Taking disco and sampling it into house music in the 90s was a regular thing. It happened over and over again and I’m so happy that that era happened because two of my favorite styles of music had blended together to become an awesome style – disco house! Disco and House rule! Anyway this is a great example of that style. Take a Chicago house master like Kenny Dope and add a famous disco song from the 70s by Brass Construction, shake it up and end up with a classic 90s club hit by The Bucketheads!

Got Myself Together was the second hit off of The Bucketheads one and only awesome album All In The Mind didn’t become as big a hit as The Bomb was but it’s just as good if not better than The Bomb. I’m sure everyone remember The Bomb with the classic line “These Sounds Fall Into My Mind”? Then you will for sure remember The Bucketheads. The album All In The Mind even contained a 15 minute version of The Bomb for non stop beats. It’s a classic track now 15 years strong! Phew those were good times in the 90s! Weren’t they? All In The Mind is chock full of tracks utilizing samples from bands such as Chicago, Level 42, Atmosfear and Linda Clifford. Boy if you love music that is made up of samples then this album needs to be in your collection!

It was also so unique to discover a Latin/jazz version of Movin’ called Movin’ On by Ray Camacho of the Ray Camacho Band. All I have to say is that the 70s rules when it comes to music! Loads of cool hip styles were running all over. Kind of like the 90s and what’s starting to happen now again! Yay! Keep em comin’!

Movin’ by Brass Construction
Got Myself Together by The Bucketheads
Movin’ On by Ray Camacho

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Here’s a fun bouncy track that does a great job at sampling Deee-Lite’s hit from the early 90s, Groove Is In The Heart. The track Broke basically uses a loop of the main beat/bassline from Groove Is In The Heart and adds some touches of Latin influenced beats and makes it into a cool fun lounge style upbeat cut. Sneaky Fox has other cool cuts that are certainly worth checking into when you have a chance. So once I heard this cut I’m sure more interested in what else they’ve released!

Groove Is In The Heart by Deee-Lite
Broke by Sneaky Fox

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What more could you ask for? A free Nacional Records sampler with 22 tracks? I’m there. There are tracks here from Los Fabulosos Cadillacs, The Pinker Tones, Manu Chao, Senor Coconut and more. Definitely worth it. Click below and head right over to Amazon and download away!!! Yeah!

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Louie Vega does a great cover of the disco classic Thousand Finger Man by Candido. Love this very Latin inspired track as was the original by Candido. This track comes right off the Elements Of Life “Extensions’ CD which I highly recommend for a bunch of other awesome tracks by Louie Vega all remixed. Sexy Latin inspired house music. This Thousand Fingered Man and along with the Mon Amour (DJ Gregory Remix)are the winners on the release. Pretty darn cool.

Jungle Fever (ATOJ Remix)
Cerca De Mi (Kenny Dope Remix)
Sunshine (Sacred Rhythm Mix)
Ma Mi Mama (FreeForm U Heirs Vox Mix)
Let The Children Play
Love Is On The Way (Roots Mix)
Journey’s Prelude (NuLife Remix)
Thousand Fingered Man
Mon Amour (DJ Gregory Remix)
Mozalounge (Jazz-N-Groove Extended Album Mix)
Nos Vida (MAW Remix)
A Better Day (DJ Spinna Remix)
Steel Congo

Check out both versions of Thousand Fingered Man below. Well the Candido version is called Thousand Finger Man!

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Thousand Finger Man by Candido

Thousand Fingered Man by Louie Vega

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I love Eighteenth Street Lounge! I’ve bought several or most of all their releases from the last 10 or so years they’ve been around. Especially all of Thievery Corporation as well as Federico Aubele, Ursula 1000 and Chris Joss. So here they are offering a free sampler at AMAZON. Links below to all the music. Just click sign into your AMAZON account and download for FREE. Well worth it!

Links to download songs separately here:

Mandala by Thievery Corporation

La Lluvia by Nickodemus

Suena Mi Guitarra by Federico Aubele

Everybody by Ancient Astronauts

Danger Buds by Chris Joss

Mystics by Ursula 1000

Azul by Natalia Clavier

Revolt Of The Cockroach Peoples by Ocote Soul Sounds

Or link to download the entire album here:

ESL World Music Sampler

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Justin Timberlake’s Rock Your Body is a fun disco inspired pop track and was a huge hit for him. But when Shawn Lee & The Ping Pong Orchestra remade it they changed the sound and made it mostly instrumental. It still sounds like Rock Your Body but now they’ve added a loungy, jazzy touch to it with a Latin inspired big band groove. You can still hear that the 70s sound is still there.

What Shawn Lee & The Ping Pong Orchestra has done with all the tracks on Hits The Hits is taken all popular tracks by pop artists and made it all something you can play in the background without and of the lyrics getting in the way too much. It’s the perfect background music if you want the hits but you don’t want the lyrics.

It’s a great collection and it’s similar to other collections like the popular Nouvelle Vague series of 80s new wave tracks remade jazzy and loungy. Shawn Lee & The Ping Pong Orchestra’s Hits The Hits is a fun, hip lively collection of pop tracks and Rock Your Body is one of the better cuts on the disc.

Check it out and let me know what you think of this version compared to Timberlake’s version.

Rock Your Body by Justin Timberlake
Rock Your Body by Shawn Lee

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Well the big hit Sweet Dreams Are Made Of This by Eurythmics will always go down in pop music history. It’s been remixed and covered countless number of times but I like this version because it just does not sound so much electronic or synth poppy as the original. It’s very loungy with the added Latin flavor that I’ve come to love from Señor Coconut. I think it’s great and it makes a great track to chill to. Don’t get me wrong, I do love the original and I love it alot but this completely different version is a nice change to the classic piece of music.

It’s def worth a listen. Check it out and let me know what you think.

Sweet Dreams Are Made Of This by Eurythmics
Sweet Dreams by Señor Coconut

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