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Almost a year has passed since the last show, and a lot has happened in the meantime! What we have for you: Tons and tons of Discofunk, Latin grooves and sweetest soul choons a la original, reedit or remix - selected exclusively for you by Cuebism, garnished with a sweet touch of Gloria on the microphone! We'll rather let the music speak for itself instead of writing a book here. So: Enjoy this 43rd edition of Ebony Cuts and have a good day!

DJ Friction german DJ legend, remixer and producer feeling the funk 24/7 has done it again with a killer selection of rare boogiefunk from the italo-side of the early 80s underground sound! Enjoy!! Contact DJ Friction via: www.djfriction.de and www.myspace.com/djfrico

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Meet Lady Midnight! Raised on a steady diet of male vox power ballads, Lady Midnight eventually abandoned Foreigner for the intriguing sounds of Menswear. At university, she would get into promoting with the weekly disco night Elevation. Installing herself as resident, Lady Midnight would happily provide bottle upon bottle of pale ale for the likes of Danny Wang, Idjut Boys and Terry Jones and occasionally even spin a few love songs. Now residing in the beautiful city of Stockholm, Lady Midnight spends her time handing out records in exchange for small amounts of cash while searching for the perfect lipgloss to impress other ladies.

Having been a DJ since the mid 80s, collecting since 1977 and managing the legendary Reckless Records in London for 17 years, it is about time you meet the mighty Zafar Chowdry, the true mastermind behind all those recent P and P compilations on Suss'd Records as well as the amazing 'Deep Disco Culture 2' sampler! This man truly knows his trade, so expect nothing less than A1 first class joints from this killer guestmix for Ebony Cuts!

Finally! Alan Champ - the one and only six million disco man graces us with his appearance at ebony cuts! He has the technology to produce a mix better, stronger and deeper! So don't mess with this bionic bizniz from England! Check out the legendary six million steps website hosting some of the best mixes that can be found anywhere on the web: http://www.sixmillionsteps.com

Joseph Colbourne hails from Boston, Massachusetts (where he's just been elected for Boston's best DJ), spreading great cheer through his love of soul, funk, and disco. A DJ for five years and a collector for longer, this man chooses cuts with spirit, depth, and energy, and broad appeal for the dancefloor. His selections are both rare and classic and specialize not only in 70s northern-soul inspired disco but in the 80s boogie sound. Or to cut a long story short: Expect nothing less then the true A1 quality 100 percent original and genuine, ultra-rare HOTNESS! Check out his blog: http://josephcolbourne.blogspot.com/

Loeb and Smeedow, providers of the finest Stockholm Soundtracks to date and masterminds behind http://www.mixtape.nu deliver us a vintage discodub masterpiece deluxe! If you missed these steady suppliers of funkyness at the last Stockholm Båtklubb, here's your chance to sit back and relax to their smoking vintage dub mix! Don't forget to peek at their myspace-site for their latest dates in Stockholm: http://www.myspace.com/mixtapenu

Nick The Record enters the ring covering us with a swift series of deepest cuts and beats! Here's a man who knows what he's doing - apart from his countless productions and remixes over the last ten years, his 60000 strong record collection has gotten him a name amongst DJs, collectors and producers all around the world. So make sure you check also out his very own recordshop at http://www.djfriendly.co.uk for some of the world's most sought after jazz, folk, afro, soul and funk killergrooves!

Superdisco Paolo from London - one half of the funky TUTTO MATTO from Tummy Touch and Jam Block Records, dropped a clusterboogiebomb on us with deadly precision, filled with hundreds and hundreds of discofunk bomblets so tightly mixed together not even Kate Moss could fit in between! Don't try this at home! Superdisco Paolo on myspace: http://www.myspace.com/supersuperpaolo Tutto Matto on myspace: http://www.myspace.com/tuttomatto

Rickard Masip put his 16 years of digging, his countless years at Stockholm's legendary Recordmania Records and his passionate love for DJing together and stirred up a heavy mix of as he calls it 'american-sounding music of the 70s from every place in the world BUT the U.S.' The result was the final and definite proof of global funking being in full effect! Afrobeat meeting Cumbia meeting funk and disco! Do not miss his monthly residency at Stockholm's Raw Fusion! Contact Rickard Masip via rickardmasip@hotmail.com

DJ Friction german DJ legend, remixer and producer feeling the funk 24/7 has done it again with an astonishing special about the legendary BC Records label by Began Cekic! An exclusive musical journey through the back-catalogue of one of the obscurest labels of the golden age of disco and boogie! see also: http://www.djfriction.de and http://www.myspace.c om/djfrico

It is now almost one year ago that we published discopatrick's debut mix which caused a great stir among collectors and djs alike and has already gained legendary status. Now we are proud to present the second masterpiece of this internationally acclaimed DJ, collector and author of nearly encyclopedic proportions! We strongly recommend you to keep an eye on this man in the future as his mission is not yet accomplished!

Dan Zacks, creator of the magnificent Waxing Deep radioshow with it's legendary 'too many good records' editions serves us the funky fruits of his digging-trips to latin America! Just in time for the release of Waxing Deep's very own compilation 'Si, Para Usted - The Funky Beats of Revolutionary Cuba', an exclusive selection of rare and yet unheard Cuban funk! Get this compilation via http://www.waxingdeep.org

Many generations of disconerds and souljunkies alike have spent barrels of drool over his display of rarest soulmusic 12inches and 45ers at www.soulmusiccollector.com where you can also download the archived editions of his very own Soulful Grooves radioshow! Enjoy!