WICKED CANADIAN BOOGIE or WHO IS AMRA ANYWAY?

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I had hoped this one was gonna cover most of my February rent.

But damn if I can ever really know what's gonna happen on the old Ebay. I do know that there are no copies on discogs or ebay at the moment. I also know it's one of those obscure disco funk jams out of Canada that get the bidders worked up. Sort of like Are you Lonely? by Hipnotic which I much prefer. But unlike Hipnotic I don't think there are bootleg copies of this one going around.

1983 was a damn hot year for vinyl. A ton of my favorite italo disco came out in 1983 and it was a great year for transitioning. The word "disco" wasn't being used anymore but plenty of us still wanted to go out and dance, and how! I just did the majority of my dancing around Europe so it had an incredible impact on my pleasure sensations in the memory bank.


Amra also had a follow-up single too with Dancin' but I never got that one. I heard it on you tube and it didn't work me quite as much as this one either. Which incidentally was first released with a different title Special Kind of Lovin' and then  Special Kind of Love

Who is Randy Wiper?

Who is Randy Wiper? I really don't know. Nor do I know who his producer Ruler was. But the Trash records 1984 italo disco release by Randy Wiper is called I'd Like to Know. It's one of those unknown gems on a tiny label.
http://www.mediafire.com/?4jv19tlpw051lqj


He's certainly swarthy, whoever he is!

INSANELY RARE VOCODER FUNK the pinch SHOT OUT

A limited edition 7" inch single on a small Texas label called Spider-Mo Records has become a highly collectible record. Shot Out by the pinch is a Electro vocoder romp.
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I don't go on much about my Vocoder fascination but it is one of my passions. It's featured on lots of classic Funk, Italo and Electro records that I'm fond of.

Maybe it reminds me of Peter Frampton. I loved his talk box vocals when I was in Elementary school. But not long after my passion turned toward disco.

The 12" single is a re-press and is not collectible like the original 7" single.

HOUSE OF THE RISING SUN by HOT r.s. is a HOT disco re-make

There were tons of disco re-makes. Some were schlock and some really hit it on the nail. I guess because so much material was released in such a short period of time it was hard to constantly come up with completely new songs.

HOUSE OF THE RISING SUN in .wav

A faceless band from Johannesburg, South Africa came up with a 14 minute+ disco remake masterpiece with their cover of The Animals single from 1964 The House of The Rising Sun.

Hot R.S. and this 1977 disco 12" went on to become one of the most collectible and hard to find releases of the entire disco era.