Tag: Larry Levan

  • Magazine Sixty Music Review with Loleatta Holloway

    Magazine Sixty Music Review with Loleatta Holloway

    Greg Fenton reviews Loleatta Holloway – We’re Getting Stronger – SoulMusic Records (SMR) Catching up on some summer releases not to be missed. Let’s begin with this brilliant compilation from the singer who needs little or no introduction. Her soul-saving voice has graced a string-filled array of classic numbers across the Disco cannon featured on…

  • Dinosaur L – In The Corn Belt – Get On Down/ Sleeping Bag Records

    Enter the weird and wacky world of Dinosaur L at your leisure. Revisiting Larry Levan’s 1982 reworking of In The Corn Belt proves to be just as satisfying then as now. Still sounding futuristic, genre bashing and clearly mind-altering. Spread across a 7” in two parts Arthur Russell’s alter ego alongside Will Socolov gets treated…

  • Dimitri From Paris presents Salsoul Mastermix – Salsoul

    Can’t get enough of the past? Well, you’ve come to the right place. The legendary Salsoul label earned that accolade for one reason only and that was the music they released back in the 70’s and subsequent 1980’s, closing by 84 of that decade. Soaring songs, sonically reverberating instrumentation and production prowess that helped set…

  • Billie – Nobody’s Business – 4 To The Floor Records

    Revisiting rather than reviving this often overlooked number from the past is always refreshing to experience. That and the fact that the original 1986 version remains intact testifying to the strength of the song plus its vocal delivery, alongside the proud production by other vital figures in House history: Boyd Jarvis and Timmy Regisford, while…

  • Reviews: 161

    The Salsoul Orchestra Story 40th Anniversary Collection Groove Line Records WOW! Three cd’s worth of the Salsoul Orchestra. Or, to put it another way, heaven on earth. The clue is of course contained within the title: Salsoul from the infinitely influential record label for a start, secondly the word Orchestra and all of the musical…

  • reviews:92

    Art Of Tones Elephants & Flies Lazy Days Recordings Ludovic Llorca aka Art Of Tones first release on the label comprises three originals plus one dub version. And it’s all too easy for me to say that title track Elephants is a simply outstanding slice of music that cuts the atmosphere it generates with a…

  • Justin Strauss interview

    Who inspired you to become a DJ?   Interesting question. It’s 1978. I was the lead singer in a band called Milk n Cookies. We had moved out to LA, and after 2 years out I decided to come home to NYC. An ex girlfriend of mine told me I have to come back to…

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    Scarlett Nina The End EP Turquoise Blue One of the reasons Dance have been so very exciting over the past number of years is down to the sheer breadth of music which reside within the House Music bracket. Not that that hasn’t always been the case of course, there’s just something particularly exhilarating about the…