AMPLITUDES invite Bordeaux Open Air - Dimanche Café N°029

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A1. D.C. LaRue - Do You Want The Real Thing (OPOLOPO Remix)
B1. D.C. LaRue - Let Them Dance (Dr Packer Remix)
B2. D.C. LaRue - Indiscreet (The Knutsens Remix)


Release Date: 7th July 2023
Cat: #OGVV001

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AFTER A LIFETIME on the dance floor, you realize that escape to a beat was not the only thing you found there. Sometimes, and surprisingly soon, you may find self-awareness, challenge, enlightenment. Therein lies a core truth about the timelessness of music, and particularly the music of D.C. LaRue. After two years of art school studying graphic design, LaRue joined the music industry by recording two top 40 pop records influenced by the teen-idol era. In his early adulthood, he began writing songs about the fast-growing club and bar subculture he frequented where the most outcast of society’s young and marginalized could safely congregate after being ostracized in work, church, school, and often family. In this relatively brief selection of LaRue classics, contemporary remixes paradoxically bring out the timelessness of his songs, in tone, message and musicality.

“Indiscreet” alone, from LaRue’s 1976 concept album, “The Tea Dance,” tells much of the story about how disco had already birthed its own far more popular and influential successor form, Hip-Hop, by the time it was declared dead by the superannuated establishments of the radio, media and record businesses. Released in a highly limited, personally inscribed 12-inch 45 rpm edition for a select list of top disco DJs, its complex, elastic polyrhythm made it as irresistible to younger black DJs and breakdancing teens as any of the year’s other big street breakouts, like Ralph MacDonald’s “Jam on the Groove.” Or to a teenage record collector, anything by the R&B band Rufus. The clean, uncluttered remixes here, with their sturdy and un-hectic four-four pulse, put focus on the overlap between the first-call studio musicians of LaRue’s albums and the stellar east and west coast studio session lineups of Gregg Diamond, Ashford and Simpson, Barry White, Stuff, and other diverse creatives of Latin disco and soul-jazz fusion.

But, wait, there’s more! “Let Them Dance,” greeted in its time as a one of the breakthrough moments of new music technology, is reinterpreted mainly with its live acoustic tracks, also retaining bright, rhythmic synthesizer hooks with results that are still true to his intentionally oblique lyric, a novelistic portrayal of the drug dealers, the LGBTQ+ underground community, and the powerful upper class elite that made up the multi-racial, socially integrated crowds on the dance floors at the height of disco. “Do You Want the Real Thing,” also “updated” in the style of the lush yet sharp Motown and Philadelphia production pieces that inspired the arrangement originally, still resonates as a nightly inner dialogue or negotiation, another of LaRue’s literary signatures.

Go ahead, watch a Fleetwood Mac documentary if you want to see industry executives and commentators say, ”Huh. How did that happen?” discussing a timeless and universal work that bravely confronted the raw and troublesome inner feelings and vulnerabilities of the songwriters. Play this record and you will feel exactly how disco gave refuge, healing and community to the most marginalized, and immediately welcomed in absolutely everyone else, even the ruling class, and thereby proved again that in art, national cuisine, fashion and every cultural and creative endeavor, it’s the most outcast of every nationality and generation that feeds, clothes, entertains and inspires the larger society that cast them out in the first place.


Namaste,
Brian Chin
Brooklyn, New York
March, 2023

'Disco Lives' EP

D.C. LaRue - 'Disco Lives' EP (12" Vinyl) Dr Packer, OPOLOPO & The Knutsens Remixes | OUT NOW!

Delegation - I Wantcha back (SLY Edit)

KILLER 25 TRACK PACK MONSTER filled with retro flavored disco-house 

Regrooved / Re-Cut / Re-Waxed / Re-Edited / Re-Constructed / Re-Produced / Re-Jigged / Re-Vibed by LE SPANK
Additional Production by Le Spank
Mixed at MARRS

High grade productions of glossy disco and deep house music, with highlights being the shimmering tribute to the NYC Underground with access to some of the most sought-after .
Grasping on the history of this genre treating samples with an incredible amount of respect with a massive back catalog of throwbacks and classics further refining his now signature sound to the deep and soulful disco sound that he's now widely renowned for today.

