Disco disco

[DeadManWalking]

gotta be the weirdest juxtaposition ever, even for Richie

I think he played it too, I played it on the big link up on Thursday.

 

[GM_woman]

Hamilton Bohannon. Lets start to dance/Lets start to dance again.

My fave disco classic!

LONDON RECORDINGS HLX10582

 

[Dubversion]

I think he played it too, I played it on the big link up on Thursday.

ah, missed you dropping it. but i do recall you playing a fine - and very random - set!

 

[Pieface]

Grace Jones is

La Vie en Rose is one of my favourite songs in the world

 

[DeadManWalking]

ah, missed you dropping it. but i do recall you playing a fine - and very random - set!

I can't say I recall much at all, but jusdging by the state of my records I played them or just took them out and threw them about a bit

 

[Dubversion]

I can't say I recall much at all, but jusdging by the state of my records I played them or just took them out and threw them about a bit

same here that night - i cunningly stood under the canopy to DJ, avoiding the rain, with my records handily positioned behind me. Erm... in the rain

 

[DeadManWalking]

same here that night - i cunningly stood under the canopy to DJ, avoiding the rain, with my records handily positioned behind me. Erm... in the rain

Shhhh, it didn't rain right?

 

[Dubversion]

Shhhh, it didn't rain right?

poured down.

 

[Spandex]

I did a search but couldn't find anything of the subject of disco. Anyway, could any of the fine people of U75 recommend me some disco tunes for me to get my funk on. I don't know much about this genre but would like to know more

I love disco.

Growing up in the 80s it was pretty much received wisdom that Disco Sucks, and what little you'd hear on the radio would be shit like Leo Sayer or songs that were so overplayed in the late '70s (Bee Gees, Village People) that the very sound of them made me cringe. So I figured, no sir, disco's not for me.

Then one day (or rather night) in the mid 90s I heard Jeff Mills drop Dancer by Gino Soccio in amongst the techno. Well fuck me, if disco wasn't the greatest sound I'd ever heard. All these years I'd been so wrong.

Like modern dance music there was loads of commercial crap about (you'll find it clogging up those Greatest Disco Hits... Ever compilations), but beyond that there are loads of lost classics. Also like modern dance music; it was a singles genre and most (all?) disco albums are rubbish.

Some other disco tunes that I love:
Phreek - Weekend
Kleeer - Keeep Your Body Working
Rahni Harris - Six Million Steps
Munich Machine - Get on the Funk Train
The Undisputed Truth - You + Me = Love
Telex - Moskow Disko
Cloud One -Atmosphere Strutt
Musique - Keep on Jumpin

 

[killer b]

Thanks for pissing all over my recommendations.

sorry, maybe i was being overly harsh.

i think i'm a snob.

 

[saucisson]

with thanks to orang utan
this site will probably meet all your requirements for a while
http://www.sixmillionsteps.com/mixes.htm some great disco mixes and Greg Wilsons timecapsule is brilliant

 

[AverageJoe]

KC & The Sunshine Band - Get Down Tonight

"Do a little dance, make a little lurve - get down tonight"

 

[killer b]

my current favourite disco track is kool and the gang - open sesame. it has a horn section which kicks your fucking head in.

(and the gang)

 

[tarannau]

Kool and The Gang were much better when they didn't have that vocalist (JT Taylor?) signed up. They were much harder and funkier before - JT Kool the man on bass - before they followed the route of so many of funky bands into making disco-based commercial nonsense.

Disco did suck. The only saving grace is that is that disco quickly beat itself in a gorgonzola frenzy that nobody could stomach; reaching its nadir as the Bee Gees and that white suited Travolta gimp killed off any prospect of it being resurrected. Travolta helped kill disco, relegating it to a cheesy footnote in provincial nightclubs everywhere. Best thing he's ever done if you ask me.

 

[hammerntongues]

Manu Dibango - the Big Blow / Sun Explosion
War - Galaxy
Edwin Starr - Contact
Charles Earland - Let the music play
Michael Zager Band - Lets all chant

 

[maya]

BTW, what's "italo disco"? it's been mentioned a lot of places, but i have no idea what it is...

...is it disco with italian lyrics (duh), or something else (like a whole genre with a specific/pre-determined sound)?

 

[killer b]

much more electronic - the giorgio moroder type stuff.

 

[Nixon]

james brown
earth wind and fire
chic

if your looking to do it soopa soopa cheap,you can probably get one of those compliations from charity shops/virgin and start there.

i lurve disco music

 

[maya]

(double post)

 

[killer b]

(double post)

i can't see the first one, silly.

 

[Boogie Boy]

Well. I've completed the first cd, which isn't strictly disco but concentrates on the period 1972 to 1975 and some of the records which are clearly influences from which disco drew upon and developed further (the Sound of Philadelphia etc).

1975/1976 is the turning point!

BB

 

[killer b]

boogie... i'm in need of some new cds...

 

[Boogie Boy]

boogie... i'm in need of some new cds...

Once I've finished I'll post up the tracklistings, I'm sure we can then arrange a swap of some kind KILLER.
BB

 

[killer b]

i'm not ninjaboy!

but yes, i'm sure we can.

 

[Boogie Boy]

i'm not ninjaboy!

but yes, i'm sure we can.

Apologies there Killer, I don't know what happened. Do you like 'Jazz Funk' too?

(Original message edited to put mistake right!)

BB

 

[killer b]

sometimes. i like jazz, and i like funk... i tried listening to 'jazz funk mastercuts' once, but only really found half of it to my taste.

i like most things, when they're done well...

 

[maya]

i can't see the first one, silly.

i asked what "cosmic" was (in a disco context),
but became worried i might've commited another grave faux-pas by asking something so silly about something that basic-

espesh as this is the music forum, where hardcore anoraks/trainspotters/record geeks sneer and turn their noses up if you say something that might reveal a slight ignorance/deviation away from a near-autistic A-Z knowledge of everything Musick(TM)*

(*ooh, shoot me now- the above sentences are a pain to read, and i'm ashamed to say, bordering on the baroque-but-inelegant side of things...grr)

 

[Boogie Boy]

i asked what "cosmic" was (in a disco context),
but became worried i might've commited another grave faux-pas by asking something so silly about something that basic-

espesh as this is the music forum, where hardcore anoraks/trainspotters/record geeks sneer and turn their noses up if you say something that might reveal a slight ignorance/deviation away from a near-autistic A-Z knowledge of everything Musick(TM)*

(*ooh, shoot me now- the above sentences are a pain to read, and i'm ashamed to say, bordering on the baroque-but-inelegant side of things...grr)

On this forum? Never!!!

BB

 

[killer b]

have people been bullying you for being dim, young maya? tell me who it was, i'll batter them...

 

[maya]

have people been bullying you for being dim, young maya? tell me who it was, i'll batter them...

oh thanks, but i'm a pretty rough and stubborn little thing, i'll manage...

anyway, i'd be too dim to remember their names, like...

guess one gets these better-than-thou snotty fashionista cliques pretty much anywhere, so it's no use even bothering to get annoyed IMO- although i do get pretty pissed off at all the rubbishness and stupidness of it all...ze eeeeediots!
and i'm ashamed to say that sometimes i'm even tempted to join in w/the bitching chorus a bit...but i try not to