Rolling thread for your recent DISCO and BOOGIE discoveries, enthusiasms and obsessions

nice! some groovin' rosco from the boys. had to look that one up. maurice gibb produced!

― andrew m.

looks like psychemagik has an edit:

https://psychemagik.bandcamp.com/track/bonus-i-i-i-edit

There's also a Todd Terje one.

That wonderful Marti Caine track (comp/prod Barry Blue) first re-emerged in 2018 in a Velvet Season & The Heart Of Gold 12” re-edit - it was a big seller for several months.

Bill Brewster comped it in 2013.

love that. had no idea who she was, wouldn’t have guessed she was british.

Kind of bizarre to see Marti Caine's name popping up. She was mostly a comedian, I think? Basically a *Northern Variety performer - sang, told jokes, danced, did a bit of everything.

(*Northern variety - a cabaret circuit in the North of England, working men's clubs, local theatres, seaside resorts etc)

South African space disco from 1977. Clearly heard ‘Love to Love You Baby’ and thought is that as far as she can go.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcfMZWjk2C8

Hot R.S. - House of the Rising Sun

Bill Brewster comped it in 2013.

Yea, he's championed it for years and it was the opening track on his 2013 Late Night Tales selection

The b side to that one is probably better known xp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YMXV8id3cY

Detailed this on Rolling Reissues---it's a bit uneven, but plenty momentum: comp for Tim Lawrence's book of the same title, Love Saves the Day : A History Of American Dance Music Culture 1970​-​1979 (with Lawrence's notes providing context for each track)---on vinyl as pts.1 and 2; I've got both on the 2-CD edition

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a0762179765_10.jpg
Pt. 1:
1.
Les Troubadours Du Roi Baudouin - Dibwe Diambula Kabanda 03:00
2.
Chuck Mangione - Land Of Make Believe 12:06
3.
Wilson Pickett - Don't Knock My Love (Part 1) 02:22
4.
Wilson Pickett - Don't Knock My Love (Part 2) 04:01
5.
James Brown - Give It Up Or Turn It Loose 06:29
6.
Jackson 5 - Hum Along And Dance (Uncut Version) 15:06
7.
Brainstorm - Lovin' Is Really My Game (12" Version) 07:40
8.
Domenic Troiano - We All Need Love (12" Version) 05:32
9.
Gladys Knight And The Pips - It's Time To Go Now 02:29

Pt. 2:
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1.
Willie Hutch - Brother's Gonna Work It Out 04:46
2.
Charles Earland - Leaving This Planet 07:27
3.
Laura Lee - (If You Want To Try Love Again) Remember Me 03:57
4.
The Modulations - I Can't Fight Your Love 04:15
5.
Margie Joseph - Prophecy 05:23
6.
Blue Magic - Welcome To The Club 05:14
7.
Twennynine with Lenny White - Fancy Dancer (12" Version) 06:21
8.
Miroslav Vitous - New York City 09:31
9.
Edgar Winter - Above and Beyond (12" Version) 06:26

Even better! Incl.in terms of headsnapping variety, at times.
soundtrack for Lawrence's second book in the NYC Trilogy,Life & Death On A New York Dance Floor (1980 - 1983)(Also got the CD edition)

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a2858224731_10.jpg
Unlile Love Saves The DayYou can listen to the whole thing on bandcamp:
https://reappearingrecords.bandcamp.com/album/life-death-on-a-new-york-dance-floor-1980-1983
But here are the track listings from discogs, because incl. all artists' names, unlike bandcamp page:
Dinosaur L Go Bang! (LP Version) 7:53
–Tuxedomoon Desire 7:05
–Gray (2) Drum Mode 7:22
–Alan Vega Saturn Drive 5:39
–David Byrne Big Business (Dance Mix) 6:17
–Johnny Dynell & New York 88* Jam Hot (Rhumba Rock) 6:51
–Rammellzee Vs K-Rob Beat Bop 10:11
–3 Teens Kill 4 Hold Up 3:55
–John Robie Vena Cava 7:03
–James White & The Blacks Contort Yourself (August Darnell Mix) 6:12
–Quando Quango Love Tempo (Mark Kamins Mix) 7:52
–George Kranz Din Daa Daa (Trommeltanz) 6:20
–Loose Joints Pop Your Funk (Instrumental) (7" B-Side) 2:44
–Material Bustin' Out (Long Version) 8:25
–Peech Boys Don't Make Me Wait (Extended Version) 7:23
–Edwin Birdsong Rapper Dapper Snapper 6:37

(Vinyl ed. of that one is also in two parts.)

