Total Pageviews

Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Let's Go Round Again (one more time) Average White Band

Average White Band had a worldwide massive funky jazz hit with Pick up the Pieces.  Later in their career they came up with Let's Go Round Again.  In 1980 it became a hit in the U.K. and in the U.S. a favorite at The Saint and Fire Island.  But It didn't have the huge commercial success of some of their earlier hits.  Co-Produced by the Genius David Foster  The recent edit by DJ Meme gives it more of a house feeling and an extra long introduction.  A solid piece of work that respects the original while spicing it up for punters in this day and age.  Meme Bootleg
This Scottish group had it's first release in 1973 and were prolific for quite a bit longer, over twenty years.  But the hits were few and far between, not that that is what makes a band.  They are a solid act that will be remembered for sheer talent, they were no flash in the pan.  

Monday, May 6, 2013

Tamiko Jones more then just Can't Live Without Your Love

Barbara Tamiko Ferguson was born in Kyle, West Virginia in 1945.  She started recording in the mid sixties.  By the late 70's she had a few floor stompers of disco dance.
1976's Let if Flow was a major release for T.K. but in 1979 Polydor's Can't Live Without Your Love was the one that made her disco legendary.  It's a real Loft classic.  It always sounds great to me.  CAN'T LIVE  Her release from 1975 I'm Spell Bound is much less known but well worth checking out I'm Spell Bound

Her 1986 remake of Marvin Gaye's classic I Want You was also known as Tamiko's Groove.  It was mixed by Timmy Regisford & Merlin Bobb and it's just about the last I've heard from her. Tamiko's Groove

Monday, April 29, 2013

Panther Rex German Made italo disco


Stephan Slowik had two Italo disco hits using the moniker Panther Rex.  Both of them are classic examples of that Euro Synth Pop sound I love to go on about.



His debut single High or Low came out in 1985 while the follow-up Goodbye My Love was released in 1986.  1986 was the year that Italo Disco releases became few and far between.  The golden age of Italo was on it's way out though not completely gone yet.


Stephan is presently a composer and producer based out of Berlin.

Friday, April 26, 2013

TAKE ME TO THE TOP ADVANCE

Some italo disco is actually italo boogie.  A very hot trend in Italo that paved the way for some real soulful music that was not robotic.  Dario Raimondi and Alvaro Ugolini made one of the definitive italo boogie releases with Take Me To The Top.  One of the most memorable releases of it's kind in 1982. AN ADVANCE DOWNLOAD


Their later project Fun Fun was much more on the Hi NRG tip.  In it's earliest inception Ivana Spagna was even involved.