July?! And it is almost September?! A bit late with these monthly updates due to busy summer. Time does really fly!

We had unforgettable gig at Pori Jazz, bar Barco. Very nice time at JAMit festival in Rauma. Not to forget numerous really nice late nights at Tempo Terrace.

I wanted to put up High5 episode filled with disco jams that made at least my summer, hope the same for many others as well. First tune is the original tune that have been sampled by Armand Van Helden & A-Trak to their huge hit ‘Anyway‘. Second track is huge disco hit from Frantique, Philadelphia based disco group. Three last tunes are legendary Philadelphia disco. I will write Dance Classics blog post later on about Philadelphia disco to open it up a bit more.

Also soon to follow also one month behind: August High5 with special guest starring with some rare stuff! ‘Anyways’…! Lets get this disco started!

Rest of the photos as a slideshow HERE!
‎Pictures (c) Samu Hintsa

Pick up the fresh out of the Off the Hook fridge yo!

Azari & III – Reckless With Your Love (Tensnake Remix)
Chromeo – Don’t Turn The Lights On (Aeroplane Remix)
Breakbot & Irfane – Baby I’m Yours
Lorenz Rhode – Drop The P
Chemical Brothers – Swoon (Lindstrom and Prins Thomas Remix)
Count & Sinden feat. Mystery Jets – After Dark
Zarif – Let Me Back (Sticky Remix)
Kastle – Better Off Alone (Willy Joy Remix)
Dennis Ferrer vs. Butch – Hey Hey (Nunzi’s Disco Booty)
Eli Escobar – Love Thing Part 2 – DJ Mehdi Remix
Kasore – Bunnies (Helsinki 78-82 Remix)
SL2 – Dj’s Take Control
Outlander – Vamp (Prins Thomas Diskomix)
M.I.A. – XXXO (Riton ReRub)

Here are the top tracks the Plauge Boyz have been feelin’ lately.

Blu Mar Ten – Natural History Remixes Part 1 – ‘Overwhelm’ (Seba remix)
YouTube

Pariah – Orpheus
YouTube

Spoek Mathambo – Mshini Wam (Canblaster remix)
SoundCloud

Leftfield – Open Up
Beatport / YouTube

50 Cent – Many men (Chilly Gonzalez Piano Remix)
YouTube

The Jacksons – Living Together
YouTube

Dam Funk – A Day At The Carnival
Soundcloud

Teflon Brothers – Skippaa Duunit
YouTube

Moonbeam – Slow Heart (Somfay ‘In Absentia’ Remix)
Soundcloud

Alex Q – All Our Summer Songs
YouTube

Mr. Vengeance – Mongrel Discipline
Bandcamp

Last night I had the opportunity to play a breaks set, something which I haven’t done in ages. Most of the tunes are quite old since there’s really not much going on with this style these days – it’s all dubstep or drum’n'bass now. I wanted to include as much subgenres as possible, because the whole sound is really versatile. You can hear oldskool, nu skool, funky and wobbley stuff all mixed up in this live recording from the Steps -club. 501 from Helsinki was also appearing behind the decks, so I decided to end my set in dubstep.

Tracks:

1. Stanton Warriors – Da Virus (Latin 2step Mix)
2. Plump DJs – The Funk Hits The Fan
3. 2 Bad Mice – 2 Bad Mice
4. Scientist – Excorsist
5. Caspar Pound – Pioneers Of The Warped Groove (Way Out West Remix)
6. Roni Size/Reprazent – Share The Fall (Way Out West Remix)
7. Métisse – Sousounde (B.L.I.M. & FreQ Nasty Mix)
8. Terminalhead – Coma Nova
9. Santa Fe – De Music
10. Muse – Sunburn (Timo Maas Breaks Again)
11. Chemical Brothers – Base 6
12. Elektronauts – The Bumper (Plump DJs Vocal Mix)
13. Dub Syndicate Incorporated – Da Vybe
14. Santos – U Make Me Rock (Da Luz Mix)
15. Moby – Bodyrock (Hybrid’s Bodyshock Remix)
16. Agent K – Sweet Sweet Love
17. DJ Icey – Model Test
18. Takomo – Tunne
19. D-Ranged – Assembled (Wavewhore Mix)
20. Entity – Step Up (DJ Quest Remix)
21. Way Out West – Domination (Bonkers Breakbeat Mix)
22. Infekto – Bystander
23. Baby D – Let Me Be Your Fantasy
24. Thursday Club – Thunderdome
25. Minuit – I Hate Guns
26. Affinity – The Andromeda Strain (VIP Mix)
27. Headphonics – Protect (LBJ Remix)
28. The Count & Sinden – Strange Things (R1 Ryders Funkitek Refix)

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TRACKLIST:

01. Spectrasoul feat. dBridge – Glimpse [Shogun]
02. Total Science feat. Riya – Redlines [Critical]
03. Lenzman feat. Riya – Open Page [Metalheadz]
04. Friction & K-Tee – Overtime (Spectrasoul Remix) [Shogun]
05. Phil Tangent – Billie’s Smile [Soul:R]
06. Blu Mar Ten – Overwhelm (Seba Remix) [Blu Mar Ten]
07. Lynx & Kemo – Keep It Low [Detail]
08. Rockwell – My War [Shogun]
09. Total Science & S.P.Y – Legion [Metalheadz]
10. Phace – Strange Science [Shogun]
11. Ed Rush & Optical – Kerbkrawler [Virus]
12. Netsky feat. MC Darrison – Escape [Hospital]
13. Rollz – Plugged In [Formation]
-TEASER- D Product feat. Hollie G – Tell Me How [Liquid V]
14. Camo & Krooked – Climax [Hospital]
15. Culture Shock – Bad Red [Ram]
-TEASER- Influx Datum – Back For More [Formation]
16. Drumsound & Simon ‘Bassline’ Smith – Freestyle Mambo [V]
17. J Majik & Wickaman – Mosquito [Mosquito]
18. Ed Rush & Optical – Get Ill (Prolix Remix) [Virus]
19. Davip & Encode – Vamonos [Breed 12 Inches]
20. Underworld – Scribble (Album Version) [OM]

