...absolutely nothing! (say it again). Just kidding.

Sometimes it feels like what the world really doesn't need is another mix tape. 

Don't get me wrong, they're great fun to make and often very enjoyable to listen to, but sometimes it feels like nothing particularly interesting is being said. The idea of trying something a little different had been at the back of my mind for a while, I thought it would be interesting and fun to take things a little further. I liked the idea of taking some of the techniques used in creating an edit and applying it to a whole mix, in effect, creating an hour-long edit. 

In my free time. What a geek. 

An hour long edit. Which is what a good, traditional two-turntables-and-a-mixer job really is, right? But in this case all the tracks have been specifically manipulated for the mix, stretching out the grooves, adding rhodes, fx, samples, loops, whatever...layering grooves, with the tracks referencing each other within the mix and with particular attention paid to the transitions by making each one memorable. 
  
The music: lush, deep, sultry, seventies soul, two-step & classics, largely altered, edited and specifically tailored to fit the mood of this particular mix.

It's digital  - of course it is! That's the whole point, really, to explore what's possible using cut'n paste, slicing & dicing techniques. But you're welcome to come round here and stroke the original vinyl if you find that reassuring. I understand. 

I hope you enjoy this on a hot beach somewhere, or very late at night, or whichever place you normally listen to these things, ya freaks! Feel free to comment, share and divulge.

It's a free download. 


Free Download

Soul! What Is It Good For?

R.I.P. Betty, you wonderful soul. ❤

Here is the love - free download for a limited time only.

Get ready to dance your socks off with this raw, scratchy, funky slice of Miami soul. Hope you enjoy it!

Betty Wright - Where Is The Love (Casbah 73 Edit)

Let's Invade the Amazon

Let's Invade the Amazon (Edit)

Pale Splash of Blue

Let's Invade the Amazon (JKriv Remix)

Let's Invade the Amazon (JKriv Remix Edit)

Javari Takedown

Let's Invade the Amazon (JKriv Remix Instrumental)

Let's Invade the Amazon (JKriv Jungle Dub)

Javari Takedown (Disco Mix)

Doing Our Own Thing & To Be Free

Doing Our Own Thing (Dimitri from Paris Remix Part 1)

Doing Our Own Thing (Dimitri from Paris Remix Part 2)

To Be Free (Hopelessly Free Remix)

To Be Free (Seventy Free Remix)

Includes excerpts from "The Bicentennial Blues", a track which I was none too fond of as a relative youngster, as it seemed to me then that The Blues was something older people invoked whenever they wanted to make you feel like you didn't know anything. I was also irritated by the very specific and (and to my very young self) seemingly meaningless political references in this track. For me back then, it was all about "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised", "Home Is Where The Hatred Is", "The Bottle" or "It's Your World".  

Well, time passes and I went on to become a huge GSH fan, so much so I would probably have been happy to sit and listen to him reading from the phone book, let alone recite the Bicentennial Blues, and what seemed to me almost passé then has proven to be remarkably prescient today: the names have changed, the culprits haven't. 

Let's hope that he achieves the artistic and cultural position he really deserves, and soon.  People like Gil don't come along very often, he will be sorely missed.

Gil Scott-Heron - Angola, Louisiana (Casbah 73 Tribute Edit) FREE DOWNLOAD

A little jazz/soul Sunday mix while watching the rain coming down outside...

RAINY AFTERNOON IN MADRID Free Download

When the wicked Savannah - Anaconda 12" first came out (Kif Records, France) , I used to drop snatches of the Love Tribe acappella over it during my sets. It worked so well, and basically, being a lazy sod at heart, I did this edit in order to have the vocals permanently slotted into the groove, with a few added bells and whistles (no cowbell!). 

 Enjoy!

Love Tribe - Shakumuna Stand Up (Casbah 73 Edit)FREE DOWNLOAD

A little back story on this one, for those of you that may be interested. I'd wanted to do an edit of this wonderful track for ages but couldn't figure out how to approach it when along came Mark E with "Scared", an edit which solved the issue of how to deal with the two separate parts of the track beautifully - extend the intro, tease it out and simply drop into the main part of the original, leaving it as is. Brilliant! The only snag for me was that "Scared" wasn't in the style that I was looking for personally. So, I proceeded to copy Mark E's blueprint using a different groove. I filtered the intro and beat, jammed along on keys over the top, working it to the max, before dropping back into the original at the drop. I've had a lot of fun playing this one out over the years, it works equally well in house clubs and soul all-nighters alike. I've left the edit as is,  the way I first recorded it, nice and loose (nothing to do with locating 9+ year old files  on hard drives ;)). I hope you all enjoy it and play it out often and loud! 

