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I will always remember those moments at the Nomads festival when Red Greg would close down the Lumberjacks in Hell stage and time stood oddly still, the sunset behind the trees and a warm breeze driving through the crowd. After several hours of dancing, everybody on the dancefloor was familar with each other, the first five rows or so anyway. I remember Rahaan, Mendel, Dieuwer, Robbert, Sam and Bram of course, Kim, Chiara... and Ben! 
The thought ringing through my head, this is as good as it gets. No matter where else you chose to travel to, this is the perfect moment and nothing could make it better. 
All of these Nomads days and nights merge into each other, not least because we had Darren celebrate with us somewhere around 2-4 times. One year it was Sylvester's - Over & Over at ten to eleven, the second last song of the day, that captured on video, encapsuled every emotion that needed to be captured.
I am not able to recall all of the music from those sessions. I remember his legendary blends that have lead you into the next epic groover long before you even realized it's a new tune. Never missing a beat and forever leaving you with a smile and a "damn" on your lips. 
Where did that coming from and how much higher can we go?

Red Greg, take us back to those beautiful moments of freedom and joy.

Lumberjacks Tapes 013: Red Greg

Forty Minutes of Funk is a bi-weekly mix series hosted by @Kirollus celebrating the sound of boogie and 80's funk. Follow @fmofunk for more of your weekly funk mixes 🔥

Austrian based DJ and record fiend Dieter mit Platten is easily one of the most hardcore and knowledgeable diggers when it comes to rare boogie, 80's funk & we're so lucky to have him bless us with this killer mix featuring some very tough to find heavy hitters 🥵

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Tracklist --- 

After Five – Baby I'll Try
Renegade – A Fine Time (To Discover)
Clastyle – How Close
Fresno Cruz And Pauline Gibbs – Don't Use My Heart
Fifth Avenue – Got To Take A Chance (On This Romance)
Greyship Daviz – This Groove Is On The Loose
Polyphase feat. Aaron Broomfield – The Polyphase
Mifflin Ensemble – The M.E. Experience
The Edwards – Socket
First Class International – Cold Blood

FMO Funk - 035 | Dieter mit Platten

This is a recording of my DJ set for the alldayer livestream event of the MSV FB group on 05/06/21.

TRACKLIST:
01) Soul, Mind & Body - I Took Your Love (To Be True)
02) Roland Haynes Jr. And Phenix - Mind Games
03) Z-19 - The Night Is Still Young
04) Rodney & Company - When You're Dancin'
05) Lust - I Like Spending My Time With You
06) Stars - Dancin' People
07) Blackrock Educators - Isn't It Nice
08) Eclipse - When It Hits
09) Cloudburst - I'm Lovin You
 10) Cecil Lyde - I'll Make It On My Own
 11) Mister - I Wanna Thank You
 12) Freedom - Can't You See
 13) Fabulous Friends - Hard Enough
 14) Back Street Band - Let's Be Lovers
 15) Carter And Chanel - Tonight Is Right
 16) Christina - Visions And Dreams
 17) Realside - Flying High
 18) Ashanti' - Longin' For You

MSV (Modern Soul Vinyl) Alldayer 2021-06-05

Amazing guest mix from Tone B Nimble - collector, DJ and curator of the fantastic gospel vinyl series, Soul Is My Salvation.

Tune in for an hour of disco/soul delights and rarities!

Big thanks to Tony for this one, a pleasure having you on MWR!

Tone B Nimble - Guest Mix

Numero 69 w/ the great selecter https://soundcloud.com/dietermitplatten 

Tracklist: 
Turner-N-Friends - Strutt-Ya-Stuff
The Verdict - That's Where I Come In
Odyssey & Company - Tattletale
The Chapparrals - Charity
Fredia D. - Why Can't I Be With You
B.O.F. - I've Got Your Number
Pause - Got To Know
Rojas - With Your Love
Harris Haith - Show Me The Way
Byrd Pressley - Something To Remember You By
Mac Band - Do It For You
Purple Gang - Say It
American Chocolate - Don't Bug Me
Thomas & Taylor - I'll Be Waiting

#69 / Dieter mit Platten - Lovers' Boogie

Recording of most of my April 2022 set @frequencebarparis 

I decided to go for mostly 45s (with a few 12" still) because of a painful sciatica I have been carrying for several weeks. Enjoy!

