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What do you get when you cross the legendary group harmony of the Impressions, with the savvy production stylings of Daptone’s very own master of ceremonies and guitar dynamo, Binky Griptite?  Easy, you get one of the finest collaborations that has ever been realized onto 7 inches of high quality vinyl. Ladies and gentlemen we present to the greater Daptone Universe, the first single by The Impressions in over 30 Years.  Featuring original members, Fred Cash, Sam Gooden, as well as Reggie Torrian, who has been singing with the group since the early ‘70s – this single is the sweet soulful beauty you’d expect from the Impressions. No cheesy synthetic instruments or tryin-to-stay-contemporary 'beats' here. This is real soul music played by a real band and how sweet it is!

 "Rhythm" the aptly titled A-Side, is a Curtis Mayfield penned tune that was a big hit for Major Lance in the Mid-Sixties. The Impressions revive this classic with their iconic sophisticated harmonies and a new horn arrangement by "The 4th Impression", Johnny Pate himself, that moves the song along at a laid back, yet dance friendly pace. This track is Soul of the highest order.  Get the 45 at www.shopdaptonerecords.com/

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The Impressions - Rhythm!

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Naomi Shelton & the Gospel Queens "What Have You Done"

Thanks EVERYBODY! Just reached over 1000 followers on soundcloud! This little discofied edit is a small present for all you out there, who - strangely enough - like what I am doing. The lovely JAYE P. MORGAN is an american singer, actress (and game show panelist). She released about 15 albums in various musical styles. "Lets get together" is from her selftitled album from 1976, where she experienced a fusion of Disco and Pop. The musicians on this album are like an all-star 70s studio-crew: David Foster produced, Jeff Porcaro on drums, Kenny Loggins, Ray Parker Jr. Lee Ritenour and many many more! Enjoy this mellow Disco-Pop-trip! 

She is still active, so show her some love: http://www.jayepmorgan.com/

my blog:
www.howdoyouare.com

JAYE P. MORGAN - Let's Get Together (dj supermarkt softrock-disco edit)

Valerie June - ‘Pushin’ Against a Stone’ – new album out now on Sunday Best Recordings

As seen on Later…with Jools Holland

Features the singles ‘Workin’ Woman Blues’, ‘Wanna Be On Your Mind’ & ‘You Can’t Be Told’

Order the CD and Heavyweight Vinyl at www.valeriejune.com

‘A moment worth waiting for…her voice that really lingers in the memory’ – The Observer
‘Terrific’- 4/5 Evening Standard
‘Born to sing’ – The Sunday Times
‘one of those rare albums that don’t come along very often where every track is a gem’- 5/5 Female First
‘Stunning’ – The Telegraph
‘A very satisfying piece of work indeed’ – Album of the month – 4/5 Echoes
‘unlike many of her peers, Valerie June can bring to the table a rawer, more authentic sound pushing her into a league of her own’ – Red Magazine

Pushin' Against a Stone

Disco
NuDisco
House
Funk Soul
New Wave
Afro
Latin

Faze Action December 2013 Mix

This podcast accompanies a blog piece, also titled ‘Unmixed Esssentials’, which simultaneously went online:
http://www.gregwilson.co.uk/2014/01/unmixed-essentials/

To mark the 5th anniversary of perhaps the defining moment of my reignited DJ career, my Essential Mix for BBC Radio 1 on January 17th 2009, I’ve put together a podcast that includes all of the 43 source tracks featured in their full-length glory (retaining the same running order) - a whopping 277 minutes in all.

The Essential Mix is available to stream / download here:
http://soundcloud.com/gregwilson/essential-mix-greg-wilson-mix-for-bbc-radio-1

Essential Mix page at electrofunkroots:
http://www.electrofunkroots.co.uk/essential-mix/

Greg Wilson 17.01.14

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

UNMIXED ESSENTIALS (greg wilson selection)

Also avalaible in live version from Boreal Cruise 2017
https://open.spotify.com/album/64BL39QOIXbALYigwqqcnB?si=3EZSrcxPSRusAAJagpf0Ig

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℗ 2014 EFFE Production Music
digital release: June 14, 2014 by EFFE Production Music

Hollywood Party (Solo Noir album)

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Harry's Code

With this record, The Como Mamas join forces with the boys of Menahan Street Band (billed pseudonymously here as The Radiant Rhythm Band) to lay bare the funkier side of gospel music. 

“The rhythms we all play were already right there in their vocals,” explains drummer Homer Steinweiss, “so it felt natural to lay down the grooves behind them.” Thomas “T-N-T” Brenneck, the up-and-coming producer who brought us both Menahan Street Band and Charles Bradley, presided over the collaboration, which took place in the old Dunham Studio in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

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The Como Mamas - Out of the Wilderness

dog samples (Kiss)

Al Green- Summertime

Perception Productions, a New York based label that ran from the late 60s through until 1974, was a strangely eclectic affair. Its roster stretched from a radical Afro-American poet through to the pop band King Harvest whose hit ‘Dancing In The Moonlight’ became a massive hit for the UK band Toploader a couple of decades later. The inbetween points covered jazz, funk, vocal harmony soul and proto-disco. In fact distilled down into this compilation the label provides us a view of Manhattan’s black music scene of the period, from the established greats to the fresh young things who would make their mark in the coming years. The two men who ran the label, President Terry Phillips and Boo Frazier burned brightly for that half a decade before almost entirely disappearing from the music scene.

Matrix - Dizzie Gillespie

Buy it here: http://shop.daptonerecords.com/products/lights-out-keep-coming-back

Dark, triumphant and mysterious; the new Menahan Street band 45 single "Light's Out" conjures images of hard-fighting pugilists battling it out under a bare bulb, of a matador's graceful execution of a lumbering bull, of sweat, romance and victory.  Brought in by a rollicking, almost tipsy, Hammond melody and backed by a smoky smooth guitar line, “Keep Coming Back” eventually erupts into a swanky nightlife anthem, complete with red velvet curtains and a garnished highball.

Menahan Street Band - Lights Out

Myron & E with the Soul Investigators: "Clap Sing" b/w "Dangerous"

We have this 45 free with purchase of their debut LP Broadway at Stones Throw:
http://stonesthrow.com/news/2013/06/myron-e-clap-sing

Myron & E - Clap Sing

Loves music, obviously. Had a good time in the nineties and noughties. Paying for it now! Influences/flavours far and wide - from Tech House to Northern Soul to Disco via Jazz, Rock, Funk and R&B. 

The Como Mamas - Out of the Wilderness

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