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

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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