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Disco Fruit is a Serbian label founded in 2014 by Milos Djordjevic aka Tonbe. The label hand-picks the juiciest disco, house and funk cuts to satisfy any groover’s appetite. Disco Fruit is home to a sweet selection of artists including: Loshmi, Mitiko, Hotmood, Dr Packer, 84Bit, Evil Smarty, C. Da Afro, Tonbe and more. Disco Fruit’s sister label is house label, Hellcat Tunes. Tasty.
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Disco Junction
Changing Time - (6:49) 105 BPM
Disco Lady - (4:30) 104 BPM
Review: Montenegran re-edit maestro Sasha Mitich, better known to the music-buying public as Mitiko, serves up seven more reworks of classic cuts from days gone by, kicking off with Sister Sledge's 'All American Girls' from 1981. Next to get the treatment is Brass Construction's 'Changin' (1975), followed by - among others - Rare Function's 'Disco Function' (1976), Johnnie Taylor's 'Disco Lady' (1976) and Sylvester's 'Dance (Disco Heat)' (1978). That leaves just two tracks whose source had our disco detectives scratching their heads - including the infuriatingly familiar 'Funky People' - but you get the general idea!
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DF 173
16 Feb 24
Disco/Nu-Disco
Disco Fruit Selection Vol 10
Mitiko - "In Your Soul" - (4:54) 102 BPM
Mitiko - "Morning Talkbox" - (4:33) 100 BPM
Played by: Tonbe, Kongisto
Review: Serbian disco producer extraordinaire Tonbe once more teams up with his Montenegran counterpart Mitiko, as well as with himself in his Loshmi re-editor guise. Loshmi's uptempo rework of Dillinger's 'Cocaine' gets the ball rolling, after which come takes on Chaka Khan's 'I'm Every Woman', The Flirts' 'Passion' and The Salsoul Orchestra's 'Take Some Time Out For Love', plus a brace of unidentified Latin cuts. After that come three cuts from Mitiko, with 'In Your Soul' drawing heavily on Soul Children's 'Stir Up The Boogie' from 1978 and 'Morning Talkbox' bringing the Zapp-isms, before Tonbe plays us out with three tracks of his own, including the rumbustious 'Funkstar' and the Alpha Blondy-biting 'Sabari'.
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DF 161
02 Jun 23
Disco/Nu-Disco
Hold On
Hold OnEXCLUSIVE
In Your Soul - (4:54) 102 BPM Hot
You Left A Good Woman - (5:42) 103 BPM
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DF 157
10 Mar 23
Disco/Nu-Disco
Morning Talkbox
Morning Talkbox - (4:33) 100 BPM
Hits My Veins - (5:33) 105 BPM
Electronic Rhythm - (4:55) 100 BPM Hot
Review: A treat for Mitiko fans this week, as the Montenegran nu-disco stalwart serves up an EP for Tonbe's Disco Fruit label that packs a whopping seven cuts with nary a duffer in sight. The title track is a languid jazz-funker that makes extensive use of the titular FX unit/instrument, and sets the tone nicely for an EP that starts out in funk and disco territory (with the wigged-out 60s organs on 'Best Thing' a notable highlight) then veers into housier pastures as it goes on, before dropping the tempo once more for 'Gone Away For Good' and 'Electronic Rhythm', the latter's piano licks and jazz trumpet bringing the EP to a very classy close.
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DF 154
02 Dec 22
Disco/Nu-Disco
Disco Fruit Selection Vol 9
Mitiko - "Fancy Dancer" - (6:07) 100 BPM
Mitiko - "Funky Turns Me On" - (4:26) 100 BPM
Mitiko - "On The Dance Floor" - (5:47) 107 BPM
Tonbe - "Never Let Me Go" - (7:03) 105 BPM
Review: On the whole, it might be better if Milos Djordjevic (Tonbe/Loshmi) and Sasha Mitich (Mitiko) weren't quite so talented - that way, yours truly wouldn't have written so many glowing reviews of their releases that it's getting quite embarrassing now. I should probably just buy a set of Tonbe pillowcases and have done with it! Anyway, here's another joint outing from the two Balkan boogie merchants, which - like previous installments - includes a mix of new and previously released material, spans funk, disco, boogie and soul, and features both original (albeit often sample-based) productions and Loshmi's masterly reworkings of cuts from Barbara Streisand, Mark Morrison and more. Sterling stuff all round - again, just like previous installments.
