Haha oh yeah massive fan, saw him in Pasha 2005 after he had done sunset at Mambo playing Steely Dan and Roxy Music:) one of the best nights clubbing I’ve ever had, didn’t get back to the hotel til gone 9am.
His remix of Taste of Bitter love is special and gets hammered in our gaff. Luckily I have a partner that loves soul and disco as much as me. His defected in the house CD still gets played too.
That whole album you downloaded is brilliant, not a bad track on it.
Another big producer for me is LTJ Xperience, not many edits but great disco grooves. Oh and Ed Wizard & Disco Double Dee are another favourite.
I bought Taste of Bitter Love when it came out in the early 80’s and I agree that his remix is superb and his Remixed with Love albums are quality. I’ve not had the chance to see him live, my clubbing days are long gone, if i go out for a beer I need a week off work to get over it .
I listen to Mi-Soul radio down here, got me through 3 months of furlough, brilliant DJ’s playing all the stuff we like.
I used to listen to Solar Radio quite a lot but it’s gone downhill lately. Mainly just listening to DJ mixes on YouTube when I get time to listen to music.
We decided to start collecting 45s a couple of years back and taste of bitter love was one of the first purchases:)
STU have you any other Gladys Knight singles? I’d recommend Save the Overtime (For me). Although not sure she released it as a single but I had it on the album ‘Visions’ and its a pretty good album.
Oh I’ll check that out:) I have Bourgie Bourgie on 45 that also gets a regular outing. My dad had all her old albums from the 60s and 70s so I used to listen to them as a kid.
Great track Bourgie Bourgie, I’ve got a version by John Davis & The Monster Orchestra, its on an album called Joey Negro and Sean P Present the Best of Disco Spectrum.
I am no longer an active live DJ (to old) but when I was I never worked less than 2 nights per-week and at times 7, my wife once worked it out that my average was 4 nights per-week
But during this time I only ever used my equipment at home for, trying out a mix, recording something or just testing it. But most of the time no as other things to do plus a little break helps you stay fresh & married.
These days I still do things at home but for my own enjoyment, but the more you do live then the less you would want to do it at home there is nothing wrong with that.
Yeah, the other night I went from Deep House, to Tech House, and then Techno, to Electro, to Nuschool Breaks, to UKGarage, to Deep Dubstep, to Juke, to Jungle, and finally to an assortment of DnB…a whirlwind that spanned about 6 hours of straight mixing. It was a blast, and fueled by single malt scotch, haha. I could NEVER get away with that at a gig, haha. They would look at me like, W.T.F?!? That’s usually how I get myself out of a funk…I mix all the genres I absolutely LOVE, and it snaps me out of it.
100% with ya on that… and it’s a shame that you can’t cover that spectrum at gigs, if only the crowd was as appreciative of different styles and hearing new tracks
Every now and then I go through a marathon uploading session of my cd’s and sometimes those exclusive vinyls that you just can’t get digitally (the days of the exclusive white labels, and US imports, and if you were into hard core reggae- Sir Coxone, Saxon sound, Channel One for example, then it was dub plates). I was shocked, my engine library (in the internal hard drive)was over 20,000 tracks. I thought ‘what the hell’! But of an evening, when I have my sessions, I realise just how far back my collection goes and the range of music within the soul, reggae, soca, RnB, afrobeat genres. The type of folk I play to, tend to prefer the old Skool music, with a splash of upfrontpopular doing the rounds. With all that music, and the memories associated together with the challenge of bringing back those old bangers, and firing up the dance floor, there’s no time to be bored or loose faith.
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I listen to Mi-Soul radio down here, got me through 3 months of furlough, brilliant DJ’s playing all the stuff we like.