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2000Black returns with a new 12' from Shokazulu, two excellent instrumentals. Both laced with the throwback flavour this label is famous for. Shokazulu's last release sold out fast, so get in quick this is sure to be another hit!

SEAHAWKS remix and John Talabot Midnight Club RevisionF3 are three brothers from Tel Aviv, who sent 'Lonely Land' in a bottle from Israel that somehow found its way to us. Are they triplets We don't know. Are they ancient Balearic overlords, risen from their white sand graves Or are they cosmic kids, a new generation of vagabond disco trippers taking to the future by way of the past - we can't say. Have they produced a sparkling slice of sunrise disco house We'd like to think so.

'Lonely Land' is a filtering, chugging swing for the lovers, and F3's debut. The ClubMod002 release includes remixes by John Talabot and Seahawks and is set for release on February 27.

DESSERT ISLAND DISCS first release features Australian phenomenon HMC in his edit guise of LATE NITE TUFF GUY.
A fear of flying has kept him firmly grounded otherwise he would be touring the world constantly. His early work on the JUICE and DIRTY HOUSE labels are prized among many of the world's top dj/producers including LUCIANO, HARRI, OPTIMO, and RICHIE HAWTIN to name just a few.
He announced his return to producing with a killer edit of Roland Clark track 'I Get Deep' in 2007 on the label T-BOTS ALL NITE HOUSE PARTY under his new pseudonym of LATE NITE TUFF GUY. This is the first of many releases on DESSERT ISLAND DISCS featuring the little maestro from Australia. Stay Tuned.

[aB] CD 1-2 | You Got Me Dancing [Joey Negro Edit] - Full Body


[aE] CD 1-5 | Disco Discouraged [Joey Negro Edit] - anctuary







[bA] CD 2-1 | Sho' Is Good [Joey Negro Edit] - Sir James Randolph

Pepe Deluxé are the brainchild of Jari Salo aka James Spectrum and his white tuxedo'ed musical partner Paul Malmström, a prodigiously talented multi-instrumentalist residing in his penthouse apartment in Manhattan. and attempts to brew a cup of perfect coffee.

Keeping the Love alive, the second release on Eddie C's Red Motorbike imprint was recorded days before Eddie left the mountains of Canada for Berlin.
Dane of Common Edit fame joins as the Torpoons on the A-side for a raw and moody up-tempo disco/house affair.
'7 Inches of Lover' Koosh delivers a west-coast down-beat music box and scratch-guitar chugger for the b-side.

Pressed in Hamburg.
Stamped personally by Eddie in Berlin. Limited numbers!

What does flipping through record bins sound like

Still Going's first release on their newly minted label aims to find out.
Opening with snippets of sonic whispers, instruments are soaked in super glue and thrown at the wall.
What sticks All of it, even as some of the elements ooze down or soar upwards. The guitar, which sounds like it was cut out of a Manuel Göttsching jam session, manages to do both simultaneously, giving new meaning to the word "riffing". Beeps, buzzes, and saw wave hooks impart a seemingly random ebb and flow, but the steady punctuation of it all lays bare a sense of purpose. Before you know it, each effect is in conversation, all at once, like the sound of the crowd of a bar building up throughout an evening.

And who's the throaty femme singing on the track Why, none other than Lizzy Yoder, she of the infamous Fischerspooner. Just when the song peaks en masse, piano, whirling around a chandelier, takes the party outside, where they pass out in the street. Rock & roll meets techno rebound meets dinner theatre—and there's an unflagging, unchanging house beat keeping it all together.

Hear it all at once.

Extremely welcome reissue for one of the absolute holy grails of the rare groove scene. Ultra-rare and super-expensive in it's original 1980 release, this incredibly sexy tune from Chicago band Starvue fully deserves its status as a true soul anthem. Produced by The Chi-lites' Clarence Johnson, 'Body Fusion' never lets up the dancefloor pressure from beginning to end - the wonderful fusion of achingly beautiful strings, loping bass, flutes, the coolest fingersnaps and of course the mesmerising vocals of Tony Hicks combine to create an intensely emotional and rolling momentum that builds and builds. A masterpiece of soul history that still sounds as fresh as ever - essential!

