Mystic Merlin - Just Can't Give You Up (Dj ''S'' Remix)

Here's an edit of Donna's classic tune, later sampled by Cassius, this time on an uplifting disco tip.

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Donna Summer - If it Hurts Just a Little (Frankie goes 99)

The Love Unlimited Orchestra -Welcome Aboard (Tonbe Edit)/free download/

Janet Jackson Funny How Time Flies RobJamWeb House Bump Mix 2024

Disintegrate

eskimo bros took Pretty Ugly deep into funky house land

Ugly MoFo Remix

Archer Stevens 

Pretty Ugly (Eskimo Bros Ugly MoFo Mix)

Mona Lisa (Do Moon)

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Daveed's & Amvis - Mona Lisa (Do Moon)

01. Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes - The Love I Lost (Dimitri From Paris Super Disco Blend)

The Legacy Of Phyllis Hyman

Phyllis Hyman - You Know How To Love Me (Joey Negro Extended Disco Mix)

Atlantic Starr - When Love Calls (Dr. Packer Rework)

AND002 – limited vinyl on A&R Edits

Released: Monday 27th May, 2013

Side AA: Music Up (Reworked by Derek Kaye)

Selected by GW

Derek Kaye married his schoolboy passions of music and electronics in 1973 when he constructed his first disco sound system, aged just 13. Prior to this, with DJ equipment something of a rarity in those days, he created a custom setup that bypassed the need for a mixer by rewiring his turntables in such a way that he could flip the sound from one deck to another, and installed a switch that would dip the music so a microphone from a portable cassette player could be used to announce the song on rotation. His work soon grew in sophistication and a new console was built, with his schoolmate, Greg Wilson, buying Derek’s old rig, thus beginning his own well-documented DJ career.

Over the past 40 years, Derek has continued to DJ in and around the North West, both in residencies and guest spots, and his passion for music and electronics are still just as strong. His enviable studio has gone through the transitions of working with notator (the forerunner to logic) on the studio essential Atari 1040 ste with a collection of keyboards and Akai samplers, to just about “working out of the box” as is the case with a lot of studios now.

Today, a lifetime of experience is being teased out of the connoisseur by lifelong friend and A&R curator Greg Wilson, beginning with the double header of 'Nobody' and 'Music Up': both reworks have caused dance floor rapture for Greg over recent months and, as festival season fast approaches, they are now being shared amongst the wider DJ community for the very first time (Derek and Greg have also recently joined forces to remix Bryan Ferry’s ‘Don’t Stop The Dance’).

'Music Up' is an overhaul of the 1979 Vanguard 12” by the Players Association, Kaye's version injecting further verve into the original with a new bassline, percussion, strings and arrangement. Personally requested by NYC stalwart Danny Krivit when Greg Wilson dropped it during his recent gig at The Date in London, 'Music Up' is a surefire festival favourite, for house and disco heads alike, that’s set to fly this summer.

Players Association - Turn The Music Up  -  Derek Kaye Rework

Disco House recording artist signed to Waxadisc, Midnight Riot, Masterworks, Editorial Records and Black Riot.
Past labels Manifesto/Mercury Records,  Cold Rockin Records, Neo Records, Soulful Solutions and Soul Glow Records.