Various ‎– Horse Meat Disco II

The UK’s finest disco operators, Horse Meat Disco, return with another killer album of tried and tested underground disco, Italo and rarities that have been rocking crowds from their base in Vauxhall, London, to dancefloors worldwide during 2009-10.

Since their acclaimed debut compilation on Strut in 2009, residents James Hillard, Jim Stanton, Severino and Luke Howard (aka Filthy Luka) have continued to lead the way with their packed residencies at The Eagle, London, Lux in Lisbon, Tape in Berlin and Cihan in Istanbul. During 2010, as well as revisiting UK festivals like Glastonbury, Lovebox and T In The Park, they will be spreading the disco love to some of the world’s leading festivals.

Horse Meat Disco Volume 2 brings together another essential selection of New York classics alongside a host of lesser known discoveries for all fans of underground disco. Anthems include Zanzibar favourite ‘You Can Get Over’ by Stephanie Mills, Italo staple ‘Walkman’ by Kasso and Rinder & Lewis’ ‘Afrodesia’ under their El Coco pseudonym. Rarities include ‘I’m Not In Love (Girl You’re In Love)’ by Freda Payne’s sister Scherrie, ‘Cherchez Pas’ by Swedish model-turned-singer Madleen Kane and Italo oddity ‘’Touch Me Now’ by Bravo.

Great work from the Horse Meat Disco boys! This time we're staight into the groove, with nothing to compete with THAT answerphone message into on Vol 1. An hour plus of rare, but accessable Disco; big vocal tracks and plenty of NYC style and energy. There is lots to treasure here including a number of tracks hard to find on CD. The second disc is only for this H.M.V. special edition, which is a shame because unmixed tracks are only available in MP3 format on the 1 disc release. Further niggles (a big one actually) is the woeful omission of an umixed copy of Electra Feat. Tara Butler - Feels Good (Carrots And Beets)! Madleen Kane - Chergez Pas is also not included on CD2 as an unmixed version. We could have done without Stephanie Mills (say) because that was freely available on the Zanzibar Choice comp by Tony Humphries AZCD22. Tempest Trio - Do You Like The Way That It Feels IS included, although this track does not appear in the mix? (This also appeared in the Choice series) The mix itself is top class and what one would hope/expect from these guys, but why all this messing around with 1 and 2 disc versions, download 'options' and the exclusion of probably the best track as a stand alone unmixed track?