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Intro was the name of a short lived project fronted by underground(ish) new wavey electro singer Jacqui Brookes. For this post I wa...

Meshay’s Out Of Control was released by Dion Entertainment out of Los Angeles CA in the later years of Boogie in 1985. Although her re...

Goldie Alexander is an Australian author, well known around Melbourne for her murder mysteries, and her ability to fictionalize difficult...

 This is a strange dollar bin score for a couple of weeks ago, or $2 bin at least from the price sticker, I think even the Bay Area dolla...

Times are changing in San Francisco, but one thing remains the same, as sure as the California skies are blue, the record stores of SF ...

 Even back when we started BeatElectric it was already sort of difficult to post something new to the internet, that is to say something ...

  Skool Boyz started off with three singles on the Destiny label out of Los Angeles California in the early 1980's. After their sho...

  Detroit has provided an incredible wealth of black dance music to the world. We've posted a number of tracks from Motor City here on ...

I always instantly think of ' Reach Up ' and ' Love So Deep ' when I hear the name Toney Lee. I came across 'Teaser...

Mac Thornhill is still in the game, producing records from his home base in Quebec. During the 80's he was probably one of the be...

 This is one I had to double, then triple check that we hadn't posted before, its that much of a classic and indicative of the sound ...

 Its that time of year again, and as is customary on Valentine's Day we break from normal programming to bring you a guest mix of dee...

  Here is another indie '80s soul record to file in the M.J. impersonator section along with Alfonzo and Michael Sterling. Timothy Marr...

 The Mad Lads were a legendary Memphis sweet soul group that had a string of R&B hits in the sixties, recording on Stax fir a while. ...

                                                             HAPPY NEW YEAR! Andre Forget Me Not-After Midnight (B Side)

  I believe our hosting was successfully moved at this point so I'll go ahead and put up a new post. This is a record that has evaded ...

 I have been struggling with moving beardodisco, B.E's music server, over to a new a hosting provider. The old hosting provider dec...

 I assumed that over the years I must have posted every single Sharon Redd instrumental that has ever seen a San Francisco dollar bin, bu...

 I bought this record off a Frenchmen selling leather jackets at a flea market on the East coast years ago, he had a small box of 45...

 It's been a busy week since I got back from D.C. and I finally had a minute to record a few tracks to share here. I had a great time...

 Here is a dollar bin sleeper. Private Sector were a New Jersey scene punk'ish new wave act that played under a couple of different n...

A few weeks ago during Labor Day weekend I had the pleasure of seeing Miami's Psychic Mirror's twice in Southern California and...

  Gospel-boogie is a style overridden with more tepid one tracker LPs than regular non-gospel boogie, which is quite an accomplishment. ...

 Here is a dollar bin secret weapon dub that in some alternate reality I use to vanquish and smite my enemies, sending fronting nineties ...

 Digging in San Francisco means dredging through a lot of shit Hi NRG records, I have accidentally bought so many in the belief that they...

I have been indulging in the hyper active Los Angeles after hour party scene as of late,which had me neglecting my posting duties for s...

    Someone asked me to post the other side of this record from this mix . Obviously I've been slacking on that request and eventua...

 I didn't find this one at a thrift store or swap meet in San Francisco, I'll be real for a minute, I bought it on ebay.  There...

 I found this track at the tail end of a weird 1982 new wave compilation out of Japan. It looks to be pressed by Toshiba, as in the peopl...

James Bratton and Joel Washington are probably best known for their garage and New Jersey scene house of the late eighties, but thats sor...

Has anyone made a football-themed boogie mix? I don't have enough songs for a solid mix yet but maybe with help from readers we can pu...

 The Earls are a Doo Wop band from The Bronx, New York. They still play, and their blue eyed soul is still popular on the oldies circuit....

Here is an obscure g-funk gem from Little Rock, AR from an unknown year, presumably early eighties.  This track has a classic mellow slowe...

 This was a weird score to make in backwoods Northern California, a rare'ish UK boogie 12" that I would have thought would have ...

 I was in the mountains for work over the weekend, there was some time to kill and I went by a record store in a south Lake Tahoe strip m...

San Francisco's Reynolds Records was only around for a few years spanning the 1970s, releasing a catalog of strong Bay Area funk and ...

 Back in the distant past I posted up both the 1982 released Jive rhythm version albums, 'Jive Rhythm Trax' and 'More Jive Rh...

 This Greg Henderson production was bootlegged recently, so bare that in mind when you see all the $20 copies floating around on ebay rig...

 45 minute mini mix of valentine love jams for you.  In typical B.E. fashion these tracks represent the extremes of class and sleaze. Tha...

 Here is another slamming Miami style funk 12" I picked up during the winter holidays while out of town. I wasn't able to find m...

 I picked this up yesterday from the bins of a record store in North Beach, not the place with the basement but the other one further up ...

 Private Eye was a bay area funk group in the '80s produced by Berkeley native Claytoven Richardson. The group released one LP and ...

 California finally got a break in the weather, it was a long hard winter folks, but B.E wants it's friends in the Mid West the East ...

 I remember playing this proto deep house dub side at a club in Montreal a few years ago. I dropped the track early in the set, trying ...

  I just got back from a couple weeks out of town and managed to scrape a few cool eighties funk records from some bible belt shops. First...

 I have the day at home so I took a little time to try and find something festive to record and put up on BE, but after listening to a co...

 Someone was asking for the track listing to a mix I did, and I was a dick and didn't provide it but you have to understand it wa...

Some of my peers are really quick to right off the years after 1984 saying that the music was basically dead. I used to be one of those...

While listening to Black Shag's incredible Uptown Express mix I realized that since being invited to contribute to Beat Electric back...

As far as uptempo gospel boogie goes, I think this is pretty much the alpha and omega of all things. Sanctuary's 'I Am Going To ...