here's what I've been disco-digging lately.
disco betamax repository
― m coleman, Friday, 6 June 2008 09:38 (sixteen years ago) link
i've never heard most of this stuff
i very much suspect you have, but without knowing who/what. several of these are very played out tracks, many advert standards.
― mark e, Friday, 6 June 2008 10:04 (sixteen years ago) link
Er, so you've all found a monsieurwilly world, right? Incredible stuff, all sourced from one guy's vinyl collection. Plenty more if you click though on "messages plus anciens".
― mike t-diva, Friday, 6 June 2008 10:13 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm sure lots of "cats" like this record but the jazz chops aren't what makes it great, it's just, like, a journey man
nah, I don't think any actual "jazz" "cats" would give an ounce of credit to anything that came out of the uk jazz-funk scene. It's probably all disco to them!
Speaking of though, I've been playing:
Shalamar-Take That to the Bank Shakatak-Easier Said than Done
also... Serge Ponsar-Out in the Night Sleeque-One For the Money
― dan selzer, Friday, 6 June 2008 12:50 (sixteen years ago) link
One of my favourite picks from monsieur willy:
How Can I Tell Her - Curtis (1979)
Soulful and raw, with a kind of rough-and-ready insistence that appeals to me (and which seems to be a common factor in many of monsieur w's picks; he's also big on Leroy Burgess/Aleem rarities).
― mike t-diva, Friday, 6 June 2008 13:11 (sixteen years ago) link
Top 10 disco jazz tunes...
Herbie Hancock: "Just Around the Corner" Lalo Schifrin: "Turning Point" Idris Muhammad: "Bahia" Stanley Clarke: "Just a Feeling" Ray Barretto: "Pastime Paradise" Herbie Hancock: "Doin' It" Mongo Santamaria: "It Feels So Good" Willie Bobo: "Always There" Airto: "Samba de Flora" Hubert Laws: "Guatemala Connection"
― Tuomas, Friday, 6 June 2008 13:24 (sixteen years ago) link
Willie Bobo: "Always There"
^^^this is a great one
― deej, Friday, 6 June 2008 14:28 (sixteen years ago) link
It's also on monsieurwilly: http://amonsieurwillyworld.blogspot.com/2008/04/willie-bobo-always-there.html
― mike t-diva, Friday, 6 June 2008 15:00 (sixteen years ago) link
top ten records i'm bring with me to play tonight:
Sylvia - Automatic Lover Sylvia Love - Instant Love Earons - Land Of Hunger Osmonds - I, I, I Les Rockets - On the Road Again Chaz Jankel - 3,000,000 Synths Coach House Rhythm Section - Time Warp Loose Joints - Is it all over my face Patrick Cowley - Sea Hunt Eartha Kitt - Where Is My Man
top 2 records i don't own but have been rocking the shit outta me lately: Guy Cuevas - Obsession Chemise - She Can't Love You
― jaxon, Friday, 6 June 2008 23:30 (sixteen years ago) link
-- Tuomas, Friday, June 6, 2008 8:24 AM (13 hours ago) Bookmark Link
yr missin http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1USj00M1OQ&feature=related
― deej, Saturday, 7 June 2008 02:38 (sixteen years ago) link
Or anything by Roy Ayers.
― Eric H., Saturday, 7 June 2008 02:48 (sixteen years ago) link
"Tamiko Jones - Can't Live Without Your Love
this song!!! >_< "
major co-sine !!!
― oscar, Saturday, 7 June 2008 04:31 (sixteen years ago) link
Brass Construction - Movin' Boz Scaggs - Lowdown Roy Ayers - Chicago Nick Straker Band - A Little Bit of Jazz James White & the Blacks - Contort Yourself (August Darnell mix) Can - I Want More
― Malcolm Money, Sunday, 8 June 2008 00:03 (sixteen years ago) link
Jimmy "Bo" Horne - "Spank" This would be unquestionably the greatest disco record ever if only they'd left out the annoying vocal.
