Another year is coming to a close and we’ve taken the opportunity to put together a set of cocktail disco to ease you in to your year-end celebrations. We’ve had an amazing year, but we’ll save the recap for later. In the meantime, please enjoy the sounds and have a very happy New Year’s Eve!

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Mighty Pope “If You Want A Love Affair” (RCA)
J.R. Bailey “Just Me ‘N You” (MAM)
Tommy McGee “Come On” (Hotline)
Sam Waymon “Galaxy” (Paterson International)
Soiree “You Keep Me Hanging On” (Unison)
Kleeer “It’s Magic” (Atlantic)
Manny’s “I Love You So” (Ascot)
Ojeda Penn “Brotherson” (IFE)
Daniel Janin “Rolly Polly” (Les Treteaux)
Bobby Moore “(Call Me Your) Everything Man” (Scepter)
Oliver Sain “Cruisin On Sunset” (Vanessa)
R.B. Hudmon “This Could Be The Night” (Cotillion)
Bill Spoon “Love Is On The Way” (Hense Forth Music Co.)
Samuel Jonathan Johnson “Thank You Dear Mother” (CBS)
The Players Association “Everybody Dance” (Vanguard)
Ottawan “DISCO” (Carrere)
Phil Hurtt “Don’t Let This Moment Get Away” (Fantasy Records)
Aquarian Dream “Look Ahead” (Cotillion)
Norman Weeks & Revelation “Hold On” (A Gospel Company)
Jazz Fusion “12 Engle Street” (AVI Records)
Webster Lewis “Do It With Style” (Epic)
Judy Clayton “Love Is Gonna Find You” (Curb)
First Class “Candy” (Park-Way)
Billy Newton-Davis “Romance” (Rio Records)
Soul Train Gang “Soul Train “75″ (inst.)”
- “Glass Of Champagne” (De Wolfe)
Charlie’s Roots “Let Me Show You” (CLO)

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We’ve been so busy setting up and breaking down the nativity scene(s), plastic reindeer and miniature Christmas villages in the studio that we are only now getting around to putting up Sound Club’s set from the 16th of December. Matt Brownell and Daniel Gutiérrez collectively run as Sound Club, and after forging a partnership when hosting a radio program on Newtown Radio, they’ve since moved toward production work and gigging about town. We were fortunate to have them play for the full two and a half hours, with which they put together a really great set with a multitude of moods cultivated by the eclectic selections they picked out for the evening’s program. Look out for Sound Club at a Brooklyn venue near you!

Opening Chat

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Sound Club

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Quiet Village “Too High To Move” (-)
Dr. Buzzard’s Original Savannah Band “Hard Times” (RCA)
Ned Doheny “A Love Of Your Own” (Columbia)
Rita Lee “Caso Serio” (Som Livre)
Mark Almond “The City” (Horizon)
Supermax “Ain’t Gonna Feel” (Elektra)
Cliff Richard “Ease Along” (Rocket Record Company)
International Music System “Mojave” (Ims)
Womack & Womack “Life’s Just A Ballgame”
Ashford & Simpson “Don’t Cost You Nothing” (Wb)
Brass Construction “Now Is Tomorrow” (United Artists)
Konk “Elephant” (TW)
Boncana Maiga “Koyma Hondo” (Wea)
Donald Byrd “Change” (Blue Note)
Florum Purim & Airto “Jump” (Crossover)
Orchestra Jazira “Tobibi-Yay” (Black Market)
Basia “New Day For You” (Portrait)
Sade “Make Some Room” (Epic)
Angelique Kidjo “Batonga” (Great Jones)
The Maze “Twilight” (Capitol)
The Stupid Step “Don’t Be Cold (In The Summer of Love)” (Italian)
Thomas Dolby “Dissonance” (-)
Do Piano “Again (Remix)” (Record Shack)
Mathematiques Modernes “Jungle Hurt” (Celluloid)
Cerrone “Generique” (Malligator)

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Last week Sport Casual returned to the show for another guest set. It was great to have him back to share an eclectic mix of island soul, disco medleys, gospel and mid-eighties boogie. We traded off a few records for the second half of the night. He has a new night shaping up in Williamsburg, so keep an eye on Future Funk for updates along with a slew of fantastic mixes.

