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Ghetto Grooves Vol 1EXCLUSIVE
Review: There's something a little bit silly about this beefy mash-up extravaganza from Actual Sounds. Take lead cut "59th Street Groove", for example. Built around a ribcage-rattling wobble bassline and snappy breakbeats, it twice breaks down to reveal an extended Simon & Garfunkel sample. Really. It does work, mind. Elsewhere, you'll find a crunchy fusion of wobble-heavy hip-hop and funk-rock licks (Big Bang Breaks' "B Boy Flip Trick"), while Mr Mezdup sticks ten tons of TNT up the backside of Yes's party standard "Owner of a Lonely Heart". Wasted On Wax draw proceedings to the close with a heavy breakbeat tweak of Prince's oh-so-Balearic singalong "Raspberry Beret".
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421120 13
21 Jan 13
Breakbeat
21 Jan 13
Breakbeat
Safe Edits Vol 1EXCLUSIVE
Played by: Juno Recommends Disco, TURNTILL, Fab Mayday, Jay Ru, Alien Disco Sugar (Leonidas DeeJay), Black Amex, VinylAddicted, 80's Child
Review: Alien Disco Sugar sounds like the kind of thing we'd like in our tea: "two lumps at least please!". Here we get a bunch of slick disco rejigs evenly divided between the '70s and '80s. "Gimme Your Love" and "African Love Song" cover the former with rolling soulful grooves and raw, Afrocentric gospel-funk respectively. Then we hit the '80s with "Records Keep Spinning" reworking "Last Night A DJ Saved My Life", and Gino Soccio's masterpiece "Dancer" getting a glorious extending.
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DWADSSEV 1
03 Mar 14
Disco/Nu-Disco
03 Mar 14
Disco/Nu-Disco
Stylish Wolf EPEXCLUSIVE
Played by: TURNTILL
Review: Despite residing in sunny Greece, veteran disco DJ Leonidas (aka Alien Disco Sugar) is fully embracing the whole, er cold thing - Christmas releases with wolves and snow and stuff. There are four winter warmers on here "Learn How To Dance" kicks things off with an infectious 70s guitar and clavinet groove that should make learning easy, "SuperFunKey" is like what the title suggests - a roaring retro funk stomper, "Master Of The Game" takes a very Chic sounding slice of slick old New York sizzle and beefs it up just ever so slightly. Finally the title track wraps things up nicely with an orchestrated slo-mo head nodder.
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DWADSEP 13
15 Dec 14
Disco/Nu-Disco
15 Dec 14
Disco/Nu-Disco
Summer Swimmers Vol 1EXCLUSIVE
Played by: Lucky Sun, Moustache Love, Dirty McKenzie, Weedyman, MR ABSOLUTT, Alien Disco Sugar (Leonidas DeeJay), Mastercue, KS French, VinylAddicted, 80's Child, South Beach Recycling
Review: Do Aliens sunbathe? It would appear so as the ADS crew are back to mark the start of summer with four glistening '80s soul edits. The overall vibe is sunny and perfect for any pool parties you might be planning - "A Change In My Life" is razor sharp electro-funk culled from a sped up Bar Kays sample, The Village People's hi-NRG classic Sex Over The Phone gets abbreviated into a filtered disco fun, "Summer Night" is floaty sundown boogie and "Wasting Time" reworks Yarbrough & People's 1984 synth epic into a spacey seven-minute jam.
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DWADSEP 6
23 Jun 14
Disco/Nu-Disco
23 Jun 14
Disco/Nu-Disco
Fantasy Colours EPEXCLUSIVE
Played by: FINGERMAN, Superbreak, Scott K. [BOXmusic], MR ABSOLUTT, Alien Disco Sugar (Leonidas DeeJay), Ziggy Phunk, KS French, BRENDON P, Marathon Edits, VinylAddicted
Review: We're guessing that, when you're an alien, you're probably unlikely to get the memo to say that something's not cool anymore here on earth. Here on "Fantasy II" Alien Disco Sugar unwittingly drop the terminally uncool pan pipe bomb. But you know what? In the context of this saucy disco house roller, it works! Elsewhere we get sassy space funk ("Try It Out"), a retweak of Ron Hardy classic "Everybody Get Down" by Mouzon's Electric Band and the proto Balearic synth-pop of "Union A".
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DWADSEP 9
29 Sep 14
Disco/Nu-Disco
29 Sep 14
Disco/Nu-Disco
Don't Stop My Love EPEXCLUSIVE
Review: Having fallen to earth some years ago, Alien Disco Sugar have now been well and truly assimilated into Earth's culture. Ok, at least Earth's disco culture (it's the moniker of veteran Greek DJ Leonidas), and here he presents us with four more of his world-renowned edits. "Don't Stop" is good wholesome pop-disco, "Love Connection" is an upbeat boogie-down and features a flute solo, "My Number & Dime" is killer '80s electro-funk and things wrap up nicely with the squelchy low-slung bass groove of "Nobody (You and I)".
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DWADSEP 14
19 Jan 15
Disco/Nu-Disco
19 Jan 15
Disco/Nu-Disco
Various
The Artist Series Vol 1EXCLUSIVE
Played by: Actual Sounds
Review: The Artist Series Volume 1 sees Actual Sounds gather together a bunch of their artists to provide an expansive selection of bootleg breaks, ghetto funk and jungle reworks of tracks from well-known artists, namely Stevie Wonder, The Beatles, The Beastie Boys and Cypress Hill. While there's a certain drunken office Christmas party silliness to the Fab Four reworks, the more hip-hop inclined reworks are much more successful. There are plenty of confirmed party-starters, from the synth-heavy P-funk breaks of Funky Wah Wah's "Beastie Noise (That's Resin Funk)", to Big Bang Breaks' multiple reworks of "Insane In The Brain" (the first of which, a straight-up party hip-hop take, is the bomb).
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322711 2013
27 Nov 13
Breakbeat
27 Nov 13
Breakbeat
Various
Wake The Funk UpEXCLUSIVE
Review: If your record bag/CD wallet/hard drive (delete as appropriate) is flagging under the weight of soul-sapping breakbeat bootlegs and ill-advised ghetto funk remixes, help is at hand. This compilation from Actual Sounds does contain plenty of sneaky bootlegs and ghetto funk style reworks (including one that bites "Sweet Home Alabama"), but they're all of a much higher quality than we've come to expect of late. There are snappy trips into boogie breaks territory (Big Bang Breaks' "French Funk"), wobble-funk (a thunderous version of the Jacksons' "Rockin' Robin") and Madchester revivalism ("Free Soup"), not to mention a string of booty-licious ghetto funk stompers. If this doesn't wake you up, nothing will.
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162832 013
01 Apr 13
Breakbeat
01 Apr 13
Breakbeat
