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DD0546 Dusk Dubs - Stretch

[ Stretch ]

Podcast: Dusk Dubs
Artist: Stretch
Title: DD0546
Style: Soul, Disco, House, Funk, Love
Time: 139 Minutes
Date: 2019-02-10

Dusk Dubs returns with another incredible journey through sounds. As always, our guest provides us with music that has a special place in their memories and in their souls. Music that moves them, that invokes images of sunrises, sunsets, good times and good people. We then play each record, in full, giving it breathing space and allowing it to shine.

This week we invite producer and AKO Beatz record label owner Stretch, to celebrate Valentines and compile a personal and wonderful mixtape celebrating 'Love'....

"After being asked by the Dusk Dubs guys to choose some of my favourite music around the LOVE theme, it got me thinking, do I look for rare music or do I go with music I remember when I was growing up.

I went with the latter and decided to go through different genres. One thing I realised is that the 1980’s and early 1990’s was a big influence on me. I remember growing up and Ella Fitzgerald, Minnie Riperton & Marvin Gaye being played while my mum or dad cooked. My brother was an avid record collector and great DJ. I would often look through all his crates of records, and play them when he wasn’t home as I wasn’t allowed to touch them. I fell in love with this music, from artists like Loose Ends, Keni Burke, Rick Clarke, Maze etc and got lost in the music.

As this went on, I started collecting music and DJ'ing on a couple of sound systems as I decided music was my escape. Alexander O’Neil, Micheal Jackson, Janet Kay, Sade and Bobby Brown were always being played in my room. There was a lot of 90’s Soul/RnB I could have added but that was too easy.

In the early 90’s I met 'The Reinforced Crew' and my life changed, 4hero's music was on another level and I always got excited when Marc and Dego finished new projects. Nuyorican Soul - 'I Am The Black Gold Of The Sun' (4hero Remix) was simply a breathtaking remix, even the story behind it made it even more special. I also met King Britt via Reinforced, and we’ve become good friends/brothers, his album 'King Britt Presents Sylk 130 - When The Funk Hits The Fan' was like a soundtrack of my life, and the song "New Love" was me in the kitchen talking to my mum about the music before I was born.

I really hope you guys enjoy this playlist as it means so much to me."

[[ Stretch ]]

You can find Stretch HERE:
twitter.com/stretch_ako
akobeatz.com
discogs.com/label/754427-Ako-Beatztz
soundcloud.com/stretch_akoko
mixcloud.com/djstretch23

Tracklisting

1) Ella Fitzgerald – Funny Valentine (1970)
2) The Stylistics – Break Up To Make Up (1973)
3) Minnie Riperton – Loving You (1975)
4) Minnie Riperton – Inside My Love (1975)
5) Marvin Gaye – I Want You (1976)
6) Michael Jackson - Rock With You (1979)
7) Carroll Thompson - I'm So Sorry (1981)
8) Gene Dunlap featuring The Ridgeways - Before You Break My Heart (1981)
9) Patrice Rushen – Remind Me (1982)
10) Keni Burke - Risin' To The Top (1982)
11) Midnight Star – Curious (1984)
12) Cherrelle featt. Alexander O'neal – Saturday Love (1985)
13) Maze – Twilight (1985)
14) Sade – Sweetest Taboo (1985)
15) Loose Ends - Slow Down (1986)
16) Rick Clarke & Emma - I Really Wanna Be WIth You (1987)
17) Regina Belle – Baby Come To Me (1989)
18) Janet Kay - Silly Games (1990)
19) Janet Jackson – Any Time. Any Place (1993)
20) Maxwell - Sumthin' Sumthin' (1996)
21) Nuyorican Soul - I Am The Black Gold Of The Sun (4hero Remix) (1997)
22) King Brittpresents Sylk 130 – New Love (1997)
23) Theo Parrish – Paradise Architects (1998)
24) Moodyman - Don't You Want My Love (1999)
25) I:CUBE - Adore (King Britt's Scuba Mix) (2000)
26) Musiq Soulchild – LOVE (2001)
27) Erykah Badu - Didn't Cha Know (2001)
28) Kofi - I’m Just A Girl (2009)