2022

Reverberation #416

First single released  17 March 2022 - taken from the forthcoming album reissue - details below 

Artist : City Heat

Title   : City Heat (digital single)

Label : Tangential 



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Release date of full album is 6th May 2022 -  vinyl courtesy of RE:WARM records & digitally via Tangential



For RE:WARM 008 we present City Heat - City Heat, a collection of classy British soul that reveals an under explored period of UK club music. Originally released in the 1988-89‘Summers Of Love’, this six track selection showcases the new Brit soul sound that would lead to Jazzie B OBE inviting City Heat’s Simon Law to become a key part of the Grammy Award winning Soul II Soul collective. Remastered and released on RE:WARM records. 



 Born in Trinidad to an Anglican minister (father) and a classically trained professional musician (mother), the brother and sister duo of Simon aka The Funky Ginger and Joanna Law were born surrounded by music. Relocating to the UK as children, they quickly realised what they wanted to do and by 1987, City Heat had been signed to Chrysalis but it was after a meeting with the late Ross Anderson that everything clicked. His Kingly St Basement studio became their lab and the master musician, sound engineer, reggae 45 aficionado, and studio builder became their beloved teacher and collaborator. 



 The Brit soul scene was a convergence of many influences. US and UK soul, jazz and funk, hip hop, Caribbean sound system culture and the incredible emerging machine funk of Chicago and Detroit house. Regulars at club nights like Soul II Soul’s Africa Centre sessions,  Shake and Finger Pop, Dance Wicked , The “Do’s” and Norman Jay’s Rare Groove workouts at the Bass Clef in Hoxton, Simon and Jo wanted to contribute music for this beautifully diverse, vibrant scene.



 The swaggering ‘City Heat’ appears as two very different mixes here. The ‘London Kick Mix’ has Joanna’s rich jazzy vocal allied with the classic DX7 bass sound beloved of Gwen Guthrie et al and a tough mid tempo rhythm reminiscent of Sly and Robbie with its hard snare and tambourine line. Heavy synth brass stabs punctuate a confidently spare production but it is as warm as the title suggests. The instrumental ‘Love Baby Love Mix’ beefs up the Roland drums and dubs out the keys and timbales, amplifying the cool strut of the original groove. ‘Rock Me (In The Cradle Of Jazz)’, also from 1988, shares the same palette but comes with a lighter touch. Joanna’s ode to the jazz greats is probably the most Pop Soul track on this collection and sits nicely next to Sade’s best.





 By 1989, City Heat’s production and songwriting had leapt forward and we can hear this emphatically on the deliciously smooth RnB slow dancer ‘Strange How It Goes’ and the piano led ‘What Must I Do’ and its loving nod to Roy Ayres‘ productions. Finally we have the catwalk groove of ‘London Child’ with its fluid Spanish style guitar work from Ross, Joanna in full sensual mode and an infectious nod to the voguing craze.



The Soul II Soul DJs Jazzie B, Daddae Harvey, Q and Aitch were key supporters of City Heat and led to Simon becoming part of the Soul II Soul songwriting and production team (Keep On Moving and Back To Life were both born at Ross’ studio). Artists such as Chaka Khan, James Taylor of Kool and The Gang, Junior Giscombe, Light Of The World and many others came to work with him there. Simon went on to remix Eric B & Rakim and write with his mentor and hero, EWF’s Maurice White amongst many projects but he also continued to produce music with Joanna and Ross. Joanna’s own musical career included releases on US label Easy Street including the classic First Time Ever I Saw Your Face (oft sampled) and two great albums with the Pressure Drop team and has been releasing soul-drenched tunes up to this day.

Strange How It Goes

Strange How It Goes (feat. Joanna Law, Simon Law)

City Heat - Strange How It Goes

Mikeandtess est un artiste que j'admire énormément.
Il a réédité un tas de tracks géniaux et en les rendant souvent meilleurs, j'ai pioché dedans, j'ai fais un mix et voilà ce que ça donne. Du 100% Mikeandtess !

