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If you are in or around San Francisco we are having our record release party for the 12" re-issue of Carmen's Time To Move at Swea...

Here is a special guest mix by our friend Randy Hotthobo Ellis, we hope you enjoy it. He used to run a night here in San Francisco called Gr...

I wish I could write you something about the history of disco rap in Quebec, but I can't as all I have is this one record, and the label...

Here are a couple of jams I picked up in NYC. I have been looking for this Ragtyme record for years and was so glad to find it. Unfortunatel...

Denroy Morgan is a Jamaican expat, moving to Brooklyn as a teenager. He is famous for his roots reggae sound but in the early eighties had ...

Here are a couple of cool cuts from 1984. 1984 was an interesting year for music. The boogie greatness of 1982 was fizzling out, electro was...

We've covered Maurizio Sangineto's productions before on this site. Firefly was a dance music group composed of fellow Italians and ...

Carol Shinnette put records out on Oakland's 'Optune' label. Don't ever call the 415 number printed on the front of her 7...

A younger and hipper DJ friend whose taste I admire bought a bunch of records and played me a couple from his haul that he thought I would l...

Here is a great disco boogie jam produced in part by drummer Howard King. He was a member of Mtume's band and also contributed to some g...

Here is a late Christmas present. If my theory is true, and this is the only Minnesota disco rap ever recorded, then it also holds true tha...

The Bell family from Youngston, Ohio produced three brothers who made immense contributions to the jazz/disco/funk scene in the 70s and 80s....

So yeah this italo track from 1984 is probably one of the most lyrically confusing songs of all time. The vocalist implores you to "ge...

Just as Patrick Adams late 70's disco sound became defined by his Arp 2600 noodlings, pretty much every funk track Leroy Burgess cut in...

Could Radar Records do no wrong? Key-Matic's Breakin' In Space was by far the labels biggest 'hit', and the record holds a p...

Like many record collectors it has always been a dream of mine to press something on wax. I have always wanted to contribute to the world of...

We haven't put up any straight up hardcore disco in a long time so here you go. It is impossible to put these joints on and not want to...

Beatelectic is starting to look a little dated, we gave it a revamp a couple of years back, but the fact is it's a blogspot page, and in...

Here are some slow jamz to cure your case of the mondays. This is the type of serious adults only R&B I like to vibe out to. "So...

I've been neglecting my duties for some time now and for that I am remorseful. Fortunately, Joel Brüt has picked up the slack sharing h...

I have never heard of a female audiophile. I have never met a girl that lusted after shiny knobs and had to have that preamp with a flowchar...

Kwick was a Memphis based group who released three LPs in the early eighties. The group has a great sound with perfect claps and catchy synt...

I was speaking with some head recently and they brought up the locally sought after bay area 45 Disco Train by Brafa in conversation, whic...

In a couple more years I'm going to have run out of Halloween themed funk records, why did they never release the soundtrack to Bride O...

Master Funk Records was an '80s UK dance label founded by electro producer Tony Williams (not to be confused with the American jazz dr...

Here is a surprisingly good track from Bobby Orlando that came out on Prelude Records in 1983. It is a good version of that italo sound that...

This came out of a dollar bin in Chicago last weekend. I had always heard the weirdly mixed vocal version of Secret Weapon's 'Must ...

Zig Zag appears to be another moniker for then Miami producer and KC & The Sunshine Band member Richard Finch, who producer a few small...

I hope you don't mind if I change it up and post something a bit different (less electric) than most of the material here. I think this...

Here are a few french white guy attempts at making boogie cuts circa '82-'85. Thanks to our friend Didier from Paris for the sour...

Someone managed to plunder the master tape's of Philadelphia's Philly World Record's Alpha Studios and help themselves to all th...

Here is a 1984 house classic in its 1985 special longer remix form. "You Don't Know" was produced by Paul Simpson and still s...

I don't put up much italo, but this came up in a box of US r'n'b and disco recently and despite the rarity of any european pres...

Here is a tight disco boogie jam especially for you. Have a great Labor Day weekend if you are one of the few that is employed; otherwise, e...

Bevin Fagan was most well known as the lead singer and producer of one of the UK's biggest reggae acts, Matumbi. Yet in his time he w...

Lee Moore was a disco producer who unfortunately only released a few tunes during his short career. His first and most common track came ou...

Here is a later era downtempo lazer soul track released by the short lived New York Music Company in 1985. Vocalist Bernice Frazier deliver...

Touche was one of the many projects of the Bronx's own Dennis Bell, then a much respected producer and keyboard session musician and no...

Here is a great one-off jam from Cookie, who as far as I know only came together to make one 12" on Le Jazz records in 1982. Danny We...

I spent the day wandering around the Soho district of London and found my way into a couple of record stores including the Soul Jazz Records...

I don't know why we never posted this before (maybe we did), but here is the classic cut off of The Jammer's first self titled 1982...

Serge Ponsar was a French-born musician who released one LP in 1983 called Back to the Light . His lone full-length belongs on a short list...

This is what happens when you mix a funk band, a freestyle producer, and Miami together. Pretty Tony produced this record in 1983. It has a ...

Maybe Florida's most prolific R'n'B writer and producer, Eugene Wilde came from a musical family, including still performing fa...

Here is a raw track from the Bronner Brothers out of Atlanta. These Thriller -posing guys recorded two slick funk LPs then switched to gosp...

Mazarati are known for being an early Minneapolis based Prince produced side project, starring Prince And The Revolution bassist Mark Brown...

The saxophone is very much maligned instrument for good reason. In most instances, it can spread so much smooth cheese that it is difficult ...