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Name: John Member Since: Oct 04, 2004 Rank: 426 Average Vote Received: Correct (4.00, 2 votes) Rated 426 releases, average: 4.35 Location: London Profile: 
Dance music enthusiast for (well) over 25 years and occasional DJ. I particularly like: Disco / 80's Boogie / Disco Not Disco / Nu Disco Old Skool Hip Hop / Electro Jazz / Fusion / Latin House (most flavours) Mid 90's Electronica / D&B Reggae / Dub Wierd stuff of the type featured in The Wire magazine No requests for MP3's please... My Mixes: Here For Sale: Here | |
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I Level* - Give Me - 02-Oct-06 02:22 AM
On paper this should be a classic record: relaxed jazzy-soulful-disco arrangement (reworked on Sandy Kerr's "Thug Rock") plus memorable vocal hook (borrowed on Greed's "Give Me") but somehow it manages to add up to slightly less than the sum of it's parts. Flip side is an instrumental version that cries out for a more radical treatment – if only they’d called in UK dubmeister Dennis Bovell. That said, it remains a seminal piece of Brit-funk and demands a wider hearing.
Kabbala - Ashewo Ara / Voltan Dance - 24-Sep-06 08:26 AM
From Ghana via London, Kabbala laid down these two smouldering tracks at a time when African music was raising its international profile. But “Ashewo Ara” couldn’t be further from the wiry hypnotic grooves of West African superstar King Sunny Ade – based on a rhythmic structure called Asewa and incorporating elements of Osibi music (as well as Western funk) it sounds like Brass Construction got locked in a room with Arthur Russell and Ernie Isley. “Voltan Dance” is a more free-wheeling disco-jam with trumpet passages that could be lifted off an Eddie Henderson record and a keyboard player who’d been listening to the latest Shakatak. A timeless slice of African Disco.
Front Line Orchestra* - Don't Turn Your Back On Me / No Entry - 24-Sep-06 08:26 AM
Proof that, on it’s day, London was more than a match for New York in the Underground Disco stakes. Unfortunately those occasions were few in number and most took place on Eddy Grant’s ICE label. "Don’t Turn Your Back On Me" is now reasonably well known, due to it’s status as a “Paradise Garage Classic” (although not a big record in the UK at the time). Instrumental flipside " No Entry” is an excellent disco-tinged, jazz-funk groover.
