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The true definition of a "rare-groove", "Windy City Theme" is a triumphant, funky paean to the spiritual home of the Blues, Jazz and House music. Often closely guarded by the rare record cognoscenti this scarce 45 on the Chi Sounds label was originally released in 1976 and became a solid staple of London's underground rare-groove scene, finding favour with DJ's like Norman Jay and Giles Peterson with the track even appearing on their groundbreaking "Journeys By DJ" mix. B-side cut "Show Me The Way" is not to be overlooked either, a smooth, stepping soul number with lush orchestration and yearning vocals featuring the amazing arrangements of The Chi-Sound Orchestra, sounding like a beautiful cross between MFSB and Marvin Gaye. An utterly essential 45!

Italian House producer Nicholas is back on Home Taping after a string of releases on labels like 4Lux, Quintessentials, 20:20 Vision and Nu Groove.And it's straight back into business as usual on this release as he picks up where he left off with his best-selling Love Message and The Music Lives EPs and delivers 4 raw and tracky dance floor bombs that will keep your dance floor pumping.All the cuts sit perfectly on that line between House & Disco for maximum dance floor work.The Bonus Beats are back!

The mysterious Otherlover drops two love bombs on Disco Deviance. Blending ecstatic Disco dance floor grooves with raw boogie vibes, Otherlover proves again to be an elusive and yet rewarding partner on the dance floor. Limited edition and lovingly re-mastered. Enjoy the music!

First release from a new Disco Edits imprint. The A-side, is a rework of the Disco Soul classic "I Believe in Miracles". The vocals and strings are from the 1973 Mark Capanni original and the beat is from the Jackson Sisters version.The B-side is a beefed up edit of the Disco Ladies Disco/Northern Soul classic "Its Better Than Walking Out"

Aroop Roy returns to Basic Fingers with a second reworks release, this time all guns blazing.While the previous part focused more on disco and soul cuts, this one delivers three irresistible Afro-influenced house grooves. There's a reason why Gilles Peterson keeps playing Aroop on his radio show as soon as he gets his crate digging fingers on a new release.Um Trago on the B Side is definitely the fiercest offering here but don't miss out on the A-side with Ifa & Manuman. Both tracks are more than enough to get the juices flowing...

Essential vinyl repress of the STRUT classic Nigeria 70: Sweet Times.“A landmark collection that remains a compelling journey into a time and place: Nigeria in the 1970s, when American soul and funk (along with Anglo-American blues-rock and psychedelia) infected the roots of traditional and popular West African musical styles like highlife, juju, fuji, and apala.” Dusted magazine Strut announce a brand new repress of the third instalment in the pioneering ‘Nigeria 70’ compilation series, compiled by series curator Duncan Brooker. Excavating another choice batch of rare grooves from Nigeria’s label archives, the new edition places the spotlight on some of the deeper fusions happening across the country during the 1970s as traditional guitar highlife blended with jazz and funk, hypnotic juju grooves became more progressive and young Nigerian bands came through with their own heavy West African take on U.S. soul, funk, disco and rock. As within much of the ‘Nigeria 70’ album series, all of the featured selections are previously unissued outside of Nigeria. Tracks range from the dynamite big band workout of Alex Ringo’s Moneyman & The Super 5 International to the Congolese guitar-drenched ‘Henrietta’ by the late Ali Chukwumah, former member of Stephen Osita Osadebe’s Sound Makers. Darker psych grooves from Don Isaac Ezekiel sit alongside a languorous highlife jam by the legendary Victor Olaiya and juju legend Ebenezer Obey cooks up a lilting, deeply beautiful mid-tempo groove from 1970 in a musical plea for peace. ‘Nigeria 70: Sweet Times’ is another essential celebration of the glut of incredible music that surfaced in post-independence Nigeria. This is the third edition in the acclaimed ‘Nigeria 70’ series. The first volume, released in 2001, was the first compilation of its kind to explore in depth the myriad of funk and soul fusions emerging from Nigeria during the 1970s. Strut followed this with a second edition, ‘Nigeria 70: Lagos Jump’, in 2008. ‘Nigeria 70” Sweet Times’ is compiled by Duncan Brooker and features extensive sleeve notes by writer and broadcaster Max Reinhardt.Limited new re-press of classic highlife, juju and afrobeat collection, 500 copies onlyDefinitive format: 2LP set including CD version as bonusOne of the most influential of all recent African music series which helped spawn a new market for African rare groovesAlbum fully remastered for this reissue