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| Dj: David George Area: London Genre:Soul/Rare Groove | |
| 1. Dee-Lite – What is love? (rainbow goatee mix) 2. Sahara – Love so fine |
| 3. Dee-Lite – What is love? (Holographic beard mix) 4. The Beatmasters feat Elaine Vassell – Dunno what it is (funky ginger mix) 5. Innercity – Whatcha gonna do with my lovin’ (def mix) 6. Cameo – Attack me with your love (extended) 7. The Cool Notes – Spend the night 8. George Benson – Turn your love around 9. Joyce Sims – Lifetime love (def mix) 10. Five Star – Let me be the one 11. Rose Laurens – American love (original) 12. Cherrelle feat Alexander O’Neil – Saturday love 13. Curtis Hairston – I want your loving 14. Gwen Guthrie – (they long to be)Close to you (reprise)Welcome to “A DJ’s Love Life – Another piece of my Heart”, I start this mix with Sahara and “Love so fine”, I’ve mixed it up a bit with Dee-Lite’s “what is love?” These shows may be about love, but I love mixing it’s my passion. I saw Dee-Lite perform at Daisy Chain @ the Fridge. It was a really great show, Miss Lady Kier rocked in her stacker platforms. “What is love” is a track Princess Julia first played to me and it was a hit with me straight away. The mix takes us through to track 4 which is The Beatmasters entitled “I dunno what it is (about you)”. Heads up to Jeffrey Hinton on this one, this track also takes me back to Daisy Chain at the fridge. Next up is Innercity with “Whatcha gonna do with my lovin”. Released in 1989, it was a big hit for them. Track 6 comes from the kings of the pvc jockstrap Cameo, “Attack me with your love” was released in 1985. Next up in the mix is another from 1985 “Spend the night” by The Cool Notes a London based band. I always found this band a bit camp; the girls in the group were super 80′s glam. Track 8 is from jazz-funk god George Benson. “Turn your love around” is one of my favourites of his; the horns on this track get me every time. Joyce Sims is next in the mix and what she has to offer is a “Lifetime Love”, I have to say I think I’ll pass on that Joyce you’re not really my type. This was produced by Mantronix and was released in 1987. I’m loving the drum programming on this right off! On to track 10 and get the shoulder pads ready its Five Star! With what I think is their best track ever “Let me be the one”. This is a really slick piece of 80′s soul. When I worked at TRAFFIC, York way, London there was a group of young gay guys who did a sort of tribute act to five star, well they knew the dance routines, some of them better than the others. They were kind of cool, but if you played Five Star they took over the dance floor for a bit of formation dancing. If you’re out there Costa, Vassos, Gina, Keith and Mo, that track was for you. Track 11 is another from my gay youth; “American love” by Rose Laurens was one of the only tracks I heard in the gay bars/clubs that I liked. I used to dance to this in the Black Cap, Camden, London and think about my American boyfriend, I didn’t have one but I knew that he was in America somewhere. 10 years later I met him and we spent a wonderful 12 years together, I will always love that man, you know who are. This track came out at the time AIDS was starting to surface and the advice I got from my older friends was not to sleep with any Americans or someone who had just come back from the states. It sounds ignorant I know but that was the feeling back then. A lot of people were scared because no one knew what it was exactly, luckily we live in more enlightened times now. Track 11 is by Cherrelle feat Alexander O’Neil; “Saturday love” was a huge hit in the USA and the UK. Lastly we have Curtis Hairston with “I want your lovin”. This is such a killer track, I dropped it recently at the night I promote called TART’an SOUL and it went down a storm. I leave with Gwen Guthrie to sing you out, well she was in the studio while I was recording and it was the least I could do seeing as she had been making then tea’s all afternoon, and she hasn’t had a gig in a while. Hope you enjoyed the mix. |
