Disco

"haven't you heard" is so great

"my love is free" is the ultimate disco song

gino soccio - dancer

heard this in a greenhouse early this summer where some art exhibit opening party was happening. i didn't expect disco of all things to be the soundtrack but it was just perfect.

i wanted to request something from change's the glow of love since i had shed some bliss-tears to "a lover's holiday" in my bedroom over the spring. but i was too shy to ask the french fella helming the turntables.

"my love is free" is the ultimate disco song

― esempiu (crüt), Tuesday, August 23, 2016 5:48 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

couldn't agree more

Thread revive got me listening to
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uP_2R2CrT14

Completely ambivalent about the music.

Championing disco as a proxy for first-year-of-gender-studies "stick it to the rockist hegemony" politics is crap and beyond stale.

sorry sir, there's no choice for you but to go back to rate your music. all the garbage-opinion rooms here are taken. there are no vacancies.

how quaint

lol

but when youre sitting around baked with a kitten listening to music on youtube your mind wanders:

this sounds remarkably like my summer but instead of disco its jacquees and French montana

going to be playing some Disco songs and talking about them on the radio tomorrow (well, recording it tomorrow i'm not sure when it's going to air) for a friend's show. he told me to bring 5 songs (not enough!) this is my long list

Sister Sledge - Thinking Of You
Chemise - She Can't Love You
Crown Heights Affair - Say A Prayer For Two
Jones Girls - You Gonna Make Me Love Somebody Else
Oby Onyioha - Enjoy Your Life
Shirley & Company - Shame, Shame, Shame
Slave - Watching You

and I'm going to bring

Claudja Berry - Love For the Sake of Love
Black Cock - Juicy Sushi
Casual T - Hands Off (Instrumental)

for introludes/talking tracks

I'm not usually very good at talking about music on the radio, know anything interesting about any of these songs I could say? Also, which 2 of the top 7 would you cut?

when you play the Black Cock record you could tell people DJ Harvey's line - how people say you can't understand the blues until you've had your heart broken, well, you can't understand DJ Harvey's music until you've had group sex on ecstasy

Lol

when I used to have a radio show at community station here i would always omit that track from the log in case someone ever saw it

Is juicy sushi the really intense/fast brassy one?
Love those edits. Been awhile since I listened... Should burn a disc

yup that's the one

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

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'

save it for a sequel show maybe? electronic disco branches...

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)