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Mr Radiator - Live at Play'house (Opening Set) 31.03.2013

Have been meaning to stick a new DJ mix up here for ages after reaching over 2000 + followers...thanks for the support by the way it is much appreciated!! So here it is..usual blend of up front stuff with a few old favourites and some bespoke chopped up bits & pieces exclusive to the mix. Thanks again Soundclouders!! Enjoy the music and see you on a dancefloor somewhere soon I hope x

Dicky Trisco Soundcloud Mix

A nice lively mix of soulful funk, disco and 80s grooves from the vaults, starting with Gary Byrd and the GBs' awesome 'The Crown' (complete with a wonderous 'Stevie Break' in the middle) then meandering variously through a volley of classics from the era. 

Shamelessly good vibes for 'gittin yo groove oahwn' to on dark evenings, or, as I do, enthusiastically cutting rug and throwing shapes on the train as sleepy commuters shoot me incredulous, vaguely envious glances, wondering how I can be so goddamn cheerful at the crack of sparrows on a wet northern winter morning on the way to work. 

There's no secret - just a little bit of aural magic to turn a rubbish day into a fun-fuelled funkfest! Ooosh! :-)

Tim's Soul, Funk and Disco Magic Mix

Homemade Bikini

To coincide with Ian Dury's birthday @dicky-trisco has shared an edit of the great man's 1977 single 'Wake Up And Make Love With Me'.

Dicky Trisco - 12th May 2017:

"The first 45 single I ever bought was by Ian Dury and The Blockheads and was called ‘Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick’. I bought it in a newsagent store called John Menzies, which had a black weekly chart board with plastic letters on it that was updated by hand each week.

I can’t really remember how I came across the track, or if it was just potluck. I probably heard it on Top of the Pops, or on the weekly chart show on the wireless as it used to be called back in those days. Anyway I bought it and to this day it is a song that I love and would be happy to hear any time, any place and it introduced me to the music of Ian Dury and The Blockheads.

Ian Dury for me reflected what pop music and music in general was all about back then – a longing to be different and to make a difference. He was a fascinating character. My Dad said he looked like a bloody idiot, which only made me admire him more. When he performed he had a real edge and his singing style was more like someone talking, or at times even shouting in his own London accent rather than something shiny and polished. And you have remember these were the days of The Bee Gees, Barbara Streisand, Leif Garrett and other such highly manicured artists. He also had a tremendous amount of personal style with his hats, braces, rolled up trousers and boots. And it was all this difference literally rolled together as well as the great music he made alongside The Blockheads, which pulled me in as an admiring youth.

And the music…I couldn’t quite explain it at the time. But it was unmistakably ‘New Wave’ although I wasn’t exactly sure what that meant either beyond a handful of artists I was into like Blondie, Talking Heads and The Specials. It was a bit ‘Punk’ and DIY for sure and that was definitely a good thing. But it also had the funk. The Blockheads were a groovy outfit of great musicians. Much later I discovered that Chaz Jankel of The Blockheads went on to make some excellent disco influenced solo productions and that these tracks plus songs by Ian Dury and The Blockheads were played by groundbreaking NYC DJs like Larry Levan in the Disco scene out there and graced the floors of seminal clubs like the Paradise Garage and The Loft. My musical journey from awkward youth to being a DJ myself had come full circle all thanks to Ian Dury and The Blockheads.

Anyway I can’t say I am an expert on Ian Dury or The Blockheads to be honest. I love a lot of their music and it has now been with me my whole adult life while many other things have come and gone. In fact at one stage I used to buy any copy of ‘Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick’ on 45 that crossed my path. But the thing that seems of significance to me and that I wanted to share here with you is the DIY spirit and original style of those times. And they were great times! Acts like Ian Dury and The Blockheads did things differently and did it their own way and gained recognition for what they did via their music around the world. I salute them for that and it gives me, and I hope you, more than a few reasons to be cheerful.

So as a tribute to the genius and spirit of Ian Dury and The Blockheads and as my own personal way of saying thanks for the influence it has had on my life, I would like to share this rework of one of my favourite tracks on this his birthday. THANKS IAN DURY AND THE BLOCKHEADS! Your music really has made me feel like a lucky bastard x "

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Ian Dury And The Blockheads - Wake Up (Dicky Trisco Edit)

Some real 80's classics with a 2013 twist to close. If you like this, let me know - I may do more in the future...

Tracklist:

Evelyn 'Champagne' King – Love Come Down (RCA) (1982)
Junior – Mama Used To Say (Mercury) (1981)
Gwen McCrae – All This Love That I'm Giving (Flame) (1988)
Sharon Redd – Never Give You Up (Prelude) (1982)
Jay W.McGee –  When We Party) (Uptown Downtown) (Ensign) (1982)
Herley Johnson Jr – Do It (Quality/RFC) (1982)
Teena Marie – Behind The Groove (Motown) (1980)
Skyy – Call Me (Salsoul) (1981)
Rene & Angela – I'll Be Good (Club) (1985)
Cameo – Single Life (Club) (1985)
Colonel Abrams – Trapped (MCA) (1985)
Patrice Rushen – Forget Me Nots (Elektra) (1982)
D-Train – You're The One For Me (Prelude) (1981)
Aretha Franklin – Jump To It (Arista) (1982)
Cherrelle with Alexander O'Neal – Saturday Love (Tabu) (1985)
Cheryl Lynn – Encore (Columbia) (1983)
Duke Dumont ft AME – Need You 100% (Skreamix) (Ministry of Sound) (2013)

MistaJam's 80's Disco & Boogie Mix Volume 1

Classic Park Jam Breaks...This was released in 2004 overseas...Enjoy...

DJ Cash Money -In Search Of Disco Breaks

Words By Alexis Petridis

"I'm just trying to get through as many songs as possible," explained Nile Rodgers. The audience could perhaps have worked this out without his help: there's something joyfully relentless about the the latter-day Chic Organisation's approach to live performance. Everybody Dance, Dance Dance Dance, I'm Coming Out, Upside Down, He's The Greatest Dancer and We Are Family: that's not the edited highlights, that's the opening salvo of songs. If the aim is to make you boggle at the sheer quantity of massive hits Rodgers has authored, it works. Even when he pulls out a relatively unknown number - Soup For One, from a 1982 film soundtrack – it turns into a cover of a hit that sampled it, Lady by Modjo. Perhaps understandably, an atmosphere of mild delirium seems to settle on the audience, many of whom seem extremely well-refreshed indeed: when Chic perform Let's Dance, which Rodgers co-wrote with David Bowie, their singing momentarily threatens to drown out the band entirely. After the set's close – a mammoth version of Good Times interpolated with sections of The Sugarhill Gang's Rapper's Delight, with dozens of audience members dancing onstage – the band leave. Rodgers remains, while the PA blares out Daft Punk's Get Lucky. The crowd stay too, bellowing the song back at him. He looks genuinely moved..

Chic Featuring Nile Rodgers Glastonbury 2013

quality underground house past to the present.

Disco/boogie

Steve Crad