And catching up with this, from June 2019:
The World of Keith Haring
B Beat Girls For The Same Man 5:02
–Damon Harris It's Music 8:42
–Pylon (4) Danger 5:36
–The Jonzun Crew Pak Man 6:18
–Funk Masters Love Money 6:30
–John Sex Bump & Grind It 3:55
–Sylvester Over And Over (12" Disco Mix) 9:29
–The Girls (7) Jeffrey I Hear You 5:46
–Johnny Dynell Jam Hot 7:20
–Talking Heads I Zimbra 3:08
–Art Zoyd Sortie 134 (Part 2) 3:45
–Class Action Weekend (Larry Levan Mix) 8:15
–Adiche Chuka-Ja (Get Ready) 6:56
–The Girls (7) The Elephant Man 5:53
–The Golden Flamingo Orchestra* The Guardian Angel Is Watching Over Us 6:50
–Gray (2) Cut It Up High Priest 4:22
–Extra T's E.T. Boogie 5:30
–Convertion Let's Do It 6:39
–Yoko Ono Walking On Thin Ice 5:56
–Fab 5 Freddy Change The Beat 7:31

Not the cover, alas: https://assets.adidas.com/images/w_600,f_auto,q_auto/4246a28e0b734afd9bb6aa3e010d6be0_9366/Rivalry_Hi_Keith_Haring_Shoes_White_EE9296.jpg

if image goes away, go here: https://www.adidas.com/us/rivalry-hi-keith-haring-shoes/EE9296.html?cm_mmc=AdieSEM_Feeds-_-GoogleProductAds-_-NA-_-EE9296&cm_mmca1=US&cm_mmca2=NA&ds_rl=1257009&ds_rl=1256970&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI3YaxidaE6wIVAtvACh3BEQnpEAQYAiABEgJxrPD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds&kpid=EE9296&sourceid=543457011

Shit. Anyway, it's from Adidas Haring line.

Kind of bizarre to see Marti Caine's name popping up. She was mostly a comedian, I think? Basically a *Northern Variety performer - sang, told jokes, danced, did a bit of everything.

The album that song is from has been super-collectible for a long time now. Came out on the BBC's own label, and I think the only people who bought it at the time were exactly the sort of people who bought BBC records - basically her light entertainment fanbase. And those people might have been a bit shocked to find her branching out and exploring that sort of subtle, sexy disco vibe so it pretty much died a death. But it's been a good one to look out for at carboots and charity shops because if you find it at all, it'll most likely be among a pile of Lena Zavaroni and Don Estelle records and yucky old trash like that. Sadly never turned up a copy myself, but I do know people that have found it in exactly those circumstances. Got reissued last year, but was an easy hundred quidder at one point.

This is what you're looking out for anyway:

https://thevinylfactory.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MartiCaine-PointOfView-B3.jpg

GRRRR!

Quite taken by this very Chic-like tune at the moment - think they were Italian, same people who did the Electric Mind records:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=987eiKcRXjE

Rainbow Team - Bite The Apple

Hot R.S. - House of the Rising Sun

― Dan Worsley, Wednesday, 5 August 2020 12:48 (eight hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

The cheesy backing vocals going "IT'S HOT!" are some of my favourite cheesy disco backing vocals

some great stuff on ullanda's love zone album, including this one, "gotta dance now."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3Ikgsb_hYs

don't mean tomorrow
not in the future
not maybe someday
i've gotta dance NOW

I just discovered this song. Not a deep cut or anything, just something new to me. It's now my favorite ever. The melancholy bridge. Great video too. There's an extended frankie knuckles edit on youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oz9EFYOpoEc

soooo good

great find andrew wow

yeah that w&w is all time

sweater funk classic. otherwise i'm not sure how well known this is. only a couple very pricey copies on discogs available but there was a recent digital reissue.

