so fucking sad reading about phyllis now though :(
― i'm surprised to see your screwface at the door (NickB), Friday, 23 March 2018 22:45 (six years ago) link
one million xps. that shalamar tune is amazing, i don't think i've heard it before
― Louis Jägermeister (jim in vancouver), Friday, 23 March 2018 22:49 (six years ago) link
an obvious one that i'll nonetheless take the opportunity to remind you all of:
the brooklyn, bronx & queens band - on the beat
dutch 80's funk from heaven:
the limit - she's so divine
played this at a house party and the chorus got my pals jumping:
chas jankel - 109 (chasanova album version)
the bassline (put headphones on if you're listening on laptop so you can hear it!) on this song, and really the way the whole intro comes together, is out of this world:
can-dee - lucky day
― flopson, Friday, 23 March 2018 23:22 (six years ago) link
also gonna crosspost this Shintaro Sakamoto track i posted in the japanese boogie thread cuz its my favourite boogie discovery in like a year
'80s japanese boogie/r&b/freestyle
― flopson, Friday, 23 March 2018 23:24 (six years ago) link
hey Nick, there are other editions of the Rim & Kasa record that are much cheaper & still available.
i swear i've seen that BB&Q band record. my roommate has a few of the records posted itt, probably that one's in there too.
i just got this one in the mail today, heard it first in a breakbot mix on youtube: https://www.discogs.com/Empire-2-Projecting-Lisa-Freakman/release/1419039
― davey, Saturday, 24 March 2018 01:19 (six years ago) link
"She's So Divine" is one of the greatest songs ever
― had (crüt), Saturday, 24 March 2018 02:29 (six years ago) link
totally. could’ve been a mega smash hit too
― flopson, Saturday, 24 March 2018 03:23 (six years ago) link
I got these Rim & Kasa edits when they came out a couple of years ago. Nik Weston's Mukatsuku label reissues some great stuff. https://www.discogs.com/Nik-Weston-Presents-Rim-Kasa-Rim-Kwaku-Obeng-Mukatsuku-Vs-BBE-Official-Edits/release/8176789
― mike t-diva, Saturday, 24 March 2018 11:27 (six years ago) link
I've also been playing that Phyllis Hyman track out a lot - the original, not the big new remix.
― mike t-diva, Saturday, 24 March 2018 11:28 (six years ago) link
Mike, I want to THANK YOU. SO. MUCH. for that James Hamilton blog. I went all the way back to the beginning and am reading every page chronologically while listening to the tracks. Music history is unfolding before my eyes. What a goldmine.
Davey, if it's not too much trouble, could you post links to YouTube instead of Discogs?
― ArchCarrier, Saturday, 24 March 2018 16:08 (six years ago) link
xxp - My favorite BB&Q jam is 'Starlette':
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZ_gG78WJYc
― ArchCarrier, Saturday, 24 March 2018 16:09 (six years ago) link
Some good ones from James Hamilton's first couple of months (mid-1975):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fudV-od6-c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6Ro0B9RETM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m48wpxFPHQU"Instrumental flip minus groans." - LOL
And who knew Demis Roussos did disco?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzOI_IxB7NA
― ArchCarrier, Saturday, 24 March 2018 16:58 (six years ago) link
Sorry, 'Rendezvous' is for a different thread.
