Wiki and the Wikings

The Peech Boys, also known as the New York Citi Peech Boys or NYC Peech Boys, was a band that comprised of Bernard Fowler, Steven Brown, Robert Kasper, Darryl Short, Larry Levan and Michael de Benedictus. The group formed at the Paradise Garage, being influenced by Larry Levan. They only released 4 12"s with On a Journey peaking at 56 in the 1983 R & B Billboard chart. However, they are most known for their 1982 song Don't Make Me Wait which was one of the early hits in the New York house/garage scene, due to Larry Levan's playing of it at the Paradise Garage. They were signed to the West End Label and split up in 1983.



Peech Boys - Don't Make Me Wait 1982

Fix and Foxy

Dear Reader,

all apologies for my bad behaviour in the last month. I wont even start with excuses and leave you with a disco classic anyone should be happy to know.

Yours sincerely

TheChosenSperm

Foxy - Get Off 1978

The Voice From Above

Not long to go until christmas I felt like sharing a close friendship without any kind of possession until this day. Wanting to write some info on it I stumbled on a 12" release of this and one of my recent posts put together on one record. For sure being a sign of trying to get me up from winter sleeping and fill the lack of continuity in this blog. Also very interesting as I loved both - so different songs equally throughout time never had them face to face in my felt-order for someone else having it too.

Electra feat. Tara Butler - Feels Good

Tee Scott

DJ Tee Scott had been a role model troughout the seventies to all those stars with names everybody still knows about: Larry Levan, Frankie Knuckles or Ron Hardy and the legendary clubs like The Garage (NY), The Warehouse (Chicago/NY) and The Music Box (Chicago) sure based their success on grounds prepared by the likes of Tee Scott.
After a while behind the decks he turned towards studio work to become a renowned Mixer on only a few, but therefore cutting-edge productions. This one was produced by Arthur Baker and friends and also Michael Jonzun.
A kind of 303 Acid bassline before Arthur's characteristical guitar harmonies and a super light disco groove and a xylophone - just the way I like it


Northend - Happy Days (Tee Scott Club Mix)

Logg (Leroy Burgess)

------------------------------------------------ (not Leroy Burgess)

THE Man from Harlem who brought us so many memorable moments as a producer, arranger and singer. After a few albums with his first and rather slow and souly project Black Ivory thorughout the 70s Leroy turned towards the groove to become one of the most influential producers in early dance music. Choosing differnet names for his studio bands he brought us hits like Convertion - Sweet Thing and Phreek - Weekend (which should later be remixed by Bob Blank & also Larry Levan, then called Class Action to reach even greater hights) etc.
Not to forget that he was just as successful as a lead singer for the fantastic Aleems on bombs like Release Yourself and until this day involved in numerous productions with even more pseudonyms in just as many styles of music.
Another just studio working project from the disco era was Logg who had another hit called You Got That Something.


LOGG - I KNOW YOU WILL (LARRY LEVAN 12" MIX)

People's Choice - We Got The Rhythm 1976

"Cold Blooded & Down Right Funky" is a fairly underated Philly-Funk Dancefloorweapon. Great 1/16th cowbell give it that bounce that even electric guitars cannot destroy. Their previous album "Boogie Down USA" from 1975 already had a great mix of philly soul pieces and these highly dance infective Uptempo Funk cuts like "Do It Anyway You Wanna".
Just thinking if I should take "Here We Go Again" from the 2nd album aswell - feel happy if I did so=essentials (Sorry I am ill)
P.`s Ch. - Cold Blooded & Down Right Funky
P.`s Ch. - Here We Go Again

Hamilton Bohannon - Lets Start II Dance Again 1981

At a time when disco already had a tough time facing new sounds and easier rythm structures coming over from Europe that would change the face of Dance Music, Bohannon still was releasing records in a classic disco manner. And he had always been one of the best doing it. Heavy Rhythms, funky shuffle stuff, an amazing talent to pick unique vocalists and his Motown trained arranging skills make his records always interesting and still very dancable. This song was if I am right his most successful one but it was also released in several different versions always with Caroline Crawford`s outstanding vocals - one I had once stolen from me in Praha was a fantastic kind of remix- or semidub- version which didn`t in fact have Dr. Perri Johnson raps but with a stronger emphasis of the clavinet chords, lovely. PLEASE RETURN TO ME

Bombers - (Everybody) Get Dancing 1979

Bombers were one of the many successful canadian disco groups in the late seventies. They released two albums on Westend Records called "Bombers" in 1978 and "Bombers 2" the following year. Even though I prefer their first one because it was far more on the spacey side, I picked their most succesful "(Everybody) Get Dancing" from the also on 2x 12 inch released second album. Prelude had invented this kind of releasing strategy for DJ use which made sales increase immensly. Bombers 2 stayed the bands last release and also the frontsingers Tamara Lorincz and Mack "BC" Jones last conjoint.

Mike Theodore Orchestra - Cosmic Wind 1977

This is Mike Theodore`s first solo achievement after he had been working together with the also very famous Dennis Coffey on numerous Hit records under the name of Dennis Coffey & The Detroit Guitar Band. Both originated from Detroit, Michigan where Dennis was highly credited in the late 60s and early 70s as a guitarist for illustrious Motown figures like Marvin Gaye and Martha Reeves. Mike instead was far more renowned for his producing, arranging and mixing skills so it was not surprising he quickly became an important character in the newly evolving field of disco which was to become the first mainly producer driven type of music. In the year 1977 Mike Theodore was the producer of two of my alltime favourite records that combine disco and Detroit Soul: C.J. & Co. - Devil's Gun and the now here featured Mike Theodore Orchetstra - Cosmic Wind which were both released on Westbound Records (The Label with the truck) and as one can hear mixed by Tom Moulton. These two records mark the start of success for Westbound as Mike was featured the following year on top selling artists like Fantastic Four, King Errisson and the Detroit Emeralds.


