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Hey all! I had a great time as a guest on the podcast, Records Revisited! It's a great show, where they bring on music heads to chat about a fave record. They asked me if I'd wanna do the first Dead Boys album, and being the "Nah, let's go even more obscure" kinda guy, I chose the unfairly under-loved second Dead Boys album, We Have Come for Your Children. So give it a listen -- click on that headline. Starts a little slow, really gets going!

Compilations have always been a huge source of new music for me. In high school I started obsessively collecting the Sire Records "Just Say..." compilations which led to collegiate collection of the Volume comps. I'm hopscotching through history now, but eventually label and magazine-style comps gave way to artist and deejay curated compilations like Back to Mine and Late Night Tales.

Over the holidays I picked up my favorite cosmic disco connoisseur DJ Harvey's "Mercury Rising: Volumen Tres" on vinyl and dislodged a new favorite track, the slinky disco-fried bossa-funk of "You Know Why (Disco Version)" by Pino Presti featuring Roxy Robinson. Harvey's compilation was released in 2021, but the single was originally released in 2018 as part of a release of unreleased extended disco tracks from Presti's 1977 archives.

As a deejay and record collector, nothing is as exciting as when a gem as pure as this one that's been all but forgotten is unearthed. When I was listening to Harvey's record for the first time and this track came on, it was like sticking my finger in the socket, my body started twitching and soon I was dancing across the floor imagining hearing this in smoky sweaty discotheque with Harvey at the helm.

I couldn't dig up much on Roxy Robinson (aside from some incredible album covers) but she nails the sultry disco diva vibe.