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New Mix from Leon Windsor
June 6th, 2011
Ahead of our little road trip this Friday, COR’s mixing boy has whipped up a quick and tasty balearic mix for us.
Aptly named the Sundown Mix, this is a quality selection of Leon’s balearic faves. Leon calls it ‘A one-take wonder; a selection of tunes that take you from day into night.’
Cheers Leon, lovely lil mix sir!
Sundown Mix
Tracklisting:
Raa- Vast
Ananda Project- Moment Before Dreaming (Idjut Boys Dub)
Jamie Woon- Night Air (Persaud’s Cab-Vol Edit)
Vincenzo- Sometimes Saturday
Jozif- Suddenly Somethin’
Mario & Vidis- Changed feat. Ernesto (Soul Clap Remix)
Modern Amusement- Cold As Ice
Cosmic Kids- Reginald’s Groove
Jaswho?- My History (40 Thieves Remix)
Glimpse & Martin Dawson- No-one Belongs Here More Than You (Ewan’s Balearos Maximos Mix)
Uniforms- March Of No Coincidence feat. Maria Nordstraum (Moullinex Remix)
Big Love.
COR Brighton Rave Crawl
June 6th, 2011
Hello COR part contingent, hope all is good!
This Friday, 10th June 2011, the COR fam is hitting the road and heading down the coast to Brighton!
The COR DJ’s have been kindly invited by Pablo Contraband to play at the his wonderful Disco Deviant party at Above Audio! And very excited we are.
The party starts at 10pm,
we’re on at 12:30am
and it goes on til 3am.
Best part is IT’S FREE!
We will be one on, one off in a typical last-hour-of-a-COR-party stylee, so expect a rapid fire journey though our diverse collection of disco, house and balearia party straters. Looking forward to this bigtime!
All the details can be found here.
So what this rave crawl all about then, I hear you cry??!
Well, it just so happens that on the same night, Brighton disco heroes GO BANG! are holding one of their now infamous underground warehouse parties, in the warehouse space underneath Brighton train station.
This too is free to get in, and it goes on until after 5am! And as if that weren’t brilliant enough, they have an AMAZING special guess playing! Proper top drawer, premium booking!!
Certainly one not to miss, and we plan not to!! Once we have finished at Above Audio, we will be making a prompt bee line for the GO BANG! warehouse party.
And we want you to come with us!
The COR DJs are planning to get the train up to Brighton around 7pm, have a drink or two around Brighton, then head to Above Audio around 10pm.
After that we’ll be heading to the GO BANG! warehouse party. The train back to Pompey starts at 5am, so after we’ve had ‘one more’ on the GO BANG! DF we’ll be heading upstairs to get the train home.
The more the merrier, so if anyone fancies a cracking night out in Brighton, please feel free to come come along with us!!
That’s about it for now. Very excited about our lil Brighton smash up this weekend. Hope you can make it along!
Big Love.
The COR Fam.
The Isle Of Pompey Treasure Hunt & Secret Pirate Party!
May 20th, 2011
Hello COR Party People! Hope all is good with you!
Get ready to have your timbers shivered as we prepare for the wonderful
Isle Of Pompey Treasure Hunt 2011!
and the Secret Pirate After Party!!
This year this fantastic event is taking place on Bank Holiday Sunday 29th May.
It starts at 2pm at The Little Johnny Russells and will lead you on an epic adventure around our fair Island.
Answer the clues and you will be lead to the amazing Secret Pirate Party that will be hosted by COR DJs Steve, Rosko & Mark!!
Not only will the COR DJs be on duty, but the mighty Durty Sound System will be rocking the main sail too!!
Expect fantastic ship wreck décor and a sound system you’d walk the plank for, as well as more underground disco, house and soul than you can shake a peg leg at!
There are some epic prize up for grabs on the day too…
There are a load of bottles of Sailor Jerry’s Rum up for grabs to the winners of the treasure hunt, as well as a very generous prize of A BIKE from Ye Olde Bike Shoppe for the first team to complete the treasure hunt on bikes! Bloomin brilliant!
There’s also prizes for best dressed pirate and best team name, so start stroking yours beards on that one!
If that isn’t enough, there will also be face painters on the day to scar you up in a pirate stylee for that authentic prirate party look!
So don’t wait any longer, get a team together, don your eye patch and march yourself down to Deadman’s Glory or Rokii and and bag yourself a ticket!
£5 per person, max team size 6 peeps.
Very much looking forward to this one. A proper Pompey adventure, with a disco knees up at the end. Perfect bank hol Sunday if you ask me!
Check out the Faceache events page for all the details :
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=207988179225740
Big Love.
A New Year Message From Al Kent!…
January 19th, 2011
Here at COR tower we’re big fans of disco ledge AL KENT. So we were very pleased when he agreed to contribe to our lil ol’ COR blog.
So here’s the first installment from the man himself. Hope you enjoy.
Expect to see more from Al on the COR blog over the coming year….
