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Wah Wah 45s bring you four incredible re-works from French disco don The Reflex, for our very own legendary Canadian/Haitian keyboard wiz Henri-Pierre Noel.

Funky Spider Dance is a percussion heavy bomb filled to the brim with Henri's soaring piano licks and infectious female vocal hooks. The Reflex has taken what was already a sure-fire club favourite, and created something of a dance floor destroyer.

His rework of A Fifth of Beethoven takes its time to build into another heavy hitter. As the beats make way for Henri's deft keyboard flourishes, the recognition of this cover of the Walter Murphy classic (taken from the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack) begins to dawn - and as it does, it's clear that once again the dream team of HPN and The Reflex have worked their magic!

The Reflex's Revision of Back Home...; Sweet Home is a modern Island Funk masterpiece with organ and tropical guitar riffs making way for sunny brass stabs all underpinned by foot friendly beats.

And last, but most certainly not least, the full-length version of The Reflex's re-working of the dancer's favourite Diskette, is available here for the very first time in all of its glory!

The original versions of Funky Spider Dance and Back Home...; Sweet Home can be found on Henri's One More Step album, Diskette is taken from his debut, Piano, and his take of A Fifth of Beethoven was recently available on 7-inches of wax - all on Wah Wah 45s of course. The Reflex Revisions all appear here together for the very first time!

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Henri-Pierre Noël - A Fifth Of Beethoven [The Reflex Revision]

There's a lot of reasons to celebrate Manchester's music scene. The city's had a massive pool of creative talent pretty much since the dawn of time, and now it seems better than ever. One of the main reasons for that is the expansive LEVELZ family, a collective once described as "the Wu-Tang Clan meets the Happy Mondays." The core LEVELZ team, if you didn't already know, includes Biome, Black Josh, Bricks, Chimpo, Chunky, Dub Phizix, Fox, Jonny Dub, Metrodome, Rich Reason, Skittles, Sparkz, Truthos Mufasa and T-Man, as well as a slew of friends and supporting artists—many of whom are multi-disciplined artists who produce, DJ and rap. For this new mix—which comes ahead of their show at Shapes in Hackney, London this Friday, Bricks goes yet further to shake off the shackles of hip-hop and grime that are so often attached to the collective. We get reggae, rock, soul, funk, hip-hop, breaks—everything! Even your mum could shake a leg to this one.

Premiere: LEVELZ - 'Soundcrash' Mix

Recorded Live At 'Avinos Bar' Paros Greece

Superbreak's Afro Boogie Disco-Live Set

https://djcmanmusic.bandcamp.com/track/dont-sweat-the-technique-cman-edit-2023-remaster-by-d-cow

Bboy bgirl anthem. DJ Friendly intro created for this hip hop banger by eric b and rakim! Free download or support on bandcamp.

https://djcmanmusic.bandcamp.com/album/cman-edits-vol-03

new 2023 remaster:
https://soundcloud.com/djcmanmusic/eric-b-rakim-dont-sweat-the-technique-cman-edit-dcow-2022-remaster

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Иван Малин