Great track! Is this downloadable somewhere?

Discovered courtesy of our good friend Under Radaar / Arthur - aka the zouk wizard I aspire to be! 

Taken from a truly wonderful 1988 zouk record from Barbados released on the iconic Hibiscus Records. En Nou Alle Zouké is also glorious, but this slower and more emotive track also deserves some serious attention!

Amazing horns, vocals, guitar riffs and melodies - what a Jam. Catch the OG on our Discotheque Tropicale youtube channel - It is amazing! his one has an altered intro, an interlude removed, more horns and is just a but more dancefloor/DJ ready. 

Thanks for checking it out, hope you enjoy x

Fil Pak - Moin Ké Diw (JOSH FB / Discothèque Tropicale Edit)

This wonderful cabo zouk from 1995 provides the perfect first team up for Gaz Preston & me. Quite a tricky edit involving multiple cuts, loops, rearranges and additions, but we feel it sounds great now! Ideal for warming up dancefloors :)

Jack Darosa - Sorraia (JOSH FB & Gaz Edit)

Edit For Harvey and Pikes (free download)

https://www.soundmetaphors.com/release/31202533/shohjo-tai-and-red-bus-st-project-escape

Although all three tracks offer the listener valuable insight into the level of music production ingenuity that was going on in Japan at the time, it's "Electric City" that really stands out as an unmistakably unique dancefloor track, where the then teenage female vocalists from Shohjo-Tai are left out and a galloping 120BPM beat sets a blank canvas for a number of unexpected elements to present: completely unorthodox accents in a wide range of unidentifiable sounds, a very enthusiastic electric guitar solo, the Ennio Morricone-esque Spaghetti Western vocal moments, all of which get contrasted with a blissful chorus that reminds one that this is somehow still a collaboration with a Japanese female idol band from the 80s. A hard track to forget even in the less sober dancefloors, it is no surprise that it would be a fundamental secret weapon in the repertoire of diggers such as Dea Barandana. Can't go wrong, buy on sight. Remastered with new artwork.

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Shohjo-Tai & Red Bus St Project : Electric City

Obsessed with the diva firepower in this City Pop number by Kimiko Kasai! 🔥💅💁🏻‍♀️

Reworked & remastered.

🇯🇵 1982

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Kimiko Kasai - Over You (Desert Island Disco Edit)

Paradiso – Disco Salsa (MDMO Edit)

💿🔥 Out on "Saudedits 005 ~ Italo Inferno": https://souldade.bandcamp.com/album/saudedits-5-italo-inferno

When you find this typical kind of italo disco track, where you are not sure if you should label it as completely silly or utterly brilliant, stop thinking and spice it up by adding the classic 808 hi hat sound on top of the infectious synth loops, and you’ll get a dancefloor tool that cannot miss 🥁🔥🥁🎹

Souldade - Non Mi Sta A Guardare (808 Edit)

In honour of 'Mother's Day', founder JOSH FB and fresh new resident Fred Salt team up on this wicked piece of dancefloor cabo zouk. After the breakdown the killer synths of Pedro Rocha's Splash will rock any party - complimented by the vocals of a young Isia Da Luz singer her loving for her mother... the title translates to "My Mummy". Also released on the prestigious 'Cabo Verde Airlines' label, maybe as a marketing tool / promo material? This one goes out to all the amazing mothers out there - thank you let's dance!!

Isia Da Luz & Splash - Mae Maezinha (JOSH FB & Fred Salt Edit)

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Summer in Reverse

SHOP - https://spacetalkmusic.bandcamp.com/album/night-city-life-compiled-by-ilan-pdahtzur

Should you find yourself taking a Thames-side stroll in the shadow of the City of London, keep an eye out for the headphone-clad figure of Ilan Pdahtzur. While be-suited bankers and frustrated office workers scurry home to their families, Ilan can frequently be found casting admiring glances towards the blinking lights of towering skyscrapers while filling his ears with the synthesizer-driven sounds of lesser-known 1980s dance music. 

Ilan, an avid but little-known record collector best known for sharing the artwork of obscure and under-appreciated early-to-mid ’80s club cuts on his popular Instagram feed, has been digging for vibrant, kaleidoscopic records since his teens. Now, thanks to Spacetalk, he’s been given a chance to offer a glimpse into his neon-lit nocturnal musical world. 

The result is Night City Life, a killer collection of 1980s synthesizer songs inspired by Ilan’s admiration for the glow of London’s late night skyline. Over the course of 13 essential tunes, Ilan escorts us on a vibrant sprint through rare Italo-disco, steamy South African synth-boogie, fizzing American freestyle, oddball Austrian electrofunk and so much more. 

