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B Magic Operators - Summertime Girl

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Not a lot of info on this one. It's a local Boston boogie modern soul track from 1985 featuring vocals by Michael Thomas. It features some bumping synth bass and soulful vocals.

B Magic Operators - Summertime Girl

Northern Soul Stories

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In keeping in step with our northern soul issue I'd like to announce the release of a new book on the northern soul scene called "Northern Soul Stories" compiled and written by Neil Rushton. The narrative of the book are accounts and eye witnesses form key clubs like Wigan Casino, Blackpool Mecca, The Torch and The Catacombs.

If you go to the Northern Soul Stories website you [...]

Numero Group Blog

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If you've wondered how the Numero Group goes through the process of putting together their wonderful compilations lok no further than their own blog, Numero by the Numbers. It looks at the inner workings of putting together a compilation of lost recordings. Don't forget to check out their amazing photography/LP compilation, Light: On the South Side.

Mr. Peabody's Records

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If you haven't heard of Mr. Peabody Records in Chicago you have to check them out. Mark Grusane and Mike Cole started collecting records years ago. After years of being rivals and sharing knowledge they finally got together and opened a store. Check out this youtube doc on them and their rare records.

http://www.mrpeabodyrecords.com/

New Artist Spotlight - Mayer Hawthorne

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Mayer Hawthorne's real name is Andrew Cohen. Growing up in Ann Arbor influenced his love for Motown and his subsequent album, A Strange Arrangement on Stones Throw Records. Andrew plays most of the instruments as well as provding the soul drenched vocals for the album. Before putting toegether Mayer Hawthorne Andrew was in many hip hop groups including Athletic Mic [...]

MJ Rest in Peace

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What can one say about this sad day in music history. Specifically for us DJs this man has been a life saver. I don't think any DJ can honsetly say they have never played a Michael Jackson and most of us have to thank him personally for helping to start our dancefloors at one time or another.

Below is a great subtle and restraint remix "I Want You Back" by Arizonza DJ Z-Trip [...]

Africa Bump from Tom Noble

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This tight little track is brought to us by the Peoples Potential Unlimited boutique record label. This 12" contains two great edits by Tom Noble from Lotusland Records. Africa Bump is an unreleased record by Grupo Santa Cecilia.

Clips from Tom Noble's Africa Bump b/w Party Together

Sofrito This Weekend

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If you are in London on Saturday be sure to check out this awesome event called Sofrito. Sofrito is a monthly night of DJs and Live music acroos the Tropical Spectrum as they say. On May 23rd, Sofrito presents live performances from Karl Hector and the Malcouns, the new Nostaglia 77 project, the Skeleton. Below explains more of what Sofrito is all about.

What i [...]

Smith Whitaker and Company

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This boogie gem from Smith Whitaker and Company is extremely rare and expensive. All here for your listening pleasure.

Smith Whitaker and Company - Don't Play No Games with My Love

Can You Dig It

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I discovered this great blog called Heavy in the Streets run by DJ Sorce-1 which features some great interviews with DJs and record collectors such as Cosmo Baker, Rich Medina, Mr. Supreme, and many others. I really dig these interviews because all of the questions involve their stories about digging for records. As you can manage there are some really interesting [...]

Deano Sounds on Viva Radio

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We'd like to announce that our very own, Deano Sounds now has a weekly show on Viva Radio called Cultures of Soul. It's a smorgasbord of Soul, Jazz, Funk, and Disco from around the globe. In the future you will also be treated to interesting documentaries and profiles on some of the most innovative labels, musicians, and DJs.

Uncle Funkenstein

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What's up with this reissue? It's garning lots of attention from Soulstrut and going for crazy prices on ebay.com. The original is a super rare holy grail from Indiana that never shows up on ebay and fetches over a $1,000. But should a reissue command prices as high as $100? It was repressed by the wonderful people at Jazzman Records on high quality viny [...]

William Onyeabor

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Here we have an afro beat track by William Onyeabor from the album, Atomic Bomb. An afro bomb, Change Your Mind. It's great leftfield afro disco from Nigeria realeased in 1978.

William Onyeabor - Change Your Mind

New Artists Spotlight

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This time round we've got a brand new artist with no record label and not much information on him. He goes by the name Gamble and he's from LA. We've posted his track here, Bring Me Down which is a great mid tempo synth driven Bowiesque track with soft mellow vocals. Currently he's in Rome working as a photographer.

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SoundCloud

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We've just signed up for Soundcloud, a great new site for distributing music. You can send and receive music. If you'd like to send us new tracks, remixes, and re edits that would be great. You can send us your tracks to our drop boxes at http://soundcloud.com/tothedisco-com/dropbox

Bar Keys - She Talks to Me with Her Body

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We've posted a fantatstic re-edit by our friends over at the Cosmic Boogie Collective blog by the Bar Kays. The track is She Talks to Me with Her Body and the Liverpool crew do an amazing job with the track building a slow steady grove and developing into the full song.

Bar Kays - She Talks to Me with Her Body (Cosmic Boogie Re Edit)

Bumrocks.com

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There is a Bumrocks Compilation coming out called El Bum. Check out this press release below for more info.

"El Bum" is a LP collection of super rare bootlegs and extended dancefloor trips presented by cult website Bumrocks.com.

Pushing the tradition of the mysterious Electric Funky Afro Sound series of LPs, "El Bum" packs 11 tracks spanning the sounds of d [...]

Obama Wins!

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I usually tend to keep this website to subject matter strictly of the musical nature but it is with great pride today that I call myself a citizen of the United States of America. I am proud of our nation realizing the error of our ways in the last eight years and looking beyond race, color, and creed to vote in a candidate that promises to bring with him change [...]

Digging in the Heartland

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I just found this interesting blog about digging for records all over the world called Jake Dragons. It follows three British record collectors as they travel from New York City to Austin, Texas. Check out some of the great records that they found!

New Mr. Scruff - Music Takes Me Up

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Check out this cool video for Mr. Scruff's new single featuring Alice Russell. The video shows Mr. Scruff's artsy animation style. The track has a great old fashion piano sounds mixed with modern soulful vocals.

Mr. Scruff - Music Takes Me Up