Thanks for compiling this Irfan! I think the first time I met Phil in person was when he played for you in the backroom of the Music Box with Patrick Forge

whooo!!! feelin dis entire dish of treats!🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿💯

Wicked selection  Irfan. Thought half way through to end. just so many memories. made me cry X

Southport Weekender -  Suncebeat Stage 19.03.2022

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Joe Clausell Pt1 - Atomic Soul

Tony Humphries Kiss FM Mastermix Dance Party - July 27, 1990

In the second of our 2015 festival warm up mix series, Phil Asher, takes to the decks to brings us 10 Tracks of an inspirational, uplifting and of course deeply soulful nature.

Phil Asher has been one of the residents of SunSplash Festival over the last 7 years, during which time he has graced our beach parties and club sessions with nothing less that pure class. Whether the occasion calls for good time party tracks, or something deep, moody, broken beat, mellow or cutting edge, few DJs can delve into as wide a spectrum of good music and present it with such natural ability and flair. As far as we are concerned Phil Asher is nothing short of house music royalty, but house music is just the beginning.

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Phil Ashers 10 Sunsplash Vibrations

Quite possibly one of my all time favourite Tony Humphries tapes as he mixes live for Kiss 98.7 in New York back in 91 or so...Tony is rockin tracks like Nature Boy's Ruff Disco, Mood 2 Swing - 2 copies :), Ron Trent as well as his own remix for The Sugarcubes - Leash Called Love amongst many other great House records of that time. One word that springs to mind when hearing and Tony - a real workin DJ in the mix is 'Slammin'

Tony Humphries Kiss 98.7 Danceparty early 90's

two of chicago's best in their prime on chicago's legendary wbmx. "saturday night live ain't no jive..." hosted by farley keith

WBMX Gene Hunt and Mike Williams LIVE

One more from the vaults...not the best recording..I have a good few of Kenny Carpenter including some nice live ones from Japan that are more cleaner. This however is sweet, because it's Kenny how I remember hearing him...I only heard at Ministry of Sound back then and he was like many of the classic New York DJ's the real deal. A few things that spring to mind on hearing those guys back then is programming and presentation. Hot records or up and coming things they knew were hot and believed in. They would present it by playing for example..dub version followed by Instrumental and then the all important vocal mix. As the american jocks were used to playing long sets back home they were also granted extended sets at clubs like Ministry of Sound so they would play those records up to 3 times during their set...i remember a good few times hearing various DJ's like Kenny Carpenter, David Morales and Tony Humphries do this...you'd leave wanting that particular record only to pop into Black Market or Red Records..etc to be greeted by a smile and a..'yeah that's probably not gonna be out for a while' reply...

Anyways back to this mix...because it's Kenny and also reminded that 1992 was another great year for house music, many now certified classics in this radio show for WBLS...and a memorable one for me :)...enjoy !.

Kenny Carpenter WBLS NYC 1992 Side A

The RawSoul presents Part 3 of “The Masters At Work Showcase” for Episode 214 of The Raw House Supreme Show!

Masters At Work doesn’t really need any introduction. The NYC House Music duo comprised of “Little” Louie Vega and Kenny “Dope” Gonzalez became legendary almost instantly with their unique musical approach. The impact they made on House Music and dance music overall is undeniable and has rarely been matched. Their catalogue is rich and varied, from straight up club tracks to Latin Jazz. Constant and quality releases just kept coming from 1991 until the early 2000s. 

This third showcase explores remixes and productions mostly released between 1994 and 1997. At that time they took their production skills to a whole other level bringing a strong musical sensibility and some absolutely different rhythm programming. At lot of these records became essential to the evolution of the House music sounds and have influenced and changed the directions of many other producers. Just listen and bounce!

