Review: Italy's Full Time/Goody Music label family has been around since the 70s and released a huge range of music, from Italo disco and Europop to house and garage. Since 2020, they've been putting out this series of compilations, which gathers together the cream of their remix output: sometimes new mixes of old tracks, sometimes remixes culled from the original releases, and with different eras and styles all jumbled together. It's a scattergun approach that makes for some unlikely bedfellows: on Vol 5 you'll find 80s boogie from Michael Baker and Jimmy Ross and first-gen electro from International Music System rubbing shoulders with 90s chart cheese from Alex Party and smooth garage from Joe Smooth. Not every track will suit every listener, but there's enough buried treasure here to make the digging worthwhile.
Review: Jimmy Ross is best known for Paradise Garage anthems 'Fall In To A Trance' and 'First True Love Affair' and here, Fulltime Production breathe new life into another track culled, like those two, from his 1981 debut album. A pleasingly chunked-up makeover from Flowersons (or its matching Edit) will get the soulful/disco house floors moving for sure, while Scudo's rub is perhaps the better bet for funk/disco/boogie purists - though if you're gonna be THAT 'pure' about it you could always stick to the Original, which is also included. Ultimately, though, all four mixes are eminently playable.
Review: A bit of a mystery release here! Long-running Italian label Fulltime Production have been reissuing a lot of their early 80s catalogue lately, but we can find no original release for this one - and there are also several contemporary R&B/hip-hop producers working as Tony Black. 'Put Your Dancin' Shoes On' could, therefore, have been put together last week, or nearly 40 years ago! We'd err towards the latter, but either way it's a midpaced funk groover with a lounge-y feel that gets looped up and teased out by M. Berardi, given a stuttery, jazzy twist by Les Inferno and then dragged onto the disco floor by Musta.
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