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To tie in with second installment of Supafunkanova (ZEDD 034CD/LP), Z Records presents a repackaged reissue of Vol. 1, originally released on double CD in 2007. Disco historians and top deckhands Joey Negro and Sean P cast the net yet wider with Supafunkanova, another retrospective of outstanding 12" tracks from the late 1970s and early 1980s. Unearthing 24 gems from their respective colossal record collections, the groovesome twosome pull together some of the original backstreet 12"s that put funk into the disco decades. It's a collection sure to please all. The hard-bitten funk fan is likely to find something previously unknown and the newly initiated disco boogie fan will find this a great place to start digging. There's even an exclusive remix by Joey Negro of the old school classic "We Rap More Mellow" by The Younger Generation, thrown in as an added bonus. The double CD edition features some old school rap styles from Billy Lamont & The Unn Band and South Bronx, plus some proper jazzy street funk from The Pied Piper of Funkingham and Hypertension. For the beat-focused, the double CD has some killer breaks from J. Gayle Gaymon, BLT, and Legacy. The gatefold double LP features Joey Negro's exclusive edit of Foreal People's "Love Begins With You," which appears in its original form on the double CD. Reigning in sounds from New York, South Carolina, Washington, Boston, and Los Angeles, Supafunkanova Vol. 1 is an intoxicating blend of fiercely groovy arrangements, bouncy drumbeats, and funk-driven synths. A musical mix of tracks still as likely to get the booty shaking as they were decades ago! Also includes tracks by Backlash, Leprechaun, V.I.P. Connection, Silver Lining, The Power Band, Jackie Cole & Hot Platnium Fantasy, and Johnny Adams, Needa, Jahneen, Marcia Pharr, Billy Evans, Jackie Boy & Nature's Creation, and Standing Room Only.
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ZEDD 012LP
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Gatefold double LP version. To tie in with second installment of Supafunkanova (ZEDD 034CD/LP), Z Records presents a repackaged reissue of Vol. 1, originally released on double CD in 2007. Disco historians and top deckhands Joey Negro and Sean P cast the net yet wider with Supafunkanova, another retrospective of outstanding 12" tracks from the late 1970s and early 1980s. Unearthing 24 gems from their respective colossal record collections, the groovesome twosome pull together some of the original backstreet 12"s that put funk into the disco decades. It's a collection sure to please all. The hard-bitten funk fan is likely to find something previously unknown and the newly initiated disco boogie fan will find this a great place to start digging. There's even an exclusive remix by Joey Negro of the old school classic "We Rap More Mellow" by The Younger Generation, thrown in as an added bonus. Reigning in sounds from New York, South Carolina, Washington, Boston, and Los Angeles, Supafunkanova Vol. 1 is an intoxicating blend of fiercely groovy arrangements, bouncy drumbeats, and funk-driven synths. A musical mix of tracks still as likely to get the booty shaking as they were decades ago! Also includes tracks by Backlash, Leprechaun, V.I.P. Connection, Silver Lining, The Power Band, Jackie Cole & Hot Platnium Fantasy, and Johnny Adams.
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ZEDD 034CD
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Following the phenomenal success of Italo House (ZEDD 031CD/LP/X-LP) and Remixed With Love (ZEDD 030CD/LP/X-LP), Z Records returns with another humdinger of a compilation to start off 2015. Supafunkanova Vol. 2 was compiled by Joey Negro and Sean P, who together have curated many previous albums including Disco (Not Disco), Destination: Boogie (ZEDD 009CD/LP), and the ever popular Soul of Disco series (ZEDD 007CD/010CD/022CD). The dynamic duo continues to dig deep, compiling high quality albums filled with lesser known disco and boogie. As the title suggests, Supafunkanova focuses on the funkier end of the '70s and '80s, showcasing some of the bumpier grooves recorded in the disco era when even James Brown had to take notice of the Saturday Night Fever (1977)-inspired disco explosion. It will come as no surprise to hear some particularly hard to find gems have been unearthed here, and ones that aren't just rare but genuinely merit being reissued. The first installment was released back in 2007, and the duo has been working Vol. 2 for some time. It takes a while to finish these albums -- tracking down the owners of these musical gems, finding the right image for the sleeve -- but it's finally come together, and its release coincides with the repackaged reissue of Supafunkanova Vol. 1. Once again Z Records gives outstanding value with 20 tracks spread across a double CD. Highlights include Airplay's boogie synth-infused "Drive Me Insane" and the "White Horse"-ish "Cool Out" by Magnum Force. Things get more DC go-go style on Stimulus's "Super Stimulus," ex Skull Snaps member Sam Culley delivers the up-tempo jazz funk track "Walk," and the soulful, Teena Marie-ish "Sound Reason" by Splash gets an exclusive Joey Negro edit. Also includes tracks by The Blue Denim Band, The Sunburst Band, Star Quality & Class, Brenda Harris, and Nice and Tight Band, J.S. Theracon, Silver Flash Funk, L.S. Movement Band, Larry Harris, Nick Allen, Bright Moments, Blackrock, Storm, Contact, and Wizzard.
