Soul Jazz Records Presents - Disco - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

This is a second selection of independent disco records featuring rare and classic tracks originally released in the USA between the halcyon years of 1977 and 1985. This features only the finest disco, modern soul and boogie and is compiled by Disco Patrick who last year put together for Soul Jazz Records that mighty 'Disco - An Encyclopedia Guide to the Cover Art of Disco Records' 400+ page deluxe book, as well as the first installment of 'Disco - A Fine Selection of Independent Disco, Modern Soul and Boogie.' Album Tracks 1. Stevo - Pay the Price 2. High Frequency - Summertime 3. Dunn Pearson Junior - Groove on Down 4. Mad Dog Fire Department - Cosmic Funk 5. Needa - Rock 6. Cream de Coco - Disco Strut 7. Anita Maldonado - What Can I Do to Make You Dance 8. The Shades of Love - Come Inside 9. Skip Jackson and the Natural Experience - Micro Wave Boogie 1. Jahneen - Everybody's Dancin' 2. Montego Joe - Freestyle 3. Timmy Thomas - Africano 4. Paper Doll - Get Down Boy 5. Jazz - I Feel Like Love 6. Paco and Flaco and Coco - He's Here 7. Ripple - Victorious 8. Universal Love - Moon Ride 9. Panache - Jam on 10. Otis Brown's Grade a - Strut on

Soul Jazz Records new Sounds of the Universe Art + Sound 2012-15 is a new album featuring a line-up of some of the most forward-thinking and progressive artists and producers working with electronic music around the world today. This lovingly compiled collection features a stunning array of contemporary artists Chicago's Afro-futurist genius Hieroglyphic Being; Kassem Mosse (aka Gunnar Wendell/Siege of Troy), one of the most talked-about, respected artists in underground house and techno; out of Detroit's Moodymann stable comes Andres; also featured is Los Angeles-based Ras G, associated with the Brainfeeder tag established by fellow producer Flying Lotus; and many more! The first 8 tracks of this new collection were recorded exclusively for Soul Jazz Record's bespoke Sounds of the Universe tag. These were originally issued under their Art + Sound series between 2012 and 2015 as unique hand-etched and original commissioned art pieces (reproduced here) collectors' 12Inch singles - all pressed in micro-editions of 250 copies for each artist's that were only ever available exclusively from Soul Jazz Records' boutique Sounds of the Universe shop in Soho, London. The second part of this album features a fantastic set of all brand new exclusive tracks from the likes of Seven Davis Jr, Drexciya collaborator DJ Stingray, deep house virtuoso Mike Huckaby, Glaswegian noise-punk six-piece Golden Teacher, and lots more - all created and commissioned especially for this . These songs are not available anywhere else in the world and together they comprise an amazing selection of new progressive electronic music. Album Tracks 1. Shikaakwa - Hieroglyphic Being 2. Summer Romance - Tevo Howard 3. Staat Aus Glas - Kassem Mosse 4. Ribena - Andres 5. Cold Like the Baron - Blludd Relations 6. Return to the Underground - Aybee 7. Snakes & Ladders - Heatsick 8. C

Soul Jazz Records new 'Cold Wave' is a new collection of current electronic artists who have all been shaped by the early European cold wave artists of the late 70s and early 80s.This second edition Cold Wave #2 comes in two vinyl editions - a one-off pressing purple coloured vinyl edition and a black vinyl edition. Both come as heavyweight double vinyl housed in bespoke individual inner sleeves and the limited edition first pressing of this album comes with it's own free pull-out fanzine on the groups featured. The CD edition comes with artist booklet/fanzine and slipcase. All editions are printed in special dayglo colour finish.These first artists created new electronic musical landscapes as well as pursuing a stubborn D-I-Y aesthetic, often releasing material on cassette and pioneering use of lo-fi technology, primitive drum machines and home-recording techniques. As part of this continued evolution today many of the artists featured here also self- their own material, run labels, publish fanzines, or are part of wider musical collectives.Aside from the first electronic, no wave, and post-punk artists cited as influences - Suicide, Patrick Cowley, The Normal, Martin Hannett, Laurie Anderson, Public Image - this new generation of artists also show an exquisitely open source of electronic and disparate influences, everything from Underground Resistance to Purcell, from Scientist to New Beat and more besides.Most of the featured artists are based in Europe and include Krikor from France, Beta Evers and L.F.T. from Germany, Lena Willikens, Job Sifre and de Ambassade from the Netherlands, Toulouse Low Trax from Germany, Dave I.D. and Broken English Club from the UK, and V.C.V.S from Georgia.All of the bands featured here make distinctive contemporary music out of the 80s roots of the first cold wave movement.1. Lena Willikens - Howlin Lupus (5 11)2. Beta Evers - Hiding