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Le Deltaplane (Bonus Edition)
Le Deltaplane - (6:50) 92 BPM Hot
Moonbeach Disco - (7:27) 120 BPM
Paraphraser (Le Deltaplane) - (2:19) 70 BPM
Aquaplane - (6:11) 104 BPM
Summer 79 - (6:08) 84 BPM
Le Deltaplane (instrumental version) - (4:56) 92 BPM
Le Premier Disco Sans Toi - (7:18) 120 BPM
Moonbeach Disco (dub version) - (5:35) 120 BPM
Le Premier Disco Sans Toi (dub version) - (4:40) 120 BPM
Review: Since first pitching up on Favorite Recordings a few years back, Russian saxophonist Andre Solomko has delivered a string of impressive albums and singles that gleefully join the dots between smooth jazz, '80s jazz-funk and Afro-fired disco-funk. Le Deltaplane, his latest full-length excursion, explores similar sonic territory, moving from languid, jazz-funk-influenced soul ("Le Deltaplane") and deliciously smooth and glassy-eyed disco-jazz ("Moonbeach Disco"), to heavy Afro-disco brilliance ("Le Premier Disco Sans Toi") via a range of sumptuous, solo-heavy workouts that sound like that could have been featured on a sought-after, turn-of-the-'80s jazz-funk obscurity. Throughout, Solomko and company's instrumentation is little less than sublime.
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FVR 142
11 May 18
Disco/Nu-Disco
Open Up Your Eyes (Remixes)
Open Up Your Eyes (Patchworks Disco remix) - (5:59) 116 BPM Hot
Open Up Your Eyes (album version) - (2:49) 113 BPM
Open Up Your Eyes (Jex Opolis remix) - (7:32) 120 BPM
Review: If you've not yet checked Al Sunny's 2017 debut album, Time to Decide, then we'd heartily recommend giving it a listen. It's packed with summery, sun-kissed fare influenced by jazz-funk, Brazilian fusion and West Coast blue-eyed soul. Here, one of the album's undoubted highlights, "Open Your Eyes", is given a dancefloor makeover by Patchworks and Jex Opolis. To our ears, it's the latter who steals the show with a delightfully Balearic house take that wraps the original bassline, Clavinet riffs, electric guitars and vocals around one of the New York producer's typically tactile, synth-heavy grooves. That said, Patchworks' Disco version is as authentic and warming as you'd expect, with the veteran French producer making the most of Sunny's superb instrumentation.
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FVR 139
09 Mar 18
Disco/Nu-Disco
Combattant
Lady Angola - (5:27) 87 BPM
African Disco - (4:28) 127 BPM
Ballade De Nuit - (4:32) 130 BPM
Madiba (Voilaaa remix) - (6:06) 116 BPM Hot
Ancien Combattant - (5:35) 128 BPM
Played by: YAM WHO?
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FVR 141
02 Mar 18
Disco/Nu-Disco
French Disco Boogie Sounds Vol 3 (1977-1987)
Various
Maya - "Lait De Coco" (dub) - (3:55) 110 BPM Hot
NST Cophies - "Segregation" - (4:37) 100 BPM
Paul Fathy - "Funky Baby Love" - (4:12) 121 BPM
Judy Carter - "Listen To The Music" - (5:57) 114 BPM
Janet N'Diaye Lokamba - "Funky And Fire" - (4:50) 116 BPM
KKEI - "Money" - (3:57) 124 BPM
Caramel - "L'amour Toujours L'Amour" - (5:57) 124 BPM
Yannick Chevalier - "Ecoute Le Son Du Soleil" (instrumental) - (4:04) 120 BPM
J.E.K.Y.S - "Looking For You" - (4:26) 118 BPM
Silence - "Un Peu D'amour" - (3:41) 138 BPM
Wally & Shane - "Give Back My Song" - (3:45) 132 BPM
Zorgus - "Flash" - (3:34) 124 BPM
JoeIl Dayde - "Qu'est-ce Que Tu Fais Par Amour" - (3:27) 99 BPM
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FVR 140
09 Feb 18
Disco/Nu-Disco
Le Premier Disco Sans Toi
Le Premier Disco Sans Toi - (7:18) 120 BPM Hot
Le Premier Disco Sans Toi (dub version) - (4:40) 120 BPM
Moonbeach Disco (dub version) - (5:35) 120 BPM
Review: Russian saxophonist Andre Solomko has been featured on Favorite Recordings before, delivering a couple of albums that cheerily riffed on smooth jazz and '80s jazz-funk. He's flipped the script on this return to the noted French label, laying down a righteous slab of club-ready disco-funk with noted Afro-disco influences. Naturally, Solomko's killer saxophone solos take pride of place on "Le Premier Disco Sans Toi", rising above a groovy backing track rich in jaunty Clavinet riffs and William Onyeabor style Moog flourishes. It's backed by an alternately wavy and beefed-up Dub Mix and a solo heavy Dub of "Moonbeach Disco", a Balearic disco excursion rich in jazz-funk influences.

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FVR 138
12 Jan 18
Disco/Nu-Disco
Arian
Your Love Makes Me A Winner - (4:57) 110 BPM Hot
Canat Say Goodbye - (3:35) 103 BPM
Sure Itas Funky - (5:35) 124 BPM
Still Together - (3:39) 84 BPM
Lutas Velikim Gradom - (4:23) 109 BPM
Nisam Taj - (3:19) 104 BPM
Luduj Sa Mnom - (5:10) 123 BPM
Novi Susret - (3:29) 84 BPM
Review: Macedonia has never been known as a hotbed of disco. It's perhaps this that makes Arian's eponymous 1981 album such a remarkable set. Here re-mastered and reissued by Favorite for the first time since it was initially released in ultra-limited quantities, the set is bristling with dewy-eyed, boogie era disco treats. It was recorded in New York with local musicians, and you can tell. There's a genuine authenticity to the likes of AOR disco anthem "Your Love Makes Me A Winner", the punchy, horn-heavy disco-boogie brilliance of "Can't Say Goodbye", K.I.D style dancefloor heaviness of "Sure It's Funky" and blue-eyed soul shuffler "Still Together". As with the original album, the reissue also contains Croatian language versions of the same superb tracks.
