Single of the Day – Edwin Starr – Get Up Whirlpool
Wow! It’s the first SOTD of 2010! To mark such an extraordinary occasion, how about a mad track from Edwin Starr? Go on, you know you want to! Released in 1980, this superb track is a deliciously deranged whirlpool (chortle!) of soul and is an excellent off-kilter disco stomper. Hypnotic, [...]
Jimmy Jules – The New Year
Happy New Year everyone!! Hope you all had a fantastic year and let us all raise a glass to the new year. Yay! Anyway, kickstart the decade with a fantastic slice of funky soul, courtesy of Jimmy Jules. Taken from my favourite festive compilation of last year, Strut’s In The Christmas [...]
Single of the Day – Cloud One – Dust To Dust
I’m a bit ill today, so its going to be a quick one from disco lords Patrick Adams and Peter Brown. A sultry, sexy and slinky disco bomb, it’s effortless soul and funk grooves have inspired a whole raft of producers from Madlib to Kenny Carpenter. Anway, its making me [...]
Single of the Day – Byron – Too Much
Inspired by the wonderful weekend, I thought this little-known Balearic dazzler would capture all the sunshine and loveliness of the past few days. Or something like that. Most of you might remember this track being featured on the fantastic Claremont 56 compilation ‘Originals’ which was released earlier this year. With the [...]