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Fluty LoopsEXCLUSIVE
Played by: Stephen Richards (DiscoDaze)
Review: Some classy contemporary disco fare here from Irish producer Jones, coming to you courtesy of Israeli label Thunder Jam. 'Fluty Loops' itself opens with an intricate, extended percussive intro, before funk geetar and stabby strings usher in the meandering flute line that gives the track its title - imagine Joey Negro remixing Roy Ayers and you're somewhere in the ballpark. 'Everybody' shows the same attention to detail in the percussion department but has a more Chic-ish vibe, while completing the EP is the more sultry 'Been So Hard', which comes on like Linda Clifford given a Balearic makeover...
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TJ 102
11 Nov 19
Disco/Nu-Disco
11 Nov 19
Disco/Nu-Disco
The Master Edits Vol 2EXCLUSIVE
Review: Greek producer Chris GS returns to Israel's Thunder Jam with four more slices of reworked vintage funk/disco goodness. He's dug nice and deep for this set, so the original source material remains a mystery in most cases, but in his hands 'Shake It' is a strings-drenched disco number that would've sounded right at home on the 'Saturday Night Fever' soundtrack, while 'Lady' rocks a slightly rawer funk vibe. The same goes for 'The Funk', which reworks Positive Force's 'We Got The Funk' from 1979, while finally 'About It' leans a little closer towards early 80s boogie territory.
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TJ 081
04 Nov 19
Disco/Nu-Disco
04 Nov 19
Disco/Nu-Disco
Kalimba TreeEXCLUSIVE
Review: Bustling breakbeat badman turned re-edit hero Morlack has served up some scintillating stuff of late, including a brilliant four-tracker on Katakana Edits. Here he gets his re-edit groove on for Thunder Jam. It's a decent label debut which moves from vaguely Balearic '80s Afro-boogie (the synth and filter-sporting "Kalimba Tree") to chunky, hard-wired P-funk brilliance (the Bootsy Collins-esque bounciness of "Agony"), via smooth, slick and seductive '80s soul ("Control", whose slap-bass, screeching car tyre effects and sassy female vocals are particularly alluring) and horn-toting, big studio electrofunk ("Lovin' U"). In other words, it's another tidy collection of cuts.
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TJ 093
07 Oct 19
Disco/Nu-Disco
07 Oct 19
Disco/Nu-Disco
An Edit MindEXCLUSIVE
Review: Thunder Jam's latest release offers us a chance to casually wander around the "Edit Mind" of debutant producer Paul Older. It's an attractive place where loopy, filtered and delay-heavy disco-house revisions of obscure turn-of-the-80s cuts ("I Need Your Love") rub shoulders with Clavinet-sporting slabs of disco-funk/AOR disco fusion in an echo chamber filled with bell-bottom flares, hoary haircuts and flash-fried DJ effects ("Jump"). The corridors of Older's cranium also boast doors to P-funk-fired dancefloor shufflers ("The Magic") and bouncy, house style cut-ups of glassy-eyed Philly Soul numbers (EP highlight "You Are Perfect").
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TJ 089
09 Sep 19
Disco/Nu-Disco
09 Sep 19
Disco/Nu-Disco
People Love To DanceEXCLUSIVE
Review: Like his good friend and sometime studio buddy C Da Afro, J.B Boogie is firmly focused on good-times grooves and unfussy re-edits that put the demands of the dancefloor above all other considerations. They'll be plenty of smiling faces in the club if you drop the title track of his latest EP, a chunky, filter-sporting revision of an AOR disco/Balearic classic rich in blue-eyed soul vocals, Latin-tinged grooves, headline-grabbing bass and Flamenco guitar flourishes. He quickly switches focus on "I'll Be Good", a deliciously driving and low-slung rework of a heavy swamp funk workout blessed with hazy, ear-catching vocal samples and cut-glass disco strings, before whipping off his top and slinging his arms aloft via soaring disco re-edit "Feel It".
