Label: Athens Of The North - All
Monday Oct 7, 2024
For Mankind & East Coast Love Affair
Musica Para Todos
Drawn upon their mutual loves of house music, dub and weirdo dance music by the likes of African Head Charge, Larry Heard and Sun Ra, ''For Mankind''... more...
| LP | Athens Of The North: AOTNLP069 | out of stock |
East Coast Love Affair & BDK
Love Chug
Two very different House / Disco beasts on this AOTN release, basement or bigroom, both sampling a rare 45 by Sass Band called ''Where Is The Love''.... more...
| 12inch | Athens Of The North: AOTN12022 | in stock |
Tuesday Jun 25, 2024
James Alexander Bright
Straight Line
Electro-boogie-machine that pays homage to 80s and 90s radio. Sweet!
| 7inch | Athens Of The North: ATH138 | in stock |
Thursday Jun 6, 2024
Coast to Coast
Paula Marie
Modern Soul / Disco royalty, written by the talented Mark Beiner and co-writer Ben Iverson about Marks x girlfriend. It is up there with the best mode... more...
| 7inch | Athens Of The North: ATH182 | in stock | |
| Also available @ D\G\T\L | |||
Premonition
Here in the Name of Love
A rare but unknown modern Soul dancer from band Premonition or Premonitions depending on what release they put out. The A side is well written proto d... more...
| 7inch | Athens Of The North: ATH161 | in stock | |
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Ike Noble & The Uptights
Good Thing
Funk and Soul madness on AOTN! On side A it's another brilliant, mid-tempo soul chugger that falls between Syl Johnson and James Brown. On the flip, d... more...
| 7inch | Athens Of The North: ATH153 | in stock | |
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Ike Noble & The Uptights
It's Bad
Funk and Soul madness on AOTN! On side A it's a brilliant, mid-tempo soul chugger that falls between Syl Johnson and James Brown. On the flip, it is d... more...
| 7inch | Athens Of The North: ATH152 | out of stock | |
| Also available @ D\G\T\L | |||
Ike Noble & The Uptights
Money Wont Change You
Funk and Soul madness on AOTN! Side A is a killer, previously unreleased, cover of James Brown's classic ''Money Wont Change You'' stepping up the pre... more...
| 7inch | Athens Of The North: ATH151 | in stock | |
| Also available @ D\G\T\L | |||
East Coast Love Affair / William Stuckey
Love Of Mind / Country
Hot Hot two-sider AA side action! Some house business from Athens of the North studio band East Coast Love Affair sampling William Stuckey's ''Love of... more...
| 12inch | Athens Of The North: AOTN12024 | in stock | |
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Lee Tracy & Isaac Manning
Foxy Lady
Unreleased lo-fi goodness from the Lee Tracy & Isaac Manning catalog with a little drum work in the studio from ECLA to give it a little more oomph. F... more...
| 7inch | Athens Of The North: ATH178 | in stock | |
| Also available @ D\G\T\L | |||
Wednesday Feb 28, 2024
Coast To Coast
Love Is The Same
Amazing floaty modern soul / disco goodness out of late 70s Queens, NY. ''Love Is The Same'', two brilliant and different versions, both dancefloor fi... more...
| 7inch | Athens Of The North: ATH176 | out of stock | |
| Also available @ D\G\T\L | |||
Ben White
I Would Have To Be A Fool
When Ben White was 25 years old when Eddy Bongo Brown of the Funk Brothers brought him to Motown to play with Marvin Gay. Five years later he recorded... more...
| 7inch | Athens Of The North: ATH171 | in stock | |
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The Funnybone Express
All The Way Down
Brilliant rough and funky two sider from Charles Barnwell's band The Funnybone Express. A very obscure deepfunk spin with that splash of modern sound... more...
| 7inch | Athens Of The North: ATH139 | in stock | |
| Also available @ D\G\T\L | |||
Monday Dec 18, 2023
East Coast Love Affair
I Can't Wait (feat. Philomenah)
East Coast Love Affair with a 9-minute epic late-night mid-tempo deep disco chugger, including two percussive house dub workouts with maybe a little h... more...
| 12inch | Athens Of The North: AOTN12023A | in stock |
East Coast Love Affair
Tonight (feat. Theo)
A great CR78 drum work out Electro floater, the result of experimenting during a super late night session by the AOTN crew, with Theo's floaty falsett... more...
| 7inch | Athens Of The North: ATH175 | out of stock | |
| Also available @ D\G\T\L | |||
Thursday Nov 16, 2023
East Coast Love Affair
I'm so Glad
A sweaty peak time party 12 for the start of nightclub season. AOTN have been playing these tracks at their Disco Club at Sneaky Pete's in Edinburgh f... more...
| 12inch | Athens Of The North: AOTN12021 | out of stock | |
| Also available @ D\G\T\L | |||
Thursday Aug 24, 2023
Bobby Boyd
Bobby Boyd (2023 Remaster)
The vocalist, saxophonist, composer and arranger Bobby Boyd's musical adventures began in the mid-60s. In 1970, he formed the Bobby Boyd Congress a... more...
| LP | Athens Of The North: AOTNLP025 | in stock | |
| Also available @ D\G\T\L | |||
Tuesday Jun 27, 2023
Bright and Findlay
Everything Is Slow
Married around a shared love of machine-led funk, outsider soul, 70s/80s nautica and 21st century basement disco, Bright & Findlay (formed of multi-hy... more...
| LP | Athens Of The North: AOTNLP065 | in stock |
Tuesday Apr 25, 2023
TL
Give it Up
Beyond rare modern soul from 1986. Produced by Willie Harpe and performed by Tom Lipkins ''TL''. A cover-up for George Mahood and later Soul Sam under... more...
| 7inch | Athens Of The North: ATH123 | in stock | |
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Monday Apr 24, 2023
Greg Foat and Art Themen
Off-Piste
Greg Foat has always had a great reverence for the musicians that featured on the records he has collected over the years. Whether they were players f... more...
| LP | Athens Of The North: AOTNLP059 | out of stock | |
| Also available @ D\G\T\L | |||
Monday Feb 6, 2023
East Coast Love Affair
Get Down feat. Quiet Storm
Disco action from East Coast Love Affair! Taking the vocal from obscure Minneapolis lo-fi band ''Quiet Storm'' master tape (Big up Numero Group) and b... more...
| 7inch | Athens Of The North: AOTN118 | out of stock |
Wendell Harrison
Rocket Love
A rather obscure and fantastical 45 by American jazz clarinetist and tenor saxophonist Wendell Harrison. A moody dusty fingers style downtempo cover o... more...
| 7inch | Athens Of The North: AOTN126 | in stock | |
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Coco and Ben
Good Feeling
Time for some rare late 70s soul royalty out of Memphis, Tennessee. Ben Robinson was recently tracked down by friends of AOTN, Daniel Mathis and Rober... more...
| 12inch | Athens Of The North: AOTN12019 | in stock | |
| Also available @ D\G\T\L | |||
Andrew Wasylyk
Parallel Light
With ''Parallel Light'', Andrew Wasylyk offers an alternative mix album to 2020's spiritual-jazz and neo-classical masterclass in melody, ''Fugitive L... more...
| LP | Athens Of The North: AOTNLP062 | in stock | |
| Also available @ D\G\T\L | |||
Friday Feb 3, 2023
Bileo
You Can Win / Let's Go
Undisputedly one of the best, across the board crowd and D.J pleasing rare Disco 45s ever cut to vinyl, two sides of AAA grade party smashers. Cut as... more...
| 7inch | Athens Of The North: ATH006NEW | out of stock | |
| Also available @ D\G\T\L | |||