CECIL WOMACK FOREVER!

Womack & Womack - Baby I'm Scared Of You (Casbah 73  Extended Edit)FREE DOWNLOAD

Willie Wright - I'm So Happy Now (Casbah 73 Edit) Free Download

Evinha's funky classic from 1971, such a special track. Couldn't resist tweaking it and adding a little something extra. 

First airing for this - have at it!

Supported by Craig Charles on his BBC6 Radio Funk & Soul Show

https://soundcloud.com/casbah-73

Evinha - Esperar Pra Ver (Casbah 73 Edit)FREE DOWNLOAD

Anyone who has spent hours, days, years working in a studio writing and producing music will be familiar with this situation. On a whim, you open up ancient folders on an old hard drive and lo and behold, you discover entire, finished songs you had practically forgotten existed.

On this occasion, I've just stumbled upon an alternate version of "Welcome To The Casbah" featuring Prince Po. It originally came out on my second album, Pushin Forty (https://www.discogs.com/Casbah-73-Pushin40/master/504246), which came out way back when (or, nearly 10 years ago, to be precise).  

The og version is completely different, you can check it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVxKcI-cnwc

 ...this one is less sample-based and features me on Fender bass & Strat grooving in a kinda latin-funk-disco sort of vein. It was finished but was never intended for the album - I stand behind the original 100 percent - but I think it's a cool tune and I'm happy to offer it here for free, for your pleasure.

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Welcome To The Casbah (Tha Latin-Funk-Disco Unreleased Mix) Free Download

I've gone for a mid/uptempo vibe here, added strings, keys, bass, drums... all built around Kevin Moore's awesome vocals. Obviously, it's a completely different tune to the lovely, laid back original, it's all done out of genuine creative urges and total respect for the original artists and their inspiring work - I hope you all like it!

Kevin Moore - Speak Your Mind (Casbah 73 Rework) Free Download

I often get asked if this version is available when I play it out, so I thought it was high time that I toss this one out there. Just a bit of fun, mixing classic Blaze in with the original and adding a dash of Majka's superb vocals to spice things up. Therhythmtherhythmtherhythm is our...


Can You Dance To My Freshly Squeezed Beat? (Casbah 73 Edit)FREE DOWNLOAD

New 12" 3-track EP out now on Lovemonk Records! Limited vinyl press!

In the words of The Ransom Note website: 
"Casbah 73 is set to release a spectacular new EP on Lovemonk Records, a dancefloor destroyer if we ever did hear one."
  
This is the A-side, the magnificent Angela Gooden on vocals, live percussion, Rhodes, and a sweet Rahaan remix on the flip. Check it out!

Release date is 26th Jan 2018, in all good record shops as well as in the Lovemonk Bandcamp store here: 

Bandcamp: http://bit.ly/2DHSAtS
I Tunes: https://apple.co/2njWKC3
Spotify: http://spoti.fi/2nnviCR

Casbah 73 - Love Saves The Day

New 12" 3-track EP out now on Lovemonk Records!

In the words of The Ransom Note website:
"Casbah 73 is set to release a spectacular new EP on Lovemonk Records, a dancefloor destroyer if we ever did hear one."

This is the B-side, the magnificent Angela Gooden on vocals, live percussion, Rhodes, and this killer Rahaan remix. Check it out!

Release date is 26th Jan 2018, in all good record shops as well as in the Lovemonk Bandcamp store here: 

Bandcamp: http://bit.ly/2DHSAtS
I Tunes: https://apple.co/2njWKC3
Spotify: http://spoti.fi/2nnviCR

Limited vinyl pressing, don't miss out!

Love Savs The Day

Casbah 73 - Love Saves The Day (Rahaan Remix)

New 12" 3-track EP out now on Lovemonk Records!

In the words of The Ransom Note website:
"Casbah 73 is set to release a spectacular new EP on Lovemonk Records, a dancefloor destroyer if we ever did hear one."

