Ahaha so he did! Well, this is my current new favourite: Jean Carn "If You Wanna Go Back" (1976). I only wish it was longer.https://youtu.be/wboKA2XpfyM
― mike t-diva, Sunday, 14 October 2018 00:23 (five years ago) link
with my first post in this thread, please allow me to say WOWOWOWOWOWOW @ "She's So Divine" upthread
― The Troops™ (jamescobo), Thursday, 18 October 2018 18:26 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjpELZNsTD4
familiar to everyone I'm sure but it's such a perfect slow groove isn't it
― boxedjoy, Saturday, 27 October 2018 10:03 (five years ago) link
i've been downloading 80s jams all night, getting ready for a gig tomorrow. this is one of my fave rediscoveries in a while. not sure how obvious it is, probably it's pretty obvious heh. but i had forgotten all about it. solo nile rodgers is my kind of throwback to play!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSCN4WZYU9Y
― davey, Sunday, 11 November 2018 10:59 (five years ago) link
I'm having a good afternoon. These are all from around October 1981.
Arthur Adams - You Got The FloorThis builds from a subdued start, hitting its stride around 1:49, then peaking with a long jazzy instrumental section that eventually closes the track.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wm0e1fTpXo
The Frontline Orchestra - Don't Turn Your Back On MeMore strident and less weedy than Britfunk too often tended to be, and as such deservedly embraced by Knuckles and Levan.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fsr-dymmbKA
Letta Mbulu - KilimanjaroSets out its stall early, then sticks there to pleasing effect.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KI4clrzJZZk
― mike t-diva, Sunday, 25 November 2018 16:44 (five years ago) link
very enjoyable stuff
― niels, Monday, 26 November 2018 14:25 (five years ago) link
Just discovered the french version and it's fyehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdIvdGoLJRU
― davey, Thursday, 6 December 2018 08:05 (five years ago) link
Metropole "Miss Manhattan" and Vera "Take Me To The Bridge", as posted upthread, have both just been reissued on 12", making them both vaguely affordable at last. Hallelujah.
― mike t-diva, Friday, 28 December 2018 16:48 (five years ago) link
Blue Feather - Let's Funk Tonight (Instrumental) (1981) - miles better than the weedy vocal version.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPX548h6h4w
― mike t-diva, Saturday, 23 March 2019 10:26 (five years ago) link
Nice one! And thanks again for the incredible job you're doing with the James Hamilton Disco Page, Mike. I have a daily script set up that downloads the audio of every track you link to, so whenever I'm in a disco mood I have a huge batch of new tracks to explore.
― ArchCarrier, Monday, 25 March 2019 08:52 (five years ago) link
Ha, excellent!
― mike t-diva, Monday, 25 March 2019 09:53 (five years ago) link
Spent some time with <i>Disco Fever USA</i> recently - one of the latter volumes of the Disco Discharge series, so you can feel a bit of barrel-scraping. But I found this on it - sounds like Dr.John goes Disco, as the liner notes mention!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHlEGbOHPtI
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 25 March 2019 11:47 (five years ago) link
Haha! You probably know this one already but this is Dr John going electrofunk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hz4o2tWp8Vw
― kolarov spring (NickB), Tuesday, 26 March 2019 06:47 (five years ago) link
have got some serious catching up to do on this thread, every time it gets bumped i never seem to be in a place where i can listen
― kolarov spring (NickB), Tuesday, 26 March 2019 06:48 (five years ago) link
Haha Nick, that's pretty cool! Don't think I'd heard before.
― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 27 March 2019 10:50 (five years ago) link
some more cheri for the thread. "murhpy's law" stuck in my head all the time. such a good mix of melancholy and playfulness.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-b7NRg4hoD0
― andrew m., Tuesday, 2 April 2019 16:15 (five years ago) link
I just found this thread, thank god. Keep em coming!
― pippin drives a lambo through the gates of isengard (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 2 April 2019 16:21 (five years ago) link
a recent score: rainbow brown. fonda rae, produced by patrick adams, which is an obsession. i know i'm not alone in this. "i'm the one" is maybe my fave. for now.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EP1s3rrFfb4
― andrew m., Tuesday, 2 April 2019 16:29 (five years ago) link
little dragon - lover chantinghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiSTcdi82S0
― davey, Saturday, 6 April 2019 22:42 (five years ago) link
btw the b-side on that EP is fresh too
this is my current favourite fonda joint, absolute rapturous stuff:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4J-F9M-KDBE
― kolarov spring (NickB), Sunday, 7 April 2019 12:31 (five years ago) link
bumblebee vocals and all, I've been enjoying this for the past few days:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5zTZRm1cT0
― vcrash, Tuesday, 9 April 2019 03:50 (five years ago) link
I've owned a copy of the Dr John "Jet Set" 12" for years, but never saw the video before today! So wonderful I'm in tears.
― confusementalism (Dan Peterson), Friday, 14 June 2019 18:09 (four years ago) link
New arrival here, about halfway through the thread and my computer is now refusing to play any more music at this time so I'll need to take a break but what a lot of superb selections!
My favorite new discovery so far is Low Down Dirty Rhythm from the top comment. Although Patrick Cowley's star seems to be once again ascendant he remains criminally underrated.
