Played this on my last episode of Full Bag on Skylab Radio and it also features on a forthcoming mix for Daisy Records' Inner Sound Series.
This was a small press prize after a full blown Discogs rabbit hole.
I was first led via a great Radio Jiro Dad Rock Special to an extended edit of Exile's classic Kiss You All Over which appeared on obscure Australian label Community Service Records.
One of the artists, Damian Matthews, featured on a few small Australian labels in the early 2000s.
He appeared on this Millenima compilation, the label's only release, as Damo Diggler with a track called Ho Down.
Nothing from the release was available online, but fortunately there was a seller who was travelling to Melbourne regularly and I managed to grab a copy from him in the car park of a mammoth warehouse in Campbellfield.
He bought a friends collection and had no real idea about the record, but clearly his friend had given it a good run as its riddled with BPM and key stickers. He also explained the label was blacked out because his friend used to colour in his records so that others couldn't tell what they were.
Ho Down turned out to be a boring edit of Boz Scaggs classic Lowdown. But Just You And Me is a tasteful, distorted, disco deep house gem.
The Genre, aka Enzo Pannazzo, aka D-Genre, also released a version of this as Just You & Me on their 2002 album Leisure Play, which has undistorted and sometimes autotuned cheesy vocals at the front of the mix. This rip seems like an elegant and understated dub version, even if it was released so much earlier.
I'm so lucky to be able to share it with the web.
