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Tornado Wallace – Be My Ladyboy

Pinky — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 21:01:52 +0000

I’ve gradually become aware of a new wave of producers who are skilfully re-contextualising samples in a way that goes beyond just lazily putting a heavier kick-drum behind a loop from an old disco record. People like the The Revenge, OOFT! and the output of the 6th Borough Project (especially the releases on Instruments Of Rapture) have all been putting out these updated slow disco groovers (most of them a lot slower than 120bpm) that are cleverly re-working samples into extremely infectious jams. This slow burner from the Tornado Never Dies EP, works itself into a mid-tempo frenzy using some cunning guitar licks and vocal snippets with a breakdown that’s bound to please dancefloors wherever it’s dropped. Whilst Be My Ladyboy is my favourite cut, the two other tracks on the flip side are not merely there to make up the numbers, the title cut, Tornado Never Dies continues in a similar vein and The RL DL is more uptempo but still employs a decent vocal sample.

Limited pressing of 500 so hit up your favourite retailers if you’re in the market for some black wax – available at time of writing from:
juno | phonica | piccadilly

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DJ Mix: James Bucknell – NYC Italo Disco Mix

Pinky — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 12:18:09 +0000

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I first came across mixes by James Bucknell on discogs a few years ago and was seduced by his silky smooth mixing skills of tracks that didn’t use drum machines and his long pedigree as a don of dance music that stretches back into the eighties. His breadth of taste and styles shouts loud and clear across all the mixes that I’ve hoovered up from the web to listen to, sometimes even within the mixes themselves. Illustrating a deft touch of choice that epitomizes the maxim that there’s only two types of music, good and bad; he most definitely knows the former. This mix is one of many that had me scrambling for my notebook as I was given a lesson in disco and many a penny was then spent tracking down some of these audio nuggets. He now resides in Sydney and regularly plays out, check out his website for mixes and blog for his latest forays in clubland.

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| 00:00 | Race – Show Me The Way
| 05:32 | Material – Secret Life
| 09:31 | Sylvi Foster – Hookey
| 13:23 | Gino Soccio – Dancer
| 19:52 | Indeep – Last Night A DJ Saved My Life
| 22:45 | Frankie Smith – Double Dutch (Disco Remix)
| 27:41 | La Bionda – Wanna Be Your Lover
| 31:02 | Night Moves – Transdance
| 33:49 | Gayle Adams – Your Love Is A Lifesaver
| 38:04 | Loleatta Holloway – Love Sensation
| 43:44 | L.I.F.E. – All Played Out
| 47:15 | Bettye LaVette – Doin’ The Best That I Can (Walter Gibbons Mix)

DJ MIX: Kirk Degiorgio – London Xpress

Pinky — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 12:54:16 +0000

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I’ve moved it onto the TipTop Soul Servers for permanent hosting rather than the conditional service provided by SendSpace so it will always be available to every one of you disco dogs. I’ve edited all four parts together so don’t sleep, click and snag this gem of a mix. Been getting some pretty consistent play in casa de Chukkles after ck dropped his cd copy on our Italia road trip as we boogied our way along the autoroutes. Broadcast as part of the Nuphonic Records London Xpress series (unsure if this was a podcast or on the radio) back in 2001.

Nuphonic Records is sadly now defunct so unfortunately couldn’t just go to the website to get the tracklist as Kirk mentions. Pieced it together from the show, some googling of the lyrics and help from folk on this thread on DJHistory (where you can download the parts separately if you wish). If you know any of the remaining unknown tracks, spread the love and leave a comment, I’ll update this post (all solved). Definitely a mix to put on whilst getting ready to go out on Saturday night, all tracks have been tweaked and re-edited driving the mix forward. Well known classics and more obscure disco/boogie ditties get a little bit of Degiorgio treatment, it’s all good.

Part 1
01.| 0:00:00 | Marilyn McCoo & Billy Davis Jr. – Shine On Silver Moon
02.| 0:06:05 | John Davis & The Monster Orchestra – Kojak Theme
03.| 0:09:20 | David Simmons – Will They Miss Me
04.| 0:12:52 | Jackie Moore – This Time Baby
05.| 0:18:10 | Linda Evans – You Control Me
06.| 0:22:40 | Fat Larry’s Band – Lookin’ For Love

Part 2
07.| 0:28:10 | Venus Dodson – Shining
08.| 0:31:45 | Ritchie Family – Peanut Vendor
09.| 0:35:38 | Double Exposure – Ten Percent
10.| 0:39:21 | The Originals – Down To Love Town
11.| 0:44:38 | Grey & Hanks – Now I’m Fine
12.| 0:49:27 | Booker T. – Don’t Stop Your Love
13.| 0:52:20 | B.T. Express – Peace Pipe

Part 3
14.| 0:53:58 | Gary Criss – Rio De Janeiro
15.| 0:57:35 | Joe Thomas – Plato’s Retreat
16.| 1:00:38 | Gladys Knight & The Pips – It’s A Better Than Good Time
17.| 1:04:34 | Independent Movement – Slipping Away
18.| 1:08:50 | Inner Life – I Like It Like That
19.| 1:11:52 | First Choice – I Got A Feeling
20.| 1:16:28 | Candi Staton – When You Wake Up Tomorrow
21.| 1:19:11 | John Gibbs And U.S. Steel Orchestra – Trinidad

Part 4
22.| 1:22:47 | D.C. LaRue – Ca-The-Drals
23.| 1:25:40 | Visual – The Music Got Me
24.| 1:28:32 | George Duke – I Want You For Myself
25.| 1:32:08 | The Trammps – Stop And Think
26.| 1:35:09 | Barry White – I Never Thought I’d Fall In Love With You
27.| 1:38:59 | Archie Bell & The Drells – Let’s Groove
28.| 1:41:30 | Cameo – I Just Want To Be
29.| 1:45:29 | Quincy Jones – Razzamatazz

Coati Mundi – Que Pasa / Me No Pop I

Pinky — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:30:55 +0000

Strange quirky track, the way the male vocals are delivered can take some getting used to but it’s a fun latin disco tune. Play it to folk who don’t take themselves or the music they listen to, too seriously.

