Crate Diggin': A selection of disco, soul, electronic and world music 1

We Need Each Other

I'm Back For More

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The full-length album ‘Operation Disco' that Greg ‘Dr’ Packer has put together for Z Records. On an unstoppable run recently, the quality shows no sign of slowing down as Packer showcases his talent for splicing and dicing tracks. On the bonus second CD he supplies a continuous mix live from his operating theatre, packed to the absolute brim with Packer & other Z Records back catalogue favourites of his.

“It has been a huge honour working on the operation disco album compilation for Z Records which has been on my radar for three decades now and is possibly my favourite House & Disco label. Dave Lee is a big inspiration to me as his 1991 Single 'Do What You Feel' was one of the first records to appear in my DJ sets in my earliest days as a working DJ 30 years ago.
In 2013 I started to produce music under the 'Dr Packer' name and when I began doing the occasional remix for Z Records, I never imagined it would end up resulting in an album project. To be able to work on cover versions of some of my all-time favourite soul & disco songs such as 'You Can't Run From My Love' and some of my all-time favourite vocalists such as Leroy Burgess it is really a dream come true.
Dave Lee is an easy guy to work with and is always open to my suggestions which resulted in me remixing one of my all-time favourite tracks of his ‘Love Fantasy' which is also now three decades old. Not to mention possibly my favourite single from his 'Destination Boogie' compilation, the 80's underground classic 'Colors - Am I Gonna Be The One’ plus two brand new mixes of The Sunburst Band. Making this a very exciting album project with plenty of exclusives and re-masters of my older releases, not to mention my favourite gems from the amazing Z Records back catalogue.” – Greg Packer

The Sunburst Band & Leroy Burgess - Survivin' (Dr Packer Remix)

Love and Resistance

Com Força (feat. Bruno Morais)

PREMIERE: Christian Arno - Garden Party [Two Pizza's Label]
Release Date Worldwide: 12/05/2023

Christian Arno
Soundcloud | @christianarno

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PREMIERE: Christian Arno - Garden Party [Two Pizza's Label]

Tracklist:
1)79.5 - Club Level
2)Rayko & Fran Deeper - Atomic Groove Gang
3)Andy Bach - Hanging On
4)Michael Gray, Tatiana Owens - You Got To Remember (Extended Mix)
5)Corrado Alunni - Stompy Groovy
6)Birdee, Alexandra Prince - Jupiter + Mars (Extended Mix)
7)Ruffneck feat. Yavahn - Everybody Be Somebody (Steve 'Disco' Newsome Extended Remix)
8)Groovemasta - Let's Go Back (Original Mix)
9)Magnolia - Deep Inside My Soul Ft. Elliot Chapman (John Morales Remix)
10)Col Lawton - Stuck In A Dream
11)Hiva - Funk Mansion
12)Jason Herd, Barbara Tucker - Head up High (Extended Mix)
13)Grant Nelson - In Motion
14)Corrado Alunni - Soul Train
15)Antonio Santana - That's The Way (Original Mix)
16)Din Jay - Totally Yours
17)Raffaele Ciavolino, Gabriele Congedo - Singing In The Shower
18)BPlan & Fab_o - Miscela Segreta

2023-06-10_Discofunkyhouse

Disco & Funky House (13 June 2023)

Runa Laila Goes Disco

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[SPA324] HOTMOOD - Brazamba

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*YOUTUBE: www.youtube.com/@spa-in-disco // @Boite-music // @spa-in-disco-club
* MASTERING: master79music@gmail.com

[SPA363] CHEWY RUBS - Can You Feel The Beat

An original freestyle(ad libbed)  jam in the key of A Minor.  
Original performance, composition and arrangement by Malcolm Palin 2025

Freestyle in A minor

Space Echo - The mystery behind the Cosmic Sound of Cabo Verde finally revealed!

In the spring of 1968 a cargo ship was getting ready to leave the port of Baltimore with an important shipment of musical instruments. Its final destination was Rio De Janeiro, where the EMSE Exhibition (Exposição Mundial Do Son Eletrônico) was going to be held. 

