Johnny Hates Jazz – “Shattered Dreams:”

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In keeping with BBE’s tradition of high quality disco comps, The Boogie Back features an exclusive remix of the NYC cult jam Jan Leslie Holmes’ “I’m Your Superman,” tasty edits from Spinna, a ready made party mix for house parties and unmixed selections on CD2 for collectors. These classic tracks are hard to find anywhere!

DJ Spinna
The Boogie Back – Post Disco Club Jams
Label: BBE
Release Date: November 24, 2009

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For Fans Of: Kurtis Blow, Michael Jackson, Mtume, Parliament, War

Boogie Music is the dance music genre that was wedged between 70’s disco music and the electronica explosion of the 90’s. Some call it Post Disco, some call it Electro Funk, but the characteristics that define Boogie Music (funk, soul and R&B) would form the building blocks of proper house music. This is the kind of music that was coming out of the inner city clubs of the time and there’s a whole lot of culture and emotion built into these songs. Hell, Michael Jackson’s classic Off The Wall is a boogie record!

A child of the 80’s DJ Spinna (aka Vincent Williams) lived through the boogie heydays. With a global resurgence in vintage club music, Italo disco, alt dance and dance rock, Spinna felt it was his duty to pay homage to the original artists who inspired so many of today’s hottest DJs and musical acts. The jams on this compilation rocked the airwaves in Brooklyn back in the day and now it’s ripe from a brand new crop of music lovers across the world.

This package really satisfies all tastes and moods. Disc One is DJ Spinna’s ready made block party DJ Mix for getting it all going right. These crispy, funky tracks are lined up side-by-side for a vibe that takes you straight to the streets, circa 1982. A second disc is prime meat for all you crate diggers and features 12 unmixed classics; many of which are unavailable on CD, Vinyl or even digitally!

One again DJ Spinna delivers a product that’s not just 4/4 beats or empty tracks. Rather, through all his many releases over the years he’s proven to be the authority on providing real music for real people. DJ Spinna is one of a few active DJs today whose versatility and all round knowledge covers so much ground. From Rock to Jazz, Reggae to Hip-Hop, soundtracks to House, Soul, Funk, Disco or Techno this man has the knowledge and can rock parties as good as any leading lights in any of the aforementioned scenes.

BBE releases DJ Spinna Presents The Boogie Back – Post Disco Club Jams on November 24, 2009

CD 01 – Mixed by DJ Spinna

01 South Bronx – The Bottom Line
02 Foxy – Tena’s Song
03 T.J Swan – And You Know That (Dub)
04 Chemise – She Can’t Love You (Original 12” Mix)
05 Mtume – o You Wanna Be A Star
06 Final Edition – Betcha Can’t Love Just One (Can’t keep Running Away)
07 Masurrati and Huey Harris – Super Duper Lovin, Don’t Stop
08 Community People -Education Wrap (Dj Spinna Edit)
09 War – The World Is A Ghetto (Special US Disco Mix)
10 Ronnie Dyson – All Over Your Face (Special J&M Mix)
11 Stargaze – You Can’t Have It
12 Jan Leslie Holmes – I’m Your Superman – (Dj Spinna ReFREAK)
13 Slyck – Love It (Or Beat The Bush)
14 Modern Romance -Salsa Rhapsody
15 Melody Stewart – Get Down, Get Down
16 Captain Rapp – Bad Times (I Can’t Stand It) (Part 2)

CD 2 – Unmixed, Compiled by DJ Spinna

01 South Bronx – The Bottom Line
02 Foxy – Tena’s Song
03 T.J Swan – And You Know That (Dub)
04 Chemise – She Can’t Love You (Original 12” Mix)
05 Mtume – So You Wanna Be A Star
06 Final Edition – Betcha Can’t Love Just One (Can’t Keep Running Away)
07 War -The World Is A Ghetto (Special US Disco Mix)
08 Ronnie Dyson – All Over Your Face
09 Stargaze – You Can’t Have It
10 Jan Leslie Holmes – I’m Your Superman
11 Modern Romance -Salsa Rhapsody
12 Melody Stewart – Get Down, Get Down

Debut album out now on CD, Cassette Tape, Digital, and of course, Vinyl!

