Here's some lovely good times grooves from New Jersey in the mid '80s, "Go For It" by Eros. As the story goes, Eros coalesced together as a high school four-piece during the mid '70s around a shared love of soul, funk, rock, disco, and bands like Earth, Wind & Fire and Funkadelic. The band members, Assanouan G’Bado, Fletcher Gaines, Bobby Jones and Mike Freeman used to jam together after school, and sometimes gigged in New York, before dispersing for a time after school.

In the late '70s, they reconnected with the goal of getting a deal with Motown. To that end, Eros recorded an album and flew to Detroit. Motown was interested in their songs, but the offer wasn't quite right. The music was shelved, and Fletcher and Bobby moved on. Left to their own devices, Mike and Assanouan went the self-released route via their own DAP Records, and a single that re-imagined two of the Motown demos with fresh sonic and rhythmic architecture via drum machines and overdubbing. "Go For It" which exists on this release in '85 and demo versions, was their take on disco, and with the '85 supercut, they took the originals AOR-slanted atmosphere and refreshed it for the new decade and the proto-rave years.

Mixed Signals describe that mix of "Go For It" as "a transcendent dance floor illusion, that, in an alternate universe, would have turned dancers at the Paradise Garage upside down," and the framing checks out. Of particular note is how the '85 version is an act in two parts, disco opulence melting into drum'n'synthmatic magic at the halfway mark, letting singer Barbara Green's vocals float like magic over the late night boogie. This is the first of two releases from Eros scheduled for Mixed Signals, so hopefully we'll be getting more of the good stuff later in the year.

"Go For It" is out now in 12" and digital versions through Mixed Signals (order here)