I just wanted to draw attention to this great blog entry about mixing varied tempos and musical genres. Over at the Cosmic Boogie Collective blog they posted an intertested article on how to mix disco.  I thought it was quite interesting as over the years I've been switching from spinning the more typical house club music towards deep disco, funk, and soul. The author has some gerat ideas, escpecially on "chop mixing." Enjoy!

Here is the super rare track "We Had Enough" by Arnie Love and the Lovettes reissued by the Numero Group on the Recording Tap compilation. Arranged by Gene Redd with backing vocals from the "Lovettes" (Roberta Bivers and Linda Green) this track reminds me of UNiversal Robot Band's "Barely Breaking Even" for some reason. Perhaps its the subject matter of being without money and barely getting by. I can relate to that.

 Arnie Love and the Lovettes - We Had Enough

It's one of those great genres that is recently getting a lot of exposure at moment with many have been compilations released recently. One great artist of this genre is Buari, who grew up in Ghana and is a a singer, dancer, percussionist, composer and co-arranger. The track from the album we've picked is "Advice from Father" which features heavy drums from legendary drummer, Bernard Purdie.

Buari - Advice from Father