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Inspired by my increasing fascination with Bappi Lahiri and the early 80's Indian disco phenomena and fuelled by the prog disco thread and the italo disco thread i wonder if anyone can recommend more non US disco from the 70's/80's?

― gaz (gaz), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 21:18 (twenty-one years ago)

i have the nascente comp African disco, but really only two tracks: Malinga Five's Kaloule woman, and Black Blood's AIE (also covered by bananarama as their debut single) hit the mark.

― gaz (gaz), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 21:22 (twenty-one years ago)

One of the greatest basslines of all time is on 2 Man Sound's "Que Tal America" which sounds like it's straight out of NYC, but is actually from Belgium!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 21:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Small Change had Peter Shapiro on WFMU a week or so ago doing a Euro-Disco history, not all inclusive, but much great stuff.

http://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/12195

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 21:53 (twenty-one years ago)

currently listening to: VST & Co: Awitin Mo At Isasayaw Ko - I think(no liner notes) this is a hits comp of a 70's Phillipines band. Very disco era Bee gees. In Filipino.

― gaz (gaz), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 22:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Gilles Vigneault, "Mon Pays"

― dave q, Wednesday, 25 August 2004 23:15 (twenty-one years ago)

"We All Need Love", Domenic Troiano

Good Canadian disco pop - I'm guessing '79-ish. Later covered by the Italo dance-pop act Double You (who I secretly love).

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 23:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Brazil has "Frenéticas".

― Elvis is Dead, Thursday, 26 August 2004 00:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I have some great Turkish pop comps that have a smattering of disco. Ajda Pekkan is one I'd look for. She did a nice cover of Aznavour and a few other uptempo tunes. I also found an anonymous compilation while in Istanbul. Not sure who arranged them, but it's a number of traditional Turkish songs done up disco-like.

Boney M, Luv, Belle Epoque are not bad, but obvious choices from the Euro zone.

Gino Vanelli is a good Canadian choice, as is Patsy Gallant (who did an English disco version of Vigneault's "Mon Pays"). Montreal was THE disco capital of North America at one point, with over 200 clubs in the late 70s.

― Guymauve (Guymauve), Thursday, 26 August 2004 14:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Lepa Brena & Slatki greh (Lepa Brena = the girl singer, Slatki greh = her backing band) excelled at fusing disco with Serbian folk (which, fear not, has nothing to do with what is commonly referred to as "folk" in the western world!). my fave tune is "Decko mi je skolarac" - it's incredibly funky and relentless, just hook after hook after killer hook! also great: "Disko urnebes", "Bato bato", "Uske pantalone".

― Mind Taker, Thursday, 26 August 2004 15:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Track down the first two or three albums by Arabesque (they were from Germany, but apparently they only ever had any hits in Russia).

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 26 August 2004 15:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Isn't Patsy Gallant's "From New York To L.A." just a rewrite of "Mon Pays"?

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Thursday, 26 August 2004 17:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Nevermind, my brain just made the connection...

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Thursday, 26 August 2004 17:29 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.musicline.de/de/product/5014797133099

is great, esp:

Kabbala - Ashewo Ara
and
Tony Allen/Africa 70 - Afro-disco beat

― rentboy (rentboy), Thursday, 26 August 2004 17:55 (twenty-one years ago)

haha guymauve beat me to the montreal thing!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 26 August 2004 17:57 (twenty-one years ago)

thanks!

i'm listening to the Best of Adja as i type. she's doing I will survive in Turkish!

Lepa Brena & Slatki greh Damn i need to get this.

― gaz (gaz), Thursday, 26 August 2004 21:13 (twenty-one years ago)

nine months pass...

hagibis.

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y240/mullygrubber/hagabis.jpg

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 2 June 2005 04:28 (twenty-one years ago)

a) do you have that on cd?
b) is it good?
c) did you send the discs yet?

my wife is filipino, i'm sure she'd get a kick out of it

― [that bastard] jaxon (jaxon), Thursday, 2 June 2005 06:20 (twenty-one years ago)

there's a huge filipino population in australia, huh?

― [that bastard] jaxon (jaxon), Thursday, 2 June 2005 06:21 (twenty-one years ago)

a) no, vinyl. but i am tempted to digitize. (i have the vs&j record on cd though! its great)

b) ugh...er...possibly..depends

c) yes.

and yes pretty big population. wow. i didn't know that about your wife.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 2 June 2005 08:38 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

i want to know more about african disco

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 7 January 2007 00:39 (nineteen years ago)

i've only heard the comp that's mentioned a few times already, and I must say 'kaloule woman' is godly. The whole comp is funk-heavy, no-gloss and mostly good.

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Sunday, 7 January 2007 01:08 (nineteen years ago)

AIE A'Mwana might be one of my favorite disco tracks ever. and that's saying a lot.

― the table is the table (treesessplode), Sunday, 7 January 2007 05:20 (nineteen years ago)

three years pass...

http://www.thehydramag.com/2010/03/30/lagos-disco-inferno-a-journey-into-african-disco-funk/

― oscar, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 20:25 (sixteen years ago)

two years pass...

Track down the first two or three albums by Arabesque (they were from Germany, but apparently they only ever had any hits in Russia).
― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, August 27, 2004 1:57 AM (7 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

if you did this, you would miss their 4th and best album, midnight dancer!

― no fear, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 07:02 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZOXTkHuRw0&feature=relmfu

― no fear, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 07:06 (fourteen years ago)

nine years pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYuShiK2P74

― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 20 May 2021 01:01 (five years ago)

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