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A1. D.C. LaRue - Do You Want The Real Thing (OPOLOPO Remix)
B1. D.C. LaRue - Let Them Dance (Dr Packer Remix)
B2. D.C. LaRue - Indiscreet (The Knutsens Remix)


Release Date: 7th July 2023
Cat: #OGVV001

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AFTER A LIFETIME on the dance floor, you realize that escape to a beat was not the only thing you found there. Sometimes, and surprisingly soon, you may find self-awareness, challenge, enlightenment. Therein lies a core truth about the timelessness of music, and particularly the music of D.C. LaRue. After two years of art school studying graphic design, LaRue joined the music industry by recording two top 40 pop records influenced by the teen-idol era. In his early adulthood, he began writing songs about the fast-growing club and bar subculture he frequented where the most outcast of society’s young and marginalized could safely congregate after being ostracized in work, church, school, and often family. In this relatively brief selection of LaRue classics, contemporary remixes paradoxically bring out the timelessness of his songs, in tone, message and musicality.

“Indiscreet” alone, from LaRue’s 1976 concept album, “The Tea Dance,” tells much of the story about how disco had already birthed its own far more popular and influential successor form, Hip-Hop, by the time it was declared dead by the superannuated establishments of the radio, media and record businesses. Released in a highly limited, personally inscribed 12-inch 45 rpm edition for a select list of top disco DJs, its complex, elastic polyrhythm made it as irresistible to younger black DJs and breakdancing teens as any of the year’s other big street breakouts, like Ralph MacDonald’s “Jam on the Groove.” Or to a teenage record collector, anything by the R&B band Rufus. The clean, uncluttered remixes here, with their sturdy and un-hectic four-four pulse, put focus on the overlap between the first-call studio musicians of LaRue’s albums and the stellar east and west coast studio session lineups of Gregg Diamond, Ashford and Simpson, Barry White, Stuff, and other diverse creatives of Latin disco and soul-jazz fusion.

But, wait, there’s more! “Let Them Dance,” greeted in its time as a one of the breakthrough moments of new music technology, is reinterpreted mainly with its live acoustic tracks, also retaining bright, rhythmic synthesizer hooks with results that are still true to his intentionally oblique lyric, a novelistic portrayal of the drug dealers, the LGBTQ+ underground community, and the powerful upper class elite that made up the multi-racial, socially integrated crowds on the dance floors at the height of disco. “Do You Want the Real Thing,” also “updated” in the style of the lush yet sharp Motown and Philadelphia production pieces that inspired the arrangement originally, still resonates as a nightly inner dialogue or negotiation, another of LaRue’s literary signatures.

Go ahead, watch a Fleetwood Mac documentary if you want to see industry executives and commentators say, ”Huh. How did that happen?” discussing a timeless and universal work that bravely confronted the raw and troublesome inner feelings and vulnerabilities of the songwriters. Play this record and you will feel exactly how disco gave refuge, healing and community to the most marginalized, and immediately welcomed in absolutely everyone else, even the ruling class, and thereby proved again that in art, national cuisine, fashion and every cultural and creative endeavor, it’s the most outcast of every nationality and generation that feeds, clothes, entertains and inspires the larger society that cast them out in the first place.


Namaste,
Brian Chin
Brooklyn, New York
March, 2023

'Disco Lives' EP

D.C. LaRue - 'Disco Lives' EP (12" Vinyl) Dr Packer, OPOLOPO & The Knutsens Remixes | OUT NOW!

Danny Kane has proved time and again that he's one of the nu boogie scene's greatest funksters. Now back on the block he joins forces again with Princess Freesia with a brand new single for Midnight Riot 'I Love The Way You Do'. As you would expect it’s a classic disco house party. The original mix, Danny brings his trademark sub bassline, melted with disco strings and heavy piano chords. Featuring sensuous female vocals from Princess Freesia it’s another smash through and through. Sweden’s finest Opolopo drops by to deliver another boogie masterpiece, adding hot guitar licks, spaced out Fender Rhodes, a squelchy bassline with a killer breakdown for total dancefloor mayhem plus an added full-length instrumental for those DJs who like to get busy in the mix!

Danny Kane Feat Princess Freesia - I Love The Way You Do (teaser)

SLT249: Way Back
Julius Papp feat. Lisa Shaw
Official Release Date: July 14, 2023
Traxsource Exclusive: June 30, 2023

1. Way Back (Papp's Vocal Remix)
2. Way Back (Jarred Gallo Remix)
3. Way Back (Papp's Dub)

As an integral part of the Salted family, we are thrilled to welcome back our long time collaborators Julius Papp and Lisa Shaw with this smooth elegant single. Originally released in 2010, "Way Back" gets the remix treatment giving the song new life.

Lisa's smokey, unmistakable vocals take center stage while Mr. Papp delivers a tasty slice of soulful bliss on his remixes, infused with a generous dose of musicality, plus a Dub mix for good measure.

And on remix duty, Jarred Gallo makes his return lending his talents as he cooks up this tasteful version with a Nu-Disco forward feel. Jarred's remix takes the song into a whole new direction, with an uplifting ambiance that perfectly captures the essence of summer. We hope the music moves you!

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Julius Papp feat. Lisa Shaw - "Way Back" (Papp's Vocal Remix)

Dj Laurel - Disco Sunset

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Motion Heat (Promo Traxsource)

Yam Who? & Mr Smith Feat Brian Lucas - Set Fire To Me - Extended Latin Dub Mix (teaser)

HOTDIGIT015 Fingerman - Button Pusher (Main Version) (Preview)

Step back into the golden glow of the jukebox era.
This collection takes my original Hopefire tracks and throws them straight into a 1950s diner — warm vocals, vinyl crackle, jukebox charm, and that cinematic retro romance.
Classic melodies, new soul.
Electric Heart meets vintage Americana.

This is nostalgic, dreamy, neon-soft 50s magic…
This is the Hopefire way.


Echoes on the Dancefloor - 1950's Juke Box

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KORT FT HOLLY PETRIE - LET IT FALL (FULL INTENTION REMIX)
TRAXSOURCE & STREAMING – 15/11/19
ALL STORES – 29/11/19

1. KORT Ft Holly Petrie - Let It Fall (Full Intention Remix)

 
Tropical Velvet is pleased to welcome Full Intention back to the label who deliver a blistering remix of ‘Let it Fall’.  Funky bass, disco strings, guitar licks and Rhodes surf pumping beats in combination with a fresh arrangement of Holly’s vocal, to create a slice of ‘Philly-flavoured House that’ll get the dancefloor heaving – don’t miss out.

KORT FT HOLLY PETRIE - LET IT FALL (FULL INTENTION REMIX)

Al Kent _ The Light Of You

Fais par Amour (Rayko special guateque Re - Edit) 

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Fais par Amour (Rayko special guateque Re - Edit)  K - Effect Analog Master

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HOTDIGIT015 Fingerman - Button Pusher (Main Version) (Preview)

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