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The Love Unlimited offer up a little slice of house music history for your listening pleasure. It’s great to be able to feature this rare old mix by Graeme Park, which was recorded at the Garage club in Nottingham in 1988, about the time that he started his stint at the Hacienda.

Graeme worked at our favourite record shop, Selectadisc, and was given his first break by Brian Selby, who opened the shop in 1966, and also part owned the Garage club. Brian only retired this year and we wish him all the best.

Many flavours feature on this mix including his trademark cut-up of Run DMC & you get a taste of what was happening across UK dancefloors at the time… Big thanks to Paul Wain for the recording.

 

 Graeme Park Garage 88 - Pt1 [45:57m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 

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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.

 

 Al Kent mix [70:43m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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.

 

 Al Kent mix [70:43m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Rick James makes his debut appearance at the Love Unlimited with “Fool On The Street” released via Gordy in 1979 on the long player “Bustin’ Out Of L Seven” & as a 7″ single.

A great sounding crossover tune that was big on the Bank Holiday Do’s of yesteryear. To read more about Rick’s life & music visit www.rickjames.com

 

 rick james fool on the street [3:56m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

The Chuck Brothers just keep on coming up with the disco-goods, once again the love unlimited are delighted to be able to feature another hot & exclusive mix by afrodesia

Check out afrodesia’ & Rahaan’ previous mix offerings in earlier posts. This latest afrodesia excursion is the IntroDiscoMental Mix - The Return of Disco K

That’s the Chicago Way…enjoy

 

 afrodesia - IntroDiscoMental [54:34m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

The Chuck Brothers just keep on coming up with the disco-goods, once again the love unlimited are delighted to be able to feature another hot & exclusive mix by afrodesia

Check out afrodesia’ & Rahaan’ previous mix offerings in earlier posts. This latest afrodesia excursion is the IntroDiscoMental Mix - The Return of Disco K

That’s the Chicago Way…enjoy

 

 afrodesia - IntroDiscoMental [54:34m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Underground disco 45, “Magic Mandrake” from the Sarr Band, released on the Calendar label in the UK as both a 7″ & 12″ single with Double Action as a Double A side and also on the Canadian Unidisc record label.

Big with the Love Unlimited & many DJ’s in the UK & US (it was re-edited by Rahaan for his jisco records release) & has featured on many a mix from the States. With a distinctly European sound the vocal is nice & sleazy & has the killer line “Turn this dirty city into a rosepetal garden.”

This acts as a nice little taster for the next installment of our series of mixes courtesy of the Chuck Brothers that will be added to the love unlimited mixes archive soon.

 

 Sarr Band - Magic Mandrake [4:42m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Disco Love & thanks to The Chuck Brothers hook-up for another Love Unlimited exclusive, this time from Rahaan (Chicago).

With a love of the re-edit & a serious collection of disco its a joy to host this mix. From the moment it starts you know you’re in for a treat - superb selections, old & new, quality mixing, his own re-edits, philly disco, classics & unknown gems for the spotters - 80+ minutes of Rahaan disco action for your listening pleasure.

If you haven’t already, try & seek out his essential re-edit releases on jisco music & most recently a 4 track 12 via Kat Records, and the previous afrodesia post for further info

All aboard for this Rahaan Blue Line exclusive mix.

 

 Rahaan - Blue Line [84:54m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Disco Love & thanks to The Chuck Brothers hook-up for another Love Unlimited exclusive, this time from Rahaan (Chicago).

With a love of the re-edit & a serious collection of disco its a joy to host this mix. From the moment it starts you know you’r e in for a treat - superb selections, old & new, quality mixing, his own re-edits, philly disco, classics & unknown gems for the spotters - 80+ minutes of Rahaan disco action for your listening pleasure.

If you haven’t already, try & seek out his essential re-edit releases on jisco music & most recently a 4 track 12 via Kat Records, and the previous afrodesia post for further info

All aboard for this Rahaan Blue Line exclusive mix.

 

 Rahaan - Blue Line [84:54m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

More musical goodness from CurtisMayfield. Do Do Wap Is Strong in here has the unmistakable Mayfield quality from start to finish. Released in 1977 on Curtom as a 7″ (edit) & from the Long Player Short Eyes.

 

 Curtis Mayfield - Do Wap Is Strong In Here [3:32m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download