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Tribute to MASTERS AT WORK (Pt. 3) - Mixed & Selected by The RawSoul

Here we go...an excerpt of my set from our DISKOPHONIC event on Saturday, June 8th from the remodeled Valencia Room in San Francisco...As always, BIG THANKS to all the "DISCO" revelers for grooving with us as we celebrated with our BIRTHDAY friends - Franky, Maryam, David and Kelly...

DISKOPHONIC - Julius Papp Live DJ Set - June 8, 2019...

A new mix I put together to capture the spirit of the world class ambassador of dance music aka Phil Asher aka Restless Soul / Phlash. Having had a brotherly 25 year long music & friendship with him, I thought it was only right to play music that reminded of him without playing his tracks, which I will do on my radio show on Sunday 31st 7pm live on globalsoulradio.com.  This set features leftfield vintage Afro, African, Afrobeat, Afro Funk, Afro / Techno Dub, Roots House, Disco and Jazz Funk to remind you of the music taste and vibe of brother Phil. He knew all the classics but was also a curve ball DJ, throwing random yet super obscure quirky tracks, just to surprise the dancefloor, whether you liked it or not, he was a real DJ not a functional juke box one. He was a total artist at work who lived, breathed and shone music daily. Enjoy, share and keep the legacy of Phil Asher alive, whether you knew not him or not. Thankyou and stay lovely and humble people. xxxxx

1/ Francis Bebey - Binta Madiallo 
2/ King Bucknor Jr - Mr Debtor
3/ Manu Dibango - Echos Beti
4/ Moritz Van Oswald Trio - Sounding Lines 
5/Nina Simone - Blackbird ( Jose Marquez Remix )
6/ Fingers Inc. - The Children's House
7/Soul Inscribed - New York Stories ( Irfan Rainy Version )
8/Laroye Feat Carlos Mena - Be The Change ( Dub )
9/ Dan Electro - Let Them Come ( Greg Gautier's Remix )
10/ Ron Carroll - The Spirit Of House
11/ Unknown - Unknown 
12/ Moblack, Armonica - Sanaa Yoo Ma
13/ Lokkhi Terra & Dele Sosimi  - Cubafro ( Pepe Citarella Mix )
14/ The Sunburst Band - Perdoname ( Dave Lee Mix )
15/ Johnny Hammond - Los Conquistadores Chocolates ( Moplen Edit )
16/ The Sunburst Band - New York City Woman ( Mickey More & Andy Tee Mix )
17/ Alexny - Bourbon Street Cafe

Long Live The Spirit of Phil Asher

I'm a collector of groove music since 1986, the sound heard on the hip radio stations, record shops and clubs of Manchester ( my birthplace ), a place I helped to market simply as THE RAINY CITY since 1990 through deejaying on the club circuit in the city and even more so with my label RAINY CITY MUSIC since 1996. I've spent the last twenty plus years having fun producing House Music, Detroit influenced real Techno Music , Jazz, Latin, Brazilian music, Funk, Disco, Jazz Funk, African Music, Indian Music, film type soundtracks and Electronica etc etc. I've programmed hundreds of events and deejayed alongside many bands and in many underground clubs worldwide with so many of the greats in groove music, for example, with Questlove - The Roots, Tony Allen - the Afrobeat king, Norman Jay - Mr Rare Groove/Boogie, Roy Ayers, Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings, Orlando Voorn - Detroit Techno/ Hip Hop DJ, Seu Jorge - City Of God, electro-funk maestro Greg Wilson and many of the top NYC Club Djs including Timmy Regisford, Joe Claussell & recently Danny Krivit at my party COMMUNITY in Manchester, now in it's in 8th year. I try to live, breathe and represent the artistic vibrations of groove music. My current resident party Community aim to highlight how dance music can be played with depth & variety without pandering to fads and show what real djs are  ! 

 Lots of my mixes are archived on Mixcloud as IRFAN RAINY. You are welcome to follow me and spread this unique music culture worldwide. 



Long Live The Spirit of Phil Asher

Irfan Rainy

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