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	This week's disco selections Friday 10 August 2018

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Various

Masterworks Music Vol 3
Masterworks Music

If you dig Masterworks Music's celebratory, feel-good approach to disco re-edits and reworks, we'd advise picking up this bulging, 26-track collection of killer cuts from the label's recent past. It begins with a superb disco-funk cut-up by The Funk District and ends with a smooth, rolling and glassy eyed boogie-era disco revision by Saskin S that's almost worth the admission price on its own. In between, you'll find a swathe of superb revisions from some of the edit scene's finest - South Beach Recycling, Hotmood, Chewy Edits and Dr Packer included - with the selected tracks variously touching on electrofunk, boogie, P-funk, Latino disco and super-sweet '80s soul.

Hotmood

Mr Funkyman EXCLUSIVE
Disco Fruit

Guillermo Gonzalez continues to churn out the hits at a furious rate. This tasty EP on Disco Fruit follows two other missives last month (one EP on Empire Studio, the other on Poetry in Motion) and marks the Hotmood man's sixth release of 2018. He begins with the loose and undulating, Herb Alpert-goes-house warmth of "Let's Ride", before turning a chunky Latino roller into a weighty slab of bass-heavy mid-tempo house on EP standout "Mr Funkyman". Elsewhere, "My Disco Collection" sees him re-cast an obscure disco-funk cut as a rolling disco-house loop jam, while "Clean Cuts" is a subtly beefed up take on a sweet and sultry soul cut from the 1960s.

Levantine

The Sun Rising
Dikso

Fresh from inspired outings on Smokin' Beat, Chopshop and About Disco, Oscar Levantine makes his bow on Daniel Solar and Andi De Luxe's ace Dikso imprint. Turn first to "Chorus", a filter-sporting mid-tempo disco-house jam whose heady grooves and mind-altering samples continue to rise, fall, build and rise again throughout the track's seductive six minutes. The Mexican producer ups the tempo considerably on "Fairground", a bolder and more percussively energetic affair rich in bounding, bouncy house drums, looped piano refrains, swirling chords and the kind of sweet, dewy-eyed female vocal samples that make you want to hug complete strangers while a hundred percent sober.

Vito Lalinga (VI Mode Inc Project)

Black Spirit Planet
Kraak Greece

This year Vito Lalinga has been somewhat prolific, releasing a string of solid EPs on Timewarp and Sound Exhibitions. This time round, he pops up on Greece's Kraak label for the very first time. Highlights are plentiful throughout, from the slap bass propelled nu-funk-meets-jazz-funk sunshine of "I'll Be Good To You Baby" and solo-laden Bob James tribute "Bitter Taste", to the rich, mid-tempo nu-disco bounce of "Chill Speech" and constantly rising Afro-disco/nu-funk fusion of heavy-hitting workout "Afroinvasion". Elsewhere, "Ghetto Space" is a deliciously positive, piano-sporting disco-funk roller underpinned by rolling house drums, and "I Got To" is a Clavinet-sporting peak-time workout rich in lapsed hip-hop vocals and jammed-out solos.

Various

About Disco Collection Vol 2
About Disco Compilations

Some 18 months on from the release of the label's first retrospective compilation, Brazilian imprint About Disco presents another bumper selection of floor-filling re-edits, reworks and original productions. With 23 killer cuts to choose from, the collection provides excellent value, particularly when you factor in the eclectic nature of the reworked source material. Compare and contrast, for example, the warm and sticky Afro-disco goodness of NFC and Key Sokur's "Coming From Congo", the bass-heavy disco hustle of "Hihache" by Ozzy and the kaleidoscopic, hard-spun synth-funk brilliance of Rafael Cancian's "Queen of Zanzibar". We're also huge fans of J.B Boogie's gently lolloping and exceedingly loved-up "Love To Love", though we could say the same thing about half a dozen of the other included tracks. Stellar stuff, all told.

