80's - R A R E - D I S C O and F U N K - Part 1

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Don't have to do much to a classic.
If you haven't heard the original, do yourself a favor and check it out.

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Frankie Beverly & Maze- Before I Let Go (McClenney Family Cookout Version)

Intimate Connection

You Did It Again

Keep It In The Family

Don't Push It Don't Force It

Fantastic Voyage

Fantastic Voyage (Extended)

Hearsay

Never Knew Love Like This

The Definitive Collection

Love Changes (Digitally Remastered 1998)

Snap (Expanded Edition)

Love Is Just the Game

Now (Expanded Edition)

Feels So Real (Won't Let Go)

Powerlight

Fall in Love with Me

Affair

Raw Silk 'Do It To The Music' (greg wilson edit)

114bpm

Never previously shared

I know there are quite a few edits of ‘Do It To The Music’ knocking about, a couple of which I’ve played out myself (Frico & Kid Color), but here’s the one I put together back in 2006 that’s popped up in a couple of my mixes, just a ruff from the vinyl incorporating both the main vocal mix and the dub, with no added elements. I only ever intended it to be for my own personal use, rather than something I considered pressing up (otherwise I’d have tried to get hold of a slightly cleaner copy to work from). The reason I’d discounted it for inclusion on a limited run 12” was because I’d thought about the track as a potential candidate for the first Credit To The Edit album the previous year, but I’d already used the acappella from the beginning of the dub over DMX Krew’s ‘Who Got The Funk’, the combination becoming Raw DMX ‘Do It To The Funk’ – the first track I played on my DJ comeback at Music Is Better (see: http://www.gregwilson.co.uk/2011/09/music-is-better-re-edited-highlights), and subsequently a key C2theE track. I figured an additional Raw Silk edit would be overkill, so the idea was shelved. But now we’re at a different point in time and I’m sharing edits here on SoundCloud, so here it is.

Mixed by Nick Martinelli & David Todd and released in the US on Mel Cheren’s West End label, ‘Do It To The Music’ was picked up on import by specialist DJ's in the UK, but following its release here on KR it’d crossover to the more mainstream clubs, and eventually enter the Top 20 of the charts here. West End was the source for so many classic underground cuts during my time at Legend and Wigan Pier (Peech Boys, Brenda Taylor, Stone, Shirley Lites, Barbara Mason, Forrrce, DJ Divine etc), and it was right up there with the likes of Prelude and Tommy Boy and as one of the most essential labels of the era as far as the black scene here in the UK was concerned.

So, without further adieu; no time for criticising, music's hypnotising, everybody's temperature's rising, so get down.

Greg Wilson – October 2011

Check out my label's music at: https://superweirdsubstance.bandcamp.com

Raw Silk 'Do It To The Music' (greg wilson edit)

Guilty

The Best of Dynasty

Don't Waste My Time

Skyway

High

Live and Let Live

Such a Feeling

Finally got round to posting some of my vinyl collection hope you enjoy!

24karatblack

Advance-Take me to the top

Gotta Find a Way

High Fashion - Feelin Lucky Lately (FunkyDeps Re-Edit)
Original Track release in 1983 on the label Capitol Records


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80's - R A R E - D I S C O and F U N K - Part 1

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