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Review: Most DJs tend to see the DJ Kicks series as an excuse to not only show off their DJ skills, but also the eclectic nature of their music collections. That's the approach Jayda G has taken on her fine instalment, delivering a breathlessly brilliant mix and a selection of unmixed tracks that genuinely has something for every occasion. After beginning with the deep disco of Light of the World, Aged in Harmony and Glass Beams, the Ninja Tune artist offers up a mixture of 21st century Afro-soul (Kokoroko), dubbed-out Brit-funk (Atmosfear), synth-laden '80s soul (Don Blackman), sample-rich 21st century house (Gerry Read), chunky dancefloor deepness (Naomi Darkness, DJ Boring), Motor City-inspired futurism (LNS, Fit Siegel), sub-heavy techno (Haai) and dusty future R&B beats (DJ Koze).
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K7 402D
14 May 21
14 May 21
3
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
07 Apr 24
6
Review: Plunky J Branch and his band Oneness Of Juju have been plying their unique blend of jazz, funk and soul with Afro and Cuban rhythms since time, starting out in San Francisco in 1970 but based since the mid-70s in Plunky's hometown of Richmond, Virginia. Here, Strut reissue their 1980 album 'Make A Change' (also later released as 'Every Way But Loose'), now adding extended versions of five of the original album's six tracks, as well as bonus cuts 'Time' and 'Plastic'. Spanning reggae, jazz-funk, soul and more, there's much to enjoy here - the raw funk of the aforesaid 'Every Way But Loose' in particular.
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STRUT 257D
14 May 21
14 May 21
7
Played by: Superbreak, Juno Recommends Disco, Juno Recommends Funk, J&M BROTHERS, CHEWY RUBS, LEGO EDIT, Juno Download
Review: St Albans-based Hansi serves up four more covers on this latest addition to the long-running 'Funky Grooves' series on his own Viking Grooves. 'Changes' gets the ball rolling, rendering Black Sabbath's classic heartbreak ballad in a tortured, southern soul style - it's almost like Otis's revenge for the Black Crowes! The other choices of cover on the EP are perhaps less surprising - Timmy Thomas's 'Why Can't We Live Together', Run DMC's 'Peter Piper' and The Jimmy Castor Bunch's 'It's Just Begun' - but in all cases Hansi puts his own distinctive spin on the original, making for an EP with more than its fair share of attention-grabbers.
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VK 020
26 Feb 21
26 Feb 21
8
Review: Shiva were a studio outfit headed up by Hollywood soundtrack legend Ira Newborn, whose entire output consisted of a 1983 aerobics album called '20 Minute Workout' for Ronco. But two of the album's tracks featured well-known singers - soul veteran Leon Ware, and former Dylan backing vocalist Jo Ann Harris - and they're now getting a much deserved single release courtesy of Isle Of Jura. 'What Does It Take' is a fine slice of 80s soul/boogie with Ware on vocals, but the killer here is Harris's sultry performance on 'Never Gonna Give You Up'. If you dig the 'Too Slow To Disco' series, you'll fiend for this!
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ISLE 019
23 Jun 23
23 Jun 23
10
Played by: Owain Kimber (Owain K), Manu Archeo, Robert Luis (Tru Thoughts), Pete Herbert, Juno Recommends Funk, J&M BROTHERS, Rayko, Ilya Santana, ADAM WARPED, BRENDON P, That Needs an Edit/Pete Le Freq, Kongisto, Ben Jamin, Shunt, Turbotito & Ragz (Naya Beat)
Review: Four new mixes here of a track from 1976 that'll be familiar to most disco connoisseurs: a firm favourite at David Mancuso's The Loft, it's featured on countless bootlegs over the years (including the 'Loft Classics' 12-inch series in the 90s) as well as Tom Middleton's 'The Trip' compilation. The Extended and 2023 mixes delivered here stick pretty faithfully to the space-y, sensual groove of the original, leaving it up to everyone's favourite moustachioed Parisian to get busy with the echo box and other FX on his Remix before stripping things right back on his Spacer Dub. A must, whichever rub you plump for.