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DF 150
02 Sep 22
Disco/Nu-Disco
Generate Love
Generate LoveEXCLUSIVE
Funky Turns Me On - (4:26) 100 BPM Hot
I Can Teach Ya - (4:33) 108 BPM
If I Had You - (4:54) 104 BPM
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DF 148
01 Jul 22
Disco/Nu-Disco
Fancy Dancer
Fancy DancerEXCLUSIVE
Fancy Dancer - (6:07) 100 BPM Hot
Review: This latest album-length excursion by Montenegran nu disco regular Sasha Mitich finds him largely exploring and expressing his love for all things 80s - perhaps never more so than on 'Someone Like You', which could have come straight from the soundtrack of some coming-of-age movie starring at least one of the Brat Pack. Elsewhere, 'Back To Funk' brings the 80s boogie vibes, 'Woman Saying' recalls the likes of Fern Kinney or The Captain & Tenille and 'Your Life' slips in some cheeky Bee Gees bites, but the standout by far is the ultra-funky 'Fancy Dancer', a rework of the Commodores cut of the same name from 1976.
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DF 145
20 May 22
Disco/Nu-Disco
Two Bags Of Grass
Mesmerizing Tapes - (5:31) 102 BPM
On The Dance Floor - (5:47) 107 BPM Hot
Review: I've no idea whether Mitiko actually intended the title of this seven-track offering to double as a 'serving suggestion' but it certainly works as one, as the Montenegran disco stalwart gives the dancefloor stompers a swerve and turns his energies to ploughing a much more laidback furrow. The shimmering piano chords and lazy, low-slung b-line that kick off 'Only Yours' set the tone for an album that seldom gets above walking pace but still manages to cram in nods to a wide range of influences - see, for instance, 'Phase One''s genius marriage of a Phuture vocal snip to some superbly smooooooooooth jazz-funk geetar licks, and was that a cheeky James Ingram bassline too? File under mellow horizontal loveliness.
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DF 141
18 Mar 22
Balearic/Downtempo
Neon District
Neon DistrictEXCLUSIVE
Never Let Me Go (original mix) - (7:03) 105 BPM Hot
Never Let Me Go (dub mix) - (7:03) 105 BPM
Played by: Tonbe
Review: Four tracks in a total of six mixes make up this latest EP from ever-prolific Serbian discomeister Tonbe. 'Never Let Me Go' is up first, blending late 70s/early 80s jazz-funk and contemporary pop influences and coming in vocal and dub flavas. There's a distinct pop feel, too, to the 80s-influenced 'New Vision' and 'Robbery In Progress' - both all bright analogue synths and lashings of cowbell - which just leaves us with the two rubs of 'So Real', which continues in the same 80s pop-leaning groove established by the two previous cuts and is available, again, with or without the female vocal.
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DF 138
21 Jan 22
Disco/Nu-Disco
Best Of 2021
Best Of 2021EXCLUSIVE
Mitiko - "Back To Dance" - (7:16) 105 BPM Hot
Mitiko - "Discofied" - (7:15) 103 BPM
Mitiko - "My Cherie Amour" - (5:34) 103 BPM
Mitiko - "Oops Upside" - (6:58) 106 BPM
Mitiko - "Turbo Flop" - (5:55) 104 BPM
Review: Last month saw two East European disco favourites, Serbia's Tonbe AKA Loshmi and Montenegro's Mitiko, joining forces for a split EP on the former's Disco Fruit label. Now the same imprint brings us this joint collection that gathers together the best of the two producers' 2021 output, in all three of their guises. The tracks involved are a mixture of re-edits, covers and original material; more importantly, both producers are ludicrously prolific, which means they had a huge catalogue to draw from. And that in turn means there's nary a track that puts a foot wrong here - making this an essential purchase for anyone who hasn't picked these cuts up on various EPs along the way.
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DF 136
03 Dec 21
Disco/Nu-Disco
All I Care For
You Can Do It - (6:23) 109 BPM
Bright Like Sunshine Day - (5:37) 106 BPM
Review: Ludicrously prolific Montenegran producer Sascha Mitich needs no introduction to disco buyers, and now here comes his latest offering, which packs seven 70s-tastic re-edits. Among those sources we can identify this time around are Donna Summer's 'Rumour Has It', The Gibson Brothers' 'What A Life' and 'You' (presented here as 'All I Care About Is You' ) and an unidentified, male-sung take on 'I Can See Clearly Now', while of the tracks whose origin remains unknown, the standout for this reviewer is 'But It's Funky Music', whose gloriously cheesy squealin' Moogs give it something of a US sitcom theme vibe.
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DF 135
05 Nov 21
Disco/Nu-Disco
Turbo Flop
Turbo FlopEXCLUSIVE
Turbo Flop - (5:55) 104 BPM Hot
Review: Three varied cuts make up this latest EP from Montenegran nu-disco stalwart Mitiko, coming on Tonbe's Disco Fruit. The EP opens with 'Turbo Flop', a moody, atmospheric affair with an undulating main synth riff that's similar in cadence to a Native American chant, and that's augmented from around the 1:30 mark by plangent electric guitar. 'Kaskazi Muziki' is a more uptempo cut with a plinky-plonk synth hook, fat funk bass and a male vocal in an unidentified language, and will work on house and disco floors alike, while the slow-grindin', Hammond-flecked 'Running Into You' drops the tempo once more and takes us a little closer to traditional funk/soul pastures.
