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Joy Retro Disco presents What You Waiting For by Gwen Stefani
I’ve been cleaning out my iTunes over the last couple of weeks – desperately trying to squeeze another couple of gigs room on my hard-drive – and this song just jumped out at me while I was trawling through the least-played lists last night. I know it’s a noughties song and so is barely retro, [...]
Joy Retro Disco presents What a Wonderful World by Axwell & Bob Sinclair feat. Ron Carroll
Joy Retro Disco presents Uplifting Tunes for your Weekend I must have first heard this tune when I was having a really bad day, as I recall my initial thoughts of it being “bloody useless hippy crap”. However, my bad day passed and after hearing this 2008 dance anthem a few more times, I really [...]
Joy Retro Disco presents I Can See Clearly Now by Johnny Nash
Uplifting tunes for your weekend. Oh, it was tough to decide which version of this uplifting tune to go with this week, but I had to go with the original by the dude who actually wrote and performed the original hit, Johnny Nash. Nash had a number one hit with I Can See [...]
Joy Retro Disco presents Shackles (Praise You) by Mary Mary
Uplifting tunes for your weekend Take those shackles off my feet so I can dance. Okay, I may not be about to praise “him” because I’m, like, an atheist, and as a feminist, I would have difficulty believing in a patriarchal all-loving, all-condemning god. But. I love this song because it taps into a joyful [...]
Joy Retro Disco presents H.A.P.P.Y. Radio by Edwin Starr
Uplifting tunes for your weekend! Soul singer Edwin Starr might be more well-known for his 1970 classic, War (What is it good for), but it’s this little 1979 stomper that I love. I’m not sure what it is about this tune but it has been well and truly stuck in my head all week. It’s [...]
Can’t Stop Moving by Sonny J
Joy Retro Disco presents: Uplifting tunes for your weekend! I thought I’d get a little bit modern with this weekend’s tune and play something new(ish). This little sampled leg-shaker from Sonny J is one of the most infectious pop-dance tracks I’ve heard in recent years. I’m not sure if it’s because it samples one [...]
Time to start enjoying your work?
Is consciousness around work finally beginning to shift? Could we be starting to see work as something that doesn’t have to be a drudge or a means to a financial end? Perhaps. The uncertainty of the current economic climate seems to be influencing people’s decision to stay in jobs they are not happy in. It [...]
Valentine tune: You + Me = Love by Undisputed Truth
Joy Retro Disco presents: Uplifting tunes for your weekend! Twas the night before Valentines and all through the house, not a creature was sleeping, not even a mouse. Oh, it’s been a frantic V Eve here at Club C’ran. With the day of the valentine tomorrow, we’ve been a-looking for a festive tune to bring [...]
Proud by Heather Small
Joy Retro Disco presents: Uplifting tunes for your weekend “What have you done today to make you feel proud?” asks Ms Small, in this anthem to self-belief and the power of positive change. I thought this was a fitting tune for this weekend as the show that made it a mainstream earworm, The Biggest Loser, [...]
The first disco record? Soul Makossa by Manu Dibango
Joy Retro Disco presents: Uplifting tunes for your weekend Could there be a better way to start off the weekend than with the tune that is often credited with being the first disco record in town?? I’d never heard of the 1972 hit, Soul Makossa by Cameroon sax player, Manu Dibango, but it only takes [...]