The vocals are possibly the best thing about it! So many hooks!
"Whe-hen yurrr lohvin' me, baby, SPANK! Ooh-ooh-woo-ooh (Let's! Get! To it! Do it!)"
― etc, Sunday, 8 June 2008 22:43 (sixteen years ago) link
I love the vocals on spank!
Hard to pick ten favourites but my current favourite disco song is the Larry Levan mix of "Cryin" by Instant Funk.
― jim, Sunday, 8 June 2008 22:47 (sixteen years ago) link
Crying even.
Joe Simon - Love Vibration Gwen Guthrie - Peanut Butter Montana Sextet - Heavy Vibes Erotic Drum Band - Pop Pop Shoo Wah Don Ray - Got To Have A lot More Lovin Chocolat's - El Carnavero Gene Chandler - When Your'e #1 Black Ivory - Mainline Grey & Hanks - Dancin' Lime - You're My Magician Trax - Crusader
― Romeo Jones, Monday, 9 June 2008 07:08 (fifteen years ago) link
Chocolat's - El Carnavero
^^^^yeah but do u know 'baby lets do it the french way'???
― deej, Monday, 9 June 2008 07:11 (fifteen years ago) link
^^^actually, it's El Caravanero.
and 'baby lets do it the french way' is pretty great as well and lives up to its awesome title (thanks, American Athlete).
― Romeo Jones, Monday, 9 June 2008 16:16 (fifteen years ago) link
aww did he post that? fuk
― deej, Monday, 9 June 2008 16:18 (fifteen years ago) link
i thought i was dropping knowledge :-/
― deej, Monday, 9 June 2008 16:20 (fifteen years ago) link
dood, you are knowledge droppin in sync w/ disco blogerati. gain 26 hit points.
― Romeo Jones, Monday, 9 June 2008 16:28 (fifteen years ago) link
ok heres one - ghalib ghallab - 'love desire'
― deej, Tuesday, 10 June 2008 02:20 (fifteen years ago) link
geez ... i just read that gino soccio was 19 when kebekelektrik was recorded
― jaime, Wednesday, 18 June 2008 05:52 (fifteen years ago) link
I had no idea that Gino Soccio was involved with Kebekeleltrik until now. I also just read that he produced the awesome Witch Queen album (he mus have been 20 at that point).
― Romeo Jones, Wednesday, 18 June 2008 17:29 (fifteen years ago) link
He also played on The Mexican by the Bombers.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 18 June 2008 18:04 (fifteen years ago) link
heard some interesting stories while i was in montreal. apparently george cucuzzella (pres of unidisc) is sitting on a full, finished, unreleased soccio record ...
― jaime, Wednesday, 18 June 2008 18:41 (fifteen years ago) link
Heatwave need to be mentioned here! I would list ten of their songs alone if I could, but "Boogie Nights" and "The Groove Line" are total classics.
― 2for25, Wednesday, 18 June 2008 19:10 (fifteen years ago) link
'posin til closin' is my favorite heatwave track
― deej, Wednesday, 18 June 2008 19:14 (fifteen years ago) link
"ain't no half steppin"
― m coleman, Wednesday, 18 June 2008 20:07 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.discomuseum.com/GinoSoccio.html
― m coleman, Wednesday, 18 June 2008 20:08 (fifteen years ago) link
in that "try it out video" gino looks like wolfen
― m coleman, Wednesday, 18 June 2008 20:10 (fifteen years ago) link
still haven't heard the disco version of "The Mexican." :(
― beta blog, Wednesday, 18 June 2008 21:00 (fifteen years ago) link
In disco songs, there's that "byoo" sound. What the hell is that supposed ot be? Ray guns or some shit?
― burt_stanton, Monday, 11 August 2008 03:13 (fifteen years ago) link
cosmic disco lasers, duh
― haitch, Monday, 11 August 2008 03:48 (fifteen years ago) link
not enough praise on this thread for larry levan's mix of "Let's Go Dancing" by Sparque. Goddam, might be the greatest disco jam of all time! That i've heard anyway. it's got pretty much everything good about disco jammed into eight minutes.