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DF 132
17 Sep 21
Disco/Nu-Disco
Delicious LP
Delicious LPEXCLUSIVE
Let's Ride - (7:11) 108 BPM
Review: Over the past five years Mexico's Guillermo Gonzalez Santana, better known as Hotmood, had dropped a good 30 or so singles/EPs on a number of imprints including Tonbe's Disco Fruit, who now round up his previous output for the label in album form. Regular disco buyers may have most of what's here in their collections already, then, but if you've yet to get acquainted this is the perfect opportunity to do so, with standouts including the irresistible lil' jazzy, funky hip-wriggler that is 'Mr Funkyman', the laidback, handclap-tastic disco groove of 'My Disco Collection' and the looping cut-up soul of 'Clean Cuts'.
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DF 128
02 Jul 21
Disco/Nu-Disco
Essence
EssenceEXCLUSIVE
Oops Upside - (6:58) 106 BPM Hot
Step Off The Train - (7:23) 105 BPM
Essence Of House - (7:00) 108 BPM
Serious Collection - (6:23) 107 BPM
Review: The titles here might suggest a re-edits EP but rest assured the five tracks ARE actually original, albeit sample-based, productions. 'Step Off The Train', for instance, does indeed bite EBTG's 'Missing' as you'd expect, but simply takes a two-line vocal snip and loops it up over a slo-mo grinder that sits right on the deep house/nu-disco cusp, while 'Oops Upside' is another house/disco fusion that draws not on The Gap Band but on a female-sung cover thereof. So let's not worry about sources and inspirations and just say these are five classy midtempo groovers that'll suit more discerning nu-disco floors down to the ground.
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DF 126
04 Jun 21
Disco/Nu-Disco
Disco Fruit Sampler 02
Mitiko - "Back To Dance" - (7:16) 105 BPM Hot
Review: Here's one of those releases that really doesn't need a lot of explaining - anyone with even a passing interest in nu-disco should be more than familiar with all four artists involved, as well as the label! Hotmood brings the 70s vibes on the string-drenched, guitar-flecked 'You Are A Star', C Da Afro fast-forwards to the 80s boogie era with the shiny-suited 'So Good For Me', while Loshmi arguably gets the most inventive, mixing up Afro, Latin and spy movie soundtrack vibes on 'Regah'. It's the lazy, laidback funk/jazz-funk of Mitiko's 'Back To Dance', though, that takes the gold.
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DF 124
23 Apr 21
Disco/Nu-Disco
Stomp
StompEXCLUSIVE
Boogie Down - (4:59) 101 BPM
Disco Stomp - (8:38) 105 BPM
My Cherie Amour - (5:34) 103 BPM Hot
Review: This is at least the tenth album-length release that Montenegro's Sascha Mitich has produced for Serbian label Disco Fruit, a work rate rivalled only by label boss Tonbe (AKA Loshmi). As ever, the seven tracks featured here blur the lines between re-edits and sample-based productions, with the energetic, good time Afro-tropical vibes of 'Desperately' (think Barrabas, Osibisa) the standout for this reviewer, and the Hammond-sporting (and fairly self-explanatory) 'Foot Stompin' Music' a close second. A lounge-y cover of Stevie Wonder classic 'Ma Cherie Amour' may prove a little more Marmite ("you either love it or hate it"), but isn't without its charms.
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DF 123
09 Apr 21
Disco/Nu-Disco
Serious Edits Vol 16
No Way - (5:16) 103 BPM
Review: Turns out Milos Djordjevic, AKA Serbian re-edit king Loshmi, has something of an Eddy Grant fixation. He must have, because two of the Guyanese-British reggae star's tracks get a Loshmi makeover here - namely 'Rampage' and 'Boys In The Street'. Elsewhere, 'No Way' is another reggae edit, 'Across The Floor' and 'In The Club' draw on unidentified boogie sources, Jimmy Bo Horne's 'Is It In' from 1980 gets reworked as 'Yes It Is', Salsoul Orchestra get the treatment on 'Right Size' and - perhaps tread carefully with this one! - 'Neon Rider' revisits the theme to a certain 80s TV series starring The Hoff...