98% 45s, a few 12" & a Sciatica - Live @ Frequence (Paris) | April 2022

Next up in our Record Club Guest Mix series are Admin and Raw Queen. It's a back-to-back, Bristol meets Paris affair, resulting in a blistering mix of underground disco and funky sounds. Packed with heat, there’s cheap UK pressings, rare private 45s, under the radar gospel LP cuts, instrumental britfunk and much more. Thoroughly recommended and guaranteed to bring you up. 

Admin (Adam Wickens) is a DJ and producer that’s long been on our radar, with his ‘Step Into Light’ jam proving to be a particular favourite of ours. So much so we put the jazzy club joint onto the latest instalment of our Record Club compilation series. Based in Bristol, he founded the clubnight and edits series 'Community Disc-O’s’. The party is fuelled by a pure love for disco and hosted out of the backroom of Bristol’s The Crofters Rights venue. The night has blossomed into a platform for lesser-known DJs and the occasional international guest to stop on by. Previous guests to play have included Mark Grusane, Frederika, Island Times and Yadava. The ingredients are simple: two turntables, one rotary mixer, one mirror ball, a smoke machine and a bag full of disco, funk and boogie.

Another name to add to their international guest appearances is Raw Queen (Antoine O’Quin). A DJ based in Paris who took a trip to Community Disc-O's’ for their ninth party at the end of January. With an insatiable appetite for obscure private modern soul, gospel and disco rarities, Antoine quickly made an impression with his mixtapes, landing him coveted spots at Brilliant Corners and Spiritland. Back in Paris, Antoine can be seen DJing regularly in the city at musical hotspots Frequence and Bambino, and also co-runs the club night DiscoStormy (where Admin was a recent guest).

The mix was recorded at Admin’s place, the Sunday after the party. Mixed on a pair of Technics SL-1210 MKII running through an E&S DJR200, and post a big roast lunch, the idea was to capture some of the magic of the party. An extension of Friday's music that reflected the pace, energy and joy of that night. Like many B2Bs, there’s a raw feeling to the mix, with each DJ introducing their sound and keeping the other on their toes. 

Thanks to Admin and Raw Queen for giving us this big mix to share, a lethal pairing doing it right. 

Find them here: 

Admin 

Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/adminuk
Bandcamp: https://admnbristol.bandcamp.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/admin_bristol/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AdminDJ/

Raw Queen

Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/rawqueen
Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkPIa_Vy5oiT6sT9DeFN0Vw
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_raw_queen_/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rawqueendj/

Photo Credit - Sophia Stefellé

Mr Bongo Record Club Guest Mix - Admin & Raw Queen

" Some selection of records at Frequence Paris" 
Mixtape
Vinyl Only
Rotary DJR 200
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Mixtape WINTER 2023

Robert was our friend, and we miss him. It's difficult to put into words just what he meant to us. He was a mentor, an inspiration. Canada’s, and more specifically Montreal’s, disco deity. We won’t burrow into his biography, as it is extensive, and footnotes would simply not do him justice. Check out the Red Bull Music Academy video interview if you want to start to journey into who he was for yourself. We made this mix just a few days after he died. It is a cathartic, vastly imperfect, and quick expedition into his music. It merely scratches the surface of who he was, musically.

