There is no such thing as unmixable for Nicolas! nice one ...

This better turn up on the Patreon at some point, Nicolas! ;-)

BUY: https://zrecords.lnk.to/LookAtTheStars

A standout moment from Dave Lee’s Produced With Love II album last year, ‘Look At The Stars’ is the first collaboration with Detroit vocalist Maurissa Rose ahead of a full feature length album together next year.

For this single Dave Lee has reworked the album cut into a full 4/4 stomper, priming it for dance-floor action. The dreamy sample makes a perfect pairing with Rose’s soaring vocals, whilst underpinned by Dave’s crisp production and house heavy beats.

Backing up the release is a very special ‘Moog Dub’ where Matt Cooper voyages away effortlessly over the track, for a heads down journey into the outer atmosphere.

Dave & Maurissa - Look At The Stars (Dave’s Starshine Club Mix)

Available To Buy Now! > https://linktr.ee/ogvdiscolivesep

A1. D.C. LaRue - Do You Want The Real Thing (OPOLOPO Remix)
B1. D.C. LaRue - Let Them Dance (Dr Packer Remix)
B2. D.C. LaRue - Indiscreet (The Knutsens Remix)


Release Date: 7th July 2023
Cat: #OGVV001

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AFTER A LIFETIME on the dance floor, you realize that escape to a beat was not the only thing you found there. Sometimes, and surprisingly soon, you may find self-awareness, challenge, enlightenment. Therein lies a core truth about the timelessness of music, and particularly the music of D.C. LaRue. After two years of art school studying graphic design, LaRue joined the music industry by recording two top 40 pop records influenced by the teen-idol era. In his early adulthood, he began writing songs about the fast-growing club and bar subculture he frequented where the most outcast of society’s young and marginalized could safely congregate after being ostracized in work, church, school, and often family. In this relatively brief selection of LaRue classics, contemporary remixes paradoxically bring out the timelessness of his songs, in tone, message and musicality.

“Indiscreet” alone, from LaRue’s 1976 concept album, “The Tea Dance,” tells much of the story about how disco had already birthed its own far more popular and influential successor form, Hip-Hop, by the time it was declared dead by the superannuated establishments of the radio, media and record businesses. Released in a highly limited, personally inscribed 12-inch 45 rpm edition for a select list of top disco DJs, its complex, elastic polyrhythm made it as irresistible to younger black DJs and breakdancing teens as any of the year’s other big street breakouts, like Ralph MacDonald’s “Jam on the Groove.” Or to a teenage record collector, anything by the R&B band Rufus. The clean, uncluttered remixes here, with their sturdy and un-hectic four-four pulse, put focus on the overlap between the first-call studio musicians of LaRue’s albums and the stellar east and west coast studio session lineups of Gregg Diamond, Ashford and Simpson, Barry White, Stuff, and other diverse creatives of Latin disco and soul-jazz fusion.

But, wait, there’s more! “Let Them Dance,” greeted in its time as a one of the breakthrough moments of new music technology, is reinterpreted mainly with its live acoustic tracks, also retaining bright, rhythmic synthesizer hooks with results that are still true to his intentionally oblique lyric, a novelistic portrayal of the drug dealers, the LGBTQ+ underground community, and the powerful upper class elite that made up the multi-racial, socially integrated crowds on the dance floors at the height of disco. “Do You Want the Real Thing,” also “updated” in the style of the lush yet sharp Motown and Philadelphia production pieces that inspired the arrangement originally, still resonates as a nightly inner dialogue or negotiation, another of LaRue’s literary signatures.

Go ahead, watch a Fleetwood Mac documentary if you want to see industry executives and commentators say, ”Huh. How did that happen?” discussing a timeless and universal work that bravely confronted the raw and troublesome inner feelings and vulnerabilities of the songwriters. Play this record and you will feel exactly how disco gave refuge, healing and community to the most marginalized, and immediately welcomed in absolutely everyone else, even the ruling class, and thereby proved again that in art, national cuisine, fashion and every cultural and creative endeavor, it’s the most outcast of every nationality and generation that feeds, clothes, entertains and inspires the larger society that cast them out in the first place.


Namaste,
Brian Chin
Brooklyn, New York
March, 2023

'Disco Lives' EP

D.C. LaRue - 'Disco Lives' EP (12" Vinyl) Dr Packer, OPOLOPO & The Knutsens Remixes | OUT NOW!

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My 30min mix for Craig Charles BBC6 show as broadcast on 10th June 2023. Comment for tracklist ID!

