Hot on the heels of their space disco collection comes this equally spotless set of versions, edits and booties ranging from dub-style hip-hop to all-out trouser swinging Motown monsters. Highlights include beastie skanker "Dopesmokah", the doo-wap walloper "Say Some", the big band cosmic soul drama of "Dr Ray", the middle eastern mischief of "Ida Tharis" and the psychedelic hip-hop funk of "Bambuta".
KE 30 Mar 18 Breakbeat. Yakayaka - BPM. Listen 2 This - BPM. Blind Band - BPM. Moneybomb - BPM. Staying - BPM. Meters Disco - BPM. Lost - BPM. Jazzme - BPM. Vira - BPM. Vira instrumental - BPM. Just Crust - BPM. Caravan Boot - BPM. Review: Katakana follow up the rather tasty EP from Frey Bentos with this bountiful compendium of Timewrap's juiciest, most cosmic edits. Ranging from the surefire party belters such as the slick and sprightly twist on "Pick It Up" to the spaced-out take of double-D pop fave with "Girls On Drugs" via the sprightly island bliss of "Stayin" and the chugging, subtly-filthed, horn-melting "Lost", it's a sunset to sunrise session with every shade of star-lit groove your dancefloor can ever ask for.
Ready for takeoff? Hawwis - "Amiga" - BPM. He returns on the trusty Katakana Edits with more handy resplices of golden oldies for modern audiences, supported by Goji Berry and Hawwis here for the label's 58th edition. Bentos' "Magic Work" is a lo-slung affair with a rolling funk bassline and some shimmering synth work - it's an edit of something quite familiar you think - but then that vocal dops and it finally hits you!
Greece's Goji Berry delivers some smooth Italo styled business on "Mama" while Manchester's Hawwis serves up the sweltering Afro vibes and gets totally spiritual on "Amiga".
No More - BPM. Brother Man - BPM. Umba - 95 BPM. Review: Katakana Edits comes rolling through with its 57th edition, and they've scoped out a new artist by the name of Vagz. Yes, you're in for some supremely heartfelt funk.
Brother Man? Review: Oh dear, the Katakana edits are back once again, and that means pure and vibrant disco-house vibes for all shapes and sizes.
Fray Bentos returns in fine style with two cuts, starting with the bumpy, utterly groovy "Body Down", followed by the deeper, more majestic jazzy feel of "Night Giver" - oh, those strings! DJ Laurel's up next, bringing through some proper stylish funkiness with "Yes I Know", sampling the late, great Pino Daniele on the vocals, while "More Shame" goes for the tribal touch, pushing through some lovely horns and a magnificent sway of seductive trumpets for that sexy feel.
Yet more Katakana goodness! Timewrap - "Jazzme" - BPM. Morlack - "Train" - BPM. Review: This decidedly epic collection marks Katakana Edits's first foray into the compilation market and is designed as a "best-of" style outing. It boasts 30 reworks, mash-ups, remixes and re-edits gleamed from the prolific imprint's first 50 singles.
Naturally, club-ready material comes thick and fast, with a multitude of genres - think swamp funk, disco, dub disco, electrofunk, Italo-disco, hip-hop, reggae and dancehall - and wide variety of tempos represented. Naturally, some of the reworks tend towards the well known, though there are also plenty of rubs of lesser-known gems for those who want to dig deeper than familiar peak-time anthems.
Most importantly, the standard remains impressively high throughout. The latter's "Right On" is an undeniably sweet and soulful affair, with the producer underpinning slick '80s soul vocals and rising disco-funk horns with a low-slung, filter-heavy breakbeat groove. Although Little Prince's "Getting Down To Cuba" is an undeniably cheery peak-time affair - he adds a little house flavour to a Caribbean disco classic - the undoubted star of the show is Goji Berry.
Train - BPM. Played by: Smashed Atoms , Morlack. Review: Congratulations to the Katakana Edits crew, who have now reached a half century of releases. Next up you get served to some serious soul power on the wicked "There It Is". Played by: Downunder Disco. Review: Katakana Edits hail from Scituate, Rhode Island and are responsible for edits, re-edits, bootlegs and mash-ups only! Fair enough! The bulk of their new EP comes courtesy of Fray Bentos who is originally from the Midlands - where he cut his teeth blagging sets with the free party scene in the early 90's.
