Thursday, April 28, 2011

Love on the Run & Deep Sang Disco Invasion - Friday, April 29th - Washington DC!!!



Marvin
2007 14th Street NW
Washington, DC

Brace yourselves Washington DC, tomorrow night we'll be dropping the heavy Disco and Soul heat on you! Deep Sang is bringing my ass out to DC for a good time, so if you are in the area you won't want to miss this!

The Jack Moves "A Fool For You"



Modern Blue Eyed Soul out of New Jersey. This recent 7" seems to be gaining some traction locally, and beyond..

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Horace Family - God Will Dry My Weeping Eyes



A very funky Gospel cut! This one has been on repeat for me for two days. The Dj Darryn edit is sweet too...

Thursday, April 14, 2011

Jimmie & Vella Cameron - Be Fair To Me (extended version)



A beast of a tune produced by Barry White! Zaf hipped me to this, and described it as an "underground Ashford & Simpson"

Killer!

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Tyrone Davis - In the Mood



Sloooowwwwwwing it down with this one. This is more of an after hours cut. If you can't seal the deal with this one, there is no hope for you.

Heavy classic!

Foxy - Mademoiselle



Steppers tempo! I really discovered this tune probably around the mid-90s and I used to beat this record to death. I literally wore the grooves out so hard that there was nothing but cue burn and fuzz on the beautiful intro, that I had to buy a replacement copy a few years ago when I found it sealed. I threw this up at the end of a mixtape a couple of years ago, and was surprised at how many people were asking me for information on this one. Classic rare groove cut!

Saturday, April 9, 2011

EDDIE RUSS ZAIUS 1976



Another beast of a Jazz Funk tune. I don't know if this was a Loft classic or not, but the potential is certainly there for that sophisticated dance crowd.

Eddie Henderson-Say You Will



Classic Jazz-Funk artist Eddie Henderson. I've always loved this tune.

Friday, April 8, 2011

Secret Squirrel - Modern Soul Edition



I suppose some people like to keep some things secret hahaha

If you do your research, you too can figure out what this one is...

Round Robin & Brimstone "Our Love Is So True"



A beautiful tune my homey Replay turned me on to a few years back. This LP is darn rare, and has been quite collectible for some time. Word on the street is that there is going to be a limited 12" press of this song coming out very soon, which would be fantastic and well deserved after all these years, especially considering the fact that this epic song is just under 10 minutes long. Well deserved!

The Psychedelic Aliens 45rpm Box Set



The Psychedelic Aliens out of Africa get a proper re-issue through Frank at Voodoo Funk. This has to be one of the coolest packaging ideas I've seen in a long time. You get 4 different 7"s, a fan patch, a booklet with great liner notes and photos of the band all in a beautiful box set. If you are a fan of funky African music, or just want to be inspired by some cool shit, this is for you!

Monday, April 4, 2011

Universal Love - It's You Girl



Recorded in Florida, this one really channels the Philly sound of the day.

Friday, April 1, 2011

History of Dance event Series featuring Farley Jackmaster Funk



After a successful night featuring Rahaan, History of Dance hosts and resident DJ's Jason lev and Sipreano follow up with Farlye Jackmaster Funk at The Waldorf Hotel. If you are in the area, I highly recommend checking this out tonight. The inside scoop tells me Gene Hunt is next, stay tuned...

Orlando Julius - Disco Hi-Life



C'mon let's do the new dance, the Disco Hi-Life.

THIS IS MARIJATA



Heavy Afro-Funk here, don't sleep...

Mellow Madness unreleased tunes coming soon... b/w Save the Youth Kenny Dope Mix



Mellow Madness "Save The Youth" Disco 45 release is extremely sought after, for good reason. I cant wait for the unreleased EP and 7"s that Kenny Dope is finally allowing to see the light of day.

If you aren't familiar with the rare BEAST that is "Save The Youth", well here is the Kenny Dope mix he licensed and released a couple of years back -

Devastating russian funk - I Can't Stop cover - HEAVY BREAKS - Victor Kiswell Archives



Killer! A chock full of Russian Disco BREAKS Sent over to me by the homey Monk One

Liquid Liquid to perform LIVE at Madison Square garden this Saturday???!!!!!???!!!


THE ONLY OFFICIALLY SANCTIONED VIDEO FROM 99 RECORDS


LIVE AT HURRAHS


LIVE IN JAPAN - YES THEY STILL GOT IT AND THEY GOT IT WITH THE EXTRA EXTRA!!!

Damn, the dudes have come a long way! If you don't live in the area, Madison Square Garden is the biggest performance venue in New York City. To put this in perspective, the legendary Rock & Roll icon ELVIS was scared shitless to play their almost his entire career. He finally showed up when he grew some bigger balls, and did his thing. You can only imagine how pumped up I am that these guys who made classics for the likes of places like The Paradise Garage, The Roxy, all Bronx B-Boy jams, and downtown spots like the Mudd Club are actually getting a shot at the big time playing alongside current hipster favorite LCD Soundsystem at the Garden.

