examples of DISCO-REGGAE

Oh the order of the playlist is important for the flow. Here's the actual arranged playlist (without the album name, no idea why it copied it the last time)

I'm A Song Writer – KASA, Rim Kwaku Obeng
Reggae Is Here Once Again – Michael Oliviere
Hey Mister - Re-edit – Togetherness, Althea Forest
Loser – Derrick Harriott
Go Deh Yaka - Instrumental – Monyaka
Dubbing Buk-In-Hamm Palace - 2002 Remastered Version – Peter Tosh
We Can't Fly – Aeroplane
Groove Me – Fern Kinney
Nisyan – Ahmed Fakroun
Ain't No Stopping Us Now - Unreleased Version – Risco Connection
Miss Broadway – Belle Epoque
None Shall Escape The Judgement – Johnny Clarke
Silly Games – Janet Kay
Fly Away / Walking In The Sunshine - 2008 Remastered Version – Laid Back
Move on Up – The Dynamics
The Fool (John Milk Disco Reggae Mix) – John Milk
Get High On Your Love – Dennis Brown
Don't Stop Til You Get Enough – Derrick Lara & Trinity
Let Me Down Easy – Derrick Harriott
Dancing The Reggae – Derrick Harriott
The Hustle – Mighty Sparrow & Byron Lee
Music Is A Positive Vibration – Beres Hammond
Back a Yard – The In Crowd
Ring My Bell (feat. Blood Sisters) – Various Artists, Blood Sisters
Don't Let It Get to Your Head – Black Harmony
Upside Down – Carol Cool
I Am In Love – Jennifer Lara
Rapper's Delight (Dub Version) – Taggy Matcher
Suit & Tie – John Milk
Paranoid (feat. Birdy Nixon) – Taggy Matcher, Birdy Nixon
Soft Touch – Ernest Ranglin
Which Side Of The Coin - Spinning Around - Version – Junior Tucker
Ten Commandments – Joe Gibbs & The Professionals
For The Love Of Money – Disco Dub Band
Baby My Love – The In Crowd, Jah Stitch
Giving Up On Love – The Heptones
Midnight – Willie Lindo
Africa – Cedric IM Brooks & The Light of Saba
Loosen Up – Chalice
Do This World A Favour – Beres Hammond
Funky Sting Part 1 – Barry Waite & Ltd.
Talk Like That – Ambelique, Sly & Robbie
When Will I See You Again – Marcia Griffiths

Here's another good reggae/disco track that hadn't been mentioned yet and is not available on spotify.

Capo And The Crew -- Mad Blank
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEzXav84ACk

wow Moka, amazing! I'll have to dust down my copy of spotify and take a listen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVHEljAd13M

bought this on vinyl this week. almost reggae house music - but i guess reggae disco. amazing tune.

so good. i had been chasing it for years so was delighted it got put out again.

Why has this song changed to B.B. Seaton - Dancing In The Moonlight?

https://soundcloud.com/dkmntl/orpheu-the-wizard-jamie-tiller-at-lente-kabinet-festival-28052016

anyone know the id of the tune at 1 hour 1 minute? it is total fire.

https://www.discogs.com/Michael-Paul-Reggae-Music/release/4840338

according to the comments. i think that's right but i'm struggling to find an online sample

yeah I couldn't find on either, but it being US-produced makes sense and this sounds like the same dude years later: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/mpaulitopia

turns out it's this: https://www.discogs.com/Michael-Paul-Reggae-Music/release/4840338

xpost yeah otm. can't find it online.

this is also good, the first track on the below ep - at 1 hour 14

https://www.discogs.com/Staffud-Reggae-Revival/release/2941696

not reggae, just disco but the track at 1.15.48 is amazing as well. anyone know what that is?

it's a brilliant mix, especially from about 55 mins in.

http://www.noiseinmyhead.com.au/2016/06/240516-w-chris-bonato-left-ear-records/

there's a mix on there with the same Michael Paul track, so it's definitely that track, but he's barely released anything else i can find. great tune tho.

others:

22 mins (heard this a lot, asked already on ilx but no dice)
37 minutes

xpost yeah it is amazing, such a good example of DISCO-REGGAE

excited to listen to the whole thing later. actually digging this Noise in my Head mix right now. current track is very Studio-y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1RLtpPCpAE

posted a fern kinney song before (groove me) but this one is just as great (it's the b-side of her massive hit, together we are beautiful):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaxyQF0jegQ

Mersh AF but definitely fits in here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozv4q2ov3Mk

You can still get the original mix I made for this thread here: http://www.mixcloud.com/doglatin/steady-operator-disco-reggae-sounds/ - never leaves my phone's music library

good mix here: http://www.largeup.com/2017/07/07/deejay-theory-dancehall-by-day-disco/

this is a jam. (verrry loose cover)

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

Okay, here we go

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQn_4cg-Abo

Taggy Matcher seems to specialise in this exact kind of style.

favorite recent discovery: this anti-disco-but-still-pretty-disco/rapso anthem from Brother Resistance (RIP):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rXVDNeP-hw

Nice!