charms - givin' it up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gS_eTbIZcko

Marcos Valle has the JUICE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTPaDbt_USA

oh so you would like some of that juice? well too bad, that's marcos's juice it's all for him

the lyrics are hilarious if you care to run them thru google translate. it's all "you gotta work out! you gotta sweat! bodybuilding!"

some recent talk about that song (and its video!) here: marcos valle - vontade de rever você

nice nice nice

Yeah I remember discovering this song a few years back when it was being used in advertisements for Southern Comfort of all things.

Patrick Cowley's low-budget-sounding instrumental version of "I Feel Love" seems as much organ as synth, anyway thee former stands out, in a soulful way, highlighting latent Latinate tints of original, and might even be a Farfisa, of 60s Top Forty fame, kind of a Paradise Garage punk effect---on Some Funkettes EP of prev. unreleased 70s tracks, and seems like the sassy finale, "Spiked Punch Dub," is also thread-relevant (as is whole thing, prob., but these two jumped on me right away, and stayed here). See what you think:
https://patrickcowley.bandcamp.com/

Valle is an all-timer, from his bossa stuff through the high concept 70's stuff to the boogie era. Saw him live at a Jazz club in London playing with Azymuth and it was one of the greatest concert experiences I've ever had. By the end of it everyone got off the tables and started dancing around despite the lack of space.

that does sound fun. i've been toying around with estrelar samples tonight, might be fun to do a cut'n'paste re-edit with 'em in the style of sound stream

but like, why mess with perfection

God this song. So moving.

(Jackie Stoudemire - “Invisible Wind”)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0uJD3zMBDk

damn, that break at 2:34 is very ripe for sampling

Recent album from Horse Meat Disco is a blast

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qqX-RDeqZ4&

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ccU4vFlduw

loving that jackie stoudemire! wish it wasn't so expensive! though i see numero gave it a reissue/remix treatment a few years ago. it's got me exploring her 90s house stuff as jaqueline. some of it sounds good.

Can’t stop with this extremely funky Rinder & Lewis jam

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTGrgTbRR5o

So now that mainstream ILM has expressed its undying love for Van Halen and Cyndi Lauper in the Best Songs of the 80s thread, I’d be interested in seeing some lists of POV or POX for specific subgenres, like top five boogie songs from 80s, top five Italo disco cuts, or your top ten post-disco jams.

Feels like if it’s worth doing then it’s worth doing well so I should put in some effort if I’m going to make a list, and not just post the first five songs that pop into my head.

Any interest here?

POX/POV stands for... pick only 10 / pick only 5? i could go for that

Actually:

80s Italo Disco POX

And a major poll:

La musica si muove appena: The ILM ITALO Poll (Results Thread)

Moka I respect your intent but this is basically how most attempts to initiate non-popist discussion on ILM die now.

Anyway I’m still not sure when peak boogie was (was it actually the 70s?), I should probably look into that.

Meanwhile research for italo would involve me checking into Reddit, our sub had quite a good run of italo for a while which I should review for the sake of completeness, but I’ve been avoiding Reddit for almost all of this year and given the way things were going last time I checked, I have some anxiety that the admins there have already taken the sub from me and handed it over to the white supremacists or whatever. TMI I know but the tl:dr is that I’m not ready to face the wall of Reddit bullshit to look into italo yet.

Hence I will work on my list of top five post-disco tracks. Would it cause great offense if I tried to pass some new wave off as post-disco?

Not like there was tremendous interest to begin with although I do greatly appreciate Davey’s input. Still I probably should have just kept my crappy bickering over tactics to myself, soz.

1. Man Friday - Love Honey, Love Heartache

2. Klein & MBO - Dirty Talk (1983 Warehouse Edit)

…Shit that’s all I’ve got. It seems I have once again busted a move prematurely.