TOM MOULTON — A Tom Moulton Mix

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Is "Make it last Forever" by Donna McGhee the same song as "Make It Last Forever" by Inner Life?

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was familiar with a few tracks already, but there's are many ace tracks on here that are completely new to me. Def worth picking up for the Vince Montana & The Philly Sound Orchestra "That's What Love Does" track alone. What a great, great moment in time.

Ha ha. This is really the best song ever.

can i just say that this

a) rules

b) sounds like capital-D-disco, unlike lots of the other disco comps making the rounds (dimitri, muro, joey negro, deep disco culture, etc) which in a certain way makes it even more tremendously awesome, because here's a comp that cleaves straight to all of the disco cliches and still makes it sound like the best thing ever, as opposed to "did ya know disco also means dubby reggae and banjo solos??" vibe of lots of the other comps

i should listen to this more

Weren't most of those elements introduced into that particular song by Anthony Monn?

judging by how very, very little people usually have to say about what levan or moulton or krivit or whoever have actually done to the tracks, i would guess "no"

we always hear about mancuso's koetsu cartridges and klipsch speakers and whatnot, without ever hearing about what exactly this all means except a big price tag and "oh it sounded good"

it takes one sort of person to have a working knowledge of 70s production techniques (i imagine dudes like francois k have already forgotten what they were doing, studio kinda cloudy and all that) and another sort of person to want to write rockcrit, and i imagine there's not very much overlap (phil s comes to mind, though)

xpost nice, matos

1. "frothing doo-wop"? this is what we call background vocals now?
2. wouldn't the cooing voices be part of the (cough) "frothing doo-wop"?
3. there are no synthesizers on "Keep on Truckin'"

1. "more more more" doesn't turn into the isley-brothers-esque anti-war soul-folk jam that the first thirty seconds promises

now that it is, we're pissed they're not good enough at it.

paul cooper ... well, shouts for being the first brave soul to take the electronica beat on pitchfork (schreiber excepted, ha) but sometimes i wondered what planet he was from.

This is so OTM. I've been writing the exact same thing about the Levan comp - my favourite tracks are all the ones where it would be absolutely impossible to attach a "(not disco)" after the "disco", which is kind of refreshing given the (otherwise mostly justified) russell/beardo crit circjerk.

sorry but i love both, classic disco and russell (i would have loved to see a "disco not disco 3"). the Loft compilations were OTM with both kinds of disco (bye bye Strut and Nuphonic....:-( )

Yeah the Loft comps are fab.

OTM. (sorry if i sounded like i was disagreeding with you.)

just bought that boxset the other day, (the moulton, philly intl one), it is fab. Great liner notes, too, moulton seems like such a rad dude in every interview i've read (like 2)

agreed.
there is a current thread re bands and books in a few years.
i would love to read toms take on the disco era.
though i am concerned he is a little too nerd-esque re editing tapes etc, given the perfection of his mixes.
surely he had to be a full on part of the studio 54/disco excess experience ?

it's so mindblowing reading/thinking about the first 12" records and improvements in audio tech in the 70s, i mean, holy shit, dancers must have been practically hallucinating hearing music sound so good in a big space for the first time.

Funny I didn't revive this earlier. Anyway, Moulton's been putting up unreleased mixes on Bandcamp. No details per se -- new? old? stuff he did for fun? -- and you gotta wonder about the exact rights issues but nonetheless:

https://tommoulton.bandcamp.com/album/the-tom-moulton-unreleased-mixes-volume-one

https://tommoulton.bandcamp.com/album/the-tom-moulton-unreleased-mixes-volume-2

Very imformative thread, thanks! A couple mentions on Rolling Reissues 2020:
From the writers of 'Last Night A DJ Saved My Life', Bill Brewster & Frank Broughton have come up trumps again with this fabulous book 'The Record Players'!!!

Leading dance music writers Brewster and Broughton detail the visionary DJs who dramatically changed the course of music: from the very first nightclub DJs, to the founders of entire genres, including northern soul, hip hop, disco, techno, drum’n’bass and beyond.

These are the obsessives, the playboys, the musical eccentrics who founded the craft of DJing, developed amazing techniques for performing with recorded music, and revolutionised the way music is conceived, created and enjoyed. They gave us new ways to have the times of our lives and forged a worldwide industry of nightlife and dance music. From unsung pioneers to overheated superstars, all the biggest DJ names are here!

Includes Tom Moulton, Francois Kevorkian, Louie Vega, Marshall Jefferson, John Peel, David Mancuso, Alfredo, Shut Up & Dance, Danielle Badelli and lots, lots more!!!!!
https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/the-record-players-the-story-of-dance-music-told-by-history-s-greatest-djs-by-bill-brewster-and-frank-broughton

Also just listened to...soundtrack to Tim Lawrence's book, Love Saves The Day: A History of American Dance Culture, 1970-1979, and it's a trip, as expected..."Above And Beyond" is certainly the most sensitive Edgar Winter track I've heard: voices and synths guided through sunset-tinged blue skies by Tom Moulton's production.

― dow, Thursday, July 30, 2020 Descriptions off the cuff, on the fly! Of course.

Yeah the Tim Lawrence book 'soundtracks' on Bandcamp are truly great.

Disco pioneer Tom Moulton: 'People thought I was from another planet!'