Knocked my head off this has. What an edit......first class. 🙏🙏

love it!! can i get a download link? cheers!

how could I missed that track ;-) somewhat houselike, great!

Artist: Various Artists
Title: Slam Dunk E.P
Cat.#: DFR009
Format: 12''

After a very short break Daje Funk are back with a super fresh redesign. The label is also fully embracing the move from their previous 10” format to 12” with the obvious bonus that they are now able to cram just that little bit of extra music onto their releases.

Their latest release, the Slam Dunk EP, is their 9th since the label arrived and it’s been a memorable journey so far. Keeping things decidedly funk with a modern dancefloor twist for their latest instalment they have assembled and all-star cast of producers with Dutch edits wizard, Ronny Hammond, England’s Shit Hot Soundsystem and Uptown Funk and Italian producer Coldbeard all taking turns to vie for dancefloor gold.

Together they have turned in one mighty slab of black wax.

The EP opens with Ronny Hammond’s ‘Keep On Groovin’ and it’s a very serious club track. For those of you with long memories and deep collections the original used here was sampled for Screen II’s Hey Mr DJ, a 90’s house classic on Cleveland City and it feels just as essential right now in 2021 as it did in both the 70’s when the original arrived and in the 90’s. Keep On Groovin’ is a proper funk bomb and Ronny has taken it to town with the addition of a powerhouse bassline, ass shakin’ drums and cheeky ear worm vocal samples. Indeed there is no chance that you will be able to sit still when this one drops. Expect it to cause serious dancefloor mischief over the coming summer months.

Shit Hot Soundsystem is up next with ‘Woah’ with label co-boss De Gama adding some extra scalpel action. Another track with classic subject matter, this often sampled track has rarely sounded as good as on this monstrous funky outing. It still sounds as fresh and exciting as the first time you heard those vibrant and vital synths and beautifully layered vocals. ‘Woah’ is both immediate and essential and will be soundtracking parties for years to come.

Over on the flip Uptown Funk’s ‘South Side Boogie’ also has De Gama on edit duty and here things head off downtown 70’s funk style. Brass stabs, wah guitar, and spicy synth licks all combine for a track which has plenty of joyous zest as it combines disco edges with a funk packed groove combing to deliver serious club heat.

Seeing the EP out is Coldbeard and he takes up deeper still with a bubbling groove which captivates from the first notes of the dynamo synth bass before adding in electric guitar licks and a rhythm line to die for. A Funky Situation is a perfect example of how to build a track piece by piece until it becomes utterly essential. Once you have heard that Rhodes and the vocal stabs working together you just know that this one will need to be played religiously.

Four utterly essential tracks which perfectly bridge the gap from the 70’s to 2021. Nine releases deep Daje Funk delivers yet again on its mission to make funk as utterly essential in clubs again nearly 4 decades after it’s glorious genres beginnings.

(Le Visiteur Online)

Slam Dunk E.P. [DFR009]

Slam Dunk E.P._Shit Hot Soundsystem - A2. Woah (De Gama Re - Built)[DFR009]

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Edits / Mixes / Acetates / Bootplates/ Cuts / Waxing / Regrooving / Revybez / Extensions / Deconstructions / Flips / Swindles

A collection of Specially Mixed 12 INCH FUNKY-NUDISCO-HOUSE, DEEP DISCO & DANCE BOOGIE CLUB CUTS
Though they're stamped as edits, these tracks usually act more like remixes
Blown-Out Disco Jam ... churning out cut after cut of the slickest singles, edits, and remixes that inspired the early house movement. ..

The Jacksons - Music's Takin' Over (Uncle Jam 12 Inch Hard Groove Mix)

A-ta,Caynas - If You Go Away

D.C. LaRue ‘Cathedrals’ (greg wilson edit)

119 bpm

Previously limited vinyl only 2007.

Pressed in 2007 as ‘DC La Groove’, just a few months after I'd put it together, this instantly became a big tune for me and was later included on my Essential Mix in 2009 (http://soundcloud.com/gregwilson/essential-mix-greg-wilson-mix-for-bbc-radio-1) and was most recently featured at the camptastic NYC Downlow in Glastonbury last June (http://soundcloud.com/gregwilson/glastonbury-nyc-downlow-17-06/).   

I’d always been captivated by the lyrics of ‘Cathedrals’ (I’ve copied below what I wrote about the original version for my Time Capsule series), and used to play it when it first came out in ’76, but I wanted a version that placed the emphasis on the superb rhythm section. I’d initially planned to retain some of the vocal, but eventually decided an instrumental would work best for my purposes. I set about removing the vocal sections and, having thrown in some samples for good measure, I knew I had an edit that would do the business. 

Here’s what I wrote in November 2006 for the Nov ‘76 edition of Time Capsule:
“D.C. LaRue's 'Cathedrals' is an acknowledged classic of the Disco era. Released on Pyramid in the US, like many dance records of the time it broke via the gay scene in New York and would climb to number 6 on the Billboard Disco chart. Connecticut born LaRue (real name David Charles L'Heureux) had started out in the music business as a graphic designer, the capacity in which he first met the people at Pyramid. 'Cathedrals', underpinned by a wonderful groove, is a unique sounding record, the lyrics of which I always found somewhat haunting, especially the core question 'where are they now?' and the line that gives the track its title 'they could fill cathedrals' - there was certainly something about 'Cathedrals' that was slightly disquieting. Years later, following the devastation of the gay community in New York as a result of the AIDS virus, 'Cathedrals', listened to in hindsight, seemed to take on something of a prophetic tone - it was almost as though the words could have been written post, rather than pre-AIDS. In an interview in Blues & Soul following the tracks UK release (it had topped the B&S singles chart - a rare occurrence for a white artist, particularly one releasing his first UK single), LaRue explained the meaning of the lyrics: "It's a story about urban sexuality in America. It deals with the actual consciousness of promiscuity that exists in discos around America today - you know, the situation where a guy picks up a girl or another guy at a disco and they go home and make love even before they know each other's name". He continued: "It's such an empty, fruitless way of living to my mind and that's basically what Cathedrals deals with - the emptiness and waste of humanity that this situation creates'. These final words would prove forebodingly true in a way he could never have imagined when he said them.”

Full text and Nov ’76 programme here:
http://samurai.fm/timecapsule/greg-wilsons-time-capsule-november-1976

Greg Wilson – October 2011

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D.C. LaRue 'Cathedrals' (greg wilson edit)

Another killer track from 1982, this time a truly disco funk love ballad with a clever message to learn, now extended version. Enjoy! 

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What Have You Got To Lose (G Prajekt Rework)

My rework of Empire's - Freakman mastered by Foundry Mastering for full phatness and free to download for your listening pleasure.

Freakman (Dave Gerrard Re - Twerk)**FREE DOWNLOAD**

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Get Down Edits - Love To Dub You Baby

So yeah, we did this a while ago and then Derek Kaye beat us to the black stuff with it so until now it hasn't seen the light of day.......

However its just been laying about and its different to Dereks (if your a vinyl head go buy his)

Otherwise enjoy

<a href='https://theartistunion.com/tracks/9e5c47'>Download for free on The Artist Union</a>

TR - Holding On (South Beach Recycle)

Brand New Monster Disco 12".
Available here:
http://www.juno.co.uk/products/480308-01.htm
http://www.deejay.de/m_House/play/__118009
http://www.jetsetrecords.net/JEAN-CLAUDE-GAVRI-THE-GET-DOWN/p/723004538202

The Get Down = Low Q preview = Limited Edition Clear Vinyl 12"

Now Tropical Disco Records release for 2021!

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