https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TK8zAssTv7Y
― are we human or are we dancer (m coleman), Thursday, 20 May 2010 15:52 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSaJB8bnW3Y
― are we human or are we dancer (m coleman), Thursday, 20 May 2010 15:56 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVTEEeOEfKw
― are we human or are we dancer (m coleman), Thursday, 20 May 2010 15:59 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPMkjslzs70
― are we human or are we dancer (m coleman), Thursday, 20 May 2010 16:01 (fourteen years ago) link
i am so fucking psyched about getting home to listen to these.
If you guys like, I can make a DJ mix based on these tracks?
― village idiot (dog latin), Thursday, 20 May 2010 16:10 (fourteen years ago) link
I Roy's album, Whap'n'Bap'n is full of disco.
― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 20 May 2010 16:30 (fourteen years ago) link
Alphabet, in particular is really great.
Although, now that i'm looking at it, the album is listed as Roy Reid.
http://www.roots-archives.com/release/1780
― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 20 May 2010 16:32 (fourteen years ago) link
That is I Roy
― Wenlock & Mandelson (Tom D.), Thursday, 20 May 2010 16:33 (fourteen years ago) link
other super disco jam on the album is called Jive Time.
― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 20 May 2010 16:34 (fourteen years ago) link
It sounds like I Roy.
― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 20 May 2010 16:35 (fourteen years ago) link
this one melds the two splendidly:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTQJwVQMFXY
― beta blog, Thursday, 20 May 2010 16:39 (fourteen years ago) link
I love this rhythm so much:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5U4tH4xl_A
― Daniel Giraffe, Thursday, 20 May 2010 16:43 (fourteen years ago) link
wow, beta blog, that steel and skin track is wonderful
― Daniel Giraffe, Thursday, 20 May 2010 16:47 (fourteen years ago) link
Wow indeed. That's great. Gonna have to order that CD. Are the rest of the tracks good quality?
― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 20 May 2010 17:02 (fourteen years ago) link
that steel and skin track was the first thing i thought of.
this is the second
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUFehaMonSo
― jaxon, Thursday, 20 May 2010 18:19 (fourteen years ago) link
sorry, that's a terrible sounding video (and why didn't he edit out the 30 seconds of fumbling to put the record on in the beginning?)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UpY2t2wBYs
― jaxon, Thursday, 20 May 2010 18:21 (fourteen years ago) link
Is that Clout as in 'Substitute'?
― Vision Creation Mansun (NickB), Thursday, 20 May 2010 18:23 (fourteen years ago) link
Delroy Wilson - "I'll Do Anything For You"
Aaaargh...meant Denroy Morgan obviously. (See "Performers With Names That Practically Rhyme" thread. Whenever I think of this song, "White Man In Hammersmith Palais" accidentally sneaks into my head.)
― xhuxk, Thursday, 20 May 2010 18:33 (fourteen years ago) link
Never thought of Belle Epoque's "Miss Broadway" as reggae. I always buy Beckett 12 inches in the hopes that they will be disco-reggae.
― bamcquern, Thursday, 20 May 2010 18:39 (fourteen years ago) link
omg yes. a friend was playing that steel an skin album in his car a few months ago and i had forgotten what it was until now!
this is one of my favorite genres of music as well, fwiw
― a lagoon par la mer (psychgawsple), Thursday, 20 May 2010 18:44 (fourteen years ago) link
can't forget about this one...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Yn5I7g_DIg
― a lagoon par la mer (psychgawsple), Thursday, 20 May 2010 18:46 (fourteen years ago) link
lots of laid back songs, actually
― a lagoon par la mer (psychgawsple), Thursday, 20 May 2010 18:47 (fourteen years ago) link
no mention of island records yet is weird guys...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byj0LFfjEDY
― a lagoon par la mer (psychgawsple), Thursday, 20 May 2010 18:50 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SizxCxCJZjs
― a lagoon par la mer (psychgawsple), Thursday, 20 May 2010 18:59 (fourteen years ago) link
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.)
― xhuxk, Thursday, 20 May 2010 19:10 (fourteen years ago) link
Y'all should check out the Joe Gibbs 12" Reggae Discomix Showcase compilation discs which have come out the past couple years. Volumes 4 and 5 just came out this year, and the tracklisting are full of this extended play disco/dubby/reggae stuff.
― Michael F Gill, Thursday, 20 May 2010 22:11 (fourteen years ago) link
i don't really get how junior is reggae, tbh, nor imagination - aren't they just funk?
