001-HOUSE SMOOTH CLASSICS

002-HOUSE-SOUL-Tracks

In this section our office crew publishes their current personal favorites on a biweekly basis.

This time the Top Ten of Jan Schmidt-Tychsen aka Tybreak

Previous editions and further playlists are available on our Soundcloud & Spotify

01. Luxxury - I Need Somebody
02. Art Of Tones - Not The Same
03. Ari Bald - Loos
04. Mannix Feat. Lisa Shaw - So Much Time (OPOLOPO Remix)
05. Young Pulse - Free (Disco Tribute Remix)
06. Simone Vignola - Something Like Voodoo (FINAL DJS Remix)
07. Hotmood & Ezirk - Congas Eclipse
08. Lizzo - About Damn Time
09. Session Victim - Trying To Make It Home
10. Jazzanova - Introduction & Lost My Love

In The Box Of... Jan Schmidt-Tychsen

HOUSE - SOULFULHOUSE - VOCALHOUSE - DISCOHOUSE - JACKINHOUSE - Deephouse - Apr-May-Jun-2022

We are back with another month of curated tracks that make up April's best disco and funk tunes.

April brings a fresh batch of Disco and Funk DJ/Producers to the chart, which is always fun to see fresh faces and talent in the disco and funk scene.

Clavette, James Juke, and Even Funkier are some of my favorite, fresh finds that I discovered this month alongside many regulars of the best Disco and Funk charts we publish every month; including regulars such as Hotmood, Ezirk, and Ken@Work.

Read the complete chart here: https://www.magneticmag.com/2022/05/the-15-best-disco-funk-tracks-april-2022/

The 15 Best Disco & Funk Tracks of April 2022

Music I'm listening to at home and/or playing at my live shows, this playlist will be reguarly updated. for info on JN head over to <a href="http://www.zrecords.ltd.uk">www.zrecords.ltd.uk</a>Link to: - <a>ChangeRemoveDone</a>

Dave Lee's Record Box - regularly updated

Original Productions

Chicago Fusion, Vol. 10

Chicago Deep (Sophisticado Deep Mix)

Wired (Sophisticado Jazz Fusion Main Mix)

Vibe Boutique Miami 2018 (Complied by The Bria Project)

The L.O.V.E. Song  (From Chicago to New York) (All Soul Dub Mix) [feat. Peter Jericho]

The Rocket Ship

Odyssey 51 (Still Searching)

Download/Stream - fanlink.to/ThisThingTSM
Subscribe - @foliagerecords

Next up on FOLIAGE we welcome TURBOJAZZ & SEAN MCCABE and the outstanding remixes of JIMPSTER & RICH MEDINA - THIS THING.

JAMIE ODELL aka JIMPSTER wears many hats and wears them well. His esteemed labels FREERANGE & DELUSIONS OF GRANDEUR continue to help break incredible new music and from his UK base, JIMPSTER has inadvertently become a standard-bearer and custodian of the authentic house sound, and carries this flag to the four corners of the world.

Based in Philadelphia, RICH MEDINA is widely known as a legendary Afrobeat DJ, platinum-selling record producer, recording artist, poet, journalist, and Ivy League lecturer. He has worked on music production with artists such as JILL SCOTT, J DILLA, BOBBITO GARCIA and the late great PHIL ASHER.

FN067

This Thing (Turbojazz & Sean McCabe Remixes)

Stream/Download

Jimpster & Rich Medina – This Thing (Turbojazz & Sean McCabe Remix)

Remixed with Love by Dave Lee (Selected Works)

Can't Let Go (Dave Lee's Elevated Mix)

Kings of Tomorrow - Young Hearts (IndySoul Remix)

Here's the amazing Qwestlife Remix of my new single together with Morris Revy. It takes us into uplifting 80s Boogie territories! 
Hope you dig it as much as we do!
Grab your copy here: https://www.traxsource.com/title/1721080/hope

Buy at Traxsource

Mannix Feat. Morris Revy - Hope (Qwestlife Remix) Snippet

Here's my brand new single together with prime vocalist Morris Revy! 
Grab your copy here: https://www.traxsource.com/title/1721080/hope

Mannix Feat. Morris Revy - Hope (Mannix Vocal Mix) Snippet

Hotmood - Studio 54  (Discoweey)

Download/Stream - fanlink.to/TheMusicSIK
Subscribe - @foliagerecords

FOLIAGE RECORDS welcomed in 2022 with the delightful single THE MUSIC courtesy of ZED BIAS feat. JAKI GRAHAM. Now we are equally excited to present a remix package courtesy of UK house don SHUR-I-KAN.