He then lived in London where he ran his own night Deep Fried for 15 years. There's some familiar hooks on these fine edits such as on "Hot 2 Trot" which is absolute fire. Their edit going for some smooth Curtis Mayfield styled flavour. Respectful edits on offer here. Hello Everybody - 53 BPM. Limbo Dance - BPM. No Somos - BPM. Played by: Spinforth. Review: This Ep is fun, zany and full of funky Latin flavours. Played by: Stephen Richards DiscoDaze.
Review: Congratulations to the Katakana Edits crew, who have now reached a half-century of releases. Their 50th EP of sneaky reworks boasts contributions not from familiar label favourites, but a couple of hitherto unseen debutants. SOKA takes top marks for opener "Happiness Dirty Dub Redaction ", a brilliant dub disco style revision of a cheery disco anthem full of echoing vocal snippets, loose-limbed drum fills and what sound like backwards guitar solos.
Soka's second contribution, "Baretta", sees the producer move further towards jazzy, funk-fuelled deep house territory via all manner of woodwind and brass solos, while Goji Berry's "Lay Me" is a sensual and eccentric chunk of slow motion disco sleaze.
Rocknrolla Soundsystem. Review: The 49th instalment of the Katakana Edits series is safely in the competent hands of Rocknrolla Soundsytem, and boy, it's joy to hear. The first of three bangers, "Crumbs Of The Table" is a choppy, organ-fuelled jam that actually explodes into a tight funk stomp with both fists flyin', next is "Give The People What They Want" and what they clearly want here, is souped-up socially conscience boogie and hurray for that!
Lastly "Morganton North Carolina" wraps things up with a 90s style percussive shuffle under and vintage slice of swaggering soul. KE 02 Jun 17 Funk. Mister Vagz. Stopper Wayz - BPM. Supernatural Soul - 95 BPM. Wondrous Regulate - BPM. Played by: Superbreak. Review: For the 48th instalment of the popular Katakana Edits series, the shadowy figures behind the rework stable have turned to Mister Vagz, a producer who has previously contributed to a couple of other label EPs.
Throw in the pitched-down soul meets classic hip-hop shuffle of "Supernatural Soul" and the heady soul breeziness of "Wondrous Regulate" and you've got a fine EP of grown-up mash-ups. In three words: mature party-starters.
Ring - 58 BPM. Up Down - 87 BPM. Played by: Trotter , Morlack. Review: If ever there was a resident curator of the esteemed nu-disco Katakana Edits series, it's the Go-Go hero Morlack.
Frankly, he's always at it. Here he's back for numero 47, this time rustling up three new cuts for our itchy disco feet. Next up, "Up Down" is a slow and groovy party breaks cover version of Diana Ross' perennial classic.
Last but not least is "Tell Me Something Good" which is relaxed and mellow reggae fun at its finest. Space Frequency - BPM. KE 25 Nov 16 Breakbeat. Totally Connected - BPM. High Time - BPM. Played by: Morlack. Review: Go-Go lovin' disco re-tweaker Morlack recently helmed the 41st instalment in Katakana's Edits series.
It clearly was a huge success because they've already invited him back to curate a second one! There are four tunes on this one, starting with a toughened up version of T-Connection's already tough 70s funk jam "Totally Connected", "FWM" is a spacier and breakier affair, "High Time" is accelerated lady funk of the electro kind and "Do It Fluid" wraps things up with a beautiful melange of boogie, breaks and soulful bellowing. Disco Funk Spinner.
Night Strangers - BPM. On Fire - BPM. Review: The honour of curating the 44th instalment of Katakana's Edits series has fallen on Disco Funk Spinner, a much respected re-edit guy whose work has appeared on the likes of Midnight Riot, Disco Fruit and Sound Exhibitions. Here though he only manages to provide two jams, but it's quality, not quantity, right? First up we get "Night Strangers" which takes loops from Candi Staton's Bee Gees cover Nights On Broadway and adds an accelerated disco house tempo and subtle but funky embellishments.
Hot stuff! Review: The thing about the Katakana Edits series is that, with each new release, sometimes it's a compilation, sometimes there's a solitary curator. Report this album or account. X by Inner Terrestrials. If you like Tarantism, you may also like:. Fantasmas by Zavala.
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