― #klohasmadecrazierpoliticalpredictions (stevie), Thursday, 20 May 2010 23:05 (fourteen years ago) link
― bamcquern, Thursday, 20 May 2010 19:39 (Yesterday) Bookmark
i might be crasy, but the sloping riff totally = reggae to me.
― village idiot (dog latin), Friday, 21 May 2010 00:23 (fourteen years ago) link
so happy i started this thread. gonna have a proper listen this weekend when i'm at home! thanks all!
― village idiot (dog latin), Friday, 21 May 2010 00:26 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcX3aWNOxQM
― village idiot (dog latin), Friday, 21 May 2010 00:32 (fourteen years ago) link
obv there's a lot of crossover with punk and new wave with this style of music. but then that's going to happen, ethnomusicologically
― village idiot (dog latin), Friday, 21 May 2010 00:33 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czpk40mlxFE
Definitely an all time favourite tune out of everything i've ever heard.
― village idiot (dog latin), Friday, 21 May 2010 00:35 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGf2NJUpK6Q
there's a reggae thing going on here... for me at least
― village idiot (dog latin), Friday, 21 May 2010 00:37 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJ90ZqH0PWI
This too... I'm always looking out for tracks that have this bass'n'keys sloping melty groovy euro-jamaican-funk thing going on. In fact it's a growing obsession, so much so I'd love to start a band that pulls off this trick as a standard rule.
― village idiot (dog latin), Friday, 21 May 2010 00:40 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZZBivEtgYc
― village idiot (dog latin), Friday, 21 May 2010 00:43 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxnvqrI6q_o
This is not really Reggae Disco, but it is the most magnificent Boney M track ever recorded by a million miles and couldn't be posted too many times. Seriously, one of my favourite tunes in the world.
― village idiot (dog latin), Friday, 21 May 2010 00:47 (fourteen years ago) link
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. I definitely remember reggae rhythms on that Linx LP, though, and I'm pretty sure in a couple Quick tracks. Sooner or later I'll put all those LPs out and doublecheck. (Should doublecheck Gibson Bros and Johnny Chingas, too; I may be imagining their Jamaicanisms as well.)
Dog Latin -- Just out of curiosity, if "Name of The Game" counts, how about Ace Of Base? They definitely qualified as Swedish reggae sometimes. Maybe not disco enough though?
― xhuxk, Friday, 21 May 2010 00:50 (fourteen years ago) link
xpost ps it's all about the piano chord solo at 4:30-ish.
― village idiot (dog latin), Friday, 21 May 2010 00:51 (fourteen years ago) link
Ace Of Base - especially The Sign and All That She Wants count. Absolutely.
And if we're going to take things to an extreme here (and hey. that's what this thread is about:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Vq0FRUjSbA
― village idiot (dog latin), Friday, 21 May 2010 00:53 (fourteen years ago) link
but maybe not... it's all subjective.
speaking of new wave, i used to love this kinda stuff:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=811ZqRUWS2o&feature=related
― scott seward, Friday, 21 May 2010 01:00 (fourteen years ago) link
this is for my pal chuck:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cl1Tu0Dg2fM
― scott seward, Friday, 21 May 2010 01:03 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3zOeMJ90zs&feature=related
― scott seward, Friday, 21 May 2010 01:04 (fourteen years ago) link
i'm trying to think of an example from the Ze Records bands, but struggling. Surely Was Not Was, or James White did a reggae disco track?
― village idiot (dog latin), Friday, 21 May 2010 01:08 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― village idiot (dog latin), Friday, 21 May 2010 01:10 (fourteen years ago) link
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.)
― sw00ds, Friday, 21 May 2010 01:28 (fourteen years ago) link
If you want something very cheesey and obvious:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m0lquPk6hg
― Vision Creation Mansun (NickB), Friday, 21 May 2010 04:44 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― I DIED, Friday, 21 May 2010 06:07 (fourteen years ago) link
ze records...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGEQhf9GwSE&feature=related
― a lagoon par la mer (psychgawsple), Friday, 21 May 2010 08:18 (fourteen years ago) link
most stuff by eddy grant!
