Dohnnie - Dancing Is Your Love

It took me much longer than most to really 'get into' disco. I remember heads were nuts for disco and I was still stuck in a funk rut only stretching out into rare groove. Rare groove was about as close to true disco sound as I was willing to get. I'm still kind of that way. I'm still super picky as to what disco tunes I can endorse. I understand it, and it's all dope to me, and I'm not hating...but, you'll see here on this blog pretty nominal traces of disco. My homies were getting knee deep in Patrick Adams and the Peter Brown sound, but I never really went crazy for it the same way as them. Sure, I'm in love with 'Guardian Angels Watching Over Me' as much as the next man, but never ga-ga over the entire catalog.

This Dohnnie track is one of those exceptions. This is the kind of disco tune that I can fully endorse. So, in a lot of respects the time has definitely come. I'm as into the disco sound as the next head. Furthermore, I'm quite partial to a lot of the Disco Rap I'm discovering. This particular case there's more emphasis on song structure and changes, bridges etc., so this could be considered a R&B jam dressed up in a disco style. There's wicked bongos and a constant perculation of backing rhythms. Combined wah-wah guitars and excellent bass playin' with hand claps makes for a perfect formula for breakers and that's what I imagine for this tune. Like a breakin' scene in a Fame or Flashdance style cheesy 80's movie. Peep the Moog solo at the end. Even me, a minor disco fan can enjoy these disco style backing vocals when properly sprinkled throughout. It's a good tune. I'm sold.

I played this tune at the last Grow Up that I dj'ed. I had a good time that night and they recorded the mix. You can find it here. Randy Ellis had invited me to spin and I'm glad I did. I almost had to cancel. It let me branch out in a few areas I don't normally dabble in. Randy is also one of our newest sellers at Vamp. He's brought good shit in the shop, and been about strictly dope music in my eyes. As you'll hear from the recorded set, it's a bit janky and dis-organized. I really didn't have time to put together what I wanted to play. My Mom was still in critical care at the hospital at that time and when I got records together for the gig I just grabbed EVERYTHING. Ended up being two chock full crates. I ended up only playing 1/4th of what I brought. The stress and turmoil I was going through caused me to over pack. This is why I almost pulled a no show, I almost couldn't make it happen. There was just too much crazy shit going on for me. But, SO glad I came through and did it. The crowd was all about love and people seemed to enjoy my crazy shit. I would have liked to spend a little more time putting my set together, but I still played some good tracks.

So, here's the Grow Up set I did....
Grow Up - Sean Boogie
and, here's the Dohnnie track...
Dohnnie - Dancing Is Your Love

 

I'll be guest spinning in February 2012 again at Grow Up and have promised all new goodies to share.
It'll be fun. I plan to branch out even more delving even further into italo, disco, disco rap, and electro. Stayed tuned...more deets to come as I'll plug it again a little closer to the date.

Big props to Randy Ellis. He's putting together dope shit left and right and quite the savage behind the decks. Always incredible tunes. And, oops almost forgot to mention his fantastic label of newer boogie, electronica, and future funk>> VOLTAIRE RECORDS!!! check it!

Grow Up - Sean Boogie
Dohnnie - Dancing Is Your Love

Vandales - Feeling Freaky (soundboutique edit)

A ridiculously infections party disco groove, cutesy little love bug style song. In fact, the guitar sounds a bit like a bee buzzing about. Not much on these guys either, just this one 45. Great vocals and a groove that you'll have to listen to over and over again to realize how layered it is. It's rich with strings, horns, and some killer flute playing. Again, another record that's layered heavily with multiple guitars. The flip side is part two, and keeps going with more of the same. This is one that may take time to grow on you. But, it's a silent deadly killer. Disco fast food if you will, engineered for your enjoyment.

Update: Right before posting this I decided to re-edit both sides together. So, now you get part one and part two all in one track. I've never posted any of my edits. Not one single damn edit. So, this is a first for this blog. Maybe, there'll be more. But, I really couldn't just leave you with only this one side of this 45. I had to share the extended version. Or, rather make it an extended version. So, here you go..my first edit on the crappy Audacity program. Somebody get me Protools or Cubase PLEASE! Again, this is a true soundboutique exclusive just for you.

I was going to ask a contest question:
Who can tell me at what point the song is edited from part one to two?
(Hint: it's not where you would think it is)
But, two major problems arose with this contest question idea.
1. I have no prize.
2. I forgot where the edit is myself!
Well, so much for that idea. But, for the first official soundboutique edit, it's freakin' CLEAN. Brand new baby spankin' clean. So, clean in fact that it's better than the original studio edit where they punch in the backing vocals. Oh, well. If you can guess it (for example...like 1min43sec) and it's close, you may win something. Or, whoever is closest, still don't know what the prize would be...but, perhaps I can whip something up. Let's just say I'm proud of myself and leave it at that.

Vandales - Feeling Freaky (soundboutique edit)