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Part 1: Sport Casual

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VIP Connection “West Coast Drive” (Morning Star)
Full Force “Grooving” (Dazz)
Lou Courtney “I’m In Need Of Love” (Epic)
Lowrell “You’re Playing Dirty” (AVI)
Herbie Hancock “Stars In Your Eyes” (Columbia)
(MC) Rock Lovely “One Time Two Time Blow Your Mind (inst.)” (La Shawn)
The Pied Piper Of Funkingham “Today Is The Day” (Chocolate Cholly’s)
Four Below Zero “My Baby’s Got ESP” (Roulette)
Demis Roussos “L.O.V.E.” (Mercury)
Jackie Mittoo “Clean Up The Arena” (TurnTable)
Joey Lewis Orchestra “Stepping Out” (Joevan)
Missy Dee & The Melody Crew “Miss Missy Dee (inst.)” (Numero)
Fabulous Three feat. Ramelzee “-” (Truth & Soul)
Krystal Hardwick “-” (-)
Mighty Clouds Of Love “Glow Love” (Myrrh)
Abiodun “She Got It Like That (inst.)” (Street Beat)
A Ron Harris Presentation “Never Gonna Give You Up” (Ronco)
Mr. K “Rock The House (Medley)” (T.D. Records Inc.)
Cook The Rice “Funky Congregation” (Headline)
Spooks in Space “The Amazing Adventures of Jungle Jenny” (Just Eyes & Teeth)
Rare Function “Disco Function” (Soul Unlimited)
- “Super Disco” (Statler)
Charles Pryor & The Power of Love “What They Doing (Funkie Junkie)” (Double 07)
The Almighty Sonic “Watergating At The Bus Stop” (Empire)
- “I Love Music” (Statler)

Part 2: Tackleberry

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Too Sweet “The Ballad of Joe Clark Education Will Save A Nation” (Solox)
Oliver Sain “-” (Vanessa)
Gregory Andre & Two Plus Three “I Want To Be With You” (Sea Side)
Pino D’Angio “Ma Quale Idea” (P.B.I.)
I Level “Give Me” (Epic)
Fresh Band “Come Back Lover” (Are N’ Be)
The Ramonas “I Don’t Want You Back” (Q)
The Dynamics “Upside Down” (WAD)

Sport Casual:

The Clark Sisters “Everything’s Gonna Be Alright” (SOG)
Teodo’r “Love Message” (Shatter)
Guy Fortune “Tell Me What To Do For You” (Ponchatoula Presentation)
The Word of Mazehe “Everybody What’s The Word” (SAKB)
Franklyn “Future Love” (Genora Records Inc.)

Tackleberry:

Grace Jones “Pull Up To The Bumper” (Island)
Slave “Watching You” (Cotillion)

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As we wind down 2011, we’re real excited to kick off December with a seasonal mix to welcome the holiday cheer. A full on Christmas mix for a specialty, all vinyl program is a tall order, and we surely couldn’t put something like this together on our own. Fortunately, at the suggestion of a few friends of the program we dialed up Ridgewood, QNS DJ MX Greens. We were told he’s THE Christmas DJ. Prior to this set I wasn’t really sure what that credential meant, as I hadn’t imagined the variety of tunes, stories and concept records that were put out in the larger ‘funk / soul’ continuum. Within his record collection, there’s an ever-expanding section of HOLIDAY FUNK LPs/45″s – partially built up by solo digs, but also as a result of any funky holiday records gravitating his way as friends pass along a record here or there, knowing that it’s getting cataloged in a deep repository of Christmas’ (funky) past. Below is the full 2.5 hr set, up nice and early for heightened, high quality Christmas cheer.

MX Greens will be starting up a new biweekly party with an esteemed roster of DJs, collectively billed as the Ridgewood Soul-cial Club starting on Monday the 12th at Tandem.

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James Brown “Hey America” (King)
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass “My Favorite Things” (A& M)
The Don Burrows Quintet “Jingle Bells” (Cherry Pie)
Electric Jungle “Funky Funky Christmas” (nike)
Otis Zee and the Sambuka Band “Funky Christmas” (Stem)
Funk Machine “Soul Santa Part 1″ (Creative Funk)
Akim and the Teddy Vann Production Company “Happy Kwanza” (Simtone)
The Chambers Brothers “Merry Christmas, Happy New Year” (Columbia)
Creeper “Santa Claus Wants Some Loving” (ABC)
Milly & Silly “Gettin Down for Xmas” (Right-On)
Crazy Emma “Let’s Get It Together For Christmas” (Scepter)
Paul Revere & The Raiders feat. Mark Lindsay “Rain, Sleet, Snow” (Columbia)
Raindeer Runners “Pull My Sled” (Soul Fire)
The Soul Saints Orch. “Santa’s Got A Bag Of Soul” (Jazzman)
Lefties Soul Connection “Back Door Santa (inst.)” (MPM)
Clarence Carter “Back Door Santa” (Atlantic)
Gary Walker “Santa’s Got A Brand New Bag” (Jin)
Johnny Acey with Esquires Ltd. “Christmas Keeps On Coming” (Smog City)
Universal Robot Band “Disco Christmas” (Red Greg)
Salsoul Orchestra “You’re All I Want For Christmas” (Salsoul)
Mirror Image “Silver Bells” (Pickwick)
Los Silverstone “Bomba Navidena” (Padisco)
El Gran Combo “Asalto Navideno” (gema)
Orcesta La Selecta “Candela” (Borinquen)
Hector, Yomo Y Daniel “En La Navidad” (Fania)
Johnny Albino Y Su Trio “Merry Xmas Boogaloo” (Starbright)
Bobby Cruz Orquesta En Navidad “Great God Almighty” (Fonseca)
Soulful Strings “Dance of The Sugarplum Fairy” (Cadet)
Lou Rawls “Christmas Will Really Be Christmas” (Capitol)
David Frost & Billy Taylor “Bright Star In The East” (Bell)
The Martinis “Holiday Cheer” (U.S.A.)
Lee Rogers “You Won’t Have To Wait Till Xmas” (D-Town)
Andre Williams & Nathaniel Mayer “Mr. Santa Clause (Bring Me My Baby)” (Munster)
James Brown “Santa Claus Goes Straight To The Ghetto” (King)
Stevie Wonder “Season’s Greetings from Motown Records” (Motown)
Carla Thomas “Gee Whiz, It’s Christmas” (Atco)
Honey and the Bees “Jing Jing A-Ling” (North Bay)
Betty Lloyd “Six Days Til Xmas” (BSC)
Otis Redding “Merry Christmas, Baby” (Atco)
Sharon Jones “Ain’t No Chimneys In The Projects” (Daptone)
Booker T. & The M.G.s “Winter Wonderland” (Stax)
Lloyd Glenn “Sleigh Ride” (Hollywood)
The Poets “Merry Christmas Baby” (Red Bird)
Nibbs “Spending Christmas Day With You” (Arc-Lark)
William Bell “Every Day Will Be Like A Holiday” (Atco)
The Playboys “The Night Before Christmas” (Legato)
James Brown “Santa Claus Is Definitely Here To Stay” (King)
The Emotions “What Do The Lonely Do On Christmas” (Volt)
The Soul Duo “Sad Christmas”

