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It's You I Adore

The other side of the Lumberjacks in Hell 12". Free with side A.

Al Kent "I Can't Stop"

Heard Aquarian Dream's Chance to Dance in a locking battle and couldn't resist tightening it up and adding to the collection of unreleased edits. 

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Aquarian Dream - Chance To Dance (Masterpiece Dancefloor Edit)

A re-edit I did last year that removes the cheese & highlights the other parts of the track that are solid gold.

Louis

The Three Degrees - Jump The Gun (dublinbusdisco edit)

Sheryl Lee Ralph - In The Evening (050 Edit)

A-Freak-A

Lemon - A-Freak-A

Hard to believe it's been more than a year since our <a href="http://blog.soulclap.us/2010/09/13/freep02/">Clap & Friends FreE.P.</a> and almost two since we kicked off the series with <a href="http://blog.soulclap.us/2009/12/17/the-rnb-free-p/">three slices of r&b infused house that came to define a chunk of our sound</a>. With everything that's happened in the last 2 years it would be easy to forget the importance of giving back, but fear not loyal clappers, we wont let you down. So for FreE.P. #3 we continue in the spirit of "showcasing unreleased, but dance-floor-tested material for free download on our website" with three certified bombs by men of the moment, MAM. But we're getting ahead of ourselves, so let's go back in time...

It was "One of Them Nights" back in late 2009 and as usual we were at an afterparty in Leeds when a sudden urge left us very much in need of a spliff. "I got that chronic right here, blood" came a voice from none other than the track-master himself, Miguel Campbell. As you probably gathered from the <a href="http://blog.soulclap.us/2011/09/28/episode-94-39-minutes-of-funk-with-mam/">podcast</a> we just posted, it was love at first smoke and 2 years down the road the music of Miguel, and his partner in MAM, Matt Hughes have become staples in almost all our DJ sets. You can get <a href="http://blog.soulclap.us/2011/09/28/episode-94-39-minutes-of-funk-with-mam/">the whole scoop on MAM in the podcast post</a>, but to make a long story short, after the massive response we got for including "Can't Live Without Music" on our Essential Mix we figured it was time to big up our boys with FreE.P. That is, before <a href="http://www.phonicarecords.com/product/view/101173">Wolf + Lamb stepped in and offered up a four track on their Black Label</a>. At the time, we figured we could help give the record an extra push, but little did we know Miguel was about to blow...

But lets cut to the chase, we're so proud to have these MAM tracks as our latest FreE.P. They are 3 bonafide dance-floor bombs that have become staples in our DJ sets over the summer and are a fantastic representation of the MAM sound; thumping french-touched, sample-crazy house music, but slowed down for a new generation. First in line, "Reel Sweet" is a warmup weapon of choice, perfect for getting into the 80's mode and seducing the crowd. Next up is "One Of Them Nights (Alternative Mix)", a special version of one of the most requested MAM cuts off the Wolf + Lamb Black release. This interpretation is guaranteed to get you down, Mr Ocean would be proud. Last, but certainly not least, is "Can't Live Without Music", the jam that started it all. Its a slowed down, bass-heavy vocoder workout that is a personal favorite and a theme song for our journey along this long road we call music. YEAHHH BOI!

MAM - One Of Them Nights (Alternative Mix)

Rahaan - Make Me Whole (Disco Deviance)

Never conforming to the trends & waves of the world Musically, Socially & Fashionably, Kiki is known to set the tone. She's most "Creative" when mapping her own lane. She is a woman who is Sultry & Slithery just like Silk, but most comfortable in her vintage wool.. 
Kiki states " I'm a Free-Spirit " An Aquarius, I'm Funky, I hate rules & routines, I get bored fast, & I'm a "Drummer Girl " So I like to Roll & Bounce to my own Beat.." 
Kiki's Kyte's Music & Style Is like you stepped back in time. Black Exploitation at its Finest, Sexiness, & Pure Unadulterated Rawness! It's that Disco Boogie Oogie Funk. Starlight, Star-bright Sat Night Fever. It's Sex, Fur, Glitter & Gold. Roller Skates at the Discotheque, It's that "Get Down" "Sound Alarm" for those Studio54 Chic, Unicorns & Freaks! She's a melting pot resemblance of "Claire Huxtable aka "Phylicia Rashad" the Fierce "hbic-ness" of Pam Grier aka "Foxy Brown," with that natural ability to pull off the "70s Sexy" we all love.. 

"Disco Chick"

I Don't Wanna Lose It - Bambu

Additional Production and Remix by Justin Strauss for Just Right Productions. 1988. Remix Engineered by Hugo Dwyer @ Soundtracks Studios N.Y.C. Additional Keyboard Programming by Eric Kupper. Edited by Chep Nunez.

The Jets - Sending All My Love - Drumapella - 1988

Soundway Records present ’24 Hours in A Disco 1978 - 82’, 7 cuts of relentless disco grooves from the sublimely gifted Kiki Gyan. Hailed as Africa’s answer to Stevie Wonder, Ghanaian multi-instrumentalist Kiki Gyan was a musical wunderkind who by 1975 had risen from the lowly status of high school dropout to being ranked eighth in a poll of the greatest keyboardists in the world (occupying the rarefied air of the top ten with heavyweights like Steve Winwood, Billy Preston, and Stevie Wonder) as well as becoming an in-demand session player in the top recording studios of London - all before his twenty-first birthday. 

Out on his own, he produced a series of highly ambitious disco records aimed at positioning him as an international star, but weighed down by the excesses of the era, Gyan saw his meteoric rise matched by an equally swift fall back into obscurity. 

Loved dearly by his contemporaries and sorely missed since his death in 2005 the story of the life of Kofi Kwarko ‘Kiki’ Gyan is one often told with warning by his friends to the new generation of aspiring Ghanaian popstars.

Soundway Records now collects the best of Gyan’s work as a frontman and solo artist, featuring an array of electrifying disco grooves that still sound contemporary (and in some cases futuristic) decades after their initial release.

Released on CD and 2xLP both formats are accompanied with detailed liner notes written by Uchenna Ikonne. LP version comes with a free MP3 download of the release. 

Kiki Gyan - Disco Dancer

Another quick edit of a really cheap and easy track that's got surprising reactions on the dancefloor.. it's that bass! Play it loud!!

Scary noise now sorted for anyone who got a fright!

Fired Up

Big thanks to Marks Records for the ripp of the wicked'n'Rare 7" Original!
‎*"How Long" was a 1974 song by the British group Ace from their album Five-a-Side. It reached #3 in the US and Canadian charts, and #20 in the UK chart.Lead singer Paul Carrack composed the song upon discovering that bassist Terry Comer had been secretly working with other bands. Comer returned to Ace in time to play on the song.Cover versions include ,Rod Stewart, Barbara Mandrell ,Lipps, Inc. 
and J. J. Barnes (James Jay Barnes, November 30, 1943, Detroit, Michigan)" 
* by Disco Gary

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J.J. Barnes - How Long (Ramsey Hercules Edit) [RV Mastered]

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Lemon - A-Freak-A

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