dj ShmeeJay‘s Ain’t No Big Thing radio show, live on the 2nd and 4th Thursday of every month from 8pm – 10pm (PST) / 11pm – 1am (EST) on BoxFrequency.fm, and with a podcast syndicated on iTunes.
This episode i host DJ, producer, record label owner and local disco pioneering based in Costa Rica Napoleon. Straight out of the depths of the tropics at the late 2013, DJ, producer, record label owner and tireless crate digger Napoleon turns promptly into the Costa Rican and Central American disco pioneering gaining serious reputation worldwide through his highly acclaimed 7″ vinyl release Sudden Edit 001, the very first ever Costa Rican disco edits vinyl that arrived to record stores worldwide.
As producer, his music knows no frontiers and has been released on vinyl and digital format by well-know record labels in the game such as Kolour LTD, Editorial Records, Editor’s Kutz, Wall Of Fame, Masterworks Music, The Queen & Disco and also his own Wonderful Times record label being the first ever Latin American born and raised producer with signed music on those record labels.
Napoleon also runs Wonderful Times, the first ever Costa Rican disco edits record label and party in town with released music supported and played by scene heavyweights such as Nicky Siano, Mark Farina, Soul Clap, Nick Monaco, Jay West, Lovebirds, Jacques Renault, DJ Nature, Obas Nenor, Marcel Vogel, Fouk, Kraak & Smaak and many more. On the decks, Napoleon’s distinctive sound are usually a blend of records from peaktime vintage-sampled disco and infectious boogie to high quality funk-flavoured deepest house and somewhere in-between always pitches things down and focuses on the dancefloor.
Look for Napoleon on SoundCloud, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter as well as on his blog For Devotional Use Only.
Also look for Napoleon’s Wonderful Times on SoundCloud and Facebook.
Napoleon‘s set is his little secret, but if you ask nicely maybe he’ll tell us.
dj ShmeeJay‘s set:
Ed Wizard & Disco Double Dee – Love Me Too [Whiskey Disco Small Batch]
Chewy Rubs – Any Way You Know (Re-Dubed) [Deep Sense]
Massimo Vanoni – Free My Mind [Hot Digits Music]
Drop Out Orchestra – Be Free with Your Love feat. Vinny Vero (Opolopo Dub Remix) [Tokyo Dawn]
Corbi & Gray – Make Me Do It [Hot Digits Music]
Nebraska – Stop Playing With My Heart [Friends & Relations]
Francis Inferno Orchestra – So Divine [Dikso Records]
His Dirty Secrets – Fantom (African Woman) [Masterworks Music]
Pontchartrain – L&H [Rocksteady Disco]
Deelicious – Can’t Live Without You [Hot Digits Music]
Napoleon – Wonderful Woman [Wall of Fame]
Magnetic Soul – Stratisfied [Dab Hand]
LTJ – Get The Funk [DiscoDat]
Cat Stevens – The Wind (Jon Brown Edit) [Treehouse Muzique]
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Mirum tempora,
folO Olof