“I am FEELING the album man! It’s fresh and original and sounds like nothing else out there which is always a plus in my book!”
-Cozmo D – Newcleus

“THE RECORD IS HOT” – GrandWizzard Theodore

Vinyl Life’s self-titled debut reflects New York City’s heyday of breakdancing music, Latin freestyle, and up-tempo breakbeats, celebrating a time when rappers danced and electro was something you heard emanating from boom boxes and public transit, not from public radio.

Read Dennis Romero’s fantastic article on Vinyl Life in this week’s Village Voice

Vinyl Life’s Butcha, Phaze Future and Richie Roxx grew up in New York City and religiously read the Village Voice on a weekly basis to learn about the best concerts and most interesting new music. So, to actually be featured in The Voice – the country’s longest running weekly alternative paper – for their work is truly something special. Dennis Romero nails it by telling a story of three real guys who met under a mutual admiration for electro, hip-hop, house and techno – but crafted only with vintage analog gear. The authentic 80’s influence comes through the music and you can feel what NYC was back in the day through Vinyl Life.

Not content with limiting their release to CD and digital, Vinyl Life also printed up Vinyl copies and commissioned limited edition hand-painted cassettes. This all adds to the authenticity of the music and adds some extra value to the fans without much expense falling on Vinyl Life’s shoulders.

We all grew up listening to cassette mixtapes bought off the streets,” Butcha says. “It was a no-brainer to create vinyl and cassettes because these mediums were crucial to the overall experience of the time. Plus, kids today only know about music from MP3’s and CDs. We can’t have that.

Vinyl Life’s live show is also like nothing currently on the market. A recent show at NYC’s Santos Party House featured improvisational versions of the album tracks and even a cover of Joey Beltram’s classic “Energy Flash” (Check out Deneka Peniston’s awesome photos here). Whether it’s as a full live act or a DJ set (or both), Vinyl Life is fully capable of providing the music for an entire evening. No two shows are alike.

As both a treat for the fans and a way to help spread the music, Vinyl Life is offering its debut album as a pay-what-you-want download ($1 minimum) from their Bandcamp page. All donations are greatly appreciated in order to keep moving this art forward!

VINYL LIFE
Vinyl Life

Tape Theory Records
Vinyl LP / Cassette / CD / Digital: out now
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myspace.com/vinyllife
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Get your Cassette online today.

LP is now available from Insound, Downtown 304, Other Music, Juno UK, and the Tape Theory store. Coming soon – HHV in Berlin & more!
If you’d like to download the album, it is available from:
Tape Theory (donate what you want)

Beatport
& Juno Download.

Vinyl Life vs Kraftwerk – “Good Life (It’s More Fun To Compute)”

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Vinyl Life 60 Min “Jack The Hype” DJ Mix featuring tracks from Fast Eddie, Joey Beltram, Josh Wink, Zombie Nation, Armando, Fake Blood, Giorgio Moroder and More! (Complete tracklisting below)

Okay, so a good friend forwarded along this link yesterday and we just had to post about it for two reasons: most things from the 80’s, if not all, kick ass now. Also, this 1983 Motown Records music video release by Lionel Richie is kinda creepy.

So the story’s not so complicated, but let’s get it straight. Lionel Richie is a high school music teacher and he falls in love with his blind student. Okay, so you might be thinking, “Yeah, well The Police had that ‘Don’t Stand So Close to Me,’ song [watch video here] that was also about a high school teacher crushing on his student.” Sure, that’s creepy too, but this girl is blind! Richie is following her around the school, hovering when she doesn’t seem to know he’s there. The blindness just amplifies the creep factor.

But anyway, check out the video.