master mix

Boon And Josh Arise Feat Eddie Cane - All Eyes On Me

A lo-res clip of the original mix, now re-mastered and available on Beatport through Exploited Records!!! As ever all support is much appreciated!

Moodymanc_Joy_(Original mix)_Exploited Records re-master_LO RES CLIP!

Mike Delgado - Byrdman's Revenge

Late At Night

Steamrolling into the new year, The Disco Express are thrilled to present XPRESS Remixes Vol.3. A truly stunning compilation package featuring four sublime remixes of original music.

XPRESS Remixes Vol.3 ranges across the spectrum of dance music. Flirting with early New York House, Garage, Italo and Nu-Disco, its a proper diverse selection; brilliantly crafted into a fantastic compilation.

BUY:
https://thediscoexpress.bandcamp.com/album/xpress-remixes-vol-3

PREMIERE: Generoco - In The Music Ft. Karmina Dai [Hotmood Remix]

Buy the album via iTunes: http://geni.us/20YearsHenryStreet
Incredible as it seems, this year marks twenty years since the launch of Johnny D’Mairo’s Henry Street Music label. To celebrate, BBE is marking the occasion with a sumptuous five- disc CD retrospective, a fitting tribute to one of the most important of all house labels. This is one of the most extensive grand summations yet done of a dance label.
Henry Street Music exemplified its era as much as Trax and Nu-Groove had theirs. Come the mid-‘90s, the disco cut-up became ubiquitous, as thousands tried to emulate the success of Henry Street’s first big killer, The Bucketheads’ Tha Bomb –still a dancefloor staple two decades on.
Many of the movers and shakers of the day had their best moments on Henry Street, and they’re all here: Johnnick, Armand Van Helden, DJ Duke, DJ Sneak, Dirty Harry, Davidson Ospina, Todd Terry, Mateo and Matos, Brutal Bill, Josh Wink, even the UK’s own Ashley Beedle, and many more –a veritable roll-call of the premiere-league of dance at the time, an era when dance music still seemed incredibly fertile and the link with its own past was still vital.
Some of the American originals can struggle to get props among the countless mutations of house out there vying for attention in today’s digitalized dance scene, but the real house-heads always knew to check them, and will recognize this as quality product, through and through.

Henry Street (named after Brooklyn homeboy Johnny’s neighbourhood) always had a ‘New York’ vibe, and even when drawing its producers from further afield, the label encapsulated the city’s melting-pot of talent and raw, bristling energy... energy captured here, and exploding off these remastered tracks like it’s 1999 all over again!

Alongside the massive dancefloor anthems from the likes of Kenny Dope and Armand Van Helden are some real gems that got away, some exclusive mixes, and the thoughts of Johnny D, one of the prime-movers of the New York dance scene even before he came up with his own label, responsible for countless hits as promotions man and as dance A&R at Atlantic. Never one for the limelight, Johnny’s own story is nonetheless inextricably bound up with the transition from disco through house to the ubiquity of dance music today.
So... dust off those dancing shoes, and get ready to feel the heat, it’s one more time for the Henry Street Hustle!


Mike Delgado presents The Upstairs Lounge - Byrdman's Revenge

Lovedancing is a hedonistic, unabashed bear hug of sample-leaning, 909-loving house music. 

Ponchartrain, Detroit's fresh-faced editor, delivers three songs for our inaugural outing. 
Each one rallies behind out ethos, the eponymous, Lovedancing.

Buy 12"

Burnin' [clip]

The music that plays when raccoons steal your pumpkin in the middle of the night. 

Pumpkin (Original Mix)

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Godheals The House - Midnight Spin (Long play)

Byrdman's Revenge

What Would You Do

Byrdman's Revenge (Remix)

Ramon Tapia Presents Strictly Rhythms, Vol. 6

Passing Time (Ramon Tapia Smooth Edit)

House Music Will Never Die

G.U. & Cei-Bei - House Music Will Never Die (Gu's Cei-Bei Foot Mix)

Far Away - The Remixes

Far Away (feat. TC Moses) (Richard Earnshaw Vocal Dub)

DJ Gomi Pres. DySoul Brothers - God Made Me Funky (DJ Spen Remix)

We've Got To Love

We've Got To Love (Director's Cut Signature Mix) [feat. Paris Brightledge]

Management & Bookings:
Joesmoothmusic@gmail.com

Armada Music/ Indie Art Music/ Obelisk Production Multimedia/ DJ International / Jack-It/ Trax

Joe Smooth is one of the pioneers of the style of music known today as house music. He is a self-taught musician who, from the age of 12, has been creating music that is inspiring to all that his sound has touched. In 1985 he joined the DJ International family and quickly became a central force behind everything written or produced from the visionary label. He has worked with such artists as Frankie Knuckles, Marshal Jefferson, A Guy Called Gerald, Lil Louis, D'Bora, Tyree Cooper, Fast Eddie, Fingers Inc., The Art Of Noise, Sterling Void, The Pet Shop Boys, Brian Mc knight, Atlantic Starr, The Style Council, New Order, Steve Hurley... and the List Goes On.
At the age of 16, Joe Smooth began having house parties and djing throughout Chicago's underground music scene. At 18, he opened his first night club called east Hollywood Mannequins. In 1983, Joe began dj’ing at the famous Smart Bar nightclub and created an atmosphere and mystique that still lives today. In 1985, the Limelight contracted Joe for their Chicago nightclub as musical coordinator. In 1987, he also started working for the soulful Charlie club nightclub as head DJ/musical coordinator.
In 1988, with musical production work building and traveling abroad Joe Smooth left the club scene for a short break to put his concentration fully into his productions. Joe Smooth is the writer of one of the biggest and most covered house anthems of all time "Promised Land", followed by "They Want To Be Free" recorded for CNN as the soundtrack for Nelson Mendela's release. Joe Smooth has written and released over 150 songs worldwide and can be credited with the involvement of over 10,000,000 record sales. In 1990, Joe Smooth saw a need for a serious underground house club in Chicago and opened the Warehouse nightclub, named in tribute to the legendary Warehouse nightclub of the early eighties. 1995 Joe Smooth looking for new horizons ventured to Rome to work on a label idea with producer Claudio Donato “active bass music” distributed by the now dissolved flying records network. In response to flying's failing and lack of a strong distribution network Joe Smooth returned to Chicago and began searching out new talents to develop and begin his new venture “Obelisk Productions Multimedia”. Thru the nineties til present day   Joe Smooth has done extensive work with Slang Music Group and Nu Soul. Joe's work at Slang and Nu Soul would include projects featuring Whitney Houston, Omarion, Beyonce, Joe, Donnell Jones, Destiny's Child, Sisqo, Vivian Green, Amerie, R Kelly, Janet Jackson, Kanye West, Max-a-Million, Kelly Price, Saleena Johnson, Back Street Boys, Wyclef, Prince and Madonna to name a few.

We've Got To Love (Director's Cut Signature Mix) [feat. Paris Brightledge]

Joe Smooth

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