wax
Review: Two years ago, our fancy was suitably tickled by the second "Vanguardia" compilation from Mexican edits outlet Deep Sense. Predictably, this delayed eight-track follow-up is also rather good. It kicks off with a spacey, synth-heavy chunk of Brazilian boogie, lightly beefed up by reliable sorts Hotmood, before sprinting through chunky, hip-wigglin' deep disco-soul (the Funk District's "Soul Dose"), bustling peak-time disco-house (Levantine's "Be Myself"), groovy, horn-toting disco sing-alongs (Sould Out's lolloping, mid-tempo rub "Midnite Ride"), sparkling, Jam and Lewis style '80s soul ("Watch Out" by Monsieur Von Pratt) and sun-kissed, sllo-mo Balearic/synth-funk fusion (Flodz's brilliant "Governor's Ball").
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DPSNS 15
24 Sep 18
Disco/Nu-Disco
24 Sep 18
Disco/Nu-Disco
Review: Having recently impressed via a tidy two-tracker on the effervescent Dikso label, fast-rising producer and re-editor Levantine makes his bow on Furious Mandrill with two more party-starting treats. First up in "Wilde", a heavy but suitably swinging revision of a blue-eyed disco-funk jam bristling with jaunty horn lines, elastic bass guitar, glassy-eyed vocals and chunky, house style beats. "Body Work", meanwhile, is similarly bouncy but slightly more driving in feel, with soaring disco orchestration and high-register vocal snippets being smothered in filters while weighty beats bob along beneath. It's disco-house, Jim, but not as we know it.
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FMR 007
12 Sep 18
Disco/Nu-Disco
12 Sep 18
Disco/Nu-Disco
Played by: The Allergies, Julian Sanza, Buzz Compass, Fort Knox Five, Roast Beatz, FINGERMAN, Superbreak, Juno Recommends Disco, Tonbe, J&M BROTHERS, SUNNER SOUL, CHEWY RUBS, LEGO EDIT, Stephen Richards (DiscoDaze), Andy Buchan, Chuggin Edits, Sould Out, SITUATION, Melon Bomb
Review: By now, we should all know what to expect from Editorial's multi-artist edit missives, namely refined party-starting fodder that puts the needs of dancefloors first and foremost. That's certainly what Ed Wizard and Disco Double Dee serve up on the bustling, bass-heavy Afro-funk style madness of the first of five "Dope Licks" on the long running label's latest EP. Hotmood's string-powered disco-funk bubbler "Worldwide" also hits the heights thanks to punchy horns and rolling, beefed-up beats, while Levantine's "Right On" is a rolling and relaxed exercise in filter-sporting disco-house grooves. Elsewhere, Melon Bomb's "Sweet Jam" makes merry with rubbery beats, jazzy bass guitar, dubbed-out vocal snippets and clipped funk guitars, while Alex Zuiev's "Get Lifted" offers the perfect balance between Idjuts style dub disco madness and toe-tipping disco-house chunkiness.
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ED 81
29 Aug 18
Disco/Nu-Disco
29 Aug 18
Disco/Nu-Disco
Review: Fresh from inspired outings on Smokin' Beat, Chopshop and About Disco, Oscar Levantine makes his bow on Daniel Solar and Andi De Luxe's ace Dikso imprint. Turn first to "Chorus", a filter-sporting mid-tempo disco-house jam whose heady grooves and mind-altering samples continue to rise, fall, build and rise again throughout the track's seductive six minutes. The Mexican producer ups the tempo considerably on "Fairground", a bolder and more percussively energetic affair rich in bounding, bouncy house drums, looped piano refrains, swirling chords and the kind of sweet, dewy-eyed female vocal samples that make you want to hug complete strangers while a hundred percent sober.
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DIKSOF 030
10 Aug 18
Disco/Nu-Disco
10 Aug 18
Disco/Nu-Disco
Various
Review: Some 18 months on from the release of the label's first retrospective compilation, Brazilian imprint About Disco presents another bumper selection of floor-filling re-edits, reworks and original productions. With 23 killer cuts to choose from, the collection provides excellent value, particularly when you factor in the eclectic nature of the reworked source material. Compare and contrast, for example, the warm and sticky Afro-disco goodness of NFC and Key Sokur's "Coming From Congo", the bass-heavy disco hustle of "Hihache" by Ozzy and the kaleidoscopic, hard-spun synth-funk brilliance of Rafael Cancian's "Queen of Zanzibar". We're also huge fans of J.B Boogie's gently lolloping and exceedingly loved-up "Love To Love", though we could say the same thing about half a dozen of the other included tracks. Stellar stuff, all told.
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AD 002
06 Aug 18
Disco/Nu-Disco
06 Aug 18
Disco/Nu-Disco
Various
Played by: Juno Recommends Disco, Juno Recommends Deep House, Tonbe, Rayko, The Funk District, Andy Buchan, Sould Out
Review: The Editorial bandwagon keeps on rolling, pushing on through the night like a long distance trucker high on extra-strong coffee and legal stimulants. As usual, there's a veritable skip-load of peak-time goodness to be found on the label's latest collection of reworks and re-edits. We're particularly enjoying the mazy jazz-funk synths and elastic slap-bass action of HotMood's lolloping "Hey You" and the rolling, Blaxploitation fuelled disco-house business of Ed Wizard and Disco Double D's "Diesel Power", though the sleazy boogie swirl of C Da Afro's "Intimate Disco Stories" and the horn-heavy, slo-mo disco-funk bounce of Tonbe's "It's Not Over" also set our pulses racing.
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ED 79
01 May 18
Disco/Nu-Disco
01 May 18
Disco/Nu-Disco
Review: Chop Shop return with another powerful party punch from three artists who've all established solid groove ties with the Greek imprint over recent years. There's a strong twang of the broken beat on both Ten Different and Levantine's offerings. The former digs deep for a little disco dust and break that comes out of nowhere and allows a whole gamut of percussion to enter the fray. The latter goes straight for a rusty old detuned synth rave hook and adds a little cosmic chug. Finally big pimping Vince closes shop with a sprightly filtered house jacker with big full-frontal vocal. Choppy choppy!
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CHOPS 013
06 Apr 18
Disco/Nu-Disco
06 Apr 18
Disco/Nu-Disco
Review: The latest missive from the prolific Chopshop stable is a label debut. It comes from up-and-coming Mexican producer Oscar Levantine, who serves of a trio of house-friendly disco heaters. We're particularly enjoying opener "Nassau", which loops up key passages of a chunky, tropical disco-funk classic (yep, "Funky Nassau"), while dubbed-out vocal samples drift in and out of the mix. The similarly impressive "I'm Not In Love" makes use of similar production tricks, whilst throwing in a longer, filter-heavy breakdown to add a little build-and-release tension. Finally, the Mexican demonstrates his ability to make classic disco-house jams on bouncy closer "Dance".
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CHOPDIGI 083
04 Nov 16
Disco/Nu-Disco
04 Nov 16
Disco/Nu-Disco
