Larry Levan | Live from Paradise Garage, 1979

Ok, how’s about the coolest post we’ve ever made. And quite possibly the coolest post made on any blog, ever! Here for posterity and for disco fans around the world, is an immaculate recording from the 2nd anniversary of the Paradise Garage in 1979.

We have saved these as three different parts.. (intro) is an hour long discussion about how the recording came to being with the details of how Lenny Fontana recorded a live radio broadcast on his father’s reel to reel machine, and then transferred it to DAT in the early 1990′s. It’s is a cool listen, and well worth checking out. Background soundtrack to the chat is tracklisted below.

Legends of the Dancefloor: Paradise Garage 2nd Birthday (intro)

1. Four Tops Four Tops – Main Street People
2. General Johnson – Can’t Nobody Love Me Like You Do
3. Isaac Hayes Isaac Hayes – Theme From Men
4. James Brown James Brown – Give It Up Or Turnit A Loose
5. Phreek – Weekend
6. Lou Rawls Lou Rawls – You’ll Never Find Another Love Like Mine
7. Keith Barrow – Turn me Up
8. Don Ray – Got To Have Your Lovin
9. Lisa Gerard/Pieter Barker – Sacrifice

And then it’s on to the main event. The up-to-now pretty much unheard set from the Paradise Garage’s second anniversary in as good a quality as you’ll ever hear from a 30 year-old recording. Pt.1 kicks off with live PAs from Sylvester, Dan Hartman and Loleatta Holloway and then Larry takes over..

Legends of the Dancefloor: Paradise Garage 2nd Birthday Pt.1

10. Sylvester – You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)
11. Dan Hartman – Instant Replay
12. Loleatta Holloway – I May Not Be There When You Want Me
13. Loleatta Holloway – I’ve Been Loving You Too Long
14. Dan Hartman and Loleatta Holloway – Relight My Fire
15. Billy Nichols – Give Your Body Up To The Music
16. Billy Nichols – Diamond Ring
17. Deniece Williams – I’ve Got the Next Dance
18. Diana Ross – The Boss
19. Machine – There For the Grace Of God
20. Brainstorm – Love Is My Game
21. First Choice – Double Cross
22. Skyy – First Time Round
23. Paul Lewis – Girl You Need A Change Of Mind
24. Instant Funk – Bodyshine
25. Tribe – Koke
26. Candido – Jingo
27. Gibson Brothers – Cuba
28. Frisky – You Got Me dancing In My Sleep
29. Patrice Rushen – Haven’t You Heard
30. Don Armando – Deputies Of Love
31. Voyage – Lady America
32. South Shore Commission – Freeman

Pt.2 is more of the same iconic classic disco from the most seminal names in the history of the genre..
Legends of the Dancefloor: Paradise Garage 2nd Birthday Pt.2

33. MFSB – Love Is The Message
34. Roy Ayers – Don’t Stop The Feeling
35. Evelyn “Champagne” King – I Don’t Know If It’s Right
36. McFadden & Whitehead – Ain’t No Stoppin’ Us Now
37. Leon Haywood – Don’t Push It Don’t Force It
38. The Supremes – I’m Gonna Let My Heart Do the Walking
39. Positive Force – We Got The Funk
40. Jackson 5 – I Am Love
41. Vaugh Mason Crew – Bounce Rock Skate Roll
42. Vaugh Mason Crew – Bounce Rock Skate Roll
43. Skyy – High
44. Skyy – Sky Zoo
45. Bill Summers – Straight To The Bank
46. Funk Fusion Band – Can You Feel It
47. Theo Vaness – I Can’t Dance Without You
48. Roy Ayers – Don’t Stop The Feeling
49. Shalamar – Right In The Socket
50. Grey and Hanks – Dancin
51. Black Ivory – Mainline
52. G.Q. – Disco Nights
53. Ecstasy, Passion & Pain – Touch & Go
54. Michael Jackson – Rock With You
55. Diana Ross – Remember Me

This set was the culmination of a week long series of absolutely brilliant documentaries celebrating Larry Levan and the Paradise Garage. We’ll be posting them all up in the coming days, so keep em peeled!

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House of Disco | Shoes Off EP

Contender for release of the year right here.. Four absolutely stellar tracks from four of the very hottest producers around, courtesy of the one of the best blogs-come-labels.  Check these bad boys out..

NICHOLAS – TALKING ABOUT LOVE

FRANCIS INFERNO ORCHESTRA – SUN UP

TOOMY DISCO – OUTSTANDING

PSYCHEMAGIK – CARNIVAL DE TRANCOSO

Wax is out now, snap it up at Juno, Piccadilly, Phonica or your other favourite stockist. Digital release available in a month’s time. Soopoib!

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Loleatta Holloway | Love Sensation

Surely one of the greatest releases on one of the most important record labels of all time. We’ll never ever tire of listening to or playing this one, and to our absolute and utter delight it was a very random and welcome request at a recent gig we played. Massive respect to the requester with impeccable taste!

Sadly of course, Loleatta passed away earlier this year leaving a musical legacy that will last forever and a day. Here’s a cool obituary piece the Guardian published.

Loleatta is synonymous with the mighty Salsoul Orchestra the epic house band of the legendary Salsoul Records, a record label that’s at the heart of everything we love about disco music. We’ll not wax lyrical too much about Salsoul, the waxing has been done a hundred times better by a hundred other voices a hundred times louder and better than ours, but do have a read at this cracking piece over on DJ History.

