Feel my Bicep

Fuck that House pretense shit- this tool is one of the best kept secrets to this day, Ive seen some of the best House DJs in the world drop this Spice Girls ‘BOMB’  at peak time! This is still rockin about on white labels, the MAW dub on the flip is pretty great too!

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Over the last year there has been a definite movement into house,  nearly every disco dj has adopted at least one token 90s’ house tune in every mix- the majority of the time this tends to be  a classic or one that even pushed the boundry of  acceptance back then. Stick with Bicep and we will keep you right, expect essential underground house tunes in the next couple of weeks. First up Kenlou showing how to do it deep style.

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Arguably one of the best records out last year on KDJ’s Mahogani Music, perfect music for summer – deeper than a clowns pocket but has nice sunshine vibes. Heavy on the samples combined with some nice loose MPC style grooves this is essential to the old school hip hop fans and house enthusiasts alike!

RA had a decent review of it; “Andrés’ Andrés II combines elements of soul, hip-hop, broken beat and house music. It’s a sample-heavy record which gracefully floats between head-nodding break beats and foot-tapping 4/4 grooves. While there are some slightly trite moments such as the bossa-nova sampling “Sing About It,” these are easily forgotten thanks to brilliant tracks such as “Change My Mind.” The latter samples GQ’s disco hit “Lies”—a song which Theo Parrish once (ugly) edited to create a dance floor burner. Still, Andrés’ production one-ups Parrish’s version by adding an inspired keyboard jam by Amp Fiddler as well as uplifting female vocal samples”

note: “Andrés’ production one-ups Parrish’s version” quite the statement ayh lad!

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Massive Garage anthem which has been and will continue to rock the NYC disco scene for years.

Walter Anthony Murphy, Jr. is a pianist, composer, and arranger who had a massive hit with the instrumental, “A Fifth of Beethoven“, a disco adaptation of some passages of the first movement of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, in 1976,  managing to top the top 100 and was subsequently featured on the best-selling soundtrack to “Saturday Night Fever”.

It was also a big underground hit for Soulwax on the As heard on Series, bringing this track to a new generation.

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Some old school jack courtesy of Ian Pooley, cuttin and sampling done the old way. Fans of Daft Punk will be into this disco heavy, house groove. Even tho this was out in 97′ it still gets turned by the likes of DJ Sneak to get a party started.

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Kano are obviously heroes for us, amazing name, and classic tracks. Full on italo synth robots.

We’ve posted a couple of the greatests but thought we share some other nice little treats. From full on camp and happy sounds of ‘Ahjia’, to the darker head moving sounds of ‘Its a war’ (Im  quite surrprised we havent posted that yet) with its well crafted selection of synth action. Santiago’s edit of ‘its a war’ is pretty good to, but the original has got more feeling to it. These two both appeared on the Its a War record in 1980.

Also included is the emotional italo journey that is ‘China Star’, which was on the ‘Another Life’ LP in 1983.

Great listening, great dancing

Kano – Ahjia

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Kano – Its a War

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Kano – China Star

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Ace arpeggiated greatness here from Fran-key, Crystal, Roger who are back with a new album. Fran-key, Crystal, Roger are a group comprising of three Tokyo Based DJ’s and Producers. Fran-key has released a number of records and a solo album “Tetrapod Love” on Crue-l, whilst Crystal is better know with his work in the DJ Unit Traks Boys. Roger Yamaha runs the Tokyo record store “Moonwalk“.

The have created a beautifully textured, multi layered sound which nods its head to Shoegaze, punk, disco, cosmic and house. Utilizing the minimum of programming to create a live, organic sound, the overall effect is a smooth, balanced feeling that flows from the speakers. Released on Japanese label Crue-l Records, the Album has been praised by the likes of James Murphy and Rub n’ Tug.

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The boys over at Leftside wobble really have done justice to this Beatles classic! A feat not to be laughed at, this was a daring move, tackling the Beatles. But they’ve done a great job, also using the break from Sgt Pepper (the reprise version) as the underlaying backbone of the track. The big long intro is almost demented in character with wailing animal like vocal squels and rolling drums accompanied with trippy guitar stabs before the vocal seals the deal! Awesome. 

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Keeping things deep I’ve got two cracking beautiful soulful house reworks from Motor City Drum Ensemble, who time and time again hit the nail on the head with his signature old school drum patterns and thoughtful pastiche keys.

Over the past few years MCDE has really soared from their humble beginnings to leading the pack with their (previously posted) Raw Cut’s serious getting by absolutely everyone!

Jazzanova feat Phonte – Look what you’re doing to me (MCDE remix)

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Nu Frequency Feat Ben Onono – Fallen Hero (MCDE remix)

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This classic detroit cut reminds us that utter simplicity can often be just as effective as the tightest production! Omar has sampled the 1980’s track of the same name – Midway’s ‘Set it Out’ over rich warm ethereal keys and a very simple drum machine pattern – It works. The E.P ”002” has just received a repress before Christmas and with Set it out being the closing, (and for me the stand out track after Flying Gorgars) I thought it deserved a spot on here. Enjoy (But you’ll have to buy the E.P)

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Kinda cool sad and emotive italo track from 1984. Not much more to say!

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Most of you will probably recognise this bumming beat from GTA IV  ”Ballad of Gay Tony”…..I’m not really a fan of this track,…but I dig the 1980’s Biology video-esque intro and thought i’d share it.

Enjoy this horrid homo-slice of 80s analog perversion. 

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Only just remembered these songs today, used to love them….. years ago, back in my days as a BMX crust!

They are slow cheese’n’sleaze stompers, bound to tickle the fancies of even just a few of you!

Kiss – Love it loud

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Ozzy Osbourne – Diary of  a madman

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Ibadan Records has been and continues to be a groundbreaking tastemaker deeply rooted in the influences of colorful New York life as is represented in the range of our repertoire.

”There isn’t really an Ibadan sound. Ibadan has a principle to make high quality music which covers all areas of electronic music, acoustic dance music, ultimately jazz funk, jazz and maybe even hip hop and R&B”. 

Now over a decade doing business, label founder Jerome Sydenham’s artistic ambitions for Ibadan Records couldn’t be clearer. From the earliest years of acoustic, afro-tinged house to the Pan-African Electro of the 10″ series to the more recent explorations into Techno and TechHouse, the sound of Ibadan has always pioneered new directions in dance. 

Here are some of my favourite tracks from Ibadan Records, support the artists and pick the track up on beatport/juno.

Jerome Sydenham and Dennis Ferrer – The WJ

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Jerome Sydenham and Kerri Chandler – 36 degrees (tokyo dub)

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Jerome Sydenham and Dennis Ferrer – Sandcastle (Pete Heller re-edit)

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Chez Damier has devoted his life to electronic music as a vocalist, DJ, producer, label manager and graphic artist. Splitting his time between Detroit, Chicago and occasionally New York, Chez set up the Music Institute with Derrick May and Alton Miller looked after the business affairs and studio output of Kevin Saunderson’s KMS label, and helped countless producers get a start in production. On top of that, he has a kick ass discography of his ow

Proper old school Chicago house here with addition work on the New York Dub  from Derrick May and MK, you can definitely see the Strings of Life vibe coming throuh.

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