I'd take the chemise track off just cuz I consider it more electro-boogie 80sness but that's just me. Great track tho, obviously
― brimstead, Saturday, 27 August 2016 22:57 (seven years ago) link
I was going to cut CHA and Slave, but I just realized I need to add Double Exposure - My Love Is Free... fuck it would kill me to cut 'She Can't Love You'
― flopson, Saturday, 27 August 2016 23:09 (seven years ago) link
save it for a sequel show maybe? electronic disco branches...
― brimstead, Saturday, 27 August 2016 23:16 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfTjuFUoWPY
Been listening to this a lot lately, any suggestions for similar (mostly) instrumental, brass-heavy disco in the vain of the above or Brass Construction's "Movin'"?
― Tuomas, Sunday, 28 August 2016 21:17 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfBqA4GM9Pg
Here's another tune in the same style.
― Tuomas, Sunday, 28 August 2016 21:19 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laWIhw8_5fA
And this one of course.
― Tuomas, Sunday, 28 August 2016 21:20 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUB4qVPflhw
― Wes Brodicus, Monday, 29 August 2016 15:06 (seven years ago) link
some recent faves:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLGBslI8CsEhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AjjChXfRHohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6nlrj2aNng
and probably my favorite gino soccio (this week):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhAPoip5YeQ
TS: gino soccio "hold tight" vs. change "hold tight"
― andrew m., Monday, 29 August 2016 16:15 (seven years ago) link
ALSOhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0F7nWanQrlI
all these early kleeer albums got gems galore.
i'll hand it over for a while now.
― andrew m., Monday, 29 August 2016 16:24 (seven years ago) link
New Tim Lawrence book on the way!
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51cEExWnx7L._SX331_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg
― ǂbait (seandalai), Monday, 29 August 2016 20:42 (seven years ago) link
that theo vaness lp is good, i love this one from the b-side
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LtNlT2SV_k
― map, Monday, 29 August 2016 20:44 (seven years ago) link
― ǂbait (seandalai), Monday, August 29, 2016 8:42 PM (yesterday)
Oh, sweet! The introduction is available to read here: https://www.dukeupress.edu/Assets/PubMaterials/978-0-8223-6186-2_601.pdf
I'd been meaning to find my copies of Lawrence's Love Saves The Day & Shapiro's Turn The Beat Around for my partner after they got hooked on The Get Down and it's Loft-equivalent scenes etc.
― etc, Tuesday, 30 August 2016 04:15 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHet9S9Nmd0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PX0orLk0nc
― larry appleton, Thursday, 8 September 2016 01:32 (seven years ago) link
@ Tuomas: I always file Brainstorm next to Brass Construction
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81qVg8fU6Hg
― los blue jeans, Thursday, 8 September 2016 01:56 (seven years ago) link
this is such an outrageous jam, it just keeps building
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VssP-L23b44
― until the next, delayed, glaciation (map), Thursday, 8 September 2016 02:16 (seven years ago) link
those ladies could sing
― until the next, delayed, glaciation (map), Thursday, 8 September 2016 02:24 (seven years ago) link
This is really... not very good.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8lK5zdXyScNot even sure if it counts as disco.
― ArchCarrier, Thursday, 8 September 2016 19:54 (seven years ago) link
mixcloud link if u wanna hear my radio set
https://www.mixcloud.com/n10as/the-alphabet-02092016/
he let me play all the songs in the end :)
― flopson, Thursday, 8 September 2016 20:00 (seven years ago) link
i put together 12 tracks of "classic" disco with diva leanings for an ungrateful boy who didn't even download them, so i'm gonna share them here. it's unmixed; they're all aiff from vinyl for the record lovers so the zip is kinda big.
1. Patrice Rushen - Haven't You Heard2. Brainstorm - Hot For You3. Loleatta Holloway - Love Sensation4. Chic - Everybody Dance5. Musique - Keep On Jumpin'6. Bionic Boogie - Dance Little Dreamer7. Change - Angel In My Pocket8. Inner Life - Moment Of My Life9. Loose Change - Straight From The Heart10. Cheryl Lynn - Got To Be Real11. Sister Sledge - Lost In Music12. Phreek - Weekend
https://www.adrive.com/public/q2gXBb/Disco%20Mix%20for%20Chris.zip
― savvinesslessness (map), Wednesday, 14 September 2016 00:37 (seven years ago) link
loving this one from celi bee https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ydqipr97i10
also, s/o to ytuber fredy amezquita! he's all over it with the vids.