Salsoul compilations are also bordering on the countless but we recently picked up the only one you’ll possibly ever need. Lovingly compiled by afficionado Ian Dewhirst, The Definitive Salsoul Mixes is a 3cd chronological selection of key mixes and milestone release spanning the label’s lifetime, all presented as brilliantly mastered full-length unmixed 12″ versions. For uber disco-geeks like us, Ian’s sleeve notes and accompanying booklet are just as brilliant.

Quite conscious that A) we face getting misty eyed here and B) this may sound like a fricken press release if we go on any more, so we’ll quit while we’re ahead! The comp is out this week, and super worthy of your attention. Check Piccadilly, Amazon or your favourite independent stockist.

Loleatta Holloway – Love Sensation [Tom Moulton 12-Inch Mix]

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Get Down Edits | Vol.1 (digital)

It’s been great to see our Irish disco brothers Darren Daz Dalton and Martin Roche finally getting a bit of nationwide acclaim. Promoting the disco vibes around the southern tip of Ireland for well over a decade the guys have hosted and played with a who’s who of the scene’s biggest hitters, garnered a formidable fanbase for their own legendary DJ sets and all the while, worked up a few bits and pieces of material of their own.

In particular Daz’s re-work of Sister Sledge’s Greatest Dancer earlier this year become one of those Soundcloud phenomena. An edit so obviously great it gathers support at a rapid rate of knots, gets picked up by a big name DJ, and the overwhelming pressure to release bears fruit.

The result was Get Down Edits Vol 1, a super solid collection of the guys’ edits that was pressed up in limited number, and sold out in most outlets almost instantly.

Fret not though! The release is now available in digital format and Daz gave us a quick run down behind the whole project.

“It has been something we’ve been working on since late 2010 to be honest, this was around the time I got talking to the guys who pressed & distributed the vinyl. All the edits that featured on the wax were finished before this time besides one (Far Beyond) which was done to complete the release. I had been working on these re-edits without any idea or aspiration that they would be pressed to vinyl and released to be honest.”

“The compilation has primarily been an opportunity for me to get some of my edits pressed to vinyl & distributed to some major record & online stores but it could also definitely be an opportunity to act as a platform or home for other peoples work too”

“The Sister Sledge edit certainly had a big part to play in the whole thing. I was finishing off edits, uploading them to soundcloud and sending them out to DJs I had got to know from having them over to play at our Get Down party. It gathered good feedback on Soundcloud but then Greg Wilson mailed me saying it was really working for him and that I should try to get it released. Greg set me up with the guys who pressed & distributed the vinyl. So yeah it’s basically its all down to Greg Wilson! He’s a true gentleman and really helped us out a lot. Having been a big fan of his for a long time now i was delighted that he had seen some potential in what I was doing.”

“The Get Down Edits Vol 1 vinyl went really well & I was delighted with some nice feedback. I’d like to thanks everyone that supported it and fingers crossed that we can come up with a vol 2!”

We posted up a link to the guys’ recent excellent Get Down mix, properly worthy of doing so again..

And you can snap up Get Down Edits Vol1 from Juno DL, or your other favourite retailer.

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Mix-arama vol.2

Slowly but surely getting through the slew of quality mixes doing the rounds at the mo, here’s a quick selection of a few of our favourites..

MAYA JANES COLES – ESSENTIAL MIX

The object of our current affection/infatuation, MJC drops 2 hours of house as deep as whale shit. Few awesome unreleased remixes/edits on this one too.

Download right HERE.

FRANCIS INFERNO ORCHESTRA – LIVE

A recording of what sounded like a stellar party in Romania (cops called six times, ya know, the usual kinda business..) from the untouchable FIO‘s recent/current European tour. Griff has a cracking new track out on House of Disco records soon, keep em peeled.

DOWNLOAD

DAZ & MARTIN – GET DOWN JULY 2011 MIX

An absolutely superb disco selection from our Irish bro’s Daz and Martin. The Waterford duo are currently riding high in charts everywhere with their Get Down Edits wax that features Daz’s massive Sister Sledge re-work. Not too many copies left of this actually, snap one up super quick if you find one.

Tracklist below for this mix (how tasty does that look..) and download available HERE.

1 – Fatback Band – Wicky Wacky (Simon Keat Edit)
2 – Backstrokin (Lovely Tintin Dub Edit)
3 – Cerrone – Give Me Love (Adam Sparkles Edit)
4 – Loleatta Holloway – Hit & Run (Scott M Rework)
5 – Ajello – Heels Of Love
6 – Ooft – Make U Mind
7 – Nicholas – All I Need
8 – Rubys Midnight Machine – Ecstatic Love Glow
9 – Ellxia – Soho Phaze (Faze Action Edit)
10 – Music (The Revenge Mix)
11 – Prince – I Wanna Be Your Lover (Eric Volta Bootleg)
12 – Cosmic Boogie – If You Really Want It
13 – Andrew Clarke – Head Up High
14 – Mr Fingers – Can You Feel It (John Daly Edit)
15 – Wish Feat Fonda Rea – Touch Me (All Night Long)

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First post – preview images are always big for first posts

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Edit-arama vol.2

Three, is the magic number.. Seriously buzzing at how much brilliant stuff is around at the minute, here are three superb re-works that have been doing the business for us recently.

Sunset beatdown gorgeousness from Russia’s Volta Cab, a tinker of the year thus far from the Psychemagik crew and an extended summer anthem by the relentless Touchsoul.

Wicked cuts, brilliant work, one and all.

Amalia – All The Funk I Need (Volta Cab remix)

Paula Cole – Feelin’ Love (Psychemagik Reem Mix)

^ seriously check this one out, freakin awesome stuff..

The Jones Girls – Knockin’ (Touchsoul’s Gettin’ Hard Edit)

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