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We’ve been overdue for another Monk One set since having him on the show back in 2010. Last week he came back with his label mates from Names You Can Trust, Oneman and E’s E. Oneman started the night off with a nice synth heavy set of new and old tracks and was followed by E’s E with another eclectic bunch of selections that dipped into classic boogie territory. Monk closed things out with an all 45 set of classic disco and left us with a couple boogie tracks to cool off with. If you like what you heard, especially the Midnight Lab Band cut, be sure to check out their website for releases, mixes and shows. They’re part of a crew holding parties at Sycamore in Flatbush, BK, so there is always something to keep an eye out for. This weekend, Monk is playing in the Gowanus area in support of Dave Tompkins’ “How To Wreck A Nice Beach”. Details here.

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Part 1: Oneman

Krystal Klear “Dekyrptic” (All City)
Gary Low “I Want You (Inst.)” (Savoir Faire)
Jeremy Glenn “Overtime” (Future Classic)
Continent “Invitation To Love” (CFCF)
Ten Snake “Need Your Lovin (Dub Mix)” (Permenant Vacation)
Erik Artur “Redla” (Voltaire Records)
Don Blackman “Heart’s Desire” (Arista)
Midnight Lab Band “Don’s Demo” (NYCT)
Vaugh Mason & Crew “Roller Skate” (Brunswick)
Tom Noble “Accept The Truth” (Superior Elevation)
Asso “Don’t Stop”
SOS Band “The Finest” (Tabu)
Nancy Martin “Can’t Believe” (Dark Side of Disco)
Serious Intention “You Don’t Know (Special Mix)”

Part 2: E’s E

Lloyd Parks “Into The Night (Version)” (Music Works)
The Memory Of Justice Band “Give Me Love” (Platinum Express)
We The People Band “Shadow (Inst.)” (Parks)
Nino Tempo & 5th Ave. Sax “(Hooked On) Young Stuff” (A&M)
Lord Echo & His Melodies “Things I Like To Do” (Bastard Jazz)
Hi Tension “Hi Tension” (Island)
The Pearls Allstars “Groovy Rock” (Reality Hits)
Lenny White “My Turn To Love You” (Elektra)
- “Tied Up” (Truth In Light)
Curtis Hairston “I Want Your Lovin (Just A Little Bit)” (Pretty Pearl)
Delores “Karthala 72″ (Electric Cowbell)
The Rhythm Makers “Zone” (Vigor)
Alex & His Soul Messengers “Hail to Gyuana” (Alex)
Katraska “K A Num. 1″
Trinidad Troubadors with Tony Ricardo “Jadowah” (Charlie’s)
The Mighty-Kin Explosion “Dancin’ Music” (MKE)
Bunny Sigler “Theme from “Five Fingers Of Death” (Philly International)
Deodato “Whistle Bump” (WB)

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Bunny Sigler “My Music” (Philly International)
Ureaus “Let Our Music Make Love To You” (Mel-Mel)
Firebolts “Hum Along Song” (Greenback)
Carl Graves “Heart Be Still” (A&M)
Gladys Knight & The Pips “It’s A Better Than Good Time” (Buddah)
South Shore Commission “We’re On The Right Track” (Wand)
Hokis Pokis “Nowhere” (Shield)
Yambu “Sunny” (Montuno)
Love Unlimited Orchestra “Theme From King Kong (Part 2)” (20th Century)
MFSB “Let’s Clean Up The Ghetto” Philly International
Captain Sky “Moonchild” (AVI)
Jimmy Smith “Can’t Hide Love” (Mercury)
Spoon Mitchel & Vernon Davis “Come On Do It” (Sparkle City)
Lenny Randle & Ballplayers “I’m A Ballplayer” (Ballplayers)

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