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On the a-side, the duo cuts a disco Diamond to pieces with handclap slapback and string stabs a plenty.

Space Ranger is back on patrol. Moving house and a peaktime affair plus a couple of remixes coming from Moscow and Barcelona. This is a hell of a 12'!

Needwant call upon on the immaculate production skills of Bonar Bradberry for his second release on the label. Bonar's You Were Away EP is a journey through emotive disco dreams, with remixes from two rising producers Maxxi Soundsystem and Space Ranger.

'You Were Away' is a thought-provoking slice of day dreaming disco. Steady shakes and claps set the pace while sleek synth licks and emotive piano keys build the track into full momentum. Blissfully whispering through the melody is the dreamy vocal sung by Bonar himself, demonstrating his diverse artistic talents. The A-side also includes an instrumental version, that lets the music do the talking.

In den 80ern wurde DISCO FOX für eine bestimmte Stilrichtung innerhalb der elektronischen Tanzmusik verwendet. Aus dem frühen ITALO-DISCO ist später der sogenannte EURO-DISCO entstanden, wobei es sich hier um internationale
europäische Produktionen handelte, bei denen die Melodien weniger sphärisch sind. Zusammengestellt sind hier seltene Extended - und Remix - Versionen, die zum Teil noch nie auf CD veröffentlicht wurden. Die Revolution geht weiter...

Shir Khan & Exploited reveal the second chapter of their infamous Black Jukebox series dipping their toes into the world of disco edits. Contributions from Gomma's best kept secret Mercury and Exploited label regulars Homework. 4 shameless disco house reworks presented in a nicely recut fashion reminiscent of Wolf&Lamb, Soul Clap or Tiger&Woods. People who have been digging the Black Jukebox series include Solomun, Soul Clap, Axel Boman, A-Trak, Round Table Knights, Jazzanova, Jesse Rose, Trickski, Catz N'Dogs, Oliver$, Ewan Pearson, Till Von Sein and many more.

Second release on the wonderful 'Supafrico Records' digs up and dusts off four more mega-rare nuggets of superb Afro funk. First up is the excellent Afro Disco groove of Kabbala's 'Ashewo Ara', a lost gem originally released back in '82 on tiny UK independent Red Flame and now featuring highly on many collectors' wants lists. Next is Buari's 'I'm Ready', a chunk of pure dancefloor dynamite with a driving disco groove and great funky synths, taken from the Ghanian singer and percussionist's awesome 1979 'Disco Soccer' LP. On the flip we get the mega-rare and totally essential 'Body & Soul', a magnificent 10 minute mid-tempo Afro workout recorded in 1980 by Nigerian funkster William Onyeabor. Last up is a great extended edit of the Ashantis' brilliant funky bubbler 'Everybody's Groove' with its floor-filling groove and wicked vocals. These lovingly remastered rarities sound better than ever making this EP a must for anyone with a taste for those incredible funky Afro grooves.

If ever there were more committed and fervent neighbours within the house and disco community today, then House of Disco Records would be flying the flag loud and high in the front garden for all to see.

Rare soulful disco funk from 1982 with JR's Machine, and 1981 with One On One

More Berlin, less Monacco. That's the ethos of the new Max Essa project, Jan Ken Po: Less sun, less sea, yachts and money; more twilight hour, basement clubs, up-tempo rhythms and dance floor politics.

Promo only ! 2 tracker

We're proud present the inaugural message from the world of Valley Sound. Valley Sound is new label put together by a few old heads. Our aim is merely act as a vehicle for the lovely music that comes our way. Puller Productions are Stevie Kotey & Damien Manestar a team brought together by the complete coincidence of moving next door to each other. Damien a synth programmer and all round genius with a love of Fusion and Progressive rock music. He is also the originator of 'Never the Machine' a fusion band with which he plays the meanest Hammond organ. With that in mind they embarked on a journey create some dance floor heat.

