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Katakana Edits
Katakana Edits Vol 144EXCLUSIVE
Review: Greek producer Goji Berry made his Katakana debut on the multi-artist 'Vol 50' EP back in 2017. Since then he's appeared on two further V/A EPs in the series as well as helming six of his own, most recently Vols 142 and 140. Now he's back with 'Vol 144', which finds him reworking a brace of classic soul/funk jams, namely Wilson Pickett's 'Funky Broadway' from 1967 and Lonnie Liston Smith's 'A Chance For Peace', taken from 1975's 'Visions Of A New World' album. Given the calibre of the source material, it's hard to go wrong, really - and Goji Berry certainly doesn't.
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KE 9144
15 Mar 24
Disco/Nu-Disco
15 Mar 24
Disco/Nu-Disco
Katakana Edits Vol 143EXCLUSIVE
Played by: DJ LAUREL
Review: This is, if we're counting correctly, French producer Morlack's 20th EP in the Katakana Edits series so far, so if you're a fan of the label generally the quality's pretty much assured! Coming under the scalpel this time out are a couple of underplayed jams from the 80s - El DeBarge's 'You Wear It Well' from 1985, and Imagination's 'Tell Me Do You Want My Love' from 1981 - before he takes what can safely be classed as something of a left-turn in the context of contemporary re-edit culture, giving us a remarkably effective, disco-fied makeover of new jack swing maestro Keith Sweat's 'Just A Touch' from 1996.
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KE 9143
01 Mar 24
Disco/Nu-Disco
01 Mar 24
Disco/Nu-Disco
Katakana Edits Vol 142EXCLUSIVE
Review: Shadowy scalpel field Goji Berry has been one of Katakana Edits' most reliable contributors of recent years. Since making his or her debut in 2018, the publicity-shy producer has returned on countless occasions. So, what's on offer this time round? Two bona-fide party-starting reworks, that's what. 'House Party' subtly beefs up, speeds up and loops up the Fred Wesley track of the same name (or at least a version of that classic cut), while 'It's All Right Now' sees Goji Berry charge, arms aloft, towards down-low disco-funk territory while straightening out and thickening out his source material's lose and sweat-soaked drums.
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KE 9142
26 Jan 24
Disco/Nu-Disco
26 Jan 24
Disco/Nu-Disco
Katakana Edits Vol 141EXCLUSIVE
Played by: Irregular Disco Workers, DJ LAUREL, FINGERMAN, ROMANTO (YSR / DISCO MACHINE), Juno Recommends Disco, Discoholic Ken, Kongisto
Review: Has any re-edit imprint ever released more music than Katakana Edits? GAMM aside, we can't think of any. This EP of reworks from DJ Laurel is, astonishingly, the label's 141st in total. Predictably, the release gets off to a cheery and sun-splashed start via the lolloping, musically detailed 105 BPM disco excellence of 'Can't Fight Your Love', before DJ Laurel subtly ups the tempo on the swirling, string-laden, dewy-eyed disco-soul of 'Perfect Play'. Those seeking more up-tempo, peak-time-ready thrills should head straight for the gloriously grandiose disco-era Marvin Gaye style brilliance of 'One on One'.
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KE 9141
19 Jan 24
Disco/Nu-Disco
19 Jan 24
Disco/Nu-Disco
Katakana Edits Vol 140EXCLUSIVE
Played by: Juno Recommends Breakbeat
Review: Next up on the super impressive Katakana Edits series, a spicy set of weapons indeed as we take a look into a Goji Berry special. The track itself takes the title 'Sliced Berries' and takes an unmistakable vocal lead and reworks it into a fusion of futuristic breaks and rock and roll. It's quite a task to take such an immediately recognizable vocal and give it an entirely new feeling, but that is something that we see achieved here through numerous key changes and unique instrumentation. Alongside the original rework, we also see an extended mix addition, alongside a full instrumental offering to allow DJ's to play until their hearts are content.