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DJ MIX: Dave Lee’s Disco Mix

Pinky — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 07:53:42 +0000

A mix of disco, funnily enough, although there are a couple of other changes of tempo and flavours lurking within of a more soulful and funky leaning. This mix opened my eyes to a whole new world of disco glitter… and wallet-stretching rare tunes to attempt to find and purchase. I mean, Dave Lee (aka Joey Negro) put together some scarce disco nuggets on this two hour mix; didn’t matter to him, ‘cos he’s already got them! I think alot of them are his own edits and he throws a few samples over the top of some tracks as well, like the spoken word bits over Gino Soccio. I broke my own ceiling on what I thought I would ever spend on a single record getting a rare disco mix of Gladys Knight And The Pips. I’ve seen original copies of the Ashford & Simpson’s One More Try go for over £300 on eBay, far in excess of what I would or could pay, so made do with a bootleg until I find the original for tuppence in a charity shop.

Luckily even though this mix is from 2004, the wonderful chaps at milkaudio.com are still hosting it. Be advised that it is a fairly low quality RealAudio streaming file, I’ve also uploaded it to TipTop.

Tracklisting from milkaudio

| 0:00:00 | Gladys Knight & The Pips - It’s A Better Than Good Time (Walter Gibbons Mix)
| 0:05:46 | Sonny Jenkins And The New York Pot Pourri Strings – That Friday Pay (Eagle Flying Day)
| 0:10:57 | Jessie G. – That’s Hot
| 0:15:26 | Aura – L.A. Sunshine
| 0:20:52 | Mighty Fire – Love Fantasy
| 0:27:16 | Ashford & Simpson – One More Try
| 0:31:44 | Phreek – Everybody Loves A Good Thing
| 0:36:22 | Dazzle – You Dazzle Me!!!
| 0:42:13 | Jupiter Beyond – The River Drive (Instrumental)
| 0:48:28 | The Players’ Association – Hustlin’
| 0:52:32 | John Gibbs With The Jam Band – J’Ouvert
| 0:57:27 | Xanadu & Sweet Lady – Rappers Delight
| 1:00:20 | Risco Connection – Good Times
| 1:05:31 | Gino Soccio – Try It Out
| 1:11:33 | Boeing – Dance On The Beat
| 1:16:18 | Touché – Just Like A Doorknob
| 1:21:04 | Change – Heaven Of My Life
| 1:25:39 | Kinsmen Dazz Band – Love Design
| 1:29:04 | Invisible Man’s Band – Love Can’t Come / Love Has Come
| 1:36:13 | Sergio Mendes – Love Music
| 1:39:24 | Cerrone – Music Of Life
| 1:45:32 | Webster Lewis – El Bobo
| 1:48:57 | The Main Ingredient – Work To Do
| 1:53:24 | Stratavarious – Nightfall
| 1:56:18 | The Sunburst Band – He Is

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Giorgio Moroder – I Wanna Rock You

Pinky — Fri, 09 May 2008 21:09:15 +0000

Bought the lp for the title track E=MC² that I had heard in a mix I downloaded last year but wow, this was an even better revelation, happy synth grooviness. I’ve had to play it around about five times a day since I first heard it, can’t get enough of it’s infectious vibe. Great cover for the lp, that’s one thick lip slug Giorgio is sporting – puts mine to shame.

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DJ MIX: Hippie Torrales – Classic Series Vol.1

Pinky — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 08:38:37 +0000

Not a new mix, originally posted in 2003 on deephousepage but one I came across only recently myself. Disco mixed together as smooth as butter, if you’re familiar with the Jump Cutz Volume 1 release on the deep house label, Luxury Service, you’ll hear where they got most of their track Why U Wanna Play On Me from; damn I need a copy of the source now too!

Tracklisting from deephousepage

1. Betcha Wouldn’t Hurt Me – Quincy Jones (with horn hits from France Joli’s “Gonna Get Over You”)
2. Do It Any Way You Wanna – People’s Choice
3. There Are Many Stops Along The Way – Joe Sample
4. Clouds – Chaka Khan
5. Number One – Patrice Rushen
6. Love Is the Message – MFSB (with the Peach Boys “Don’t Make Me Wait”. Yeah, I know this blend has been done a zillion times, but I hear Hippie was the first.)
7. Whistle Bump – Deodato
8. You Can’t Hide From Yourself – Teddy Pendergrass
9. Doctor Love – First Choice
10. Inside America – Juggy Murray Jones
11. Supernature – Cerrone
12. Standing In the Rain – Don Ray
13. Time Warp – Eddie Grant (with Sweet Dreams – Eurythmics)
14. I Feel Love – Donna Summer

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