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

Loose ends - Emergency 999

link for above; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6PsCf8984g

major love for your top three tracks, Viborg, eddy grant?!? bomb track

one for the road, this daft funk sampled track is the smoothest

Oliver cheatham - get down
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUqcBwQjj4k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N14-v1umqwU

Cheers Swanswans. Found here tbh:

https://www.discogs.com/master/81465-Louie-Vega-Azuli-Presents-Louie-Vega-Choice-A-Collection-Of-Classics

I’m not able to listen to songs atm but I love the Oliver Cheatham too!

Loose Ends also premiere quality obv. Murphy’s Law is quite a track, sounds like a shuffle beat.

Time To Throw Down is another exceptional jam, that’s what I think of as peak boogie, rather than some point in the late 70s.

Brimstead trying to rein it in to the thread topic here? Plz to disregard any tangential musings on my part.

Should’ve put Atmosphere Strut on my list, what an absolute stormer. Just blitzing the fuck out of the competition. (Sorry if that seems like a shitty metaphor, it really wasn’t meant that way.)

It’s from 1979?? What!

Er 1976 rather.

Atmosphere Strut is insane, I love it.

Yeah it’s the business.

@ Swanswans ohh that Cheri, I see Small Town Lover is on the same LP. Seems like there’s a pretty clear transgender reference in Small Town Lover? Maybe I’m misreading it.

“The bride turned into the groom” bit is what I’m on about.

Atmosphere strut is magic, if you said it came out yesterday, I'd just nod. I love Murphy's law but don't know much about Cherri, Spotify seems to have an instrumental version and a remix version, which is the same with extra synths (which make me prefer the version I posted). Sorry my deviations from any strict definitions of boogie/thread title, I'll try to reign things in

Anybody wanna party - Gloria Gaynor (special new disco version 12")

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dq5oCuGe5Jg

Teena Marie - behind the groove (original 12" mix)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6nzSNWTU5Q

Change - Searching

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbIwR6EUmN8

you can put that one in post-disco and italo-disco too

So a few years ago I fell in love with "Free" by Melba Moore, first I got it on the This is It LP and when looking for it picked up a 12" of This is It with the flipside Standing Right Here. Then a few years later I put on Standing Right There and it blew me away. Then listened again and wasn't sure if that was it. Then I went looking for it again and couldn't find it. Then I found it and listened again and yeah, it's the jam. I realize now the 12" is actually Standing Right Here on the A-side w/ This is It on the b-side, a year after This is It had been already released with a different b-side. Anyway this one is a real stomper. Especially the second half. McFadden and Whitehead, Richie Rivera mix.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U95wtChb9wM

nice Melba Moore track, like the latter half the most.

Fern Kinney - ' Groove me'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eObdh83zV24

all-time

YES Standing Right Here. The horns are like seasoning with the perfect amount of spice. I have to confess I’m partial to the first half but that back end funky groove does suit her vocals wonderfully.

get down to the Two Man Sound: 70's Belgian discolads pretending to be Brazilian sambakings and doing a bloody good job

Two Man Sound - Que Tal America

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEOBvEjC7Sc

Classic.

Why do I associate it with E2-E4?

Getting back to the Fern Kinney — which was another fine choice — are we doing covers now? Cause if so this is a recent fave of mine.

Bits and Pieces - Don’t Stop The Music

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

Not really boogie at all but at least more boogie than italo. Also just realized it’s yet another Sly and Robbie production, I’m such a sucker for their work.

Probably my favorite setlist of post-disco tracks is the first two discs of The History of the House Sound of Chicago, dubbed "The Tracks That Built the House"...

1-1 Colonel Abrams– Trapped (Dance Version)
1-2 Shirley Lites– Heat You Up (Melt You Down)
1-3 Candido– Jingo
1-4 Positive Force– We Got The Funk
1-5 First Choice– Let No Man Put Asunder
1-6 Jimmy 'Bo' Horne*– Spank
1-7 Two Man Sound– Que Tal America (Midnight Mix)
1-8 Sharon Redd– Can You Handle It
1-9 Geraldine Hunt– Can't Fake The Feeling
1-10 Sparque– Let's Go Dancing (Club Dancing)
2-1 "D" Train*– You're The One For Me (Vocal Version)
2-2 Raw Silk– Do It To The Music (Vocal Mix)
2-3 Ripple– Beat Goes On
2-4 Klein & MBO*– Dirty Talk
2-5 Martin Circus– Disco Circus
2-6 Fat Larry's Band– Act Like You Know
2-7 T-Connection– At Midnight
2-8 "D" Train*– Keep On
2-9 Telex– Moskow Diskow (Original Version)
2-10 Instant Funk– I Got My Mind Made Up

That is a great compilatiob

nice comp, for sure, I forgot about that Martin circus track, think I first heard it in a Juan Atkins mix, of all places, great tune

i let somebody "borrow" my Telex record back in 2003, still one of my biggest regrets

I'd have to spend a weekend in a sweat lodge deep in meditation to feel good about picking my all time top 5 or 10 funk/boogie tracks, but maybe i can come up with a list of favorite post-2000 disco-ish remixes right quick lemme try...

1. Hercules & Love Affair - Blind (Frankie Knuckles Remix)
2. Delia Gonzalez & Gavin Russom - Relevee (DFA Remix)
3. Breakbot - Baby I'm Yours (Aeroplane Remix)
4. Clubfeet - Teenage Suicide (Eli Escobar Remix)
5. DJ Koze - Operator (DJ Koze's 12" Extended Disco Version)
6. Azari & III - Reckless With Your Love (Tensnake Remix)
7. Boom Clap Bachelors - L-O-V-E (Tuff City Kids Remix)
8. Joakim - Nothing Gold (Todd Terje Remix)
9. Midnight Magic - Beam Me Up (Jacques Renault Remix)
10. Nine Inch Nails - All the Love in the World (D.Shindig Remix)?

great list

that is indeed a great list, that Hercules and the love affair track is a joy, I only knew the boom clap bachelors one so it's a nice listen, if we are gonna post disco 'inspired' tracks here, then I'm gonna post a favourite, a slice of power synthwave disco

FM Attack - I saw her dancing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Vxvc_1HDL8

found this for a pound last weekend, super glad i picked it up:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3tMFHZxHfM

Fiona Franklyn - Busted Up On Love

same sort of vibe as this amazing song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t48Q-nhiFbg

Patris - Love Oasis

and this was today's best find in the quid bins - hadn't heard this before but the production credits for don was, john robie and todd rundgren grabbed my attention. from 1984 but has a real proto-house feel to it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipxNP2subss

that's Jules - When Love Surges btw

exquisite chaz jankel-produced rarity from UK, 1986:

Rocky Winters - Vicious Circle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6muOAaO8WhE

just remembered that geraldine hunt, who sadly died last weekend, wrote and produced this masterpiece:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5WmKv4OVww
Cheri - Starstruck

apparently this was pretty well known BITD but I had never heard it before

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpr9qvuodVA

big ol’ hit for sure

and it slams

just remembered that geraldine hunt, who sadly died last weekend, wrote and produced this masterpiece:

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Cheri - Starstruck