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Al Kent single-handedly runs million dollar disco website & is a self-confessed disco obsessive…Al Kent was born Ewan Kelly in late ’60s Glasgow where his introduction to music came early with gifts of kids’ albums from his record loving dad & a cheeky half hour in the record department whenever possible.
He quickly discovered and fell in love with soul music and a few years later he began meeting other people who loved this music too, except they called it northern soul.

Somewhere along the line he discovered that soul music didn’t end in 1969 and got a taste for 1970s releases, including things like Rare Pleasure, Bileo and Four Below Zero, the latter of which he had to buy on 12 inch as he couldn’t find it on 45. It was very big, and had a bright sleeve with the word “Disco” on it. Soon he was obsessively collecting disco 12 inches - an obsession that continues to this day.

Over the coming years he started to DJ and then like most DJs, he got the urge to make music he quickly realised that those old disco records he’d been collecting could be sampled and put on top of house drums And so, Million Dollar Disco was born as an offshoot of Glasgow’s Solemusic.

Over the years Al’s been busy re-editing the disco stuff and he’s also released some of the edits he spends so much time making - three volumes of Brown Brothers releases on the Real Thing label and two on Jisco Music. He’s also compiled three volumes of Disco Demands and volume one of the Northern Disco series, released on Million Dollar Disco and is involved in the party Northern Disco attracting oversea disco dons including Dimitri from Paris & Rahaan from Chicago

In 2005 he embarked on his most ambitious project, using session musicians to record songs in the style he knows and loves. From humble beginnings in his spare room, the project soon grew wings and became the Million Dollar Orchestra, involving more than twenty musicians culminating in the million dollar orchestra release on bbe records.

The love unlimited sound system is delighted to host this exclusive mix by Al who has dug deep for this “disco joint” mix we are sure it will keep all you disco heads happy – there are some real gems on this one….

Keep your eyes peeled for forthcoming releases including a Million Dollar Edits ep on Kat, and the new Cavey Disco label out of Chicago that will be releasing some more Al Kent edits.

 

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Al Kent single-handedly runs million dollar disco website & is a self-confessed disco obsessive…Al Kent was born Ewan Kelly in late ’60s Glasgow where his introduction to music came early with gifts of kids’ albums from his record loving dad & a cheeky half hour in the record department whenever possible.
He quickly discovered and fell in love with soul music and a few years later he began meeting other people who loved this music too, except they called it northern soul.

Somewhere along the line he discovered that soul music didn’t end in 1969 and got a taste for 1970s releases, including things like Rare Pleasure, Bileo and Four Below Zero, the latter of which he had to buy on 12 inch as he couldn’t find it on 45. It was very big, and had a bright sleeve with the word “Disco” on it. Soon he was obsessively collecting disco 12 inches - an obsession that continues to this day.

Over the coming years he started to DJ and then like most DJs, he got the urge to make music he quickly realised that those old disco records he’d been collecting could be sampled and put on top of house drums And so, Million Dollar Disco was born as an offshoot of Glasgow’s Solemusic.

Over the years Al’s been busy re-editing the disco stuff and he’s also released some of the edits he spends so much time making - three volumes of Brown Brothers releases on the Real Thing label and two on Jisco Music. He’s also compiled three volumes of Disco Demands and volume one of the Northern Disco series, released on Million Dollar Disco and is involved in the party Northern Disco attracting oversea disco dons including Dimitri from Paris & Rahaan from Chicago

In 2005 he embarked on his most ambitious project, using session musicians to record songs in the style he knows and loves. From humble beginnings in his spare room, the project soon grew wings and became the Million Dollar Orchestra, involving more than twenty musicians culminating in the million dollar orchestra release on bbe records.

The love unlimited sound system is delighted to host this exclusive mix by Al who has dug deep for this “disco joint” mix we are sure it will keep all you disco heads happy – there are some real gems on this one….

Keep your eyes peeled for forthcoming releases including a Million Dollar Edits ep on Kat, and the new Cavey Disco label out of Chicago that will be releasing some more Al Kent edits.

 

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Hailing from Chicago South Shore Commission signed with New York-based Scepter Records, recording for their Wand subsidiary.

Their biggest hit was “Free Man” released in 1975, and they charted twice more in the next year with “We’re On The Right Track” and “Train Called Freedom”. They released one album the self-titled South Shore Commission, this long player was recorded in Philadelphia with Bunny Sigler and also in Hollywood.

Tom Moulton remixed freeman with the original reference disc cut on a 12″ rather than a 7″ - now there has been many a disco dedbate as to whether a 12 inch of this track actually exists. In an interview with Al Kent of www.millliondollardisco.com according to Tom there was never a test pressing, supposedly 10 acetates were given to DJs like David Mancuso, Walter Gibbons and merely a handful of others.

In the same interview Tom reckons Private Stock made the first move to release a 12 inch promo record for DJs with swearin’ to god (see previous post).

This is meant to be the unreleased acetate version, then again who knows, what we do know is it’s a real disco belter…

 

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