BBC 6: Disco Mix (Craig Charles Show 10 June '23)

Here's a "housy" rework of this 1988 classic from Womack & Womack.
Please repost/comment it if you dig it:)

Free Dwnld

Life's Just A Ballgame (Vibes4YourSoul Rework) (new mster sep23)

going back to my roots (love hangover mix)

Yes my Unmixable Challenge for The People’s Party on @BBC6Music with Afrodeutsche is here as broadcast on 25 August 2023. They gave me Toto and Childish Gambino to put together into one track, let me know what you think in the comments 🙏


#toto #childishgambino #thereflex

BBC6 The Unmixable Challenge w/The Reflex

Pete Le Freq @ Sotano 8.9.23 pt 1

Nice surprise last week when DJ Paulette, sitting in for Craig Charles on his BBC6 Music radio show, aired a 30min mix of my revisions that she put together herself! It's one thing to be asked to do a mix for BBC radio, it's another when the host actually does it :-) That was a cracking show too, which you can listen back to it here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001qmqp
Tracklist:
Earth, Wind & Fire - Happy Feeling [The Reflex Revision]
Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell - Ain't No Mountain High Enough [The Reflex Revision]
The Jacksons - Can You Feel It [The Reflex Revision]
Eddie Kendricks - Date With The Rain [The Reflex Revision]
Bobby Thurston - You Got What It Takes [The Reflex Revision]

Thank you DJ Paulette!

DJ Paulette In The Mix BBC6 The Reflex Special [16 Sept '23]

Raise the Roof  - Pete Le Freq @ Spark CIC 29.9.23 Part 1

Here is my 8th volume of the "Paris Edits", including 2 special and dancefloor friendly versions of Parliament & Ingram classics.
Enjoy <3

Young Pulse - Getten 2 Know U

REFLEXING FULL-TIME SINCE 2010.

Some call him ‘the wizard’; Noel Gallagher says he’s a genius.

Having gathered support  from virtually every corner of the industry - 
From the tastemakers (Gilles Peterson, The Blessed Madonna, Bill Brewster, Lefto) to the heavyweights disco DJs (Dave Lee JN, DJ Harvey, Dimitri from Paris, Mousse T.); from the top underground jocks (Skream, Eats Everything, Disclosure, Purple Disco Machine) to hip-hop heads (De La Soul, Jazzy Jeff, Rich Medina); from the DJ / remix pioneers (François K, Danny Krivit, Greg Wilson) to ground breaking producers (Patrick Adams, Jimmy Jam, Leroy Burgess); the list of supporters keeps growing. It’s no coincidence that The Reflex has ended up on Barack Obama’s iPod or received the ultimate thumbs up from the legendary ‘Thriller’ and ‘Rock With You’ songwriter Rod Temperton before his passing.

More than an edit, it’s The Reflex Revision: a motto that describes accurately the expert craftsmanship involved in turning stems into brand new, fresh sounding versions. With privileged access to original multitracks, a unique attention to detail and mixing skills to make vintage recordings sound like no other, The Reflex extracts the funkiest elements and puts the musicality to the fore while building his own groove in a way that only he can. While some are remixing from the outside in, layering house beats over disco classics, The Reflex does it the hard way, combining creativity and functionality with results that are often nothing short of spectacular.
With 100+ official remixes under his belt for the biggest names in the industry, The Reflex’s output is in demand. Whether he’s soundtracking Karl Lagerfeld’s make-up range or genre-hopping through the decades and styles with ease, The Reflex has become the remixer most played on BBC6 Music (courtesy of long time supporters Craig Charles and Gilles Peterson).

London based since 1998, French native Nicolas Laugier’s story is one of determination, drive and ambition. Hailing from a humble working-class background and after many years of hardship, Nicolas gambled all his little savings on a professional music career in 2010 at the age of 36, with no plan B. 

As a DJ, The Reflex sets are a proper energy-packed workout, full of unreleased material (his own and from his trusted network), often playing the big disco tunes well ahead of everyone else.
With 20+ years in the game, through an impressive mix of disco, cosmic, funk, boogie house and rarities, The Reflex brings on the grooves in their many forms with an ability to adapt to crowds and places through his wealth of knowledge and experience. Somewhere between trainspotters’ paradise and crowd pleaser, always classy but never vulgar.
Love it or hate it, you’ll know a Reflex Revision when you hear one. By morphing tired classics and sometimes uncool songs into bonafide DJ weapons, The Reflex has created a catalogue of revisions that will be played for many years to come.

https://linktr.ee/thereflex
Remix / Press enquiries: mail@thereflexmusic.com

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