i'm having trouble finding good nu disco. for reference stuff on par with this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyvw5jNS2GY
i like vocals but get a little tired of glitterbox type stuff, find it to be dumbed down sonically. never cared much for joey negro.
loved this one - horse meat disco ft. kathy sledge - "falling deep in love" - great chorus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApOa0Eh_PtE
what should i check out?
― carin' (map), Saturday, 11 July 2020 02:31 (three years ago) link
Check out some old disco you haven't heard yet.
― everything, Saturday, 11 July 2020 03:11 (three years ago) link
the Glitterbox compilations are so weird because I'll see stuff on them I like and think: well, the rest of the stuff I don't know must be good because what I do know here is excellent; and then I'll find the stuff I'm not already familiar with is really drab tech-house.
When Tim Sweeney plays himself on Beats In Space without a guest there's always a good bit of new nu disco.
― boxedjoy, Saturday, 11 July 2020 08:54 (three years ago) link
Recommending nu-disco while swerving Glitterbox and Joey Negro is kinda tricky. My current favourite is The Shapeshifters ft Billy Porter "Finally Ready"... which is, er, on Glitterbox.
― mike t-diva, Saturday, 11 July 2020 12:18 (three years ago) link
― everything, Saturday, July 11, 2020 4:11 AM (thirteen hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
Just for your personal information I’ve spent 5 years checking out old disco I haven’t heard yet. But I’d love to hear about any of your favorites post-2000.
― carin' (map), Saturday, 11 July 2020 16:40 (three years ago) link
Xp hey thanks mike. I actually like glitterbox but i’m just finding it a little intimidating to comb through all the stuff they’ve released over the past few years lol. I’ll check that one out.
― carin' (map), Saturday, 11 July 2020 16:43 (three years ago) link
Joey negro edits leave me non-plussed more often than not but i love some of the comps he’s put out espesh the italian ones.
― carin' (map), Saturday, 11 July 2020 16:46 (three years ago) link
Xposts to boxedjoy that’s exactly my experience! Tim sweeney is a good call
― carin' (map), Saturday, 11 July 2020 16:47 (three years ago) link
v chimed in via fb with a new space-disco chicken lips thing, got me going thru chicken lips remixes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s80sNI9j4QE
― carin' (map), Saturday, 11 July 2020 17:27 (three years ago) link
manfredas remixes are my only real nu disco obsession at the moment, they're all worth tracking down afaict. he's got the slow mutant style and more standard disco stuff
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgn9aEaZYFw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XdVDeC_O1c
https://sharivari1.bandcamp.com/track/dance-alone-manfredas-extended-dance-remix
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWltImAlAjk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZQuMJoLZmU
https://byrdout.bandcamp.com/track/unknown-plunderer-manfredas-remix
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Saturday, 11 July 2020 18:15 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zS98f4cxclw
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Saturday, 11 July 2020 18:17 (three years ago) link
those are gorgeous
― carin' (map), Saturday, 11 July 2020 18:35 (three years ago) link
The Juan Maclean disco EP from last year: https://g.co/kgs/dNmh7U
― seandalai, Sunday, 12 July 2020 22:36 (three years ago) link
ty, don't know how i missed that one
― carin' (map), Sunday, 12 July 2020 23:09 (three years ago) link
I know - passed me by too! I only found out about it while looking up The Spinners on whosampled.com
― seandalai, Monday, 13 July 2020 00:36 (three years ago) link
this is nice, always liked jkriv edits. don't even know where to start with razor n tape though.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=162&v=jOeAJdEx2JE&feature=emb_title
― carin' (map), Monday, 13 July 2020 02:04 (three years ago) link
part of the difficulty is tasteful balanced sounds building over 32 bar sections to a few vocal samples only does so much for me... i feel like a lot of disco remixers / editors rely on that. i need a persona / something interesting going on in the lyrics department, or like a looseness / aliveness, someone playing a jazzy solo in real time. static 32 bar loops = snoozeville = i just zone out. i hate hearing that kind of music on a dance floor. i appreciate the chicken lips stuff because it's kinda loose and improv-y, sounds like they're editing down live jams.