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AL KENT’S DISCO RAMBLINGS
Top five best things about 2010:
OK, let’s get the shameless self promotion out of the way first…
I’m currently putting together a handful of albums for BBE, have a new vinyl edits EP on stilove4music (Al Kent “Disco Crazy” – from all good record shops), have four EPs out on Million Dollar Disco, all still available (First Floor EP, Lower East EP, Music Machine EP, Other Side EP), and another two about to go to press, remixes of Katzuma and Clone Records in the pipeline.
But the biggest news ever is our new monthly party.. Rahaan, everybody’s favourite disco jock from Chicago is our resident alongside me. We’re a bit excited.
Street Soul Records
A few years ago Andy Davies kindly sent me a copy of a CD he’d put out, Jerline & Friends “Best of Friends”, which he’d licensed after owning (and loving) a mysterious unissued acetate of the album since the 1970s. I fell in love with it too.
A while later he sent me a 45 (Patrick Henry), and another (Last Flight). And they just kept coming. Turns out what I thought was nothing more than a hobby for Andy is actually now his full time thing.
Giving up a job to run a vinyl only record label in these digital loving times shows he’s passionate about this music (as if we didn’t know that already) and that passion shows on the quality of every single record he puts out.
For the disco purists, “It’s A New Day” by Pulse (SSR5-B) and Jerline‘s version of “Get It Off My Conscience” (SSR6-B) are sure to please.
http://www.streetsoulrecords.com
BBE Records
BBE Records are pushing disco big time this year with comps coming from the likes of Tom Moulton, John Morales, Johnny D, Zaf, Nick The Record and the Peabodies. And me.
Disco Love part Two is already underway as is a Best of Disco Demands. And for those who’ve been asking, the New Million Dollar Orchestra album is also slowly becoming a reality.
Joey Negro
Joey Negro‘s just put together the third in his Soul Of Disco series, this time going it alone without Sean P. Due to drop at the end of February, you can get a taster here:
Z Records
Also on Z is a compilation from London’s as yet unheralded Red Greg. Due to drop in May, I for one am very keen to check the tracklist. Ebonite, the party Red Greg runs with Louis Heel is set to move to Paris very soon. Check these mixe for an idea of what you can expect:
Vintage Audiodelica
There can’t be many places where you can buy a vintage Bozak mixer for less than a pair of Levi’s. But you can at LN-CC. Unfortunately the Levi’s in question cost three grand! But LN-CC looks like a great place – records, vintage bozaks and a fully kitted out music room. Who could ask for more?
The Internet
A couple of things have caught my eye online recently…
Theo Parrish tearing into laptop DJs is nice…
…as is the crazy looking guy from Funktion One talking audio…
My favourite thing this month though is the dancing Andy Gibb doll currently on ebay…
1979 Disco Star Andy Gibb Doll by Ideal in Box!
…I’m still looking out for a Walter Gibbons one!
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Thanks for that Mr Kent, muchly apprecaited sir. Looking forward to the next installment.
If wanna find out more about what Al is up to, hop on over to his wonderful website for release news, tickets and mixes.
Enjoy!
Big Love.
Lots of Love – Thank You!
September 27th, 2010
Hello COR Party contingent, hope this message finds you well
Super mahoosive THANK YOU to all in attendance at COR’s album launch party, cracking nite, even better than the last if poss! Great crowd, great music, belter of a nite! So much positive feed back – Thank YOU!
If you liked that, get involved with Rosko & Persaud’s Cab-Vol Halloween launch party 30th Oct (http://bit.ly/aesavp)
& of course pencil in the next COR, the now infamous Boxing Day Bash.
Oh yeah, anyone listened to the album yet? Feedback please!
Big Love.
The Cabaret Voltaire – Coming Soon!
August 30th, 2010
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UPDATE: Click here for details of the Halloween Launch Party!
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Hello COR party contingent, hope this message finds you well.
Brand new for Southsea Village, The Cabaret Voltaire is brought to you by the Civilisation Of the Rough’s Rokso Siffredi and Mark Persaud.
They love Disco. They love House. So they wanted to do something to bring them together.
The Cabaret Voltaire will be an (almost) monthly rendezvous and unlike COR will be very much a stripped back affair. Dance floor, sound system, party people. That’s it’s.
Lots more details to follow shortly. Sign up at the following to keep up to date with how this is coming along…
Cab-Vol Faceache Group
Twitter @cab_vol
cab-vol.com
Hope you can get involved!
Big Love.
COR Album Launch Party!
August 25th, 2010
COR Album launch paaaar-taaay!! Finally here – 25th Sept! Get involved. Only 100 tickets for this one and every one through the door gets a copy of the album! Gonna be huge. If you remember our curry house parties, our chip shop garden parties, our basements parties, then you’ll know you’ll not wanna miss this one. Taking it back to the intimate soiree and we do those very well indeed! More details and artwork to follow, tickets available from Friday. Get a ticket while you can!
