Re Up my Bell

So the years almost out and 111 posts here at A.N.O.E. later, I got to thinking about which track I uploaded which outdoes the rest. Pretty mindless really and silly to try and compare such diverse items. Bottom line is one of my earliest posts (see here) gets played so often by me, it just had to be Madeline Bell's 'That's What Friends Are For' which I originally heard off Ivan Smaghe's 'Test 2' cd. I was using rapidshare at the time and a lot of people moaned, plus i reckon there's a lot more of u out here reading this blog these days. So if u didn't get it and don't have it, this absolutely essential bit of uplifting Disco Funk magic can not be passed by.

http://www.zshare.net/audio/madeline-bell-thats-what-friends-are-for-mp3.html

Meanwhile I'm dj'ing all night tomorrow night along with Dj Dexterity, should be good fun, I plan to lay down some real classic stuff, u know hit em where it hurts. Happy New Year to you all!!!!! see u on the other side. Thanks for all the support.

Movement In The City

Rashid Vally is well known in the South African music industry as being a tough customer. When I used to work for a local indie back in the nineties I'd often hear stories about how this guy would keep people waiting for days to see him, even if they had an appointment. The reason Mr. Vally is like this is because he is the outright owner of some of the most important jazz recordings to be made in South Africa. His Sun label boasted a roster that included Abdullah Ibrahim (Dollar Brand), Basil Coetzee and Pops Mohammed. He owns the recording 'Mannenberg' for instance, which is a pretty major thing. Over the years he has licensed his stuff to various people, most notably EMI, who have issued many of the Abdullah Ibrahim recordings, unfortunately in very cheap packaging and without much reverence in general. One of the most sought after albums that the Sun label ever release is Black Teardrops by Movement In The City. Rashid is the owner of a store in central Johannesburg called Kohinoor. Nowadays it's a pitiful shell of it's former self, but once upon a time it was a treasure trove of jazz, both local and international. In the early nineties it was not unusual to find multiple copies of John Coltrane's A Love Supreme, as if we were still living in the early sixties and the album had just been released. I used to find stuff like Albert Ayler at dirt cheap prices, Alice Coltrane's albums were a dime a dozen. Unfortunately too much of a good thing made me pretty blasé (also lots of strong weed made pretty blasé, to be honest) so I ended up selling a lot of that stuff, an act I now regret and have some difficulty living with. One of the things that Kohinoor often did was to dig stuff out of there store rooms and blow the minds of a few obsessed souls. One of the things that became abundantly available over the years was the albums Deeper In Black by Lionel Pillay and Black Teardrops by Movement In The City. I'll assume this happened when I was living out of town, if only to console myself due to the fact that I ended up paying a hundred rand for a copy. Not that that is really all that much money (most CD's in South Africa retail at about one hundred and eighty rand), but it was just the fact that I could have picked up like ten copies for the same amount if I had been in the store at the right time. The reason I ended up splashing out on a copy was because my friend Shaun had a copy in his shop and he told me that the one guy from Jazzanova had bought a whole stack of them when he was out here a few years ago. This intrigued me to the point that I gave in and ended up paying what is a pretty fair price considering. Today’s track is the first one on the album and is titled Lament. This album has never been issued on CD and this track pretty much rules. The line-up on the album includes Basil Coetzee and Pops Mohammed. - MKRGK.

http://www.zshare.net/audio/movement-in-the-city-lament-mp3.html

Slo Mo Afro

Early 80's band Allez Allez's classic track 'African Queen' got the ultra remix treatment by Quiet Village, who turned this New Wave, Afro tribute to Grace Jones into a slo mo Balearic unmeasurable force. I wanted to post the original by this Belgian outfit since i began A.N.O.E. but decided to hold back until now, though I'm not really sure why. The sultry vocals are by American vocalist Sarah Osbourne who would later marry Glenn Gregory of Heaven 17, though it didn't last all that long. 'African Queen' used to get a lot of floor time at the legendary U4 club in Vienna, according to Dorfmeister, around the time of cosmic, meets disco, meets Afrofunk. Interestingly Makrugaik, A.N.O.E's other contributor feels this is exactly where the current cosmic, slo mo disco scene is heading, i couldn't agree more. Once again i must urge regulars here who avoid my afro posts, not to ignore this number, you'd be missing out on some essential booty.

http://www.zshare.net/audio/allez-allez-african-queen-mp3.html

On Repeat...