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KE 9140
15 Dec 23
Breakbeat
15 Dec 23
Breakbeat
Katakana Edits Vol 139EXCLUSIVE
Review: Rapidly approaching the 150 mark, Katakana Edits saddles up funk-disco DJ-and-producer outta Brighton - Fray Bentos - for session 139. Holding down the ballroom beats in the disco burning "Stabbed In The Back", get a 11-minute Billie Jean turner in "Re-Clubbed". Bentos adds a classic Marvin Gaye vocal and sax to a '90s UK pop inspired anthem subtle nestled in the background (for a truly euphoric mix) - next to some sublime, sleeper dub techno only the deepest diggers could discover in "Georges Pudding". From disco to dub techno.
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KE 9139
01 Dec 23
Disco/Nu-Disco
01 Dec 23
Disco/Nu-Disco
Katakana Edits Vol 138EXCLUSIVE
Review: Katakana regular DJ Laurel returns with his latest contribution to the long-running series. First onto the re-editor's table for surgical rearrangement this time around is the mighty James Brown himself, whose 'It's Too Funky In Here' from 1979 gets reinvented as 'Too Funky'. Next comes 'Melo Do Tagarelo', which bites the 1980 Miele cut of (nearly) the same name - widely regarded as the first hiphop record ever made in Brazil - that married the Sugarhill Gang to exuberant Latin brass, before the EP's completed by 'Maryline', Laurel's take on Christian Gaubert's 1979 French jazz-funk gem 'Sweet Maryline'.
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KE 9138
17 Nov 23
Disco/Nu-Disco
17 Nov 23
Disco/Nu-Disco
Katakana Edits Vol 137EXCLUSIVE
Played by: Irregular Disco Workers, Fort Knox Five, DJ LAUREL, FINGERMAN, Jayl Funk, Juno Recommends Disco, Umbo, Kongisto
Review: Hard on the heels of volumes 133 and 128, MBO returns with his third contribution to the long-running 'Katakana Edits' series, and two tasty little nuggets he's served up too! In the blue corner we have 'I Can't Stop', a funk-fuelled disco chugger (origins unknown) with a female vocal intoning the title, a slinky-assed bassline, brass fanfares and some seriously soaraway sax work. In the red corner, meanwhile, there's the slower-moving 'Once You Get It', which reworks the BT Express cut of the same name (from their classic 1974 long-player 'Do It ('Til You're Satisfied)').
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KE 9137
06 Oct 23
Disco/Nu-Disco
06 Oct 23
Disco/Nu-Disco
Katakana Edits Vol 136EXCLUSIVE
Review: For his outings on Breakbeat Paradise Recordings, Pecoe has served up party-starting, sample-heavy cuts that join the dots between funk, soul, disco and breaks, often mixing in raw and weighty basslines. For this Katakana Edits EP, he's switched to re-edits and hush-hush remixes, with predictably fun and funky results. He begins with 'Handle It', a smooth and gently loopy house style tweak of a killer disco gem with added hip-hop vocals, before expertly blending disco and R&B flavours on the loved-up lusciousness of 'Little Love Case'. 'I'll Be There' sees him tweak what sounds like a house-tempo, street soul-era cover of The Spinners' 'I'll Be Around', while 'Funky Situation' is a gritty and heavy pumper marked out by funk-rock guitar riffs and vintage rap vocals.
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KE 9136
08 Sep 23
Disco/Nu-Disco
08 Sep 23
Disco/Nu-Disco
Katakana Edits Vol 135EXCLUSIVE
Review: Morlack has been a Katakana regular since Vol 10, and now he returns with four more re-edits for your dancing pleasure. First to get the treatment are Earth Wind & Fire, as Morlack revisits 'Spread Your Love' from 1983's 'Powerlight' album. He's dug a little deeper for the other three, whose sources have our disco detectives beat, but 'Dr Jekyll' features a spoken French male vocal, female backing vox and some fine organ work, 'Can't Fight The Feeling' has a west coast electrofunk feel and analogue synths a-gogo, while 'Mighty Fine' is a smoother groove from the soul/boogie school of thought.
