Some more reg­gae. Has got synths (+ dub­step com­pat­i­ble tempo). Also, “Liv­ing On The Front Line” video below.

The Rah Band — Elec­tric Fling (320 kbps)

Fea­tured on the Slow Motion Disco vol.1, Elec­tric Fling was first released as 7″ in 1978. Behind the band was multi-instrumentalist / arranger Richard Hew­son who worked together with Her­bie Han­cock, Fleet­wood Mac, Diana Ross, Art Gar­funkel, Chris Rea and Al Stew­art to name a few. Some­what skweeeish track imho.

Btw. There’s an ongo­ing cam­paign at Funky Town Grooves. Head there for huge may sale and grab a few cd’s. These remas­tered albums are nor­mally quite pricey (13€ and more) so 3.49£ is a bargain.

Isaac Hayes Move­ment — Disco Con­nec­tion (320k)

I love me some authen­tic disco music. This is the dance­floor jam. Sorry for slightly bad qual­ity — it’s an album rip. The video is one of the best ones I’ve seen in a while even though it is most likely a set up situation.

This nice list of books related to disco/house/club/etc. music & cul­ture is strongly rec­om­mended — check it over at DJhistory.com — some of those are essen­tial reading.

Foxy — Get Off (320k)

Disco heat with “ua ua ua” vocal ad-libs in the spirit of Let’s All Chant. This is the album ver­sion of Get Off.

And while on the disco tip, do read this: The Lost Art of DJ RE-MIXING. Pretty nice piece of fic­tion with educa­tive motives. Though one could argue against some viewpoints.

The first actual post is about some rare finnish disco-rock cov­er­song called ‘Naisen Haluan’ (= I want a woman) by Jakke & Jokke.
I found this song cou­ple of years ago from the album ‘Hit­ti­paraati 10′ (1979) which is a com­pi­la­tion of finnish pop songs. This ‘Hit­ti­paraati 10′ was actu­ally in a sleeve of ‘The best of Italo-Disco vol. 10′ which I found from local second-hand shop.

The song sounds kind of like Prince and to be exact, his Jamie Starr pseu­do­nym in side­pro­ject called ‘The Time’.
Espe­cially the vocals but the rest of track is much more heav­ier with gui­tars and stuff. The elec­tric bass sounds good. It has a short synth­solo towards to the end but it leaves you demand­ing more of it.

Jakke & Jokke — Naisen Haluan 320 kb/sec

There aren’t much infor­ma­tion about the per­form­ers Jakke & Jokke. Jokke is a pseu­do­nym for Jorma Sep­pälä and he has arranged cou­ple of songs for euro­vi­sion con­test in 1985. It seems that they did not make it to the main con­test. It also appears that they have had some kind of con­nec­tion with Danny and Kirka. Jokke has com­posed few songs for Kirka and been also singing in the back­ground. They are musi­cians at the very least.

As I said at the begin­ning, ‘Naisen Haluan’ is actu­ally a cover of Supercharge’s ‘I can see right through you’ from the album ‘Bodyrhythm’ (Vir­gin 12118, 1979).

Super­charge is kind of British disco-rock band on Vir­gin label in late 1970’s led by Robert John “Mutt” Lange.

Super­charge — I Can See Right Through You (320kbps 16mb)

The orig­i­nal song is much longer clock­ing over 6 min­utes while the finnish cover is 3 min­utes. The lat­ter part of the song con­sists breaks and stuff, ready to be sam­pled and suit­able for doing remake or edit or what­ever. There exists 12″ and 7″ of ‘Naisen Haluan’ with cat­a­log# Polar­vox rps 130. If any­body has a spare copy, please send me e-mail. The Super­charge sin­gle is not that rare if you look into right places. But beware, some peo­ple ask over 50 pounds of it while oth­ers are sat­is­fied with 5.