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Mainstream Disco Funk gathers together twelve disco/funk tracks from between ’74 and ’76, a particularly fertile moment in history as funk and soul artists, producers and musicians either adopted or adapted the disco innovations of labels like Philadelphia International Records. Most of the tunes contained here are located right in that disco-funk / funky-disco sweet […]

Close your eyes and you’re there again: standing amid the broken toilets and dimebags on the tiles at whatever club was the hot place in 1996 but which you had a vague suspicion was no longer quite so hot in 1997. Mike Stewart, the producer behind We’re Gettin’ Hot, engineered a track that seemed to […]

Jazz funk outfit Pleasure’s classic 1977 album Joyous has been re-released, giving us an excuse to revisit an old favourite. If you’re not familiar, it’s a funk-soul album with a heavy jazz flavour (it was produced by The Jazz Crusaders’ Wayne Henderson), so you get eight tracks of intricate arrangements, nimble guitar riffs and fluid […]

If there was a Strictly Rhythm of UK Garage (nevermind Strictly’s own pre-UKG and UKG-adjacent output), it was probably the UKG clearinghouse known as Locked On. You can play classic sets with nothing but Locked On releases, from Tuff Jam to Dem 2 to Danny J Lewis to Todd Edwards and of course Zed Bias’ […]