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If you’re still dancing after the back catalogue of Disco Discharge and some Horse Meat Disco, here’s a heavy session of house with 718 Sessions compiled and mixed by DJ superstar Danny Krivit; deep house Krivit style - you know that we love that.

Krivit is a veteran DJ of NYC having “lived” music from an early age. Both parents were involved in the business in the 60s and it’s said that Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention lived down the hallway when he was a kid (not a happy time for Frank if I recall his biography correctly, The Real Frank Zappa). Anyway, with the help contacts at Polydor and white labels from James Brown (what!), he landed a DJ gig with the new disco sound at “The Ninth Circle”; and the rest is disco history as they say as he went onto team up at The Loft with DJs Larry Levan and Francois Kevorkian in 1977 and not looked back ( 718 Sessions being his current downtown Manhattan residency at Santos Party House).

At the moment he’s probably most associated with a disco-edit (remember AK?) and on this CD, Freddy Turner’s ‘Spread Love’ is stretched to over 8 minutes of cerebral dance floor funk with a cosmic-disco moves. With close on 40 years as a DJ and a huge record collection, you know this guy is special and can put a mix together almost in his sleep.

That said, this one is wide awake and more impressive each time I listen to it. There’s a fairly predictable ‘big’ opener (nothing wrong in that) and a Phil Asher remix to follow and he’s picked a classic of a house track with spiritual lyrics superbly delivered by Alexis Simmons on ‘Selene (The Goddess Of The Moon)’ with jazzy flute solo (one for fans of seminal NY house label Eight Ball) and whilst Margaret Grace’s vocal isn’t as sweat, you can’t help love (sing-a-long to) ‘God Created Woman’.

Jazzy Jeff ups the pace (and the jazz content) and ever the one to be sharp on the remix, here’s Roy Ayres’ ‘Brand New Feeling’ - these two sandwich Kings Of Tomorrows’ ‘Another Day’ that really got on your nerves when it came out but it certainly sounds good now; top choice.

And talking of which, one of his best mates’ Joe Claussell kills it with an instrumental afro-cosmic funk groover ‘Disorganized Corruption’ (the best track on the album) but our man Krivit just doesn’t know when to stop and goes old skool with some BT Express (this ‘Peace Pipe’ bassline is impressive to say the least).

It’s arguable whether Nervous Records were better known for logo with those t-shirts (the cartoon of the kid with the flattop getting sliced by a flying vinyl disc - classic) but then arguably, one of their biggest hits was Kim English who sings ‘Nothing’s Impossible’ and another giant of the label was Masters At Work and with Loui Vega’s ‘That’s What Love Is’, the CD builds for the big finish of house bounce “We Can Make It’”.

If you’re anything like me, you’ve got quite a few Krivit compilation/mix albums and I’m thinking, why haven’t I gone to see this guy DJ live? I can’t explain that one but I now believe nothing’s impossible and it’s top of my list of ‘to dos’ for 2010. If you’ve ever danced (to anything), you’ll love this - honest…. and god created woman, womannnnnnnnnnnn.

Oh yeah, I’ve heard a rumour that next up is.. Frankie Knuckles!

Reviewed: Danny Krivit - 718 Sessions (Nervous Records) Cat. No: 20860 Release date: 26th October 2009
Tracklistings:
1 Chyna With Perfect World - U Know That I Love U (6:58)
2 Shake The Dog Feat. Monique Bingham - Run (Phil Asher Alt Remix) (7:00)
3 The Freddy Turner Project feat. The Three Kings - Spread Love (DK Edit) (8:23)
4 Steal Vybe feat. Alexis Simmons - Selene (The Goddess Of The Moon) (5:02)
5 Teddy Douglas feat. Margaret Grace - God Created Woman (Alt Mix) (5:48)
6 Jazzy Jeff - House Of Tribe (3:21)
7 Kings Of Tomorrow - Another Day (3:53)
8 Roy Ayers - Brand New Feeling (Sting International Controversy Mix) (5:26)
9 Earth People - Dance (Beats) (3:00)
10 Joaquin Joe Claussell Presents The Lower East Side Pipes - Disorganized Corruption (7:45)
11 BT Express - Peace Pipe (3:54)
12 Kim English - Nothing’s Impossible (5:04)
13 Louie Vega feat. Sara Devine - That’s What Love Is (3:47)
14 UBQ Project feat. Kathy Summers - We Can Make It (4:14)

Links:
dannykrivit.net
nervousnyc.com
www.myspace.com/nervousrecords
www.facebook.com/nervousrecords
www.santospartyhouse.com