Label: Athens Of The North - All
Monday May 29, 2017
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 | out of stock |
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 | out of stock |
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 | out of stock |
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 | out of stock |
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 | in stock |
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 | in stock |
Wednesday Mar 8, 2017
Hard Drivers
Since I Was a Little Girl / Straight Talk
This Disco Funk Banger was discovered reasonably late in the game on the Deepfunk scene,. Vivian Lee's big powerful vocal over the pushy backing is wh... more...
| 7inch | Athens Of The North: ATH040 | in stock |
Friday Feb 10, 2017
Frazelle
Today Is The Day
HUGE record if you're into disco, modern or just good fucking music and you probably don't own unless you work in the city or spend half you life look... more...
| 7inch | Athens Of The North: ATH041 | out of stock |
Monday Jan 30, 2017
Fruit
What You Gonna Do
The Fruit Band's fleeting existence was only recently revealed by the discovery of a few unsold copies of their sole 1978 single, Say It, which quickl... more...
| 7inch | Athens Of The North: AOTN42 | out of stock |
BAB
Party and Get On Down
One of the best mid-tempo disco raritys (and we mean rare) to come out the Deepfunk scene. When Keb Darge first played 'Party & Get On Down' in the ea... more...
| 12inch | Athens Of The North: ATH12003 | out of stock |
Wednesday Oct 26, 2016
Fruit
If You Feel It Say Yeah
Two massive Unreleased 12'' inch disco bangers from the obscure florida band Fruit, cut loud and deep like a true disco 12 should be. The Fruit Band's... more...
| 12inch | Athens Of The North: ATH12002 | out of stock |
Thursday Jul 28, 2016
Spirit of Love
The Power of Your Love
Recommended by: Jeremiah R
Gospel is not something we often delve into at AOTN, I like the odd track but to make the grade it has to be really good. I used to play 'He's Alright... more...
| 7inch | Athens Of The North: ATH035 | out of stock |
Nobody
I Saw You
During the 1960s the American popular music scene was overtaken and dominated throughout most of the decade by a creative surge emanating fromDetroit.... more...
| 7inch | Athens Of The North: ATH033 | in stock |
Stephen Colebrooke
Shake That Chic Behind
Two odd Island bangers previously only avaible on the VERY rare Stephen LP you almost certianly don't own. Athens of the North is happy to drop these... more...
| 7inch | Athens Of The North: ATH032 | out of stock |
Thursday Jul 7, 2016
Raphael Munnings
Nassau Funky
You will almost certainly know the 1971 song ''Funky Nassau'' by Beginning Of The End which was deservedly a worldwide hit gaining airplay in many cou... more...
| 2x7inch | Athens Of The North: ATH002 | out of stock |
Ray Barretto
Pastime Paradise
Stone cold classic, although Pastime Paradise has been reissued a couple of time on compilations every single reissue has used the rocky LP version wh... more...
| 7inch | Athens Of The North: ATH028 | out of stock |
Tuesday Jun 14, 2016
Larry Young
Turn Off The Lights
Two essential and eternal classics from New York Hammond legend Larry Young with vocals by the talented Linda ''Tequila'' Logan. Rare groove standard... more...
| 7inch | Athens Of The North: AOE008 | out of stock |
Symbol 8
I Thought You Wanted To Dance
Recommended by: Gustav Goodstuff
Did somebody say AOTN 12''. For our first large format singe we bring you the unreleased full length version of the original Symbol 8 classic ''I thou... more...
| 12inch | Athens Of The North: ATH12001A | out of stock |
Tuesday May 24, 2016
TSpoon
If You Dance Tonight
Our second and final release from Billy Bruner T'Spoon out of his obscure Oil Capital Record Label. 'If You Dance Tonight' is almost unknown boogie sp... more...
| 7inch | Athens Of The North: ATH031 | in stock |
Fruit
Fruit
The Fruit Band's fleeting existence was only recently revealed by the discovery of a few unsold copies of their sole 1978 single,Say It, which quickly... more...
| LP | Athens Of The North: AOTNLP007 | out of stock |
Little George n' The Mixed Generation
Listen
Another Virtue super rarity this month, so obscure it's not even well known on the Funk45 scene although noted collectors Ian Wright and DJ Shadow hav... more...
| 7inch | Athens Of The North: AOE019 | out of stock | |
| Also available @ D\G\T\L | |||
New World
The World To-Day
The very Definition of Deepfunk this record was a huge spin for Keb Darge in the Early 2000s. Not only brilliant, but very very rare ($2000+), respect... more...
| 7inch | Athens Of The North: AOE018 | out of stock |
Tuesday May 10, 2016
Rasputins Stash
Hidden Stash
It's a big one, a third previously unreleased Raspuitins stash LP, half of which was thought to be lost. Just recently it turned up in a Chicago wareh... more...
| LP | Athens Of The North: AOTNLP006 | out of stock |
Mr. Wigg & Co
You've Got a Lot of Living
Crunchy outsider disco that's always been popular with those in the know. Getting strong spins through the various iterations of the euro soul scene a... more...
| 7inch | Athens Of The North: ATH022 | out of stock |
Tuesday Mar 29, 2016
Brief Encounter
We Want To Play For You
Disco Grail is an overused word but in this case it's a fact. The Two best track from the LP every serious disco collector covets. It took a long time... more...
| 7inch | Athens Of The North: ATH029 | out of stock |