We connected through a party we were playing for Pride Toronto, after we suggested that he replace the divine Nicky Siano on the bill, as Nicky had to back out at the last minute. After that party, we played together a handful of times, both in his native Montreal and in Toronto, but we really became close through afternoons spent in his home studio, sharing songs. He was more passionate about music than anyone we’d ever met. He was in his seventies, some forty years our senior, but was a big kid really, and when we were together we were contemporaries. We loved taking him out to dinner, which happened about once a month, and hearing stories of his Limelight disco days, or of his experience making house music in the nineties. Or speaking to what it was like to be a seventy-odd something still making music and djing parties. He was always working on something. Always. We were so proud to help get a few of his edits out to the world, through connections with GAMM, Basic Fingers, and Whiskey Disco. He had so much music to share, and was constantly clamouring for us to send him edits for his radio shows, a request we complied to, often and happily. 

When the world stopped with Covid, we were no longer able to make it to Montreal. We’d chat over the internet, or do video calls, but, in hindsight, we could and should have stayed better connected. When the news of his passing broke, over a stranger's shared Facebook post of all places, we were breathless and in disbelief. We called his phone, over and over again, putting our faith in the unreliability of social media, but he didn’t answer. Shortly after, a text came from his phone, from a friend of his, confirming the news. The hardest part was knowing that those dinners were over. No more advice and no more shared wisdom. The promise of another party to play together was to be left unfulfilled. We just hope that he knew how much we loved him and how important he was to us.

Dylan & John aka the Patchouli Brothers

Lumberjacks Tape 044: Ode to Robert Ouimet by The Patchouli Brothers

Live From Lille France 11/05/2023

Full and unedited recording of my in-store DJ session at Vienna's @apartmentacht record & concept store.

Apartment Acht In-Store Session, 2023-12-09

Recorded "LIVE" on Easter Sunday, 2019 - Here's a nice long (just under 5 hours) taste from what was a beautiful 8 hour journey of sensational music curated on the fly by the super combo of GE-OLOGY and RED GREG (both amazing in their own right), whose individual and combined music knowledge, chemistry, insane record collections, and masterful DJ skills WOW'd the Selectors Stage audience at DEKMANTEL a few years ago when they first paired up to play back-to-back. Ever since, it's been a treat to see these guys team up on a few more occasions...and the 6th birthday celebration for the FEVER 105 crew was no exception! Pure musical bliss....enjoy!

GE-OLOGY & RED GREG (LIVE at The Pickle Factory, London)- Easter Sunday 2019 - Fever 105 6th bday!!!

Here is a live DJ set I streamed to Facebook Live on April 30, 2020. It's basically the result of a crate-digging expedition for mostly-forgotten disco tracks which saw me foraging through mountains of record boxes, and managing to laboriously unearth special musical treasures that I can share with you. 

While a few familiar tunes are sprinkled throughout, at this time it's been decided that (unlike my other uploads) no track listing will be published. These here are not too difficult to guess yet, they may get progressively harder in future editions of the 'Disco Nuggets' series which have officially started with this mix.

Hope you enjoy listening through these and discovering what they are as much as I did hunting for those goodies after hours of musical archeology.

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In these challenging times, having lost all of my work as a professional touring DJ, any support or financial help would be appreciated. You can either donate monthly with Patreon: patreon.com/fknyc or send one-time gifts via PayPal (use: "family and friends") to: paypal.me/axisnyc Thanks in advance for whatever you may be able to do.

Isolation Streams in 2020

François K - Disco Nuggets (Vol. 1)

Bring The Heat Battle Mix from 2008

Tracklist:
01) Special Touch - Shakin' Your Body (Poppin' That Thang) (7" Version)
02) Keni C. - Find Someone (To Love You) (7" Version)
03) David Knox - Baby Show It
04) Horizon - Let Me Be The One
05) Empulse - Secret Love
06) Ben - I Would Have To Be A Fool
07) Ronnie "Rude Boy" Perkins - You're Out Of Sight
08) Bill Williams And Billeo - Things Will Be Better Tomorrow
09) Together - Do You Want To Go Home With Me
10) The X-Man - That Body (7" Version)
11) High Interest - I Like
12) Unit Three - Let's Boogie Tonight
13) Gang's Back - Magic Touch (7" Version)
14) Franklyn - Future Love
15) Brothers II - You

MSV (Modern Soul Vinyl) Alldayer 2021-06-05

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