Jap Jazz

I don't know where the time has gone lately as i just noticed i've not posted anything for over a week,what a slack ass! Ok so hopefully i can make up.The latest offering here comes from the excellent Mastercuts series with the compilation 'Classic Jazz-Funk 6' released in 1996.This was an album i pretty much overlooked for years until the other day when i gave it a play and soon realised there was a lot of damn hot tracks on it. I could have posted a number of tracks off the album but i've decided on Tokyo born Nabuo Yagi's,"Mi Mi Africa".Originally released in 1979 on Invitation Records this is a super piece of jazz,funk,disco with some wonderful harmonica giving it an added twist.With the originals of these trading for big bucks this is a compilation you really should try and get your hands on.Enjoy some jap jazz...

Nobuo Yagi - Mi Mi Africa

Dancing In Outer Space

I would reckon most people will have heard of Atmosfears Dancing In Outer Space which was championed by Larry Levan at the Paradise Garage and gained huge success in the U.S and U.K.Today though i'm going to post a couple of tracks that i personally think are up there to.
Born in 1951 in North London Andy Sojka spent much of the seventies as a local record retailer and running a dance music shop in Harlesden,London specialising in soul,funk,reggae and U.S imports.Capitalising on the current scene and seizing the moment bubbling around the dance floor's around London he founded Atmosfear around 1977.His first hit and their first recording was Dancing In Outer Space released on his own newly formed Elite record label in 1979.F**k me what a way to start!!!To this day this track is still an undoubted Classic and through the nineties was remixed by the likes of Masters at Work,Dimitri From Paris and Francois Kevorkian.Tragically Andy Sojka passed away in Febuary 2000 aged just 48 only days after securing a deal to re-issue the whole Elite catalogue and in the middle of creating a new Atmosfear album Groove World which i think has never seen the light of day.His legacy still lives on and i'm pretty sure one day we will all be Dancing In Outer Space......

Atmosfear - Motivation

Atmosfear - Xtra Special