― andrew m., Tuesday, 27 September 2016 14:46 (seven years ago) link
Lot of things I don't know on this list: 100 KILLER DISCO SONGS FOR A TENNER OR LESS
― minimal hat spiritualism (seandalai), Friday, 30 September 2016 00:16 (seven years ago) link
The well of disco never runs dry
― flopson, Friday, 30 September 2016 01:21 (seven years ago) link
otm
― savvinesslessness (map), Friday, 30 September 2016 02:51 (seven years ago) link
― ǂbait (seandalai), Monday, August 29, 2016 8:42 PM
Compilation/soundtrack for said book (Life & Death On The New York Dance Floor) on the way:https://www.residentadvisor.net/news/42875
Tracklist:
Part 1 A1 Dinosaur L - Go Bang! (LP Version) A2 Tuxedomoon - Desire B1 Gray - Drum Mode B2 Alan Vega - Saturn Drive C1 David Byrne - Big Business (Dance Mix) C2 New York 88 - Jam Hot (Rhumba Rock) D1 Rammellzee vs K-Rob - Beat Bop (Original 12-inch Single) D2 3 Teens Kill 4 - Hold Up Part 2 A1 John Robie - Vena Cava A2 James White & The Blacks - Contort Yourself (August Darnell Mix) B1 Quando Quango - Love Tempo (Mark Kamins Mix B2 George Kranz - Din Daa Daa (Trommeltanz) C1 Loose Joints - Pop Your Funk (Instrumental Version) (7-inch B-Side Mix) C2 Material - Bustin' Out (Long Version) D1 Peech Boys - Don't Make Me Wait (Extended Version) D2 Edwin Birdsong - Rapper Dapper Snapper
Part 2 A1 John Robie - Vena Cava A2 James White & The Blacks - Contort Yourself (August Darnell Mix) B1 Quando Quango - Love Tempo (Mark Kamins Mix B2 George Kranz - Din Daa Daa (Trommeltanz) C1 Loose Joints - Pop Your Funk (Instrumental Version) (7-inch B-Side Mix) C2 Material - Bustin' Out (Long Version) D1 Peech Boys - Don't Make Me Wait (Extended Version) D2 Edwin Birdsong - Rapper Dapper Snapper
― willem, Tuesday, 27 November 2018 14:59 (five years ago) link
That's not disco.
― everything, Tuesday, 27 November 2018 17:27 (five years ago) link
Now That's What I Call Disco Not Disco!
― Rad Macca (Craig D.), Tuesday, 27 November 2018 17:49 (five years ago) link
That's not disco.Yeah you're right. Searched ILM for Tim Lawrence and this seemed the most appropriate thread
― willem, Wednesday, 28 November 2018 09:10 (five years ago) link
This thread is a graveyard. Or maybe it's just not loading properly for me?
I've been listening to a lot of disco, boogie, italo, and post-disco lately. Most of it is pretty bad, and for disco I'd say most of what I like has already been covered here, particularly Jim in Vancouver's outstanding list.
It does seem like generally with the ongoing disco revival championed by the likes of Motor City Drum Ensemble etc that frankly the standards of quality are pretty low. I recently watched a video of a Joey Negro DJ set hoping to pick out something I hadn't heard before, I think I did find one or two standout cuts but overall quite a sad experience.
― viborg, Friday, 5 July 2019 02:19 (four years ago) link
Thank you for your insightful contribution.
― ArchCarrier, Friday, 5 July 2019 15:01 (four years ago) link
Lol.
― Chewshabadoo, Friday, 5 July 2019 15:53 (four years ago) link
I've been DJ-ing disco every Friday night for almost eighteen months, and disco fatigue is starting to kick in. That said, all the tunes in my boxes are CLASSIC.
― mike t-diva, Friday, 5 July 2019 16:01 (four years ago) link
after a decade or so of extensively listening to disco, sometimes in a particularly trainspotting manner (looking up songs that appear in charts in books by tim lawrence and vince aletti, looking at discographies of disco artists who have a few songs i enjoy to find if they have anything else i like etc.) i still find myself encountering new (to me) and good stuff. i have a working turntable for the first time in quite a while so i might recommence crate-digging and discoging once I've sorted my finances out a bit lol
― bookmarkflaglink (jim in vancouver), Friday, 5 July 2019 16:05 (four years ago) link
from an ilx point of view there's a good thread on disco and boogie discoveries that has been updated a decent amount in the last year or so Rolling thread for your recent DISCO and BOOGIE discoveries, enthusiasms and obsessions
― bookmarkflaglink (jim in vancouver), Friday, 5 July 2019 16:06 (four years ago) link
Disco diggers could also look at https://jameshamiltonsdiscopage.com/ - an archive of all James Hamilton's weekly disco columns for Record Mirror, from 1975 to (currently) early 1983.