When it comes to independent record labels, few can top the class, quality and forward thinking of Ubiquity. I find their releases in general intriguing and timeless; if I miss out on buying something when it comes out due to poor cash flow or something, I'm always sure that by the time I get round to picking it up, it'll remain a very worthy buy. It took me more than several months to pick up the fifth volume of their brilliant Rewind compilation and, as I expected, it's got some real gems on it. The concept behind the series is pretty simple, artists cover a track that inspired them, this time round the entire collection is all exclusive to the release and it has been a real struggle to decide which of the tracks to upload. Black Shakespeare's cover of Fleetwood Mac's 'Dreams' is a highlight, as is Nuspirit Helsinki's fantastic 'Underworldy' cover of Led Zep's 'No Quarter', even J Davey's take on Frank Zappa's 'Dirty Love' is great fun. Of course with cover versions it's always fun to see where the artist takes the track, but with the Henrik Shwarz's cover of french percussionist Guem's 'L'abeille', i have no real idea of what exactly he's done with it, since i dont know the original. All i do know, is it's a beautiful, minimal, dubby and very very deep piece of delicate electronica. Henrik, over the last two years has been a bit of a big deal on the underground, his hit 'Leave My Head Alone' appealed to many diverse dj's, the thing is he is pretty versatile, I even have a kind of twisted edit/remake of Kajagoogoo's 'Too Shy' by him, somewhere in my collection. Check out this track and certainly check Rewind 5, worth every penny.

http://www.zshare.net/audio/henrik-schwarz-labeille-mp3.html

Love to the World

Merry Xmass to all of u who celebrate it, hope u all get your hearts desires. Before I go off to family gatherings, I thought I'd do a quick post pressie for those of u who might be checking out the blogs over the next few days. This is the Mr K edit of LTD's 'Love to the World', a dramatic Mizell Brothers production with a timeless message that really fits the day, and one of my favorite chorus'. Danny Krivit extended the break and added the prayer intro from the album, of course Danny is one of the ultimate Edit Kings, his choices as a selector and editor are always on the money, unsurpasable really. Have a great day all ya'll.

http://www.zshare.net/audio/ltd-love-to-the-world-mr-k-edit-mp3.html

When is an Edit not an Edit

Before Disco Edits re-surfaced as the next big thing, Noid records (owned by the Idjut Boys) were amongst the Nu Disco avante garde, releasing records that developed on the Disco House idea, they took it further, dubbed it silly, gave it a raw, let's say Punkier energy similar to the Disco Not Disco scene of the late 70's, only more modern and melodic by amongst other things removing the slick, sampled and ultra compressed sounds of the 90's filter house idea. Act's like the Idjuts, Faze Action, Akwaaba and more created a kind of furry beardy Disco, though to give it an exact name might be rather difficult. I mean honestly Disco in it's many forms really never disappeared, but when Noid and others began to slice, dice and dub-out crate finds for newer dance floors (and didnt call them edits), things would go in a whole new direction, a direction which is really very popular again now with Todd Terje, Lindstrom, Prins Thomas, Blackbelt Anderson amongst others, albeit spacier and less sampled based. For me the king of this mid to late 90's Disco offshoot, but more like a king amongst kings, would have to be Ray Mang (Raj Gupta), his 'Number 1' and 'Orchestral Manouvres' were massive for many, me included. Eskimo picked up Ray Mang's 'Mangled' LP from Noid and re-released it in 2002. Listen to 'Not so Fantastic' to hear Mang's influence on the current wave, but if u don't get it, at least you'll have this really brilliant number in your collection of mp3's. The crazy breaks, breakdowns & scratches on it are almost as fantastic as the beats and funky guitar work. Jeez u certainly have been getting a lot of Disco goodies from us haven't u??

http://www.zshare.net/audio/ray-mang-not-so-fantastic-mp3.html

Ear Drum's

French duo Outlines' big hit 'Just a lil lovin' was always going to be tough to follow; a very bright catchy but also masterful piece of Parisian jazz dance which took the underground scene by storm. It could easily have turned into a 'one hit wonder' sort of situation for them, if it weren't for the really incredible 'Listen To The Drums', which has recently followed it, a track which I think is actually far better than 'Lovin', it's no less catchy but certainly more edgy, more interesting & weightier, even deeper. Outline's production & Irfane Khan - Acito's vocals are superb; creamy modern jazz bop & pop combine to create this class act. U can find 'Drums' released on Sonar Kollektiv with a slick monster midtempo tech jazz version done by Jazzanova on the A side. Oh plus if u didn't know, the top dollar horn parts are by Fat Freddy's Drop, a big fave here at ANOE

http://www.zshare.net/audio/outlines-listen-to-the-drums-mp3.html

Wolf!

