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Tina's sublime gritty cover of Stevie from 1974. (RIP)

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Ike & Tina - Living For The City (Leftside Wobble Rework)

Kan Sano's original cover version is so good (as you can hear from the snippet here) I decided to take this in a different direction and provide a Drum & Bass treatment as it seemed so suited to the source material. 

Other remixes on the package come from Late Night Tuff Guy (who provides a treatment closer to the original) and two deep house reworks of 'Music Overflow' (the flip side from the original 7" that was released earlier this year for Record Store Day).

Early support from Gilles Peterson, Roberto Rodriguez, Pete Herbert, Rahaan, Sleazy Beats, OOFT!, Dirtytwo, Sleazy McQueen, Frank Booker, Edit Murphy, Marius Våreid, Sixth Avenue Express, Dave Allison, Get Down Edits, Legendary 1979 Orchestra ...

Released today at JunoDownload - http://www.junodownload.com/products/kan-sano-everybody-loves-the-sunshine/2284923-02/

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Kan Sano - Everybody Loves The Sunshine (Original & Leftside Wobble Remix)

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

Probably my favourite Curtis Mayfield track, spliced & diced into a 15 minute disco monster.

Curtis - Hell Below (Leftside Wobble Edit)

Whilst the Massive Attack & William DeVaughn versions of Be Thankful are better known, the One Blood version has always been my favourite. This is a bit of an end of the night classic for me so I've sliced & diced it into a super extended 12 minute version. Download Wav or 320k via https://www.facebook.com/acid.soul

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One Blood - Be Thankful (Leftside Wobble 12 Minute Rewind)

Following on from his debut EP on Jalapeno last year, Quasamodo (now accompanied by his Q Orchestra) is back with his first album for Jalapeno - The Big Picture.

Featuring the soulful vocals of long time vocal collaborator Thaliah and with Q himself providing the authentic production flourishes and occasional raps, the album is a full on feast of funk and a throwback to early Jalapeno days when the j-funk was a little more strictly defined.  

Hailing from Greece – Quasamodo is no newcomer to the scene having previously released an album on esteemed label Freestyle as well as partnering with Basement Freaks for an album project under the name Smokey Bandits on Bombastic Jam.


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Supremes - Keep Me Hangin' On (Remix)

My favourite mix of Jhelisa's 'Friendly Pressure' beefed up and rearranged in time for those sun drenched days ahead. Hopefully seeing a limited vinyl release some time soon.

Friendly Pressure (Leftside Wobble Edit)

Just dug out this dj mix from 2002 (when I was a wee nipper;). 
I made it with my good friend Ed funk for his B-boy crew's training sessions (s/o Floor Crusaders!). There's probably been less than 5 copies in existence UNTIL NOW!  
Warning- this is proper original filthy funk breaks created specifically for b-boys.      

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Ultimate B-Boy Funk Breaks (2002)

We take Curtis Mayfield's "Blue Monday People" and flip it into a laid back re-dux just for you.

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Blue Monday People (All Good Funk Alliance Re-Dux)

Patti Jo to my knowledge only made two tracks but oh what tracks they were. Both were written and produced by Curtis Mayfield and have been staples in my sets for many years. 'Make Me Believe In You' is the better known of the two (the Tom Moulton mix is one of his finest) but Ain't No Love Lost, released the year before in 1972 is just as strong and if anything has even better arrangements. Can't believe it's taken me this long to give it a LW re-spin! As ever this may see the light of day over the summer as a limited release but has mainly been put together for my forthcoming sets.

A quick reminder of some forthcoming DJ dates:

May 27th - Big In Japan @ The Book Club - http://tinyurl.com/69ho9en
June 10th - Stretch Disco @ Band On The Wall (Manchester) - http://tinyurl.com/64l4cf8
June 11th - The now legendary canal parties return to the (not so secret anymore) West London water-side venue for the summer season - this one features Sancho Panza, Stuart Patterson, Size Doesn't Matter and my good self

Ain't No Love Lost (Leftside Wobble Edit) - Now Available @ Juno Download

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Patti Jo - Make Me Believe In You (A Tom Moulton Mix)

Roy Ayers - Everybody Loves the Sunshine (Super Rare Version)

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This collection of underground dance music covers tracks released between 1975 and 1983 from both sides of the Atlantic. The tracks chosen for this compilation introduce some of the pioneering few who expanded the horizons of disco to incorporate elements of dub, funk, electro, jazz and Latin. In some ways many of the artists featured here foresaw the birth of successive musical genres. There is no disputing that they were all well ahead of their time and with the recent trend of similarly inspired house they sound as fresh today as they did then.

The music chosen for this album were the underground classics that made the scene what it was in the heady of days of the Paradise Garage and the Loft in NYC and the Warehouse in Chicago where DJs such as Arthur Baker and Francois Kervorkian could be heard spinning such tracks.

On disc two (CD version only) Masters at Work add their touches to one of their favourite tracks while Harvey and Underdog take on the Disco Dub band and come up with two very different interpretations which will work on today’s dancefloors. 

Manzel - Space Funk

Another cover from a Curtis Mayfield classic.

Patti Jo - Ain't No Love Lost

An uplifting Jazz dance classic, sampled by Greyboy for "Unwind Your Mind".

Richard 'Groove' Holmes - No Trouble On The Mountain

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