Name: Legend of a Mind - The Moody Blues (Gube Remix) by gube
Duration: 8 min 31 s
Description: IN PROGRESS. Version 9, MUCH better mastering. What a great song, so many different sections to work with. UNFINISHED.

My remix for Patric Pleasure is out now!

Stream it here:
https://open.spotify.com/track/5AAs7nzFFtoIYN3iEY2liK?si=dd5976316f4f4043

Boots, Booze 'n' Boobs

Patric Pleasure - Boots, Booze 'n' Boobs (The Groove Supplier Remix)

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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!

Delegation - I Wantcha back (SLY Edit)

IN PROGRESS. Version 9, MUCH better mastering. What a great song, so many different sections to work with. UNFINISHED.

Legend of a Mind - The Moody Blues (Gube Remix)

Hot Gorilla Records are back with our 2nd release of the year - and it's a biggie, as Andy Buchan drops his Choir EP. 3 festival-ready edits of Talking Heads, Daft Punk and Simple Minds that have been tried and tested over the last 12 months 

These are big, fun and have been supported by a huge range of names including Craig Charles, ALFOS, BBC 6 Music and loads more.

https://www.junodownload.com/products/andy-buchan-choir-ep/6545963-02/

Andy Buchan - Choir EP Mini Mix

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http://www.juno.co.uk/products/osmose-king-most-the-bedroom-disco-2/632690-01/
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HHV.de (Germany)
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All Music ©2009-present Chris Gubisch, BMI, except remixes, where credited. To download high-resolution versions of any of these tracks, or addition licensing information, contact Chris Gubisch at christopher.gubisch@gmail.com


Chris is a composer and producer from Los Angeles, California. He's written music for numerous TV commercials, promos and trailers, as well as scoring documentaries and shorts. His credits include HBO's "39 Pounds of Love", FX's "Damages", and many reality shows like "Destination Truth" MTV's "16 & Pregnant", "Dad Camp", "Tori and Dean", "Bad Girls Club" and "Destination Truth".

Legend of a Mind - The Moody Blues (Gube Remix)

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