This is the second track on the B-side, a percussion heavy instrumental mix. All kiler, no filler on this EP - check it out!

Release date is 26th Jan 2018, in all good record shops as well as in the Lovemonk Bandcamp store here: 

Bandcamp: http://bit.ly/2DHSAtS
I Tunes: https://apple.co/2njWKC3
Spotify: http://spoti.fi/2nnviCR

Limited vinyl pressing, don't miss out!

Casbah 73 - Love Saves The Day (Percussion Jam)

After many happy years of playing this amazing, raw gospel number out as a personal dj "weapon" I thought it was time to share my edit with you all so I've given it a brand new makeover, road-tested it and I think you're gonna love this! 

I have many fond memories of seeing people dancing and losing it to this way back when, early 2000s at La Via Lactea. Nobody knew what this stuff was back then (gospel disco/funk?!) but nobody cared either, people just came to dance. It's gratifying when you get your own homegrown scene, lots of records from those days seems to be coming into their own now, which is great, but what was cool then was that nobody cared -  about what anyone else was doing elsewhere, just enjoying our own thing in complete freedom. Good times!

The Gospel Soul Revivals - If Jesus Came Today (Casbah 73 Edit) Free Download

Julius Brockington & The Magic Force - This Feeling ( Casbah 73 Edit)FREE DOWNLOAD

When is loose, too loose? I decided to keep as much of that funky ass looseness as possible with this edit, resisting the urge to beef things up, while keeping it fresh for today's dancefloors. That bass!!

King Errisson - Disco Congo (Casbah 73 Edit) FREE DOWNLOAD

Released 22nd Feb 2019

New 12" on Lovemonk Records (LMNKV105 ): Casbah 73 - To Be Free/Doing Our Own Thing - out now!

You can purchase the vinyl/digital release directly on Bandcamp here: casbah73.bandcamp.com/

Via Discogs: www.discogs.com/Casbah-73-To-Be-F…/release/13043162

Listen on Spotify: open.spotify.com/album/0k0H9ySSiS5hfzMKaE2Pkr

Credits:
Producer, Arranged By, Additional Keyboards – Oli Stewart
All tracks written and composed by – Oli Stewart
Horns – Josué García
Strings Arranged By – Jose "Jas" Álvarez
Strings Conductor – Carlos Martín
Bass – Mr. King
Drums – Paul Atkins
Rhodes, Clavinet – Chavi Ontoria
Guitar – José Funko
Mastered By – Damián Schwartz
Mixed By – Iván Domínguez
Percussion – Iván Ruiz López
Vocals – Angela Gooden

Buy 12" vinyl

Casbah 73  - Doing Our Own Thing

***FREE DOWNLOAD FOR A LIMITED TIME PERIOD ONLY*** 

I went for a more groove-based edit of this lovely little rare/obscure disco 12", leaving out some of the more melodic aspects and jazzy inflections. Lots of good left/right channel separation to play around with as well. Hope you enjoy it! 

Sargeant & Malone - Love Message (Casbah 73 Edit) FREE DOWNLOAD

The other day I stumbled across this incredibly uplifting video - if you haven't seen it yet, do yourself a favour (Insta: https://bit.ly/35AOstU  YouTube: https://bit.ly/2VHrqgo). It's by The Samples, performing a cappella outdoors with a brass band and segueing from Risin' To The Top into All Night Long. What a great vibe!! 

Well, I was just heading off to a party and I thought: that'd be a great one to play, lemme just add a little something to it. And, of course, as these things go, one thing led to another. And another...

Seeing how this was recorded, the quality is what it is, so enjoy it for what it is. Actually, if you think about it, it's two edits for the price of one. Speaking of which, it's a free download, so don't forget to show your appreciation. If you prefer not to use the free download gate, just shoot me a line.

The Samples - Risin' To The Top (Casbah 73 Edit) Free Download

Remastered & extensively reworked! Here's the scoop - I put this up on soundcloud a good while ago; just recently, I had a chance to go over it again and fatten the beats, tweak the groove & generally straighten things out. So here it is in all its shiny new glory, sounding good! 

Funky mid-tempo afro-cuban beats seguing into a furious descarga. Latin-Jazz, yeah!

FREE DOWNLOAD FOR A LIMITED TIME PERIOD!!

