Disco

Might as well post this one here too, I did an all-boogie disco mix:

https://soundcloud.com/kukka-dj/boogiemix/s-6PvKP

http://www.sendspace.com/file/3jh3ki

Today I checked out this album by "the Brazilian Donna Summer", Lady Zu:

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KqndcpjQSek/Sr4TzC0qi4I/AAAAAAAATe4/gdgVEfUDCL4/s400/Lady+Zu+A+Noite+Vai+Chegar.jpg

It's not amazing but you can hear an influence from the "Samba Soul" sound and some of the songs are pretty cool, e.g. Novidades.

The Disco Handbook from way upthread is online! http://www.scribd.com/doc/3242075/The-Disco-Handbook

fn love disco

yez, good genre!!

on a recent youtube cruise discovered this slightly deranged proggy disco jam from the mind of baciotti of "black jack" fame (and songwriting partner pamela forrest, don't know much about her): http://youtu.be/n6nIqVre7dY
i love it

God knows why, but that Disco book used to be in my 6th grade classroom library (c. 1991). The Sam Viviano illustrations just triggered a long-buried memory!

High Inergy - I Just Can't Help Myself
High Inergy - Sweet Man this whole lp is awesome
Delilah - Dancing in the Fire (this one's kinda weird and second tier but i love it)
Caroline Crawford - I'll Be Here For You this whole album is just jaw-droppingly great. it's slow but impossible for me to not dance to and the production is just wwow

not strictly female but....

Dan Hartman - Vertigo / Relight My Fire later dan hartman cut, out of this world

^found on Classic Disco Mastercuts which is five stars five times. a lot of those mastercuts comps (the 90s ones, not the later ones after the company was bought by someone else iirc) are stellar. there's a mellow quiet-storm slow-boogie one that changed my life.

also does sylvester count? female, campy and absolutely beautiful. love it all but "over and over" is pretty special.

http://s.pixogs.com/image/R-343706-1108855771.jpg

On repeat this week: Archie Bell and the Drells - Strategy

re: dan hartman >> that's actually a big cut, no? especially relight my fire.
re: sylvester >> what do you mean by female? haha. yes I like him but I'm afraid his style are kinda outside of the disco range I'm looking for. he's more like hi-nrg perhaps?

sylvester was part of an sf ensemble / live band and his earlier highlights are full of energy yes but lush and 'soulful,' not a synth in sight.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7VL8caYxms

I got the most recent Boris Midney reissue in the mail, this one includes his discofied versions of Evita and The Empire Strikes Back soundtracks. You might enjoy the Evita disc, unless you think it's too camp? Personally I think it's fab, I'm not the biggets fan of the musical, but Midney's arrangements are just so impeccable!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFkITYXUQe8

Skip to 4:30 to hear "Rainbow High", which is probably the best tune on the album.

Also, his disco version of the Star Wars theme rules over the better known Meco version:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xkAf_MhnJs

https://soundcloud.com/20twin/twins-reflected-image-vinyl-disco-mix

In the late nineteen-seventies, as a heady night-life scene flourished in Manhattan, Meryl Meisler, then in her mid-twenties, spent night after night at Studio 54, Hurrah, Paradise Garage, and other clubs that would come to define the disco era. As she did so, she built a photographic archive that, until recently, had never been published, let alone seen.

http://www.newyorker.com/.../pho.../meryl-meislers-disco-era

https://soundcloud.com/wax-poetics/nicky-siano-live-at-the-gallery-october-1976/

couple of years back i was unemployed due to visa issues, one of my projects to keep busy was writing a list of my favourite disco songs. i just came across it in my google drive. i will now spam it to you. list veers a bit into post-disco/boogie/italo a bit at the end, which wasn't the intention but when youre sitting around baked with a kitten listening to music on youtube your mind wanders:

love and kisses - i found love (now that i found you)

