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Z Records

Dave Lee aka Joey Negro (up until 2020 and a long list of other aliases) founded London-based label Z Records in 1990. Z Records followed on from his 1988-established label Republic Records, ‘which remains for many, the foundation stone of the UK house scene’. From disco to house, funk and soul, anything that Z Records touches sparkles like diamonds under any disco ball. Stand-out releases from the label include Joey Negro’s ‘Make A Move On Me’, his extended disco mix of Christopher Cross’ ‘Run Like The Wind’ and Moodena’s remix of ‘Big Blow’.
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Want Me Back (Jimpster Remixes)
Want Me Back (Jimpster Jazz'd Up remix) - (6:27) 122 BPM Hot
Want Me Back (Jimpster Peak Time Deepness) - (6:27) 122 BPM
Want Me Back - (6:52) 117 BPM
Review: In which UK deep house legend Jamie 'Jimpster' Odell remixes a track culled from Dave Lee's 'Produced With Love 2' album, with predictably fine results. 'Want Me Back' in its Original form finds Dave donning his Mistura hat and teaming up with Toronto-based poet Jemini on a spoken-vocalled cut that's not dissimilar in feel to Akabu's classic 'Ride The Storm', while Jamie's two remixes - Jimpster's Jazz'd Up and Jimpster Peaktime Deepness - do pretty much exactly what you'd expect them to, in the best possible way. An absolute must for deep, soulful and disco house jocks alike.
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ZEDD 12344
02 Sep 22
Deep House
Do You Love Me?
Do You Love Me (David Penn remix) - (6:17) 124 BPM
Played by: Ladies On Mars
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ZEDD 12299
28 Aug 20
Disco/Nu-Disco
Do You Love Me?
Do You Love Me? (JN Disco Blend) - (6:16) 123 BPM Hot
Do You Love Me? (JN extended vocal mix) - (8:41) 123 BPM
Do You Love Me? (JN Sunburst Keys mix) - (5:14) 123 BPM
Review: Last year Dave Lee AKA Joey Negro released his first single under the long-running Mistera alias (one of a dozen or so pseudonyms he's used throughout his production career) for almost five years. It's taken a little less time to deliver the follow-up, a deliciously positive chunk of real disco/soulful house fusion featuring the distinctive vocals of long-serving chanteuse Angela Johnson. Each of the three mixes is rather good, all told, with the sweet and summery "Disco Blend" version - all live instrumentation, swirling strings and soaring vocals - being our pick of a strong bunch (though the solo-laden "Sunburst Keys Mix" instrumental is also rather good).
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ZEDD 12274
24 May 19
Disco/Nu-Disco
Love To The Limit (Shur-I-Kan Remixes)
Love To The Limit (Shur-I-Kan Club mix) - (6:20) 123 BPM Hot
Love To The Limit (Shur-I-Kan Request dub) - (5:45) 123 BPM
Love To The Limit (Shur-I-Kan Zanzibar dub) - (6:26) 123 BPM
Played by: Dave Lee ZR
Review: Five years ago, Shur-I-Kan successfully reworked "Smile", a 2012 single from Dave Lee's lesser-known Mistura project. Such was the success of Tom Szirtes's re-rubs that Lee has asked the former Freerange man to provide rubs of the previously unheard Mistura cut "Love to the Limit". There's a wonderfully positive, retro-futurist feel to the veteran producer's Club Mix, which weaves Bridgett Grace's classic-sounding vocal in and out of a backing track laden with jaunty New Jersey organ stabs, sweeping chords and a tactile, early U.S garage groove. It comes accompanied by two late night dubs: the muscular, driving deepness of the Request Dub, where filtered piano riffs and delay-laden vocal snippets cluster around a thumping groove, and the Tony Humphries-meets-Frankie Knuckles flex of the wonderfully warm Zanzibar Dub.
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ZEDD 12256
23 Mar 18
Disco/Nu-Disco
Smile (Shur I Kan remixes)
Smile (Shur I Kan Future vox) - (5:44) 124 BPM Hot
Smile (Shur-I-Kan Harmonic dub) - (5:59) 124 BPM
Smile (Joey Negro club mix) - (7:16) 123 BPM
Smile (acappella) - (5:17)
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ZEDD 12189
24 Jun 13
Deep House
The Mystery Of Mistura
Better Things To Come (feat Kadija Kamara - Joey Negro club mix) - (7:52) 123 BPM
Sweet Magic (feat Taana Gardner - Joey Negro club mix) - (7:06) 127 BPM
Smile (feat Kendra Cash - Joey Negro club mix) - (7:16) 123 BPM
Think Positive (Joey Negro club mix) - (9:45) 126 BPM Hot
Tonight (Joey Negro club mix) - (6:22) 126 BPM
Runnin (Joey Negro club mix) - (7:38) 126 BPM
Sweet Magic (feat Taana Gardner - Sweet Soulmagic remix) - (6:57) 127 BPM
Better Things To Come (feat Kadija Kamara - Joey Negro Sunburst dub) - (6:50) 123 BPM
Tonight (Todd Edwards mix) - (7:57) 125 BPM
Think Positive (Joey Negro dub) - (7:23) 126 BPM
Runnin (Joey Negro solo jazz mix) - (7:10) 126 BPM
Sweet Magic (feat Taana Gardner - Joey Negro dub) - (7:08) 127 BPM
Better Things To Come (feat Kadija Kamara - Kadija-pella) - (5:28) 121 BPM
Sweet Magic (feat Taana Gardner - Songapella) - (3:21)
Sweet Magic (feat Taana Gardner - Talkapella) - (1:18)
Smile (feat Kendra Cash - acappella) - (5:17)
Think Positive (acappella) - (4:49) 126 BPM
Tonight (acappella) - (2:29) 126 BPM
Runnin (Talkapella) - (0:53)
Review: Of Dave Lee's many pseudonyms, Mistura is arguably one of the most overlooked. Yet he's periodically used the pseudonym to release some superb material, from the live disco-meets-classic US garage flex of 1999's "Think Positive" and deeper "Tonight" (1998), to 2011's Sunburst Band-goes-house vibe of the hummable "Better Things To Come" (very Masters At Work, circa Our Time Is Coming). This first Mistura compilation brings together the singles to date, while also offering an impressive range of acapellas (including two different takes from boogie legend Taana Gardner on "Sweet Magic") and alternative mixes. Of these, it's Todd Edwards' vintage mix of "Tonight" that most impresses, though it's far breezier and less cut-up than his more familiar style.
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ZEDDDIGICD 021
28 Jan 13
Funky/Club House
Smile
Smile (feat Kendra Cash - Joey Negro club mix) - (7:16) 123 BPM Hot
Sweet Magic (Sweet Soulmagic mix) - (6:57) 127 BPM
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ZEDD 12168
17 Sep 12
Deep House
Sweet Magic
Sweet Magic (bonus beats) - (3:21) 127 BPM
Sweet Magic (dub mix) - (7:08) 127 BPM
Sweet Magic (main mix) - (7:06) 127 BPM Hot
Sweet Magic (Songapella) - (3:21)
Sweet Magic (Talkapella) - (1:18)
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ZEDD 12058
14 Oct 02
Funky/Club House
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