― mike t-diva, Friday, 5 July 2019 18:31 (four years ago) link
also this book is very good, ny and la disco charts from 1973-78, i think it got a recent reprint and it's cheap on amazon rn:
The Disco Files 1973–78: New York's Underground, Week by Week Paperback – November 27, 2018by Vince Aletti (Author), Fran Lebowitz (Author)
― cheese canopy (map), Friday, 5 July 2019 18:55 (four years ago) link
yeah it's a good one to dig into
― Today he dances jazz, but tomorrow he will sell his homeland (seandalai), Friday, 5 July 2019 21:41 (four years ago) link
actually meant to write "dip into" but anyway
Cheers to the constructive posters. I saw a lot of contributions from you upthread and was gonna ask if you're still around seandalai.
I need to get those books. Especially the Tim Lawrence book, looks like a lot of folks cosign it here. I think the book Last Night A DJ Saved My Life was my initial introduction to classic disco etc charts but that was 10+ years ago and I don't have my copy anymore so can't comment on how it holds up now. That James Hamilton site is a good resource too, cheers for that.
Jim I'd appreciate checking out a few of your recent discoveries. I'll try to check my recent listening with what's already been posted and maybe I can update that other thread if I find anything worthwhile.
― viborg, Saturday, 6 July 2019 00:20 (four years ago) link
These fools tho.
― ArchCarrier
― Chewshabadoo
Why do you have to do this here? Can't you shitpost on twitter, rate your music, reddit or pretty much anywhere else? I guess this is what people mean when they talk smack about ILM so much now...
― viborg, Saturday, 6 July 2019 00:22 (four years ago) link
(And yeah I realize I didn't exactly offer a gold-star thread revive, my main inspiration was from checking out all the great music on the Afropop/Afrobeats thread posted mainly by breastcrawl and then seeing how they were kind of desperately appealing for other users to post pretty much anything...I don't know much about Afrobeats but I do know disco so here we are.)
― viborg, Saturday, 6 July 2019 00:27 (four years ago) link
Love Saves the Day is beyond essential, completely transformed my understanding of the context behind the music.
Playlist of 100+ personal favourites: https://open.spotify.com/user/seandalai/playlist/4Xq5uVvrHhJ8l4YZlZTD9a (many are not obscure, above all they're the tracks I never get tired of)
― Today he dances jazz, but tomorrow he will sell his homeland (seandalai), Saturday, 6 July 2019 01:11 (four years ago) link
i've been needing to read a good dance music/club culture history. i think i will start w/ love saves the day and see where that takes me
― dyl, Saturday, 6 July 2019 01:31 (four years ago) link
Can't you shitpost on twitter, rate your music, reddit or pretty much anywhere else?
can't you? given the content of your posts here so far, wouldn't it be safe to assume you already do? please stay awhile if you actually want to discuss things or engage w/ 'the community' and can tolerate ppl being a bit unserious or quippy but damn.
― dyl, Saturday, 6 July 2019 01:38 (four years ago) link
this is cool: http://www.aphasic-letters.com/heath/Lin-Tan_Disco-as-Operating-System_Criticism_2008.pdf
― jazzed (it's a boy!), Saturday, 6 July 2019 02:03 (four years ago) link
The whole attitude of “well I’ve scoured the internet for all the good music” is so depressing
― brimstead, Saturday, 6 July 2019 02:36 (four years ago) link
Ugh, yeah
― Vini C. Riley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 7 July 2019 23:55 (four years ago) link
my disco jams archive just keeps growing and growing
― flopson, Monday, 8 July 2019 01:34 (four years ago) link
I only trust folks who say they like disco
― spacedaddy, Monday, 8 July 2019 06:20 (four years ago) link
Would love a book compiling all of James Hamilton's articles. The site linked above is great but can't beat checking out the original pages in Record Mirror.
― Dan Worsley, Monday, 8 July 2019 11:15 (four years ago) link
@RecordMirror80s on Twitter uploads high quality scans of James Hamilton's pages (amongst much else) on a daily basis; they also use the hashtag #JamesHamilton
― mike t-diva, Monday, 8 July 2019 12:01 (four years ago) link