couple of things not mentioned yet on this thread that i love love love
azoto - san salvador t-connection - at midnight kool & the gang - open sesasme ltg exchange - corazon two man sound - que tal america
― moonship journey to baja, Friday, 6 June 2008 05:12 (fifteen years ago) link
oh and people mentioned gino soccio but not "dancer"?!? WTF
i gotta second these: "going up in smoke," "got to get your love," "there but for the grace of god," and "bourgie bourgie"
― moonship journey to baja, Friday, 6 June 2008 05:13 (fifteen years ago) link
leftfield selection that's more rock-disco: "not tonight". incredible!
― moonship journey to baja, Friday, 6 June 2008 05:14 (fifteen years ago) link
i think i said que tal america at some point
on the pop tip "pull up to the bumper" and "miss you" i never really tire of
― jaime, Friday, 6 June 2008 05:16 (fifteen years ago) link
<3 "Circles" by City Limits, "Disco Madness" by Sparkle <-----heard this at a deep house page show the other day
― deej, Friday, 6 June 2008 05:23 (fifteen years ago) link
xpost: I live to please...
Ten gamey, well-hung and not for the faint-hearted selections:
Powerline - "Double Journey" 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
First Choice - "Double Cross" If you only like disco that doesn't sound like disco you're going to fucking hate this one. Strings, melodrama and slap bass make it fruitier than a make-up convention on a mango plantation
T-Connection - "At midnight" This could well be the biggest tease in disco, even more so than "work that body". About 6 minutes of hard, forceful drumming that you'd swear is a house track, and then *bang* vocals, horns, organs everything hits at once. There's nothing light or fluffy about this.
The Whatnauts - "Help is on the way" Bassline.
Erotic Drum Band - "Jerky Rhythm" Drums that hang out on street corners and bother pensioners.
The Cats'n'Jammer Kids - "Disco drum" Yeah the C2 edit is better than the original. But it's still good. Punchy punchy horns.
Kano - "It's a war" Token italo mention. OTT space battle disco.
Slimline - "If you can dance you can do it" (inst. with count) Like a workout video with cocaine and strippers. Imperious, demanding strippers.
Loleatta Holloway - "Hit and run" (Walter Gibbons mix) More like hit, hit, hit and eventually run.
Billy Nichols - "Give your body up to the music" I'm not ashamed. I can walk down the street in broad daylight looking like this. There's no room for apologies on the dancefloor.
― J@cob, Friday, 6 June 2008 05:24 (fifteen years ago) link
Also, Don Ray "Standing in the rain" is on the Roy Ayers radio station in GTA4. That made me chuckle when I heard it come on...
― J@cob, Friday, 6 June 2008 05:25 (fifteen years ago) link
cant believe so few Change songs were mentioned!!!
"Glow of Love," "Girls Affair," "Searching," "Angel in my Pocket," "The End," so uh yeah the entire "Glow of Love" album
― deej, Friday, 6 June 2008 05:27 (fifteen years ago) link
"love you inside and out" by the bee gees
― jaime, Friday, 6 June 2008 05:28 (fifteen years ago) link
I love love love "Angel in my pocket", that little slide before it hits is totally classic. A lot of people find that track cornball though.
― J@cob, Friday, 6 June 2008 05:30 (fifteen years ago) link
i dont want those ppl in my disco
― deej, Friday, 6 June 2008 05:31 (fifteen years ago) link
See also: Sparkle - Handsome man
― J@cob, Friday, 6 June 2008 05:34 (fifteen years ago) link
Of those not mentioned yet:
Belle Epoque: "Miss Broadway" Hamilton Bohannon: "Foot Stompin' Music" Change: "The Glow of Love" Corruption: "Show Me Yours" Divine: "Alphabet Rap" Magazine 60: "Don Quichotte" Skatt Bros.: "Walk The Night" Sylvester: "I (Who Have Nothing)" Tantra: "Wishbone" The Weather Girls: "It's Raining Men"
― Kevin John Bozelka, Friday, 6 June 2008 05:43 (fifteen years ago) link
The only bad thing about the GTA4 disco station is that it's only 10 songs long when it should be about 70.
― Eric H., Friday, 6 June 2008 05:44 (fifteen years ago) link
THANK YOU!
― Debord, Friday, 6 June 2008 05:45 (fifteen years ago) link
"Peanut Butter," Twennynine "You're So Good To Me," Curtis Mayfield "Heart's Desire," Don Blackman (iffy as disco at best, but wow!) "Love Party"/"Dance 'n' Be Happy," Marvin Gaye "Wheel Me Out," Was (Not Was) "Once I've Been There," Norman Connors "Chicago," Roy Ayers "Straight from the Heart," Loose Change "Gonna Get Over You," France Joli "Sharivari," A Number of Names
― Eric H., Friday, 6 June 2008 05:56 (fifteen years ago) link
OK, that Blackman track isn't disco at all. I second Bohannon's "Foot Stompin' Music."
― Eric H., Friday, 6 June 2008 05:57 (fifteen years ago) link
"Once I've Been There," Norman Connors jyeah!
― deej, Friday, 6 June 2008 05:58 (fifteen years ago) link
Two fun "Sharevari" videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhE-0IDpkiM"> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhE-0IDpkiM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUvqq_Kmr9o
― Kevin John Bozelka, Friday, 6 June 2008 06:05 (fifteen years ago) link
I totally had that second one bookmarked.
― Eric H., Friday, 6 June 2008 06:09 (fifteen years ago) link
screw* all this obscure shit!
carl douglas - kung fu fighting average white band - pick up the pieces k.c. and the sunshine band - thats the way i like it wild cherry - play that funky music chic - freak out lipps inc - funky town peaches and herb - shake your groove thing commodores - brick house michael jackson - don't stop till you get enough earth wind and fire - september
put these on at a party, ANY party, and see if people dont get up and dance. and i dont really care if lipps inc already got like 10 mentions either, it deserves every last one of them.
-mw
*"screw" meaning soulseek & download, i've never heard most of this stuff
― messiahwannabe, Friday, 6 June 2008 09:17 (fifteen years ago) link
here's what I've been disco-digging lately.
disco betamax repository
― m coleman, Friday, 6 June 2008 09:38 (fifteen 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 (fifteen 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 (fifteen 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 (fifteen 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 (fifteen 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 (fifteen years ago) link
Willie Bobo: "Always There"
^^^this is a great one
― deej, Friday, 6 June 2008 14:28 (fifteen 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 (fifteen 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 (fifteen 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 (fifteen years ago) link
Or anything by Roy Ayers.
― Eric H., Saturday, 7 June 2008 02:48 (fifteen years ago) link
"Tamiko Jones - Can't Live Without Your Love
this song!!! >_< "
major co-sine !!!
― oscar, Saturday, 7 June 2008 04:31 (fifteen 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 (fifteen 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 (fifteen 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 (fifteen 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