― carin' (map), Monday, 13 July 2020 02:10 (three years ago) link
i went back through my reflex edits.. that guy knows how to mix a sweet-sounding edit + he has a great sense of phrasing that usually avoids the static loop for 32 bars thing. i do wish he went a little further out there with weirder selections but i mean you can't get any better as far as 'classy, crowd-pleasing' goes.
― carin' (map), Monday, 13 July 2020 02:14 (three years ago) link
andrew weatherall - unknown plunderer (manfredas remix)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjoTsBMSKdI
dude
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Monday, 27 July 2020 19:50 (three years ago) link
y'all, the new Honey Dijon tracks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XULoHyXfVXk
and a second single on Bandcamp: https://honeydijon.bandcamp.com/album/la-femme-fantastique-extended-mix
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Saturday, 1 August 2020 01:48 (three years ago) link
Just realized this is more house than nu-disco but you know what? I think the nu-disco crowd will appreciate it anyway so fuck it
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Saturday, 1 August 2020 01:49 (three years ago) link
oh yeah i am all about good honey dijon remixes. they sound fkin amazing on a big system.
― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Friday, 7 August 2020 17:10 (three years ago) link
dj harvey putting all the locussolus stuff on bandcamp. fuck there is some good stuff in there.
https://harvey.dj/album/locussolus-expanded
― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Friday, 7 August 2020 17:11 (three years ago) link
the andrew weatherall remix of gunship is glorious
― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Friday, 7 August 2020 17:13 (three years ago) link
next to you is the one imo
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Friday, 7 August 2020 17:48 (three years ago) link
and the full length emperor machine version of little boots is perfect for when you need to step away to get a drink and pee and read a short story or what have you
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Friday, 7 August 2020 17:53 (three years ago) link
is this too basic for this thread, I can’t get it out of my head(flamingo pier - indigo)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AT0oHfHq0A
― brimstead, Tuesday, 3 November 2020 18:15 (three years ago) link
yeah sorry about about that, don’t know where else to go. maybe rolling wack slicked back shopping at Target 2020
― brimstead, Tuesday, 3 November 2020 18:17 (three years ago) link
no way that's sick
― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Tuesday, 3 November 2020 18:19 (three years ago) link
rolling wack slicked back shopping at target 2020 was kind of what i had in mind for this thread tbh
― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Tuesday, 3 November 2020 18:20 (three years ago) link
awes <3
― brimstead, Tuesday, 3 November 2020 18:20 (three years ago) link
their ep from last year was great as well
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Tuesday, 3 November 2020 19:50 (three years ago) link
maaaw love is for real
https://wolfram.bandcamp.com/album/my-love-is-for-real-feat-haddaway
― ffolkes (map), Monday, 28 December 2020 19:22 (three years ago) link
i ended up making a kind of new nu disco mix last year but ended up leaving off 'murphy's law' which idk why i did that. the cosmodelica remix is still so good you guys.
i'm gonna buy a bunch of glitterbox type stuff and inaugurate the arrival of my new pioneer controller and stuff with a little house party in may after everyone's vaccinated.
i didn't see fiorious doing like a sylvester thing but this is pretty hot imo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USdZq9CTnrE
― John Cooper of Christian rock band Skillet (map), Friday, 26 March 2021 18:26 (two years ago) link
share that mix!
― boxedjoy, Friday, 26 March 2021 22:35 (two years ago) link
wasn't keeping up on the reflex, sublime stuff as always
Mousse T. feat. Sharon Phillips - Maybe in May (The Reflex Revision)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kC7BQ9GyoTg
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Tuesday, 25 May 2021 15:25 (two years ago) link
Shuya Okino ft Navasha Daya - Still In Love [The Reflex Revision] GLITTERBOX
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANqxTnVhEeE
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Tuesday, 25 May 2021 15:26 (two years ago) link
Those are great!