Massive Jazz Bomb Alert!!! I make a lot of mix tapes and compilations for friends and this slice of raw originality features regularly on mixes for new people in my life. Drummer Al Foster's 'Night of the Wolf' is a funky, breaks heavy, afro-esque, quirky, jazz animal which was originally released on Roulette in 1975. Somehow it always makes me think of South Africa and the very long journey between Cape Town and Johannesburg by car, in particular the very deserted bits between small towns in the Karoo, musically it perfectly describes this arid, rabid and free place. Al's beats are mesmerizing, his talent for fluid, charismatic drumming is very well known and he's worked with the very best. This song rates as an all time great for me, and is simply unmissable.

http://www.zshare.net/audio/al-foster-band-night-of-the-wolf-mp3.html

Black Heart

Disco and edit fanatics, trainspotters and dancers jam into Manchester's Electric Chair on a regular bases to wiggle their bums to the excellent talent that guests there, as well as regular boys Unabombers. Apparently this year, they moved on from being top compilers, dj's and remixers and took on producing as well, creating some lovely original stuff too. Their Elektrons release on Genuine Records, 'The Get Up EP', produced with Dave Jones from Phuture Lounge is an instant classic and is one of the most played 12" I bought this year. 'Sunshine Love' is a beautiful Soul Disco number with tweaked elements, honey dripping vocals, heartfelt hooks and funky beats. If u don't have this in your collection, try and find it, the flipside funk tracks are equally worth their weight and i reckon this will become a bit of a collectors item in a few seconds.

http://www.zshare.net/audio/elektrons-sunshine-love-mp3.html

I had planned to list off the years best releases, but I can't be asked, though I'd love to know what all rocked your world's in the last 12 months, in case i missed something and should get it. So how about posting your fave 12"/track and LP in the comments, I'd really appreciate it if u would do that for me.... come on only takes a minute.

Parasites Ate My Edit

Fad Gadget's 80's proto - electro 'Love Parasite' gets stripped down and dubbed out by Your Favourite Dancer (aka Steve Kotey) for BigBear, one of the Bear Entertainment offshoots. The Ep also contains a great edit of Gary's Gang's 'Keep on Dancing' amongst other Idjut Boys styled fun. There's a second EP in the series from which I'll post something in the future. I just love this discofied edit (OK so when do i post stuff i don't love - I should just stop saying that), I can see myself doing a goth dance with bleached white hair (no wonder I've gone bald) and yucky pointy shoes on a beer stained wooden dance floor and yet the mirror ball spinning above my head adds pixel love vibes and colour to this future retro memory. Frank Tovey's steel grey voice is absent from this mix, so u get a picture of him instead.

http://www.zshare.net/audio/your-favourite-dancer-love-para-extension-mp3.html

Rows and floes of angel hair...