Roberto Anglero Y Su Congregación - La Besé (Casbah 73 Edit) FREE DOWNLOAD

First time I open up the downloads on this funky disco bomb, I had quite a few requests - get it while you can! 

Gary's Gang  - Do It At The Disco (Casbah 73 Edit)FREE DOWNLOAD

First time this is available digitally, free download for a limited time only, folks! 

The first time I heard Sivuca's amazing version of "Ain't No Sunshine" was around '89; acid house was all the rage and, quite frankly, pissing me off a little bit, so we decided to organise a rave of our own. One where you could hear all sorts of sounds. Case in point, the DJ dropped the Sivuca bomb at about six in the morning, the sweat was crawling up the walls and people started peeling off their shirts. It just blew everyone's minds. Then the police turned up. Luckily though, it was just some coppers coming off the night-shift and wanting a beer so we let them in and carried on. 

But I never forgot that moment and recently I decided that I really wanted to do a tribute to that great man and his band, of which this was the result.   

This is track A1 of a 12" vinyl-only release out on Kat Records. 
Mastering by Ebony Cuts. 

Cop a copy of the 12" here: https://www.discogs.com/Casbah-73-Casbah-73-Presents/release/4383441

Some Feedback

Jim Stanton, Horse Meat Disco [UK] - Love it!

Rainer Truby [Germany] - "Ain´t No Sunshine" for me here…well done spiced up Sivuca niceness…;)

Craig Charles, Funk and Soul Show, BBC6 Radio [UK] - Played on Saturday 9th Feb 2013

Dj Ease, Nightmares on Wax [UK] - Totally loving these... 

Michael Rutten, Soul Searching [Germany] - Mos def going for the Latin twists here, two for the summer, and winter, and spring, and yes, autumn, why not?

Danielle Moore, Crazy P [UK] - WOW INDEED&rt; Red Hott my fave . Thats how I like my funk. Deep, industrially deep even! Synthed out of its face. Heavy bass that makes you want to dance in the doctors waiting room. Great package... thank you xxx

Jeremy Sole - KCRW / theLIFT - Los Angeles [USA] Played "Ain't No Sunshine" on my show last week. Love it!

Simon Harrison, Basic Soul Radio [UK] - Damn these mixes are fantastic - my fave so far is Ain't No sunshine which will feature on next week's show!!

Leftside Wobble [UK] - Stella release. From a personal perspective it's great to see KAT back to it's roots of quirky leftfield jazz-dance numbers and underground soulful funk. Real quality across all three cuts.

Andy Wilson, Sonica Radio [Ibiza] - I wondered what happened to Casbah 73, I used to play his Lovemonk LP a lot. Sivuca is an old favourite and the Manfredo Fest track is amazing, love it. Played it on my show this week, another quality selection, thanks!

Graeme Park [UK] - Love these tracks... Especially Big Fat Bottom.

Richard Rogers / Black Booby [UK] - Redd Hott - Big Fat Bottom (Casbah 73 Edit) - Big slapping arse style edit that fits quite nicely into the BB sound, My ass is shaking all over the place just thinking about it! Sivuca - Aint No Sunshine (Casbah 73 Rework 2013) - My fav on the EP, beautiful intro and blissful percussion, has been treated with love

Bobby Beige, Garden Festival Resident [Croatia] - Casbah 73 edits show us some seriously good cut up Latin funk bombs. Manfredo takes us into carnival territory with it's big brass licks, whilst Red Hott gives us some Trouble Funk style rhythms and cut up samples. Sivuca rounds things off nicely with it's nice slowed down part before kicking back in again full tilt. Full Support,

Mark Milz, Radio Corax [Germany] - Essential stuff...really feelin' the "Big Fat Bottom edit" !!!

Dj Kwak, Strictly Niceness [Brussels] - Jungle Kitten Is just plain ridiculously good ... Aired upon arrival in the show tonight!!

Abe Borgman, Pura Sonica Radio [Costa Rica] Aint no Sunshine is a great and happy track....tropical feelings makes it lovely....I´ll play it !

Released by: KAT and KAT45 Records 
Release/catalogue number: KAT017

"Ain't No Sunshine" Casbah 73 Rework [KAT017] FREE DOWNLOAD

First time this is available digitally, free download for a limited time only, folks!

