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Community Spirit Productions

super disco joints - hand rolled in london

About Me

NEW EP - SUMMER 2006!! the 'soho sessions' ep
"the 'with a princess' track is my personal favorite...when i heard it I thought empty beach, Ibiza, Balearic heaven!" alastair whitehead (errr... legend!)
"another awesome release - Hobo Voyages is amazing!" sonny wharton (various worldwide - worldwide)
"Pretty Good Thing (Mom Learn To Love Mix) is kick ass.... a real good buzz on the dance floor... gonna be big!" Afi Khan (Master Floppy - One Central / The Arch / Tiger Lounge - Manchester)
who? a group of friends who who've been djing, making tunes, and getting sweaty on dancefloors together since the mid 90's... sharing a love of music, especially that of the house variety... inspired by each other, our parties and the people listed on the left... we started producing tunes to play out, and chill out to ourselves.... we've now got over a hundred tracks, some signed, some not... check the stuff out on our myspace player and at our website where theres a new player with lots more new + old material... album coming soon...
there's an online photo album here : community spirit flickr photo album
we're not a label - we write and produce tracks and promo them thru whitenoise promo . we hope a label will pick the tracks up and give them a full release. we've released tracks on lots of labels, including west end records in new york, bedrock in london, and our latest stuff feat alison limerick (more info below) is soon to get a release on the lovely miss moneypennys.
our productions range in style from balaeric down-tempo afterparty stuff to proper dirty dc10 dance your tits off house music... with support from dj's ranging from desyn masiello and his awesome bedrock records compilation + mix thru to rob da bank and his seminal blue room show on radio 1 (see 'sounds like' on the left for some more info on what people have had 2 say).
our stuff is based round live studio sessions, although we produce the f-ck out of anything we record.
so... community spirit : we have been lucky enough to work with some amazing musicians. we go to ibiza a lot. we like it :) esp es vive, space, km5, dc10, the blue marlin, dc10, the terrace... dc10... mid day mondays. you know what i'm talking about....! anyway, the community... to mention a few : monsieur mickey disco who we met while he was playing his magic sax at a bar in the alps while we were snowboarding. it took about 10 records until we realised the sax was live. he rocks... the amazing sherrod, who sings like an angel. unbelievable. we try out literally 100's of singers (everyone seems to 'sing' these days...!) but sherrod is something v special indeed. on a par with miss alison limerick infact...

alison limerick... what can i say? alison is a proper legend of the dance music world. bona fida. it's bizarre really but 'where love lives' is one of the tracks that stevie symons (our resident podium dancer) always used to drop at the end of his sets at cheeky (the party) back in the 90's. it became a cheeky/bless this house (the... errr... other party!) classic. what a fucking tune. we were gob smacked to find ourselves actually in a recording studio with her! alison, we love u hon. she's a perfectionist, and always wants to get it 100%. a true professional. a diva :)
i've got to tell u about wai. mr iti... sax player, just alround incredible musician. u have got to check out his batacuta sound machine project ... he's just arrived on myspace, so go easy on him ;) he's over for womad + some london gigs at the end of july. check him out. he rules. he's also promised a session to wrap up and re-record a lost wai moment from '2002 (it can't be that long!) on a track called 'speak and spell'. watch this space.

got to mention al. salty. mom. makers of movement . remixer extraordinare. check his mixes. right on the money mate.

SOME DJ MIXES & RADIO SHOWS
some of our favourite dj mixes and radio shows featuring community spirit tracks. click the right arrow to play, or the down arrow to download....

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 5/15/2006
Band Website: community-spirit-productions.com
Band Members:

community spirit is midge, spoons, kelly, plus all the amazing musicians, djs and artists we've managed to talk into working with us along the way ;o) too many to mention them all here, but they include sherrod, wai, mickey disco, paulas flute, frabrice ze bass, the amazing miss alison limerick, simon the keys, new jo h, sitar blair... theres dj stevie symons, jv (africa - nice 1 vern), stu (thx for the boz scaggs sample mate), jonah and tom who did the graphics... check our site for more info, and our new online photo album here : community spirit flickr photo album
Influences: city sounds record shop - holborn, london - the best record shop in the world!
uptown records - soho, london
blackmarket records - soho, london
vinyl junkies - soho, london

ibiza! km5, space (of course), dc10 (messy), the jockey club at 5 am monday morning :-)

silicone soul
kerri chandler
roy davis jr (gabriel!!)
black vinyl records
junior boys own
daft punk
etienne de cracy - in all his guises from motorbass to superdiscount
mood ii swing
kruder + dorfmeister
nightmares on wax
alison limerick
nick holder
danny tenaglia
masters at work
dimitri from paris
mixmag!
super discount
groove armada
derick carter
dubtribe sound system
depeche mode
atmosfear
coldcut
hexstatic
kid loco
boards of canada
human league
bob marley
the beastie boys
john barry
rythim is rythim
xpress 2 - ashley
diesel and rocky - massive influences!
new phunk theory
atjazz
future funk
naked records
laurent garnier
mickey disco - we love u mate!
wai!
francois k
joe claussell
subliminal records
danny kravitt and the whole body and soul crew. what a club!
tom middleton
massive attack
bill brewster
kraftwerk
mark farina
roy davis jnr
stevie wonder
jimi hendrix
david bowie
the smiths - mr marr....
the stone roses
g-stone
nick holder
prince
ibadan records
kerri chandler
c+m productions
limos - the night goes on - what a tuuuuune!!
milk + sugar
airtight records
scott grooves - mothership reconected - wow
edwards world
the scumfrog
deep dish
shakedown
royskopp
michael jackson
young mc
defected records
propellor heads
james brown
pink flloyd
roni size
tears for fears
joe smooth - promised land :)
tiefschwartz
the cure
the doors
sugar hill records
tom and joyce
atfc
stetasonic
farley and heller - sunshine - classic!
bronski beat
the chemical brothers
west end records
bedrock records
gorgio moroder
guidance recordings
kings of tomorrow
marshall jefferson
fazed idjuts
cassius
siesta records
hooj
paul jacobs - soul grabber - what a wicked tune
halo
house of 909
de la soul
altern 8
duran duran
air
t-rex
van morrison
nrk records
pulp
happy mondays

