Dr. Hook - Sexy Eyes (VinylAddicted Hooked On Your Eyes Edit)

From pop-rock-counrty to midnight groove. The edit from (the Greece native?) VinylAddicted is based on a hypnotic loop and keeps you waiting for the vocals, while getting more and more intense. The verse kicks in no later than 3:30 (!) and adds the icing to the cake. The 1979-topchart hit from Dr. Hook almost sounds and feels like some forgotten 80's Marvin Gaye gem.
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FRIED TOFU - Vol. 2

In an overcompressed reality, the german label Fried Tofu stand their ground and delivers soulful disco-edits true to the originals.
Their second release includes edits of Fat Back Band, Pam Todd & Love Exchange and some other Greg Carmichael-ish disco stomper.

The edits are great in a K.I.S.S.-kinda way and stay within the strict rules of this here blog! A must-have for those sexy-late-night-DJ-sets.
Expect no digital distribution: like food and sex, Fried Tofu like their music physical and on vinyl (the edits are on vinyl - not the food and the sex...)
Visit the Fried Tofu-website to find your favorite vinyldealer.

FT02 Gettin Together [snippet] by Fried Tofu

Prince - I Wanna Be Your Lover (Tim Zawada Edit)

Now, never mess with the masters, if you don't have your ish together. Zawada here's got the ish!

I really wish that Tim Zawada had been around in 1979 to make a decent extended version or dub version for the 12" (IMO the original 12" is a bit boring)
This edit is really well-crafted with a dynamic arrangement, and while emphasizing the good parts it stays interesting.

Visit Tim Zawadas Soundcloud profile for more great edits and mixes.

  Prince - Wanna Be Your Lover (Tim Zawada Edit) by timzawada

Bros. Johnson - Ain't We Funkin' Now (Todd Terje Edit)

Todd Terje Week - Friday

First time I heard The Brothers Johnson's "Ain't We Funkin' Now" was on the ultimate break beat series and as I remember the track was edited by Luis Flores (the man at UBB who extended the drumbreaks on some of the volumes).
UBB used the version with the drumbreak and I found a bootleg 12" featuring that same version at a flea market in NYC. (..crates full of 12" and classic breakbeats. Some had written "Magic" on the label. Now, if it had belong to Mr. Magic that explains the condition was under "good" and often "fair". I bought them all, though. It was $1/each and several had dublets in the cover. Yay!)

Anyway, I'm wondering why Todd Terje didn't use the drumbeat version in his edit of "Ain't We Funkin' Now"!? He's used the "regular" extended version that goes straight to "..listen to the bass man" halfway. Well, the edit, which is unofficial, is a DJ-edit well arranged with no effects added. Not his best to date.

Chic - I Want Your Love (Todd Terje Edit)

By public demand, here is a Todd Terje special. Hey, let's call it Terje-week, and I'll try and keep online all week.

Todd Terje Week - Monday

This one was an instant classic both as original by Chic, and also as this edit was released sometime last year in 2009.
Originally, it was the follow-up to "Le Freak", but it didn't get the same commercial success. However, it is way more sophisticated in its composition and thus, stands the test of time.

Todd TangoTerje's edit emphasizes the hypnotic guitar riff from start and throws in some dubbed vocal samples before the Bernard Edwards trademark bass kicks in. The edit holds this tempo until a 40 second guitar delay rounds things up.

This particular release is out on Supreme.

Rolling Stones - Under My Dub (Todd Terje Edit) a.k.a "Under My Thumb"

For now just a white label, but must be a matter of time before Decca, Virgin or whoever own the rights makes this an official release.
Tood Terje, for it is him once again, has really stretched this one to its limits. Just a touch of extra drums. The rest is send through effects, loops and filters and with a steady pace it clocks in at 5:36 (the original from the "Aftermath" album is 3:20, which was long for 1966)
Fantastic!

On The Grid (Copicat Re-edit) - Lime

Now, I'm was never a big fan of Mr. and Mrs. LePage clean euro-disco. But I was very much into the covers, which matched the airbrush style of my teenage room. Here I'm not talking about the covers with the official faces of Lime, Joy Dorris and Chris Marsh, but the likes of e.g. the album Lime 3 (1983).
That album includes "On The Grid" which is a full fledged apreggiator-driven electronic disco anthem.
Copicat re-edited it on his 2003 release "#02" and made the arrangement a little more varied.

That 12" also features an instrumental speed-down edit of Grace Jones "Pull Up To The Bumper" and my personal favorite Afro Cuban Band's "Something's Got To Give".

Of course a bootleg, so nowhere to be found on any streaming. Go buy it here: "On The Grid (Copicat re-edit) - Lime

Magic Number (Todd Terje re-edit) - Herbie Hancock

About time this guy got mentioned here. This is just one of the maybe hundreds of re-edits from Todd Terje. Nothing much to say. Made to perfection. Not much of Sylvesters vocals left, but that's how Mr. Terje rolls. Todd's edit starts where the original version takes off at 3:50 and ends with the beginning of the original. Confused? A-B check with the original off the 1981 album "Magic Window"

Also Todd Terje just did an official re-edit of M "Pop Muzik" in its 30 year celebration. See itunes

Btw: if you're curious here's a mix of 100% Todd Terje edits. The mix is made by DJ Tommy Richardson: http://timmyrichardsonpresents.com/essential-todd-terje-part-i.html

Listen to the Herbie Hancock re-edit:
I'll post more Todd Terje re-edits later.

Hott City - Feelin' Love ( Lunar Jam Re-edit), 1979

Now, I'm Mista-know-it-all. At least that's what I thought...

Fall 2008, I heard a mix including Lunar Jam's "Our Feel Love" and I dug it right away. What a great house track with a true disco feel and sound! But through a Youtube browsing I found out that it was "just" a re-edit of Hott City's "Feelin' Love" (1979). The original on the Butterfly label still sounds fresh after 30 years and with the help from the guys at Lunar Jam it is now a newborn classic - if it wasn't already. Lunar Jam kept the pulsating percussive parts and the smooth'n'sexy chorus. And - this is the best part - they slowed it down by some 15 bpm (down til 120 bpm). A tempo which suits the track better, IMO. Others would just have sped it up and added 4-on-the-floor.

Now I've been schooled - again...

Buy the Lunar Jam EP if you're into slow instrumental cosmic disco. And if you're in Leeds visit their monthly FREE party (see myspace)

First Born: Al Downing: I'll Be Holding On (1974)

Well, maybe not the first, but one of the first available to the public (..or Tom's friends at least). Al Downing: "I'll Be Holding On" (1974) was edited by the magnificient Tom Moulton (picture) and cut on acetate 10". However, it wasn't release until 2006 on the Soul Jazz comp "A Tom Moulton Mix"
A typical cut'n'paste mix - by far his best - but nevertheless a good example of the possibilities of the time.