Bohan­non — Dance And Shout (320k)

Disco is what Hamil­ton F. Bohannon’s known for. That authen­tic 70s stuff. Some crazy Ger­mans have even named a club after him in Berlin. As of me — I’m hav­ing a lazy day. I am being a not-productive-member-of-society.

This piece by Hamil­ton offers a take on what sounds a bit like the jack­ing tracks of Chicago. Right now just fine for a moment of cof­fee and ran­dom thoughts: “Should I cut my long hair? Is this a good day for shop­ping? (YES IT IS, ALCOHOL TAXES WILL RISE TOMORROW IN FINLAND WHICH OF COURSE MEANS U NEEDS TO PAY MORE FOR BUYING E.G. BEER!) This track by Bohan­non would maybe need an edit to max out the hid­den Chicago trax house poten­tial in it.. Hmmm. Am I going out this week­end, and if so, am I going to drink alco or cof­fee — and should I also try to pick up on women? Why ain’t there any ‘sin­gles bars’ in Rovaniemi? Or is it that I just don’t know about those places? And defo ain’t gonna hear any house music if going out on week­end. Gutted”.

This one is from the LP titled ‘Pow­er­mix — Sum­mer­party’. One side has mixed ver­sions (sequenced, to be exact) of the tracks and the other has orig­i­nal ver­sions. What can I say about the track. Play this at some party and see how the crowd reacts. In Fin­land, most peo­ple won’t prob­a­bly even notice if they are drunk enough. It’s always nice to have pecu­liar ver­sions of well-known songs. Track #11 of Kyny­Nasty Vol. 1. Salutes to Dee­jays Jarkka and Samppa.

Land and Sea — Bil­lie Jean Rap (320)

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Mr Jack — Wig­gly World (Radio Boo­gie) (320k)

Never mind the overly used vocal sam­ple here which by the way still rocks in its orig­i­nal form. This fast tempo dis­coish house track slams, even though bor­der­ing on cheese. Mr Jack = Junior Jack ear­lier on in his career. Fri­day night, here I come!

On a some­how more seri­ous note here’s excel­lent mus­ings on music indus­try now­days — how all these “mod­ern tech­nol­ogy things” are affect­ing artists etc. Spo­tify, Youtube and “hype” men­tioned deya.

Greg Phillinganes is a top notch key­boardist and vocal­ist who has been touring/recording with Michael Jack­son and Ste­vie Won­der for instance. Only You is on the flip-side of Behind The Mask 12″. Behind The Mask is a song orig­i­nally by Yel­low Magic Orches­tra. Michael Jack­son did a ver­sion of it (with addi­tional lyrics) and it was sup­posed to be on Thriller, but it was ulti­mately left out. How­ever Greg asked if he could release his own ver­sion of it and so it happened.

Only You could be Bill Wither’s song. Why? Because it is co-written by the man. Like it. Track #10 of Kyny­Nasty Vol. 1.

Greg Phillinganes — Only You (320)

Mix of the Week #4
(Mix of the Week is our weekly sec­tion where we present good mix­tapes: either our own or found on the internets.)

Posten — Boo­gien­as­teee Mix (70,7Mb, 192kbps MP3, 51:30min) (2009)

This one’s from win­ter 2009. Mostly house in its var­i­ous forms. I remem­ber hav­ing an idea to make a mix­tape for pro­mot­ing and illus­trat­ing a bit the housier ends of our KynyNasty/BoogieNasty nights but don’t remem­ber if I did so… I mean the pro­mot­ing and such. Selec­tion was — sur­pris­ingly — based on what I was feel­ing at the time (still do, all of them). Some old and some new stuff, some more “organic”, some more syn­thy. Some syn­th­pop included also.