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NAYA- 004
28 Apr 23
28 Apr 23
27
Played by: Craig Charles Funk And Soul, Don Dayglow, Flash Atkins, Juno Recommends Disco, Paper Street Soul, Shawn Lee, Tom Finlay (Groove Armada)
Review: Most active from the mid-70s to the mid-80s, Patrice Rushen's discography has spanned jazz, R&B, jazz-funk, soul and pop, but it's the jazz-funk/disco fusions she delivered for Elektra Recordings in the late 70s/early 80s that remain her best-loved work. Here, 15 tracks from that period are gathered together, with favourites like the evergreen 'Forget Me Nots' and 'Haven't You Heard' (reworked in the late 90s by Daddy's Favourite) snuggling up alongside less over-played but equally high-quality cuts like the jazz-funk piano groove that is 'Number One' and the ultra-smooth boogie of 'Feels So Real'. Smoochers like 'Where There Is Love' perhaps sound a little less relevant in 2019, but this is still a very classy collection indeed.
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STRUT 205D
19 Jul 19
19 Jul 19
32
Played by: Juno Recommends Soul
Review: Many will be familiar with Milton Wright's Friends & Buddies album, a much-sampled Miami soul classic that's been in demand since its' release in 1975. Intriguingly, that version of the album was Wright's second version; the first slipped out in limited numbers on promo before the master tapes were destroyed in a fire, forcing the artist to re-record it. This, then, is the first release of Wright's original version, rescued from permanent obscurity by Athens of the North. Notably folksier, looser and breezier than the version we've all come to know and love, Original Friends & Buddies sounds more like Terry Callier than Wright's later output. Happily, he tells the whole story himself in the excellent sleeve notes.
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AOTNCD 001
12 Jan 15
12 Jan 15
33
Simply BeautifulEXCLUSIVE
Played by: Juno Recommends Soul
Review: Swedish producer Ture Sjoberg is a veteran with over 20 years of experience as Beatfanatic, Beatconductor and many other aliases. Originally starting during the original first boom of hip-hop and house, he delivered such classic albums as Adventures In The World Of No-Fi Beats and The Gospel According to Beatfanatic. Hands up if you remember those old blends on GAMM? Simply Beautiful is just that, a one track Beatconductor transmission from Sjoberg that sensitively updates Al Green's slow smoocher of the same name over seven minutes. Retaining most of the Reverend's '70s classic, Sjoberg has added some love-inducing 808 grooves for some late night amorous shenanigans. Smooth!
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SPICYDI 058
27 Jun 16
27 Jun 16
34
GATT Sampler 002EXCLUSIVE
Review: Never a dull moment on this eight-track, 10-mix collection from Sweden's Ture Sj?berg, AKA Beatconductor, which finds him in a re-edit/mash-up frenzy as he reworks a range of classic cuts in often highly unexpected style. Donna Summer's 'Love Is In Control' gets a 60s lounge jazz infusion on 'Finger On The Trigger', Beyonce's 'Crazy Is Love' is given a reggaefied makeover, Angie Stone goes head-to-head with the Steve Miller Band on 'Fly Like A Stone', and so it goes on. Along the way you'll find nods to Stevie Wonder and Tom Jones, before the album's completed by three different mixes of 'Good Vibes' - the Beach Boys if they'd formed in Kingston, JA rather than Hawthorne, CA!
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GATTSAMPLER 002
27 Mar 23
27 Mar 23
38
Played by: FINGERMAN, Jean Jacques Smoothie, Juno Recommends Funk, Ash Reynolds, Dave Mathmos, Stephen Richards (DiscoDaze), Chuggin Edits, Paul Older
Review: Australia's Dave Mathmos brings us a five-track re-edit EP that digs impressively deep for inspiration. 'Slick Talk' revisits Asha Puthli's 1976 Indo-disco nugget 'Space Talk' (a favourite at The Loft) and is every bit as hypnotic and sensual as the original. 'Just... A Lonely Soul' reworks Labi Siffre's 'I Got The' from 1975 (the source for Eminem's 'My Name Is') and comes in hazy, druggy Part 1 and more immediately floor-friendly Part 2 forms, while finally 'Sell The House' and the fairly self-explanatory 'Sell The Dub' are based on a 1976 Ashford & Simpson album cut of the same name.
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ST 029
01 May 20
01 May 20
47
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DOME 614D
25 Aug 23
25 Aug 23
49
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SHA 2966
01 Mar 24
01 Mar 24
50
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617308 069563
02 Apr 24
02 Apr 24