It was the first expo of its kind to take place in the southern hemisphere and many of the leading companies in the field of electronic music were involved. Rhodes, Moog, Farfisa, Hammond and Korg, just to name a few, were all eager to present their newest synthesisers and other gadgets to a growing and promising South American market, spearheaded by Brazil and Colombia.

The ship with the goods set sail on the 20th of March on a very calm morning and disappeared from the radar on the very same day.

One can only imagine the surprise of the villagers of Cachaço, on the Sao Nicolau island of Cabo Verde, when a few months later they woke up and found a ship stranded in their fields, in the middle of nowhere, 8 km from the sea. 
After consulting with the village elders, the locals had decided to open the containers to see what was inside but the news had travelled fast and before they knew it, colonial police had already arrived and secured the area. 

Portuguese scientists and physicians were ordered to the scene; and after weeks of thorough studies and research, it was concluded that the ship had fallen from the sky. One of the less plausible theories was that it might have fallen from a Russian military air carrier. The locals joked that the government had wasted their tax money again on a useless exercise, as a simple look at the crater generated by the impact could explain the phenomena. “No need for Portuguese rocket science to explain this!” they laughed. 

What the villagers didn’t know, was that traces of cosmic particles were discovered on the boat. The bow of the ship showed traces of extreme heat, very similar to traces found on meteors, suggesting that the ship had penetrated the hemisphere at high speed. That theory also didn't make sense as such an impact would have reduced the ship to dust. Mystery penetrated the event.  

Finally, a team of welders arrived to open the containers and the whole village waited impatiently. The atmosphere, which had been filled with joy and excitement, quickly gave way to astonishment. Hundreds of boxes conjured, all containing keyboards and other instruments which they had never seen before: and all useless in an area devoid of electricity. Disappointment was palpable. The goods were temporarily stored in the local church and the women of the village had insisted a solution be found before Sunday mass. 

It is said that charismatic anti-colonial leader Amílcar Cabral had ordered for the instruments to be distributed equally in places that had access to electricity, which placed them mainly in schools.
This distribution was best thing that could have happened - keyboards found fertile grounds in the hands of curious children, born with an innate sense of rhythm and these children picked up instruments that were easy to use and would become instrumental for modernising local rhythms such as Mornas, Coladeras and the highly danceable music style called Funaná, banned by the Portuguese colonial rulers until 1975 probably due to the fact that it was too sexy!

Observation was made that the children who came into contact with the instruments found on the ship had prodigious capabilities to understand music and learn instruments. One of them was the musical genius Paulino Vieira who by the end of the 70s would become the country´s most important music arranger. 

8 out of the 15 songs presented in this compilation had been recorded with the backing of the band Voz de Cabo Verde lead by Paulino Vieira, the mastermind behind the creation and the promulgation of what is known today as “The Cosmic Sound of Cabo Verde”. 




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Dia Ja Manche  - Dionisio Maio (Leave a comment for Dionisio, tell him how much you love his song !)

The Very Best Of Little Beaver

Groove On

Kandi Kids - Hed Fantasy (Soulshifters Remix)

Breakthrough

Nissim

Fleetwood Edit

Sócrates e As Garotas - 1979
Marlene Silva, Macaco Sócrates (Orival Pessini) e Paulo Silvino
Composição: Orlandivo e Paulo Silvino

Bass – Luizão
Drums – Paulinho Braga
Guitar – Durval Ferreira, Hélio Capucci
Keyboards, Arranged By, Conductor – Lincoln Olivetti
Percussion – Bira*, Orlandivo*
Saxophone – Senise*
Trumpet – Hamilton

Edit: Rafael Cotait - Curitiba 2018
BPM: 109

Sócrates e As Garotas - Coco do Macaco (Cotait edit)

It has been almost 5 years since the last Tom Drummond output on Chopshop but here he returns with two golden house nuggets in his latest - 'Burnin EP'.

1. Tom Drummond - Burnin
2. Tom Drummond - Into My Veins

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Tom Drummond - Burnin

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Sócrates e As Garotas - Coco do Macaco (Cotait edit)

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