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
great EP: https://lyndadawn.bandcamp.com/album/at-first-light
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BOmOADxDVA
― davey, Friday, 24 January 2020 05:47 (four years ago) link
out of the funky b archives, issa jam from 2008
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnvwXoTTO04
dayton flic - livin' for your love
― davey, Friday, 24 January 2020 08:08 (four years ago) link
'Move' off that Lynda Dawn record is so great, even though it is pretty much wholesale theft from Fifth of Heaven's 'Just A Little More'
I love this one at the moment, check that clunky bass synth sound:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7Hlv0CDQdM
Gloria Weems - Push it up [1983]
― ymo sumac (NickB), Saturday, 25 January 2020 08:40 (four years ago) link
and this is just straight gorgeous, think it's a JP Massiera joint:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wA5GR_iPfVQ
Chantal Balmy - Imagine
― ymo sumac (NickB), Saturday, 25 January 2020 08:42 (four years ago) link
only just listened to that Sky Tony track upthread with the Donna Allen sample, that's pretty nice!
― ymo sumac (NickB), Saturday, 25 January 2020 08:52 (four years ago) link
God I am so behind on this thread, that Slave song rules. I don't know Slave too well tbh, really need to dive into their stuff. Big fan of some Aurra tunes though, weren't they kind of a spin-off from Slave? Obv Steve Arrington is a boss too
― ymo sumac (NickB), Saturday, 25 January 2020 09:00 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uEiJ_dzKmY
Diva - Prise au piège
I already knew the awesome 'La Nuit' by these folks but this is another great one
― ymo sumac (NickB), Saturday, 1 February 2020 11:42 (four years ago) link
This one's also amazing, Geraldine Hunt was behind some excellent stuff:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUUnUkC57UE
Sophie Stanke - L'Amour d'une Diva
― ymo sumac (NickB), Saturday, 1 February 2020 11:52 (four years ago) link
“Sophia Stanke”
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 1 February 2020 14:38 (four years ago) link
Possibly a member of the Lithuanian-Québécois Stanké family, which shortened its name from Stankevičius upon moving to Canada. Stanko and its variants are generally derived from the given name Stanislav.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 1 February 2020 14:46 (four years ago) link
Two recent 1984 purchases:
Kerr - Back At Ya (Instrumental)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsuGzghQ6NY
Tyzik - Jammin' In Manhattan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsvjM9LzWYY
― mike t-diva, Friday, 21 February 2020 15:20 (four years ago) link
bringing the bounce to the floor there mike! :)
― ymo sumac (NickB), Friday, 21 February 2020 15:27 (four years ago) link
Tim Lawrence's listening companion for the second volume of his New York dance etc trilogy, which I'm reading now---already got most (?) of this, and the rest might be around online, but this seems handy, and might sound better:https://www.residentadvisor.net/news/42875
― dow, Sunday, 23 February 2020 02:28 (four years ago) link
The John Robie one is a deep cut. Wanted to reissue it after finding it on a disconet comp. Pretty cool track.
― dan selzer, Monday, 2 March 2020 04:54 (four years ago) link
Feeling this one: McGee - Now That I Have You (1984). It's a remake of an older track which has since been reissued on comps, but this version sadly sells for sums beyond my means.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5sU4HcQc94
― mike t-diva, Friday, 13 March 2020 12:01 (four years ago) link
Now in the peerless homestretch of Larry Levan's Live At The Paradise Garage--the Strut version, with 1979 added to title by poster SoftTalk Mesa---ilx or something currently messing my YouTube pastes, but look for that post, with perfect sound on non-audiophile headphones. Ahhhhhhhhhh
― dow, Wednesday, 8 April 2020 21:37 (four years ago) link
pretty delighted to have stumbled across this -- robbie leslie's extended remix of jimmy ruffin's "hold on to my love" that disconet put out in 1981. the standard-length version, which had been a pop hit the previous year, is a tight and solid tune, but extended it really takes on a heightened sense of epic drama.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXQjC0FfxrU
youtube comments seem to suggest that this was a hit at the saint.
― dyl, Monday, 11 May 2020 06:21 (three years ago) link
'81 was clearly still a transition period from trad disco to hi-NRG--there's a slight awkwardness to this J. Ruffin remix's production and performance to my ears which I find endearing
― call mr zbow that's my name that name again is mr zbow (Craig D.), Monday, 11 May 2020 10:26 (three years ago) link
I made a few disco playlists of some of my favourite tunes for a Finnish board, might as well share them here, in case anyone's interested. They are meant to be introductions to various types of disco, but I tried to veer away from the obvious hits everyone knows:
"Classic disco"http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdW4Wfh6CZlb15vknlCMtcd7ephRCOf6y- String and horn heavy tunes in the classic disco mold.
"Instrumental disco"http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdW4Wfh6CZlaYhyjx3cReXChfDrj69oqR- Disco tunes that are fully instrumental or only have some backing vocals, also includes disco covers of movie themes.
"Space disco"http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdW4Wfh6CZlYPs0pJOWxlmxk75CQ1ropT- Disco with space-themed lyrics and/or cosmic sounds.
"Gay disco"http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdW4Wfh6CZlYFatzo2UUt8_Ntc59Kggac- Tunes done by gay artists and/or with a gay or campy feel.
"Synth disco"http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdW4Wfh6CZlaGlq8la12gxpuQzGi_DF7W- Disco with synth leads, mostly boogie from the early '80s.
I'll be updating the lists every now and then.
― Tuomas, Monday, 11 May 2020 12:38 (three years ago) link
Nice Tuomas! Were you into the Disco Discharge comps? Your playlists kinda remind me of them.
― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 13 May 2020 09:41 (three years ago) link
I have two or three of those, but never really dug deeper. The Disco Recharge series of album reissues from the same label is great though, especially since they reissued all of Boris Midney's various projects... He's pretty much my favourite disco composer/producer of them all. When it comes to disco compilations, my favourites are Ben Liebrand's magisterial "Grand 12-inches" seroes, and (for rare '80s disco and boogie) Unidisc's "Star -Funk" series.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 13 May 2020 14:27 (three years ago) link
I used to own all the Disco Discharge comp CDs, but sold them; unlike most CDs, they've retained most of their value. There's some superb stuff on them, of course, but in general the aesthetic was a pinch too zingy for my tastes - and in particular, some of the later Hi-NRG comps really weren't great at all.
― mike t-diva, Wednesday, 13 May 2020 18:08 (three years ago) link