pal joey (aka joseph longo) came up in the heady days of new york street culture, amidst b-boying, boom boxes and an unusually entrepreneurial spirit of beat-making. beginning with crude “pause tapes”, he was soon making tracks with drum machines and sampled vocals, all painstakingly assembled with razors and reel-to-reel. working at vinylmania, where larry levan might be found shopping for records in his pajamas, helped joey’s entrance into the city’s nascent house music scene, and he was soon working with everyone from krs-one to sade to the orb, whose “little fluffy clouds” he tweaked for stateside tastes.
true to his city’s inclusive spirit, pal joey consistently blurs the lines between disco, house and hip-hop, dropping scraps of old soul and recent rap alike over his skipping drum patterns and head-nodding keyboard lines. joey’s records (under his principal moniker and also aliases like earth people and soho) have appeared on jive, epic, talkin loud, wave and coco machete. he also has run three labels of his own - loop d’ loop, cabaret and footstompin records.
limited pressing, be quick!

three extremly funk bombs !! first up is the mooqee & russ cuban edit - tweaking the best bits of the original, dropping a bit more vocal and generally adding some of that bombstrikes magic, this has been killing wherever it gets played. over on the flip is the kw griff original, which with a higher tempo and raw feel also does what its supposed to. also on the b side is the track footstompin, a catchy as hell 50s vocal with a relentless rhythm

'ama_zone' comes with a massive clubmix, which is a footstompin tech houser with a catchy filtered hook. this sure works on every dancefloor. the flipside provides the dubmix with minimalistic flavour and swirly vocoder vocals as well. harder and more quirky than the original club. both of the mixes are highly recommended and powered by the big names: dj antoine, fergie bbc1, greg churchill, disco boys, tunebrothers, jca, tom novy, hernan cattaneo, judge jules, azzido da bass

footstompin swing house ... fresh drive floormonster

phat darker footstompin tribal progressive !!

brill harder footstompin tribal styled techno!!

royal' is some high-class clickety-clack minimalism of the higest order gaining the world-record for the fullest, most powerfull bassdrum ever. joining force with beatzar on 'dormouse' the guys get funky on your ass with a galopping beat and a massive bassline. 'i can' is a footstompin house banger. i could have kept this way shorter by telling you that ricardo villalobos already drops this - now you know this is big!

brill deeepr footstompin soulful house

footstompin punkhouse / part 1 and 2