I'd also rate these tunes:
Black Gold - C'mon StopMark Clark - Take Me I'm Yours (obviously)Donald Byrd - Thank You For Funking Up My LifeMelba Moore - Love's Comin' At Ya!Shalamar - Right in the SocketDr Togo - Be FreeVera - Take Me To The BridgeThe Brooklyn, Bronx & Queens Band - On The Beat Empire Projecting Lisa – Freakman
The credits on It Should Have Been You, incredible. Produced by Sly Dunbar, Robbie Shakespeare, Steven Stanley and mixed by Larry Levan. I wonder what else I've missed from that team of superheroes.
― viborg, Saturday, 6 July 2019 02:26 (four years ago) link
This appeared on a spotify song radio, released in 1981, sailed under the radar for me.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XT-iikjgH0s
― Dan Worsley, Saturday, 6 July 2019 15:16 (four years ago) link
love that, fern had some great songs!
― Br. Des Shadows (NickB), Saturday, 6 July 2019 21:34 (four years ago) link
Vera - Take Me To The Bridge
Love this song, such longing in the voice.
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 8 July 2019 10:02 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KIApAIztW8The SD's ft Sherry Richards - Watch the Clock
― vcrash, Sunday, 15 September 2019 13:53 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TndWfKjTjAg
― davey, Thursday, 3 October 2019 04:50 (four years ago) link
^^^ alec mansion - ou es-tu
high fashion - next to youhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRzbmTVNeCc
― davey, Thursday, 3 October 2019 05:23 (four years ago) link
stephanie mills - try my lovehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvN8uyjc48E
― davey, Thursday, 3 October 2019 05:25 (four years ago) link
i like "feelin' lucky lately" by high fashion, also i think it's hilarious that a chic ripoff band called themselves "high fashion"
― Non stop chantar (crüt), Thursday, 3 October 2019 05:32 (four years ago) link
that's harsh! hahah :)
― davey, Thursday, 3 October 2019 05:34 (four years ago) link
james cobbin & prime cut - caught in the middlehttps://youtu.be/SxWyvP94YA0
herre: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxWyvP94YA0
― davey, Thursday, 3 October 2019 05:35 (four years ago) link
i-level - "give me"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2b6jgRCio0
questionable lyrics in this one
― davey, Thursday, 3 October 2019 05:37 (four years ago) link
"minefield" off that same record is the other standout and has a killer drum workouthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdk_Tvu3blI
― davey, Thursday, 3 October 2019 05:46 (four years ago) link
slave - wait for mehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2crb0iFXro
― davey, Thursday, 3 October 2019 05:53 (four years ago) link
one more from our man funky brewster's record collection. this is baxa, i'm not koolhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_Ss8iG8HCM
― davey, Thursday, 3 October 2019 06:04 (four years ago) link
my discogs wantlist keeps growing thanks to this thread.
here's a new one to me. gives me the proper groove chills. c.m. lord, "don't run me away." b side to "flashback." please stick around for the breakdown at 3:45. so good!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77-vXnu7Pcc
― andrew m., Thursday, 3 October 2019 14:58 (four years ago) link
I've been crossreading Tim Lawrence's Love Saves the Day: A History of American Dance Music Culture, 1970-1979 and Vince Aletti's The Disco Files 1973-78: New York's Underground, Week by Week: the latter is def catnip for collectors, though both have plenty DJ playlists, DJ comments on particular tracks and albums (the 12" is still several years away, so they use a lot of album tracks, for full-length flow--no having to flip the 7" for part 2, if there is one provided---and sonic depth). Also, Aletti provides comments and capsule reviews of stuff he likes, going around and around NYC as the scenes and places and star DJs take off (and sometimes crash or disappear). Lawrence's saga, incl. interviews with DJs and dancers, puts it all in historical perspective, like "Papa Was A Rolling Stone" and Eddie Kendricks' "Girl You Need A Change of Mind" had the kind of wild-for-the-time changes x continuity that gave DJs and dancers some ideas as well as thrills. "Soul Makossa" was an example of one that became a hit because of club play, thence to radio---but some other hits never did get radio, did without it, screw you radio!
― dow, Thursday, 3 October 2019 17:33 (four years ago) link
Since I never pass up the opportunity to mention it, here's another shout out to James Hamilton's Disco Page.
― ArchCarrier, Friday, 4 October 2019 08:19 (four years ago) link
Another huge fan of Mike T-diva's work on James Hamilton's Disco Page.
Hip-hop with some great production behind it:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5ueuRDr8HcRappermatical 5 - Party People
― vcrash, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 00:24 (four years ago) link
this was the filthiest record in my collection. gave it a couple washes with record vacuum and it's back to sounding great again :) everybody says the erot dub is the one, but i always played the a-side instead. can't wait play it under the stars in waimanalo tonight. that bassline is so funkay.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5kgVjOA_X8
― davey, Sunday, 17 November 2019 06:11 (four years ago) link
it wasn't my crowd last night, people were not feeling the slutty norwegian disco
― davey, Monday, 18 November 2019 00:13 (four years ago) link
making good use of that next to you break
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJNajgq7Phs
― davey, Monday, 18 November 2019 00:24 (four years ago) link
i'm finally recording the long-awaited funky b mix tape now. so many gems in dude's collection. couple highlights:
dabeull - dr fonkhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OCyYbW6zPY
sky tony - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=no9bA_gUIyEhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=no9bA_gUIyE
kon - all night (everybody)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjJ4z65D-dU
tuxedo - roll along https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6VVnSPAWho
― davey, Sunday, 24 November 2019 08:41 (four years ago) link
new touch sensitive EP is some str8up ear candy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQsQHHUQCWQ
― davey, Friday, 29 November 2019 07:56 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88p6AwgZNaw
― davey, Friday, 13 December 2019 10:33 (four years ago) link