Disco

I got the opportunity to officially remix this classic song to coincide with the release of a new Donny Hathaway box set. I was given the original multitrack master of the studio version (different from the live version)and it consisted of 8 different instrument and vocal tracks (as opposed to the more usual 24 tracks) 
When I take on a remix, my first goal is to make it work on a current dance floor. I like to stay very close to the originally recorded sound and In most case there's plenty to be reworked on the multitrack master to achieve this. 
This case proved a little different as there were few rhythm elements I could use to fit within current standards of club loudness levels. So I decided to take a slightly different approach, and add a new set of (acoustic) drums,  to bend the original Soul vibe a little towards Disco territory. 
This remix is exclusive to my soundcloud page and free to download as a 16bit WAV file 

#FreeDL - Donny Hathaway - The Ghetto (Dimitri From Paris Inna Disco)SC Exclusive

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RA Live - 2013.10.19 - Motor City Drum Ensemble, Trouw, Amsterdam

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12-inch vinyl

Beam Me Up (Original)

To start the new year in a smooth groove, here's my Rinse FM Boxing Day mix (and that's just the music, without the annoying voiceovers ;)
Thank you for your support in 2014 and a happy 2015 y'all !

Dimitri From Paris On Rinse FM 26 - 12 - 2014

Promo DJ mix from Opolopo that is free to download and free to use on your radio shows...

Opolopo ZR debut album available now on CD and Download from - www.zrecords.ltd.uk/new-releases

iTunes - itunes.apple.com/gb/album/id991149988?mt=1

Opolopo first came to the attention for many as the man behind the genre-crossing house remix of Gregory Porter’s ‘1960 What?’, a tune that finished in the Top Ten of many DJs in 2012. Labeled future jazz by some, it’s only a minor part of the Opolopo story which spans genres like a musical suspension bridge.

Opolopo was born Peter Major in Zirc, Hungary, a short drive away from the beautiful tourist spot Lake Balaton, but spent a large part of his childhood touring around with his keyboardist father, listening to the fusion sounds of Herbie Hancock, Jeff Lorber, Jean-Michel Jarre and Tomita, while finally ending up in his current residence of Sweden. It’s little wonder he’s ended up where he is.

His work, both on remixes and original productions is imbued with a life spent listening to the soul, funk, jazz and fusion of his youth. Yet, while clearly inspired by the past, Opolopo’s work still has enough clank and clamour to suggest its feet are still firmly in the present, whether it’s channeling the sound of a 21st century D-Train, dark, fathoms-deep house or doom-laden dubstep. His reworking of St Germain’s ‘Sure Thing’ suggests someone inheriting Ludovic Navarre own jazz-house crown, while ‘Treat You’ by Omar is underpinned by all sorts of wonkiness while Omar takes care of the topline. His remix and production work has appeared on JVC Japan, Tru Thoughts, Warner Bros, Tokyo Dawn and, of course, Z Records.

Arguably the best way to consume Opolopo is live, where he brings together DJing with an array of gadgetry that suggests an electrified Bob Dylan, switching between playing records, tweaking the vocoder, while still finding time for tasty keyboard flurries in between mixes. You don’t get that with Tiësto.

While Opolopo remixes dart from René & Angela basslines to delicious house music, his album Superconductor, is channeling the ’80s, a decade that has been a constant source of enrichment for the Opolopo sound. Superconductor is firmly built around the song, with many collaborations, among them Keni Burke, Diane Charlemagne, Taka Boom and others. Filleted in between even the tracks seem to a have a stronger purpose than mere fillers. ‘The Run’ sounds like a theme from a long-lost sci-fi programme, while ‘Monolith’ sounds like a tune exhumed from the vaults at Tabu Records. In short, Opolopo is a one man Jam & Lewis.

Opolopo, as you undoubtedly know, is Yoruban for ‘plenty’ and on Superconductor there is a superabundance of sounds, styles and, yes, tunes. Come feast.

