Roots Of Disco S/D

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I recently heard BT Express and Brass Construction for the 1st time. Excellent stuff.
Whats your favorite early disco artists/groups/producers or those who 'influenced' disco?

Are Skyy worth checking out?

― Franklint, Saturday, 14 May 2005 01:30 (twenty-one years ago)

What do people recommend by BT Express other than "Do It ('Til You're Satisfied)" the only song I know by them (as far as I know anyway).

― RS_LaRue (RSLaRue), Saturday, 14 May 2005 01:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I really like "Peace Pipe".

― Franklint, Saturday, 14 May 2005 01:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Just about any Patrick Adams and/or Adams/Greg Carmichael productions will do U right. Search: Musique, Universal Robot Band, Donna McGhee, Cloud One, Ahzz, Rainbow Brown...

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Saturday, 14 May 2005 03:14 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.jahsonic.com/PreDisco.html

― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Saturday, 14 May 2005 05:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Second vote for Musique. Not in any shape or form pre-disco but The album Keep on jumpin' is wonderful. 4 full length tracks and not a weak one on there.

― Kris England, Saturday, 14 May 2005 10:48 (twenty-one years ago)

My favorite BT Express song is "Does It Feel Good". This one got sampled the most. You can find a lot of good records trying to trainspot samples. Check out the disco compilations like Jumpin, Jumpin 2, Disco Spectrum 1,2 and 3, David Mancuso's The Loft, pretty much any compilation from BBE Records will be rock solid.

I would also reccommend Brass Construction's "Happy People".

I don't really have favorite disco artists; just records and labels. Funkanova by Wood Brass and Steel is one of my favorite songs, and there's a lot of good stuff on Salsoul.

― Morgan Patrick (public_radio), Saturday, 14 May 2005 14:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I'll have a look on DC++ or Bittorrent for this stuff later then.
If anyone else has any recommendations on early disco or anything please list away. I'm a newbie to disco so any info is welcome.

Hell just list the best stuff!

― FranklinT, Saturday, 14 May 2005 18:05 (twenty-one years ago)

If you look around enough you can probably find BT Express' Do It 'Til You're Satisfied LP on vinyl. It's all pretty much great start to finish. "Express" is super choice, as is "This House is Smokin'" (which is more Kool & the Gang-style funk than disco but whatever).

Also, First Choice to thread; "The Player" is from 1974 but roughly 2/3 of non-Euro/Moroder disco still copped its moves five years later.

― Stupornaut (natepatrin), Saturday, 14 May 2005 18:09 (twenty-one years ago)

(Now if you'll excuse me, it's time to SLSK every single track on that Jahsonic list.)

― Stupornaut (natepatrin), Saturday, 14 May 2005 18:10 (twenty-one years ago)

(Now if you'll excuse me, it's time to SLSK every single track on that Jahsonic list.)

Good luck. I had none last night. Found a BT Express album though, and a few Fatback band songs.

Whats the difference between Fatback Band and Fatback?

― FranklinT, Saturday, 14 May 2005 18:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Theme from fuckin' Shaft!

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Saturday, 14 May 2005 19:32 (twenty-one years ago)

early Philly International, obviously--pretty much any Philly R&B from this period (this includes First Choice--and maybe Hall & Oates, though they got much more disco later on) would probably do you right. Nicky Siano Presents the Gallery on Soul Jazz is a good place to start as well. so are the earlier tracks on the two David Mancuso Presents the Loft comps.

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Saturday, 14 May 2005 21:30 (twenty-one years ago)

The roots of disco are just as much in Burt Bacharach as they are in funk. So, search some 60s Dionne Warwick.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 14 May 2005 22:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I second: David Mancuso's The Loft compilations I & II. They were playing it before it was called "Disco".

― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Sunday, 15 May 2005 02:06 (twenty-one years ago)

"Girl You Need a Change of Mind," Eddie Kendricks
"Soul Makossa," Manu Dibango
"I Got a Bag of My Own," James Brown

Matos is right about Philly -- check out Wilson Pickett's "Engine Number 9," too.

We could split hairs about whether pre-"Get Down Tonight" K.C. and the Sunshine Band is disco or disco-roots, but "I'm a Pushover," etc., are irre-friggin'-sistible.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Sunday, 15 May 2005 06:15 (twenty-one years ago)

What you want is Super Rare Disco Vols 1&2 released in 1998 on Robbins Records. Compiled and annotated by Vince Aletti, it pulls together many of the early 70s soul tracks popular in the NYC club scene. Hamilton Bohannon, Eddie Kendricks, Crown Heights Affair, also funky stuff from Lyn Collins Gil-Scott Heron Jimmy Castor. Not as Philly-centric as the Nicky Siano set but still action-packed.

"Get Me Back On Time, Engine Number 9" by Wilson Pickett is one of my all-time favorites but it's an extended psychedelic funk workout, pretty atypical for Gamble& Huff and hence pretty far from disco.

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Sunday, 15 May 2005 10:51 (twenty-one years ago)

>>What you want is Super Rare Disco Vols 1&2 released in 1998 on Robbins Records. Compiled and annotated by Vince Aletti,

Has anyone a digital copy of those liner notes. I would like to republish them. I didn't know it was Aletti who compiled those, or wrote the liner notes, thanks.

Jan

― Jan Geerinck (jahsonic), Sunday, 15 May 2005 11:18 (twenty-one years ago)

What was the first track to have 'Disco' in the title? I have Bohannon's 'Disco Stomp' from early 1975 but I expect there were others before that.

Also, First Choice to thread; "The Player" is from 1974 but roughly 2/3 of non-Euro/Moroder disco still copped its moves five years later.

Totally second this - sounds amazingly ahead of its time.

For the Philly stuff, I highly recommend Soul Jazz's compilation Philadelphia Roots

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 15 May 2005 11:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Why are so many disco mp3s of such lame sound quality?

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 20 May 2005 18:09 (twenty-one years ago)

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