Funky Monkey

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Unlimited Touch - I Hear Music in The Streets (Deepdown Edit) [NEW DOWNLOAD LINK]

I got the opportunity to officially remix this classic song to coincide with the release of a new Donny Hathaway box set. I was given the original multitrack master of the studio version (different from the live version)and it consisted of 8 different instrument and vocal tracks (as opposed to the more usual 24 tracks) 
When I take on a remix, my first goal is to make it work on a current dance floor. I like to stay very close to the originally recorded sound and In most case there's plenty to be reworked on the multitrack master to achieve this. 
This case proved a little different as there were few rhythm elements I could use to fit within current standards of club loudness levels. So I decided to take a slightly different approach, and add a new set of (acoustic) drums,  to bend the original Soul vibe a little towards Disco territory. 
This remix is exclusive to my soundcloud page and free to download as a 16bit WAV file 

#FreeDL - Donny Hathaway - The Ghetto (Dimitri From Paris Inna Disco)SC Exclusive

Produced by Afshin & @alexfinkin for the My Grooves party @djoonclub
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Honey Cone - Truth Will Come Out (My Grooves Edit - Afshin & Alex Finkin)

One of my favourite disco tracks. I've slowed it down a bit and added some LNTG muscle. Enjoy :-)

Make Me Feel [LNTG Muscle Mix]

ANOTHER SURE SHOT REMIX.... JUST A SNIPPET OF THE 11 MIN VERSION.

SYLVESTER ~ OVER AND OVER **UPDATED* *KON'S FIND A FRIEND STRIP MIX

SV 05 A

"One Bad Apple"- The Osmonds (8-track tape)

12 Inch Classics

Machine - There But For The Grace Of God Go I (Original)

Betty Wright - Slip & Do It (V feels so good edit)

My remix for Soul Rebels Brass Band track "504"

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The Soul Rebels Brass Band - 504 (Mr Bird Remix)

Donna Summer meets Cassius - If it Hurts just a little'99 (EC).

Spice Sweet Norma

THE CROWN - GARY BYRD AND THE GB EXPERIENCE

Patrice Rushen's disco jazz funk masterpiece gets a respectful extended disco mix using the original 24 track tapes. Look out for this, along with the Roxy Music remix and several other classic tunes remixed on an album released later this year

Patrice Rushen - Haven't You Heard (Joey Negro Extended Disco Mix)

Angel in my Pocket (80s Child Edit)

A new Retro Roland Ghettofunk Fix of The Chi-Lites - Are You My Woman (Tell Me So).  

This song was brought to the forefront as Beyonce sampled this gem for her mega-hit "Crazy In Love".

The energy in the original is so rhythmically infectious, and Retro Roland brings it to another level!  Enjoy!

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Chi-Lites - Are You My Woman (Retro Roland's Ghettofunk Fix) (Beyonce Sampled)

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The Futures - Ain't no time fa nothing (A Young Pulse Rework)

We've seen this story in music time and time again; Al Kent - the ambitious producer who spent his life's earnings making his dream project. The project was the Million Dollar Orchestra, an army of musicians whose sole mission was to complete a fully orchestrated Disco LP born in Al's mind and inspired by the lost sounds of classic '70s material much in the vein of the Salsoul Orchestra or MFSB. The MDO LP achieved just that. The music was rich with lush strings, thick brass sections and filled out with arrangements of epic Disco proportions. The LP was magnificent, however much like history has also shown us time and time again; this ambitious project left the producer completely spent, both emotionally and financially.

As we all know any producer worth his salt rises from the ashes and always comes back, usually with a newer stripped down sound and condensed studio budget. This is Al Kent's rise from the ashes that sees him coming at us full throttle even with his bruises and broken bones. This is part of the natural cycle we've seen before in Disco history. Private press Disco records sell for hundreds of dollars on ebay because of the mixture of raw energy that is harnessed in one studio take and the underfunding involved creates a distinct sound on those vinyl platters that can't be replicated. That is unless of course like Al Kent, you record much of your new secretive LP in your bedroom hence using a lot less musicians than you did last time around and then complete the rest of the project in a fully analog studio called The Barn.
 


Al dug out some old tracks he'd been working on previously. Some were half finished, others were little more than ideas, and a few were demos he'd put together for the Million Dollar Orchestra. He got some musicians back together to record a few bits and put these nine new tracks together. It didn't take as long as MDO, but then he didn't record a brass or string section this time. However the tunes do focus on neck snapping drum breaks, heavy boogie bass lines, the bottom heavy aspects of Disco, or as I like to think of it - the underbelly of real independent Disco. It was all mixed at The Barn again, "because that desk and reel to reel tape is just too nice." On the technical side, the difference between digital and analog especially in the right hands is night and day. When it goes through a proper desk where all the effects and all the reverbs etc, are real, it makes a massive difference. It throws up all sorts of challenges which on a computer would be fixed in seconds with some preset. It takes a lot of time and thought to do this using more traditional methods but it's worth it when it works out. 

The finished mixes were bounced to tape - i.e. played back through the mixing desk to a reel to reel machine then recorded back to the computer via valve compressors and other gizmos. That process just pulls everything together and the tape adds a certain something - a warmth that's totally missing in digital recording. 

On the creative side Al thought that an album of all up tempo tracks that were primarily DJ friendly didn't make for a particularly interesting album, except to DJs. He wanted to find a way to make it more interesting for the general public to listen to as well. The LP starts off with a banger and track tempos vary from fired up dancers to mid tempo hustles and down tempo steppers, all the while woven through recordings of lost DJ interviews, commercial advertisements for old Discos, and even revisits the Disco Sucks riot in Chicago's Comiskey ball park over the course of the LP. Al expropriates the Disco Sucks chants and even including it in one of the tunes. The phrase "Disco's Revenge" immediately comes to mind. Don't forget Al got his start as a soul boy and the star tune of this LP may even just be the vocal anthem "Come Back Home" featuring Tyrone Taylor on vocals. This is a welcome addition to Al's discography and brings his sounds full circle.

This independent Disco LP is woven from the mind of a true Disco aficionado (some may even say Disco obsessive) using both real history and new sounds to create a modern disco fantasy for all to enjoy on their headphones or on the dance floors. It is with great honor that I introduce Al Kent's latest burner of a Disco LP: SECRET SOUNDS - So turn up that stereo or put on your best outfit for the discothèque, and get down-get down... 

Love On The Run, New York, August 2009

Come Back Home

Millie Jackson - We Got to Hit it Off (Alkalino Rework)

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