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Play Getting Hot Padlock EP on Garage records, mixed by Larry Levan from original Island material by Sly and Robbie. Seventh Heaven, Peanut Butter, Getting Hot, Hop Scotch are tracks which make you want to BOOGIE. :) Click twice on the record to have it play. Late Gwen Guthrie on vocals. [Not available on CD in its entirety, but the Seventh Heaven track is available on Mastercuts classic mix vol. 1]


Salsoul records, click
  • 'Ain't No Mountain High Enough' Produced by Patrick Adams and Greg Carmichael, remixed by Larry Levan and vocalized by Jocelyn Brown, this tracks runs over 10 minutes and has an incredible synth workout by De Benedictus. Classic Salsoul Mastercuts, vol 2 [Amazon US]
    West End records
  • 'Is It All Over My Face' West End rds Loose Joints infamous track 'Is It All Over My Face' was co-written by Steve d'Aquisto and Arthur Russell. There are two versions on West End, only one of which features the Larry Levan mix. The other one has the haunting 'Pop Your Funk' on the b-side.
    As featured on Give Your Body Up: Club Classics & House Foundations, vol. 1 [Amazon US] Lonnie Liston Smith's jazz funk smasher 'Expansions' original album
    Expansions …..."Expand your mind to understand, we all must live in peace todaaaaaay…Extend your hand to help the plan of love to all mankind……." Featured on Mastercuts Vol. 1-Classic Jazz Funk [1CD, Amazon US]
  • 'Love Is The Message' 'Love Is The Message' is called by many the granddaddy of club music. It was written by Gamble and Huff for MFSB. The bassline of the track was used by Vince Montana Jr in 'Heavy Vibes' and by Shep Pettibone 'Ooh, I Love it (love break)'. Featured on Rhino's Give Your Body Up: Club Classics & House Foundations , vol. 2 [Amazon US]
  • E2-E4 »[...] Consisting of one long piece, E2-E4 is unique in many ways. One can hear early traces of what would become techno and trance music. It's driving computer rhythms and subtly changing sequencer patterns are both hypnotic and innovative. [...] E2-E4 is genuine, and set the trend for trance/dance music almost a full decade before it became one. A masterwork from an essential master.« (L. Bourland, "Beyond the Horizon", USA)
  • 'Don't Make Me Wait' "... a record that's been continually sampled over the last decade, took things in a different direction with their sparse, synthesized sounds that introduced dub effects and drop-outs that had never been heard before..."
  • Rude Movements (Sun Palace, 1983) "England produced some classic disco jazz/funk tracks - and this is probably the best. We used to play this at Delirium as acid house! It was sampled by Kenny Dope - a gem."
    We're gonna fly ... fly away [repeat 3 times]
  • Atmosphere Strutt by Cloude One (fronted by Patrick Adams) 'Atmosphere Strut', the 10-minute excursion into heavy synthezied music, with his (then) trademark synth sounds is released in 1975 ...

    artwork by Richard Bernstein

  • My Loleatta "I havent seen a man as fine enough.. or good enough that I would waste my tears and cry over... I said BITCH !!!!!!" --lots of 'trash talk' and cool sexual innuendo
  • 'Weekend' Orginally released on Atlantic, written by Leroy Burgess and J. Calloway, produced by Patrick Adams. With Class Action f. Christine Wiltshire, Sergio Munzibai & John Morales and Larry Levan each did a mix on a Sleeping Bag records
    'Together Forever' 'Together Forever' is an intriguing combination of funk, latin and reggae influences. The singer was none other than Neville 'Tinga' Stewart of dancehall music fame. Exodus were one of the earliest to include an acapella on the record. Thanks to the recent Eddie Amador club hit, it has become a bigger floor filler than ever. Lets also not forget Royal House, Raven Maize[Quark rds] and Fabi Paris who have all heavily plundered this classic.
  • Journey/Double Journey Powerline's track, originally on Elite Records, is a timeless live-instrument jazz-funk masterpiece with vibrant piano rolls, funky rhythm guitars, snappy percussive highlights and hypnotic beats, anchored by some incredibly groovy bass work. The A-side Journey" is backed with the B-side dub "Double Journey," which features some haunting synth melodies that are oh-so-early-'80's!
    Funkanova Wood Brass and Steel did the massive Funkanova in 1976. It has been sampled on 'New Jersey Deep' by Black Science Orchestra, and 'Come and be Gone' by Bucketheads, as well as many others. How many?
    'You Don't Know' Billed by many as the natural successor of the Philly classic, 'Love Is the Message', Serious Intention's 'You Don't Know' features the 'Set It Off' style remix. Paul Simpson's deep dub classic features the vocals of Anthony Malloy.
    Set It Off ... the definitive version of 'Set It Off' was Strafe's, with its mesmerizing vocal hook woven into a spare but hauntingly atmospheric rhythm bed. ... a Walter Gibbons-mixed proto-house classic. Electro-ish
  • 'Strings Of Life' Rhythim Is Rhythim's definitive techno classic 'Strings of Life' was written by Derrick May
  • 'Wax The Van' Arthur Russell again. On Jump Street records, a smooth balearic track
  • 'Running Away' by Roy Ayers, doobie do run run run ... sampled in one Vibe Music track. Very good Rhodes groove in the middle.
  • 'The Bottle' The Bottle was originally released on the legendary Strata East jazz label by Gill Scott-Heron and Brian Jackson. In 1975 Joe Bataan recorded the track as 'La Botella' on Salsoul records.
  • 12" EP- The Call Up/The Cool Out b/w The Magnificent 7/The Magnificent Dance I guess you would not expect The Clash here, right? At -8 it sounds like a New Beat classic for the new millenium

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