― DJI, Tuesday, 25 May 2021 18:05 (two years ago) link
posted this on the bandcamp thread but might be of interest here
https://discoscapablanca.com/album/lee-douglas-edits-2000-2015-vol-1-2https://discoscapablanca.com/album/lee-douglas-edits-2000-2015-vol-2
lee douglas edits for sale for 24 hours only due to "questionable ownership"
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Saturday, 4 September 2021 18:52 (two years ago) link
this is gorgeous, perfect, an absolute tear-jerker
Dimitri From Paris x Fiorious - Music Saved My Life (Marshall Jefferson Extended Remix)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2O66jCU-ckc
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Wednesday, 29 September 2021 20:30 (two years ago) link
also, chrissy is gold
Chrissy - We Ain't Goin Nowhere (Pontchartrain Remix)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5TXKftt9Is
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Wednesday, 29 September 2021 20:36 (two years ago) link
Does anyone else find it a little weird that Chrissy seemingly disavowed his early '10s footwork persona and fully pivoted to house/disco? I guess it happens in dance music all the time, idk.
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 29 September 2021 20:49 (two years ago) link
i would find it weird to care tbh
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Wednesday, 29 September 2021 20:57 (two years ago) link
Sure, people can do what they want. I know having different aliases for different genres used to be more common, less so in the social media era maybe? I was just surprised to see "Chrissy (house/disco)" on a flyer and was like "wait, isn't that Chrissy Murderbot?"
It's probably my own deal, I should have re-branded at some point but went with a big confusing discography instead.
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 29 September 2021 21:18 (two years ago) link
yeah I’m a total loser about this stuff, like I’m always a little deflated when some cool underground mysterious producer putting out hand stamped 12”s or lofi house cassettes turns out to have made their mark doing om records style future jazz for lobbies in the 90s or whatever lol
― brimstead, Wednesday, 29 September 2021 21:33 (two years ago) link
It makes sense because house is the one true form of dance music. ;)
― DJI, Wednesday, 29 September 2021 22:10 (two years ago) link
I don't think it's that strange - dance music is singles-driven and lives in mixes and sets more than albums, and so a track is always in conversation with the music around it more so than other genres. It makes sense to me that dance music producers - and listeners - have wildly diffuse tastes as the way dance music is meant to be listened to, it encourages the dots to be joined in different ways.
― boxedjoy, Wednesday, 29 September 2021 22:23 (two years ago) link
i agree with that.
honestly i didn't know chrissy did footwork. i know he does lots of fast rave tracks. t's probably a dumb reason but i never go faster than 130 bpm or so because i start finding it hard to dance to myself. his disco/house stuff came to my attention years 'too late' because i live in a podunk-ass place but i like that they are dynamic, fun tracks with a light touch and usually some kind of vocal hook.
i'm very averse to this situation we're somehow in where every microgenre of party music has walls up guarding it from every other microgenre of party music. i find it a real buzzkill when producers or djs get really into talking about what microgenre they're into now that 'tech house' is suddenly passe or whatever. zzzz, usually another new flavor of boring. i mean the good stuff is sprinkled (very lightly) throughout. ihe folks i want to connect with just know a good or interesting song or track or edit or whatever you want to call it when they hear it / move to it.
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Wednesday, 29 September 2021 22:48 (two years ago) link
anyway that marshall jefferson remix is probably not to some more discerning tastes on this board but it will probably be in my top 10 tracks of the year, an exquisite bawling-on-the-dance-floor barnstormer.
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Wednesday, 29 September 2021 22:53 (two years ago) link
http://yearofmixtapes.blogspot.com/
Chrissy did this too and it feels like the kind of project that a few folk round here would have made just as good an attempt at.
