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Runaway - Shadows

Dug this one up from 2007 after getting my hands on Runaway's Brooklyn Club Jam released by the Rekids label. The first pressing of the 12" just sold out. This is probably one of my favorite edits which could be a testament to Jacques Renault and Marcos Cabral's talents, taste or a combination of the two.

"What do you get when you mix a classically trained, post-punk, disco-head; a Latin freestyle, Chicago house freak turned minimal-techno auteur; and thousands of records? You get Brooklyn's anything but inbred child: RUNAWAY. The duo have been informing each other's tastes since meeting at the Sonic Groove record store in early 2000, but Jacques Renault and Marcos Cabral didn't start producing their sound together until 2006."

It took me a while to figure it out, but this is a disco edit of Fever (a San Francisco based disco-funk group) covering a Motown classic, the Four Tops "Standing in the Shadows of Love", released in 1978. You can listen to it here. Runaway's version appears on Roy Dank's Wurst Edits label with "Ain't Afraid to Beg" on the flip side.

Brooklyn Express - Sixty-Nine

In keeping with the Brooklyn and covers theme, here's a 1982 special disco mix released by One Way Records, "Sixty-Nine". Popular number in contemporary culture and perhaps an appropriate title given that it's essentially a cover of Jimmy Bo Horne's "Spank". Is it getting hot in here? Cool down with this added bit of trivia: the quirky Madness sample in the beginning is taken from "One Step Beyond".