01. The Best feat. Colonel Red
02. Get On Up
03. So Good feat. Keni Burke
04. Round And Round feat. Diane Charlemagne
05. Feels Good 2 Me feat. Taka Boom
06. Staying Power feat. Pete Simpson
07. Superconductor
08. The Run
09. Sustain feat. Paul Randolph
10. Candy Coated Perfection feat. Sacha Williamson
11. Monolith
12. Just Feel The Music feat. Taka Boom
13. Spare Me The Details feat Erik Dillard

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Opolopo - Superconductor Promo DJ Mix

#eazyedits is a series of lofi edits featuring house, disco, boogie, soul, funk, jazz, latin, afro and rare grooves all produced on a Roland SP404 and (re)mastered by ron eazy.

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ron eazy - Being With You is All That's On My... (Edit)

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La piscine (L'Impératrice Remix)

Midnight Magic: A nine person ensemble bonded by the unwavering desire to make you, the listener, and the rhythm become one; the secret love children of Donna Summer and George Clinton serving up an orgasmic feast of funk, disco, electro and soul.

Midnight Magic - Beam Me Up

1 of 4 tracks on the Brazilian Compilation Series Vol.2

Other artist include: Fatnotrocnic & Poolside, TonyAdams, Daniel.T. and a Special Guest.

Vinyl released soon

Brazilian Compilation Series Vol.2

Joutro Mundo - Nao Force

Pasteur Lappe - Na Real Sekele Fo Ya

Claremont 56: 10 Years, Pt. 1

Teu Sorriso (Jex Opolis Remix)

40 Thieves - Don't Turn It Off (feat. Qzen) [Greg Wilson Edit]

DEEWEE028 is out now. 
Buy the 12" or download here: https://awal.lnk.to/FiftyDollarBills

From the green hills of Albania to the back rooms of New York City, Sworn Virgins bring the light. A stranger's hand on your shoulder, bright red painted fingernails scratching your thigh, all those beautiful things that made you leave that small town you came from. Greased up and ready to go, close your eyes and take it in.  

Mixed at DEEWEE.
Art Direction : Ill-Studio.

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Fifty Dollar Bills

FIFTY DOLLAR BILLS

Filaou Bessame (Cerrone Remix)

Soundway Records present ’24 Hours in A Disco 1978 - 82’, 7 cuts of relentless disco grooves from the sublimely gifted Kiki Gyan. Hailed as Africa’s answer to Stevie Wonder, Ghanaian multi-instrumentalist Kiki Gyan was a musical wunderkind who by 1975 had risen from the lowly status of high school dropout to being ranked eighth in a poll of the greatest keyboardists in the world (occupying the rarefied air of the top ten with heavyweights like Steve Winwood, Billy Preston, and Stevie Wonder) as well as becoming an in-demand session player in the top recording studios of London - all before his twenty-first birthday. 

Out on his own, he produced a series of highly ambitious disco records aimed at positioning him as an international star, but weighed down by the excesses of the era, Gyan saw his meteoric rise matched by an equally swift fall back into obscurity. 

Loved dearly by his contemporaries and sorely missed since his death in 2005 the story of the life of Kofi Kwarko ‘Kiki’ Gyan is one often told with warning by his friends to the new generation of aspiring Ghanaian popstars.

Soundway Records now collects the best of Gyan’s work as a frontman and solo artist, featuring an array of electrifying disco grooves that still sound contemporary (and in some cases futuristic) decades after their initial release.

Released on CD and 2xLP both formats are accompanied with detailed liner notes written by Uchenna Ikonne. LP version comes with a free MP3 download of the release. 

Kiki Gyan - Disco Dancer

Midnight Magic is a cosmic disco ensemble with a desire to make you, the listener, and the rhythm, become one.  

Vicious Love is out now: http://btprt.dj/1ut85Nv

Beam Me Up (Original)

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