Mighty Ryeders - Evil Vibrations (Nur4ri's High Roller Edit)

Taken from the album "One" (1996)
Written by F. Gazzara
Produced by Francesco Gazzara and Gianni Del Popolo
Executive producer: Cesare "Black Wax"  Cera
℗ and © IRMA Records

Francesco Gazzara: Fender Rhodes, Mini Moog, Hammond A100, Grand piano, Clavinet, backing vocals.
Gianni Del Popolo: electric guitar.
Massimo Sanna: bass.
Alex Gigli: drums.
Mauro "Mirtao" Mirti: percussion.
Kevin Ettienne: MC, vocals.
Desiree Mohammad: lead vocals.


Keep Yourself Together

http://www.mrbongo.com/product/spaced-out-ten-original-disco-funk-grooves-cd-1164

This collection of underground dance music covers tracks released between 1975 and 1983 from both sides of the Atlantic. The tracks chosen for this compilation introduce some of the pioneering few who expanded the horizons of disco to incorporate elements of dub, funk, electro, jazz and Latin. In some ways many of the artists featured here foresaw the birth of successive musical genres. There is no disputing that they were all well ahead of their time and with the recent trend of similarly inspired house they sound as fresh today as they did then.

The music chosen for this album were the underground classics that made the scene what it was in the heady of days of the Paradise Garage and the Loft in NYC and the Warehouse in Chicago where DJs such as Arthur Baker and Francois Kervorkian could be heard spinning such tracks.

On disc two (CD version only) Masters at Work add their touches to one of their favourite tracks while Harvey and Underdog take on the Disco Dub band and come up with two very different interpretations which will work on today’s dancefloors. 

Disco Dub Band - For The Love Of Money

This album is dedicated to all the funk artist that came before me and showed me the way.

Spring Jam

lucky chop ink

A fast paced experimental track meaning to invoke excitment and a since of rush with a touch of calm. 

Tell Me Do You See Me Now

Chakachas ‘Jungle Fever’ (greg wilson edit)

99 bpm

Previously limited vinyl only 2010.

Following on from last week’s Crystal Grass upload, here’s the track that appeared on the other side of GW Ruff Edits #4, ‘Jungle Fever’ by Chakachas (aka ‘Belgian Jungle’), a deliciously wicked downtempo groove that’s been described as ‘one of the first Disco records’. Somewhat bizarrely, this was a Latin combo from Belgium, who’d been recording since the 50’s. Chakachas (or The Chakachas, as there name also appeared) were certainly unlikely Disco pioneers, but ‘Jungle Fever’ became a UK Top 30 hit in 1972, and would no doubt have climbed much higher had it not been pulled off the BBC airwaves because the sighs and heavy breathing were deemed too risqué for the British public’s sensibilities (Donna Summer’s ‘Love To Love You Baby’ still more than 3 years away). However, it was in the US where it found its greatest success – a massive hit, it reached #8 on the US Pop chart, and #11 R&B, selling a million copies in the process. 

As with Crystal Grass, the reason I edited it was purely to extend the length, adding over 2 minutes to the original version. The first time I remember playing it out was at Café Mambo in Ibiza in 2009, which was also the first mix I ever uploaded to SoundCloud:
http://soundcloud.com/gregwilson/cafe-mambo-ibiza-27-09-09-greg-wilson-dj-mix/ 

Greg Wilson – November 2011

Check out my label's music at: https://superweirdsubstance.bandcamp.com

Chakachas 'Jungle Fever' (greg wilson edit)

Sign Of The Times

Cool and Steady and Easy

Take The L Train (To Brooklyn)

That Place by the Thing with the Cool Name

I'll Do That

Since 1993, Brooklyn Funk Essentials have been presenting their unique brand of eclectic funk to ecstatic audiences around the world. Made up of musicians, singers and poets from around the globe, the group is an all-star-team famously mixing styles like soul, jazz, latin and house - all rolled into one ferocious funk fest. If it grooves, they will funk it!