Disco

actually meant to write "dip into" but anyway

Cheers to the constructive posters. I saw a lot of contributions from you upthread and was gonna ask if you're still around seandalai.

I need to get those books. Especially the Tim Lawrence book, looks like a lot of folks cosign it here. I think the book Last Night A DJ Saved My Life was my initial introduction to classic disco etc charts but that was 10+ years ago and I don't have my copy anymore so can't comment on how it holds up now. That James Hamilton site is a good resource too, cheers for that.

Jim I'd appreciate checking out a few of your recent discoveries. I'll try to check my recent listening with what's already been posted and maybe I can update that other thread if I find anything worthwhile.

These fools tho.

Thank you for your insightful contribution.

― ArchCarrier

Lol.

― Chewshabadoo

Why do you have to do this here? Can't you shitpost on twitter, rate your music, reddit or pretty much anywhere else? I guess this is what people mean when they talk smack about ILM so much now...

(And yeah I realize I didn't exactly offer a gold-star thread revive, my main inspiration was from checking out all the great music on the Afropop/Afrobeats thread posted mainly by breastcrawl and then seeing how they were kind of desperately appealing for other users to post pretty much anything...I don't know much about Afrobeats but I do know disco so here we are.)

Love Saves the Day is beyond essential, completely transformed my understanding of the context behind the music.

Playlist of 100+ personal favourites: https://open.spotify.com/user/seandalai/playlist/4Xq5uVvrHhJ8l4YZlZTD9a (many are not obscure, above all they're the tracks I never get tired of)

i've been needing to read a good dance music/club culture history. i think i will start w/ love saves the day and see where that takes me

Can't you shitpost on twitter, rate your music, reddit or pretty much anywhere else?

can't you? given the content of your posts here so far, wouldn't it be safe to assume you already do? please stay awhile if you actually want to discuss things or engage w/ 'the community' and can tolerate ppl being a bit unserious or quippy but damn.

this is cool: http://www.aphasic-letters.com/heath/Lin-Tan_Disco-as-Operating-System_Criticism_2008.pdf

The whole attitude of “well I’ve scoured the internet for all the good music” is so depressing

Ugh, yeah

my disco jams archive just keeps growing and growing

I only trust folks who say they like disco

Would love a book compiling all of James Hamilton's articles. The site linked above is great but can't beat checking out the original pages in Record Mirror.

@RecordMirror80s on Twitter uploads high quality scans of James Hamilton's pages (amongst much else) on a daily basis; they also use the hashtag #JamesHamilton

Oh nice, thanks for the tip.

Still would prefer something physical though. Which I'm sure is something the great man would have said.

I really enjoyed this a lot and learned a lot about the roots and culture around disco

https://www.amazon.com/Hot-Stuff-Remaking-American-Culture/dp/0393338916

Fantastic story here about a particular LA disco culture:

https://www.lataco.com/underground-disco-east-la/