Tracks

Mainstream Disco Funk gathers together twelve disco/funk tracks from between '74 and '76, a particularly fertile moment in R&B history as funk and soul artists, producers and musicians either adopted or adapted the disco innovations of labels like Philadelphia International Records. Most of the tunes contained here are located right in that disco-funk / funky-disco sweet spot, where intricate-yet-loose funk rhythms melded with cosmopolitan sweeping orchestration and the emergence of that insistent 4/4 disco pulse.

Close your eyes and you're there again: standing amid the broken toilets and dimebags on the tiles at whatever club was the hot place in 1996 but which you had a vague suspicion was no longer quite so hot in 1997.

Unpretentious, spacey, boogie-down disco jams from Artwork & Jon Solo's new More Amour project.

Sweat Equity's Daniel Creahan dons a mask as Alien D on an EP of rust belt techno tracks from Fixed Rhythms.

Nachtbraker's tracks are often a subtle hybrid of elements of deep house and classic Detroit techno with echoes of '90s Dutch house, all filtered through a highly detailed sound design process. So it is here with four tracks of futurist hybrid 4/4 on Capichone.

Another beautiful anonymous slab of wax from artists unknown to us just waiting to slip into your crate and intimidate all your other records with its fierceness.

Three weekend-long events for the Berlin event will follow a ten track compilation from some of the friends, family & honored guests from the label out June 23.

Another 12" deep house record that's all about the groove and how to cook with it from Chicago's Snad.

Harold Heath on the vinyl reissue of Pleasure's classic 1977 album Joyous, reissued on 180 gram vinyl from Craft Recordings.

Fred P "reshapes" this four track deep house groover on Mike Grant's legendary Moods & Grooves label.

Photonz drops an album of spares, rares and sketches as a yummy bandcamp only release for diggers and DJs seeking ultra deep cuts.

The surprise sleeper hit of an illustrious career - Alexander Robotnick was already working on video art, soundtracks and world music when it began to gain a cult audience - "Problemes" has been reissued many times but never quite like this.

DJ Deano DNA breaks a piece off his stash on "C'mon," a single from his prolific Bumpin' Underground

If Spotify were smart enough to have a whole radio station of tracks that sound like Janeret I'd fork over money to their algorithm like a drunk bachelorette tipping the DJ for playing "Call Me Maybe."

313 Business: For a certain type of DJ and digger a new record from Dez Andrés is a present for your birthday, whenever your birthday happens to fall. "Back In My Space" is Christmas and your birthday all in one.

This record is so good that record producers are going to hate Thierry Tomas and still make him a bit of coin when they buy two copies of it. Tomat is an album of jazz, funk, smoky lounge and hazy afterparty music, tied together under the theme of "rethinking the soundtracks of Soviet cinema and Polish jazz of the second half of the 20th century."

5 Mag is thrilled to share "Go On Do It" by Ilana Ariella & Shmoo, the debut release from a new Chicago indie label called Cheap Talk

Marina Trench's Sweet State label kicked off 2023 with a solid EP and this remix EP based on it, featuring Gerd Janson, Earl Jeffers and Tatyana Jane.

Groovin is responsible for some of Italy's best reissue records, often with a Chicago house focus. Timeless by Italian producer St. David is what it says: two tracks and two remixes that could have been lifted from a Strictly Jaz Unit EP because they sound that good.

If there was a Strictly Rhythm of UK Garage (nevermind Strictly's own pre-UKG and UKG-adjacent output), it was probably the UKG clearinghouse known as Locked On. You can play classic sets with nothing but Locked On releases, from Tuff Jam to Dem 2 to Danny J Lewis to Todd Edwards and of course Zed Bias' "Neighbourhood."