Mr. Keyz recently mentioned that I am obsessed with Balearic and I have to tell you, it's true! I am obsessed with it as a concept, beyond even music, I mean. I associate the Balearic vibe with being a hippy type who's all laid back about stuff and wishes they lived in a grass hut on a tropical beach. I reckon this is a fair association after seeing More by Barbet Schroeder, because Ibiza really was all about being a hippy about stuff, once upon a time. The crazy part is when someone tries to define what Balearic music is, it's really easy to irritate a club loving Manc by proclaiming that such and such a track is Balearic, when in fact the cannon of Balearic music states that the song in question does not meet the criteria according to the Great Charter of 1990, etc, etc. To me it symbolises dance music that is beyond the rules of what we've managed codify on dance floors across the world. When I was a young man Balearic meant one thing and that was freedom. I thought that Saint Etienne was Balearic and I still do. It has been pointed out that only stuff that Alfredo played could really be called Balearic. But the point is that Alfredo seemed to be saying that it was okay to play stuff that was just... cool... and fun... and people are... like... all happy. Both of these tracks are Balearic according to a shop in Manchester, so if you have any complaints refer them to the Vinyl Exchange. The first track is by Joni Mitchell. Mr Keyz lent me a documentary this weekend about Joni's life. Not a lot of people know how great Joni is. There was a song about her on Daydream Nation by Sonic Youth called Hey Joni. I never really understood why until I read somewhere that Thurston and Lee had been greatly influenced by her need to find new chords which resulted in her constant use of alternate tunings. Being a former worshiper at the altar of The Youth I've always been aware of how important alternate tunings are to the sound of Sonic Youth. The thing is that when you actually listen to Joni explain how she came to the point where she started retuning her guitar you realise that you're listening to someone explain how they were forced to find a new language of sound to express what was going on inside their mind. The track Dreamland is from the album (Don Juan's Reckless Daughter) that caused Charles Mingus to call Joni up and request that they work together. Yup, he called her. This track could be classed as world music, which some people credit Joni with inventing. The next song is a really interesting because besides being a Balearic classic (according to the shop in Manchester) it sounds a whole lot like another Joni Mitchell composition, Woodstock. Joni actually missed Woodstock because it would have been too difficult to get her into the festival to perform. So she watched it on TV and wrote the awesome anthem that was covered by Cosby, Stills, Nash and Young on Deja Vu. This track sounds like a tribute to that song to a certain extent, with some nifty synth work at the end. We are stardust, we are golden. Ventura highway in the sunshine, MKRGK.

http://www.zshare.net/audio/joni-mitchell-dreamland-mp3.html

http://www.zshare.net/audio/golden-avatar-time-for-going-home-mp3.html

Buy of the Year

I'm not entirely sure when this Moxie edit came out, but i only landed a copy early on in the year and it's remained the buy of the year for me. Dilated Choonz popped it up sometime in July but I couldn't resist putting it up here on A.N.O.E. also, plus it's got 'Lovin' It' on the flip which may just be the track of the year for me, albeit an edit of an amazing crate find. Moxie is a Dutch label and they surely know their sh*t, I have managed to land 4 or 5 of their releases and hold each one close to my heart, and of course my not being a real expert on Disco, I just don't know who did the originals of most of them. 'Run Disco Run' is just awesome with tension building orchestral moves pulling u one way and mellow key stabs pulling u in the other and dubby vocals, like thick clotted cream, spread on top, this track is surely one of the ultimate disco edit sandwiches of all time, certainly, as i said, of my year. Drop it at midnight on NYE and see 'em go wild.

http://www.zshare.net/audio/moxie-edit-run-disco-run-mp3.html

Maths on Sunday

Fairly recently i managed to get my hands on the Raremix 12" by Morgan Geist, which features, I guess, rare remixes done by Mr Geist of CiM, Reflection, Daniel Wang & Owusu & Hannibal available through the ever reliable Environ. The remix of Reflection's 'Cube Loop' is really beautiful late night listening electronica, it's warm, bleepy, deeply mathematical and strangely touching. It originally came out in 1997 on Clear Records, written by the Taniguchi brothers. Unfortunately my copy has some major surface noise right across all four tracks, I've cleaned it up a bit but it's still there to some degree, so you'll have to hunt down your own copy.

http://www.zshare.net/audio/reflection-cube-loop-morgan-geist-rmx-mp3.html

I also wanted to mention that those of u who are regulars here may have noticed there is now another contributors name in the top right hand corner. I spend most of Saturday with our new A.N.O.E. man Makrugaik, recording some of his upcoming posts and I'm delighted to say this Balearic obsessed individual will be handing over some truly interesting, wonderful, very rare and diverse items. It should also be said that I've specifically asked him to add to the mix of genre's here because his focus is a little different to mine, there wouldn't be much point in getting another me to upload goodies would there? Plus his collection is mighty fine. So please all give him a warm welcome when he drops his first post sometime this week and let us know what u think of his stuff. Personally I think you're all in for a major treat.

