Bootsy Collins: Good-N-Nasty (Per­sonal Stash) (320k)

I’d rather dance to this with a fine lady. Hah.

Mix of the Week #1
(Mix of the Week is our weekly sec­tion where we present good mix­tapes: either our own or found on the internets)

Bunch of  house tracks that I’ve been enjoy­ing lately and some all­time favorite songs as well. I won­der if one can ever get tired of Kenny Dope’s The Bomb,eh? Lots of MAW works here and one proto-house, not too shabby!

DZEI — Haus­mix (July 09)
Funky House, Disco

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Track­list:

Bob Sinclar Feat. Lee A. Gen­e­sis — My Only Love (1998)
Bootsy Collins & MC Lyte — I’m Leavin’ U (Gotta Go Gotta Go) DJ Tonka’s House Mix (1999)
Blake Bax­ter — Head (1997)
Mas­ters At Work — The Ha Dance (Ken/Lou Mixx) (1991)
Todd Terry — Jumpin (1994)
Two Man Sound — Que Tal Amer­ica (1978)
Kenny “Dope” Presents The Buck­et­heads — The Bomb (1995)
Jori Hulkko­nen — 7 Nites, 7 Dayz (1998)
Armand Van Helden Feat. Mi Madre — Sum­mer­time (1999)
Chris Cuevas — Hip Hop (Mas­ters At Work Dub) (1991)
House Of Gyp­sies — Sume Sigh Say (The Mas­ters Remix) (1993)
Busta Funk — Funkyl­le­nium (1999)
Demon — Reg­u­late (1998)
Armand Van Helden Feat. Roland Clark — Flow­erz (1999)

George Clin­ton & The P-Funk All Stars feat. Char­lie Wil­son: New Space­ship (320k)

It’s rain­ing and I’m sit­ting out­doors, nearby local library. Thank god for HI-TECH (free wlan). Sum­mer in Rovaniemi has been super nice until now.

So, Midsummer’s party all gone and for­got­ten. Here’s still a quick recap on my part: hap­pened to find lots of Dance Mania Records tunes on spo­tify (what a treat — now I’ll have to get an account). Put records on plat­ters at Kaup­pay­htiö. Found my way half acci­den­tally to an after­party, passed out onto a couch (bad mis­take d-u-h) and left behind half full bot­tle of my kinda brand of spirit when leav­ing early in the morn­ing. Had to take a cab back home — too long a walk with record bag, being still drunk and all that usual. At least the taxi dri­ver seemed to be amused.

I’ve felt kinda laid­back since. That’s always rea­son enough for post­ing smooth a tune.

This one by p-funk fam extra­or­di­naire is maybe not so obscure but per­haps bit for­got­ten slow­ish jam. It can be found from the album T.A.P.O.A.F.O.M. which is an acronym of “The Awe­some Power of a Fully-Operational Mothership”.

Pierre Akendengue is one of the great mas­ters of con­tem­po­rary African music, and has been that for nearly four decades.

Vigego is a song writ­ten by Akendengue and it is on the b-side of Epuguzu 12″. I think this could be defined as Zouk music (and a fusion of many other styles), which means “party” or “fes­ti­val”. In Africa, it is very pop­u­lar style of rhythm music in fran­coph­one countries.

A-side (Epuguzu) is what could be described as “afro cos­mic”. Very suit­able mate­r­ial for cos­mic remix/edit. But more of that later…

It seems that Epuguzu 12″ is quite high­priced at discogs mar­ket­place. How did the record end up here, the Arc­tic Cir­cle, that I don’t know. I was just damn lucky to get it for 1€ from local flea market.

Akendengue — Vigego (1983)

It’s week­end alright!

I remem­ber once ask­ing a Ger­man exchange stu­dent group about this song if they had heard of it. Turned out they didn’t know any­thing about this even though I singed it aloud.

Werner Wichtigs Pump Ab Das Bier (“Tap beer!”) is a Ger­man cover of Tech­notron­ics ultra­fa­mous house­cut Pump Up The Jam. Werner Wichtig (Raimund Thiel­cke) actu­ally had brewer train­ing so it sounds nat­ural for him to sing “aua das schmeckt so gut”.

Inter­est­ingly the record came out as mini cd sin­gle. I guess it was quite new back then as the for­mat was released in 1988.

Pump Ab Das Bier (Dop­pel­bock Edit) (320)

“Noch ein bier!”