Mike Theodore Orchestra - Moon Track
Mike Theodore Orchestra - The Bull

Laurin Rinder & W. Michael Lewis

The biographies of these two exceptionally talented musicians, producers, songwriters, stylecreators etc. from california who have been reinventing themselves more than once in their long carrier are great statements for peoples dedication to music. They had been taking part in numerous professional productions and projects from early childhood and had both sucess and being participants in making music history in very different styles even before they met. This is an appreciation for the time they worked together producing disco with an ouput forcing them to create aliases like El Coco and Le Pamplemousse before acclaiming under their real names. These two tracks show the variety in which they even managed to play disco in.
`One of them SuperGroups`

Rinder & Lewis - Gluttony 1978
Le Pamplemousse - Love Every Minute 1980

Paul Hardcastle - You Are The One For Me 1984

Paul Hardcastle`s most famous song which brought him acclaim and chart success was of course `19` where he mixed samples from a television documentary about vietnam veterans who suffered from psychosomatic disorders. That song wasn`t supposed to be released he just put it together to convince his record company to let him record and mix at his home studio.
You`re the one for me was a cover originally by D-Train combined with two of his own compositions (Daybreak and A.M.) sung by Kevin Henry.

Connie Case - Get Down 1982

An absolute classic early eighties disco track straight from my party bag into your arms. Extremly cool

Carol Kenyon - Dance With Me 1984

Carol Kenyon has been working on numerous productions as a lead and
backround singer in her still ongoing career. Some of which were Heaven 17,
Vangelis/Demis Roussos, Paul Hardcastle and Mike Oldfield.
At the moment she is touring with Roger Waters on his Dark Side of the moon tour.
This one is produced by Stephen Lipson. I like that it takes quite some in the song for the vocals to set in.

Divine - Shake It Up 1983

The Pet Shop Boys and I got one thing in common - exclusively one thing. We admire the exceptionial productions of Bobby Orlando. You might disagree but "West End Girls" is in in my book the only piece of music these two Brits ever were involved in and it was off course produced by Bobby O.
Divine`s shake it up is not my favourite Orlando production but it shows how visionary this man was in terms of combining a show momentum with his gayish disco hits - ironically he was greatly homophobic.
Born as Harris Glenn Milstead Divine was a famous transvestide starring as an actor in movies like Pink Flamingos where the name Divine was first used.
More Orlando stuff here on chosensperms in the near future for now this track
+ an appearance in Tony Wilsons Hacienda/Manchester who unfortunately passed away just a few weeks ago
+ a tribute to this special man and his vision of a club

RIP Anthony Howard Wilson 20 February 1950 – 10 August 2007

Azymuth - Jazz Carnival 1979

Sorry for the short gap, but it was quite busy and my girlfriends birthday on tuesday. Back to normality.

This brazilian Band started their career in the early seventies under the name Grupo Seleção with a tribute album
for their fellow citizen and famous formula One race driver Emerson Fittipaldi.
This LP contained the song Jazz Carnival which was later released as a twelve inch on
milestone records. Its an instrumental disco/jazz piece that can easily be played on 33 R.P.M to be
included into your dj-set, with then still 117bpm it will more easily reach a consensus of your crowd.
Oh your ipod cant`t define that kind of speed - I dropped you both tempi.

Azymuth - Jazz Carnival 45rpm
Azymuth - Jazz Carnival 33rpm

Company B - Fascinated (Spellbound Mix) 1987

Written and produced by Ish Ledesma former Foxy band member this is Company B`s No.1 Dance Hit.
The three Girls used to stage wearing white wings like the great Who Made Who doing it nowadays.
No doubt a timeless Dance classic.

The Glass Family - Mr. DJ, You Know How To Make Me Dance 1978

JDC Records Owner Jim Callon Founded The Glass Family as a studio project wanting to make a disco album.
It was also co-written and produced by him and he managed to get Taka Boom (the famous Chaka Khan`s little sister) for lead vocals on this track, which should became their only real hit. Taka Boom who in 1975 already stared on Undisputed Truth`s hit `Me + You = Love` did not participate on the follow up and final album `Crazy` which was one of the reasons this did not attract so much interest.
A DJ`s effect on female/male listeners was apparently not different then today - What still makes this a great Job, right?!

Dr Who - Mankind 1978

Ron Grainers famous Dr Who TV Show Theme. But of course the funky Disco Version.
a bit ver-crakled, wa?

Love De Luxe - Here Comes That Sound Again 1979

Digging for Records can be a rewarding hobby - but if you`re in a shop with no chance of listening to a potential gem you picked out, there are a some more or less superstition driven reasons for ending up actually buying it.
One pretty obvious one, but often misleading, could be the cover. (well if that goes wrong you still have a nice piece of visual art to look at??)
Another pretty dull one I developed (and allready dropped again) is buying records released within a certain period. In my case that was the time of birth 1979.

As I never really cared about a covers condition (vg++ etc.) and the record still looked pretty okay for where I found it horizontally underneath a box I had to take out to give it a closer look. It is only the 7" - version i shot that day for economically accaptable € 0,50 but its also just over 3 minutes long - so if YOU are a proud owner of the 8min 12" version of one of the few greatgreat british disco producers Alan Hawkshaw, I am happy to exchange the files on here or trade a doublet with one of my double copies. For now enjoy this teaser

Chemise - She cant love You 1983

And again A fabulous piece of Dance Music to rank up for Eternity.
Produced by The Muldrow Brothers sent out to touch You where You like it the most.

Girlz Boyz get together and do it who with whatever !lol
I feel like partying. See you at Weekend tonite, Loco Dice is playing.