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TJ 083
08 Jul 19
Disco/Nu-Disco
08 Jul 19
Disco/Nu-Disco
The Grinder FunkEXCLUSIVE
Played by: Javi Frias, Massimo Vanoni (The Smoker), LEGO EDIT, Stephen Richards (DiscoDaze), Ruff Diamond
Review: If a track's gonna call itself 'The Grinder Funk' it had damn well better be rocking a fine line in low-slung funk sleaze... luckily for NFC, the title track here more than lives up to expectations, being a bass- and brass-driven affair that's just dying to soundtrack an entirely hypothetical 70s blaxploitiation flick of the same name. The accompanying 'Ghana Superstar' makes its presence known from the very outset with some absolutely killer space disco-style falls/downers, then develops into something of a musical smorgasbord featuring mariachi-like brass, Afrofunk beats/vox and plenty more of those wigged-out 70s analogue synth sounds.
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TJ 084
18 Apr 19
Disco/Nu-Disco
18 Apr 19
Disco/Nu-Disco
The Master Edits - Vol 1EXCLUSIVE
Review: The late Tony Joe White's 70s/80s adventures in fusing blues-y swamp rock with disco and funk never met much success, and he's better known as a songwriter - he penned 'Rainy Night In Georgia', for instance. Here, though, 1983's 'Swamp Rap' becomes 'Country Rap', and the result is a slightly novelty-esque but truly distinctive-sounding funk slab. Fred Wesley's 'House Party' and The Chi-Lites' 'Bottoms Up' get similarly funked up as 'Gonna Have A Party' and 'Turn The House Down', respectively, while 'Other Sight' draws from sources unknown but has a go-go feel. 'Country Rap' is the one that'll really prick up ears on the dancefloor, though.
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TJ 080
08 Apr 19
Disco/Nu-Disco
08 Apr 19
Disco/Nu-Disco
Brazilian EditsEXCLUSIVE
Review: Like Ronseal's quick-drying wood varnish, "Brazilian Edits" does "exactly what it says on the tin". It sees Muleke and Leo Mafra work their magic on two typically sunny and life-affirming Brazilian cuts of old. First up is the carnival-ready brilliance of "Sarava", a genuine rush of turn-of-the-'70s positivity blessed with righteous horn arrangements, funk-rock guitars, cheery male vocals and locked-in samba-disco drums. Arguably even better is "E Muita Raca", a tasty revision of a little-known P-funk era number rich in Parliament/Funkadelic style synths, Prince-ish guitar riffs, punchy horns and chant-along vocals. Two cuts guaranteed to get the party started: what's not to like?
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TJ 077
11 Mar 19
Disco/Nu-Disco
11 Mar 19
Disco/Nu-Disco
Disco Luv Sci-FiEXCLUSIVE
Played by: Disco Funk Spinner - D.F.S
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TJ 071
15 Jun 18
Disco/Nu-Disco
15 Jun 18
Disco/Nu-Disco
Ho Ho Ho GroovesEXCLUSIVE
Played by: Disco Funk Spinner - D.F.S
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TJ 039
18 Dec 17
Disco/Nu-Disco
18 Dec 17
Disco/Nu-Disco
Out Of ControlEXCLUSIVE
Played by: Disco Funk Spinner - D.F.S
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TJ 043
16 Nov 17
Disco/Nu-Disco
16 Nov 17
Disco/Nu-Disco
Long Time To EndEXCLUSIVE
Review: More from Saskin S, a Norway-based producer who is fast becoming one of Thunder Jam's most reliable artists. Long Time To End begins with with the sweet, soul-flecked "Avenger Force", a P-funk era electrofunk jam given a subtle, 21st century makeover, before this S-man reaches for the filters to give a funk-fuelled '80s soul jam a rolling, mid-set tweak on "Extra Special". Even better is the skewed funk-goes-house shuffle of "Greenshaker", where horn and woodwind solos provide an exotic focal point. Elsewhere, he serves up an "Extended Dub" of rolling disco-boogie-meets-italo-disco number "The Chaplin Rockers" and dips into harder electrofunk territory via the ricocheting drums, booming sub-bass and thickset synths of "The Key Tone".