Tough Cover

It's a tough job to take on a stone cold classic like 'Feeling Good', especially since say with the Nina Simone take, she just can not be beat, and then do something rather good with it. Will Holland's Quantic Soul Orchestra manage very well on their version, polishing it further with lush orchestration and giving it brushes of breezy latin flavour. I love Alice Russell and her vocals on the track are really quiet original, she kind of holds back, containing her energy for this spirited free living anthem, almost as if she's just past shouting about how great she feels and is simply enjoying the realisation, the moment. The rest of the album 'Pushin' On', available through Ubiquity, is really good too, I prefer Will's Quantic stuff, his 'Mishaps Happening' album is just incredible, where here with his Orchestra things are generally a little more raw and heavier on the funk. They are undoubtedly a very talented bunch and under Mr Holland's direction they really hit some very high highs. Check out 'Feeling Good' and um feel good!

http://www.zshare.net/audio/qso-feeling-good-mp3.html

Chicago get's the Edit

Head on over to Dilated Choonz, immediately (though I'm sure most of u go there often, its one of my daily stop overs) and find a really great edit of Chicago's 'Street Player', yeah the number Kenny Dope sampled for his major hit 'The Bomb'. Kevvy K and his beat selectors always deliver the goods, this probably hard to find edit, is great fun and nothing like you'd imagine from Chicago, really nothing at all. I just love what Kevvy has to say about what the band later turned into. oooooh u gotta have this item. Also dont miss the Rahaan edit of Muzik which is available on one of my favourite's Jisco Music, excellent stuff.

Soccio Dunnit!

My buddy Chris very kindly gave me vinyl copies of Canadian born Gino Soccio's album's 'S Beat' & 'Face to Face' for which i am truly grateful, what a kind man! 'Face to Face' (1982) is by far the better of the two albums, jammed to the hilt with infectious dance floor cuts. The classic 'It's Alright' is on there, as is 'Remember', but the track that's getting daily spins from me is 'Who Dunnit?'. This track influences and is influenced by an emerging new wave scene and is perfectly merged with the burning embers of Disco in it's final burn (until of course it rises again later). The bass line is all Human League, the guitar riff stolen directly from 'Funky Town', but it's got some classic original vocoder action and lovely girl vocals too, laid over some icy background keys. At 120 bpm's the track will fit effortlessly into a phat electro set being both nostalgic and futuristic, it's all sweetness and ice. Yummy!

http://www.zshare.net/audio/gino-soccio-who-dunnit-mp3.html

Hidden in The Light

Deep techno-soul sounds of Detroit re-infiltrated dance floors this and last year and it's influence on different genre's has certainly been profoundly felt. On this Panoptikum remix of The Invisible Session's epic Spiritual Jazz number 'Till The End' , the blend heightens the underlying sense of impending Apocalypse and kicks in that extra groove needed for dancers. The track is so much more dense than an Ame track say, because it retains much of the organic richness of the Jazz original, plus the vocal by Jeni B just adds to the multi layered depth and atmosphere of the whole thing. There's a moment near the end of the track when things seem to go off into a near frenzy inducing crescendo, it's the sort of thing u want to hear on a very loud system, with an up for quality kind of crowd flickering in the strobes about u, I know i do. Actually the more I listen to this the more I love it. The very modern Italian label Schema (co owned by Nicola Conte) is responsible for this release, they put out top class music all the time and are worth checking out be it in one of their many great compilations, albums or 12" releases.

http://www.zshare.net/audio/the-invisible-session-till-the-end-panoptikum-remix-mp3.html

Hot Funk Lava

While I'm handing over some funk for ya, I thought I'd point the way to this exceptional bunch of Staton Island, Afro-Soul Funksters The Budos Band and their sharp stripped down and mesmerising self titled album on the very cool Daptone Records. Undoubtedly influenced by label mates Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings, The Sugarman 3 & The Mighty Imperials, The Budos Band do their particularly cosmic take on raw afro soul with a kind of deep nostalgic timing and lush orchestration, yet there is an undeniable energy and enthusiasm about their instrumental work. Of course the erupting volcano on the album sleeve appropriately captures the essence of what's going on here, deep heat rising to the surface, exploding above the horizon, smouldering and singeing everything it touches in great hypnotic paths of blackened hot lava. 'Eastbound' is one of my favorite's from this great album, check it out.