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DF 121
05 Mar 21
Disco/Nu-Disco
Sexy Lady
Sexy LadyEXCLUSIVE
Sexy Lady - (7:05) 106 BPM
On Ya - (7:00) 100 BPM
Review: Prolific Montenegrin producer Mitiko (real name Sasha Mitich) will need no introduction to nu-disco lovers by now, and here he brings us seven more very playable nuggets on a release you can call an EP or LP as you see fit! 'Are You Ready' revisits Fatback Band's classic 'Do The Bus Stop' - serviceably if perhaps a little unnecessarily - while Marley/Clapton classic 'I Shot The Sheriff' gets covered (not re-edited) inna disco style; the other five cuts are similarly 70s-themed, with the slow-moving, sleazy funk of 'On Ya' leading the charge for this reviewer on the strength of that squelch bassline alone.
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DF 120
12 Feb 21
Disco/Nu-Disco
Lay Down
Lay DownEXCLUSIVE
Discofied - (7:15) 103 BPM Hot
Eye On The Sparrow - (8:55) 100 BPM
Thank You For Tonight - (6:32) 102 BPM
Review: The 70s force is strong in this one... listen to this latest full-length collection from Montenegran producer Sasha Mitich, AKA Mitiko, and you may have to remind yourself, as this writer did, that you're actually listening to a brand new album and not a set of re-edits! There are no spangly Nang-esque synths here, no wonked-out Italo-cosmic excursions, just seven slabs of fat-assed funk ('Real Nasty'), lavish disco-soul ('Thank You For Tonight') and, perhaps most interestingly, a couple of tracks ('Lay Down On Me', 'Universal Love') that lean towards a mellower, more 'crossover' style ? la Bill Withers or The Bellamy Brothers.
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DF 118
08 Jan 21
Disco/Nu-Disco
Wrong Direction
Times Like This - (5:36) 100 BPM
Review: Prolific Montenegran producer Sasha Mitich, better known to disco lovers as Mitiko, returns to his regular home of Disco Fruit with, incredibly, his third full-length release of the year, following June's 'Disko Diss' and September's 'Best Of'. Things get off to a flying start with the stunning 'Akugen', as deep house, disco and Balearica collide in the heart of the rain forest. Elsewhere, cuts like 'It's A Long Ride' and 'Living After Time' have a more soulful feel, 'Now I Can See' is a dubby late-night groove, and 'Tour De Happiness' and 'Looking Back' house things up a little, making for a varied and enjoyably listen all round - though 'Akugen' remains the stone-cold killer.
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DF 116
04 Dec 20
Disco/Nu-Disco
Tracks From Vinyls Vol 2
Various
Evil Smarty - "If It Feels Good" - (6:02) 107 BPM
Gradient Logic - "Feel Me" - (6:03) 107 BPM
V & Funky Junkie - "Frka" - (7:07) 100 BPM
Review: Serbia's Disco Fruit label offer digital buyers another high-VFM collection of tracks that were previously only available on wax, with the album's 31 cuts coming from just six artists including scene faves Tonbe and Loshmi and label regular Evil Smarty. Between them, they run the gamut from scorching, bottom-heavy funk (Evil Smarty's 'The Get Down', Dave Allison's 'Ain't Nuthin To It', Loshmi's 'Drugstore') to deep n' soulful house (Tonbe's 'Broken Heart'), via Gradient Logic's glacial boogie nouveau and jazzier cuts like Dave Allison's 'Trade Off' and Tonbe's 'Something Jazzy'. It's more one for the jazzbos and funkateers than outright disco dollies, admittedly, but on the whole that's probably a good thing...
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DF 115
06 Nov 20
Disco/Nu-Disco
Tracks From Vinyls Vol 1
Various
Hotmood - "Let's Ride" - (7:11) 108 BPM
Loshmi - "Soul Food" - (5:58) 105 BPM
Review: Serbia's Disco Fruit bring us a digital collection of tracks that were (mostly) previously only available on wax. Label boss Tonbe supplies four of 'em, and with most of the rest coming from equally familiar names such as Dr Packer, Hotmood, Mitiko and Loshmi, you know the bar's set high! Stylistically, the album ranges from authentic-sounding low-slung funkers like Hotmood's 'Let's Ride' and Tonbe's 'Gem Picker' to the breezy uptempo soul of 84Bit's 'Mamma Jamm' and the boogie nouveau of Dr Packer & Loshmi's 'In Case Of Emergency', while special shout-outs go to Evil Smarty, who almost out-Fatbacks Fatback, and to Mitiko's excellent reworking of the mighty Janet.