― tylerw, Monday, 11 August 2008 16:02 (fifteen years ago) link
or Magnificent Dance, or does that not count?
― I know, right?, Monday, 11 August 2008 16:07 (fifteen years ago) link
today, saying anything other than this is the greatest disco jam ever is sacrilege
http://www.imeem.com/ilovedeephouse/music/DdkVIpc6/isaac_hayes_ron_hardy_edit_i_cant_turn_around/
― deej, Monday, 11 August 2008 16:14 (fifteen years ago) link
xpostage
hell yeah. DJs frankie crocker and larry levan were all over "magnificent dance" back in the day.
― m coleman, Monday, 11 August 2008 16:14 (fifteen years ago) link
"i can't turn around" is disco-magnificence, deej, as is the instrrumental take of "chocolate chip"
― m coleman, Monday, 11 August 2008 16:16 (fifteen years ago) link
a vote for 'star struck' by cheri http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41b8ckYOjeI
and also recommend chicago's 100.3 Love FM Saturday Night Dance Party mixes:
http://timmyrichardsonpresents.com/?p=72
we get these every saturday nite ^_^
i havent listened to it yet but its basically gonna be dance music late 70s-current, house and disco and disco edits and electro and prince and whatever else
― deej, Wednesday, 13 August 2008 22:26 (fifteen years ago) link
(havent listened to this one yet i mean)
BOHANNON DISCO STOMP
― I know, right?, Wednesday, 13 August 2008 22:27 (fifteen years ago) link
oh and people mentioned gino soccio but not "dancer"?!? WTF
i know! i can't believe that's not up there more, that has to be one of the best of all time
― san frandisco, Wednesday, 13 August 2008 22:46 (fifteen years ago) link
I'll get to 100 here pretty soon.
The Jones Girls, "You Gonna Make Me Love Somebody Else" <---- totally hypnotic! why did I ever sleep on this one?!High Fidelity, "Magic Carpet" <---- how I never listed this until now is beyond meEdwin Birdsong, "Phiss-Phizz"Herbie Hancock, "Saturday Night"Musique, "Number One"The Whispers, "Emergency"Lowrell, "Mellow Mellow Right On"Debra Hurd, "Hug Me, Squeeze Me"Suzy Q, "Get On Up Do It Again"Michael Jackson, "Baby Be Mine"
― Eric H., Tuesday, 30 September 2008 04:39 (fifteen years ago) link
10 more songs I haven't mentioned in my quest to make this less a POX and more a POC.
Ramsey Lewis, "Spring High"Kool & the Gang, "Big Fun"Al Hudson & The Soul Partners, "Spread Love"Prince, "Just As Long As We're Together"Cloud One, "Disco Juice"Plastic Bertrand, "Stop Ou Encore"Zapp, "Heartbreaker"Sylvia Striplin, "Give Me Your Love"Phreek, "Weekend"Gary's Gang, "Knock Me Out"
― Nurse Detrius (Eric H.), Wednesday, 11 March 2009 14:40 (fifteen years ago) link
'weekend' is the greatest.
― resident advice whore (haitch), Wednesday, 11 March 2009 23:34 (fifteen years ago) link
When I hit 100, I'm going to turn that into a POX and it will kill me.
― Nurse Detrius (Eric H.), Thursday, 12 March 2009 20:10 (fifteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OV1nBb60Tqg
mentioned upthread but that youtube link has expired. Been listening to this a bunch the last few weeks. Humming it going to the bank today.
― the shock will be coupled with the need to dance (jim), Monday, 29 June 2009 19:03 (fourteen years ago) link
Lime - Babe We're Gonna Love Tonight― Siegbran (eofor), Friday, May 23, 2003 4:37 PM (6 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
this song is, like, so good, just sooooo good
― rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Monday, 29 June 2009 19:05 (fourteen years ago) link