http://www.zshare.net/audio/the-budos-band-eastbound-mp3.html

Nassau's Orgone Soul

The Beginning of The End's one big disco hit 'Funky Nassau pt 1' is of course a major classic, the band originated from Nassau where it's three Munning brothers' father owned the famed 50's & 60's night club 'The Cat & The Fiddle'. Henry Stone of TK Disco discovered them in Nassau and recorded the track for his label but leased it to Atlantic in 1971 after which it jumped to no 15 on the Billboard charts and sold millions of copies world wide. It's essentially a kind of black tropical disco init ? It's also recently been beautifully covered by Orgone, the band behind Plantlife, Breakestra & The Pharcyde amongst others. Their Afro funk take gets a really lovingly extended edit by edit king Danny Krivit himself, plus on the flipside are two exquisite organic funky items called 'Hambone' & 'Sophisticated Honky'... mmmmmm solid groove's baby. The edit is put out by the very lovely Nuffrope Records, trust me beat hunters, this is absolutely essential, hunt it down and get yourself a copy, it comes very highly recommended by yours truly; in a year of killer edits this one funks high up in the top ten.

http://www.zshare.net/audio/orgone-funky-nassau-krivit-edit-mp3.html

Variations

When the whole broken beats thing started up, it seemed to me to be really exciting, possibly revolutionary, certainly something new, even if new can really only mean a new way of processing the old. Now that the scene has been going quiet awhile, it seems to have settled down a little or even a lot depending on your views, almost as if it has become a lot more predictable, which is to be expected. That said there are always going to be artists working within any genre doing things that push and pull at the boundaries, sometimes really radically, causing fractured fragments to grow roots and develop into new musical forms. Today's two posts represent very different ends of the genre, both are kind of newer takes and developments of the organic Nu Jazz'ish, Soul, Funk, fire of West London's original Bruk Sound.

Circus are from Austria and infuse this Broken Beats number 'I Know U' with Electro Old Skool synths that will rock any discerning crowd and features London based mc & vocalist Lyric L and Mc Motet. Lyrical L of course featured on that great Seji anthem 'Loose Lips'. The track is available through Sunshine Enterprises who have been putting out some really fantastic tunes lately and has an awesome remix of their track 'Signs' by Inverse Cinematics on the flip.

http://www.zshare.net/audio/circus-i-know-u-mp3.html

Just One is Justin Chapman, one half of Atlanta deep house outfit Kemetic Just. He just put out his debut solo album on the great Neroli called 'Love Music' and it's jammed with his take on Hip Hop and Broken Beats and is one of my favorite albums of the year. Just One's music is very deep and spacey, very organic and futuristic. I love his beats which are complex and often sound a little offbeat until they start to make sense in the scheme of the given track. On 'Inbetween', one of the album's highlights Rich Medina steps in to do one of his insightful spoken word monologues over some wonderful modern shuffling far out grooves. The Album also features System 22, Kevin Hyman, Malena Perez, DJ Emerald, Dj Kemit and others, it's a real grower with a very deep soul.

http://www.zshare.net/audio/just-one-inbetween-mp3.html

Re-United

I recently got re-united with a very good buddy, I haven't seen in years. Weirdly someone mentioned to him that Another Night on Earth was worth checking out on a Dj History Forum and my buddy Chris realised it had to be mine and contacted me. Truly great, odd and proof that there are no coincidences. Anyway I met up with him this afternoon and spend half the day discussing 'Disco' amongst other things, obviously a major passion of both of ours. He seems to know a lot of my favorite bloggers and artists personally and has some great music in his collection. In fact i have asked him to occasionally contribute to A.N.O.E. and trust me it's gonna be a real treat. Anyway on to today's post. Chris Lent me a 3 cd collection called Soul Culture available through Sony/BMG, they are truly great, jammed with a very fine selection of inspiring things from a wide range of artists like Gil Scott-Herron, Chocolate Milk, The Main Ingredient, Breakwater, Niteflyte, The New Birth and many many more. Thing is the track selection is not obvious at all, not really a big hits sort of thing, but kind of unearthed numbers which were hidden on good albums and overshadowed by bigger tracks. The collection is very eclectic and takes in Rare Grooves, Northen Soul, Latin, Funk, Jazz and even Folk, all with a soul bent attitude. I suggest fans of this site and such genre's step out and buy them, all three actually, there is hardly a dud in site.

