Disco

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

some recent faves:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLGBslI8CsE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AjjChXfRHo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6nlrj2aNng

and probably my favorite gino soccio (this week):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhAPoip5YeQ

TS: gino soccio "hold tight" vs. change "hold tight"

ALSO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0F7nWanQrlI

all these early kleeer albums got gems galore.

i'll hand it over for a while now.

New Tim Lawrence book on the way!

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51cEExWnx7L._SX331_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg

that theo vaness lp is good, i love this one from the b-side

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LtNlT2SV_k

New Tim Lawrence book on the way!

― ǂbait (seandalai), Monday, August 29, 2016 8:42 PM (yesterday)

Oh, sweet! The introduction is available to read here: https://www.dukeupress.edu/Assets/PubMaterials/978-0-8223-6186-2_601.pdf

I'd been meaning to find my copies of Lawrence's Love Saves The Day & Shapiro's Turn The Beat Around for my partner after they got hooked on The Get Down and it's Loft-equivalent scenes etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHet9S9Nmd0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PX0orLk0nc

@ Tuomas: I always file Brainstorm next to Brass Construction

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81qVg8fU6Hg

this is such an outrageous jam, it just keeps building

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VssP-L23b44

those ladies could sing

This is really... not very good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8lK5zdXySc
Not even sure if it counts as disco.

mixcloud link if u wanna hear my radio set

https://www.mixcloud.com/n10as/the-alphabet-02092016/

he let me play all the songs in the end :)

i put together 12 tracks of "classic" disco with diva leanings for an ungrateful boy who didn't even download them, so i'm gonna share them here. it's unmixed; they're all aiff from vinyl for the record lovers so the zip is kinda big.

1. Patrice Rushen - Haven't You Heard
2. Brainstorm - Hot For You
3. Loleatta Holloway - Love Sensation
4. Chic - Everybody Dance
5. Musique - Keep On Jumpin'
6. Bionic Boogie - Dance Little Dreamer
7. Change - Angel In My Pocket
8. Inner Life - Moment Of My Life
9. Loose Change - Straight From The Heart
10. Cheryl Lynn - Got To Be Real
11. Sister Sledge - Lost In Music
12. Phreek - Weekend

https://www.adrive.com/public/q2gXBb/Disco%20Mix%20for%20Chris.zip

loving this one from celi bee
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ydqipr97i10

also, s/o to ytuber fredy amezquita! he's all over it with the vids.

Lot of things I don't know on this list: 100 KILLER DISCO SONGS FOR A TENNER OR LESS

The well of disco never runs dry

otm

New Tim Lawrence book on the way!

― ǂbait (seandalai), Monday, August 29, 2016 8:42 PM

Compilation/soundtrack for said book (Life & Death On The New York Dance Floor) on the way:
https://www.residentadvisor.net/news/42875

Tracklist:

Part 1
A1 Dinosaur L - Go Bang! (LP Version)
A2 Tuxedomoon - Desire
B1 Gray - Drum Mode
B2 Alan Vega - Saturn Drive
C1 David Byrne - Big Business (Dance Mix)
C2 New York 88 - Jam Hot (Rhumba Rock)
D1 Rammellzee vs K-Rob - Beat Bop (Original 12-inch Single)
D2 3 Teens Kill 4 - Hold Up

Part 2
A1 John Robie - Vena Cava
A2 James White & The Blacks - Contort Yourself (August Darnell Mix)
B1 Quando Quango - Love Tempo (Mark Kamins Mix
B2 George Kranz - Din Daa Daa (Trommeltanz)
C1 Loose Joints - Pop Your Funk (Instrumental Version) (7-inch B-Side Mix)
C2 Material - Bustin' Out (Long Version)
D1 Peech Boys - Don't Make Me Wait (Extended Version)
D2 Edwin Birdsong - Rapper Dapper Snapper

That's not disco.