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The 35th anniversary vinyl edition of Dirty Dancing (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) honours the Side A/Side B playing order of the original soundtrack album, showcasing these twelve classic tracks the way they’re meant to be heard. In addition the special edition vinyl is also presented with an iconic moment watermelon scented sticker. The “Dirty Dancing” soundtrack generated two multi-platinum albums and multiple hit singles notably the iconic standard “(I’ve Had) The Time of My Life,” performed by Bill Medley and Jennifer Warnes, which won the Academy Award for Best Original Song, the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song and the Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals.Dirty Dancing (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) was first released by RCA Records on 18 July 1987, spending more than four months (18 weeks) at #1 on the US Billboard 200. Packed with such unforgettable classics as “(I’ve Had) The Time of My Life,” “Be My Baby” (The Ronettes), “Hungry Eyes” (Eric Carmen), “She’s Like The Wind” sung by star of the movie Patrick Swayze feat. Wendy Fraser and much more, the Dirty Dancing (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) became one of the best-selling albums of all-time, with worldwide sales topping 32 million copies. An RIAA Diamond Award Album, Dirty Dancing (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) has been certified Multi-Platinum (14X).“Dirty Dancing” is a dramatic American dance film, written by Eleanor Bergstein, produced by Linda Gottlieb, directed by Emile Ardolino, starring Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey in the story of a young woman who falls in love with a dance instructor at a vacation resort. The film’s pro-choice storyline stoked controversy at the time of release and has only become more urgent in the intervening years. Premiering at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival, “Dirty Dancing” was released in the US on August 21, 1987 and went on to earn more than $214 million worldwide while becoming the first film to sell more than a million copies in the home video market.

Emotional Rescue and Konduko’s final series of the music of Noel Williams / King Sporty, looking at later electro productions, homes in on the hip hop / boogie influenced Sun Country. With vocals and co-production by long-time partner Betty Wright, this infectious rarity comes in vocal and instrumental and a long form remix by Bay Area disco dub stalwarts, 40 Thieves.A long way from his Jamaican root in reggae and soul, Noel Williams is rightly lauded for his releases of funk and disco, through to electro, but more he is heralded in the Miami music history as the godfather of Miami Bass. Sun Country exemplifies that, this homage to the warm climbs of the Sunshine State, utilises the electronic emulations of the breakbeat, claps accenting the backbeat, as a showcase to the TR-808 drum machine.Highlighting the shift from disco to the influence of hip hop, with funk and boogie, the TR-808’s low frequencies and handclaps underpin the almost deadpan delivery of Wright’s vocals. Released on subsidiary Tashamba Records, it was part of a highly successful electro period for Williams.The Instrumental stretches things out even more, the interplay of the electronics, bass, vocal samples, scratching and fx, using the vox as a cut up, percussive element of its own. The programming and sequencing, with light reverb, delay and phasing, create enough synthetic ensemble for the synthesized strings.As with all the Konduko 12” series, the B side is given to contemporary artists that can bring a mix of the old and the new via a re-edit meets remix. Sun Country felt the perfect platform to request 40 Thieves to show their understated, understanding of electro funk. Known for a series of disco dub releases for the likes of Leng, Permanent Vacation and Public Release, here Corey Black and Layne Fox representing, bring the bass, echo and fun to their Discomix, building, stretching, flipping and dubbing for a nigh on 10-minute electro-dub megamix.

Brazilian Disco Boogie Sound is a compilation that brings together nine of the most important and obscure hits of the Brazilian Funk-Boogie-Disco scene during the years of 1978 to 1982. Following its acclaimed release in late 2014, Favorite Recordings now present a great additional 12inch single package, including exclusive extended versions by Nick The Record, Waxist and Charles Maurice. The 3 DJs provide new exclusive extended versions of Painel De Controle, Rabo De Saia, and Famks’ killing originals tracks.