DAVE JONES better known as veteran electronic musician and producer ZED BIAS has been making big waves in the garage/2-step, broken beat and UK funky scenes since the last 90’s. His single NEIGHBOURHOOD reached #25 in the UK charts in July 2000.

JAKI GRAHAM is one of the UK’s most treasured soul voices with a stellar career that has crossed over 4 decades. Her singles COULD IT BE I’M FALLING IN LOVE? and SET ME FREE both reached the top ten in the UK charts in the 1980’s and was followed with JAKI 
achieving a GUINNESS WORLD RECORD for being the first black British female solo artist to have 6 consecutive Top 10/20 hits, unheard of by a black British female at that time.

FN078

The Music (Shur-I-Kan Remixes)

Zed Bias feat. Jaki Graham  - The Music (Zed Bias Dub)

Let Them Dance

Buy via OGV

D.C. LaRue - Let Them Dance (OPOLOPO Remix) [Only Good Vibes Music]

Clavette & Boogietraxx, Amazonian Rockstar - Paradise - DJ Mark Brickman & Yam Who? (teaser)

Here's my latest funker on the prestigious Tropical Disco label... ;)
Grab your copy here: https://www.traxsource.com/track/9846482/thats-what-she-said

Mannix - That's What She Said (Snippet)

Apricosa (Mind Enterprises Remix)

Watermelon Jam EP
Label - Moiss Music
Released - 25th April 2022
Format - Vinyl
BUY FROM - 
https://www.juno.co.uk/products/c-da-afro-munky-fike-watermelon-jam/863770-01/

Some V/As are dubious in their length, seeming to span both EP and mini-compilation length in equal measure, but not this one, which definitely seems to know what it's about. Moiss Music are no stranger to this format, here presenting their second vinyl release 'Watermelon Jam' after the first EP-length four tracker, 'Strawberry Jam'.

Support --
https://www.facebook.com/vagabundoclubsocial/
https://www.facebook.com/moissmusic
http://instagram.com/moiss_music

Juno

PREMIERE: Vagabundo Club Social - El Misterio [Moiss Music]

Loos EP
Label - Västkransen Records 
Released - 6th May 2022
BUY FROM - 
https://www.juno.co.uk/products/ari-bald-loos-ep/869480-01/
https://www.decks.de/track/ari_bald-loos_ep/cjg-e2
https://www.horizonsmusic.co.uk/products/ari-bald-loos-ep

On ”Loos EP”, Stockholm-based producer and DJ Ari Bald returns to Västkransen Records with three original tracks aimed for the dance floor. 

Support --
https://www.facebook.com/ar1bald
https://ra.co/dj/aribald
https://soundcloud.com/vastkransen

PREMIERE: Ari Bald – Loos [Västkransen Records ]

Xfinity

Xfinity (Original Mix)

https://www.traxsource.com/track/9823556/i-choose-you-original-mix

Mark Lower - I Choose You (OUT NOW)

After the success of "All Night Brotherhood", Art Of Tones is back with a brand new EP on his own PALP imprint.
"Crazay" is the main track here, where Art Of Tones delivers once again his unique sound signature. Evolving around a funky bassline and classy guitar licks, and with its familiar, soulful vocal snippets, the track has an usual, slightly aggressive colour that makes it sound truly different from the usual disco tunes heard here and there.