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DF 114
09 Oct 20
Disco/Nu-Disco
Best Of
Best OfEXCLUSIVE
Ain't No Love - (7:14) 100 BPM Hot
Come Back Once More - (6:55) 108 BPM
Get Me Some Luvin - (5:17) 105 BPM
Magic Masquerade - (7:28) 107 BPM
Money Honey Money - (7:28) 100 BPM
Now I'm Living In Ecstasy - (6:12) 105 BPM
Oaria Raio - (6:30) 104 BPM
The Power Of Woman - (5:57) 108 BPM
Review: Montenegrin producer/re-editor Sasha Mitich, better known as Mitiko, has been extremely prolific since emerging onto the scene around five years ago, reliably turning out a new album-length EP every few months - which has left him with a rich back catalogue to plunder for this 'best of' compilation. Most of the tracks here would appear to be re-edits rather than original productions, but if so then he's dug admirably deep - there are reworks of cuts by Sister Sledge, Janet Jackson and Kool & The Gang ('Celebremos' was the band's own Spanish-language version of 'Celebration'), but most of the other source material escapes us. Which, of course, just makes this set sound all the fresher!
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DF 113
18 Sep 20
Disco/Nu-Disco
Disco Fruit Sampler 01
Loshmi - "Soul Food" - (5:58) 105 BPM
Review: Here we have four more sure-fire bullets for your disco machine gun, coming courtesy of Serbia's Disco Fruit label. Mexico's Hotmood is up first with the fairly self-explanatory 'I Love To Boogie', which is followed by 'The Groove To Make You Dance', a reworking of T-Connection's 1977 TK Disco classic 'Groove To Get Down' by Guildford's own re-edit don Evil Smarty. Montenegran producer Sasha Mitich, AKA Mitiko, then takes liberties with Janet Jackson (and gets away with it) on 'What Have You Done For Me', before label co-owner Loshmi plays us out with laidback, headnodding instrumental 'Soul Food'
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DF 112
28 Aug 20
Disco/Nu-Disco
My Sugar
My SugarEXCLUSIVE
Can't Wait No Longer - (6:17) 108 BPM
My Sugar - (6:40) 102 BPM
Oaria Raio - (6:30) 104 BPM Hot
Played by: Tonbe
Review: Since a young age, Montenegro-based Mitiko has shown a great passion for music. 10 years ago his productions began to surface, many tracks in the vein of nu-disco and deep house found on such labels as Fruity Flavor and Cherry Cola Records - and of course his very own Disco Fruit. Following up his previous long player from last month entitled 'Summer' he's already back into the groove with 'My Sugar', featuring a fine collection of sweltering edits. From the roaring vocals on the uplifting "Can't Wait No Longer", the neon-lit '80s pop vibe of "Hold Me", the slo-mo boogie down feels of the title track and last but not least - an oldie but a goodie to be heard on "Straight To Your Arms".
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DF 110
31 Jul 20
Disco/Nu-Disco
Beach View
Beach ViewEXCLUSIVE
Come Back Once More - (6:55) 108 BPM Hot
What She Wants - (5:57) 104 BPM
Review: For his last outing on Disco Fruit, Montenegro-based Mitiko served up some "Naughty Things". On his return to the label, he's decided to share his "Beach View". It's a fine vista which naturally comes accompanied by the kind of warm, sun-kissed re-edits that will sound suitably saucy blasting out of the windows of locked-down houses this summer. Highlights are plentiful, from the low-slung, delay-laden Stevie Wonder revision that kicks things off ("Come Back Once More"), to drowsy, synth-laden jazz-funk-meets-electrofunk goodness of "To The Boogie Found", via the grandiose disco stomp of "How Sweet It Used To Be" and the pitched-down, R&B-goes-house warmth of closing cut "How I Feel".
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DF 105
10 Apr 20
Disco/Nu-Disco
Disco Fruit Selection Vol 8
Various
Mitiko - "Back To Dance" - (7:16) 105 BPM
Played by: Tonbe
Review: Fresh from the market, Disco Fruit offers up a suitably large pallet of juicy re-edits, tasty revisions and sun-ripened reworks. As you'd expect, there's plenty to get your teeth into from start to finish. Our highlights include the fuzzy 21st century disco-funk of Brian SNR's "Down For Some Loving", the bouncy, synth-bass-propelled funkiness of C Da Afro's "Music Is Love", the sleazy sweatiness of Frank Virgilio's flash-fried "Thick As A Brick (The ReThink)", the throbbing goodness of Loshmi's Italo-disco/80s rock revision "Palm Springs", the mid-tempo disco bliss of Mitiko's "It's Over, It's Over" and the disco-house bump of Tonbe's "Make It Last Forever".
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DF 104
20 Mar 20
Disco/Nu-Disco
Serious Edits Vol 15
Soul Food - (5:56) 105 BPM
Review: Astonishingly, Loshmi's long-running "Serious Edits" series is now 15 volumes deep. We can happily confirm that he's not run out of steam yet with the seven-track selection featuring some suitably playable, floor-friendly revisions that are well worth your hard-earned cash. Our highlights include the gently housed-up 80s disco goodness of "Delightful", the heavy disco-funk/proto-rap fusion of "Funky Animals" - all eccentric mic flow, mazy organ lines and beefed-up disco grooves - and the languid, glassy-eyed loveliness of head-nodding warm up gem "Soul Food". There's naturally plenty to set the pulse elsewhere across the EP, too, so give all of the clips a listen if you have time.