Ruff Diamond

Rock The Discotheque
Supaearth

Once upon a time, Chris Robinson AKA Ruff Diamond was an in-demand remixer reworking hits from the likes of Estelle and Beyonce. He's now returned to his disco roots with the launch of a new label, SuperEarth. Naturally, he provides the debut release, asking us to hold on to our hats as he attempts to "Rock The Discotheque". Robinson provides Main Mix and Radio Edit variants that giddily fuse elements of nu-funk, electrofunk and chunky disco-house with arresting hip-hop vocal samples and a sweet, R&B style vocal. '80s Child heads up the remix package, serving up a bongo-laden electrofunk revision in keeping with his boogie-centric catalogue, while Lempo lays down a tooled-up version that adds sweet synthesizer sounds to a chunkier peak-time house groove with impressive results.

Seamus Haji / ATFC

Confess (Dr Packer Remix)
Big Love

For a long time, Perth's Greg Packer was considered a veteran of the local drum and bass scene, but in the last few years has reinvented himself as Dr Packer - and become one of the best of the best disco editors on the scene at present. It made perfect sense for him to give "Confess" his personal touch for the nu-disco heads, as he was one of the supporters of the track from the very beginning. He stays faithful to the original mix, where he adds an incessant bassline, his trademark beats, disco flourishes and works the arrangement to fever pitch!

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Hiva / J.R. Mark

From The Ghetto

Cherry Cola

Casual Connection

Money Money (Doin Thangs Disco Funk Mix)

M2MR

Gamer

Celestino

Thunder Jam

Roe Deers

Drunk Like A Cowboy EP

Rotten City Files

Craxi Disco feat Suzanne Porter

Let It Go - I-Robots Present: Craxi Disco

Opilec Music

Kano

This Is The Night/Semblance

Fulltime Production

Lindstrom

Blinded By The LEDs

Feedelity Recordings

Domestic Technology

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DJ Vas

Tommy Glasses

Sartorial

C.Da Afro

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Goji Berry

EXCLUSIVE

Katakana Edits Vol 69

Katakana Edits

Jacques Renault

BK Club Beats, Breaks & Versions

Let's Play House US

Various

Future Disco: Beach Life 2.0 (unmixed Tracks)

I-Robots

C Da Afro

Funky Espresso feat Priscilla Omil

Watching Me

Smooth Operators

Lovebirds feat Galliano

Icarus

Razor-N-Tape

Various

Balearic Headspace Vol Tres

Midnight Riot

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Loves Last Episode

Obas Nenor

Sartorial

Shoot Me With Your Love

Tropical Disco

Edgar Winter

Above & Beyond

Disco Hustle

Frank Booker

Sleazy Beats Collection

Sleazy Beats Recordings

Thomas Lang

Scared

Nang

Various

The Worst Stuff By We Mean Disco!! Volume 2

WE MEAN DISCO!!

Brief Encounter

Where Will I Go

Athens Of The North

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ROTCIV

Summer Chart

Johnny Paguro

128 Coupe (ROTCIV remix) Mister Mistery

ASA MOTO

Kifesh Deewee

Fugitiv

Compoforest (Pardon Moi remix) Nein

Gabe Gurnsey

Harder Rhythm Phantasy Sound

Gabe Gurnsey

I Get Phantasy Sound

Henri Le Blanc

Oldchap

To The Top Masterworks Music

Stephen King

Free Refills For The Broken Hearted Midnight Riot

Benjamin Ferreira

From Me Midnight Riot

Soulpersona feat Princess Freesia

Tryin' (Hober Mallow remix) Midnight Riot

Mix & Fairbanks

URD1 Hot Digits Music

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Kraak & Smaak

Electronic Funk & Disco (Sample Pack WAV/APPLE/LIVE/REASON)

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Monster Sounds

Singomakers

Nu Disco And Indie Dance Vol 2 (Sample Pack WAV/APPLE/LIVE/REASON)

Singomakers

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Discostep Vol 2 (Sample Pack WAV)

Famous Audio

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