Musicmix is an independent consultancy established in 2001 compiling TV advertised albums for Ministry Of Sound and all the major labels in the UK. We specialise in retro dance, lifestyle stuff and chillout. If there were enough takers we'd be doing a Nu Disco album every week. Alex now runs The Common Rooms in Tunbridge Wells, a cocktail bar playing disco/ re-edits off vinyl. info@musicmixltd.co.uk alex@thecommonroomsbar.com

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OKeh short history: 

OKeh was founded by Otto K. E. Heinemann when he set up his own recording studio and gramophone record pressing plant in New York City in September 1918. Heinemann formed the name of the record label "OKeh", from his initials.  OKeh began by issuing popular songs, dance numbers, and vaudeville skits similar to the fare of other labels, but Heineman also wished to experiment with music for audiences neglected by the larger record companies. OKeh produced lines of recordings in German, Czech, Polish, Swedish, and Yiddish for the USA's immigrant communities. In 1920, Ralph Peer's recordings by African-American blues singer Mamie Smith were a surprise smash hit for Okeh. The company perceived the significant, little-tapped market for blues and jazz by African American artists. Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and Bix Beiderbecke are only a few names of jazz greats that have recorded for the label. By 1926 Columbia Records bought the label and kept it running into the 60's with jazz and R&B recordings. 

In 1994, Sony Music reactivated the OKeh label as a new-age Blues label. Okeh's first new signings included Keb' Mo, Popa Chubby, and Little Axe. By 2000, the Okeh label was again retired, but in 2013 it will see its re-launch as a jazz label once again.

Guitarist/ Songwriter from Brighton. Every single project below I have played on and some co-written.Check out my previous and current projects. If you wanna get in touch email me on ross_lower@hotmail.com. Cheers :-)

Dan D., founder of Baltic Soul Weekender and DJ since 1988 opens his record boxes containing everything Soul

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7t7acdotMI

The Baltic Soul Weekender is not only a music festival it also supports legendary soul artists all over the world. Due to bad contracts and mismanagement many of them need to buy their music and photographs like many other artists in record shops themselves. Many of these artists neither have national insurances nor pension funds. When they reach the retirement age, many of them are close to homelessness.

Der Baltic Soul Weekender ist nicht nur ein Musikfestival für Erwachsene, sondern unterstützt gleichzeitig legendäre Soul Künstler in der ganzen Welt. Viele dieser Künstler besitzen weder Sozial- noch Rentenversicherungen und sobald sie das Rentenalter erreichen, sind viele von ihnen nahe an der Obdachlosigkeit. 

www.baltic-soul.de


Co-resident & promoter of The DATE in London which focuses on a quality broad range of Disco & House sounds for real underground music lovers where some of the world's leading DJ's guesting over the last 5 years ... Frankie Knuckles (RIP), Kerri Chandler, Tony Humphries, Nicky Siano, Kenny Carpenter, Timmy Regisford, Karizma, DJ Spen, Prosumer, Rahaan, Maurice Fulton, Greg Wilson, Joey Negro, Late Nite Tuff Guy, Horse Meat Disco, Crazy P, Mike Huckaby, Patrice Scott, Jimpster, Atjazz, Rainer Trueby, X-Press 2, Phil Asher, Paul 'Trouble' Anderson, Ashley Beedle, Luke Solomon, Phil Mison, Nancy Noise, Heavy Disco, Moton etc ...  

Resident & promoter of popular South London all-niter MIND YUH BUSINESS which focuses on vintage soul, reggae, funk & latin on 45 with a number of DJ's guesting along the way. .. Jazzman Gerald, Dr Bob Jones, Ashley Beedle, Maxi Jazz, Snowboy, Dean Rudland,  Set The Tone - Dean Thatcher & Stephen Saunders (RIP), David Hill, Adrian Gibson, Frank Tope, Chris Bangs, Yogi Haughton, Nick Record Kicks  etc. And a number of established Soul & Funk live acts guested too, such as Trio Valore, Soothsayers, The Duplicates, Karime Kendra & The Killers Meter, Lack Of Afro, Baby Charles, The Topcats etc ...

A quest for hypnotic dance floors and eternal happiness
with love from California
-Jeni, Heidi and Masha Mar

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Initially established in 2003 at The Eagle in London’s Vauxhall, Horse Meat Disco has evolved into a powerful force in queer and club culture as a whole, while staying local to its original home, each and every Sunday. Co-founded by James Hillard and Jim Stanton, and encompassing residents Severino and Luke Howard, the crew continue to maintain not only the weekly Sunday party, but a number of residencies in cities across the world, alongside a kaleidoscope of club appearances, festival dates and specially curated mixes.

Taking inspiration from a diverse, counter-cultural history of clubs and DJs, as well as from the sprawling, ever-expanding musical collections of it's resident crew, the sound of HMD is impossible to place. Nonetheless their style is undeniable, as is a popper-scented air of sheer authenticity. Rooted in hedonism, rhythm, freedom and emotion, a Horse Meat Disco set reinforces everything invigorating about disco, as comfortable as shattering old-school mirror ball cliches as basking in their light.

A typical HMD set blends classics, italo disco, house, oddities and punk funk, to conjure their initial spirit of “a queer party for everyone”, including, but not limited to, “Homos and Heteros, club kids, bears, fashionistas, naturists, guerilla drag queens and ladies who munch.” They have made appearances on every notable club scene in the modern world, as well as those beyond, and have long been a key fixture at festivals including Glastonbury, Bestival and Festival No.6.

Outside of the club, the Horse Meat Disco train rolls across the airwaves on Rinse FM, where the crew hold down a weekly residency every Sunday afternoon, serving as a pre and post-club Sunday lunch accompaniment, often delving into the more soulful shades of their sublime taste, often encompassing rave groove, gospel and whatever they can’t get away with on the dancefloor (which, as the years have proven, isn’t much). A series of expertly curated and acclaimed compilations for reissue label Strut helped further cement HMD’s formidable but communal reputation as disco masterminds, spreading their sound and many enviable obscurities into front rooms and record bags across the world. Their latest, ‘Meat Me Down the Disco’, was released on Z Records in 2017.

After decades of crate digging, globetrotting and partying, the HMD story continues apace. 2017 also saw the crew record their long-awaited contribution to BBC Radio 1’s ‘Essential Mix’, as well as their first joint foray into production, ‘Waiting For You To Call’, featuring Roy Inc., and released on their own, self-titled imprint. They are currently working on new music to be released with Glitterbox, with the new single ‘Let’s Go Dancing’ released in December 2018.

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