Bill withers - you got the stuff. Harlem

The equals - black skinned blue eyed boys

cerrone - love in c minor. supernature

crystal world – crystal grass

alec costandinos - romeo and juliet

Gary's gang - keep on dancing

gino soccio - dancer

Idris Muhammad - could heaven ever be like this

Candido - thousand finger man

young and company - i like what you do to me

Bonnie bramlett - crazy 'bout my baby

Honey cone - stick up

chicago - street player

Atmosfear - dancing in outer space

Gladys knight - I've got to use my imagination

The nite liters - k-jee

Pointer sisters - going down slowly. Yes we can can

Salsoul orchestra - salsoul hustle (tom moulton mix)

Kebekelektrik - war dance

Abaco dream - life and death in g & a

Tavares - heaven must be missing an angel

Lou Rawls - you'll never find another love like mine

Isaac Hayes - moonlight loving

instant funk - i got my mind up. crying (larry levan mix)

tjm - put yourself in my place

jimmy bo horne – spank. dance on the floor

dennis parker - like an eagle

Booker t and the Mg's - melting pot

osibisa – survival

babatunde olatunji - jin-go-lo-ba

don downing – dream world

Musique - love massage

black sun - black sun

two tons of fun - i don’t want to lose your love

Boston soul sound orchestra - do it now

Firefly - love (is gonna be on your side)

eddie kendricks – girl you need a change of mind, keep on truckin, going up in smoke

karma - high priestess

harold melvin and the blue notes – bad luck. The love i lost

Mystic - disco love affair

Philly devotions - hurt so bad

Crown heights affair - say a prayer for two

trammps – love epidemic. That's where the happy people go

sparkle – handsome man

Lamont Dozier - going back to my roots

resonance – yellow train

munich machine - get on the funk train

detroit emeralds – feel the need

vicki sue robinson – turn the beat around

diana ross – love hangover. Upside down. My old piano

the emotions – i don't want to lose your love

brenda and the tabulations - let’s go all the way

miroslav vitous – new york city

george mcrae – i get lifted, rock your baby

the ritchie family - brazil

carol douglas – doctor's orders. Midnight love affair

undisputed truth – you + me = love

ozo - anambra

Sylvester - dance (disco heat). You make me feel (mighty real)

first choice – let no man put asunder. Doctor love

salsoul orchestra - runaway

carl bean – i was born this way

Sister sledge - lost in music. He's the greatest dancer

loleatta holloway – we're getting stronger (the longer we stay together). Love sensation. Hit and run (walter gibbons 12” mix)

double exposure – ten percent. my love is free

Phreek - weekend

Deodato - whistle bump

evelyn champagne king – shame. love come down (post-disco)

People's choice - do it anyway you wanna

love committee – just as long as ive got you

barry white – love's theme

The brothers Johnson - stomp

Easy going - baby I love you

grace jones – la vie en rose. I need a man

hamilton bohannon – foot stomping music

erotic drum band – jerky rhythm

silver convention – fly robin fly

Don ray - standing in the rain

mfsb – mfsb. Love is the message. Tsop

blue magic – magic of the blue

Ramona brooks - I don't want you back

Carrie Lucas - dance with you

Johnny hammond - los conquistadores chocolates

The o'jays - backstabbers

Damon Harris - it's music

Lace - can't play around

nyc peech boys – don't make me wait

johnnie taylor – seconds of your love

The gap band - yearning for your love

Tullio de piscopo - stop bajon (primavera)

Eddie grant - no one has the time

Tw funk masters - love money

Forrrce - keep on dancing

New Jersey connection - love don't come easy

Logg - I know you will

Man Friday - love honey love heartache

Colonel Abrams - trapped

Unlimited touch - I hear music in the street

whispers - and the beat goes on. Keep on loving me

D-train - you're the one for me

Odyssey - inside out

George Benson - give me the night

Hugh masekela - don't go lose it baby

street beat - do the flex

sharon redd - beat the street

Sick, lots of my faves on there and a bunch i haven't heard. The year of my life when i listened to mostly disco was the best return on investment I've ever gotten in terms of lifetime jams i can always go back to for a pick-me-up

my current favourite song of all time is Sister Sledge - Thinking Of You, an album cut off We Are Family and B side to Lost in Music--apparently it charted in Ireland in the 80's? it's better than any of their singles except Greatest Dancer, which (call me crazy) it is equally good as. it's so beautiful it makes me cry; the guitar line is classic Nile Rodgers and adds this bittersweet, melancholy touch to it.