TRIBUTE TO MIKEANDTESS

The second vinyl only Toy Tonics Edits EP comes up with some secret weapons of Toy Tonics DJ's Max Josef, Mr.Munk and Manuel Kim.
Heavy percussions, slow disco summer soul and rollin' proto house. 
Dancefloor fillers par excellence. 300 copies only.

Check www.toytonics.de

Buy Vinyl

Sunshine Boogie - Walkin (Munk Edit)

Marcello Giordani - World From A Cloud

Because this track wasn't on SoundCloud I decided to upload this beauty.

Released: June 2013

If you (artist/label) have any problem with a track I have uploaded, please contact me and I will remove it.

Bara Bröst - Morning Glory

Astronauts Etc feat. Toro Y Moi - Rocket Man

Psychemagik - Wake Up Everybody.mp3

Monika - Secret In The Dark (Juan MacLean edit)

Peven Everett - Put Your Back Into It (original Mix)

https://www.discogs.com/fr/C-Love-Gator-Boots-Vol5/release/7132252

C Love - Say A Little

mastering WAV version :) remix from @lordecho
track: Thinking of you : https://lordecho.bandcamp.com/album/thinking-of-you-7-edit
https://soundcloud.com/lordecho 

Thinking Of You

112 kbps files for preview - don't be a dunce!

At long last, https://soundcloud.com/jkriv & Free Magic make their collaborative debut on RNT Reserve with a very unique triptych of productions. The A side is bonafide party-starter, working a soul sample in classic stomping house style, while the B-side delivers two jazzy and darker moods. A beautiful listen or spin on the dancefloor all around!

JKriv & Free Magic - Emmanuel

I'VE ALWAYS LOVED THIS SONG BUT, I FELT THE  FLOW OF THE ARRANGEMENT WAS ALWAYS A BIT BROKEN UP.... SO I REWORKED IT.
IF YOU DONT KNOW ALREADY THE LAZER FX ARE AUDIO WATERMARKS.... ENJOY !

GAPP BAND ~ MESSIN'

a short little tasty jam about why i haven't been around. thank you for being patient with me, i appreciate all of you guys. pls enjoy

produced by the great @mitchgeist 

sensei

Brooklyn's Let's Play House keeps building momentum with its second release of 2012. This time, label heads Jacques Renault, Nik Mercer, and James Friedman have teamed up with a pair of artists shrouded in mystery—the Dead Rose Music Company—to put out an EP featuring four songs that confound definition... 


The Four Songs EP is a collection of tracks that aim to be cinematic in their production approach: these are epic mixes meant to stand the test of time, fueled by huge drops, warm, syrupy bass lines, and ear-tickling effects. While the four songs are technically edits, Dead Rose have left their inimitable fingerprints all over them. Each tune has the air and ambiance of a groove you got into at a party, but can't remember fully the morning after; they're visceral and almost dreamy, like the jumbled recollections of last night's disco fading in and out of strobe-lit smoke on the dancefloor. 

Shake

Finally, it's set!

In demand Tokyo-based crate digger, Beaten Space Probe proudly presents his own new label which aims to release heavily reworked and beautifully remastered versions of boogie disco cuts.

From slow vibes to stompin’ boogie, all the tracks are reconstructed for today’s dance floors and contemporary disco DJs. 

Volume one features 4 boogie belters including one of Greg Wilson’s favorite tracks of 2011.

Enjoy!

BSP 001 - Beaten Space Probe - Nine Lives (112kbps lo-res preview)

Tarocchi d'Estate

Sincerity

4 track EP recorded live at Galernaya 20 Studios, Saint Petersburg, Russia

Anton Lymarev — bass 
Alexander Lestyukhin — keyboards, guitar 
Leonid Lipelis — percussion, electronics 
Sergey Lipsky — guitar 
Yana Blinder — vocals 
Grigoriy Dobrynin — drums 
Konstantin Pokhvalin — guitar 
Kirill Sergeev — samples, electronics

produced by Leonid Lipelis, Kirill Sergeev and Roman Urazov 
recorded and mixed by Roman Urazov

B2 dubbed live by Leonid Lipelis

www.galernaya20.com

2022

Discodist