Link: 
@llorca

Crazay Not The Same EP

APPAREL PREMIERE: Art Of Tones - Not The Same [PALP]

LUXXURY (aka LA producer Blake Robin) is ready to start summer early this year with his new pool party friendly daytime disco jam 'I Need Somebody.’ A ground-up reworking of his previous single, 'Somebody Tonight' (also included on the new EP), the track dials down the sick, slap n pop bassline of its sister song, while revisiting Robin's  yearning falsetto vocal with a bouncy house beat and an infectiously chill bassline to underscore the beach friendly 70s Rhodes and Wurli keyboards and dubbed out synths.

RIYL Daft Punk, Chic, Breakbot, Giorgio Moroder, Fouk, Poolside, Satin Jackets, Bee Gees

I Need Somebody

Here's the fantastic OPOLOPO Remix of my collab with US legend LISA SHAW! Pre-order your promo now here: https://www.traxsource.com/title/1789030/so-much-time

Mannix Feat. Lisa Shaw - So Much Time (OPOLOPO Remix) Snippet

"FREE", my 2nd EP, is finally out💥!
The long awaited covers of Ultra Nate's anthem "Free" featuring south african vocalist Natalie Nova are available now.

Big big thanks for the early support to Louie Vega, Natasha Diggs, Mousse T, Honey Dijon... and you !
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Tracklist:

1/ Free (Disco Tribute mix) = a tribute to the disco sound of 1979, re-recorded with a modern twist
2/ Free (2AM Club Mix) = a sampled house version, peak time
3/ Free (Close The Door Mix) = a sensual slow boogie jam, back to 1985 with a modern sound and a "Zapp - Computer Love" feel
4/ Free (Booty Mix) = a modern r'n'b version for the urban parties
5/ Free ("DoWatchuWant" Disco Dub) = a disco journey made with the multi-tracks of the "Disco Tribute Mix" + unused elements, and new arrangements.
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CREDITS
Trumpet: Bidou
Saxophone Tenor: Alexandre Jouvie
Guitar: Kevin Le Bellec
Bass: Carel Cleril
All other arrangements: Young Pulse
Mix & Mastering: Young Pulse
Artwork: Melchior
Label : Funky French League
Cat n° : FFL006

Buy here

01. Free (Disco Tribute Mix)

Paul Parsons   Bronx Cheer - Name Droppin  (Original Mix)

Here's my Primetime Disco Dub of my tune with Lisa Shaw ;) Hope you love it. Pre-order here: https://www.traxsource.com/title/1789030/so-much-time

Mannix Feat. Lisa Shaw - So Much Time (Mannix Primetime Disco Dub) SC Snippet

Buy / Stream on your favourite platform:
https://hypeddit.com/jamesjuke/gettingbetter

Buy / Stream

PREMIERE: James Juke - Music Make Me

Buy Here: https://zrecords.lnk.to/Starlight

Dave Lee teamed up with Omar. A gifted, prolific artist, Omar learned his craft classically, playing the trumpet, piano, bass guitar and percussion. A former principal percussionist of the Kent Youth Orchestra and later a graduate of the Guildhall School Of Music, Omar was awarded an MBE in 2012 for services to music.

Starlight is a gorgeous, mid-tempo dance record, with Omar’s silky vocals backed up with rich production: soaring live strings, groove-laden clav and a warm bassline creating a heady, inviting atmosphere. Almost viscerally life-affirming and unashamedly positive.

Dave & Omar - Starlight

BUY: https://zrecords.lnk.to/OnTime

London's Lee Gomez AKA Wipe the Needle makes his debut for ZR with the killer soulful house meets broken beat Track “On Time”. Featuring warm analog instrumentation and bumpin' bassline under the rich harmonies of Sacha Williamson from Toronto - who has worked with Opolopo, Dave Lee and Dâm funk.

Presented to you in two flavours with the Original featuring the West London broken beat style syncopation WPN are known for and then the groove locked 4x4 version for the soulful house aficionados.

Wipe The Needle Ft. Sacha Williamson - On Time (Original Version)

Track taken from the 92nd on Local Talk. 
Vinyl & digital release.  

