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Rhythm & Blues Flavours

April 2, 2010
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Rhythm & Blues Flavours tape by Jon The Love Unlimited Sound System. Put this in your Walkman and press play.

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Max and Jon’s Midnight Music Selections

February 7, 2008

Coke Escovedo – I wouldn’t change a thing (unique) The Controllers – The people want music (juana) 1976 Personal Touch – It ain’t no big thing (p&p) Zulema – Telling the world good-bye (sussex) 1973 Prince Phillip Mitchell – I’m so happy (atlantic) Gwen McCrae – Cradle of love (cat) 1976 Alfie Davison – Love [...]

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editions disco – rubber band aka the trammps

August 6, 2007

The Trammps, based in Philadelphia are remembered as a disco band. Often seen as part of the disco overground, most likely a result of ‘Disco Inferno’ being included on the massively popular Saturday Night Fever soundtrack in 1977. In the same year the Trammps released the song ‘The Night the Lights Went Out’ to commemorate [...]

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night trains – miles away

August 6, 2007

Hugh Brooker’s Night Trains were signed to Acid Jazz & BGP Beat Goes Public. Many of their releases had hip-hop leanings featuring cartoon cut-ups, breaks, cinema samples & scratching. Here is Miles Away taken from the Checkmate LP released on BGP – a track constructed from a trumpet solo (Miles) and some programming – simple [...]

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The Aloof – Never Get Out of the Boat

July 27, 2007

What with all the Biblical rain this month there is always the temptation to post Date with the Rain, but instead here we have the slow groover Never Get Out the Boat by the Aloof released in 1991. So many samples on this including snippets from Apocolypse Now, Tribal chants, Dylan the Rabbitt from the [...]

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Ruby Andrews – Casanova (Your Playing Days Are Over)

June 3, 2007

Ruby Andrews – Casanova (Your Playing Days Are Over) on the zodiac record label from 1967,later turned into disco heaven by the group Coffee. Keep the faith

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