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DF 100
06 Dec 19
Disco/Nu-Disco
Boogie Till We Drop
Music Is Her Lover - (5:51) 109 BPM
Out Of The Night Time - (5:49) 101 BPM
Won't You Blame Me - (6:53) 105 BPM
Review: Get ready to boogie till you drop as Montenegro-based scalpel fiend Mitiko offers up a seven-track selection of lightly beefed-up re-edits. There's plenty of tried-and-tested fun to enjoy, from the chugging, synth-sporting disco-rock antics of "Boogie Till We Drop" and the surging K.I.D rework business of "I'll See It Again", to the low-slung swamp funk sleaziness of "Music Is Her Lover" and the rubbery boogie-soul goodness of slap-bass sporting workout "Won't You Blame Me". Wisely he's included a smattering of superb slow jams, too, with the '80s soul shuffle of "Out Of The Night Time" and slow disco groover "It's Over, It's Over" standing out.
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DF 095
06 Sep 19
Disco/Nu-Disco
I Love Your Body
Back To Dance - (7:16) 105 BPM Hot
The Power Of Woman - (5:57) 108 BPM
Review: Like many of the most recognizable names on the re-edit and nu-disco scenes, Sasha Mitich AKA Mitiko has served up a steady stream of rock solid EPs over the last few years. His latest is typically groovy, atmospheric and floor-friendly with a quartet of killer cuts to get the juices flowing. Opener "Back To Dance" is a lolloping mid-tempo revision of gnarled swamp-funk groover rich in crunchy guitars and hazy horns, while "I Love Your Body" is a deliciously synth-heavy romp through delay-laden drum machine hits, chiming mid-80s melodies, bubbly bass and echoing vocal snippets. Mitich successfully switches mood and tempo on the thrusting Sylvester revision "I Who Have No One" before finishing on a high via the Jam & Lewis style '80s power-pop-soul of closing cut "The Power of Woman".
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DF 092
19 Jul 19
Disco/Nu-Disco
Serious Edits Vol 14
El Grande Funk - (4:48) 106 BPM
Review: Serbia's Milos Djordjevic, AKA Loshmi, brings us Vol 14 in his long-running re-edit series, with five tracks covering a range of musical ground. Opening instrumental 'Juice & Boogie' draws on brass-tastic 70s funk (exact source unknown, but there's a strong Blaxploitation soundtrack vibe), while 'El Grande Funk' plunders what would appear to be some heavy Indian sitar funk of the period. 'Very Tough' reworks Angela Bofill's 'Too Tough' from 1983 (ever so slightly!) while another, unknown 80s boogie cut inspires 'Sensual Love'. The standout, though, is 'Palm Springs', a shiny nu-disco jam that makes devastating use of the guitars from Blondie's 'Call Me'.
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DF 091
28 Jun 19
Disco/Nu-Disco
Best Of Part 3
The Way You Love Me - (6:53) 100 BPM
Review: It's a reflection of Tonbe's impressive productivity that his "Best Of" series has now notched up a third volume. Happily, the quality threshold remains pleasingly high, with the Disco Fruit founder gathering together tried-and-tested re-edits, reworks and original productions that combine rock solid, club-ready grooves with lashings of classic disco, boogie and electrofunk flavour. After kicking things off with the Clavinet-heavy P-funk flex of "Give The Funk", Tonbe giddly sprints through peak-time treats such "Original Tool" (a soaring disco-house workout rich in rubbery slap bass), "I Feel Energy" (all saucer-eyed Rhodes riffs, sun-warm grooves and swooping synth-strings), "Hold Me Tight" (low-slung disco-funk) and "Shoot Me Up" (brightly coloured electrofunk). You'll also find a smattering of slo-mo warm-up gems, with the decidedly loved-up "The Way You Love Me" standing out.
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DF 090
14 Jun 19
Disco/Nu-Disco
Staring Into Blackness
Staring Into Blackness - (7:08) 106 BPM
Review: Mitiko's last outing on Disco Fruit, September 2018's "Easy To See", was a particularly expansive and action-packed set. The prolific, Montenegro-based producer seems to have simmered down a little, because this return to Tonbe's popular imprint contains just three tracks. Crucially, though, they all hit the spot. First up is the groovy, electric piano-laden dancefloor sweetness of "You Make Me", whose elastic bassline and fizzing nu-disco synths catch the ear. "Staring Into Blackness" is a slow disco-house chugger built around heavy bass guitar and Meters-style Hammond organ licks, while "Should I Go Now" sees our hero wrap snaking sax lines around another sumptuous, slow-motion groove and suitably Balearic acoustic guitar flourishes.
