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Bicep are stompin into a monday moring to this perfect theme tune. The crossover italo / house/ disco ‘M.B.O. Theme’ sounds like the dirty work of a clone between Morodor and Mr Fingers. Funky bassline that would shake anyfloor!
listen now for the handclaps!
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Ooh, yeah-ee-yeah, yes, ah, drive on
Its Friday, and i have realised we have had a real lack of Zepp on the blog soooo….we have Irishman John Daly, the disco & house supremo, servin up this off the cuff edit.
Ooh, yeah-ee-yeah, yes, ah, drive on
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A forgotten soul funk classic retouched in one of last years biggest edits from Floating Points. Massive fans of both versions, they haven’t left my record bag for the last year. That funk line is untouchable, and the overlayed synth is just fantastic. we love. As 5ive would say “slam dunk that funk, right now”
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Out on Blood records in 82′, as the title suggests its a dark affair on the italo underground. A track that get almost too much play on the Bicep player, anything that has a dark analoge disco vibe and lyrics that dont make any sense to us is pretty much ok…. Not to mention synth solos, how I miss them.
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A nice track from the oddly named German outfit ‘Guru Guru Sunband’. It has a fast bpm with a funky hook. Exactly how I like my women. Life is a long long journey and the going can be rough. At least we have a bit of decent Disco Kraut Action to brighten up those dark moments. Enjoy….
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KDJ talkin about his bitches and fuckin his MPC all night long! during his session yesterday at Red Bull Music Academy.
In this track Dennis Olivieri sculpts a hazy Psychedelic low slung ballad. So deep its almost sleazy, the vocals are so sublime they cut through you like a knife..this is an essential to any record collection.
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In keeping with recent posts, we’re pleased to present a delightfully smooth remix from none other than ole’ frank knuckles, stamping his own chicago warehouse style firmly on the Chaka Khan classic, it’s a dub so the vocal appears late on, just teasing us. Great stuff!
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Continue reading ‘Rufus & Chaka Khan – Ain’t Nobody (Frankie Knuckles Hallucinogenic Dub)’
Support the 6Music campaign and the latest Disco recruit, Chris Tubbs for getting music people NEED to listen to out there! Only up for 4 more days so switch across to 6Muisc HERE to have a listen.
New Zealand born DJ Christopher Tubbs takes over the BBC 6 Mix to bring you ‘Heads Down Radio‘; two hours of dance music from all over the globe. One half of the remix team Atlantic Conveyor, Chris was a DJ in his native Wellington before relocating to London to pursue his love of music. A founder member of Breaks Co-Op with Radio 1’s Zane Lowe, Chris crosses dance music genres from disco to dub via post punk and future jazz and joins the dots between thirty years of experimental music.
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A Rollerskating Jam Named Red Bull Music Academy
Moodymann, Horse Meat Disco, Bravo, Jullian Gomes Master MP6-60.
Thurs 4th March, 8pm – 2am
We have two tickets for this event on Thursday to give away to the person who can email us first (feelmybicep@googlemail.com) with the name of the original track that Moodymann sampled for his track, Dont You Want My Love, a track that we at Bicep wont ever get enough of.
The Basterd is back with another sick package. Kill Django Kill EP drops at the end of March and here are a couple of tunes that drop on the record. Trade mark Italo esque arpeggiation and 707/808 drum machine madness is what we have come to expect from Dorothys Fortress over the last 2 releases and this 5 tracker delivers on all fronts. Don’t shun Django he will make you pay!
Dorothys Fortress – Neon Cities Original
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Dorothys Fortress – Westworld Skit
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Icy cool Balearic disco gem from Ray Mang out recently on as a B side to his Bullet Proof vinyl on DFA records, This chuggs along in a beautifully sparse manor and is not to be missed I tellsk ye!
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Let’s stoke the ole’ fire a little with another great remix from MAW,….here they’ve totally flipped Trey Lorenz’s slow and emotional ‘Photographs of Mary’ into an upbeat soulful house bomb, all to easily…. Rolling beats & shuffling snares, classic 90’s kipper!
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Finally our plastic homage to Detroit has hit the shelves. BUY BUY BUY. Have a listen, we hope you like it. Instead of describe the track for you we thought it may be better to give you an insight into the production.
Bicep – 313
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‘313’ was basically a melody I recorded of my laptop, my neighbour was getting his Jazz on, so I stuck the mic up to the wall and clicked record. **Note: he will have no credits on the sleeve- His dog shits all over my steps**. We knew the claps were a fundamental part of the track so to add some realism, we set off to Dalston market- inspired by stories of Marshall Jefferson hiring 15 people for the claps on his tunes when he played live. Instead of forming an alliance with the common people we stocked up on meat and what a fine selection there was on offer. On returning to the studio we took turns recording and slapping each other with various types of beef and fish- finally we layered these sounds to give this ‘Real‘ meat thing in action. The chatting you can hear around the start was recorded of my phone while in the waiting room of a very lively brothel, all I can say is that the recording got a little messy towards the end.
Bicep – Winter
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‘Winter’ was just a demo song on our DAW, cant believe people didn’t pick up on this one ;)
Hope this gave you a brief insight into the lengths we take in the strive for perfection! And perfection it is.
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This is an absolute cracker, a very rare stripped back ‘Masters at Work’ dub, which they knocked out along side their more mainstream mixes, (although it only appeared on some of the selected maxi releases, but not the singles, I actually picked this up in an antique shop in Dubai of all the places!) These ‘bass hit’ dubs crop up quite a lot when you comb through the MAW discography and they are always winners, very deep and twisted, usually cutting everything right back down to the bones. It’s crazy to think this was from back in 1992, rivals any of this minimal tosh that floats about now! Enjoy!
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