Archive for May, 2009

PF: Everyone rise for the Queen.  Now bow, for your Queen!   Miss Loleatta: Could you please tell Miss Ross to bow?   PF: Lady D. proper courtesy when the Queen enters the room is to bow, please bow.   Miss Loleatta: BITCH! HE SAID BOW!  Uh, uh, no.gurl, I don’t wanna hear it. ...
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I’m going to fess up right here, right now.  When I was a kid, Donna Summer ruled!  I don’t know why, but for some reason I was totally drawn to her and waited with eager anticipation for her every new album.  With the release of “Bad Girls” in 1979, she shot into the stratosphere. ...
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Having broken out in 1995 with the R&B hit “Sentimental” followed by “Who Do You Love” which not only displayed the star power that her mentor Clive Davis believed in, but also proved Deborah was a formidable dance artist as well.  By 1998 “Nobody’s Supposed to Be Here” landed her at the top of...
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I’m serving up the final installment of this edition and need to take a much needed break.  However, since Rick is out of town for the next week or so, why bother?  So, I’ve designated this next week as DIVA week.  I’ve already done some preliminary mixing and as difficult as some of this...
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Transitioning into the more soulful side of house, we’re working our way up to the weekend.  Starting things off, we’ve got the always amazing vocal talents of Andrea Love with the Praise Cats.  “Shined On Me” is a wonderful slice of gospel house full of meaning and uplifting spirituality.  In fact, the first four...
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Keeping up with the theme of take 1, this mix remains on the more commercial funky side of the T-Dance series.  The first three songs are a bit tougher and could have easily fit in with the BPM mixes.  Sometimes, I don’t know why I move certain songs to the T-Dance folder as opposed...
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Are you ready to get your disco on?  I said, are you ready to get your DISCO ON???  Because if not, then this mix isn’t for you.  Just in time for your Memorial Day weekend mischief,  I’m delivering two heaping servings of some of the freshest, phattest and funkiest slices of heaven this side...
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Okay folks, we’re in the home stretch before I take a much needed weekend break.  Starting things off, we get an updated early 90s classic “Just Another Sleepless Night” by Mad8 vs. Shawn Christopher and what a smokin’ mix this is!  The original David Morales mix is a personal favorite while Out of Office...
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Two days ago, I had the chance to finally preview ‘Take 2′ and decided I wasn’t exactly feeling the Bimbo Jones mix of “Push Up Word Up” and decided to swap it out for the club mix instead.  That version is more of a breakbeat mix very similar to the original 80s version by...
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Moving along to the second set of the latest BPM Edition, I held to my promise of infusing some more prog tunes into the mix.  If you remember a while back, I made the decision to cancel the System Edition and in it’s place I would be mixing in some of the underground house...
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