Label: Athens Of The North - All

Thursday Mar 29, 2018

Donnell Pitman

Love Explosion

O.k Straight up disco banger that is way beyond most paycheques on 45. As featured on the Numero Group compilation Ultra-High Frequency's. Numero actu... more...

7inch Athens Of The North: ATH059

Hampshire & Foat

The Honeybear

Warren and Greg retreated back to the Isle of Wight to start work on long discussed concept album based on a fictional children's book The Honey Bear.... more...

LP Athens Of The North: AOTNLP013

Thursday Mar 22, 2018

Junior Mendes

Copacabana Sadia

Luiz Mendes Jr or ''Junior Mendes'' was a ubiquitous figure in the Brazilian Soul / Funk scene of the 70s and early 80s, contributing to compositions... more...

LP Athens Of The North: AOTNLP015

Tuesday Mar 6, 2018

Prophets Of Peace

Get It On

Two unreleased recordings dug up by the team at Numero Group for their Purple Snow comp (GET IT), these were begging to be put on 45. Recorded at Audi... more...

7inch Athens Of The North: ATH060

Creators

Just You & Me

Another tape extracted from the Sony vault for the first time since the records was released in 1980. A Floaty disco masterpiece that has been on the... more...

7inch Athens Of The North: ATH058

Ice

Reality

First ever official reissue of Ice's rare and in demand North Carolina born soul funk jam 'Reality' via Athens of the North Records and Magnetic Recor... more...

7inch Athens Of The North: ATH062
Also available @ D\G\T\L

Aaron Broomfield / Broomfield Corporate Jam

I'm Gonna Miss Ya / Does Anybody Really Know

More fire from Aaron Broomfield's archive, here we have two sought after sides. 'I'm gonna miss ya' was transferred from tapes by Aaron himself and is... more...

7inch Athens Of The North: ATH050
Also available @ D\G\T\L

Love Company

Love Tempo

Should not need any introduction to deep disco heads, huge spin for red Greg, Floating Points, Jeremy underground etc.. Love Tempo is this years bange... more...

7inch Athens Of The North: ATH061
Also available @ D\G\T\L

Benita

Time for a Change

You probably don't know this disco banger, I think there is about 4 or 5 known copies on 7'', everyone who has a copy has been keeping it quiet. I fir... more...

7inch Athens Of The North: ATH055
Also available @ D\G\T\L

Wednesday Dec 6, 2017

Wilma Dias

La Massagiste

A rather fruity Brazilian, French spoken erotic version f Painel De Controle single we put out a couple of years ago that sits somewhere between euro... more...

7inch Athens Of The North: ATH054

Thursday Nov 9, 2017

Pure Essence

Third Rock / Wake Up

We have always loved Pure Essence so delighted to be able to revisit the LP track and 45 as a 7'' with Third Rock (Less rare but imho better track) on... more...

7inch Athens Of The North: ATH049

Thursday Oct 12, 2017

Earth, Wind & Fire

Brazilian Rhyme (Unreleased Extended Mix)

Huge, The full unreleased version of the o.g bboy classic 'Brazilian Rhyme' straight out the Sony tape vaults ( I made that sound easier than it was).... more...

7inch Athens Of The North: ATH043

Thursday Sep 7, 2017

Raw Soul Express

Let Go

LTD 500 - My two favourite tracks from the Unreleased Raw Soul Express LP (released last month) on our format of choice, blink and they will have disa... more...

7inch Athens Of The North: ATH053

Broomfield Corporate Jam

Stop

Vocalist and mult- instrumentalist family the Broomfield's might be new to you but Deepfunk heads know the deal. The six Broomfield siblings (vocalist... more...

7inch Athens Of The North: ATH052

Thursday Aug 3, 2017

Raw Soul Express

Best Kept Secret

Athens of the north and Symphoncal Records are proud to present the long lost Raw Soul Express LP in a special limited Vinyl only release. Mastered pe... more...

LP Athens Of The North: AOTNLP012

Tuesday Jul 4, 2017

Willie Dale

Let Your Light Shine

The Willie Dale 45 was discovered about 7 years ago. A good friend on the scene in Manchester won the first copy from ebay after which a few of us cha... more...

7inch Athens Of The North: ATH042
Also available @ D\G\T\L

Nubia

The Time Is Right

'Chicano Soul Floaters' have to be one of the smaller sub genres of my Disco collecting but Nubia is probably the best example out there. We managed t... more...

7inch Athens Of The North: ATH045
Also available @ D\G\T\L

Douglas and Lonero

This Time

Double sided crossover magic (I have been slacking on crossover records). Douglas and Lonero had a few releases, An LP a couple of 45s on Columbia but... more...

7inch Athens Of The North: AOE026

Monday May 29, 2017

Zebra

Simple Song

I released Zebra over 10 years ago on 12'' year ago when at Jazzman Records but deicded to do it on the original format with a brand new master as its... more...

7inch Athens Of The North: ATH047

Henry Thomas & Rise

My Dreams Are Clouded

Henry Thomas low key 45 on Raptown records has until now been a featured in the record boxes of Deep Boogie and Two Step Dj's who know the deal, it's... more...

7inch Athens Of The North: ATH046
Also available @ D\G\T\L

Hampshire & Foat

Galaxies Like Grains of Sand

Multi talented UK Jazz Pianist Greg Foat has teamed up with Mercury Award nominated ''The Bees'' member and multi instrumentalist Warren Hampshire to... more...

LP Athens Of The North: AOTNLP010

Tarika Blue

Truth Is The Key

Two gold standard musical compositions I won't insult by labelling with a genre. 'Truth is the key' is one of my favourite tracks period, the Arp solo... more...

7inch Athens Of The North: ATH026

Wednesday May 3, 2017

Elbernita ''Twinkie'' Clark-Terrell

Awake O Zion

Gospel Disco time Again!!!! After the sucess of ''The Power of You're Love'' we deceded to pull out a couple more of our gospel disco dancefloor favor... more...

7inch Athens Of The North: ATH048

Friction Band

Watchin You

Super rare (pretty much unknown) mid tempo vocal modern soul / Disco Floater with a great sweet soul flip. I have been looking for this one for a long... more...

7inch Athens Of The North: ATH044
Also available @ D\G\T\L

JOB Band

Live at The Point After

JOB's musical journey started as students at the famed Booker T Washington High School in Tulsa, Oklahoma. United by a shared love of soul music and s... more...

LP Athens Of The North: AOTNLP011