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Music from a summer evening back in February at Hope St on a Friday. Vinyl selection. The Audrey Powne remixes blow my mind. She’s from Melbourne dontcha know. Something about the Aretha ‘club mix’ from 1985 keeps me going back to it. Even in public.

The Los Hermanos Detroit record is just incredible.

I’ve been buying lots of the slow acid house 12’s from back in the day, like Raze ‘Break 4 Love’, the radio vocals mix, included here; also things like ‘Alright’ by Urban Soul (not the Sasha mix, too fast) and ‘Let The Music Use You’, the Shoom tune by The Night Writers, aka Frankie Knuckles.

The image below is Paulinho Da Costa, the cover of his record ‘Agora.’ Brazilian percussion and chanting. Later, he played on ‘Off The Wall’ and ‘Thriller.’ A friend bought ‘Agora’ for me one day at The Searchers. It wasn’t even my birthday! Good name for a drummer, or a footballer. There’s a tracklist below too, for the NERDS. As is customary I don’t really like it anymore, or any of the tunes.

Enjoy.

audrey powne ‘souled out’ (joaquin’s sacred rhythm version) 2024

otis gayle ‘i’ll be around’ 1972

sass ‘i only wanted to love you’ 1976

ramsey lewis ‘love theme from a star is born (evergreen)’ 1977

paulinho da costa ‘terra’ 1977

fela kuti ’shakara’ 1972

charley kingston ‘born in africa’ 1982

the commodores ‘funny feelings’ 1977

rodney franklin ‘the groove’ 1980

los hermanos detroit ‘far beyond sight’ (full mix) 2024

raze ‘break 4 love’ (radio vocals) 1988

silvetti ‘spring rain’ 1977

don carlos ‘alone’ (sax ambient mix) 1991

j majik ‘mermaids’ 1997

d’monk ‘shine’ 2024

projections ‘kingsburg (re-edit) 2001

soul electric ‘what’s that you do’ (fink’s fusion vocal mix) 2001

alex reece ‘feel the sunshine’ 1995

ski ‘ain’t gonna justify’ (a short trip to space mix) 1994

aretha franklin ‘who’s zoomin who’ (club mix) 1985

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