― boxedjoy, Wednesday, 29 September 2021 23:00 (two years ago) link
wow dang, ijust looking at a project like that makes me feel very tired lmao.
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Wednesday, 29 September 2021 23:06 (two years ago) link
That boogie mix sounds pretty ace so far. But only one song from 1980 and nothing after that? I was under the impression boogie was more of an 80s thing.
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Thursday, 30 September 2021 17:56 (two years ago) link
Yeah obviously he's gone deep on lots of different genres of dance music, I really enjoyed some of those mixes at the time. I guess it smacked of trend-hopping to me given the prominence of footwork vs house/disco during those years, but that's probably unfair. I know from experience that it can be a natural shift based on what you're hearing, what your friends are making/playing, etc.
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 30 September 2021 18:18 (two years ago) link
yeah it's true. there's also this huge messy thing of being a white man making music with black roots. it seems like he's been reasonably above-ground about that.
from 2014
noo - no more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IYX0vyXmU8
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Tuesday, 5 October 2021 17:25 (two years ago) link
and of course this banger
noo - must be the music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EH2rT3ZVOCs
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Tuesday, 5 October 2021 17:30 (two years ago) link
crossposting this from the maurice fulton thread because it deserves more love
i think he probably edited this straight to tape or something with no computer inovolved because the grid is a total mess lol.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLes4GiIzy4
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Sunday, 10 October 2021 16:45 (two years ago) link
glitterbox is good
The Shapeshifters feat. Teni Tinks - When Love Breaks Down (Late Nite Tuff Guy Extended Disco Remix)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CcOwRW9xTk
― Nedlene Grendel as Basenji Holmo (map), Friday, 31 December 2021 20:29 (two years ago) link
speaking of glitterbox here is a new hifi sean mixtape that he has made available as a download :
https://wetransfer.com/downloads/062a0460c546ef3c7ca164062acf671620211229174631/d9cb86
― mark e, Friday, 31 December 2021 21:11 (two years ago) link
this is exactly what I needed today, thank you!
― boxedjoy, Saturday, 1 January 2022 12:08 (two years ago) link
uh this is way way better than some random beatport recommendation with shitty album art should be
birdee ft nell shakespeare - disco for one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3eYg5onz6g
― Nedlene Grendel as Basenji Holmo (map), Wednesday, 16 February 2022 01:13 (two years ago) link
Amy Douglas - Freak At Night
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oW2JcBRiL_o
― boxedjoy, Friday, 11 August 2023 17:16 (seven months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zezen07_dWQKim Anh - Dream Lover (Extended Mix)
― NickB, Friday, 11 August 2023 17:19 (seven months ago) link
ugh good stuff
― ꙮ (map), Friday, 11 August 2023 18:16 (seven months ago) link
uh this is way way better than some random beatport recommendation with shitty album art should bebirdee ft nell shakespeare - disco for one
all-time pandemic-era banger imho
― ꙮ (map), Friday, 11 August 2023 19:56 (seven months ago) link
this louie vega / josh milan treatment of "what would you do?" is pretty irresistible ime
Dames Brown feat. Andrés & Amp Fiddler - What Would You Do? (Two Soul Fusion Extended Mix)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwwBfWZMXhw
― ꙮ (map), Friday, 11 August 2023 20:06 (seven months ago) link
on a different wavelength, this has really captured my attention
dOP - Carousel (Jennifer Cardini remix)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJzIiHg2uHI
― ꙮ (map), Friday, 11 August 2023 20:08 (seven months ago) link
whoa, dop is still around, that's wild
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Friday, 11 August 2023 20:30 (seven months ago) link
https://slowmotionrec.bandcamp.com/track/fase-rem-whodamanny-remix-2
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Friday, 11 August 2023 20:33 (seven months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HePy07fONKM
Shubostar - Forest Baby [Riotvan]
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Saturday, 27 January 2024 19:50 (one month ago) link