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TJ 037
16 Oct 17
Disco/Nu-Disco
16 Oct 17
Disco/Nu-Disco
Random JourneyEXCLUSIVE
Played by: Disco Funk Spinner - D.F.S
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TJ 032
17 Apr 17
Disco/Nu-Disco
17 Apr 17
Disco/Nu-Disco
Various
The InvasionEXCLUSIVE
Played by: REz, Don Dayglow, Limpodisco, Stephen Richards (DiscoDaze), Chuggin Edits, Downunder Disco, Disco Funk Spinner - D.F.S
Review: Thunder Jam's latest release is something of a sprawling epic; a 23-track "Invasion" featuring some of the hottest names in the re-edit and nu-disco scenes, alongside contributions from lesser-known talents. There's much to admire throughout, from the low-slung boogie bass and cut glass disco strings of Phil Da Burn's "Wallflower" and the spacey synth-funk of Funk Bank's wiggly "Jamming With The Thunder", to the bouncy disco/New Jersey garage fusion of BOI's "The Gift" and the straightened-out sunshine soul of Dee Bunk's "Little Brown Eye Girl". Throw in solid contributions from Don Dayglo, Belabouche, C Da Afro and Andy Buchan, and you've got a pleasingly varied set of floor-friendly excursions.
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TJ 040
10 Apr 17
Disco/Nu-Disco
10 Apr 17
Disco/Nu-Disco
Keep OnEXCLUSIVE
Review: The lads and lasses behind Thunder Jam were clearly impressed by Charlie Brown Superstar's re-edit outings on Alpaca Edits and Sound Exhibitions, as they've given the producer the chance to showcase an expansive selection of reworks. The six-track Keep On is quietly impressive, with the producer variously chopping up and rearranging peak-time disco anthems ("Keep On", the filter-heavy "Ain't No Way"), rolling disco-funk (the slipped, tooled-up beats and horn-toting hustle of "Please Don't Stop"), Stephanie Mills ("Got My Eyes On You", a loopy disco-house update of "What Cha Gonna Do With My Lovin"), The Jackson Sisters and killer space funk (the dub disco thrills of "Chicken Lickin").
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TJ 022
02 Feb 17
Disco/Nu-Disco
02 Feb 17
Disco/Nu-Disco
Truly YoursEXCLUSIVE
Review: In 2016, Disco Funk Spinner and Goby both released impressive EPs on Thunder Jam. Here, the well-loved edit imprint has asked them to create fresh dancefloor gold out of the same source material, Starpoint's 1983 electrofunk/80s soul jam "It's All Yours". Disco Funk Spinner steps up first, looping up key vocal and instrumental passages from the Starpoint track. These, combined with some subtle new drums, give the re-edit a slightly more house-centric feel while retaining the synth-heavy swing of the '83 original. Goby's 'Dub Touch' is fully in keeping with original '80s electrofunk dubs, featuring as it does a killer mixture of chorus vocals and synth grooves.
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TJ 021
16 Jan 17
Disco/Nu-Disco
16 Jan 17
Disco/Nu-Disco
What A Night!EXCLUSIVE
Played by: Alien Disco Sugar / Leonidas DeeJay, Stephen Richards (DiscoDaze), Disco Funk Spinner - D.F.S
Review: With What A Night, Nicko Edits man Nicko Marineli makes his first appearance on fast-rising nu-disco imprint Thunder Jam. He begins in confident mood with the heavy title track, a rolling, bass-heavy tool-up of a horn-heavy '70s disco workout. He doffs a cap to the undisputed King of Pop on sneaky "Disco Run", which fuses one of his most familiar '90s vocals with a beefed-up '80s electrofunk backing track, before getting merry with an early '80s AOR disco fave on "Jeop". Finally, the Athens-based producer goes disco-reggae via cheery, floor-friendly closer "Relaxing Mind". It's a typically chunky end to a solid collection of party-starting cuts.
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TJ 020
02 Jan 17
Disco/Nu-Disco
02 Jan 17
Disco/Nu-Disco
African EssenceEXCLUSIVE
Played by: Disco Funk Spinner - D.F.S
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TJ 014
17 Oct 16
Disco/Nu-Disco
17 Oct 16
Disco/Nu-Disco
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TJ 018
10 Oct 16
Disco/Nu-Disco
10 Oct 16
Disco/Nu-Disco
Living On Disco EPEXCLUSIVE
Played by: Disco Funk Spinner - D.F.S
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TJ 006
25 Jul 16
Disco/Nu-Disco
25 Jul 16
Disco/Nu-Disco
Night Memories EPEXCLUSIVE
Played by: Disco Funk Spinner - D.F.S
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TJ 004
27 Jun 16
Disco/Nu-Disco
27 Jun 16
Disco/Nu-Disco
