Forgotten Treasures

I was going through a gigantic pile of 80’s records, filled with mostly awful records. My patience was finally rewarded with a couple nice discoveries including this 1985 Electro track from Miami on Palm Tree Records. The record opened with the  typical Electro drums featuring the Oberheim DMX drum machine you’ve heard …

Nu Colours was one of the premium R&B group coming from the UK back in the 90’s. Their vocal delivery was strongly influenced by the Gospel roots and they had that authentic American Soul feel to their music. On the House tip, they were always coming correct with remixes from …

via Juno: Once again, Music From Memory has dug deep for inspiration. Very few will have come across the original 1987 pressing of Ich Traume So Leise, a long-forgotten collaborative album that brought together trumpet player Heinz Becker, songwriter Karl-Heinz Stegmann, and poet Isabel Zeumer. Predictably, though, the tracks which …

via Favorite Recordings : “New official single reissue of I Love You by Karriem: A very rare soulful mid-tempo disco killer, originally released in 1979 on Pashlo Records. Pashlo Records was based in Oakland and owned by producer and musician Leroy Smith, who is also known for his Ocampo Records’ imprint, …

This Frankie Feliciano production is one of my absolute favourite jazzy House records. The spirit of the Jazz movement is totally intact here, which is a rare case in the dance music world where a sax loop is considered a jazzy thing. What we have here is a stunning fusion …

“Stay for the summer!”, they said. “It’s a completely different city when it’s hot!”, they said. I’m only just starting to understand what they were talking about. I arrived in Montreal last October and so far most of my experience of this great city has been steeped in icy slush …

I was introduced to this song a few months ago on a trip to my favorite records store. When the co-owner saw me grabbing that 12″, he looked at me dead in the eye and said “This is the best Larry Levan production ever made”. I wasn’t familiar with it …

“Journey Into Jazz” one my absolute all-time favorite UK Garage tracks was released in 1996 on the aptly-titled Underground Classics label. A track i’ve played so much over the years that my copy is beaten to death from all of dance floor ass kicking it’s served. Despite crafting one of …

The combination of a Jamaican sax player and an Indian jazz guitarist getting together with a UK jazz elite in its hay day could be the stoned out fantasy of many pot smoking vinyl collectors. It’s also a music and cultural melting pot making up a real lost treasure in …