I-Level – Minefield

Kathy Buck – Don’t Beat Around The Bush (Frankie’s Cutting Around The Bush Re-Edit)

Cheri – So Sure

Oh man.

If this doesn’t get you excited for the weekend, then we might not be able to help you.

Breakbot ft Irfane – Baby I’m Yours

Winnie <3 U.

Sooooooooo the weekend’s almost here.

You can sit around in your undies, or get ready and go dancing. Or you can go dancing in your undies.

Either way, this little jam here is appropriate.

By now you’re familiar with A-Trak and AVH as Duck Sauce, right? Well, then you’ll recognize this… oh man is it ever good!

Final Edition – I Can Do It Any Way You Want

If you’re in Vancouver, dance along with the Winnie Cooper DJs at 37 West Hastings for NO MORE STRANGERS! Live guests this Saturday are CANARIES and COLOUR AND THE SHAPE, plus special guest DJ Brock To The Future!

Woooo sweaty. Play safe kids!

Basically a one-hit wonder, this track from Central Line never gets tired.

Originally released in 1981, the legendary Larry Levan also released his own version.

Can you guess who has sampled it? Too easy!

Central Line – Walking Into Sunshine

Oh yeah. Jeans.

Rene & Angela – I Love You More

(image via Winnie’s fave street style blog Dam Style)

Geeeez… was this the longest week ever or what!? Here’s your feel good Friday tune.

Patrice Rushen – Number One

Yes bartender, make mine a double.

Freddie Grace – Dog Eat Dog

Here’s some 80s disco synthy goodness from Sylvester… soooo ripe for sampling.

It’s not really a remix, but more of an extended intro edit. Check out the hilarious lasers at around 4:00. So spacey.

Sylvester – Do You Wanna Funk (Remix)

This is Matthew Wilder’s one solo hit.  He later went on to produce No Doubt’s, “Magic Kingdom” album.

Happy Friday!

Matthew Wilder – Break My Stride

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I knew nothing about this group when I found the record several years ago at some Value Village in the suburbs. I looked at the cover and immediately thought, “Whoa. It’s like a bohemian Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome. And High INERGY? Is that a typo? This MUST be sweet.” It cost me $1.

It turns out I’d end up finding a track that I would fully rinse the following year.

Then I forgot all about it until today when I was checking out some Debarge YouTube vid. It’s a tightly composed 80s disco funk track complete with farting synthy sounds.

High Inergy – He’s A Pretender

Check out the extra kicks at around 3:10!

Heads up: This is someone else’s slightly dodgy rip (there are some minor pops/clicks and the pitch flutters a bit). If you’re into a proper vinyl rip, let me know and I can get my ass in gear to finally do it… or if you’ve got a cleaner copy, please hit us back. Sharing is caring.

Of course you’re familiar with the ever popular Forget Me Nots and probably even Remind Me, both from the highly recommended 1982 album Straight From The Heart.

Besides being soooo heavily sampled, Patrice Rushen is also a classically trained pianist. The keys figure prominently in this amazing, lesser known track here:

Patrice Rushen – Haven’t You Heard (Larry Levan Edit)

The original by itself is so nice, there’s really no need to sample or tweak much… but the track might sound familiar. Woop woop!

George Duke – I Love You More

Skyy – Here’s To You

Kelis ft Andre 3000 – Millionaire

I think international trademark laws say that you can keep an artist or band name for up to 20 years (depending on when it was registered… it’s only 10 years if you registered the trademark later than 1989). Whatever, it’s complicated.

Kano is known for Italo talk box bangers while Kano, formerly of the N.A.S.T.Y. Crew, reps London town.

It’s not surprising that the first Kano is so heavily sampled. It’s all just brilliant stuff. I think the band had some sort of flux capacitor. Check out 1980s ‘I’m Ready’ and 1983s ‘Another Life’.

Kano – I’m Ready

Kano – Another Life

Kano the MC just released his third album since 2005 titled 140 Grime St (buy it HERE). The production on this single here sounds a bit Southern like T.I.‘s joints, no?

Kano – Hustler

ps. Yeah that’s an LP ghetto blaster… it can play either side of the record without having to flip it. So it plays upright and there are two tone arms built in to the thing. Wow.

I’ve seen DJ Mehdi do his thing a number of times. I gotta say, it’s always a good time. The dude always comes through with his best game and it’s quite the show that he puts on. Vancouver gets another chance to see the Ed Banger all star this week. I see you there, yes?

Dynasty – Strokin’

Summer’s over. It’s getting colder and I feel like having soup.

Who’s with me?

Chic – Soup For One