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Resense 057EXCLUSIVE
Review: Umbo (Croatia's Mario Lovakovic) has chalked up releases on Timewarp and Kraak and now comes to Germany's Resense with two re-edits of tracks from Chess, Sun Records and Stax veteran Little Milton's 1969 'Grits And Groceries' album. That album's title track, here reworked as 'Grits', was written by Titus Turner in 1955 as 'Mona Lisa Was A Man' and has been recorded by many blues, soul and R&B artists under a variety of titles over the years; '23h' is much less confusing, being simply the new name for 'Twenty-Three Hours'. Anyway, suffice to say the sheer power of the late R&B legend's voice makes either a cert on funk and soul floors!
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RESENSE 057
16 Apr 24
Funk
16 Apr 24
Funk
Review: Germany's Philly Vanilli has been around since forever, it seems, but to these ears - and they're ears that have reviewed plenty of his previous releases for this very website - this new set of reworks for Deep Disco Edits is the best work he's turned out so far. He's working with some very well-known source tracks here, so there's no point insulting your intelligence by enumerating them: suffice to say that somehow he's managed to tease the funk out of these much-loved classics in a way that, in some cases, even the original artists didn't manage. Ohio Players' 'Love Rollercoaster' was, admittedly, always a personal fave of yours truly but in PV's hands it becomes a truly exceptional 10 minutes of sheer funk joy, while his reworkings of Marvin, Kool & The Gang and The Temptations are equally impressive. Essential!
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DDELP 0424
07 Apr 24
Funk
07 Apr 24
Funk
Played by: Juno Recommends Disco
Review: Lipps Inc's 'Funky Town' is undeniably a classic - hell, it's even mentioned in 'The Simpsons' as one of Homer's favourite songs - and Philly Vanilli have made a pretty decent fist of reworking it here, looping up various sections, letting those strident strings shine through in all their otherworldly glory and, perhaps most importantly, resisting the tempation to go overboard with the percussion FX, an error they've been guilty of in the past. Whether any dancefloor that'll accept this but not the original - which is surely the point of re-edits - actually exists is debatable, but in terms of simply refreshing a well-known standard, yes, nice job!
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DDE 99
14 Aug 23
Disco/Nu-Disco
14 Aug 23
Disco/Nu-Disco
Jazzfloor EditsEXCLUSIVE
Played by: The Allergies, Irregular Disco Workers, DJ LAUREL, Solazz, Juno Recommends Disco, Umbo, Juno Recommends Funk, Rayko, Discoholic Ken, Shaka Loves You, Mr Doris, Mosaik, Andy Vann/Grass Green, LEGO EDIT, Chuggin Edits, Bully Boy, Vito lalinga, D.S.D., Andy Buchan, Shunt
Review: If funk and jazz are your thing, don't sleep on this latest missive from Italy's Lego Edit stable, which packs six reworks of vintage cuts both highly familiar and somewhat less so, We start out with the instantly recognisable groove of Kool & The Gang's 'Jungle Boogie', now reinvented as 'Jazz-Ungle', while elsewhere you'll find fresh takes on the Dave Brubeck Quartet's jazz classic 'Take Five' (1959) and Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson's 'It's Your World' (1976). The sources for the other three will have to go sadly unindentified (though those piano licks on 'Jazzy Touch' are annoyingly familiar) but rest assured, this is classy stuff all round.
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LGF DIGIT 025
08 Dec 22
Funk
08 Dec 22
Funk
Katakana Edits Vol 62EXCLUSIVE
Played by: The Allergies, Craig Charles Funk And Soul, Roast Beatz, Superbreak, Jayl Funk, Juno Recommends Disco, Discolypso, J&M BROTHERS, D-Funk, Till Von Sein, LEGO EDIT, 80's Child, Kongisto, Paper Street Soul, Vito lalinga
Review: 62 collections deep and still blazing up any party in a 1000 mile radius; Katakana deliver yet another fun and funk-fuelled package. All laced with a heavy rhythmic theme, attention to groove detail is paid throughout as we're treated to range of classic and deeply dug edits. "Galaxy" sets the tone with a sleazy strutting war cry before we're hurled into a Latin frenzy on both the sultry "Camina" and the bull-fighting "Descarga". Elsewhere "Leroy Loves Ya" brings the soulful touch and "JB World" closes with a little psychedelic mystique.
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KE 9062
27 Apr 18
Disco/Nu-Disco
27 Apr 18
Disco/Nu-Disco
Katakana Edits Vol 44EXCLUSIVE
Played by: Kiu D, Juno Recommends Disco, Tonbe, J&M BROTHERS, Rayko, TURNTILL, Alan Dixon, Massimo Vanoni (The Smoker), VinylAddicted, Chuggin Edits, Sould Out, Disco Funk Spinner - D.F.S
Review: The honour of curating the 44th instalment of Katakana's Edits series has fallen on Disco Funk Spinner, a much respected re-edit guy whose work has appeared on the likes of Midnight Riot, Disco Fruit and Sound Exhibitions. Here though he only manages to provide two jams, but it's quality, not quantity, right? First up we get "Night Strangers" which takes loops from Candi Staton's Bee Gees cover (Nights On Broadway) and adds an accelerated disco house tempo and subtle but funky embellishments. On the digital flip is "On Fire", a clever rework of Peggy Lee's indestructible classic, Fever. Hot stuff!
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KE 9044
19 Sep 16
Disco/Nu-Disco
19 Sep 16
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
Various
High FiveEXCLUSIVE
Review: When Andy Bull AKA Bully Boy launched the Act of Sedition label a couple of years back his aim was to release "the finest 45 edits" on seven-inch double-packs. It's something of a surprise, then, to see the label land on digital download with a sprawling collection of previously vinyl-only reworks and bonus edits. Expect a gloriously vibrant and floor-friendly mixture of gospel-tinged psychedelic soul (Jimi Hendrix's "Freedom"), Clav-happy disco-funk squelch (Disco-Tech's "Assassination"), sweet disco sing-alongs (SanFrankDisko's "Get It Right"), sweaty punk-funk/dub disco heaviness ("Cavern Dance" by V's Edits), high octane disco-camp (Mighty Mouse's cheerfully silly "Got To Have Nothing") and much more besides.
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AOSD 001
24 Jan 20
Disco/Nu-Disco
24 Jan 20
Disco/Nu-Disco
V'S Edits / Various
Funk We DanceEXCLUSIVE
Played by: Craig Charles Funk And Soul, Juno Recommends Disco, Dave Mathmos, BRENDON P, LEGO EDIT, Phil Disco
Review: When operating under the V's Edits alias, re-edit maestro Valique can always be relied upon to bring the goods. It's little surprise, then, to find out that his latest collection of fresh cut-jobs - an epic affair featuring no less than 24 tracks - is packed to the rafters with high-grade fare. We don't have enough space to list all of the highlights, but we'd suggest checking out his rolling revision of Lee Dorsey's "Night People", the low-slung disco-funk heaviness of the Brass Construction rework ("Gotta Do It"), the intergalactic disco deepness of the Marvin Gaye revision ("Funky Space"), the lightly tooled-up, slowly unfurling take on Tom Browne's "Funkin For Jamaica" and the sweeping, string-laden disco brilliance of "Miracle (V's Edit)".
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VHR 071
12 Nov 19
Disco/Nu-Disco
12 Nov 19
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
