Moplen – A Minute / Cant Hide

Having returned from a 4-year break in August with its latest release from GW & Henry, A&R Edits follows up with a debut for Moplen. With a recent remix of Frankie Knuckles ft. Jamie Principle and a Salsoul Reworks EP, Luca Moplen has been gaining new traction of late, so it felt fitting to release two of his evergreen edits on vinyl for the first time. Moplens edit of Tavares classic disco stomper It Only Takes A Minute coupled with Greg Wilsons edit of Moplens edit of Larry Levans mix of David Josephs You Cant Hide (Your Love From Me), if you can follow all that! An all brother group hailing from Providence, Rhode Island, Tavares were a band that evolved with the disco sound, hitting their peak in 1976 when both Heaven Must Be Missing An Angel and Dont Take Away The Music became huge club favourites. They scored their first R&B #1 in 1974 with a cover of Hall & Oates Shes Gone and in 1975 they returned to the top of the R&B chart whilst going top 10 pop and scoring a #2 Disco hit with It Only Takes A Minute. In 1992 a cover by boy band Take That would gift them their first top 10 entry, many people unaware that this track had first been recorded 17 years earlier. Rising to prominence in Brit-funk band Hi-Tension, David Joseph soon found his footing as a solo artist after theyd split, with his first release being You Cant Hide (Your Love From Me) in February 1983. That same month, Greg Wilson appeared on The Tube, mixing between two copies of this very record the first time mixing had been demonstrated on British TV. It would subsequently enter the UK chart, climbing into the top 20. The track would then be remixed by legendary Paradise Garage DJ Larry Levan, resulting in a #2 placing on the Billboard Dance chart. Upon hearing Moplens extended dub edit, Greg worked further into it reintroducing the song given his history with the track it was unthinkable that hed play it without the vocal. The result is a unique version where Moplens dub sets the vibe during the first half of the edit before the song is finally introduced.