Disco Heaven 01.04

But it doesn't dtop there - how can anyone not get up and dance to stuff like "Rockin' Music", "Mad Love For Ya" and "A Higher Place". All classics.

That really says it all about the DH series and this disc in particular - put in on and GROOVE. Yet another to highly recommend.


Dance Music you wont be ashamed to have on your self   March 28, 2004
Mr. L. Johnson (Liverpool, UK)
25 out of 25 found this review helpful

I have a good range of Hed Kandi, from the excellent Winter Chill 06.03 to the fantastic mix album of Hed Kandi World Series 1. My personal recommendation would be to get the latter album to see which style of kandi suits you best... Anyway, Disco Heaven! As far as i can tell, this is Kandi's label for VERY funky house. Its feel good music for everyone. Not your average "Best Dance Album Ever 7". You wont find any commercial crap in here, nor any nasty trance. If you like trance and think Judge Jules is God's other name this will probably make you sick! Heavy beats and bass with uplifting vocals, bang this CD on (my personal belief is that CD2 is infinately superior to 1, but 1 is still a class silver plate of goodness) when you're out on the tiles. This is house uptotheminute, with the latest trends, ie all your sampled guitars and tonal balances and what not are here along with the uber cool sampled easy lover :-) You wont find this a great album to sit down to or think to simply because you cant sit still to it. My entire family love this album, indeed my mother is dancing around to it now :-S If you fancy something darker then there is the twisted discos and deeper houses of this world, but this is just as they say..FUNKAY.
Incidentally, the best tracks in MY opinion would be Rocking Music, Red Light, make Your Move, Easy Lover, KeepPushin...oh wait thats half of CD2..get my point? Anyway, get it. 5 stars unquestionably


Take this one HOME   March 24, 2004
Mr. Iyare A. Umweni (London)
9 out of 9 found this review helpful

WOW AGAIN!!
When this was released I went into a record store and listened to it at the listening post – man!! I was dancing and shaking my thing right there in the store - I just couldn’t help it.
From the first track on CD 1 - Sara Devine - Take Me Home (MAW Mix) -
(which is one of the most infectious I have EVER heard – I keep singing it and longing to hear it again.)
the amazing quality of the production on Kandi compilations becomes clear.
The Disco Heaven series really is the cream of funky 21st century disco.
Other highlights are
MAW presents India - To Be In Love (Knee Deep Re-edit)
Martin Solveig - Rocking Music
Kentish Man - Easy Lover (Official Club Mix) – Be prepared to be surprised by this !!
Sounds Of Blackness - I Believe (Classic Gospel Mix)
and a wonderful mix of Shara Nelson - Down That Road.

If you are new to Hed Kandi - this is a GREAT introduction - welcome and enjoy.
For the people who already know what's good for them – and have fallen in love with the Kandi experience - you know the drill!!


More of the same!   March 3, 2004
dougc (Herts, UK)
6 out of 9 found this review helpful

Another 22 tracks of the calibre we have come to expect from Hed Kandi. If you're not sure about Kandi or have never bought an album before - BUY THIS. I got the CD in the post this morning and have been sitting at work tapping my feet all day - even as I type!

I recognised a few tracks on the pre-release listing but have taken to orderng all of the Kandi albums on site now since you can guarantee that all the tracks will be top notch.

More of the same please Hed Kandi - and soon!!

Oh yeah, the disco angels get better by the album!!


Onwards and Upwards for Hed Kandi   March 2, 2004
16 out of 17 found this review helpful

For a label so associated with the uber-cool and the ultra-trendy with its celebration of the finest dance genres in the world today - deep house, acid jazz, chill and US garage - it's always a risk treading that fine line between chic and cheese with a 'disco' compilation. Fortunately, the Disco Kandi series is never an ordinary foray into the world of glitterballs and retro-soul dance beats. What we have here, as usual, is a collection of the finest producers of the house scene doing their twist on what we call Funky House. Incorporating every old-school black music genre on offer (blues, jazz, gospel, funk) and bringing aboard some of the biggest unsung heroes of modern soul to work their vocal magic, what we have is a cross-section of how today's dance fans do it with some class and sophistication. Forget your glowsticks and your sweaty ceilings: this is about the music, man.

The beauty of Hed Kandi is not knowing all the names on the tin but still knowing exactly what you're going to get. Producers like Rasmus Faber and Martin Solvieg might be new to even the most discerning Kandi fan, but one listen to both tracks and you know you've found that song you've been singing along to these past few months. Rockin' Music, in particular, is the highlight of this album, where Solveig does disco Michael Jackson-style. Mainstays such as ATFC, Bobby & Steve and Inaya Day make compelling reappearances in the series and Masters At Work also reappear with a Knee-Deep re-working of what is possibly the greatest dance tune of all time - To Be In Love. A song that shouldn't be touched, is - with brilliant results. Pure 70's, pure modern soul, pure disco.

Finishing touches, as usual, come in the shape of a couple of rare classics, gospel versions of tracks by Sounds of Blackness and Shara Nelson. There aren't many places this uplifting power-soul would fit into a compilation, but for Ms Kandi they are a fitting end to another superb series. Bring on the next night at Pacha... and I'll see you there, if you're cool enough to get in. ;)