Friday 30 May 2014

Village People vs Funky Guys - San Francisco (You've Got Me) (Black & Zotti Club Mix) Hi-Nrg Disco House Retro Dance Classic


Village People vs. Funky Guys‎ - San Francisco (You've Got Me) Remixes 2006
Label: Net's Work International - NWI 088 Mix
Format: Vinyl, 12", 33 ⅓ RPM
Country: Italy
Released: 2006
Style: House, Disco
 
"San Francisco" is the title of a song recorded by American disco group the Village People. It was released in 1977 as the lead single from their debut album Village People. The song reached number 45 on the UK pop charts and peaked at number 2 on the U.S. Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart.
 
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Tuesday 27 May 2014

Patrick Cowley - 'The Ultimate Master Megamix' [90+minutes non-stop hits mix] Hi-NRG Disco 80s Dance Electronic EDM Cult


 
TRACKLISTING

Intro: Menergy/Lift off/Get a little/Tech-no-logical world
1.- Sea hunt 0:01:48
2.- They came at night 0:03:05
3.- Get a little 0:03:54
4.- Tech-No-Logical world 0:06:00
5.- Goin home 0:07:40
6.- X-Factor 0:10:50
7.- If you feel it 0:12:44
8.- Thank God for music 0:13:56
9.- Lift off 0:16:21
10.- Right on target 0:20:14
11.- Megatron Man 0:23:02
12.- I wanna take you home 0:26:41
13.- Shot in the night 0:30:02
14.- Menergy 0:33:36
15.- Do ya wanna funk 0:38:45
16.- Die hard lover 0:42:28
17.- I feel love 0:45:55
18.- You make me feel 0:53:38
19.- Dance (Disco heat) 0:57:09
20.- Lucky tonight 1:02:16
21.- Love´s on the line 1:06:07
22.- Without your love (Paul Parker) 1:10:45
23.- Mind Warp 1:13:58
24.- Invasion 1:17:38
25.- Without your love (Cut Glass) 1:20:50
26.- Pushin too hard 1:27:38
 
thanks to DJALEXMTZ for the greatest hits mix
 
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Sunday 25 May 2014

Patrick Cowley - School Daze (2LP Set) 2013 electronic synth edm electro dark disco beats 80s


 
A rare release featuring the gay porn soundtrack work of San Francisco-based musician and producer, Patrick Cowley. Perhaps one of the most revolutionary and influential people in the cannon of disco music, Cowley created his own brand of Hi-NRG dance music coined “The San Francisco Sound.” Born in Buffalo, NY on October 19, 1950, Patrick moved to San Francisco at the age of 21. He studied at the City College of San Francisco where he founded the Electronic Music Lab. During this time Patrick would create radio jingles and electronic pieces using the school’s equipment, first a Putney, then an E-MU System and finally a Serge synthesizer. He would make experimental instrumental songs by blending various types of music and adapting them to the synthesizer.
 
By the mid-70′s, Patrick’s synthesizer skills landed him a job composing and producing songs for disco superstar Sylvester such as “You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)”, “Dance Disco Heat” and “Stars.” This helped Patrick obtain more work as a remixer and producer. Of particular note was his 18-minute long remix of Donna Summer’s “I Feel Love” and production work with edgy New Wave band Indoor Life. By 1981 Patrick released a string of dance 12″ singles, like “Menergy” and “Megatron Man”, creating the soundtrack for a generation. Also that year, he founded Megatone Records and released his debut album. Around this time Patrick was hospitalized and diagnosed with a then-unknown illness: that would later be called AIDS. Prior to his passing on November 12, 1982, he recorded two more Hi-NRG hits, “Do You Wanna Funk” for Sylvester and “Right On Target” for Paul Parker.
 
In 1981 Patrick was contacted by John Coletti, owner of famed gay porn company Fox Studio in Los Angeles. John had heard about Patrick’s music from the legendary Sylvester and proposed he write music for his films. Patrick jumped on this offer and sent reels of his college compositions from the 70s to John in LA. Coletti then used a variable speed oscillator to adjust the pitch and speed of Patrick’s songs in-sync with the film scene. “School Daze” is a collection of Cowley’s instrumental songs recorded between 1973 and 1981 found in the Fox Studio vaults. Influenced by Tomita, Wendy Carlos and Giorgio Moroder, Patrick forged an electronic sound from his collection of synthesizers, modified guitars and self-constructed equipment. The listener enters a world of dark forbidden vices, introspective and reflective of Patrick’s time spent in the bathhouses of San Francisco. The songs on “School Daze” range from sparse proto-techno to high octane funk to somber post-punk to musique concrete, revealing the depth of Cowley’s unique talent.
 