I've seen Liquid Liquid live before at a reunion show at The Knitting Factory a couple of years ago, and they are even better live. According to Sal P, they are much tighter now then they were then, and I believe it just by watching the above video in Japan!

Thankfully my dude Max waited on line at 3am to purchase these impossible to get tickets for this particular show, and I promise I will try to snap some pics and shoot some video for this site!

Cassette Love 015: DJ Dirty Hands from Washington DC

I first met the homey Dirty Hands through mutual buddies Ant Rich and Kenny during his visit to NYC. Our boys were booking us for various parties around town, and we instantly struck up a friendly connection. He is a cool dude, and we share common ground with a love for our music, great food and seriously fancy threads! We get along real well as friends, but he also came to garnish serious respect from me when I finally witnessed Dirty Hands do his thing at a Vibe music awards after party. Dirty smashed it! He is the man when it comes to spinning Hip-Hop both new jams and old, mixed up with party classics on the scene in general, and he had the crowd on lock. The peak moment of the night was watching the entire crowd chanting "Play that funky music white boy" at Dirty Hands while he was slamming the decks. That's a pretty funny story on the surface, but if you take a moment to really think about it, that is no small feat at a Vibe Music Awards Show after party, trust me on this one.

Besides being D.C.'s top DJ he also founded Club Fly, and has DJ'd along side the biggest names in the business. So I was pretty happy to see that Dirty Hands held onto some of his roots, and sent over a couple of mix tapes he saved from back in the day that no doubt helped him get his start. If you look close enough at one of them, you can see the track listing.




Thanks for the contributions! Keep up with his gigs in the D.C. area and elsewhere HERE

Cassette Love 014: Johnny from Good Records NYC!

Johnny runs one of the illest record shops in the NYC area, and beyond! Always a trooper, Johhny has been DJ'ing, spitting rhymes, collecting records and flipping them to the benefit of the community for years. From S.F. to NYC he holds it down. He had me as a guest DJ on his old EVR radio show back in the day (when it was still run out of the dude's apartment) and we meditated to oddball post punk records I brought with me, until a speaker came crashing down off the shelf onto the turntable and smashed one of my records. The energy in that room was so great, that the universe couldn't take it anymore, obviously, and something had to happen. Well Johnny is still smashing eardrums and fucking with the balance of the universe with his current radio show he runs out of his awesome shop. The same awesome shop that I've got some of the illest records in my collection from, like Vance & Suzanne for instance, and the same shop where I've drooled over other records, like the Minority Band LP, the Le Cop 12" and more. Keep up with Good Records sales, radio shows and other various activities HERE

Johnny just shot me a pic with the text phone function thingy titled "These just arrived on my desk".

Peep the goodies!



Thanks Johnny!

Cassette Love 013: Nick Pepe AKA DJ Freqnik!



Don't fret, the cheesy shout outs were totally a joke for Nick pepe. The man, the myth, the legend. Some of you may know Nick Pepe, but some of you may not. Nick was always a great DJ from the LI area. I heard him for the first time in 1993 in some Long Island club playing soul/breaks/hip-hop etc. He was and still is always super smooth on the decks. I didn't get a chance to know Nick personally until the mid 90s when I approached him after watching him cut up two copies of 7 Minutes of Funk like butter dripping from his finger tips. We've been cool as hell ever since. There used to be a lot more tapes by Nick floating around, and I remember listening to them in car rides to parties with friends etc, but this is the only one I have in my possession, and it's a killer. A perfect blend of samples, with little sections like DJ Premier sections, Pete Rock sections, Tribe Called Quest etc. Most deeper heads I know in the game have come across Nick somehow, and it's always positive things. He's been around for a long time save for the occasional hiatus, and he is now out and about working with Red Bull and playing parties as Deejay Freqnik.



Thanks for pulling out the few tapes you have left, and this is especially dope since this is the music I remember you playing!

Peep the quick 10 minute demo he whipped up recently:

QUICK DEMO MIX

Cassette Love 012: Secret Submission of Ron Hardy and Frankie Knuckles' edited Reels!!!

So it turns out that one of the deeper Disco heads out there would rather remain in the shadows with his amazing and anonymous e-mail contribution. Thanks for the silent donation, and keeping in the spirit of "Secret" Rendezvous. Well, feast your eyes on these tapes, which aren't actually cassettes, but original reel to reel edits from back in the day, spliced by none other than FRANKIE KNUCKLES AND RON HARDY! That's some pretty grimy shit!

Check the HEAT in here:









THANK YOU SECRET SUBMISSIONS MAN!

DJ Nuts from Brasil - Live on Gilles Peterson Worldwide Vol.4 No.6 //



If you don't already know, DJ Nuts is the mack when it comes to Brazilian music, peep the show:

Download the mix HERE

R.I.P. Marvin Gaye - I Want You (b/w rare studio footage video)



RIP Marvin Pentz Gay, Jr. (April 2, 1939 – April 1, 1984)

Check out this crazy little video with Marvin coaching his musicians a bit, and laying down while singing!