Big Love.
COR Disco Bus to the Vintage Festival!
August 2nd, 2010
Thank you thank you to those of you who brought a ticket for the COR Disco Bus to Vintage and a big apology to those of you who missed out.
The plan has finally been finalised for Sat 14th Aug and we can now share it with you.
The pick up point in Southsea to leave for the Vintage Fest will be The Little Johnny Russells.
Get there for 12noon and have a glass of vino on us. Just show them your disco bus ticket.
The COR Disco leaves LJR at 1pm on the button. We can’t wait for anyone past this time because we wanna see Mick DJ and he starts at 1:30pm. If you’re not there to leave at 1pm, you’ve missed the bus. So make sure you get there before then!
For the return journey, the bus will be leaving at 2am.
Again, you gotta make sure you’re at the bus before 2am if you wanna catch it home. It’s your responsibility to be there if you need it. Both Tim and I won’t be in any fit state sort anything out by that time so please, if you need to get home on the bus, make sure you’re there before 2am. It’s a long walk home!
Think that’s about it for now. Looking forward to this bigtime, gonna be a belter of a day. Hope the weather stays good!
See you at the LJR’s for glass of vino before we set off and if anyone has any other questions before then, just give us a shout (hello@c-o-r.co.uk) .
Big Love.
Like COR Music? Listen to COR DJs
August 2nd, 2010
The COR parties, after just the two and a half years of kicking out quality underground disco knees ups are now a bit of a Southsea fave.
But the COR parties themselves only happen every once in a while. Boo.
The COR parties are all about the drama. Every time we put one on we want it to be a pantomime, over the top and a bit of an occasion. But even with the elaborate décor, projections and sound systems, the CORE of COR is the music. Pure, unadulterated, underground disco, house and balearia, all served up by the 7 COR ressies.
We are so very lucky at COR to have such a tight crew at the centre of The Civilisation Of the Rough. Every single member of the COR fam have a deep seeded love for disco and understand it’s influence on the other music we love.
But even though we all share this love of disco, we all have our own takes on how and what we play. From the old to the new, the upfront to the dubby, from the housey to the Balearic, there a 7 different DJs who each have their own take on disco that completely complements the rest of the group. Perhaps this is why the COR parties have been so popular? Who knows.
Anyway, although the COR parties only take place once in a while, the COR ressies are always up to something else in and around Southsea town and beyond.
Just this weekend our disco ambassador Matt Seeney was working his disco magic on a side project ‘Unicorn Dream presents Sparklehouse’ at The Hobby Horse in London. He can also be found on a regular basis spinning discs at the Brick Lane fav The Big Chill Bar.
The weekend before last, our COR disco vets Big Mick Hood and the south coast ledge Steve Laming were hosting yet another of their wonderful Mirrorball soirées across the water in Gosport. Keep your ears pricked for more Mirrorball coming back to Southsea village for bank hol blow out too.
As if Mick doesn’t get enough of a work out on Mirrorball duty, he has been invited personally by Greg Wilson to play at the wonderful Vintage Festival at Goodwood in a couple of weeks time, Sat 14th Aug. What an honor, and testament to the quality to this disco vets skills, not to mention his gargantuan collection of original disco pressings.
Along side Mirrorball, Steve is also busy with the occasional visit up down London town to spin some of his finest cuts at ‘The Soul Night Out’ with old funk brother Owen Wasington.
Leon Windsor, our resident Balearic aficionado is spending a lot of time in the studio of late. If he’s not creating or remixing aural deliciousness under his Ladysmith or Hush Money guises (check the COR album coming very soon!) he’s working relentlessly with old production chum Triggs on their latest and greatest projects.
Another studio project taking shape at the mo is a collaboration between disco vet Steve Laming and COR gob Mark Persaud. Rumour has it they will be returning to the studio imminently to add the finishing touches to their first track, a chuggy disco floor burner they are just itching to air.
Mark (under the guise of ‘Who is Dave Balard?’) is also tied up at the moment with COR stable mate Rosko Siffredi in putting the finishing touches to their new club night foray away from COR, ‘The Carbaret Voltaire’, which brings their love of all things house and disco colliding head first to produce deep, dubby, disco et house vibe on a monthly basis.
So, as you can see, lots going on with the COR boys over and above the wonderful COR parties themselves.
If you love COR and you love the music, keep you eye on what else is coming out of the COR stable and get involved. You don’t have to wait until the next COR party to get your underground disco fix.
Sign up on the COR site http://C-O-R.CO.UK to be kept up to date on all things disco, not just from COR, but from all the COR Fam are up to and more.
You can also follow us on twitter http://twitter.com/cor_disco and of course our respective faceache groups :
COR – http://facebook.c-o-r.co.uk
Mirrorball – http://bit.ly/8Y1uIt
The Cabaret Voltaire – http://bit.ly/aesavp
Thanks for reading, get involved! Until next time, Big Love.