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DF 083
01 Mar 19
Disco/Nu-Disco
Muscle Funk LP
Down 4 Some Loving (Mitiko remix) - (6:51) 100 BPM
Review: This undeniably epic set by Brian Basil van Heerden under the familiar Brian Snr alias offers up a handful of unheard cuts and a dizzying array of remixes of previous Disco Fruit singles "She's Superfly" and "Down 4Some Loving". In the former category you'll find "Let's Dance", a hard-wired disco chugger rich in rasping saxophone solos, the piano-sporting disco-funk strut of "Like A Fever" and the low slung dub disco/electrofunk fusion of "Lover's Delight". Remix-wise, we're rather enjoying the stripped back mid-tempo chunkiness of SNR's revision of "She's Superfly", the Clav-happy, slo-mo breakbeat sludge-funk that is Mitiko's remix of "Down 4 Some Loving" and C Da Afro's electrofunk take on the same track. That said, the quality threshold remains high throughout.
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DF 081
18 Jan 19
Disco/Nu-Disco
Disco Fruit Selection Vol 7
Various
Hotmood - "Let's Ride" - (7:11) 108 BPM
Kellini - "Take Her Out" - (6:22) 103 BPM
Mitiko - "Get Me Some Luvin" - (5:17) 105 BPM
Tonbe - "That Sample" - (7:11) 105 BPM
Played by: Tonbe, Ruff Diamond
Review: Serbia's Disco Fruit Records present a 15-track collection packed with disco, nu-disco and disco-house goodness. It's very much an in-house affair - label boss Tonbe contributes two tracksm while Disco Fruit regular Mitiko is behind a further six - which makes the general standard of what's on offer even more impressive. Highlights include Mitiko's boogie-ish 'Do You Really Want My Love?', Loshmi's gloriously camp, Euro-inspired 'Easy Night Drive', Hotmood's lazy, low-slung 'Let's Ride' and Tonbe's phat-assed jazz-funker 'That Sample', while special mention should be made of Kellini's 'No Balance' which, to older ears, is Animotion's 'Obsession' in disguise.
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DF 080
07 Dec 18
Disco/Nu-Disco
Hot Roads
Hot RoadsEXCLUSIVE
That Sample - (7:11) 105 BPM Hot
The Sun Goes Down - (6:33) 100 BPM
Take Off Everything - (5:55) 100 BPM
Review: Fresh from delivering a tidy two-track missive on Rare Wiri, Tonbe returns to his spiritual home, Disco Fruit, with a suitably epic collection of fresh re-edits and reworks. It's a typically rock solid selection of tried-and-tested revisions, with the Serbian producer offering up a mixture of head-nodding, toe-tapping slo-mo grooves (see the slowly strutting disco-funk of "It's My Time" and "That Sample", not to mention the low-slung dub disco of "The Sun Goes Down" and Moog-laden shuffle of closing cut "Take Off Everything") and sweatier peak-time workouts. The latter are naturally in the majority, with highlights including the early Daft Punk style madness of "Brooka Bass", the rich electrofunk-goes-disco house flex of "Life Goes On" and the hot-stepping, jazz-powered goodness of "Something Brewing".
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DF 077
01 Oct 18
Disco/Nu-Disco
Easy To See
Easy To SeeEXCLUSIVE
Get Me Some Luvin - (5:17) 105 BPM Hot
My Shoes - (6:57) 103 BPM
Review: Montonegro's Mitiko is one of the nu disco's scene's more prolific producers, releasing regular missives - most notably expansive EPs - on Tonbe's Disco Fruit label. Here he returns to action with another bumper crop of tried and tested reworks. This time round, his inspiration is guttural funk and heavy-duty dancefloor soul, with each slo-mo and mid-tempo revision coming with lashings of raw-throated vocals, bustling Blaxploitation guitars and weighty grooves. Highlights include the horn-heavy disco-funk/funk-rock fusion of "My Shoes", the sweeping, dewy-eyed disco sentimentality of "Easy To See", the Southern fried thrust of opener "Get Me Some Lovin" and the fiery funk-rock grit of "It Ain't Funny", which boasts some seriously intense guitar solos.