we could go on, and on, and on....!
Sounds Like: you decide - have a listen, and let us know what you think.... there are tracks on our myspace player, above, on our website player, and there are dj mixes in our bio on the right...

here's what a few dj's and magazines have had to say about our latest work (there's tons more blurb on our website, so pop over there if you've got some time on your hands!)

Eddie Temple Morris (XFM - London)
"Original mix is best and definitely worth a spin on the The Remix."

Tim Deluxe (Various - Worldwide)
"Liked this very much. Wicked tune!"

Miguel Pellitero (DTPM @ Fabric, FICTION @ The Cross)
"joyous loop is a proper dirty, sweaty number...very much like David Alvarado on steroids... its been on the plate for about 20 minutes now and its still grabbing my attention. Genuinely good and in my next chart."

Jim Shaft Ryan (Miss Money Pennys / Chuff Chuff UK)
"Excellent tracks, will fully support. Lots of rotation for Joyous Loop and Time To Choose, but for those chilled moments Reefaschmoka goes down."

Marco Smith (colours scotland , phunked up - edinburgh)
"love this one guys in my funky chart at number one been tearing the floors up the vocal mix works well and if you want to get a bit dirty the dirty spirit mix just does that 10-10"

Colin Sales (Colours - The Arches, Candybar Glasgow, Bar Square Glasgow, After Shock Arenas at Godskitchen GG, Creamfields. - Glasgow and Paisley)
"Quality track - really nice crisp beats and percussion. Amazing vocal - great disco style track. Big support from me!"

Cliff Bush (Confusion - Various)
"This track has got great potential to be a huge release for Community Spirit. A lot of people have commented on how excellent both the production & return of Alison Limerick is. Certainly gonna be on my playlists for the coming weeks. Keep them coming :-)"

Dean Facer (United Colors Of House + Various (Worldwide) - Newport Pagnell)
"The Soho collective turn out yet another floor shaking gem...... Many thanks indeed...."

Dave Clarke (Galaxy 102.2)
"One very adictive piece of music that has the proverbial remix for everyone. Mine is the dub mix. Tasty!"

Marc Roberts (Various - UK and Europe)
"Charted this on the basis of one play. Has a real special feel about it. Could be a real grower like DubTribes Do it now. Very strong production too."

DMC Update - March 2006
Reviewed by Lewis Dene (various - London)
Community Spirit 'What Can I Say' feat Alison Limerick Community Spirit UK

DJ Mag April 2006
Community Spirit 'What Can I Say' feat Alison Limerick Community Spirit UK

And the 'Roach Material E.P.' :

DMC Update, January 2004
Community Spirit 'The roach Material E.P.'


Record Label: various inc west end, bedrock, moneypenneys
Type of Label: None

My Blog

new tracks on the player

EP PREVIEW -  THESE ARE UNMIXED PREVIEWS lol, so listen with a little love in your ear drums :)  New EP on the way v soon...Altho we've not been doing much myspacing, we've been hard at it i...
Posted by Community Spirit Productions on Wed, 31 Jan 2007 08:52:00 PST

new community spirit e.p. 'the soho sessions' MYSPACE FRIENDS ONLY ltd promo - FREE DOWNLOAD

we are doing a limited promo of our new 4 track e.p. 'the soho sessions' to our myspace friends ONLY... before whitenoise promo get their hands on it and mail vinyl and cd's out to every tom dick and ...
Posted by Community Spirit Productions on Wed, 05 Jul 2006 06:43:00 PST

new e.p, alison limerick, radio 1 and other news...

now that we've recovered from the devil isle its time 4 some community spirit news - we've been hard at work promoting 'what can i say' feat alison limerick, getting lost in myspace world, and gett...
Posted by Community Spirit Productions on Fri, 30 Jun 2006 06:14:00 PST

NEW ben wijay remix of 'what can i say' feat ALISON LIMERICK

ben wijay has just finished a wicked jazzy downtempo remix of our alison limerick track  'what can i say'.  check it out over on his player : http://www.myspace.com/justmuzik3 the track has ...
Posted by Community Spirit Productions on Thu, 29 Jun 2006 05:06:00 PST

ibiza madness

Just back from a long (crazy) weekend on the devil-isle er Ibiza, for the opening parties. As far as I can remember, we had a pretty good time! Hilights : Laurent Garnier rocked it at pacha on Frida...
Posted by Community Spirit Productions on Wed, 14 Jun 2006 11:58:00 PST