At Long Last: The Kon Edits

"A world pre-premier..., A world-world-world premier-premier-premier" - Anonymous

This guy... This fucking guy... He gets the master tapes for these pristine, timeless, near perfect songs, and then somehow someway makes them different, more modern, dare I say... better? Thats what Giles Peterson dared to insinuate when he first dropped this new batch of edits from Boston DJ and crate digger Kon on his acclaimed show BBC Radio 1 over a year ago.  I forget whether he was referring to Kon's rework of Chic's "Good Times" or Cerrone's classic disco tune "Hooked On You", or maybe it was George Benson's "Give Me the Night" I don't remember they were all that amazing.
Since then the tracks remained unreleased. Only a few choice DJ's around the world have been given full copies of the songs.  But now, they are slowly starting to trickle out. There have been a few to come out so far (Staying Alive, Sunlight, and maybe one more I'm forgetting about).  The latest is released tomorrow. It is an edit of Sylvester's "Mighty Real" and the Light Touch Band's "Chicago", and its Hot.  With a capital "H".  Just check out this tight music video...

P.S. Also look for collaborations of his w/ Boston based the Whiskey Barrons, under the guise of Nite Time

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