Featuring over 80 minutes of music, this compilation contains soundtrack music from two Fox Studio films, “Muscle Up” and “School Daze”, never before released on vinyl. The tapes were restored and transferred using the same speed and pitch settings, then remastered for vinyl by George Horn at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley, CA. The vinyl comes housed in a glossy dual pocket gatefold featuring classic gay porn imagery from the Fox Studio vaults plus an essay from Indoor Life vocalist, Jorge Soccarras. For Patrick’s 63rd birthday, Dark Entries and Honey Soundsystem present a glimpse into the instrumental world of a young genius. These recordings shine a new light on the experimental side of a disco legend who was taken too soon.
 
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Friday 23 May 2014

TRANNYSHACK UK Various Artists (Album) Hi-NRG Disco Hits Eurodance 80s Eurobeat "Out-Of-Print" RARE CD! Drag Queens Of London

Trannyshack UK is one of London’s most popular avante-garde cabaret club nights. Every Wednesday this award-winning party welcomes fabulous drag queens, gender illusionists, dressed-up Klub Kids, transexuals, faces-about-town, and a host of other wild creatures channelling glamorous polysexuality!
Trannyshack famously hosts regular themed parties with special cabarets featuring London’s top drag artists. Who could forget the Trannyshack 'Burlesque Ball' or any one of the Trannyshack Beauty Pageants? The night is hosted by The Queen of Soho herself, The Very Miss Dusty ‘O’. Dusty shares the decks with the fabulous Tasty Tim and Lady Lloyd, spinning the most danceable Pop in Clubland. If you don’t know it, you won’t hear it at Trannyshack - where the emphasis is on fun!



Many of these artists now seen on NEW UK TV Series
"The Drag Queens of London" 

 
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Sunday 18 May 2014

RONI GRIFFITH - "Roni Griffith" (Album) 1982 Bobby 'O' Orlando Hi-NRG electro disco eurobeat 80s RARE! 'OUT-OF-PRINT' CD



 
Roni Griffith is a former 1980s disco musician and model from Bloomington, Indiana.
 
She was one of the original Coconuts in the popular 1980s group Kid Creole and the Coconuts.

They opened up for The B-52's, Huey Lewis and the News and appeared on Saturday Night Live in 1981. Finding success as a musician the same year she appeared on SNL with Kid Creole and the Coconuts, Griffith decided to go solo, signing a recording contract with Vanguard Records and producer, Bobby Orlando.

 By the end of 1982 she had a platinum and gold record for her hits "(The Best Part Of) Breakin' Up" and "Desire". "(The Best Part Of) Breakin' Up" reached #63 in the UK Singles Chart in July 1984.
In addition, she was also featured in the first national Clairol commercial shot in 35 mm film for Nice 'n Easy.

She resided in New York from the age of 19 until she was 23 years old, finding an amount of success within a short period of time. On the eve of her first music video and her launch on the new music media outlet MTV, Griffith decided to walk away from everything based on her morals and values as a Christian in the secular music industry.

In 1983, Griffith pursued a career as a Christian Contemporary artist. She appeared on The 700 Club and was also featured numerous times in her hometown newspaper, The Herald Times. In 2004, she released her second Christian Contemporary album, entitled Only You.

After giving up her fame in the secular music industry and becoming a Christian Contemporary artist, in 1994 Griffith became a professional photographer, opening up her talent production company 'Integrity Productions'. Griffith has been working as one of Indiana's most renowned photographers for over 10 years. She has worked with many companies in Indiana such as the Boy Scouts of America, the Helen Wells Agency in addition to celebrity clients.
 
