Track #4 of the Kyny­Nasty Vol. 1  is the b-side of Find The Time 12″/7″ and what an awe­some track it is! Per­haps my favorite find this year (the 7″ was just sit­ting there on my shelf, wait­ing to be founded).

Five star were a group of five sib­lings with their father as their man­ager. Their fame peaked in 1986 as Find The Time was released.

The lead track is pure 80s pop/r&b but Sky is pure 80s electro/synth-pop in the like­ness of Paul Hardcastle’s pro­duc­tion. Seri­ously, I’m out of words on this one. Hid­den gem.

Five Star — Sky (320)

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Bergen­line Locos: House Freaks! (Tahit­ian Mix) (1989)

Famous finnish record shop Life­saver is clos­ing down by the end of sep­tem­ber. Makes me feel sad. It was pretty much only seri­ous record shop in Fin­land for some of that funk, disco, rap, house, and basicly any club/dance music genre besides trance and that kinda stuff. Espe­cially the sec­ond hand sec­tion was full of trea­sures. Might have some­thing to do with the fact that some of the guys behind counter were crate dig­ging all over the world and bring­ing lots of stuff back home to be sold at the shop. AND SO DID IT HAPPEN THAT THIS WAS JUST TEMPORARILY SO. NEW OWNERS OF THE SHOP CONTINUE. LONG LIVE THE LIFESAVER!

This house track here was found amongst 2nd hand stuff from Life­saver. Pro­vided by Met­ro­pol­i­tan Record­ing Cor­po­ra­tion whose 12″ records seem to have “spo­ken word” tracks on em: inter­views with pro­duc­ers, adver­tis­ing future releases and giv­ing previews/pre-listens of upcom­ing tracks + giv­ing shout outs to peo­ple. Wicked! Wicked! Won­der if that has been com­mon thing to do?

Hello! I am expand­ing my mind as we speak. I’ve now set­tled in to my new apart­ment in Has­selt, Bel­gium where I’m going to live for the next 4–6 months. Any­ways I’m off to Ams­ter­dam tomor­row. Hope­fully (def­i­nitely) some record dig­ging at local flea mar­kets and second-hand stores and maybe some local “deli” too. I’ll try to post the rest of the mix at least track per every sec­ond day.

Track #3 off the Kyny­Nasty Vol. 1. Expan­sions ’86 is a col­lab­o­ra­tion of David Joseph and Chris Paul. DJ Chris Paul is man of many aliases and roles (DJ, Pro­ducer, Remixer, Pro­moter, Writer, Com­poser, pro piano player, sax player). Expe­ri­enced pro­fes­sional indeed but I think his web­site is still liv­ing in the past. Maybe not a clas­sic like You Can’t Hide Your Love (which Ian Poo­ley turned into deep house jam, nice) but still good.

Chris Paul Fea­tur­ing The Voice Of David Joseph — Expan­sions ’86 (Expand Your Mind) (320)

The co-founding mem­ber and bassist of Chic recorded one album under his own name. While the title track is not nearly as good as Your Love Is Good To Me, it still man­ages to amuse with vocoder and funky groove. Good track to start a set with. What it would need is more LINN DRUM! Track #2 of Kyny­Nasty Vol. 1.

Bernard Edwards — Glad To Be Here (320k)

Track #1 of the Kyny­Nasty vol. 1 mix­tape. Per­haps my sec­ond favorite song by Orlando John­son just after Fan­ta­size. Too bad I did’t mix the (Remixed Scratch Ver­sion). Very funny and enjoy­able scratches indeed but this is the orig­i­nal cut from the album Turn The Music On. Very nice laid­back italo­boo­gie groove!

Orlando John­son — Choco­late City (320k)