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KEHTOblaster Sessions Vol 8 – Wispy by KEHTO Magazine

What could be better act to end the summer season than Helsinki 78-82? Off The Hook is proud to have Flipperi and Koobra to play a dj gig at Yo-talo end of August. Big city house music of theirs just sounds like sweet sweet summer memories. When Flipperi played at the very first Off The Hook on spring 2008, I first heard some demo track of theirs. Since then tried to get my hands on their material. When the EP “Helsinki 78-82″ got out almost two years later, it really sounded like it was really done with consideration. That’s a quality contemporary club music seldom has. The EP really sounds like it could’ve been released on Kris Menace’s “Work It Baby” label, but I guess it became that good they wanted to keep it on their own label, Top Billin (and with that make a step forward for the label’s sound as well…). Good choice! The 2-track EP includes another Finnish comet of last year, Villa Nah on vocals on “So Lifelike”, and a post-summer nostalgic video track “Cruising”. Not more or less, these are two tracks that will last longer than half a month! That’s why this blog post and the upcoming party is still very topical.

HELSINKI 78-82 – CRUISING from Top Billin on Vimeo.

Latest tracks by Helsinki 78-82

Check out also HKI 78-82′s great remixes and Koobra’s solo EP on Top Billin.

Tom Moulton. Who’s he? Well, he is the man. He is the father of remixing. He is the one who invented ‘accidentally’ disco break and 12″ maxi single format. He is behind thousands and thousands of disco remixes.

“I never made a dance record, I made records you can dance to.” – Tom Moulton

[1]‘And of course all the songs were 3 minutes long and I went; ‘It’s a shame because the minute the song is over they start mixing in this other song and they don’t know whether they should dance to the new song or keep dancing to the old one.’ And then people would just walk off the floor. That’s when everybody would change and you could see that they were trying to get more intense and more involvement. I said; ‘There’s got to be a way to make it longer where you don’t loose that feeling. Where you can take them to another level.’ And that’s when I came up with this idea to make a tape… So that’s what I did.’

All started back in late 60′s with self made overlapping tapes for a local bar (Sandpiper). After a while people went crazy for Tom’s tapes at the club. Funny fact is that Tom never spun the black discs, so someone had to act dj while he’s tape was rolling.

How 12″ single was born? After two seasons of making tapes for Sandpiper club Tom started to cut own records for dj’s. Early 70′s on one Friday he went to Media Sound where he used to master his records and cut to 7″. Place owner Dominic was going away that day and didn’t have time to do the job. So Tom asks how about Dominic’s assistant (the Puerto Rican sweeper José) to do the job for him. So they started to work on new Trammps tune and that worked out really well. So well that José ended up to master all of Tom’s records later on. One day when Tom went to master Al Downing – I’ll be holding you (orginal track on youtube) with José. The thing was that the studio was out of 7″ acetates and Tom was really eager to get the record. Only way to go was to cut it on 10″. The difference on cutting one track on 7″ and 10″ is that 10″ has more space, so they made the grooves on the vinyl spread. This forced them to cut it louder and sounding way better. Next track was on 12″ and it was Moment of Truth – So Much for Love. Era of disco 12″ had begun.

Tom’s first 12″ promo was South Shore Commission – Free Man and first 12″ commercial release was Double Exposure – Ten Percent.

How did the disco ‘Break’ got invented? Tom got hands on Don Downing – Dream World.

[1]“I got a record for Scepter Records, it was called ‘Dream world’ by Don Downing. That was the very first record I ever went into mix. It immaculated! [Immaculation is when the key goes up.]
Alright, so in the second part of the record, towards the end of the record it immaculated to another key. So what happened is I went to make a long version of it and of course I want to get back to the beginning of the song and of course the key drops down. And I went; ‘Oh, this is horrible! So what am I gonna do?’ I said; ‘Like I feel that I can do, is take out everything that’s musical.’ So that how it went into a drum break. Then, I would start putting in percussion back in, then I would bring the bass. So in the long version the song actually sounds like it’s immaculate twice, but it only does once. But that’s how it was created.
People said; ‘Oh, How did you do that?’ And they should go on; ‘You’re so great, it really takes a genius to create something like that!’ I said; ‘No it doesn’t! – This was just the way out of the situation.’”

“It’s just something that was created by accident – Totally by accident.”

So this is how things got started. Busiest years were during 1974 to 1977. So if you think of disco classic, most probably there is a Tom Moulton Mix of the track. Google, check youtube!

I’ll list some of my favorites:

BT Express – Peace Pipe

Patti Jo – Make Me Believe in You

Andrea True Connection – More, More, More

Camouflage – You’ve Got the Power

Just scratched the surfafce, there’s plenty of good interviews about Tom. I recommending to check this radio interview by Jarrell Mason on youtube: part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5. Also text above marked with [1] was borrowed from disco-disco.com interview I truly recommend checking it out! The interview is: HERE!

Check slideshow from HERE!