A collection of stunning disco-house takes on dancefloor classics, where the masters return in fine form with this stomping line of acid NU-Disco house

This disco influenced house is not for the faint hearted, there is a retro flair to his choices, but with impeccable taste and the Piper is back in full force with his signature funky disco

Le Spank - Change (Deep DISKO Kick)

Country People (Flying Mojito Bros Refito)

Very Elasticated (The Remixes) by ElectrO-NIK-MoodZ will be at digital music stores etc from 30th October 2025

The full album 'Very' will be out late Autumn/Fall 2025


Please check out more exciting sounds by ElectrO-NIK-MoodZ at Soundcloud & via the links below:-

Apple: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/electro-nik-moodz/1682796714

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/4ASRxTRqf1FOaP1D6TB9qx?si=22yU0OGLSnqcuhViBT5YBQ

YouTube: https://music.youtube.com/channel/UC_CsJ4gltxtLzcXYrUgJD7w?si=6y-FsLe7fenS91qG

Thanks, Cris - Spyda Music Productions

Very Elasticated (The Remixes)

Very Elasticated (Artie H Remix)

Very Elasticated

ElectrO-NIK-MoodZ - Very Elasticated (Artie H Remix)

TRACK OF THE DAY: Fabian Sensestein - Moonlights (Vito Raisi Extended Mix) [Viva Electronica Music]

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TRACK OF THE DAY: Fabian Sensestein - Moonlights (Vito Raisi Extended Mix) [Viva Electronica Music]

«Музыка слов» — авторский музыкальный проект личного продюсирования, в котором классическая русская поэзия встречает современное звучание.
Это не просто песни, а переосмысленные эмоциональные пространства, где стихи Бродского, Цветаевой, Пастернака, Маяковского и других художников слова оживают в новой музыкальной реальности.

Каждая композиция — диалог между эпохами: между аккордами синтезаторов и дыханием фортепиано, между электронными битами и живыми струнными, между внутренней тишиной и импульсом ритма.
Звучание — чувственное, атмосферное, экспериментальное: смесь арт-попа, трип-хопа, неоклассики, эмбиента и инди-электроники.

В альбоме сочетаются личная исповедь и культурная память — это музыка для тех, кто ищет не просто мелодию, а отражение своего внутреннего мира.
Современная форма. Вечные слова. Честное чувство.

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“The Music of Words” is a self-produced musical project where classical Russian poetry meets contemporary sound.
These are not merely songs, but reimagined emotional landscapes where the verses of Brodsky, Tsvetaeva, Pasternak, Mayakovsky, and other masters of the word come alive in a new musical reality.

Each composition is a dialogue between eras — between the chords of synthesizers and the breath of piano, between electronic beats and live strings, between inner silence and the pulse of rhythm.
The sound is sensual, atmospheric, and experimental — a fusion of art pop, trip-hop, neoclassical, ambient, and indie electronica.

The album intertwines personal confession and cultural memory — music for those who seek not just melody, but reflection of their inner world.
A modern form. Eternal words. Honest feeling.

Я могу тебя очень ждать (Эдуард Асадов)

Aux Tha Masterfader - Juno On The Floor (ft Mr Zee) [Rayko Remix]

Metropolitan Band - Lucia's Dance 
Extended Edit By Mr. Turner

Rare Disco Tune For Your Listening Pleasure

Petko Turner Edit

Free Download

Metropolitan Band - Lucia's Dance (A Petko Turner Mix)Extended Edit Free DL

This is my private Edit of "Gettin' Over". If you like and wanna have this - drop me a line!

Gettin' Over (Motte Remix)

WRITE ME!

Gettin' Over (Motte's Private Remix)

JAM PIONEER
Maverick Producer, Arranger, DJ, Songwriter, Composer, Drummer, Percussionist, Audio Engineer, Remixer, Editor, Multi-Instrumentalist
(Jamming circa. 1983)
(DEEP HOUSE, HOUSE, NU-JAZZ, NU-FUNK, NU-DISCO)

Production & Remixing project enquires: 
deejaypiedpiper@gmail.com

An English judge had said so after the Jacobites’ great defeat at Culloden in 1746; a piper was a fighter like the rest, and his music was his weapon.

Le Spank - Change (Deep DISKO Kick)

Pied Piper (Official)