Orig­i­nal is too short. Here’s a nice edit.

Get this, Rayko has 71 edits in his Sound­Cloud page. One might argue about whether all of them are nec­es­sary. I’ll say that not every one of them is needed but most of them are use­ful for dj sets. Releas­ing them on vinyl is a whole another matter…

Russ Bal­lard — voices (rayko edit) by Rayko

Two tracks by Russ Bal­lard became instant favorites for me when I was watch­ing Miami Vice re-runs a year ago: Voices and In The Night. Can’t beat the 80s mon­tages.

Noticed that they are soon releas­ing a vinyl ver­sion of this mag­nif­i­cent remake of a for­got­ten chicago-house track.

Orig­i­nal sam­ples vocals from philly soul/disco-band First Choice’s “Love and Hap­pi­ness” (1973).  There are some spec­u­la­tions (as in many cases :)), who orig­i­nally made the chicago-house ver­sion. Ron Hardy used to play a lo-fi boot­leg ver­sion of this on his dj-sets and is usu­ally cred­ited as the “cre­ator” of the track, but there are also rumours that Larry Heard and Robert Owens were the ones that actu­ally made a demo ver­sion of the track, that was only played by Hardy and was never offi­cially released. Well, who knows.. William Stover and Lidell Townsell made also an edit of it in (1987), but they did’nt use First Choice:s vocals.

The man behind this remake is dutch elec­tro­pi­oneer Danny Wolfers (aka.Legowelt, Polar­ius, Squan­dra Blanco and so on…), with his new House Of Jezebel alias. Like the orig­i­nal, it’s based on a vocal sam­ple of First Choice, deep lay­ered strings and hyp­notic TR 707–drum­ma­chine beats.

First Choice’s song is sam­pled in many other releases (for exam­ple by Dj Pierre), but I think this is the best one so far!

Some sound­cloud favorites of lately. All avail­able for download.

Christo­pher Cross– Ride Like The Wind (SMQEdit) by SleazyM­c­Queen

Idris Muham­mad — Could Heaven Ever Be Like This (Left­side Wob­ble Edit) by Left­side Wobble

Car­men — Time to move (Rayko edit) by Rayko

Out Of Touch (Matty C 2010 edit) by DJ_Matty_C

Oh yeah and I’m play­ing records tonight at Bar Om’pu. Come and feel the groove!

Hey now it’s week­end! Finnish pop rock group inna funky mood. Grab a nice re-edit by Turku boys, Disco WTF while you’re at it.

Viikon­loppu by Disko WTF?!

Jeah.