funk .....disco.....

Some of the fantastic soul sounds you can hear at the Moveonup clubnight every Wednesday night at The HiFi Club in Leeds

Just Ain't No Love - Barbara Acklin

A little re-shuffle of an incredible track...
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Aaron Neville - Hercules (Mr Doris Re Boogie)

manu hartmann, voc / claude groelly, guit / stephan schaetti, drums / denis flaig, bass / 
lukas briggen, thrombone / bodo maier, trp / cédric vogel, organ

recorded at basel-CH, march 2014
mix: cédric vogel / master: nils koechlin

There's A Break in the Road

Love Unlimited- Walking in the rain (Esquivel Edit)

Instrumental Loop Cut Mix from the classic Caron Wheeler Track "I Adore You"

I Adore You (Brisco Borough Cut Instrumental) Featuring Caron Wheeler

Music Cool Soul Mix 425

Side 1:
reaching for the world
where there's a will - there's a way
after you love me, why do you leave me
sandman

side 2:
hostage part 1&2
he loves you and i do too
big singing star
stay together

Produced by Harold Melvin
Recorded at Sigma Sound Studios, Philadelphia
Engineers: Jim Gallagher and Art Stoppe

The Blue Notes of Philadelphia, Pa., led by original lead vocalist Harold Melvin, began their career in 1954, recording a handful of records for small labels. Not until 1972, however, when drummer Theodore "Teddy Bear" Pendergrass became their lead vocalist, did they begin to make their mark. Supported by the high-gloss production and songwriting of Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff of Philadelphia International Records and propelled by the crack TSOP (The Sound of Philadelphia) rhythm section, Pendergrass's muscular, impassioned baritone was equally effective on lush ballads ("If You Don't Know Me By Now," "I Miss You"), uptempo pop/soul songs ("Where Are All My Friends," "Satisfaction Guaranteed"), and extended disco/funk workouts ("Bad Luck," "The Love I Lost"). The recordings of Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes, along with those of the O'Jays, represent the artistic pinnacle of Gamble and Huff's legacy.

Despite their 1970s success, however, a group whose musical focal point (Pendergrass) took second billing to its leader (Melvin) proved inherently unstable. Pendergrass left the Blue Notes to launch a solo career on Philadelphia International in 1976 and achieved brief status as a macho heartthrob before a tragic 1982 automobile accident left him paralyzed from the neck down. Meanwhile, Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes continued to record with other lead vocalists, including David Ebo and Sharon Paige, without achieving the artistic or commercial success that they enjoyed with Pendergrass.



Harold Melvin and The Blue Notes - Reaching For The World (Full Vinyl)

Undisputed Truth - Smiling faces ( C.R. Project RMX )

Soul On The Grill

Esther Phillips / Home Is Where The Hatred Is

02 - The First Thing I Do In The Morning-Joyce Williams

Backyard Heavies - Soul Junction

Blue Cantrell feat The OJays - Give the people swingin (willbe isy remix)

5. Intimate Strangers - Love Sounds

Dance With The Boogie, Get Down (Groove Line Funk Mix)- Heatwave / DjKrissNeal

The Notations - Super people (Disco Tech dj edit)

for Booking/music productions/remixes: music@ideedeluxerecords.com


Sinan Mercenk is by far more than your regular studio musician. He is a producer, songwriter, a radio programmer and a skilled DJ as well. If Sinan is djing, he delivers a set full of variety and is always looking beyond his own nose. 

The beginning
It all started  back in 1994 when Sinan Mercenk released his first single on legendary Container Records, hailing from Hamburgs famous redlight district Reeperbahn! These were the heydays of House music and Sinan started to dj across Hamburg and later on across Germany. Our smart guy belongs to the very first generation of House music, you might say. And because of his fresh style plus his outstanding selection Sinan swiftly became a well-booked Club-DJ worldwide. Helpful for his dj-career was definitely that Sinan is a diligent worker and so he released several singles on credible labels starting in the mid 90ties. No wonder that his discography is large and his ouput still numerous to this day.  Additionally Sinan Mercenk became an in-demand remixer step by step. He worked for major-labels like Motown and high-profile artists ranging from De-Phazz, Tarkan, Mustafa Sandal to Eddie Matos, Channel Two, Pamela and Levitation or Blank & Jones to name a few. 

Today
Finally in 2008 Sinan Mercenk started his own label ideedeluxe records based in Hamburg. It is his creative playgournd really and on this self-owned imprint Sinan released his debut album called  "Moments On Earth" in the very same year. On this varied album Sinan is prefectly showcasing his cosmopolitan character as a composer.
Sinan Mercenk is living between two worlds, Orient and Occident that is. His actual roots and his social background merging two worlds and you can definitely hear that on his two albums „Moments On Earth“ and „True Collection“ and several EP´s and Singles he is releasing! And while he is steadily communiting between his hometowns Hamburg and Istanbul he´s filtering the best out of these two worlds for himself and is clerverly mixing it into his music. Regardless of whether Sinan Mercenk mixing, producing, remixing or compiling, the club's unique social space for the curation and enjoyment of music is always on his mind. It is also why he's continually got responses from some of the renowned singers with whom he then worked, like is last EPs with Karl Frierson „Walk With Me“ or Pat Appleton „Curiosity“. On his new release "Occupy My Heart" Sinan Mercenk collaborate with Adriana Kaegi, co-founded the legendary band „Kid Creole and the Coconuts“.

And where he find’s next to his many jobs the time for three radio shows? That we don’t know ...

Undisputed Truth - Smiling faces ( C.R. Project RMX )

Sinan Mercenk

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