I'm thinkin' of you
and the things you do, to me
that make me love you
now i'm livin' in ecstasy

and the way she slips into lower register on the "Together" here

All the time he makes me glad that I'm alive
Together we will survive

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=de4_vbntd50

oh i also heard a *really* good one recently, that i had never heard before

Casual T - Hands Off

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1GZBlErK3c

(sampled in The Black Madonna - Stay)

cool, will listen to those later

the dmitri from paris mix of "thinking of you" is sublime.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaHp4i2mCdE

Just remembered that thinking of you was a huge hit in the UK when I was a little kid and I know the whole thing so well lol

it's my fav nile guitar part after 'i want your love' and 'lost in music'

beyond "haven't you heard" i think my favorite disco song of all time is machine's "there but for the grace of god go i"

"haven't you heard" is so great

"my love is free" is the ultimate disco song

gino soccio - dancer

heard this in a greenhouse early this summer where some art exhibit opening party was happening. i didn't expect disco of all things to be the soundtrack but it was just perfect.

i wanted to request something from change's the glow of love since i had shed some bliss-tears to "a lover's holiday" in my bedroom over the spring. but i was too shy to ask the french fella helming the turntables.

"my love is free" is the ultimate disco song

― esempiu (crüt), Tuesday, August 23, 2016 5:48 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

couldn't agree more

Thread revive got me listening to
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uP_2R2CrT14

Completely ambivalent about the music.

Championing disco as a proxy for first-year-of-gender-studies "stick it to the rockist hegemony" politics is crap and beyond stale.

sorry sir, there's no choice for you but to go back to rate your music. all the garbage-opinion rooms here are taken. there are no vacancies.

how quaint

lol

but when youre sitting around baked with a kitten listening to music on youtube your mind wanders:

this sounds remarkably like my summer but instead of disco its jacquees and French montana

going to be playing some Disco songs and talking about them on the radio tomorrow (well, recording it tomorrow i'm not sure when it's going to air) for a friend's show. he told me to bring 5 songs (not enough!) this is my long list

Sister Sledge - Thinking Of You
Chemise - She Can't Love You
Crown Heights Affair - Say A Prayer For Two
Jones Girls - You Gonna Make Me Love Somebody Else
Oby Onyioha - Enjoy Your Life
Shirley & Company - Shame, Shame, Shame
Slave - Watching You

and I'm going to bring

Claudja Berry - Love For the Sake of Love
Black Cock - Juicy Sushi
Casual T - Hands Off (Instrumental)

for introludes/talking tracks

I'm not usually very good at talking about music on the radio, know anything interesting about any of these songs I could say? Also, which 2 of the top 7 would you cut?

when you play the Black Cock record you could tell people DJ Harvey's line - how people say you can't understand the blues until you've had your heart broken, well, you can't understand DJ Harvey's music until you've had group sex on ecstasy

Lol

when I used to have a radio show at community station here i would always omit that track from the log in case someone ever saw it

Is juicy sushi the really intense/fast brassy one?
Love those edits. Been awhile since I listened... Should burn a disc

yup that's the one

I'd take the chemise track off just cuz I consider it more electro-boogie 80sness but that's just me. Great track tho, obviously

I was going to cut CHA and Slave, but I just realized I need to add Double Exposure - My Love Is Free... fuck it would kill me to cut 'She Can't Love You'

save it for a sequel show maybe? electronic disco branches...

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

Been listening to this a lot lately, any suggestions for similar (mostly) instrumental, brass-heavy disco in the vain of the above or Brass Construction's "Movin'"?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfBqA4GM9Pg

Here's another tune in the same style.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laWIhw8_5fA

And this one of course.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUB4qVPflhw