The Discography Lessons

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Part 2 of a live recording at my residency for Metropolis Club in London.
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Disco In A Strip Club Part 2

Mighty Clouds Of Joy 'Mighty Cloud Of Joy' (greg wilson & ché wilson rework)

124 bpm

DJ only vinyl 2024.

The Mighty Clouds Of Joy were an LA-based gospel group who’d been releasing records since the early-‘60s, initially as The Mighty, Mighty Clouds Of Joy’. In 1974 they made a departure from their more traditional style when the group went into Sigma Sound Studios in Philadelphia, the epicentre when it came to the soulful dance music that would soon explode as disco, recording their album, ‘It’s Time’, with producer/songwriter, Dave Crawford. Members of the Philadelphia International group, MFSB, already renowned for backing artists like Harold Melvin & The Bluenotes, The O’Jays and The Three Degrees, were brought aboard for the sessions, including the legendary Baker-Harris-Young rhythm section, who, apart from MFSB, fuelled The Trammps, with Earl Young celebrated for innovating the disco style of rock drumming.

I came across the group via their second single from ‘It’s Time’, ‘Mighty Cloud Of Joy’, released in late-‘74. I figure I must have picked my UK 7” out of a bargain bin when I was 14, maybe 15. There’s nowhere I would have previously heard this – it was before I started DJing, and it’s not something likely to be played on radio. I reckon I bought it on spec – I knew the label, ABC, via singles by Eddie Holman, Four Tops and Rufus, so it was a trusted source, and I would have been fascinated that the artist and title were (almost) the same.

It picked up specialist plays from some soul and funk DJs here, including Colin Curtis at the Blackpool Mecca and Les Spaine at The Timepiece in Liverpool, but largely went under the radar. It remained a personal favourite from the period, which I’d have thought would have done well in the States, but it appears to have been largely slept on there too, the track receiving DJ support, but not igniting as you’d imagine it would have. The following year, again recorded at Sigma Sound, the next Mighty Clouds album, ‘Kickin’’, included ‘Mighty High’, which would blow up big time with US DJs and top the disco chart (it wasn’t a track I can ever recall hearing in a UK club). It surprised me to learn that ‘Mighty High’ had been so big, while ‘Mighty Cloud Of Joy’ is conspicuous by its absence from both the US R&B and Disco charts – the latter sounding far more like a disco classic to my ears.

Having remixed Gabriels ‘Love And Hate In A Different Time’ with Ché, inspired by the mid-‘70s Earl Young disco groove, it brought to mind the gospel-infused ‘Mighty Cloud Of Joy’, and this rework resulted. Having played it out while we fine-tuned, despite its relative obscurity, people responded to it like they’ve known it all their lives, it’s ‘movin’ on up’ refrain infectious, which makes it all the more surprising that it wasn’t huge on release.

Pressed on limited vinyl as part of the GW Edits series, and featuring ‘The Turnaround’, an update of Vicki Sue Robinson’s ’76 disco anthem, ‘Turn The Beat Around’.

Mighty Clouds Of Joy 'Mighty Cloud Of Joy' (greg wilson & ché wilson rework)

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To celebrate the 25th Anniversary of ‘Can't Get High Without U’ Dave Lee formerly known as Joey Negro digs out the original DAT session and reworks the mix down. Bringing the track up to date with an overhaul of the arrangement, crafted for maximum peak time ecstasy, ramping up the tension and remastering the sonics. This is a prime cut of JN disco-house action, re-imagined for 2024 that has already been causing dancefloor devastation whenever aired.

Joey Montenegro - Can't Get High Without U (25th Anniversary Mix)

1.- FRAN DEEPER & MANUEL COSTELA - Love Us
2.- BROTHERS IN ARTS - The valley
3.- LUP INO - Gonza Move Your Body
4.- TIME PILOTS - Back To Disco
5.- PAUL ORDER - Loop Story
6.- SGT SLINCK - What You Come For (BIRDEE REMIX)
7.- HOTMOOD - Move Your Body
8.- FRAN DEEPER -Old Is Kool - (ANDROMEDA ORCHESTRA REMIX)
9.- INFRADISCO - La Trumpeta Del Sol (CHEWY RUBS REMIX)
10.- KEN@WORK - Trumpet Funk
11.- DAVID BAY - Saudade (Edit)

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