 
"Produced by BOBBY "O" ORLANDO"
 
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Thursday 15 May 2014

MEGAMIX 90s - Non-stop hits mix [eurodance] hi-nrg eurobeat club house


 
TRACKLISTING
 
00:15 Haddaway - What Is Love
03:26 Corona - The Rhythm Of The Night
05:55 SNAP! - Rhythm Is A Dancer
08:51 Dr. Alban - Sing Hallelujah
12:01 Black Box - Ride On Time
15:25 Urban Cookie Collective - The Key, The Secret
18:05 Bass Bumpers - The Music's Got Me
22:10 Rozalla - Everybody's Free
25:31 Jam & Spoon - Right In The Night
28:37 Dr. Alban - It's My Life
32:10 Technotronic - Pump Up The Jam
35:28 Masterboy - Feel The Heat Of The Night
39:41Culture Beat - Mr. Vain
44:06 La Bouche - Be My Lover
47:51 Capella - U Got 2 Let The Music
51:34 2 Unlimited - No Limit
54:58 Ace Of Base - All That She Wants (Bonus)
 
Special Thanks to TheFlashBack90 for the mix
 
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Monday 12 May 2014

Remixing The 80's 90's 00's - William Orbit Remixes Collection (12'' Remixes Album) dance techno electro trance hi-nrg disco 80s 90s 00s


 
TRACKLISTING
 
The 80's
 
1. Belinda Carlisle - Circle In The Sand (Beach Party Mix) [07:53]
2. Erasure - Supernature (William Orbit Mix) [07:00]
3. Jimmy Somerville - You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real) (William Orbit Remix) [07:28]
 
The 90's
 
4. Bassomatic - Fascinating Rhythm (Soul Odyssey Mix) [04:15]
5. The Cure - In Between Days (Shiver Mix) [06:24]
6. The Shamen - Hyperreal (Orbit) [05:22]
7. Depeche Mode - Walking In My Shoes (Random Carpet Mix) [06:36]
8. Blur - On Your Own (Crouch End Broadway Mix) [03:32]
9. Madonna - Frozen (Meltdown Mix - Long Version) [08:13]
 
The 00's
 
10. Limp Bizkit - My Way (William Orbit's Mix) [06:33]
11. Sarah McLachlan - Black (William Orbit Mix) [07:01]
12. U2 - Electrical Storm (William Orbit Mix) [04:39]
 
William Orbit Profile:
Real Name "William Mark Wainwright".
 
Ambient pioneer, studio master, and omnipresent dance remixer William Orbit began his musical career in the new wave band Torch Song. Even while the group recorded several albums for IRS, Orbit remained in the studio to learn the ropes
and began producing and remixing for artists including Sting, Madonna, Prince, the Human League, Erasure, and Belinda Carlisle.
Orbit concurrently recorded his own material, and released his first solo album, Orbit, in 1987. That same year, he inaugurated
the ambient project Strange Cargo, which released follow-up albums in 1990 and 1993. Also during the late '80s, Orbit latched
onto the acid house explosion in England and founded one of the scene's most notable labels, Guerilla Records.
Orbit's own Bassomatic recorded for Guerilla alongside British progressive acts Spooky and React 2 Rhythm plus excellent Chicago producers Felix da Housecat and DJ Pierre. Through Virgin, Bassomatic also released an album, Set the Controls for the Heart of the Bass.
Though his release schedule slowed slightly during the '90s, William Orbit continued producing and remixing at a furious pace.
He also founded a new label, N-Gram Recordings, and prepared to release the classical crossover work Pieces in a Modern Style.
The album, which featured electronic interpretations of classical pieces, drew angry protests from composers Arvo Pärt and
Henryk Górecki, and they helped block the album's release.
In 1998, after 15 years of behind the scenes post-production, Orbit's name hit the mainstream thanks to his helming the Madonna
comeback album Ray of Light (Orbit not only produced the entire LP, but co-wrote many of the tracks). The album won Grammy
awards for Best Pop Album and Best Dance Recording, and its success led to a host of remixing and production work, including Blur's 1999 album, 13.
In 2000, Orbit finally released Pieces in a Modern Style, and the album became an unexpected hit thanks to Ferry Corsten's
trance remix of Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings. In 2006 he returned with Hello Waveforms on the Sanctuary label.
Finley Quaye appeared on the album along with former Torch Song/Strange Cargo vocalist Laurie Mayer.
My Oracle Lives Uptown followed in 2009 on the Kobalt label, and one year later he released Pieces in a Modern Style 2, another edition of classical material, including Orbit's version of "Swan Lake."

 
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Monday 5 May 2014

Norma Lewis - "It's Gonna Happen" (Album) 1983 [Special Deluxe Hits Edition] 2014 hi-nrg disco 80s

 

Norma Lewis is a well know Hi-NRG Disco singer from the 80s whos hits include
Maybe This Time; Break Me; Got To Get To You; The Fight (For The Single Family);
Life Is The Reason; For All We Know; Tonight (Dancing With The Deperate)
& Victim Of Love. 
 
