Disco thread (1 Viewer)

[Wobbler]

loveissucide

I fear you've wandered into a next of stingy disco bees here - was the title not a bit of a give away?!?

There are so many glib misconceptions about the whole disco phenomenon - with this as with many musical genres - it often pays to be open minded and look beyond the immediately apparent...

A great book to correct some of these and a convincing narrative of how it did disintegrate into cheese, cash and crap for real towards the end is Pete Shapiro's turn the beat around. A serious muso (think he writes for wire) and a sharp social, cultural and political historian i think...

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0571211941/?tag=thumpedcom-20

even have a gander at the first few pages where he downs easy misconceptions and sets up the first stirrings of disco as actually quiet a radical voice of some relatively poor and definitely marginalised people

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0571211941/?tag=thumpedcom-20



I'm also not so sure I'd be so sure of the progressive virtues of this synth pop stuff neither especially its noughties incarnation...

But then I'm an old curmudgeon fundamentally!

kp

Or he could just ignore disco altogether, if it doesn't appeal to him, I do that with tonnes of genres. I don't write them off though, just don't listen to them.

Just started Turn the Beat Around, incidentally. Kindly lent to me by Cookiemonster.

 

[Wobbler]

Any links to freebies like free mixes? I've been goin to Cozmic Disco from time to time, they've some great disco mixes.

Deephousepage was mentioned above, I think. You really should check it out, if you haven't already.

 

[Lili Marlene]

also ra-ra-rasputin is the most blindingly brilliant piece of music in existence

you said it John

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[7 - No tomorrow]

Harmless compilations

- Jumpin'

- Jumpin' 2

Amazing.

Truth

Jumpin': Original Full Length Classics from the Disco Underground

1. Keep On Jumpin' - Musique
2. Runaway - Salsoul Orchestra & Loleatta Holloway
3. Disco Juice - Cloud One
4. There But For The Grace Of God Go I - Machine (1)
5. Thousand Finger Man - Candido
6. Touch And Go - Ecstasy Passion & Pain
7. Is It All Over My Face - Loose Joints (1)
8. Love Money - T.W. Funkmasters
9. Got The Feelin' - Two Tons O' Fun
10. Funkanova - Wood Brass & Steel
11. Tee's Happy - Northend
12. Go Bang - Dinosaur L

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=QC3YWUUI

 

[daydream_nation]

Disco?With the exception of Chic and Michael Jackson's Off The Wall it dosn't hold up well,although it did create a culture of innovation in dance and pop which has only been a positive influence and paved the wzy for synth-pop,hip-hop and house later on(Moroder etc).

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FV8tciBFpCI"]YouTube - I'm Alan Partridge - YOUR A MENTALIST![/ame]

in all fairness like...

 

[daydream_nation]

and going back to the business at hand - loving this at the moment

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0um9GB_Ubk"]YouTube - Kebekelektrik - Magic Fly.[/ame]

 

[Bunny]

Truth




http://www.megaupload.com/?d=QC3YWUUI

Thanks fo the link!

 

[shitepipe]

oomph!

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a96OgR6hjDY"]YouTube - IDRIS MUHAMMAD 'COULD HEAVEN EVER BE LIKE THIS'[/ame]

 

[nlgbbbblth]

Truth




http://www.megaupload.com/?d=QC3YWUUI

will try and upload volume 2 at some point in the next few weeks.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

will try and upload volume 2 at some point in the next few weeks.

Do or do not, there is no 'try'.

 

[Lili Marlene]

Do or do not, there is no 'try'.

If at first you don't succeed do or do not again.

 

[quasiquasi]

One aspect of disco - the smooth, elegant, "white" version - is brilliantly captured by this Tom Savarese mix from 1978: http://www.djhistory.com/forum/showthread.php?t=33997

It's not my favourite side of the genre, though; I'd rather go for these:

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUN668kI_X0"]YouTube - Sesso Matto - Sessomatto[/ame]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3MrNSfxbZA"]YouTube - Eddie Kendricks - Girl You Need a Change of Mind[/ame]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dtjDr4rb-A"]YouTube - Peoples Choice - Do It Any Way You Wanna[/ame]

 

[krossie]

I think "Girl You need a Change of Mind" is a stone cold classic - rightly celebrated - its also on last night a DJ saved my Life volume 1 I think.

Actually the two chapters on disco in that book are excellent and are well worth a read too

kp

 

[Wobbler]

I think "Girl You need a Change of Mind" is a stone cold classic - rightly celebrated - its also on last night a DJ saved my Life volume 1 I think.

Actually the two chapters on disco in that book are excellent and are well worth a read too

kp

Didn't think it was on that, but we might not be talking about the same thing (the one I had was on Duphonic I think).

The few disco tracks off that compilation were what really got me into disco in the first place. Tracks like
Class Action - Weekend (Larry Levan Mix)
MFSB- Love is the Message (Danny Krivit Re-edit)
Patti Labelle - Looking for Loving (Ron Hardy re-edit)

All amazing and completely sold me on disco. Haven't heard or seen that Ron Hardy version of the Labelle tune elsewhere.

You're right about Girl You Need A Change of Mind being a classic.

 

[krossie]

Aha - I think there were two of them - the original free CD with the book and then a more recent two volume for sale thingy...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B000OT8LBC/?tag=thumpedcom04-21

kp

 

[Wobbler]

Aha - I think there were two of them - the original free CD with the book and then a more recent two volume for sale thingy...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B000OT8LBC/?tag=thumpedcom04-21

kp

There we go. Looks deadly, by the way.

 

[Tayor Bodytonic]

this is my favourite

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captures everything i love about disco . funk , groove , percussion , deep & hynotic , and ultimately just wants to be gay as Xmas . plus like all the great funk / disco tunes it wasnt just a loop , it went through different changes and directions. they dont make em like that anymore

 

[nlgbbbblth]

 

[shitepipe]

they should give out medals for this kind of thing

 

[platters]

Some great shit on this thread, thanks. Here's some more

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I keep going back to this mix by Rahann, it's incredible

http://www.dhpmixes.com/mixes/RahaanLOVINTHIS.mp