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KE 9135
16 Jun 23
Disco/Nu-Disco
16 Jun 23
Disco/Nu-Disco
Katakana Edits Vol 134EXCLUSIVE
Played by: Irregular Disco Workers, DJ LAUREL, Roast Beatz, ROMANTO (YSR / DISCO MACHINE), Juno Recommends Disco, Umbo, Morlack, Discoholic Ken, FRAN DEEPER, Ben Jamin
Review: Vol 134 finds DJ Laurel back at the controls as he serves up three more reversionings of classic tracks. First to get the treatment is Chuck Brown & The Soul Searchers' 'Berro E Sombaro', an irresistibly danceable, Latin-flavoured cut from 1979's 'Bustin' Loose' album that recently saw a Record Store Day reissue and that was also revamped by Chewy Rubs a year or two back. Then it's the turn of Tomorrow's Edition's 'U Turn Me On' from 1981, before Laurel turns his attention to Chanson's 'Don't Hold Back' from 1978. All three will get 'em moving for sure but 'Funky Sambaro' stands out.
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KE 9134
02 Jun 23
Disco/Nu-Disco
02 Jun 23
Disco/Nu-Disco
Katakana Edits Vol 133EXCLUSIVE
Played by: From P60, Juno Recommends Disco, Umbo, Kenneth Bager // Musicfordreams, BRENDON P, Kongisto, Ben Jamin
Review: MBO's first contribution to the 'Katakana Edits' came on Vol 128 and now, just five instalments later, he's back with another brace of fresh reworks of vintage nuggets. What exactly those nuggets are will have to go sadly unidentified this time out, but 'Twilight' is an unhurried lounge-y, tropical kinda jam with some sprightly-fingered jazz keys and minor chords that recall Flash & The Pan's 'Waiting For A Train', while 'Boca' is even more laidback, with Balearic-style dusty, sampled drums, wistful flute, schmaltzy strings and, most importantly, some very cool, blues-y Hammond work. Perfect for groovin' on a sunny afternoon.
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KE 9133
19 May 23
Disco/Nu-Disco
19 May 23
Disco/Nu-Disco
Katakana Edits Vol 132EXCLUSIVE
Review: El Paso has become quite the Katakana regular of late, having helmed vols 115, 116, 122 and 129, and now he returns for a fifth instalment with four funk reworks in tow. 'Ms Fine Brown' revisits Syl Johnson's 'Ms Fine Brown Fame' from 1976, while James Brown's much-sampled 1973 classic 'The Payback' becomes 'Revenge'. The sources for 'Baila' and 'Tutu' - both featuring Spanish-language vocals - will sadly have to go unidentified, but the former has a Nu Yorican, boogaloo/barrio funk kinda vibe about it while the lower-tempo 'Tutu' is much more tropical and lounge-y in feel.
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KE 9132
24 Mar 23
Funk
24 Mar 23
Funk
Katakana Edits Vol 131EXCLUSIVE
Played by: DJ LAUREL, FINGERMAN, ROMANTO (YSR / DISCO MACHINE), Juno Recommends Disco, J&M BROTHERS, D-Funk, Discoholic Ken, BRENDON P, Ben Jamin
Review: Has any re-edit imprint ever released more reworks than Katakana Edits? Certainly, we can't think of any. In the wrong hands such productivity would impact on the quality of the label's output, but Katakana keep delivering gems even as they nudge past 130 EP releases - as Those Guys From Athens' new EP proves. They start in fine fashion by turning a dusty disco-funk number into a lolloping chunk of locked-in, head-nodding mid-tempo goodness on 'Hello There' - think bouncy beats, weighty bass, addictive guitar licks, lazy horns and luscious vocals - before subtly tooling up an urgent, peak-time-ready disco workout on 'Off The Ground'. To round things off, they add their own trademark beats and filter effects to an early-to-mid-80s disco number (complete with attractive synth sounds) from what sounds like Thelma Houston.
