Hold onto your paper party hat, as things are about to get officially real. Real Talk(TM)

AC Mtl has been quietly wading in the weekly waters of Blizzarts for the last few weeks, tweaking record choices, tuning visuals, hanging banners and preparing for this Thursday.

You are emphatically invited to usher in the launch of our new weekly night, taking the best discoid jams from fore and aft and filtering them through the cheesecloth of good times, rump shakery and the tender brains of our most special DJ guests.

Touching down from Minneapolis on golden wings will be none other than Jeff Dubois, sultan of sonic sultriness. Jeff is the founding member of Attitude City minneapolis, has been DJing since the Olsen Twins were zygotes and knows how to set the roof of your brain on fire via vinyl and critically lauded edits.

This is bigg’un, so don’t hold back, tie up your shoes, tell your liver you’re sorry in advance and take your place as the godfather/mother of our new funky baby.

This one has been completely re-worked and layered with a truck-load of sound-effects and synths. Please feel free to use and share…

Write-up per Mark Warren:

‘Freestyle Rhythm’, a 1979 New York radio hit, was the second single released by Mantus. As it so happens, it was also the very first appearance of John Benitez (better known as Jellybean) who is credited for mixing the song. However, I did not grow up in Brooklyn listening to WKTU. I had randomly stumbled upon this a few years back in a store of dusty, neglected records. The company picture sleeve displays mirror images of a bronzed-skin, hair-frenzied disco goddess wearing a skintight red and black striped body suit and the bold typography lays it all out: Disco, It’s Hot! I figured it was as least worth a listen.

From beginning to end, its balls to the wall disco. It’s got a nice party vibe without the unnecessary attitude. Its not well known and certainly not valuable, but I’ve always had a soft spot for that which
goes unnoticed. With repeated listening, I discovered elements I so very much loved in addition to those that weren’t so captivating. So its been thoroughly restructured and I have to admit that I have taken
the liberty of being anything but subtle about it.

Mantus “Freestyle Rhythm” (Space Echo Edit) 06:32, 126 bpm, 320 kbps

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(If you missed any of the past 7, here are are all our previous edits)

Disco’s Ghost
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There once was a phantom of disco
With kids in Chicago and Frisco.
One day the old ghost
Struck out west for the coast
To connect with his grandson Francisco.

He found his way to a warehouse sized room
By tracking the 808’s boom.
He knocked three on the door,
And then four on the floor,
But the gate stayed as shut as a tomb.

Just beyond the door danced a fair crowd,
Though the house music playing so loud
Was the reason that ghost
Stood outside without host
To beckon him out of his cloud.

“These confounded children of mine,
With quantized drum rhythms in time,
Forget there’s a soul,
And a sub-bass they stole,
From Mancuso’s old musical shrine!”

But just at that moment a diva,
Arrived from a club in Geneva,
She let out a wail,
For some beats and some ale,
Else she level the place like the Shiva.

Suddenly the grand door opened up,
And Fran offered Disco a cup;
Saying, “sorry, Grandfather
But sometimes I rather
Mistake a ‘lock-down’ for lock-up!”

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Not everyone understands House music; it’s a spiritual thing; a body thing; a soul thing…….

Disco’s Ghost
Friday, August 28
Zoobizarre
6388 St. Hubert (metro Beaubien)
$5

With the sonic stylings of:
David Shaw, Davey Lähteenmaa, Adam Hodgins and Alexandre Lemieux