'Sentimental Feelings' went all around studio when Damien first hit the notes on the DX synth. It's like you've already heard this classic before as the production (mainly midi based machines) is spot on for the retro 'ye old house' sound Mums & Dads used to dance too. A bass line from New York, Strings from Detroit and Piano's from any major city in the UK circa 1988.

We gave Ray Mang the task of remixing 'Sentimental Feelings'. His credentials as super producer are known across the globe with countless projects for labels like U STAR, DFA, NOID and his own Fiasco. He delivered a mind blowing deep remix a real killer! The angelic pianos of 'For Ava' go down a more emotional route. Warm pads create a sunny outlook across the valley. Man of the moment Mark E provides yet another amazing remix. We love Mark's stripped down take of 'For Ava' he adds layer upon layer to create a monster as we get Sedna (The goddess of the ocean) deep.

Reaching the age of twenty and barely legal, "Cabin Fever" presents this mysterious e.p from downtown Miami. And what better way to end the year than with these super funky, slow-mo funk infused house jams that are sure to bring some sunshine onto the dancefloor!

Brand new house rework of Chic !

Balearic classic alert !!! The sought after epic La Version Française of Chris Rea's 'Josephine' from 1988

Ditongo is Batongo's alias for disco editing, less obscure, more groovy.
Not much is to be known about Batongo, previously an active euro dance producer who released a bunch of hits in the nineties. 10 years ago, after a traumatic experience he escaped in Perù and retired from the music business, during this years, on his spare time he made a lot of music, not meant for the public, just for himself. Now he is still in Perù, not willing to move back to Europe but barely broke, he sold us the rights on his entire collection of unreleased recordings with condition of not revealing his real identity.
We will unveil a series of EPs ranging from obscure deep to psychedelic disco.

The most beautiful House Music Tracks you can find all in this double CD !!! 24 House Tracks as Sak Noel, R.I.O., Tom Boxer, Tom Hangs, Frankie Knuckles..... in UNMIXED & EXTENDED Original Versions - Cult CD for the DJ's !!!

Includes Mirage Remix of Indeep's post-disco classic "Last Night a DJ Saved My Life", plus Nancy Martin's 1982 track "Can't Believe".

DISCO PARADISE FROM REBIRTH

Kiwi producer Raw Sugar returns to the Gazeebo imprint with the Disco Land EP, following his debut Women Of The Ghetto 12" from earlier this year. The title track is sprawled across the A-Side, with the most languid of tempos allowing all manner of bells and effects to swirl in and around the lolloping beats in a hazy fashion. The end result is damn near hypnotizing. This shares a side of wax with the decidedly more uptempo "I Wanna Give You My Love", which boasts some burning late night chord stabs, cleverly arranged vocal grunts and a slinky bass line. Flip over for a chunky remix from Mr Gazeebo himself, who turns "Disco Land" into a near nine minute funk-fuelled odyssey!

Not much is to be known about Batongo, previously an active euro dance producer, released a bunch of hits in the nineties. 10 years ago, after a traumatic experience he escaped in Perù and retired from the music business, during this years, on his spare time he made a lot of music, not meant for the public, just for himself. Now he is still in Perù, not willing to move back to Europe but barely broke, he sold us the rights on his entire collection of unreleased recordings with condition of not revealing his real identity.
We will unveil a series of EPs ranging from obscure deep to psychedelic disco, here's the first one, EL PRIMERO... as he calls it.

For his discographic debut Degustibus has chooses to release Gin Sonic, a tune made by Rubini, an italian artist workin and livin between Venice and Berlin.
Gin Sonic is a classy old-school track, made in Berlin but dreamed in a synthy-outerspace. Circular bassline swim in a invincible funky-beat and crush against a wall of synth providing you a sure dancefloor-filler.
In addition they commissioned a remix from Berlin-legend DJ Filippo "Naughty" Moscatello. He made 2 versions, impossible to choose the better they included both in the release.
Remix 1 is a dubby-hypno ride with a moroder-like dizzy bassline.

Killer Fusion tune by the Kham Lingtsam Band on Elevator People!!