TRACKLISTING
 
01 - Life Is The Reason
02 - You've Got Something
03 - (Give Me Back) Just A Little Piece Of My Heart
04 - Make Your Own Kind Of Music
05 - When Loving You (Remix)
06 - Maybe This Time (Remix)
07 - For All We Know (12'' Maxi)
08 - Tonight (Dancing With The Deperate)
09 - Victim Of Love (Hot Tracks Mix)
10 - Break Me (Hi-NRG Mix)
11 - Got To Get To You (12'' Maxi)
12 - Give Me Back My Heart (12'' Maxi)
13 - The Fight (For The Single Family) (12'' Maxi)
14 - Maybe This Time (Extended Version)
15 - Got To Get To You (Almighty Club Mix)
 
 
 
Norma Lewis will be performing LIVE at Birmingham Pride 2014 in the UK on Sunday MAY 25th 2014
 
 
"A fantastic Hi-NRG disco diva who deserves to have
an official GREATEST HITS DELUXE EDITION release!"
 
SCORES 10/10!
 
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Koto - Masterpieces [Greatest Hits] italo disco space synth classic 80s




Koto is an Italian synth pop group that originally consisted of Anfrando Maiola and Stefano Cundari, later with Michiel van der Kuy too.
Their most popular songs were "Visitors", "Dragon's Legend", "Chinese Revenge" and "Jabdah", released in 1983-1988.
Koto is often associated with a genre of music called Spacesynth, a music style streamed from Space Disco. Unfortunately, it has been reported that Stefano Cundari died some time between 1991 and 1992 from a kidney cancer.
Anfrando Maiola and Stefano Cundari helped to form Memory Records, an Italian record company which specialised in mainly Italo Disco releases. Koto's "Chinese Revenge" was the first record to be released on the Memory label. It sold over 10,000 copies in Italy alone.
Both artists also helped to write, mix, and produce for a range of other artists signed to the Memory Records label, including "Challenger" and "Happy Song" for the band Baby's Gang. Stefano Cundari is also known for his participation in the group "Hipnosis" from 1982-1987.
Following their successful debut with "Chinese Revenge" both Maiola and Cundari helped remix the Vangelis track "Pulstar" for Hipnosis. Their remix of Pulstar reportedly sold over 200,000 copies worldwide.By 1986 the mood of the record buying public was starting to change. House Music was becoming increasingly popular, and the demand for Italo Disco tracks appeared to be in decline. Memory Records, along with other Italo record companies of the time, started to suffer financially. Although attempts were made to respond to the changes by releasing House Music and Eurobeat tracks, the change was not successful and Memory Records went out of business.
In 1989, the German record label ZYX Music bought the rights to the entire Memory Records catalog, including the "Koto" name and recordings. They then brought in Dutch record producer Michiel van der Kuy to re-record and remix some of the old Koto tracks. He then released several other albums under the alias "Koto" in which he remixed science fiction movie themes and other songs, like "Koto Plays Synthesizer World Hits" and "Koto Plays Science-Fiction Movie Themes". Michiel van der Kuy is also a member of the group Laserdance and producer for the likes of Alice DeeJay.

In recent years, Anfrando Maiola won back the rights to the "Koto" name and continues to produce music under this name. His latest tracks were: "Koto Is Still Alive" (2001) and "Blow The Whistle" (2003).

Did you know.... The word KOTO in Japan refers to a Japanese musical instrument / or a traditional dress. Kōtō, Tokyo, is also a ward in Tokyo, Japan
 
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Sunday 4 May 2014

Koto - The 12'' Mixes (Golden Dance Classics Maxi Collection) italo disco space synth dance 80s

 

Koto is an Italian synth pop group that originally consisted of Anfrando Maiola and Stefano Cundari, later with Michiel van der Kuy too.
Their most popular songs were "Visitors", "Dragon's Legend", "Chinese Revenge" and "Jabdah", released in 1983-1988.
Koto is often associated with a genre of music called Spacesynth, a music style streamed from Space Disco. Unfortunately, it has been reported that Stefano Cundari died some time between 1991 and 1992 from a kidney cancer.
 