Order from bandcamp
https://localtalk.bandcamp.com/album/enchanted

Wipe The Neddle Ft. Alex Lattimore - Enchanted(WTN North London Dub)(12'' - Side B)

Joey Negro - Must Be The Music (The Original Disco Mix)

Buy / Stream: https://ffm.to/takenallthistime-lp

Praise coming in from Groove Armada, Laurent Garnier, Erol Alkan, Crazy P, Louise Chen, DJ Bone, Fred P, ABSOLUTE and Horse Meat Disco.

Prolific disco/house producer James Curd is perhaps one of the undersung heroes of the scene. With hundreds of production credits to his name on every label worth its salt from DFA Records to Classic Music Company to Permanent Vacation to Lumberjacks In Hell — and of course, Exploited — he has serious skin in the game. It’s finally time for his debut album to make its mark on the world, rounding up 14 of his finest moments to date for Exploited and packaging them up into one joyous blend.
“‘Taken All This Time’ is a catalog of music that stays true to my life growing up in my critical formative years in Chicago” he explains. “I used to make tracks from beginning to end on an MPC2000. I had a studio in my room that was set up on a door that was held up by two overturned trash cans. If I was recording on the mic I had to shut my windows because I lived on the third floor above 90/94. Sometimes I would get WGCI bleeding into my speakers while I was trying to work. It was the best of times. I worked at a record store called Supreme most days. Then I would work on music till late and head out to the club. I had a residency with Derrick Carter, Gene Farris and Diz. I made so much music — especially in the brutal winters.”
You wouldn’t know that much of this record was made in the depths of winter, given the warm, balmy vibe that surrounds much of it. With his magical synth wizardry cutting against jazzy keys, disco/funk basslines, and sublime vocals, it’s a beautiful mix of sounds that is at home on the dancefloor as on the home stereo. Each track contains elements built on his MPC, with all keys, vintage synths, guitars and bass played live. “ In a time where so much music is pieced together by sample packs and drum loops this album is created brick by brick.... or beat by beat. Every keyboard sound was played on an actual keyboard in my studio. Guitars and bass were played in.”
The album draws its influences from ‘70s disco, ‘80s boogie and ‘90s deep house in equal measure, serving as a musical document of Curd’s upbringing. Beautiful vocals are provided by a diverse cast of singers and rappers, including Bear Who? Luke Million, Likasto, Natasha Lillith and KE, with other collaborative moments featuring Fred Everything and Karmon.
The prolific producer has previously worked with James Murphy for a release on his DFA Records label, and works on many film, TV and video game score projects, including for the ‘Grand Theft Auto’ series and 50 Cent’s show ‘The Oath’. But right now, it’s all about this beautiful collection of tracks, providing a milestone in his career that he will be able to look back on very proudly in years to come.
Single and Album artworks were done by James' friend Cody Hudson who is a Chicago based artist known for his graphic design contributions under the name Struggle Inc. and for the production of clean, multi-dimensional graphics, Cody's design aesthetic is part urban modernism, and part organic visual deconstruction.
His graphic work and paintings have been exhibited throughout the US, Europe and Japan including the Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago), New Image Art (LA), Rocket Gallery (Tokyo), The Lazy Dog (Paris), & Andrew Rafacz (Chicago).

Artist: James Curd
Release: Taken All This Time
Label: Exploited
Cat: EXPDIGITAL222
LC: 15799 
Publisher: Exploited Ghetto Music Publishing
Releasedate Beatport & Streaming: 24.09.2021
Releasedate Global Download: 08.10.21

Taken All This Time (Album)

Forever My Friend

James Curd - Forever My Friend I Exploited

Deep & Wide (The Remixes)

Deep & Wide (D3 Classic Mix) [feat. Angel-A]

DJ Booking: Shari Aronin
shari@handsondeck.agency
Peppermint Jam/Ibadan/Black Vinyl/Purple Music/Midnight Riot/Favouritizm Records/Sunclock Records/Lapsus Music

Mannix Feat. Lisa Shaw - So Much Time (OPOLOPO Remix) Snippet

MANNIX//DAFIA RECORDS