Disco Freakout: Boogie Slappers, Psychedelic World Disco, New Wave, Punk Funk, Italo & Beyond

(Loin des) Rivages

Les Pêcheurs

Charlie - Spacer Woman (Original Mix)

En Cavale

Behind the Door

Reachin' For It

Dance to the Best of ESG

My Love for You

Taken from the album 'DREAMER', released 28 April 2023 on Ninja Tune: https://nabihahiqbal.lnk.to/dreamerSo

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This World Couldn’t See Us

Buy / stream: https://orcd.co/guduandfriends

Peggy Gou’s Gudu label today launches a new annual Various Artists compilation series with Gudu & Friends Vol. 1.

Launched in 2019, Gudu opened with one of Peggy Gou’s most successful records to date, ‘Starry Night’, and has released several hit singles from Peggy since (‘I Go’, ‘Nabi’). However, Peggy’s music is only half the story with Gudu.

Since its formation, Gudu has housed music from a truly global roster of artists, including the UK’s DMX Krew and JRMS, Italy’s Hiver and Dukwa, South Korea’s Mogwaa, Indonesia’s Dea, Ukraine’s Brain de Palma, South Africa’s Riff and the USA’s Maurice Fulton. It has also hosted label showcases across Europe, and hosts its own stage at Peggy’s annual Pleasure Gardens festival.

On Gudu & Friends Vol. 1, the label presents an eight-track compilation of new music from established Gudu label artists and new faces to the label. DMX Krew, Mogwaa, Hiver, Dukwa and Brain de Palma all represent for the existing label roster, while two of South Korea’s most exciting talents Closet Yi and Salamanda contribute two very different tracks: the ravey, breaks-driven ‘Sonder’ and the wide-eyed, mallet-led ‘Mockingbird’. Finally, the First Lady of Beatdown, Lady Blacktronika, comes through with the hypnotic groove of ‘He Can Never Love You’ - a classic LB cut that gets warpy and freaky as only she can.

Each Gudu & Friends compilation will have artwork tied into the Lunar New Year. For Gudu & Friends Vol. 1, the art comes from illustrator Jin Young Choi (who also illustrates the Gudu Mix series) and reflects the Year of the Rabbit.

Tracklist:
01. Mogwaa - 11Hz
02. Hiver - Lunar
03. Salamanda - Mockingbird
04. DMX Krew - One Take
05. Dukwa - Time Out
06. Brain de Palma - Road to Tatooine
07. Lady Blacktronika - He Can Never Love You
08. Closet Yi - Sonder

Mogwaa - 11khz

Messages From The Stars

The Vapor Caves - Messages From The Stars

Night Time

Watch Out (Instrumental Mix)

Knock U Out

Buy it here : http://www.deejay.de/m_House/WRR004__115037
White Rabbit - WRR004

Giovanni Damico - No More

Knock U Out (Ken@Work Club Dub Remix)

Knock U Out (Ken@Work Club Dub Mix)

Collie Hill EP

Sunset City Beat

I.C. Love Affair

I.C. Love Affair (Italian Version)

Richenel - I Won't Bite (04:56)

Universal Togetherness Band

Ain't Gonna Cry

Constantly

It's All Over Your Face

Order here:
https://www.juno.co.uk/artists/King+Sporty+%2526+The+Ex+Tras/

After last year’s reissues of the Miami based label, Dancefloor, Emotional Rescue returns to the City’s music with a look at the affiliated Konduko Records, with a collection of reissues from the acclaimed King Sporty.   

A Caribbean musician who found his way to Florida, Noel Williams enjoyed a three-decade career that took in dub, funk, soul and disco that included a number of club hits along the way.  To start the series is some of his better-known 80’s output, primarily around his in-house project The Ex Tras and three 1982 releases – beginning with the first official reissue of one of his greatest “hits” in Haven’t Been Funked Enough.  

Initially known as a Jamaican born reggae artist, Williams gained his early tutelage at the legendary Clement Dodd’s Studio One, first as studio assistant before making his recording debut as a Deejay in the late 60s.  Making the short move north to Miami by the early 70s, he set up first Konduko and later Tashamba Records to release his own music and productions, as well as those of artists he signed and developed.   

As the decade progressed King Sporty and his roster’s releases developed from soulful reggae singles to the disco tinged sound found on his own, now sought after, Deep Reggae Roots album.  The move to a more club based sound continued as disco took hold, with subsequent albums Keep On Burning and Meet Me At The Disco tapping in to the nascent sound with some success and recognition.   

Working closely with Henry Stone’s TK Disco, Konduko moved in to the 80s with electro and hip-hop increasingly employed as part of Williams’ expanding fusion.  With vocalists Connie Case and Johnny Griffin on board, a band – The Ex Tras – was formed around Williams dub tinged production.   

From the warped electro-dub intro, heavy bass, chopped guitar, a watertight rhythm and driving percussion, Haven’t Been Funked Enough mixes many of Williams’ traits with an incessant vocals repeated infinitum.   Backed with the original – here remastered for heavy rotation – is the never before released Rapstrumental.   A merging of the Instrumental found on the flip of the US pressed Konduko 12”, with the Rap vocal version found on the UK import TMT release, this ‘remix’ offers an updated take on what has been the more discerning DJ’s play.   

This is followed on the B-side by a very special version from the Idjut Boys’ Dan Tyler, here in “Nad” moniker mode.  After his much heralded remix, alongside Nick The Record, of Carl & Carol Jacob’s Robot Jam for the label (ERC022), who to reinterpret such a classic quickly fell on this perfect fit and his long form ‘Discomix’ offered here is the ultimate rerub.  Taking all the versions deep to his mixing well, Tyler’s dub heavy reversion twists, turns, fuses, dissembles and reassembles in a reverb(erating) 10 minutes of electro-funk manner of heaven.   As Mr Griffin says, “Lets unite, come on, let’s live!”

Disco Freakout: Boogie Slappers, Psychedelic World Disco, New Wave, Punk Funk, Italo & Beyond

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