There are naturally a fair few sought-after cuts present, but also a fine selection of under-appreciated gems that for one reason or other have been all but ignored since they were released three and a half decades ago. In fact, some selections are so obscure that barely any information exists about them online. 

Check for example Preludio’s “Mysterious Nights”, an evocative fusion of slow electronic grooves, dreamy chords and twinkling piano motifs previously buried on a lesser-known album of unremarkable German synth-pop, or the dollar-bin brilliance of Fragile’s sweet synth-pop gem “We’ve Got Tonight, Boy”, a cut that Ilan says is capable of “wrapping itself like tendrils around your soul”. He’s not wrong. 

At the other end of the scale you’ll find the ultra-rare Italo-disco breeziness of Friend of Mine’s incredible “Just Your Pride” and Mac & Monica’s soulful 1986 South African synth-boogie cut “You’re So Good To Me”, copies of which regularly change hands for hundreds of pounds online. Ilan originally reached out to the men behind the record last year to tell them how one of their other forgotten gems had been played on a Boiler Room session; naturally, they were thrilled. 

There’s plenty to admire elsewhere on the compilation, too, from the waves of analogue synths, bubbly melodies and bobbing beats of the instrumental dub version of Brian Tatcher’s “Hot Love” – a cold-war era cut inspired by the idea of love blossoming in the midst of a nuclear meltdown – to the Bobby Orlando-esque freestyle bustle of Janelle’s “Don’t Be Shy (Dub)” and the sparkling post-boogie brilliance of Jarmaz’s “Night City Life (Disco Remix)”, a track Ilan has listened to countless times while admiring the midnight skyline of his home city.

A1. Catherine Brénot - Et Tout Est Yin Et Tout Est Yang (Club Mix)
A2. 1 Plus 1 – Coming Up For Air (Instrumental)
A3. Fragile – We’ve Got Tonight, Boy
B1. Jarmaz – Night City Life (Disco Remix)
B2. Friend Of Mine – Just Your Pride
B3. Mac & Monica – You’re So Good To Me
B4. Sala & H – Feel The Love
C1. Alexandra - Fantasia (Fantasy)
C2. Gioia – No Secrets (Instrumental)
C3. Janelle – Don’t Be Shy (Dub)
D1. Alessandro Scellino - Dinner In The Jungle (Erotic Mix)
D2. Brian Tatcher - Hot Love (Instrumental Dub Version)
D3. Preludio – Mysterious Nights

Night City Life compiled by Ilan Pdahtzur

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Night City Life compiled by Ilan Pdahtzur - Mini Mix

Here is an edit made of the first minute and a half or so of an East German discowave track that in its original form completely changed mid-way through, into a not so enjoyable Rock song, absolutely ruining the vibe.

This is on a 4 track edits EP that has been released on Violette Szabo label in March of 2023. See the full track list here: https://soundcloud.com/tombolas/sets/new-edit-ep-coming-out-on

Big thanks to @flo-dalton for the tip on this one!

A1 - Disco-Cadabra (Tom Bolas Edit feat. Flo Dalton)

Record loving selector DJ based in London (and formerly Edinburgh). I love sticking my head in crates and learning more about the amazing music that can be found across the world. 

I'm a bit of retro zouk specialist (checkout my zouk show on My Analog Journal for more) but also have a great interest in soca, highlife, makossa, PALOP music, bubblegum, kwaito, latin freestyle and beyond - I enjoy celebrating globally sourced groovy records to fill dancefloors, and deliver an experience that makes club goers smile while they move

My mission is to spread this wonderful music and the talented artists that contributed to its creation with as many as people as possible! 

I run a clubnight and reissue / edits label along with a few friends called “Discothèque Tropicale”. Music to bring the boogie, fill the floors and put smiles on faces! 

I do the programming for London based radio station LOOSE FM where I also run the radio shows ‘The Listening Bar’ & 'Musical Backpacking' focussing each show and the record digging on a specific genre, theme or area. 

Pls ask for IDs I’ll always give them! Don't be a stranger, drop me a DM on Instagram anytime I always love to connect with fellow music lovers from around the world. Send me music pls 🙌

Music is a universal language with the power to break barriers and bring people together ❤️ 

jtsfryerbloom@gmail.com for bookings or probs faster to whack me a message on insta (@joshffb). Much Love, JOSH FB xx

Fil Pak - Moin Ké Diw (JOSH FB / Discothèque Tropicale Edit)

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