FSQ and Soul Clap Records present “Reprise Reprise Tonight” (Album)
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“Reprise Reprise Tonight” is a new album with 12 remixes of the 7 original tracks that appeared on FSQ’s 2020 album “Reprise Tonight” and it is now available at music retailers and music streaming services.
Featuring appearances by #FUNK legends George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic, Nona Hendryx, Fonda Rae, Dolette McDonald and many more, this new remix album “Reprise Repriese Tonight” album showcases quality production work by dance music superstars including disco mix inventor Tom Moulton, Traxsource #1 Nu-Disco artist Birdee, Soul Clap’s Charles Levine, Jalapeño Records stalwart Dr Rubberfunk, the cosmic Ray Mang, and the globetrotting genre bending pioneer Jitwam.
Please continue reading this post for Shine Music PR’s press release about the album, which details even more incredible dance music producers who added their remix works to “Reprise Reprise Tonight”
Press Release via Shine Music PR:
LOVED BY <3 DANIELE BALDELLI, HOT TODDY, LAY-FAR, DANIELE MOORE, LEX, KASSIAN, WILLE GRAFF, CHRIS COCO, SIRS, CRAIG SMITH, FISH GO DEEP, HARRI HARRIGAN & SLOTHBOOGIE
ARTIST: FSQ
TITLE: REPRISE REPRISE TONIGHT
LABEL: SOUL CLAP RECORDS
RELEASED: 23RD SEPTEMBER
FORMAT: DIGITAL
Ten years in the making, the debut long player from Funk Style Quality aka FSQ was released in 2020, the album featuring an all-star cast of funk legends: George Clinton & Parliament-Funkadelic, Nona Hendryx, Fonda Rae, Denise King, and Dolette McDonald. The album was the brainchild of two of the most influential forces in Soul Clap’s musical journey, Chuck ‘Da Fonk’ Fishman and Sa’d ‘The Hourchild’ Ali (RIP). The original concept tells the story of someone with one last chance to have the party of their life! Now Soul Clap Records proudly present Reprise Reprise Tonight the remixes.
Kicking off with the king of Nu-disco Ray Mang, and his Reprise Tonight (Second Time Around Dub). Mang makes use of the slo-mo funk and delivers a timbale-tinged remix led by the vocals of Philadelphia's disco and jazz chanteuse Denise King. Michael The Lion worked his remixes of Reprise Tonight and Vibe Out Now early in the album process, and here he ups the energy with an early 90s piano house rub of the title track, plus his new rework of Vibe Out Now that extends the original, turning it into a sleazy after-hours disco-house affair.
Sa'd The Hourchild Ali shared the tracks early on with Tom Moulton who quickly turned in his A Tom Moulton Mix of Vibe Out Now and The Infinite Reprise. Moulton refines the FSQ approach and shows that less is more, as he pairs back the orchestral strings to their most melodic elements and strips back the layers of this epic tune. Birdee goes in a different direction on Dancefloor Democracy, with a Nu-disco version for those who want a more vigorous workout. Dr Rubberfunk's mix of the same cut captures the heart of the original sessions at FSQ’s G Koop's in Oakland California, where both Funkadelic Billy Bass Nelson and George Clinton's son Trey Lewd laid down the guitar lines.
Jitwam’s Trouble Remix of Dancefloor Democracy speeds up the rhythm with cosmic synth pads and new guitar parts providing the perfect backdrop for interplanetary vocalists and living legend George Clinton and his son, Trey Lewd. Charlie Soul Clap isn't afraid to dial up the tempo on Peel Back which features Nona Hendryx. His Breakbeat for Ya Feet flies at 130 bpm and is set against a grainy old school beat that puts the tune right back in ’97! Lee Curtiss turns in a Prince inspired effort of What They Don't Know led by Talking Heads vocalist Dolette McDonald.
Closing out the package, DJ Rocca rinses FSQ and Fonda Rae (Over Like a Fat Rat, Touch Me) 11:00 AM, turning in a lush Italo disco cut with huge arpeggios, wide analog riffs, beautiful pads, and big electro drums. Fonda Rae sounding totally at home in DJ Rocca's Italo Disco zone.
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