It’s Big in Japan’s 6th birthday, and the club night that has brought you the likes of Erol Alkan, Daniel Avery, TEED and Todd Terje are back at their spiritual home The Book Club next Friday 30 November for a good old italo-disco knees-up. They’re joined by disco royalty in the form of Ghostly and Balihu founder Daniel Wang, leader of the New York 90s disco pack, and Ray Mang (producer of one of my all-time favourite party records, Bullet Proof).
Alongside them comes the king-of-the-edit Leftside Wobble, and he’s done an homage-mix to Daniel Wang:
Leftside Wobble seems to be something of an online phenomenon, releasing disco edits mainly for free (although also releasing on Disco Deviance, AutoDiscoteque and Kojak Giant Sounds), earning himself 100,000 downloads and being followed by everyone on Soundcloud. He’s actually been playing for 20 years as Jonathan Moore, including a stint at Paul Oakenfold’s legendary Project Club at Ziggy’s in South London, so I’d say he was in a pretty good position to provide a commentary on Acid House for us.
The title of this mixtape is Acid Soul, and is described by the man himself as “music that’s deep and raw yet still oozes funk and soul.” Capturing the spirit of Chicago House and mixing it with his own edits and more contemporary takes from the likes of Hard Ton and Hercules and Love Affair. Very nice indeed.
Acid Soul part 4 by Leftside Wobble
Tracklist
Hunee – Took My Love
Donnacha Costello – It’s What We Do – Kink & Neville Watson Rework
Eddie C – Tell Me
Stefano E Bene feat Hard Ton – Why Your Love (Katzbatz remix)
Franc Spangler – Forever And A Day
Shiny Objekts – Set It Off
Session Victim – We Want To Thank All Our Friends
Hot Toddy feat Jennifer Rhonwen – Down To Love (Shiny Objekts remix)
Presence feat Shara Nelson – Sense Of Danger (The Popular People’s Front Dangerous dub)
Marvin Gaye – Ego Tripping Out (Valique edit)
Hard Ton – Flawless (Snuff Crew Remix)
A+O – Take Me
Arthur Russell – Wax The Van (Yam Who? rework)
Idris Muhammad – Could Heaven Ever Be Like This (Leftside Wobble Edit)
Aki Bergen – Shine feat. Astral T (Kink Remix)
Hercules & Love Affair – Blind (Frankie Knuckles Remix)
Steve Winwood – Time Is Running Out (ashley beedle edit)
Omar – Feeling You (Henrik Schwarz remix)
A huge thank you to everyone who came down to Public Life last night for our evening with our friends at Brilliantine, and to The C90s, who had us up on the ledges where we belong. Much fun!
Back within the M25 there are car parks and lofts to choose from. Tomorrow Adam Beyer invites Chris Leibing and other guests from his DRUMCODE label to Ewer Street car park, and the Electric Minds crew are throwing another secret venue loft party featuring Marcus Worgull and Christopher Rau. I hear good rumblings about these parties and they’ve got a few coming up, including the next on 30 October, so try to get yourselves down to one or two. Tonight Big in Japan take over The Book Club with Leftside Wobble and Jac The Disco‘s Prince Pac. Always a nice vibe and a fun venue for after work dancing.