I decided to give up two of the tracks from the series. Firstly The Youngblood's 'Sunlight' which is a California, sun drenched folk number with a sweet soulful hook by this bunch of New Yorkers. The Youngbloods were the in house band at the famous Cafe Au Go Go and had a top ten hit with a cover of Jefferson Airplane's 'Get Together' after it had been used in a Public Service TV ad. There's not a lot of folk on these comp's but this track is too beautiful to miss and is off volume 3 of the series also called 'Elevate Our Minds'

http://www.zshare.net/audio/the-youngbloods-sunlight-mp3.html

Ned Doheny's 'To Prove My Love' is the other track I wanted to feature as its a real soulful groover which gained major popularity in the UK, in fact i can remember an Acid Jazz band cover of the song which I loved at the time, but my memory fails me now and I can't remember who did the version. Ned is also very well known as the writer of Tata Vega's huge hit 'Give it up for Love', A.N.O.E. regulars will know how much i dig the original and the two great edits of the track by Dimitri from Paris and the Jisco Music crew. 'To Prove My Love' is a sure fire classic for late night groovers and lovers alike, with a very classy diamond polish production which has shades of the best of Steely Dan about it. A little Sunday night cruisin for ya peeps.

http://www.zshare.net/audio/ned-doheny-to-prove-my-love-mp3.html

Friday Classics #7

The last Friday Classics I did here on A.N.O.E. was in late October, so we're pretty overdue for some classic crate diggin', so here is number 7 in the series and today's focus is once again all about new edits of oldies, so in fact i didn't have to crate dig for these at all.

Love Unlimited's 'Move Me No Mountain' is unquestionably one of my all time favorite tracks, it's 'tell it like it is' sentiment and sweet soul disco moves make it pretty close to perfect in my opinion. This lovely edit comes from the unknown producers of the Re-Edit series of 12's which extends the intro and mid-section into a subtly looped orchestral affair. There is a little noise on this pressing which annoys me a lot, but i guess the edit is made off a vinyl copy and sadly not the original tapes, its pretty genius tho. (Crybo, this should have been on your wedding mix dude... which reminds me... ahem!)

http://www.zshare.net/audio/love-unlimited-move-me-no-mountain-mp3.html

Magic Edit Allstars are another bunch of mysterious disco and funk editors who revive this downright funky piece of dance floor fun, titled 'Funk Matter' on their fourth release. I just have no idea who the original is by, but it's a phat slice of popping disco funk dub with a touch of punky attitude in the mix, just a touch mind, kinda Ian Dury meets the Idjut Boys, or something like that. It's very much worth the download and the guys at Dilated Choonz just re-upped another track from the same series as part of their birthday post, go get it.

http://www.zshare.net/audio/magic-edit-allstars-funk-matters-mp3.html

DJ Almost has unearthed some great 80's funk disco for re-editing and put out the results on D-Classics. Once again I have no idea who the original is by but this track 'Beats Heavy' is a cool slice of slick pfunk'ish groove made for dancing and while it's beats are indeed 'heavy' it's the early electro disco keys that get my hips moving. Space is a funky place.

http://www.zshare.net/audio/dj-almost-beats-heavy-mp3.html

Lost

One of the years best albums by far is the absolutely brilliant 'Made in Menorca' by Rekid aka Radio Slave aka Matt Edwards aka Quiet Village. Normally as Radio Slave you'll find this man doing remixes for Moby, Kylie, Pet Shop Boys, Jamelia and even Kate Bush, damn good remixes mind but as Rekid, Matt takes things into a territory that's altogether more underground. This album is pure robot soul; icy, abstract, intense and beautiful. Matt takes from many electronic styles, stripping them down and comes up with an album that's arresting and unique. After many listens I'm still finding it compelling and revealing, plus many of the tracks have a kind of slo-mo disco backbone. Matt literally ventures forth into the unknown dubbed out nether regions of outer spaceyness and I wouldn't be the first to say there's a bit of Theo Parrish & Carl Craig in the mix, but Mr Edwards is really doing his own thing creating palpable futurism and textural bliss with these and other influences. I'm gonna be highlighting tracks from what I consider to be album's of the year over the next month or so and 'Lost Star6' will give u some idea of what I'm on about if u haven't already invested in this Soul Jazz release. When it came out, I guess I took notice of the fact that not too many of the ultra hip bloggers out there uploaded track's from 'Made in Menorca', a small fact that made me keen to add to its presence on the net. Actually I'm already itching for the next album.....