What a wonderfully funky groove, not unlike Kuti/Allen

i dug this out this weekend. so good - sad it took him leaving us for me to fully appreciate it.

sadly I'd never even heard of him until he died, but yes the whole EP is really good!

yep, me neither and it's a shame as so much of the stuff i've heard is so great

some discofied afro reggae from osibisa member kiki gyan. went down a wormhole of the (mostly silly and wild) album art of dutch designers myosotis, came upon this, and thought of this thread.

keep it cool
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYChjAFjgs

just one night
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRTr_7pOq1o

peace for africa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bb5gBme1S10

Kiki Gyan - Disco Dancer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfXAVEUo_eY

another great one by him

Lots of dead youtube embeds itt, but is it really possible no one ever posted Keith Hudson?

Civilisation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIiffl1IQOE

Too Expensive:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1GeeXzMmwE

I suppose it is possible, since despite considering Hudson one of my all-time faves, I'd ignored Too Expensive for years due to its (wildly, infuriatingly wrong!!) rep as a failed crossover--a deranged narrative that you should only take on board if you are literally Richard Branson.

Also, it's maybe not quite disco but "Central Kingston" off From One Extreme to Another is also a massive jam and that album really deserves a legit reissue: the version on streaming sounds like a vinyl rip

f**k me! those are both ace. 'civilisation' is sooooo good. thanks. i've been on a huge keith hudson tip recently but had skipped over too expensive.

Central Kingston too; syndrum-tastic! i need to hear the rest of this now.

wow those are great! Is it just me or is there a bit of a an ian dury vibe on 'too expensive'?

I should probably take this to a Hudson thread, but both albums are superb imo. If you're expecting polished soul you'll be disappointed, but if you already dig Hudson's shambolic approach, I can't imagine being disappointed.

As annoyed as I am that I bought the critical line on Too Expensive without even listening to it for so long, the lack of a reissue for From One Extreme is a puzzle since Pressure Sounds put out its dub, Nuh Skin Up, ages ago

I have a bit of an on/off thing with Hudson but these are all killer. Made me wish for a sweaty front room dance.

At one point I took some selections from this thread for this playlist and iirc keith hudson hasnt been mentioned:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6ObTLc46jR2QPzUvtEWESp?si=9AuQfReTSWqAPXmQkovcZQ

nice cover image there, Moka!

"Civilization" was on that Virgin Front Line compilation everybody had - well, my sister had it anyway.

"Civilization" was on that Virgin Front Line compilation everybody had - well, my sister had it anyway.

And, as if by magic; Front Line comp comes out -

https://www.juno.co.uk/products/virgin-front-line-sounds-of-reality/848318-01/

Okay. Serious jam here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGScGuAKmW0

Anyone here familiar with the French Patchworks label which seems to chug out a huge amount of music in this vein? My friend sent me this playlist and it's largely top drawer: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2HOOBwOtmgyPKhY49FEOkK?si=fe9b615c70054664

Xp you're right this is a serious jam

most stuff by eddy grant!

https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/disco-reggae-rockers?fbclid=IwAR32tK6UhQOi4XsFSEblqBPyiG3WNfN9TL758HJfSmEN_F2_WR8td0BmnPg

(sorry for the formatting mishap)

A new disco-reggae compilation.

not going to click through all the youtubes to figure it out, but hopefully this thread didn’t get to 200 posts without mentioning tyrone davis “rise up” (wackies)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OrOahkRgvA

More reggae-disco than disco-reggae, but I just pulled out "Nightflight to Venus" and I'm def adding "Never Change Lovers in the Middle of the Night" to my playlist:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjaXcIAcLY0

Yeah that's a classic. I think I put that on my original mix made from suggestions to this thread. I absolutely love it

Atmosfear's Dancing in Outer Space has a couple of moments when it becomes almost reggae - the laser-ska bit between 2:17 and 2:52, and that liquidy dub bit between about 5:25-6:25 which sounds like the dubwise equivalent of paddling a canoe in choppy waters.

This is joyful and I think it deserves to be included in this thread: https://soundwayrecords.bandcamp.com/album/chi-town-reggae

Great stuff!

I thought I'd posted about it here already, but the Risco Connection comp has been a highlight of my year: https://riscoconnection.bandcamp.com/album/risco-version