― ArchCarrier, Saturday, 24 March 2018 17:02 (six years ago) link
Glad you're enjoying the blog, ArchCarrier. I have made dozens and dozens of amazing discoveries through doing it, which led to me pitching a weekly Friday night gig at the bar up the road, playing a lot of the records I've recently bought. The night's going great, and is funding more purchases. Here's one I bought today - the 1980 debut single from Freeez. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uT6acsV353M
― mike t-diva, Saturday, 24 March 2018 17:12 (six years ago) link
hey archcarrier, if you don’t know it there’s another HUGE demis disco banger called ‘I dig you’ which has this funked-up eastern med melody and big squiggly disco synths and strings. was a b-side originally I think but it’s also on the classic charity shop staple ‘the demis roussos magic’ (has a boring mauve coloured cover, looks like a shit box of chocolates)
― i'm surprised to see your screwface at the door (NickB), Saturday, 24 March 2018 17:43 (six years ago) link
this is 'i dig you', it's a monster:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kx-lj02_z4
― i'm surprised to see your screwface at the door (NickB), Saturday, 24 March 2018 19:23 (six years ago) link
flopson prompted me to check out the rest of the limit's discography (didn't take long, it's only 1 album and 4 singles). had heard 'say yeah' before, think it was a minor hit over here but it doesn't really do an awful lot for me tbh. this one does sound pretty good though:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvhohToyGh0
― i'm surprised to see your screwface at the door (NickB), Saturday, 24 March 2018 19:25 (six years ago) link
that can-dee tune is totally new to me - fucking hell, dopamine rush or what? :D
― i'm surprised to see your screwface at the door (NickB), Saturday, 24 March 2018 19:28 (six years ago) link
omfg, 'freakman' is an instant hit here too, thanks davey!
― i'm surprised to see your screwface at the door (NickB), Saturday, 24 March 2018 19:31 (six years ago) link
sounds like she's *really* enjoying that cornish pasty on that intimate strangers track
and i bought a freeez record today too! 'melodies of love' reissue came out this week, what a song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3QHpUVjuK4
― i'm surprised to see your screwface at the door (NickB), Saturday, 24 March 2018 19:40 (six years ago) link
xxp - Wow, 'I Dig You' is indeed fantastic. I only knew Demis from Aphrodite's Child and a couple of ballads ('My Friend the Wind', 'It's Five o'Clock', both great, 'Lovely Lady of Arcadia' not so much), but I guess it makes sense to think of him as the eccentric Greek cousin of the Bee Gees.
Digging a little deeper, I see there's also this:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QO_lAbitUNg
― ArchCarrier, Saturday, 24 March 2018 20:51 (six years ago) link
I wish there was a bar down my road that would let me play disco every Friday...
― ArchCarrier, Saturday, 24 March 2018 21:05 (six years ago) link
ArchCarrier, this Demis Roussos edit was one of my most favorite records last year! The a-side is great as well. I saw that "L.O.V.E. Got a Hold on Me" is getting a re-issue soon, too, but it's 30 bucks for pre-order on pbvinyl.com, and that's just wrong. https://youtu.be/gU1wm4uOuow
― davey, Sunday, 25 March 2018 10:10 (six years ago) link
this Demis Roussos edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gU1wm4uOuow
― davey, Sunday, 25 March 2018 10:11 (six years ago) link
Ooh, that's a good one!
― ArchCarrier, Sunday, 25 March 2018 21:17 (six years ago) link
This is the opposite of a deep cut, but I've been watching reruns of 1985 TOTP and this boogie banger is always a highlight. Had no idea they were Dutch!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KyM6rCUOiM
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 30 March 2018 09:40 (six years ago) link
Don't forget to check out the Dutch TopPop channel for much more Mai Tai.
On today's James Hamilton blog he mentions one of my favorite disco covers. Never fails to produce a couple of smiles in my direction whenever I play it in front of a crowd:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nwa2YtZRGs
― ArchCarrier, Friday, 30 March 2018 10:33 (six years ago) link
(Not sure about the grammar in that last sentence but you get the idea...)
― ArchCarrier, Friday, 30 March 2018 10:35 (six years ago) link
Oh cool, need to check that out!
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 30 March 2018 13:05 (six years ago) link
Fabulous thread, just saw----this band may have already been mentioned, but can't resist quoting a late great ilxor, as already quoted on Amazon, re Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band s/t debut:
Disco rarely got more musically or lyrically sophisticated than on this self-titled debut album. Long before he took up the role of Kid Creole with the Coconuts, wordsmith August Darnell cushioned small, perfect truths--singer Cory Daye promises to get her "equivalency diploma" in love in "I'll Play the Fool"--in knowingly retro sounds. Stylish, honest, and completely one of a kind. --Rickey WrightSpeaking of Cory Daye, check out her solo album, Cory and Me w Dr B etc. input--the last I heard, she and a bunch of them are still performing together.