Emanating from Japan, and discovered by Erid D (of RUB 'N TUG fame)
These Re-edit masterclasses would never have gotten outside of their native market. Luckily a helping hand from one of NYC's most hyped party throwers has guaranteed a wider audience !

All the COMBI's so far have sold out in a matter of days and are now exchanging hands for silly money

This release has another glorious duo of obscure but super high quality dancefloor friendly edits

He's been called the baron of the beats, a knight of life, the life of the night, or even occasionally plain Mike Gamwell, To you and I though, he is only Knightlife.

He's Cutters Records' secret weapon and he's back with the 3rdtome in his royal club catalogue, Serves You Right / Otherway.

'He mentioned he was a house head, something about being old school...'

Henry Maldonado knows a thing or two about dance music. Having made his mark in the 90s on Strictly Rhythm and MAW, the New York native more recently delved into disco endeavors, both as one-half of Native Underground on Wurst and Under the Shade, and also solo as Son of Sound on Tirk, and now Mystery Meat.

Russian cool cat Sportloto (AKA Andrey Rublev) is making quite a name for himself in the remix realm.

We play tribute to legendary Giorgio Moroder's 1979 classic and seminal Italo-
Synth-Disco tune with our Italian Connec#on remix package. The original is
taken from the album with the same name released on Casablanca Records
which also features I Wanna Rock You. Moroder's career spans over ve
decades star#ng in the sixtees. He is a three-#me Oscar-winning and two-#me
Grammy award- winning record producer, songwriter and performer (Top
Gun, Flashdance, Midnight Express). He is also known for working with ar#sts
like, Donna Summer, David Bowie, Freddie Mercury. We can write many pages
with interes#ng stu around his work, but this release is about the remixes.

Redux kick off 2011 with an absolutely superb debut release from White Elephant - a super limited 10" only release of rare Balearic bliss !
White Elephant are Benjamin Smith (Smith & Mudd) and Jim Baron and Chris Todd (Crazy P), so expectations for the collaboration were more than met when they delivered this sublime cut.

On the flip, Merc supremo Mark E expertly reinterprets the stunning A Side with one of his best remixes to date, keeping the vibe or the original intact, but taking it into solid, floor-shaking beatdown house territory.

Limited reissue of this ultra-rare Loft classic from 1979. Though Edgar Winter was an artist more known for his jazz, blues and rock work, a collaboration with Ne w York's disco uber-producer Tom Moulton produced this stunning result. As well as being championed by David Mancuso at his legendary Loft parties this was picked up by Italy's Cosmic scene and for good reason - the instrumental particularly is a disco masterclass with rough chunky basslines, super-funky timbales, wicked choppy guitar riffs, crazy synthesizers and of course the unforgettable 'woo's all in the mix creating pure dancefloor mayhem. Don't sleep!

The first liaison of those two guys might be entitled as a generation clash.

Young gun 'Kitt Bang' became a famous Munich resident DJ in the past 10 years for instance at the famous Zombocombo freaktheatre.

Limited remastered reissue of the hugely in demand 12' release of Pedestrians' super phat slice of Balearic grooviness 'Commuter Fantasy'. Massive on the Cosmic scene after being championed by DJs Daniel Baldelli and Beppe Loda, this record is extremely hard to get hold of in the original and commands super-high prices in internet auctions. Despite being created by successful UK pop production duo Swain and Jolley, this only ever came out as a limited 12' in Canada never getting a US or UK release but its Italo-esque slow-building dreamily insistent sound has secured it a dedicated following amongst discerning disco and Balearic lovers since. Essential!

Persnickety Sounds is here to funk-ti-fy your world!

In this era of Nü-Disco, Space Disco, Cosmic Disco, Disco House and shit, there must be a beacon of quality to light the way and lead the faithful back to a place where good grooves matter and realness is holding court.

Let the labels fall and just get it movin'.

Re Funk Explosion is the third Gimme! Gimme! release featuring amazing edits by the Italian DJ Belabouche. His work received critical acclaim on soundcloud and this selection presents pure dancefloor disco dynamite!

new Bomb from Bob vs Sophie !!