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i think i’m falling in love again – a valentines slow jam mix

For a couple of weeks i have been thinking about a slow jam mix and with valentines around the corner i thought it time to get my shit together and make it happen. So here it is, some of my favourite slow jams specially prepared for Valentines. This goes out to Robyn Hereaka, a friend who was a slow jam mix tape master.

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Tracklist:

1. Love T.K.O – Teddy Pendergrass 2. Slow Jam – Midnight Star 3. Tender Love – Force M.D.’s 4. Let’s Wait – Janet Jackson 5. Fried to Friend – Diana Ross 6. Remind Me – Patrice Rusheen 7. The Sweetest Taboo – Sade 8. Where Is The Love – Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway 9. Saturday Love – Charrelle feat. Alexander Oneal 10. Computer Love – Zapp 11. Juicy Fruit – Mtume 12. Oooh This is Love – Al B. Sure 13. Piece of My Love – Guy 14. Love Controversy – Part 1 – Loose Ends 15. Power of Passion – Inner City 16. Prototype – OutKast 17. Adore – Prince.

I Love Boogie – mixtapes from Dam Funk, Disco Deviance and DJ Ayers and DJ Eleven

My kids hate my music or the music i force them to listen to when we are in the car. They tell me, can we listen to some proper music or something modern, I tell them the day they get their own car will be the day when they can listen to their music. Just quietly, i can’t stand the music they listen to and nowadays i mostly find myself drawn to music from the late seveties and early eigthees, especially rare disco and boogie. It’s proper dance music that super soulful and gets your body movin’. It’s not trying to beat me around the head with a sledge hammer or give me a nose bleed.

While the nothern hemishere is knee deep in wintery blasts we down the bottom of the globe are in the middle of a sizzling summer and what better sound track to go with the nice weather is some good vintage boogie from three damn fine sources.

1. Disco Deviance mix for Cosmic Boogie by Dicky Trisco.

Disco Deviance is a label that releases new and re-edits in a classic disco boogie viegn.

2. Dam Funk – Beautiful Music for Beautiful People

all vinyl, no cd’s, Mp3’s or downloads, just vinyl goodness in this mix from LA’s boogie master.

3. Dj Ayers and DJ ELeven – The Glamorous Life Vol. 3

Killer 80’s mix with some classic jams from back in the day. If you were an eighties kid like me then expect some nostalgia with this mix. Check his webiste for a load of mixes including the history of hip hop series. Each year is chronicled in a mixtape beginning in 1979 up to 2000.

The Tide is High

Have been sitting on this one for a couple of years now and thought it must be time to share it. I came accross it from my man Si aka Downtown Brown. It’s the man himself, Submariner doing a nice mash of Blondie and Beyonce.

You got me trippin’.

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