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Showing posts with label Ben Liebrand. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ben Liebrand. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 24, 2014

PRECIOUS LITTLE DIAMOND FOX THE FOX DUTCH ITALO FUNK


Dutch band Fox the Fox are responsible for one of my favorite italo disco songs. Released in 1984 and remixed by the great Ben Liebrand. It was their only hit.  DOWNLOAD PRECIOUS LITTLE DIAMOND





ROCK THE BOAT BY FORREST M. THOMAS

A lot of disco re-makes are hokey.  This isn't one of them.  It was awfully brave to even consider doing this song over.  After all it was one of the first huge disco hits on the pop charts.  Back when the word disco was not even being used The Hues Corporation shot up to #1 with Rock the Boat.  It also charted in other countries especially the U.K. where it went Top 10.  Unfortunately it's release came just a few months before the Disco charts had even been instituted.

It was 1982 and disco wasn't exactly in vogue but the Ben Liebrand produced release out of Holland brought us right back to Studio 54.  Sung by Forrest Thomas a Texan transplanted to Holland it proved to be a disco smash taking it up to #9 on the Billboard Dance Charts in the states only 8 years after the success of the original.


ROCK THE BOAT EXTENDED DANCE MIX
HOT TRACKS 14 MINUTE MIX
HOT TRACKS REMIX MEDLEY

Friday, April 26, 2013

YOU GOT THE STUFF & LOVELY DAY bill withers classics

Bill Withers had phenomenal success in the seventies.  With huge hits like Use Me, Lean on Me and Lovely Day he was known throughout the world.  But what many people don't know is that he had a very solid jump on the disco bandwagon release.  LOVELY DAY  original version of lovely day

The incredibly funky, sexy and downtempo You Got the Stuff was released in in 1978 and is known considered a disco classic.  It's quite collectible and fetches a pretty penny on websites like discogs and ebay.  I have stores on both sites so feel free to cruise my wares.  Perhaps you could do so while enjoying these hot downloads.  THE INSTRUMENTAL and THE EXTENDED VERSION and the rarest of them all BLACK COCK EDIT


Friday, December 9, 2011

BEN LIEBRAND MAKES POUSSEZ! EVEN SEXIER

Dutch DJ, Producer and Mastermixer really did some magic on an older disco tune in 1986.  His mix of Poussez's 1980 disco hit Come on and Do It was memorable and many years before the disco edit craze we've been experiencing since the millenium.

BEN LIEBRAND REMIX OF POUSSEZ

Poussez was like a super-group featuring Alphonse Mouzon and Janet Wright and Connie Harvey and Christine Wiltshire to name a few.  In 1979 and 1980 they had a series of major disco hits.  Boogie with Me and Come on and Do it were the most successful.

POUSSEZ! A fabulous Roy Thode remix.