Cosmic Fantasy

One of the greatest records, in my opinion, is Johnny Hammond's funky 1975 jazz album Gears. This album nicely blends together jazz, funk, soul, and disco together to produce a masterpiece that many music lovers can enjoy. I was excited about finding a used original copy of the record about a year ago, and it remains to be one my personal all-time favorites that currently resides in my collection. This is exactly the reason why I was just as excited to see one of my favorite "newer" disco groups, being Faze Action, recently remix one of the standout tracks, "Fantasy", from this record. For me, the combination of the two coudn't be any better. The good people over at Juno released this remix just about a year ago. With this remix, Faze Action does a nice job combining there signature "disco-house" groove to the original funky jazz-fusion classic. The Lee brothers that make up Faze Action seem to always produce amazing music and edits, and the same goes for here as there remix of "Fantasy" continues to be a personal favorite. Overall, it's an amazing and refreshing new take on an all-time classic.

Johnny Hammond - Fantasy (Faze Action Disco Edit)
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Stratus Lovin'

One of the best "nu disco" (or whatever it's called these days) groups, in my opinion, Faze Action, just released a new CD/digital-only album entitled Stratus Energy. This well produced album is a collection of the many amazing twelve-inch releases the group has released over the past 3 years including standout tracks like "Disco Warrior", "Hypnotic", and "Keep It Coming", combined along side some newer album-only cuts which include "I Wanna Dancer", "Starship" and "Danaes' Journey" among others. The only real criticsm that I have concerning this album is that it includes a lot more vocal focused tracks then what I generally am used to hearing from this group. I'm not saying the vocals are bad, I'm just saying I tend to enjoy their instrumental tracks like "Keep It Coming" and "Stratus Energy" a bit more than, say "Hypnotic". Overall, Robin and Simon Lee bless us again with another quality release and one the year's best albums.

Here is an instrumental B-side mix of the one of the album's many excellent singles,"Good Lovin'". ENJOY!

Faze Action - Good Lovin'(Instrumental mix)