Anfrando Maiola and Stefano Cundari helped to form Memory Records, an Italian record company which specialised in mainly Italo Disco releases. Koto's "Chinese Revenge" was the first record to be released on the Memory label. It sold over 10,000 copies in Italy alone.
Both artists also helped to write, mix, and produce for a range of other artists signed to the Memory Records label, including "Challenger" and "Happy Song" for the band Baby's Gang. Stefano Cundari is also known for his participation in the group "Hipnosis" from 1982-1987.
 
Following their successful debut with "Chinese Revenge" both Maiola and Cundari helped remix the Vangelis track "Pulstar" for Hipnosis. Their remix of Pulstar reportedly sold over 200,000 copies worldwide.By 1986 the mood of the record buying public was starting to change. House Music was becoming increasingly popular, and the demand for Italo Disco tracks appeared to be in decline. Memory Records, along with other Italo record companies of the time, started to suffer financially. Although attempts were made to respond to the changes by releasing House Music and Eurobeat tracks, the change was not successful and Memory Records went out of business.
 
In 1989, the German record label ZYX Music bought the rights to the entire Memory Records catalogue, including the "Koto" name and recordings. They then brought in Dutch record producer Michiel van der Kuy to re-record and remix some of the old Koto tracks. He then released several other albums under the alias "Koto" in which he remixed science fiction movie themes and other songs, like "Koto Plays Synthesizer World Hits" and "Koto Plays Science-Fiction Movie Themes". Michiel van der Kuy is also a member of the group Laserdance and producer for the likes of Alice DeeJay.
 
In recent years, Anfrando Maiola won back the rights to the "Koto" name and continues to produce music (which sadly, has been of poor quality) under this name.
 
Did you know.... The word KOTO in Japan refers to a Japanese musical instrument / or a traditional dress. Kōtō, Tokyo, is also a ward in Tokyo, Japan
 
 
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Saturday 3 May 2014

Remixing The 90's 00's 10's - Moby Remixes Collection (12'' Remixes Album) electronic synth dance techno rave EDM pop classics RARE


 
TRACKLISTING
 
The 90's
 
1. Erasure - Chorus (Vegan Mix) [05:29]
2. Brian Eno - Fractal Zoom (Mary's Birthday Mix) [07:06]
3. Orbital - Speed Freak (Moby Mutation) [5:41]
4. The Prodigy - Everybody In The Place (Dance Hall Version) [05:35]
5. The Shamen - Make It Mine (US Dub Mix) [04:26]
6. Michael Jackson - Beat It (Moby's Sub Mix) [06:11]
7. Metallica - Until It Sleeps (Herman Melville Mix) [04:20]
8. Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Souvenir (Moby Remix) [04:40]
 
The 00's
9. David Bowie - Sunday (Moby Remix) [05:11]
10. Ferry Corsten - Rock Your Body Rock (Moby Remix) [06:12]
 
The 10's
11. Daft Punk - The Son of Flynn (Moby Remix) [06:32]
12. Plastikman - Krakpot (Moby Remix) [08:35]
 
 
Moby Profile
Real Name "Richard Melville Hall"
 
One of electronic music's most visible and talked-about figures, Moby's career comprises many years
of work and many musical twists and turns. His career stretches all the way back to early rave and
acid-house releases in the late 80s and early 90s as U.H.F. and Voodoo Child, through to his much
loved/hated R&B/blues/pop/techno sample cut-ups of today.
His most notable tracks from his early days include "Next Is The E", "Everytime You Touch Me" and
"Into The Blue", and the classic "Go", as well as his early albums "Ambient" and "Early Underground".
A brief outing into more rock-oriented territory came with 1996's "Animal Rights", followed by
"I Like To Score" in 1997, highlighting his past movie score contributions
(most notably a remix of the "James Bond Theme").
In 1999 and 2000, Moby found unprecedented pop success with the album "Play" and the slew of singles
and radio tracks that came from it ("Honey", "Run On", "Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad?", "Natural Blues",
"Porcelain", "Southside", and more). Among other things, his appearance as a DJ in the foyer of the 2000
MTV Video Music Awards (wearing a gold suit and playing two golden copies of "Play") led many people to decry him as a sellout.
Nonetheless, his follow-up album "18" tinkered very little with the "Play" sound and still received a mostly positive reception in 2002.
Besides the many faces of his music, Moby also gathers controversy for his outspoken religious, dietary and animal rights views, as well as persistent rumors that his live shows are mostly pre-recorded.

Every Moby release from the mid-90s onward has borne the text
"Animals are not ours to eat, wear or experiment on. Thanks to Christ."
 
"Great 12'' Remix Collection"
 
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