Speaking of Africa, don't miss Rough Guide To African Disco, esp, w bonus disc. Disc 1's opening track is weirdly generic, but the rest of it takes disco expectations on a trip.
Ditto this Nicky Siano comp---I'm told he hated the d-word, didn't want it on here, but Soul Jazz insisted---but disco-and-boogie is a handy tag for it---he really likes songs that tell stories that you can/have to dance to:
Siano the TimesMercury rising as disco evolves out of its prior knowledgeby Don AllredJanuary 11th, 2005 2:14 PM Issue 02
Blissed-out, but not always totallyphoto: Courtesy of Nicky SianoNicky Siano's Legendary the Gallery: New York's original disco 1973-1977Soul Jazz import
In the early '70s, a teenage DJ named Nicky Siano traveled the space-wisedancefloor of David Mancuso's Loft, before launching his own Gallery. (Gallerykid Larry Levan later levitated Paradise Garage; he and Siano also worked with disco mystic Arthur Russell.) Despite acid, balloons, andthe food bar, the Gallery wasn't always totally blissed-out. As described in his CD notes, Siano's sound design, influenced by Mancuso's approach, was logicallybased on and changing with the rooms and scenes he performed in as the feast moved around NYC.The Gallery opened in the summer of '73. Couch-potato arena rock ruled. There and elsewhere, DJs and dancers (especially blacks,Latinos, gays) were among those, at times closely observed, who chose to carve fresh heat from the vinylbeast. Spinning out of this disc, the Gallery is mercury stillrising, through crosstown funk, soul, and one gospelsong, personalized: Gloria Spencer proclaims, "I got it! I don't understand it! I gotit!" A jet blasts (like, "Amen!") out of Exuma's "Obeah Man." The Temptationslay down the "Law of the Land": "You might not like who you are, but youbetter start. 'Cause you sure can't be nobody else." But the music rumbles and clatters like aroulette wheel. Meanwhile, turns out that Bonnie Bramlett's "Crazy 'Bout MyBaby" is crazy like a tambourine and a fox, shaking in wait for that slowhanddobro.Loleatta Holloway, Bobby Womack, Bill Withers, the Isleys,and Undisputed Truth also make the most of prior knowledge and surprise.Without waiting for the remix: These are original (full-length) LP tracks andseven-inch singles. Yet great breaks burst out of (and roll through) goodgrooves, good songs. Often.Also see http://www.nickysiano.com/ and http://www.timlawrence.info/.
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― dow, Friday, 30 March 2018 14:55 (six years ago) link
And xgau almost nailed this one:Midnight Rhythm [Atlantic, 1979]At last a whole disco album that actually brings off all the disco tricks--exploding out of the speakers, washing over the room, and so forth. The thump of the bass drum never dominates the rhythmic pulse, and the lyrical tag lines avoid the words "dance," "dancer," "dancing," "dancin'," and "disco"--until an orgasmic break (repeated once) that goes "Dancin', dancin', dancin', dancin'." Monofunctional but potent. A- "almost nailed" because dunno that it was really the first, though obv. he heard more than most people, certainly me, but yeah at the time it was kind of like back when Jefferson Airplane's After Bathing At Baxter's was the first whole acid-rock album I heard that sounded like all those psychedelic posters etc. looked. . Also dunno about "monofunctional," because some of it was good for tripping as well as dancing; I had flashbacks to it when first heard Algiers.
― dow, Friday, 30 March 2018 15:07 (six years ago) link
extremely recommend that everyone in this thread follow @garageclassics on twitter; a bot that tweets discogs of paradise garage-era classics twice an hour. insanely high quality curation despite the massive volume. would be better if it were youtube links but whatever; i go every couple weeks and add a few dozen trax to a tidal playlist and jam it all week
rhyze - just how sweet is your love
rome jefferies - good love
five special - why leave us alone
― flopson, Saturday, 31 March 2018 22:22 (six years ago) link
Some more great re-issues I just picked up on Juno:
Kleeer - Intimate Connection https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fhXIWjDmkU
Tommy Stewart - Bump & Hustle Musichttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=718GGUbH3ho
Donnell Pitman - Love Explosionhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmNcW8WdxMo
― davey, Thursday, 5 April 2018 09:22 (six years ago) link
This is the Kleeer track that got my dancers going last Friday, in the bar up the road - discovered a couple of months ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elOpNzrfbCo
― mike t-diva, Thursday, 5 April 2018 09:30 (six years ago) link
That Donnell Pitman track's interesting - it's basically Ripple "The Beat Goes On And On" with a vocal plonked on top, but it works....
