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Undisputed Truth (2) - Law Of The Land / Same - 15-Nov-08 12:32 AM
This is a stunning example of were this group was really heading. With a strong backing beat band and some nice guitar riffs, this pounding Motown funk jam is on the verge of early Disco. This mix of tight beats, strings, hand claps and other orchestrated sound effects helped explode groups like Crown Heights Affairs and their big disco sound. This tune has Norman all over it, you can hear future Rose Royce songs in this track and other Whitfield tunes to comes. A nice song worth checking out.

Transistor-Jet - Transistor-Jet Strikes Back! - 01-Nov-08 06:56 PM
A very Bizarre and interesting electronic gay inspired 1980 album, well known to minimal synth fans for the dark electronic track "Master of the Universe". Personally, it's certainly a one-of-a-kind document of the underground gay expression from the final days of the pre-AIDS era. I think the cover art with the artist shirtless with a band-aid on his forehead is stunning and sexually supreme as well. Beyond that, this is extremely tough to find nowadays, especially in any nice playing condition, a true timeless piece of Gay history that got shoved below the earths crust and has been forgotten completely.

Supposedly, available on cassette and open reel, though I have never ever seen it on anything but vinyl. All known pressed copies have mixed matched labels. A project worth repressing for future "bent" generations to come.

Mixx Master - There's More To Life Than Dancing / Breakin' Away - 28-Oct-08 07:57 PM
Mixx Master - There's More To Life Than Dancing / Breakin' Away

This is a stunning display of classic disco breaks layered on top of a sampled groove that is looped along with some cleverly done edits. Obviously the man behind this project was a high energy club DJ back in the day. There are many overlays of disco breaks and beat riffs raging from Prince‘s Controversy, Ritchie Family’s Body Check to Hills of Katmandu, and many more. The main part of the track is the loop from a promo with a vocal snatch “Is there more to life than dancing…is there more to life?” with many classic breaks mixed live in on top of the loop. This is a nice piece that reflects a time when the disco break was supreme. Toward the end you got even more clever edits with added tape echo effects. “Breaking Away” is actually a long edited mix of Watson and Beasley’s early 80’s disco jam Breakaway, this time though super extended with some added other disco bits tossed it between and even live mixing between 2 records. A good amount of the track uses the intro beats and breaks edited into loops continuing the groove. Other main energy aspects are clearly edited vocal riffs in numerous amounts. This remix really encompassed the early garage disco sound that was super big in NY discos and underground gay clubs. With a sound similar to “Sylvester” it reaches many spiritual peaks intentionally. Toward the end it uses a lot more breaks of known underground disco bits like early Soft Cell and Eclipse – You Got Me. Added in with the vocal sampled section adding more energy to an all time high. Many remixes or disco mega mixes were done by prominent dj’s back in the day who could afford to lay down a small amount of cash and press some hotter mixes. Usually they were given to friends and club patrons and if they got some popular votes they were initially ran off in limited editions and then distributed into disco record shops. This remix is an amazing and correctly timed venture, it definitively is a show piece for the mixmaster himself, and who did it? We may sadly never know.

Robin Records - 31-Jul-08 10:55 PM
Robin Records, a small Midwestern Kansas City record label run by Robert Caldwell Jr. Not to be confused with “Red Robin Records” from New York, “Robin Records” was a Midwest attempt to get into the money making machine of the early1950’s pop market and didn’t go very far. Robert was a producer who had traveled to Omaha, Nevada and California in the 1940’s and had heard a variety of Big Bands such as the “Frank Carle Band”. He around that time met the band’s vocalist Lee Columbo. The early pop tunes getting attention during post WW2 created a heated music market and was a huge challenge as he attempted to spark a career for Lee as a vocal soloist. After getting Lee in to his KC studio and cutting a good sounding demo disc, he then pressed a small handful of promos to send out to radio stations. The song itself might have reached some potential but it didn’t help that shortly after that Columbo had suffered a fatal car accident. During the early 1950’s Robert kept the label name alive and finally scored a small local hit in 1957 from the Kansas City band “Krazy Katz”. Featuring guitarist Lee Dresser, piano man Willie Craig, and drummer Freddie Fletcher, this teeny-bop band used the industry standard idea to catapult a charting hit during the late 1950’s surf craze. They pressed 2 local singles and also a LP, but after the Beatles invasion their sound and the “Robin Records” label quickly disappeared after 1963. Robert Caldwell Jr. passed away around 2005 and left a tiny legacy of midwestern popular ideas behind.

Gene Page - Wild Cherry - 30-Jul-08 11:50 AM
From the forthcoming album release #18161. Here is a short moment when Gene was able to produce a deliciously smooth Funk Disco styled jam. An early club tune before Disco ever had a chance to die! This song reflects on a time when everyone was "not" using the typical disco formula. This is a must find single to add in your collection. This cut features a rare example of human expression and follows right along with Gene's developed production skills.

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