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DF 076
03 Sep 18
Disco/Nu-Disco
Mr Funkyman
Mr FunkymanEXCLUSIVE
Let's Ride - (7:11) 108 BPM
Review: Guillermo Gonzalez continues to churn out the hits at a furious rate. This tasty EP on Disco Fruit follows two other missives last month (one EP on Empire Studio, the other on Poetry in Motion) and marks the Hotmood man's sixth release of 2018. He begins with the loose and undulating, Herb Alpert-goes-house warmth of "Let's Ride", before turning a chunky Latino roller into a weighty slab of bass-heavy mid-tempo house on EP standout "Mr Funkyman". Elsewhere, "My Disco Collection" sees him re-cast an obscure disco-funk cut as a rolling disco-house loop jam, while "Clean Cuts" is a subtly beefed up take on a sweet and sultry soul cut from the 1960s.
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DF 075
06 Aug 18
Disco/Nu-Disco
Disko Adriatiko
The Joint Is Ready - (8:00) 102 BPM
Sasha's Journey - (7:28) 102 BPM
In The Morning - (9:45) 100 BPM
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DF 074
02 Jul 18
Disco/Nu-Disco
My Way Home
My Way HomeEXCLUSIVE
Where Have You Been - (6:28) 107 BPM
Played by: Tonbe
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DF 072
07 May 18
Disco/Nu-Disco
Best Of
Best OfEXCLUSIVE
Don't Play With Me - (6:12) 109 BPM
It's Not Enough - (5:15) 100 BPM
Played by: Tonbe
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DF 071
23 Apr 18
Disco/Nu-Disco
Best Of - Part 2
So Sexy - (5:16) 105 BPM
Played by: Tonbe
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DF 070
02 Apr 18
Disco/Nu-Disco
Boka Funk
Boka FunkEXCLUSIVE
Now I'm Living In Ecstasy - (6:12) 105 BPM Hot
Same Old Song - (6:58) 105 BPM
Boka Funk - (7:20) 102 BPM
U Got The Feeling - (7:39) 104 BPM
We Are Back - (8:06) 105 BPM
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DF 069
19 Mar 18
Disco/Nu-Disco
Cruel Life
Cruel LifeEXCLUSIVE
Every Street Brother - (7:04) 109 BPM
Money Honey Money - (7:28) 100 BPM Hot
Played by: Tonbe
Review: More seriously sensual material from Montenegro's Mitiko. "Blue Cab Adventure" hits with a west coast feel, all warm synths and neo soul feels. "Every Street Brother" takes us straight to the heart of Chicago with a steely sense of funk while "Money Money Money" hits the money spot with a deep driving slo-mo 4/4 stamp that really gets under your skin and makes your body thrust in ways you didn't think were possible. Shake your money makers!
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DF 065
15 Jan 18
Disco/Nu-Disco
Magic Masquerade
Do That Funky Music - (8:16) 102 BPM
Magic Masquerade - (7:28) 107 BPM Hot
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DF 064
20 Dec 17
Disco/Nu-Disco
Take Her Out EP
Take Her Out - (6:22) 103 BPM
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DF 062
04 Oct 17
Disco/Nu-Disco
Disco Fruit Selection Vol 6
Various
Loshmi - "No Way" - (5:16) 103 BPM
Mitiko - "Ain't No Love" - (7:14) 100 BPM
Mitiko - "NY City" - (6:59) 103 BPM
Tonbe - "The Way You Love Me" - (6:52) 100 BPM
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DF 060
06 Sep 17
Disco/Nu-Disco
Summer In My Hood EP
Ain't No Love - (7:14) 100 BPM Hot
Soul Soup - (7:11) 104 BPM
Summer In My Hood - (7:33) 108 BPM
Played by: Tonbe
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DF 058
26 Jul 17
Disco/Nu-Disco
Serious Edits Vol 11
No Way - (5:16) 103 BPM
Played by: George Kelly, Tonbe
Review: We haven't had an instalment of the Serious Edits series since last November, so the arrival of volume 11 has us doing back flips with joy. AS expected Disco Fruit boss Tonbe has once again assumed his Loshmi moniker for editing duties resulting in a typically more light-hearted vibe. Highlights of the eight party tunes here include the perky "Find Another Race" which takes a leaf from the Prodigy by updating an early reggae classic, the electro funk 80s anthem "All About You" and the skippy jazz/garage grooves of "Closer".
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DF 056
07 Jun 17
Disco/Nu-Disco
Particular Groove
Feel The Sound - (5:55) 100 BPM
Stay Fresh - (7:03) 106 BPM
Review: You can tell that nu-disco don Mitiko was never a really a fan of singles just from examining his own output. This chap likes his releases to be jam packed with tunes, usually releasing long extended plays/mini-albums on Tonbe's esteemed imprint, Disco Fruit. Particular Groove is no different: boasting a whopping seven tracks, there's plenty to get your teeth into here. Highlights include the triumphant soul chant "Its Not Over", the filtered elastic funk-house rhythms of "Particular Groove" and the swishey and deep poolside vibes of "Waiting To Meet".
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DF 055
10 May 17
Disco/Nu-Disco
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