Grab a copy of the vinyl here: https://www.discogs.com/Casbah-73-Casbah-73-Presents/release/4383441

Third and final track from the forthcoming Kat Records 12" release, track B2 and probably my favourite of the bunch. I really went to town on this one, had a lot of fun adding layers of percussion, latin piano, fat brazilian horns and a whole new chorus to blend in with the sweet original, a long time fave track of mine by maestro Manfredo Fest. I hope you enjoy the results! 

Special thanks to Dusty & Chip for your valuable input, and Lynn @ Ebony Cuts Mastering. 

Track B2 of Casbah 73 Edits & Reworks 12" 

Released by: KAT and KAT45 Records
Release/catalogue number: KAT017

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Some Feedback For Kat 017 Release

Jim Stanton, Horse Meat Disco [UK] - Love it!

Rainer Truby [Germany] - "Ain´t No Sunshine" for me here…well done spiced up Sivuca niceness…;)

Craig Charles, Funk and Soul Show, BBC6 Radio [UK] - Played on Saturday 9th Feb 2013

Dj Ease, Nightmares on Wax [UK] - Totally loving these...

Michael Rutten, Soul Searching [Germany] - Mos def going for the Latin twists here, two for the summer, and winter, and spring, and yes, autumn, why not?

Danielle Moore, Crazy P [UK] - WOW INDEED&rt; Red Hott my fave . Thats how I like my funk. Deep, industrially deep even! Synthed out of its face. Heavy bass that makes you want to dance in the doctors waiting room. Great package... thank you xxx

Jeremy Sole - KCRW / theLIFT - Los Angeles [USA] Played "Ain't No Sunshine" on my show last week. Love it!

Simon Harrison, Basic Soul Radio [UK] - Damn these mixes are fantastic - my fave so far is Ain't No sunshine which will feature on next week's show!!

Leftside Wobble [UK] - Stella release. From a personal perspective it's great to see KAT back to it's roots of quirky leftfield jazz-dance numbers and underground soulful funk. Real quality across all three cuts.

Andy Wilson, Sonica Radio [Ibiza] - I wondered what happened to Casbah 73, I used to play his Lovemonk LP a lot. Sivuca is an old favourite and the Manfredo Fest track is amazing, love it. Played it on my show this week, another quality selection, thanks!

Graeme Park [UK] - Love these tracks... Especially Big Fat Bottom.

Richard Rogers / Black Booby [UK] - Redd Hott - Big Fat Bottom (Casbah 73 Edit) - Big slapping arse style edit that fits quite nicely into the BB sound, My ass is shaking all over the place just thinking about it! Sivuca - Aint No Sunshine (Casbah 73 Rework 2013) - My fav on the EP, beautiful intro and blissful percussion, has been treated with love

Bobby Beige, Garden Festival Resident [Croatia] - Casbah 73 edits show us some seriously good cut up Latin funk bombs. Manfredo takes us into carnival territory with it's big brass licks, whilst Red Hott gives us some Trouble Funk style rhythms and cut up samples. Sivuca rounds things off nicely with it's nice slowed down part before kicking back in again full tilt. Full Support,

Mark Milz, Radio Corax [Germany] - Essential stuff...really feelin' the "Big Fat Bottom edit" !!!

Dj Kwak, Strictly Niceness [Brussels] - Jungle Kitten Is just plain ridiculously good ... Aired upon arrival in the show tonight!!

Abe Borgman, Pura Sonica Radio [Costa Rica] Aint no Sunshine is a great and happy track....tropical feelings makes it lovely....I´ll play it !

Jungle Kitten (Casbah 73 Rework) [KAT017] FREE DOWNLOAD

Here's a mix I did recently for the wicked Oonops Drops Show on Brooklyn Radio. Forty minutes of sizzling jazz-funk-disco, you can hear the original show in its entirety here (and check out Oonops Drops Shows if you haven't already!): bit.ly/3h8KuyP

Enjoy!!

Casbah 73 //Jazz-Funk-Disco Mix//Oonops Drops Show//Brooklyn Radio

DJ/Producer/Vinyl Freek. Mixing disco, house and more with wild abandon. And a whole lot of soul.
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New release: Casbah 73 // In The Dark // 12" forthcoming June on Lovemonk Records 
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New release: Casbah 73 // Love Saves The Day // 12" single out now on Glitterbox Records 
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New release: Casbah 73 // Sweet Maybe // 7" single out now on Lovemonk Records 
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