Weekly Round Up On The Blog

Posted on 21 September 20233 October 2023 by Adam Roberts — Leave a comment

Weekly Vinyl Round up including Pete Blaker & P&P records.

A nice collection of releases for this week including a nice P&P re-issue on 45 by Queen Yahna -Ain’t it time, a very collectable slice of jazz filled disco from the Patrick Adams camp. Keeping on the re-issue tip we were pleased to get copies of the remastered 12″ of Garfield Fleming – ‘don’t send me away’ which is a classic soul crossover record that’s a must for any record collection. On the edit tip we had a limited amount Pete Blaker edits on Balearic Blah Blah where he turns some iconic 80’s pop moments into blissful Balearic chuggers. Hopefully more stock arriving as we speak. On a world music tip we have Sam Remore’s reworkings of Alafia on Canopy Records. These mixes are very well done and have lots of dancefloor energy. On a restock tip we have the excellent Love Drop on Gamm back in stock if you missed it the 1st time around.

Posted on 12 September 20233 October 2023 by Adam Roberts — Leave a comment

Week 35 Vinyl Round Up

The week has been dominated by a new Space Grapes -Jeroboam -Turn Down The Lights. It carries on with the usual Space Grapes sound of excellent live sounding disco. Very limited, so as they say in the adverts ‘while stocks last’! Keeping with the disco tip we have Carmen – Throw Down which is a reissue from mid 80’s. If you are rocking that 80’s disco boogie sound then this is for you. The South Africa label Aweh I have a soft spot for and this time they have given us a proto house acid afro mash up, a modern day ‘yeke yeke’. I can imagine this getting the crowd going with the African chanting and the squelch of the 303, check it out. A new Gamm is always welcome and this time we have Delfonic with his Berlin Reworks. I couldn’t identify any of the originals so that’s a good thing, it’s 4 tracks of very good jazz filled disco.

On a Japanese tip, we have Speed Of Sound with Satoshi and the Mix Out Session . While there is a perfectly nice and solid deep house cut on the a side i purchased it for the downtempo Balearic cuts on the flip, pure bliss.

Posted on 31 July 20233 October 2023 by Adam Roberts — Leave a comment

Week 31 Vinyl Round Up including a Positive Pay For Japan Release.

It’s a quiet week for new release for us, but we did get a couple of gems. Firstly we enjoy a shipment from Japan and this week we got a new Positive Pay For Japan release – Friends From Rio – Fogo No Chao / Casino Bangu which both were only ever released on a Far Out LP and never on single. Muro has added his magic and we have a very hot 45. We also managed to grab some more Postive Pay for Records Japan back cat including the excellent Muro edit of Blair. It seems that every release is some kind of edit nowadays so it was refreshing to receive The Kanpai Quartet -Rick James Dwells In The Abyss on a new label from London, Palace Records. Real jazz musicians orchestrating out their influences of 60s & 70s library music on a cool little 45.

It’s also certainly worth checking our 45’s page as there was about 40 titles added to the back cat over the last 2 weeks.

Posted on 24 July 20233 October 2023 by Adam Roberts — Leave a comment

Week 30 Round Up, including Gamm Records, Les Imprimes and Eddie C.

2 very hot 45’s in this week but quite different. Kicking off we have Eddie C on Red Motorbike -D8 with the Rane, who with his mid tempo chugging cut n’ paste style production has delivered again. This is a wicked little 7″ and truly infectious DJ record. On a more melancholy note we have the 2nd 45 from Les Imprimes – Falling Away on NYC’s Big Crown records. Solid hip hop style beats with lush instrumentation and vocals. Gamm are as prolific as ever and this week we picked a new one- Art of Tones gives us 3 Woman EP with 3 storming disco cuts with very polished production values. The Drum Chums series continues with a very interesting and different 4 tracker of Balearic inspired mid tempo disco from Bobby Snacks. I couldn’t tell you what any of the edits are of, which in my mind is a good thing. You can imagine someone like Luke Una raving about this release and given that Bobby Snacks is a Stockport lad, he probably is. On a restock not we have load of Soopastole restocks and Breaks & Beats. Also we are expecting every Galaxy Sound Co. release that’s still in print back in stock so worth grabbing before they are all gone.

Posted on 13 July 20233 October 2023 by Adam Roberts — Leave a comment

Hot Biscuit Recordings & Funtown Records dominate Week 28 round up.

Well, we weren’t expecting so much Hot Biscuit action this week but we end up with 3 absolute must have’s. First off is another installment of Versions this time by the Idjuts Boys, check out C1 track for the 80’s pop reworking. Then we have Chicago’s Rahaan with Toc & Tic with some pure disco heat. Finally on Hot Biscuit we have Darryn Jones -Born Again delivering his 2nd release on the label and it’s a gospel stomper. Already nearly sold out so don;t sleep on that one. Funtown Records is an interesting edit label from the land of the rising sun, this week they have delivered 2 really good 1 sided 12″s. Funtown-Bigger Fun is a reworking of The Gap Bands – Big Fun and in my opinion certainly improves it. Funtown – Better 2 Know U is a really nice version of the Motown disco classic by ‘Finished Touch’. Restock wise we have more copies in of the excellent Addmoro which is another fine release from Kalita Records.

Posted on 26 June 20233 October 2023 by Adam Roberts — Leave a comment

Dimitri From Paris, Kalita Records and Doc Sevrinsen Appear in Week 26’s Round-Up

Hardly a week passes without a release that has been touched by Dimitri From Paris and this week is no exception. DFP Vaults gives us an essential 7inch by The Soul Searchers and their seminal ‘Ashley’s Roachclip’. The a-side remixed by DFP a more DJ friendly version and the flip is Dimitri’s edit which is closer to the original. As per usual this won’t hang around for long so you know what to do.