Limited reissue of this highly sought-after Krautrock masterpiece from German musical genius Richard Schneider Jr. Also featuring the mighty Wolfgang Maus on bass, this LP takes you on an amazing journey through luscious pulsating psychedelic soundscapes providing a great showcase for Mr Schneider's exceptional skills on a huge range of instruments including Glockenspiel, Acoustic 12 String guitar, Synthesiser, Tubular Bells, Tambourine and Cowbells. Includes the crazily ethereal 'High'; the wonderful 'Hello Beach Girls' which sounds like the best beach trip ever - meaningless giggling lyrics on a lazy day in a paradise; the gorgeous acid-tinged 'Visions'; the more up-tempo groover 'Samba Session' plus the achingly beautiful synth symphony 'Crazy World'. One of the super-rare Cosmic/Balearic holy grails, this whole album is a pure aural treat - lie back and enjoy the ride!

Not necessarily back by popular demand or anything - however, we're on a mission none the less to disprove the theory that sequels can't ever live up to originals with part 2 of "I Love You .. But I've Chosen Disco"

dave allison, weekend express, dj total m, and suonho comprise this outing's roster and comes complete on tasty orange vinyl (actual picture above). same deal as always - limited pressings, no digital release, etc etc.

Three years in the making, Symmetry - the project that began as a conceptual tangent between Glass Candy, Chromatics, Mirage, & Desire's more abstract sides - finally sees its release this month. Themes For An Imaginary Film is two hours of claustrophobic cinematic bliss compiled for Painters, Writers, Photographers, Designers, Cruisers, Night Walkers, & Dreamers. Adrenaline drips thick like syrup across a horizon where memories become blurred scenes behind the windshield & yesterday's faces fade as the road strobes to aggressive rhythms. Romantic melodies linger in the rearview mirror as chimera bells saturate the electric fog that's slowly rolling in.

Info : Absolutely one of THE best 80s Modern
Soul track, direct from Miami, marvelous tune !!

Em Vee's on-point Lumberjacks In Hell imprint reaches its fifth release with another three disco edits par excellence. This time around, it's the turn of Germany's Frico and British edit specialist Mannmademusic to supply the goods. Frico dominates the A-Side with his fast-moving edit of Coffee's "Casanova", teasing out its vocal hook with an extended piano build-up. On the B-Side Manmademusic offers two cuts; first up is "Circles", a guitar led stomper with loose percussion, which serves as the perfect contrast to the slow moving, symphonic disco strings and syrupy vocals of "Easy Lover". Another winner for what is surely one of the more discerning disco labels out there.

Info : Reissue of the Mega rare 45s issued
During 87 ( as told by Willie 'JUNEI' Lee ,
the Pharaos release is an illegal copy )

Info : Sandy Kerr is the daughter of the legendary
soul producer George Kerr

Info : Lee Roy Ward is a great singer from
The texas , this tracks was never released before
on vinyl

Info : Absolutely one of THE best 80s Modern
Soul 45s from England , two marvelous tunes !!

Two huge slices of the sound of the city of brotherly love re-edited to perfection by The Noodleman and re-edit king Todd Terje

Hitting the ground running in 2012 Ruben & Ra are taking a break from the studio for the first full artist release on Retrospective. Who's capable hands better to choose for this one than our in house hero Rayko After bringing Fil Lavin to the ever-growing Retrospective fold for RETRO005 - Soul Brother, featuring Ruben & Ra's Souled Out Dub, Rayko is back with a 4 tracker of edits, which are sure to please.

Shahi comes good once again with this peak-time 2011 house bomb sampling Delegation's late 70's disco classic

"The mark of a great DJ is one who knows that hip-hop came from disco. That is the truth of the matter..."
Johnny 'D' DeMairo has always been about disco. It was something that underpinned his seminal house label Henry Street Music, the imprint he set up with Tommy Musto in 1993.

Info : Funk Soul album from 1982
Issued originaly on T.S.O.B Records

More vinyl remixes from Psychemagik with the long awaited official 'Dancehall Days' remix sanctioned by Jack Hues from Wang Chung himself.
Jack liked Psychemagiks re-edit of Dance Hall Days so much he contacted the duo and offered them the parts for an official remix.
The result is a monster dancefloor friendly beast that is true to the original edit but with some extra magik! Limited edition white vinyl release limited to only 500 copies, don't sleep!

'Psychemagik stand out from the crowd with high production values and innate musicality. I usually find remixes tedious, but this takes you on some off-world journey - very cool.'
Jack Hues (Wang Chung)

The Future Disco series has become the essential collection for anyone with a house and disco musical obsession. The fifth volume: Downtown Express takes us on yet another journey into all the current must own dancefloor cuts. The limited samplers have become highly sought after collectors' items in their own right by taking key tracks from the albums and exclusively making them available on 12' vinyl.