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KE 9131
10 Feb 23
Disco/Nu-Disco
10 Feb 23
Disco/Nu-Disco
Katakana Edits Vol 130EXCLUSIVE
Review: At the controls for Vol 130 in the 'Katakana Edits' series is Goji Berry, who returns to the stable after previously helming Vols 69 and 93 and appearing on several earlier editions. First to come under his scalpel is 'Going Back To My Roots': the track's perhaps best known to most via covers from Richie Havens, Odyssey or FPI Project, but it's Motown legend Lamont Dozier's 1977 original that gets the treatment here. That's followed by the raw, blistering funk of Rufus Thomas's 'Itch And Scratch' from 1972; put together, the two tracks add up to one small but perfectly formed package.
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KE 9130
02 Dec 22
Funk
02 Dec 22
Funk
Katakana Edits Vol 129EXCLUSIVE
Review: El Paso steps up to the plate for Vol 129 in the 'Katakana Edits' series. The original versions will sadly have to go unidentified this time around, but suffice to say Da Funk is in full effect across all four tracks, kicking off with 'Kitty Kitty', a rolling trop-funk groove with breathy female vocal snips. 'Grande' follows and operates in similar territory but in slightly more lazy n' laidback - and 100% more instrumental - fashion while 'Revolution Solution' brings the militant Black Power soul vibes with its conscious male vocal, before finally 'I Got To Be Kissed' plays us with out with its full-lunged 60s-style female soul vox.
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KE 9129
18 Nov 22
Funk
18 Nov 22
Funk
Katakana Edits Vol 128EXCLUSIVE
Review: These ears have seldom encountered a Katakana release they didn't like but Vol 128 really does pack some sterling re-edits, kicking off with MBO's reversioning of Jackie MacLean's 'Dr Jackyll & Mister Funk' from 1979. Next to get the treatment is The Jackson 5's 'Get It Together' from 1973, followed by The O'Jays' 'Give The People What They Want' from 1975. There's a similar 70s soul feel to 'Mine' - source sadly unknown - before we come to the jewel in the EP's crown, a stunning take on Don Covay & The Goodtimers' 'See Saw' from 1965. Mod R&B was, of course, the original rave music - check this and you'll understand why!
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KE 9128
21 Oct 22
Disco/Nu-Disco
21 Oct 22
Disco/Nu-Disco
Katakana Edits Vol 127EXCLUSIVE
Played by: Clairvo (MustBeat), The Allergies, DJ LAUREL, Jayl Funk, Juno Recommends Disco, Kongisto, Bully Boy
Review: Volume 127 in the 'Katakana Edits' series finds regular contributor DJ Laurel back in the producer's chair once more. He opens his latest missive with a reworking of Dyke & The Blazers' 1969 funk/soul jam 'Let A Woman Be A Woman', and signs off with his take on 'Red Hot', a track culled from the disco-vibed 1979 debut solo album by former Supreme Mary Wilson. In-between you'll find 'Shout It Out', a rousing little number whose origins are unknown, but that's got a distinctly 'Schoolhouse Rock' kinda vibe about it. Good stuff all round, but 'Red Hot' takes the gold for this reviewer.
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KE 9127
09 Sep 22
Disco/Nu-Disco
09 Sep 22
Disco/Nu-Disco
Katakana Edits Vol 126EXCLUSIVE
Review: Something of a departure for the 'Katakana Edits' series here, as Pecoe, taking the helm for Vol 126, shifts the needle away from straight-up re-edits and moves it into the zone more properly labelled 'mash-ups', with most of the five taking an 'old meets new' approach. So contained herein you'll find The Whispers going head-to-head with Kelly Clarkson, Will Smith doing battle with Sister Sledge, Montell Jordan showing us how he does it alongside T-Connection, Hamilton Bohannon rubbing shoulders with US rapper Cupid and Busta Rhymes gettin' down with Unlimited Touch. File under 'surefire party starters'.
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KE 9126
29 Jul 22
Disco/Nu-Disco
29 Jul 22
Disco/Nu-Disco
