PEOPLES POTENTIAL UNLIMITED

I LOVE this label.


I bought their "Family Album" CD comp & "Ball Players" 7 inch last week & was getting ready to be underwhelmed.. I don't know why, maybe it's because there's been a real lack of quality stuff coming out recently, I feel a lil' uninspired, I expected yet another comp of lackluster tunes passing themselves off as "Disco" or "Boogie" or i'd had a couple of record buying trips that yielded some pretty pony stuff & was just down generally... either way, when I got home & listened to them both they blew my fuckin' socks off, pure quality.


Now i'm going to make an effort & support PPU wherever I see it.


I mean, this video is DOPE, right? What's not to like? & It's obvious to me these guys really love what they're doing & their hearts are in it & they are re-releasing killer obscure records that truly deserve a re-release, which is rare in today's world of records where everyone's mother is doing re-edits, re-issues & spinning "Disco-Boogie-Synth-psych-funk" & wheeling out any old tosh... all that and the artwork is cool too.


Nuff said.





Check out their online record store HERE too.

SILVER, PLATINUM & GOLD - DANCE WITH ME

Here we have a sublime piece of uptempo Disco-Soul from Hollywood's Silver, Platinum & Gold. I can't seem to find out much about this group & it seems they only released 1 single & 2 albums in their short career - 1976's self titled debut on FARR Records & 1981's "Hollywood" on Neptune which seems to have only reached the promo stage with no official release, it's from the latter "Dance with me" comes & it certainly does not disappoint.





Having already shown up on Dimitri From Paris & DJ Muro's amazing "Super Disco Friends" mix in re-edited form I thought I'd post the OG version which is just as effective! I picked this LP up at a well known South London vinyl haunt where the staff need a serious attitude-check, and for the mere sum of £3 it seems they needs some schooling too! One man's loss, eh?
The other killer cut on this album is the synth heavy sleaze of "Silver, Platinum & Gold theme" which seems very current & in line with the output of a certain Mr.Dam-Funk & all of this recent interest in "Boogie", if you dig this sound, you need this track, simple as.


Another of the group's tracks taken from their 1st LP ended up on Dimitri's "Disco Forever" comp, "I got a thing" was the number & as usual it got the chopping block treatment, I've included a Youtube clip of it here too for y'all.


Enjoy!


"I got a thing" (Dimitri from Paris re-edit).



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Dancewithme by Bobbyhands

THE LOVERS - LIP SERVICE

A beautiful slice of Disco / Boogie from 1982, Produced by Larry LaFalce, Don Cypher & Len Boone and mixed by the incomparable Tom Moulton, It really dosen't get any smoother than this. This track was released on Salsoul as a white label 12" only (I got mine!) and later re-released on Soul Jazz Records amazing "A Tom Moulton mix" compilation from 2006 which i can't recommend enough to the readers of this here blog!


THE LOVERS - LIP SERVICE 320kbps