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Guardian Angel – Jim Screechie

January 23, 2010
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Rediscovered from the crates Love Unlimited Sound System. 

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E-Culture – Tribal Confusion

January 10, 2010
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E-Culture – Tribal Confusion on Strictly Rhythm Records

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The Rimshots – Blow Your Whistle

November 13, 2009
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Heard this tune sampled a few times recently, The Rimshots from the Stang record label 1976.

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What you need

October 16, 2009
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What you need – house tape by max
The Love Unlimited Sound System

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House tape by Max

August 1, 2009
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House tape by max

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Max’s Mystery mix

June 30, 2009
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For your listening pleasure, a mystery mix i recorded for Purple-radio.

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20p mix

June 18, 2009
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Every track purchased for 20p

 
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Clicky Sevens

April 20, 2009
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For your listening pleasure a selection of Funk and Northern Soul sevens.

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READY

March 23, 2009

 
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I’m not a number I’m a free man

January 15, 2009

I helped Patrick Mcgoohan escape.

 
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ISAAC HAYES – Shaft (rare disco version)

August 12, 2008

RIP Isaac Hayes.

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D’menace – I’m Great-Full

April 26, 2008

On Blackwiz Records
D’menace – I’m great-full
NYC house from 1993
PEACE!

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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 is a serious business (boot)
Jean Shy [...]

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FRANKY BOISSY feat ROLAND CLARK – Black music

November 1, 2007

FRANKY BOISSY feat ROLAND CLARK – Black music
original mix
NYC house from 2004 on the CHEZ record label
“Beneath every solid `house` there is a real foundation” F.B.

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Max Mix

October 31, 2007

An eclectic mix of original 7’s , 12’s, redits and reissues:
Girl you need a change of mind – Charles Earland (prestige records)
Don`t leave me – Holland-Dozier (invictus)
Bingo – Whispers (janus)
We don`t allow (no sitting down in here) – The Invitations (red greg)
You are my everything – Vincent Montana jr featuring Double Exposure (Philly Sound Works)
Remember [...]

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sergio mendes & brasil 88 – I’ll tell you

September 18, 2007

Staying with the theme of non-disco artists delivering disco goodness here we have the excellent “I’ll Tell You” by Sergio Mendes.
A big spin on the disco & early house scene in Chicago & on heavy rotation with Love Unlimited this week.

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Walkin’ in the rain – Love Unlimited on Soul Train

June 28, 2007

Love Unlimited originally formed as a group to imitate the legendary Motown girl group The Supremes. Barry White produced, wrote and arranged this classic soul track “Walkin’ in the Rain” He also makes a cameo appearance via a telephone.

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Backstabbers – The O’Jays on Soul Train

June 28, 2007

Here we have a performance of the philly classic backstabbers, if you get chance check out Tailgate by 21st Creation on motown records for a killer piece of heavy disco that deals with the same subject matter.

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George Levin – In Your Car (DJ Spinna remix)

June 27, 2007

DJ Spinna, hails from Brooklyn New York City & is a honoury member of the Love Unlimited Hall of fame, his genre-busting dj sets really are something special (check out his rare radio mixes at www.deephousepages.com).
His productions are right up there too, with tight crisp programming across a variety of beats & pieces from his [...]

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Harold Melvin & The Bluenotes – Reaching For The World

June 19, 2007

Philadelphia, the City of Brotherly Love has produced some amazing emotional soul & disco. Harold Melvin & The Bluenotes contributed massively to this output on the tsop label with global hits like “The Love I Lost” & “Don’t Leave Me This Way” through to socially conscious songs such as “Wake Up Everybody” and “Bad Luck”
They [...]

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Jimmy McGriff Blues Band – The Worm

June 13, 2007

In august 1968 , Jimmy`s blues band recorded the worm on solid state records.
JAZZ FUNK

 
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House is a feelin

June 8, 2007

House is a feelin
house trax old and new
Todd Terry – House is a feelin (freeze records)
Beat division ep – the funk (black house records)
MAW feat India – I can`t get no sleep, her fantasy mix (cutting records)
“feelin vibes” (bottom line records)
hip to be disillusioned vol 1 . ron trent & chez damier – track 1 [...]

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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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Golden Flamingo Orchestra – The Guardian Angel Is Watching Over Us

June 2, 2007

Produced by Peter Brown & Patrick Adams with Margo Williams on vocals. A disco-break that makes a dancefloor quake.
For Max

 
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Impact – Rainy Days Stormy Nights

May 29, 2007

After such a wet & windy Bank Holiday I thought about posting Date With The Rain by Eddie Kendricks but opted for this disco-nugget – Rainy Days, Stormy Nights by Impact.
This is the Special 12″ Disco Mix released on Fantasy Records in 1977.
FOR DISCOS ONLY

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George Clinton – Atomic Dog

May 28, 2007

Bow wow wow wow yippie yo yippie yay – Atomic Dog released in 1982 was number 1 in the US R&B charts but never managed to enter the Top 100 of the Pop Chart.
With a killer bassline Atomic Dog is one of P-Funk’s most heavily sampled songs, appearing in more than 50 songs.
Make my funk [...]

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Sister Sledge – Love Dont You Go Through No Changes On Me

May 28, 2007

More seventies soul business from this famous philly trio Sister Sledge with the superb Love Don’t You Go Through No Changes On Me, released in 1974 on Atco & their first entry into the US R&B charts.
Massive disco hits came later in their career under the genius of the chic production team of nile rodgers [...]

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Mikey Dread – “African Anthem” – Operator’s Choice

May 24, 2007

Essential dub purchase. Picked out of the dub section of a coffee shop / art gallery in falmouth that sold vinyl and cds in the basement. When I asked the feller behind the counter what he thought of it he said:
“That one’s very…………..idiosyncratic”
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Chuggles – i remember dance

May 7, 2007

Prescription records no. 10
Chuggles – i remember dance
1995
1 mix here from this old 12″
another to follow later

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Gloria Gaynor – Never Can Say Goodbye

May 6, 2007

Never Can Say Goodbye was a 1971 hit for The Jackson 5. Covered by Gloria Gaynor towards the end of 1973, it became a major club hit, despite litttle support from label MGM. The follow-on long player Never Can Say Goodbye established Gloria as a disco artist. Produced by Tom Moulton the first side of [...]

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