Chakachas ’Jungle Fever’ [Greg Wilson Re edit]

Greg Wilson - Credit To The Edit Vol.3 (Tirk - 2018) Available here: This is a track that goes all the way back to the Proto-Disco era of the early ‘70s, a million-selling US hit that scored big in the discotheques both there, and across the Atlantic in Europe. Chakachas were a Belgian group of Latin-flavoured musicians, starting out in the late 1950s as The Chakachas, and achieving moderate European success, issuing a number of recordings throughout the ‘60s. However, ‘Jungle Fever’ was the pinnacle of their career, its funky downtempo groove and seductive vibe irresistible, resulting in a top 10 US hit. The record also made it to the top 30 in the UK, but it stalled when the BBC took exception to the song’s sexual moans, groans and heavy breathing, banning it from the airwaves and thus stunting its progress. A favourite from the early days of David Mancuso’s seminal Loft parties in New York, acknowledged as key to the evolution of the Disco era, which beg