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ZEDD 034LP
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Gatefold double LP version. Following the phenomenal success of Italo House (ZEDD 031CD/LP/X-LP) and Remixed With Love (ZEDD 030CD/LP/X-LP), Z Records returns with another humdinger of a compilation to start off 2015. Supafunkanova Vol. 2 was compiled by Joey Negro and Sean P, who together have curated many previous albums including Disco (Not Disco), Destination: Boogie (ZEDD 009CD/LP), and the ever popular Soul of Disco series (ZEDD 007CD/010CD/022CD). The dynamic duo continues to dig deep, compiling high quality albums filled with lesser known disco and boogie. As the title suggests, Supafunkanova focuses on the funkier end of the '70s and '80s, showcasing some of the bumpier grooves recorded in the disco era when even James Brown had to take notice of the Saturday Night Fever (1977)-inspired disco explosion. It will come as no surprise to hear some particularly hard to find gems have been unearthed here, and ones that aren't just rare but genuinely merit being reissued. The first installment was released back in 2007, and the duo has been working Vol. 2 for some time. It takes a while to finish these albums -- tracking down the owners of these musical gems, finding the right image for the sleeve -- but it's finally come together, and its release coincides with the repackaged reissue of Supafunkanova Vol. 1, available on double CD and double LP (ZEDD 012CD/LP). Once again Z Records gives outstanding value with ten tracks on the double LP version. Highlights include Airplay's boogie synth-infused "Drive Me Insane" and the "White Horse"-ish "Cool Out" by Magnum Force. Things get more DC go-go style on Stimulus's "Super Stimulus," ex Skull Snaps member Sam Culley delivers the up-tempo jazz funk track "Walk," and the soulful, Teena Marie-ish "Sound Reason" by Splash gets an exclusive Joey Negro edit. Also includes tracks by The Blue Denim Band, The Sunburst Band, Star Quality & Class, Brenda Harris, and Nice and Tight Band.
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ZEDD 009LP
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At a time when most young people from inner cities chose their musical paths -- soul-head, reggae, indie or rock -- and stuck with them 'til they knew better, boogie was the big thing in the UK's (mainly) black clubs. Now, Z Records is releasing a gatefold double vinyl pack of the influential Destination Boogie album that was first released back in 2006 but only as a double CD. As Sean P. says: "It's taken a long time for boogie to surface from the underground; its largely been ignored, or regarded as disco's poor cousin ... but it kick-started a musical ground-swell which would see club music topping the charts all over the world again. The post-disco era represented by boogie was a turbulent and creative time for independent dance music in general and one where the early trends in music technology are easy to spot." So how, you may ask, does boogie differ from its glitzier forbearer, disco? Well it's still a continuation of disco, though dressed up differently -- for example, as you'll hear on the CD, its rhythms weren't always the ubiquitous four-to-the-floor. Rather, boogie is all about the groove. It's a heady blend of disco, funk, soul/R&B, jazz and electronic, fused by and for the party-heads of the day. Among the gems unearthed on this 2CD comes the quirky synth-pop of Karen Young, Lowrell Simon's fat-bottomed love odyssey "Love Massage," Carol Sylvian's beefy gospel-funk "Think" and Color's life-affirming R&B stormer "Am I Gonna Be the One?" Elsewhere, the compilation showcases the creative and brilliant mixing techniques of top-notch producers Shep Pettibone, Butch Ingram and Wayne Braithwaite -- alchemists who turned even basic tracks into the kind of complex sonic masterpieces still capable of turning heads even now.
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ZEDD 009CD
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Subtitled: Classic Eighties Boogie, Soul & Electro-Funk Nuggets. 2006 release. What was the true sound of the underground in UK club land in the early '80s? At a time when most young people from inner cities chose their musical paths -- soul-head, reggae, indie or rock -- and stuck with them 'til they knew better, boogie was the big thing in the UK's clubs. Now, Z Records joins forces with the UK's finest disco historians Joey Negro and Sean P to bring you the essential boogie picks from this often over-looked genre in an ass-shaking double CD. As Sean P says: "The post-disco era represented by boogie was a turbulent and creative time for independent dance music in general and one where the early trends in music technology are easy to spot." So how, you may ask, does boogie differ from its glitzier forbearer, disco? Well it's still a continuation of disco, though dressed up differently. For example, as you'll hear on the CD, its rhythms weren't always the ubiquitous four-to-the-floor. Rather, boogie is all about the groove -- tempo down, or up, the rhythm has to groove. It's a heady blend of disco, funk, soul/R&B, jazz and electronic, fused by and for the party-heads of the day. Among the gems unearthed on this double CD comes the quirky synth-pop of Karen Young, Lowrell Simon's fat-bottomed love odyssey "Love Massage," Carol Sylvian's beefy gospel funk "Think" and Color's life-affirming R&B stormer "Am I Gonna Be the One?" Elsewhere, the compilation showcases the creative and brilliant mixing techniques of top notch producers Shep Pettibone, Butch Ingram and Wayne Braithwaite, alchemists who turned even basic tracks into the kind of complex sonic masterpieces still capable of turning heads even now. This choice selection of over 20 tracks is proof of boogie's versatility and is an essential buy for not just lovers of the post-disco era but anyone interested in a large helping of groove with their music.
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ZEDD 010CD
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2006 release. Great value double CD containing over 20 classic, rare, hard-to-find soulful disco gems. This album follows in the steps of the highly-successful Disco Spectrum series that Joey Negro and Sean P compiled for BBE. Focusing on the more soulful and funky end of the ever-popular '70s music from the original 12"s of this album would cost you several $1000s if you were lucky enough to find them. Many of the tracks contained here are ones you will have heard in disco sets from Dimitri From Paris or Joey Negro. Over half of the tracks included on SOD appear in exclusive, DJ-friendly re-edits by either Joey or Sean. Some very tasty highlights include the ultra sought-after Walter Gibbons mix of Gladys Knight's "It's a Better Than Good Time," Adrenalin's backstreet instrumental version of David Bendeth's "Feel the Reel" and Vance & Suzzanne's "I Can't Get Along Without You."
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