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FVR 128
02 Jun 17
Disco/Nu-Disco
Time To Decide
Time To Decide - (3:21) 78 BPM
Beautiful Lady - (3:15) 94 BPM
Get It Up For Love - (5:47) 82 BPM Hot
Don't Let Nobody Know - (5:05) 114 BPM
Open Up Your Eyes - (2:49) 113 BPM
Since I've Been Loving You - (3:39) 125 BPM
Supervision - (2:22) 102 BPM
Review: Despite his classical training, composer-turned-producer Al Sunny is more interested in classic soul, West Coast rock and the sun-kissed fusion work of 1970s Brazilian artists. Time To Decide is his debut album, and it's really rather good. Sunny is a talented songwriter, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist capable of creating perfectly produced songs that bristle with warm, sun-kissed nostalgia. Highlights include the Steely Dan-esque vibes of "Beautiful Lady", the dancefloor-friendly jazz-funk headiness of "Don't Let Nobody Know" and "Open Up Your Eyes", and the brilliant "Since I've Been Loving You", which sounds like a tooled-up take on Beatles circa "Got To Get You Into My Life". Sunny's cover of Ned Doheny's "Give it Up For Love" is also something of a treat.
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FVR 134
19 May 17
Disco/Nu-Disco
Natureza
Pessoas - (4:30) 86 BPM
Natureza - (3:54) 118 BPM
Felicidade - (4:18) 103 BPM Hot
Um CaroA§o - (3:51) 65 BPM
Se Foi - (4:36) 95 BPM
Maria - (3:53) 82 BPM
Perto De Ti - (5:12) 117 BPM
Babado Forte - (3:19) 92 BPM
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FVR 133
28 Apr 17
International
AOR Global Sounds Vol 3 (1976-1985)
Various / Charles Maurice
Jeff Silna - "It's Always Something With You" - (3:26) 100 BPM
Stratus - "Girl" - (4:32) 73 BPM
7 Days Unlimited - "Dirt (In The Sky)" - (3:27) 110 BPM Hot
Willy Santana - "Mais Uma Chance" - (2:47) 111 BPM
James D Hall - "I Wanna Get Into You" - (3:58) 116 BPM
George Nasif - "Don't Let The Devil" - (3:18) 97 BPM
Omega Sunrise - "Heartbreaker" - (4:09) 110 BPM
Steve Turner - "Harbor Place" - (5:07) 109 BPM
Billy Always - "More Than A Minute" - (3:34) 115 BPM
Stacey - "Keeps Me Hangin On" - (3:08) 98 BPM
Archie James Cavanaugh - "Light Unto The World" - (3:47) 84 BPM
Out Of The Fog - "Heart To Heart" - (3:39) 97 BPM
Jon Konteau - "The Heckler" - (3:18) 126 BPM
Review: For the third volume in his consistently superb AOR Global Sounds compilation series, Charles Maurice has largely opted to showcase tracks that combine West Coast rock flavours with disco and soul influences. It's a heady and intoxicating collection, where the blue-eyed soul/jazz-funk fusion of "Girl" by Stratus rubs shoulders with the horn-heavy, electrofunk era AOR cheeriness of Willy Santana's "Mais Uma Chance" and the '80s soul smoothness of Omega Sunrise's "Heartbreaker". Other highlights include the rubbery boogie bass and Steely Dan guitar passages of Billy Always' "More Than A Minute" and the drowsy warmth of Jon Konteau's synth-laden "The Heckler", which comes on like the Steve Miller Band jamming with Moon B.
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FVR 130LP
21 Apr 17
Disco/Nu-Disco
Des Promesses
People - (4:02) 124 BPM Hot
African Music (feat Doctor Lass) - (7:00) 129 BPM
Pour La Vie (feat Pat Kalla) - (4:46) 136 BPM
Problems (feat Sir Jean) - (5:58) 136 BPM
Kemtane (feat Doctor Lass) - (6:30) 130 BPM
Mambo Football - (5:03) 122 BPM
Des Promesses (feat Pat Kalla) - (7:03) 134 BPM
Mandjou (feat Doctor Lass) - (5:23) 116 BPM
Mbele - (4:58) 71 BPM
Tu N'as Pas De Voiture (feat Pat Kalla) - (4:35) 133 BPM
Et Toi Tu Crois (feat Hawa & Fouley Badiaga) - (4:35) 129 BPM
Decalement (feat Pat Kalla) - (4:28) 135 BPM
La France - (4:26) 131 BPM
Review: Despite Bruno 'Patchworks' Hovart boasting a discography packed to the rafters with successful forays into all sorts of vintage dancefloor styles, many were still surprised at the brilliance of the first Voilaaa album, On Te L'avait Dit. This follow-up is equally as impressive, and features 13 more trips into classic Afro-disco and tropical disco territory. With Clavinets, punchy horns, live percussion and Afrobeat bass to the fore, Hovart and his many collaborators - including a number of French vocalists with African heritage - variously pay tribute to all sorts of late '70s and early '80s dancefloor fusion sounds. The album includes tons of club-ready excursions, including the righteous "Problems", disco-tastic "Kemtane" and sweaty, high octane "Mbele".
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FVR 132
31 Mar 17
Disco/Nu-Disco
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