EF Records is an independent record label founded in 2009. Based in LA and Charleston, SC, EF Records artists DJ, host parties, and produce music in a wide range of genres including electro, house, and disco.
Just in time for 4/20, our favorite puffed out gent, JeffET, has a couple of new disco edits available for download. You may remember these tracks from previous mixtapes by the aforementioned dude. Well, Jeff has retouched them, and wants you to take them in your arms tonight. Get them while you can:
Brazillian Rhyme (Bozo Meko Remix) (JeffET’s Bongo Edit) by JeffET
Take me In your Arms Tonight (JeffET’s Bear Hug Edit) by JeffET
Available for download here.
Monday was a particularly nasty day in Charleston, weather-wise. A winter storm blew through, freezing bridges and basically bringing the city to a standstill. To help keep warm, I whipped up this extended edit of America’s 1974 soft-rock classic “Tin Man” and basked in its soothing rays for most of the afternoon. I tried to keep it true to the original, adding a little percussion and some late-night surf sounds to bring out the song’s latent beach vibe. I’m pretty excited about it, so I thought I’d go ahead and share it here. Remember: dancing keeps you warm!
America – Tin Man (Party Dad’s Oil Can Edit) by Party Dad
Congratulations are in order for one Party Dad of Electric Friends Records for his first feature write-up! Well done, sir. And an excellent job on the article by our good friend, Paul Pavlich.
Click here for the article in Charleston Scene.
Tonight, Party Dad will be performing at the Sale Soiree benefit fundraiser 7PM-10PM. Electric Friends will be spinning the officially after party and fashion show beginning at 10PM at O-Ku, hosted by Charleston After Dark. The party will feature fashion by the lovely Anna Lassiter, one of Charleston’s emerging designers who currently sells her work at Eden Boheme. The show will involve some models actually walking around, mingling with partygoers rather than walking on a runway, which I think is a pretty novel approach to displaying your fashion in its natural habitat. Well done, Anna.
Hey! Party Dad here with the first installment in my series of musical history lessons here on the EF blog. This week I want to talk about one of my favorite forgotten soul singers, the great Esther Phillips.
I first discovered Esther last year on one of my frequent trips to the dollar bin at 52.5 Records, and since then I’ve become a little bit obsessed with her. I’ve done fair amount of internet research on her, and the more I find out, the more amazed I am that she isn’t worshipped as a goddess by soul aficionados worldwide. I mean, she recorded 21 albums over a 30-plus-year career, and ten of the over two dozen singles she released cracked the U.S. R&B Top Ten, including four Number Ones! Perhaps the problem was that she was too versatile for her own good, and record companies never knew how to properly promote her.
The track I’m sharing today, 1976′s “Boy, I Really Tied One On,” is probably my favorite. It’s a tale of morning-after regret that’s both sad and funny, like a lot of the best Esther Phillips tracks. Priceless lines like “allow me the pleasure/of taking your measure/though I’m sure you ain’t nobody’s treasure” (keep in mind she’s saying this to someone she just woke up next to!) are set over a backdrop of eerie synths and chilling guitar harmonics, a killer clavinet bassline, plenty of strings and horns (this is a disco track) and a beat that would almost sound at home on a Bmore club track. It’s my personal hangover anthem, and I hope you like it as much as I do.
Esther Phillips – “Boy, I Really Tied One On (Party Dad Edit)”
More Esther after the jump!
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