http://www.zshare.net/audio/rekid-lost-star6-mp3.html

The Right Stuff

Last Night was the final Pink Moloko of the year and very possibly the last one ever. We decided on a little Disco theme to entertain the usual clones, dykes, crazy girls, geeky dancers, afro-heads, fahionista's, indie boys, druggies and dj's, (Nu stuff mostly and zero overplayed tired old gay hits right) but we didn't exactly stick to it in a major way. I played for a couple of hours then went back to back with Phat Jack for another hour or more, after which he took over. It was a gas gas gas and people had a good time which is the main thing, even if there were a couple of crack heads begging us to 'go real hard man' or 'drop some ragga', yeah as if. We played all over the spectrum and did actually drop some hard monsters amongst the gems. I'd venture to say Jack was the perfect man for the job, since many of our guest dj's prior to last night just didn't cut it. I mean its a tough crowd, not in the usual discerning sense, but rather their general desire for cheesy house or bad electro isn't exactly the kind of thing we've been trying to do. My thing is bringing back quality to this gay night, abolishing queerbag, muscle house and rainbow remixes of pink people's soppy icon's that have infiltrated the gay clubs over the last ten years, while still keeping things in party mode. Anyhow last night was packed and really jumped like crazy and maybe, just maybe the club owners could see that and might do the right thing and offer us a chance to keep pushing forward. In the meantime I have an idea that a new club owner who was in the house might just be offering me a new spot to play in....

Sublime Sugar

Kid Sublime from The Netherlands released his debut album 'Basement Soul' in 2005 on Kindred Spirits, a great label for finding an urban sound that takes its new jazz and soul really seriously, they have a great website (http://www.kindred-spirits.nl/), with some great artwork and top class releases. Mr Sublime's album is still getting plays from me, many of his 12"s too. Hip Hop afficianado's will also know him as one half Rednose Distrikt, he takes his particular b-boy stance into everything he does, be it R'nB or even House and often in dancier moments sounds a lot like the kind of thing Theo Parrish would play. 'Basement Soul' is jammed with beats and breaks, some scratch biznezz and whole lotta heavy soul, classy hooks at every turn. As it's kind of the end of the year, I have been checking out releases from throughout the year and while this album is actually older than 06, it has effortlessly maintained it's freshness and classic vibe, I've even seen coppies in our local stores, so i know u can get it if u haven't already. U get 'Analogue Sugar' featuring mc Melodee, it's sweet man!

http://www.zshare.net/audio/kid-sublime-analogue-sugar-ft-melodee-mp3.html

The Devil's in the Disco

Just a quick mention of the unmissable Black Devil Disco Club tracks at Groovin You, they have been up awhile, but these tracks are pretty rare and worth the download, pure analogue evil man!!

Dub Re - Up

Someone recently asked if I'd re-up this Sven Weiseman track. This is the Oracy dub version of the song which pushed the track into a kind of Basic Channel direction. The original version is also top dollar, though more in a classic deep house kinda way. Beautiful stuff this, so if u didnt get it before or are new to Another Night On Earth, it's a bit of a classic around these parts.

http://www.zshare.net/audio/sven-weisemann-lets-swing-oracys-dub-tractor-rmx-mp3.html

Sticky Sweet Stuff

Another big week in my life with a ton of things going down, so once again the blog has suffered a little, I hope you've all been to check out Little White Earbuds and can forgive the lack of tunes here. I have a huge shipment arriving tomorrow, so expect some crazy new beats in the week but in the mean time, i thought i'd drop u a little Theo Parrish magic.

Theo is ofcourse one of Detroit's finest beat components, having studied fine arts and focused on sound sculpture, he moved on to create some of the most arresting and unique electronic dance music. His mixes, some of which are available on the net are highly saught after, he welds disco & funk onto Detroit deepness with a style that threatens to fall apart at any second but ofcourse it never does. His Ugly edits are also pretty collectable, where-in the man edits disco, funk and fusion tracks for 12" release, the kinda things that get me very hot under the collar, infact I'm still looking for a few of the earlier ones - anyone? So I'm popping up three tracks from Theo; the first is 'Ebonics' off his album 'Sound Signature Sounds', a collection of stuff off his label, the second is 'Sweet Sticky', off his album 'First Floor' on Peacefrog, and lastly a newie called 'Out There' which as it's name suggests is cosmic and far gone. Theo's vibe is unique but recalls the keys heavy styles of Larry Heard and Moodyman, but also the experimental side of Carl Craig, that said it's hard to say he's like anyone really, he injects such an 'honest' soul into everything he does, be it dirty bleepy or more melodic and ultimately he is more often immitated than one to follow others. Always keep your eyes peeled for releases on Sound Signature and anywhere else his name pops up.

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