We open up with Moon Boot's Off My Mind on the A side which has been tearing up dancefloors all over the world for the past month with it's infectious 80's groove and chopped up longing vocal.

As we flip over onto the B Side Metromony need no introduction having been nominated for a Mercury music award for their album 'The English Riviera'. Album track Corinne has been remixed by super producer Mario Basanov who has kept the song's structure intact but given the record a dancefloor vibe that will feel a natural choice for 4am.

Finally Something Happened is a huge looping disco cut reminiscent of the late nineties, Pitto's instrumental remix makes it unrelenting and very effective on the dancefloor with its big build ups and even bigger drops.

This sampler is strictly limited to 300 copies.

Fantastic Queen Constance double A-sided special featuring two of the best tracks ever released on this cult disco label, an offshoot of NYC's renowned P&P Records. Staying faithful to the translucent red vinyl of the 1979 original releases, this features on side A Kim Taylor's amazing lost disco funk gem 'Stump Your Feet & Dance'. Produced by NYC disco legend Peter Brown, this track is a surefire floor filler and features all the wonderful hallmarks of a classic P&P production - funky rhythm section, phat driving bass, screaming moogy synths and that feel-good disco party atmosphere that just makes you wanna 'Stump Your Feet & Dance'. On the flip is the equally awesome afro-disco stormer 'Licky', another ultra-rare Peter Brown creation. With its rocking female vocals, hot sax solos and some wildly groovy synth action, this is a wonderful slice of afro-american fusion that rocks any discerning dancefloor. Top quality release and with two top class tracks on one disc it's top value for money too!

DIE 80er REVOLUTION GEHT WEITER ... Der nicht abreißende Erfolg der Serie ZYX ITALO DISCO COLLECTION
und das gute Ergebnis dieser neuen 80s Revolution - Konzeption zwingt uns förmlich dazu, dieser Zielgruppe noch mehr "Futter" zu geben.

SOULSHARE001 & 002 sold out in one day, testimony to the quality of this new Birmingham Based Deep house and Reworks Label !
Here we have the equally impressive third release !
Founded by one of the UK's most respected underground DJ's and Producers - Dean 'Sunshine' Smith & curated from a 30 year plus collection of mind-blowing music and frontline DJing

Dean is a key member of the Garden Festival team out in Croatia, he can be found residing in the Sunshine season after season, where you can always find him sharing his warm & soulful selection

Here we have two more beautifully reworked classics

Welcome reissue for this super-rare space funk album from 1983, one of the holy grails of the Cosmic scene. Extremely expensive and hard-to-find in the original, this LP was created by legendary French producers Jean-Pierre Massiera and Bernard Torelli (listed here as Areisam and Bernie) and released on French la bel Savoir Faire. It is a superb example of the duo's innovative electronic disco madness, always pushing boundaries while remaining supremely funky. Stand-out tracks are the Italo classic 'Challenger' - heady synths, tough bass and astronaut vocals combine in a strange space odyssey; 'Cruisin', a superb electro-boogie style cut with a hypnotic driving bassline, and the fantastic 'On The Border', a tight funky percussive workout whipped by wild space-rock guitars. But as you would expect from the Massiera/Torelli trademark, all tracks are great and the LP a worthy addition to any self-respecting Italo / Cosmic collection.

BASIC FINGERS is a new label brought to you by the fine team over at GAMM !
After a couple big releases on Gamm Jazzy Jens now drops a huge soulful boogie EP on Basic Fingers. The first cut is a lovely rework of Mascara's "See You In LA" which features the amazing vocal chords of Luther Vandross. On the flip we find an uplifting disco/boogie cut that uses elements from our big boy Barry White. Its truly an amazing feelgood tune

The Mike Simonetti "edit dump" continues... In his grand tradition of another round from his vast "archive" (AKA his Itunes folder) of old (and some new) edits he has done over the years. The a-side is one of his floor fillers, a live version of one of his favorite songs
of all time, while the b-side takes it to the obscure side with a slow heavy burner you most definitely never heard before. (Mike has a notoriously sick record collection). Rounding out the 12" is an obscure track from a very popular new wave band of the 80s...
Edition of 300 copies.