― xzanfar, Thursday, 3 February 2022 13:26 (two years ago) link
https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/disco-reggae-rockers?fbclid=IwAR32tK6UhQOi4XsFSEblqBPyiG3WNfN9TL758HJfSmEN_F2_WR8td0BmnPg
― giraffe, Friday, 30 September 2022 12:32 (one year ago) link
(sorry for the formatting mishap)
A new disco-reggae compilation.
not going to click through all the youtubes to figure it out, but hopefully this thread didn’t get to 200 posts without mentioning tyrone davis “rise up” (wackies)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OrOahkRgvA
― the late great, Sunday, 12 February 2023 19:41 (one year ago) link
More reggae-disco than disco-reggae, but I just pulled out "Nightflight to Venus" and I'm def adding "Never Change Lovers in the Middle of the Night" to my playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjaXcIAcLY0
― Confessions of an Oatmeal Eater (I M Losted), Wednesday, 26 April 2023 02:46 (one year ago) link
Yeah that's a classic. I think I put that on my original mix made from suggestions to this thread. I absolutely love it
― Do I look like I know what a jpeg is? (dog latin), Wednesday, 26 April 2023 10:51 (one year ago) link
Atmosfear's Dancing in Outer Space has a couple of moments when it becomes almost reggae - the laser-ska bit between 2:17 and 2:52, and that liquidy dub bit between about 5:25-6:25 which sounds like the dubwise equivalent of paddling a canoe in choppy waters.
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Tuesday, 29 August 2023 19:12 (one year ago) link
This is joyful and I think it deserves to be included in this thread: https://soundwayrecords.bandcamp.com/album/chi-town-reggae
― giraffe, Friday, 10 November 2023 14:50 (ten months ago) link
Great stuff!
I thought I'd posted about it here already, but the Risco Connection comp has been a highlight of my year: https://riscoconnection.bandcamp.com/album/risco-version
― rob, Friday, 10 November 2023 15:00 (ten months ago) link
xp hah, I opened this thread wondering if it was going to be that!
― ...eh you get the gist of it (dog latin), Friday, 10 November 2023 17:12 (ten months ago) link
Moka, how on earth did I miss that extensive spotify playlist you posted way upthread? amazing work!
― your mom goes to limgrave (dog latin), Friday, 26 April 2024 13:46 (four months ago) link
Annette Brissett - Drums
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCTXl_lKFFo
― bbq, Sunday, 28 April 2024 20:33 (four months ago) link
so good. i love Love Power.
― stirmonster, Sunday, 28 April 2024 21:27 (four months ago) link
pretty cheesy but this is good summertime fun imo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epMbespU4JImargino - you turn me on
― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Monday, 29 April 2024 17:45 (four months ago) link
shame there's no dub version tbh because the synths are great but the singing is a bit much
― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Monday, 29 April 2024 18:12 (four months ago) link
Forgive me if this has been posted before (I can't see it) but this compilation looks great
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4UJf0NXelYhttps://rockashacka.bandcamp.com/album/reggae-funkyfied-2
― giraffe, Thursday, 2 May 2024 14:39 (four months ago) link
That Margino track sounds so much like Yvonne Chaka Chaka's "I'm In Love With a DJ". I assume it's the same producer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fL4WaCvrFdo
― your mom goes to limgrave (dog latin), Thursday, 2 May 2024 14:47 (four months ago) link
Yep. Attie Van Wyk
― bbq, Thursday, 2 May 2024 19:41 (four months ago) link
agreed, Moka’s Spotify playlist is a complete banger.
Ernest Ranglin’s “Soft Touch” is complete fire.
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Thursday, 2 May 2024 21:26 (four months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0ACPrHCGCM
slight afrobeat flavour too
― giraffe, Tuesday, 4 June 2024 14:03 (three months ago) link
Great song!
Glad some of you have enjoyed the playlist! I need to do a clean-up and add more… in the meantime I have added some of the great suggestions so far!
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 4 June 2024 14:22 (three months ago) link
Love this playlist, moka. Thanks for taking the time and trouble.
― giraffe, Wednesday, 5 June 2024 13:43 (three months ago) link
favourite new disco-reggae nature-hippy jam:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVZqHYdgQ2wSheila & Des Majek - Let Us Plant a Tree Today
― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Wednesday, 5 June 2024 13:52 (three months ago) link
That's very satisfying, NickB.
― giraffe, Wednesday, 5 June 2024 14:15 (three months ago) link
What a tune that is
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 5 June 2024 17:09 (three months ago) link
as everyone's kids head back to the covid factory i mean classroom, i submit bunny wailer's "back to school." disco-adjacent groove in the "rapper's delight" vein.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kzgXlC7KCo
― andrew m., Tuesday, 3 September 2024 20:13 (two weeks ago) link