Disco

and, more importantly, there were no real 'album' artists.

depends on your definition of "artist." but i'll let everyone else post the predictable dance-music-is-a-producer's-medium rhetoric.

i just started reading the new chic book.

Also, Chic made good albums.

http://www.blueheaven.org.uk/bisc/sayer.jpg

there's a "Le Freak"

http://www.70disco.com/images/lefreak2.jpg

and "Get Down Tonight"

http://www.soulwalking.co.uk/%A5Artist%20GIF%20Images/KC-&-Sunshine-Band.jpg

and "TSOP."

http://moltof2.free.fr/ODV-990.jpg

QED.

FUCKING FANTASTIC SONG!!!

Perhaps we can agree on this?

http://www.comicgenius.com/DiscoFever/disco_profiles/rick_dees/images/disco_duck_album_cover.jpg

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf900/f940/f94081fiwfn.jpg

which has lived in my CD player longer than anything not done by a Libertine (so far this year).

More good LP-length disco acts: Machine, Hot Chocolate*, solo Moroder (well, anything Moroder)

*"disco" status debatable

four words: Once Upon a Time

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000001FEE.01._SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg

I Don't Know If It's Right but Evelyn King is a fucking awesome song and how can anyone deny the brilliance of sister sledge's (I wonder why) He's The Greatest Dancer?

Disco is classic, in my opinion

Intro

http://www.jahsonic.com/Disco.jpg

Although disco was the most prominent form of popular music in the 1970s, it never got the credit it deserves as a serious musical genre. These pages aim to set that straight.

Scorned and ridiculed as feather-lite, escapist pap when it emerged in the mid-seventies, and now reduced to a kitsch scenario of Afro wigs, polyester suits and drunken singalongs at office Christmas parties and bachelor weekends, disco is just about the last place anyone would look for avant garde practice. [...] --Peter Shapiro, The Wire Magazine, Feb 2003.

Jan

first impressions are not good

Surely there is new deep house stuff coming out all the time, right? Even if it isn't hip on ILM. It's like that one Reynolds article from a few years back (it might surprise some to hear that I read the man, but I do)(I just disagree with him vehemently about tons of stuff)(except for the awesomeness of the Doors and Jefferson Airplane of course) where he details the deep house scene in NYC, and basically poo-poos their little retro 'let's-recreate-the-paradise-garage' scene. I mean, where is the harm in it? People are going out having a good time, dancing, to this functional music, much of which is new and continues to be created. I have a buddy who is a deep house dj here in chicago -- who plays tons of the stuff with the dreaded *real instruments*, guitar solos, piano solos, the whole jazzy nine yards -- and while I don't LOVE that music, every time I've gone out to hear him spin I can enjoy myself and every one else seems to as well. It IS a total Yupster scene, there's no doubt about it. But at the same time, you know, it EXISTS. Whether the hipoisie care or not.

i am going to be contentious and say justus köhncke. also metro area/environ. lcd ss came to my mind too, but they strike me more as outsiders looking in at the continuum.

i enjoyed love saves the day even though it was a bit dry and analytical at times, but i will say that its seriousness is also its upside. to me it's a must-read because of the level of detail and because it has lengthy interviews with and commentary on mancuso, grasco, siano...all of the early djs. it was a totally eye opening read into a subculture i knew and glorified from afar. knowing the details makes it even better.

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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'"?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfBqA4GM9Pg

Here's another tune in the same style.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laWIhw8_5fA

And this one of course.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUB4qVPflhw

some recent faves:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLGBslI8CsE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AjjChXfRHo
https://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"

ALSO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0F7nWanQrlI

all these early kleeer albums got gems galore.

i'll hand it over for a while now.

New Tim Lawrence book on the way!

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51cEExWnx7L._SX331_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg

that theo vaness lp is good, i love this one from the b-side

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LtNlT2SV_k

New Tim Lawrence book on the way!

― 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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHet9S9Nmd0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PX0orLk0nc

@ Tuomas: I always file Brainstorm next to Brass Construction

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81qVg8fU6Hg

this is such an outrageous jam, it just keeps building

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VssP-L23b44

those ladies could sing

This is really... not very good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8lK5zdXySc
Not even sure if it counts as disco.

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 :)

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 Heard
2. Brainstorm - Hot For You
3. Loleatta Holloway - Love Sensation
4. Chic - Everybody Dance
5. Musique - Keep On Jumpin'
6. Bionic Boogie - Dance Little Dreamer
7. Change - Angel In My Pocket
8. Inner Life - Moment Of My Life
9. Loose Change - Straight From The Heart
10. Cheryl Lynn - Got To Be Real
11. Sister Sledge - Lost In Music
12. Phreek - Weekend

https://www.adrive.com/public/q2gXBb/Disco%20Mix%20for%20Chris.zip

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.

Lot of things I don't know on this list: 100 KILLER DISCO SONGS FOR A TENNER OR LESS

The well of disco never runs dry

otm

New Tim Lawrence book on the way!

― 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

That's not disco.

Now That's What I Call Disco Not Disco!

That's not disco.
Yeah you're right. Searched ILM for Tim Lawrence and this seemed the most appropriate thread

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.

Thank you for your insightful contribution.

Lol.

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.

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

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

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.

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, 2018
by Vince Aletti (Author), Fran Lebowitz (Author)

yeah it's a good one to dig into

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.

These fools tho.

Thank you for your insightful contribution.

― ArchCarrier

Lol.

― 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...

(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.)

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)

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

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.

this is cool: http://www.aphasic-letters.com/heath/Lin-Tan_Disco-as-Operating-System_Criticism_2008.pdf

The whole attitude of “well I’ve scoured the internet for all the good music” is so depressing

Ugh, yeah

my disco jams archive just keeps growing and growing

I only trust folks who say they like disco

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.

@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

Oh nice, thanks for the tip.

Still would prefer something physical though. Which I'm sure is something the great man would have said.

I really enjoyed this a lot and learned a lot about the roots and culture around disco

https://www.amazon.com/Hot-Stuff-Remaking-American-Culture/dp/0393338916

Fantastic story here about a particular LA disco culture:

https://www.lataco.com/underground-disco-east-la/