examples of DISCO-REGGAE

this is the closest thing i can think of:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Au8XQriJRV4

It fits I think - there's a vague offbeat chop to it.

Sorry if someone mentioned it (I didn't see it), but the ultimate one for me here is probably Bob Marley's "Could You Be Loved." Sick of most of the Marley standards, but this one holds up very well for me. Rhythm track is fantastic. (And though I don't have my BPMs book handy, I'm guessing it's somewhere in the 114-116 range? Maybe even faster... which certainly adds to its disconess.)

If you want something very cheesey and obvious:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m0lquPk6hg

serious disco-euro-reggae vibes from the brand new Aeroplane track posted on official i love music thread for AEROPLANE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcxELgEH06U

ze records...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGEQhf9GwSE&feature=related

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGM7XXTxn00

Oh, and what with the Alex Sadkin production, fat reggae-esque-bass and the reggae-influenced percussion, I guess this band sort of belongs here too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYwEv38AIPE

Which also brings me to wonder whether stuff like International Observer and The Orb fits in here too?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWuoGZAz94c

^ OH DUH!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z29kgmDKrY8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjuWsmzOeNg

"Genius of Love" obv

Stevie, you may be right about Junior and Imagination lacking reggae, though I wouldn't call them "just funk" -- Imagination were more disco I'd say, and Junior obviously had a pop Stevie Wonder thing going on.

aw yeah, definitely. and apologies if it seems i'm playing genre cop here. imagination were *weird, and brilliantly so. and 'mama useta say' is a genius single, i've always wanted to search and see if Junior had any other such greatness in his discography.

Thinking lots of British pop-funk stuff from the early '80s (not just Linx, who I mentioned above, but also Junior, the Quick, Imagination, David Grant solo) could fit here as well. (Hot Chocolate obviously a major inspiration for that whole scene.)

Nah, I don't discern much reggae there. Same for Hot Chocolate, I don't think they had any reggae influence at all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULvu8FzEt14

lol u rong

I can't actually see that! Just as well!

It was their first single (on Apple Records) - a reggae cover of 'Give Peace A Chance'. It's terrible btw.

Ah right, I've never heard that before

Not missing much tbh!

Can't imagine how you couldn't hear reggae in, say, "Brother Louie."

This site even calls the Stories version "a cover version of a British pop-reggae hit about an interracial marriage," so my ears can't be completely crazy. (It was apparently also covered by the British reggae band Matumbi, fwiw.)

http://www.superseventies.com/sw_brotherlouie.html

I can't really remember their version of "Brother Louie" tbh. NickB has just proved they started off as a reggae band, so I can't argue against that! I don't hear too much reggae in their big hits however, but possibly it's the singing that gives them a Caribbean flavour

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EH5GFP2Otk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEAMc56iuLA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3stclvX_QaQ

(Although I guess the upbeat on that one is more Motown than reggae)

xhuxk, I'll see your Name of the Game and your All That She Wants and I'll raise you The Land Of Make Believe by Bucks Fizz.

Have these 2 back-to-back on a playlist I've been addicted to all spring. You really want the extended 12" version of the Jennifer Lara, but this'll have to do.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AlcLFNX-JI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jp7nuVwKqY

that jennifer lara song is nice, never heard it before

and by nice i mean niiiiiice

I have I'm In Love pt. 2 as well as pt. 1 but they're not mixed combination style.

that jennifer lara song is so good! wish i'd bought it when i had the chance.

got this one the other day:
Bits & Pieces aka sly & robbie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxPyLoznoGE

apologies if this was already posted...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LSCXP0p-Wc

that steel an' skin thing is like my reggae disco holy grail!!!

yeah, took me a while to find a copy, but holy shit, it's great. thanks to the original poster for the tip.

Bob-A-Rela too. I love that kind of groove.

Gino Soccio - "Steady Operator"

that jennifer lara is a cover of a track by evelyn champagne king

also there is a cover of this by a reggae singer whose name is escaping me right now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2K6N619lSos

i think there was a thread like this over at djh a while ago? i think some people referred to a qv track as "cod reggae".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFm5BmoupX8

I've started collating a lot of the suggestions on this thread into an epic dj mix. will try and get a YSI soon.

Good thread. I actually made a little mix as intro music for a friend's band that starts off like this then goes dub, er then ends in Gregory Isaacs.

http://soundcloud.com/citizen-smith-1/raving-tonight

Chain Reaction - comprising Bobby Davis, Bruce Ruffin (no relation) and Dave Barker ('Dave' of '...and Ansel Collin')were a strange Philly type soul/ reggae crossover, with great singing - I have two LPs by them, one - Indebted to You - on Gull c 1976 and one a bit later - Chase a Miracle(?). When I got the latter I thought it was a different group of the same name: the first record could have come from Philly, the second unmistakably from JA via NW10...both fine in their own way, though.

Nice mix, Jamie! I think betablog tripled sales of that Steel an Skin album with this thread...

ha! though i still need my own vinyl copy of it for playing out :P

Anyone have/heard this Disc 'O' Lypso comp? the Other Music email newsletter tells me it was just reissued.

Okay, I've finished the mix - it's in two parts. Here's the first part, the next one will be posted up in a few days/weeks/when i get a moment. Enjoy!

http://soundcloud.com/doglatin/2010-dj-dog-latin-steady-operator-disco-reggae-mix-cd-1

Here's part two

http://soundcloud.com/doglatin/2010-steady-operator-disco-reggae-mix-cd-2

Thanks to everyone who posted on this thread.

Tracklisting for both mixes:

Part 1
Clout – Sunshine Baby
Richard Ace – Stayin Alive
Gino Soccio – Steady Operator
Blondie – Die Young Stay Pretty
Bob-A-Rela - Money
Sly & Robbie – Superthruster
Aeroplane – We Can’t Fly
Susan Cadogan – Shame
Johnny Clarke – None Shall Escape The Judgement
Belle Epoque – Miss Broadway
300 Degrees – Money
Jackson Jones - Put Your Pants On
Laid Back – Fly Away
Coati Mundi – Me No Pop I
Third World – Try Jah Love
Tonetta 777 – Devil Devil
I Roy – Alphabet
Janet Kay – Silly Games

Part 2
Boney M – Nightflight to Venus
Aural Exciters - Spooks In Space
Talking Heads – I Get Wild Wild Gravity
Steel & Skin – Afro Punk Reggae Dub
Marianne Faithfull - Blue Millionaire
The Slits – Heard It Through The Grapevine
Stevie Wonder – Master Blaster (Jammin)
Kalyan – Disco Reggae (Tony’s Groove)
King Tubby – Sir Niney’s Rock
Blood Sisters – Ring My Bell
James Chance & the Contortions – Contort Yourself
Ska Boys – Norwegian Wood Disco
The Selector – On My Radio
The Beat - Mirror In The Bathroom
Hortense Ellis – I Can’t Stand The Rain
Storm – It’s My House
Jennifer Lara – I Am In Love
Family Choice - Reggae Beat Goes On
Lizzy Mercier Descloux – Sun Is Shining

These won't be up long so I've allowed downloading.

Part one is gone. Any chance it's coming back?

*sigh* yeah, unfortunately soundcloud won't let me have enough space to host both mixes :-( if you have gmail i could try forwarding it to you?

or if anyone can host both, would be even better!