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Disco Fruit
Fungi MamaEXCLUSIVE
Played by: Kongisto
Review: Montenegro-based rework maestro Mitiko (real name Sasha Mitich) has been a busy boy this year, with this EP-turned-mini album marking his sixth missive of 2024 to date. There's plenty to get the blood pumping and the feet moving across the seven tracks on show, from the lightly housed up vocal disco rush of 'Along With You' and the filter-sporting Afro-disco joy of 'Fungi Mama', to the slow-motion disco-funk headiness of 'Ghost' and the build-and-release excellence of the stomping, string-laden peak-time disco of 'Peak At You'. Those seeking mid-tempo thrills are catered for via 'Get Up and Boogie', while 'Latin Hustle' is a memorable revision of a Spanish language dancefloor gem.
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DF 175
12 Apr 24
Disco/Nu-Disco
12 Apr 24
Disco/Nu-Disco
Disco JunctionEXCLUSIVE
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
16 Feb 24
Disco/Nu-Disco
Serious Edits Vol 29EXCLUSIVE
Review: Serbian disco don Milos Dordevic AKA Tonbe once more dons his Loshmi re-editor's guise. 'Around The Corner' draws on an unidentified (but we're guessing early 80s electrofunk) source and sports a familiar spoken sample about the irrelevance of genres in music, while 'Like You Know' revisits Fat Larry's Band's 'Act Like You Know' from 1982. The seriously fat-bottomed 'Lovely Attack' then bites Tom Hooker's sought-after 1984 Italo-disco gem 'Love Attack', before the package is completed by 'Shake Shake', a rework of TC Curtis's 'Body Shake' from 1981. The latter two share top honours for yours truly but all four will keep disco floors grooving along nicely.
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DF 172
02 Feb 24
Disco/Nu-Disco
02 Feb 24
Disco/Nu-Disco
2024 Mixes Part 1EXCLUSIVE
Review: Last year, Serbian re-edit and rework specialist Tonbe began offering up freshly updated versions of cuts from his catalogue. He begins the new year by offering up more of the same - specifically a quartet of '2024' versions of things he first edited, remixed and reworked in the dim and distant past. He begins by reworking 2016's 'Original Tool', delivering a driving, thickset slab of heady disco-house excellence, before lightly polishing-up the disco-funk horns and deliciously low-slung bass of 2018 classic 'Downtown Drive' (arguably the most-played cut in his catalogue). There's more funky bass - alongside relaxed, flanged guitar licks and twinkling Rhodes solos - on lolloping disco-house number 'Boss of Funl', while 'I Feel Energy' is a deliciously sun-splashed disco roller that's as deep and warming as it is effortlessly funky.
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DF 171
12 Jan 24
Disco/Nu-Disco
12 Jan 24
Disco/Nu-Disco
Serious Edits Vol 28EXCLUSIVE
Review: 2024 will mark a decade since Milos "Loshmi" Djordjevic launched the 'Serious Edits' series. With that significant anniversary looming, the Serbian producer has quietly released the 28th instalment, a ten-track selection that includes a mixture of unheard rubs and '2024 mixes' of gems from the catalogue. There's plenty of guaranteed party-starting fare on show, with our picks including the horn-toting disco-house release of 'Party No. 9', rolling Oliver Cheetham re-rub 'Saturday' (a house-style revision of all-time anthem 'Get Down Saturday Night'), the hard-wired disco-boogie-goes-house flex of 'Holiday In Abroad' (a Change re-rub), and the grunting disco-rock pump of 'Sweet & Nasty (2024 mix)'.
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DF 170
15 Dec 23
Disco/Nu-Disco
15 Dec 23
Disco/Nu-Disco
2023 Mixes Part 2EXCLUSIVE
Played by: Tonbe
Review: Another EP featuring new rubs of previously released Tonbe cuts, coming on his own Disco Fruit label. 'Disco Frisco' is all walking bassline, looped guitars and space disco stabs, augmented by plinky-plonk synths and some fairly restrained brass. 'Raw Taste' has a very similar MO but with a rawer funk feel, while 'Summer Education' augments the blueprint with wailing geetar. All three are plenty playable but as so often with Tonbe's releases there's one clear standout, and in this case it's 'Move That Ass', which will grab the floor's attention with its spoken "bounce that ass, move that ass, shake that ass" vocal. File under "big, dumb and glorious".
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DF 169
01 Dec 23
Disco/Nu-Disco
01 Dec 23
Disco/Nu-Disco
Serious Edits Vol 26EXCLUSIVE
Review: Nine years after volume one landed on Junodownload, Loshmi (AKA Serbian nu-disco scene stalwart Tonbe) is back with the series' 26th instalment. He begins with the thunderous, peak-time-ready assault of 'Swat', a tweak of a gnarly rock-guitar sporting OTT orchestral workout underpinned by thumping house drums, before offering up the rolling, synth-sporting pop-goes-house roll of 'Lady'. Loshmi dives into his collection of glossy '80s electrofunk/boogie jams on 'Knock It', a deliciously squelchy, colourful and soulful affair, before rounding off another rock-solid re-edit EP with the Balearic acoustic guitar solos, dreamy chords, Flamenco vocals and chunky house beats of 'Train Running'.
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DF 166
15 Sep 23
Disco/Nu-Disco
15 Sep 23
Disco/Nu-Disco
LemonsEXCLUSIVE
Played by: Tonbe
Review: Serbian disco fruit from Tonbe, a producer releasing candy-heeled dance wares for some 15 years now. For Disco Fruit yet again he brings the heat, with the title track kicking off heavy and deep before those righteous chords roll in. Heavier and dubbed out still is "Weekend Fever" with its thick filters and French house sampling twist. Funkier numbers come from "Too Far Away" next to a minimal '70s electro cuts in "Robot Drivel" and '90s R&B via "Groupie Love". Get your west coast sh*t from "Turn It Up" next to the solid states of "Unchained". When life gives you lemons make lemonade.
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DF 165
01 Sep 23
Funky/Club House
01 Sep 23
Funky/Club House
Serious Edits Vol 25EXCLUSIVE
Review: Nine years on from the release of his first EP of 'Serious Edits', Loshmi adds a 25th volume to the popular series. As usual, what's on offer is a clutch of cuts that add beefed-up, house style beats and tidy effects to mostly under-celebrated disco jams. Basically, they're all tried-and-tested, house style re-edits aimed at peak-time dancefloors. Highlights include the Clavinet-heavy, arpeggio-driven stomp of 'Virgin Dance', the swirling strings, impassioned lead vocals and bouncy disco grooves of 'Mother Jackson', and the deliciously camp Italo-not-Italo throb of 'Sexy Sexy Girls'. File under: "guaranteed party starters".
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DF 164
04 Aug 23
Disco/Nu-Disco
04 Aug 23
Disco/Nu-Disco
This Is The NightEXCLUSIVE
Review: Three tracks in a total of five mixes make up this latest offering from Serbian main man Tonbe. First up is 'Tonight', which tops a walking bassline and plinky-plonk 80s synths with a very sweet n' poppy female vocal, though the latter's obviously absent from the accompanying instrumental. 'Ruler & Queen' is a quirky, shuffling affair that's likewise available with or without the plainitive vocal, but for this reviewer's money the standout here is 'Disco Baby', a contemporary boogie-style jam with an indecipherable male vocal and more bounce 'n' wiggle to its bottom end than is frankly decent.
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DF 163
07 Jul 23
Disco/Nu-Disco
07 Jul 23
Disco/Nu-Disco
Disco Fruit Selection Vol 10EXCLUSIVE
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
02 Jun 23
Disco/Nu-Disco