― mike t-diva, Thursday, 5 April 2018 12:54 (six years ago) link
love kleeer. lots of good jams spread among their albums.
― andrew m., Thursday, 5 April 2018 15:41 (six years ago) link
that rome jefferies is neat, thanks flopson! hadn't heard it before but greg henderson was already a familiar name cos he also did this classic which recently appeared on the sam records anthology set:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ft8uYVnrzgcGreg Henderson - Dreamin'
― i'm surprised to see your screwface at the door (NickB), Thursday, 5 April 2018 21:07 (six years ago) link
ah i've heard 'intimate connection' before but i forgot about it, haha excellent track! seeeriousss...
― i'm surprised to see your screwface at the door (NickB), Thursday, 5 April 2018 21:10 (six years ago) link
i've spammed ilm about this song before but i've been binging on it once again lately...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y1lgh166rkFern Kinney - Groove Me (1979)
starts off as a pretty sweet pop reggae track and then it veers off into outer space about halfway through. so good and pretty easy to find cheap ime. cover of a king floyd southern soul song btw, original is fucking excellent too if you don't know that.
― i'm surprised to see your screwface at the door (NickB), Thursday, 5 April 2018 21:15 (six years ago) link
and this is another track off the same fern kinney album as the above
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaxyQF0jegQFern Kinney - Baby Let Me Kiss You (1979)
bit more of an electronic one but still really spacey and again it's really easy to find the 12" in the UK - it's the b-side of her big hit 'together we are beautiful'
― i'm surprised to see your screwface at the door (NickB), Thursday, 5 April 2018 21:18 (six years ago) link
Both of those big staples on the Balearic scene
― groovypanda, Friday, 6 April 2018 09:17 (six years ago) link
Early Cameo is SUCH a treasure trove. "It's Serious" is one of my top jams (and I suspect it's the first track to use the "oo-wa oo-wa" chant, swiftly plundered by Michael Zager), almost all of the Secret Omen album is great, and I've just discovered "Cameosis" from 1980.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvGOItrGulw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9av9tY3vTY
― mike t-diva, Friday, 6 April 2018 09:28 (six years ago) link
hooooly shit, more incredible afro disco edits. the flip of this one's great, too, and there are still cheap copies on discogs. i will be snapping one up tonight for sure.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwXJ4OyLpwM
― davey, Saturday, 7 April 2018 08:50 (six years ago) link
here's another great discovery for me this week. all 4 tracks are hot on the brazilian tip. someone on discogs is saying that it will be getting another pressing in the next couple weeks. gotta have it.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRPBvCXrzDs
― davey, Saturday, 7 April 2018 08:57 (six years ago) link
xp i dig those Cameo tunes. didn't realize what a big band they were.
― davey, Saturday, 7 April 2018 09:13 (six years ago) link
that amadou balake is gorgeous!
― i'm surprised to see your screwface at the door (NickB), Saturday, 7 April 2018 09:14 (six years ago) link
those cameo boys sound drilled as fuck on those tunes - so tight!
― i'm surprised to see your screwface at the door (NickB), Saturday, 7 April 2018 09:17 (six years ago) link
This is my discovery of the week (again thanks to the James Hamilton blog): Debbie Jacobs - 'High on Your Love'.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSKwGJtOs-8
That intro!
― ArchCarrier, Monday, 9 April 2018 11:22 (six years ago) link
Ooooh, I missed that, creamy!
― mike t-diva, Monday, 9 April 2018 12:59 (six years ago) link
Re: the Kleeer song, I keep hearing "Internet Connection" :)
― ArchCarrier, Monday, 9 April 2018 14:52 (six years ago) link