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

What's currently doing it for you? Under-the-radar obscurity or celebrated megasmash that had hitherto passed you by - it doesn't matter to me, just post them up here and share the joy

random new-to-me things that i picked up recently for cheap...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVif2QVRQTQ
Pierre - Just Right (1984)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikkDz5G45C4
Sarah Dash - Low Down Dirty Rhythm (1983)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26HV5g1Dfao
Steve Shelto - Don't You Give Your Love Away (1983)

also, my god i really need a copy of this amazing thing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f19C89_8WaU
Black Gold - C'mon Stop (1983)

Short version 6:31. Ah, disco...

Really like that "Low Down Dirty Rhythm" track, thanks!

yr welcome!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3PuHwGchDE
Teena Marie - I Need Your Lovin' (1980)

I know and love Behind The Groove and Lovergirl, but I hadn't heard this one before today, I really gotta up my Teena game. What else is good?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nL3xFKM48c
Sly Cabell - Feelin' Fine (1982)

Keep coming back to this one at the moment. Have no idea who Sly Cabell is, but this is a Shep Pettibone joint on Salsoul with a lovely saxy good times vibe and also kinda Princey I think?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAXXpLRTprs
Mary Clark - Take Me I'm Yours (1980)

Most mind-melting reissue I picked up last year, JFHC what a belter

I know and love Behind The Groove and Lovergirl, but I hadn't heard this one before today, I really gotta up my Teena game. What else is good?

― i'm surprised to see your screwface at the door (NickB), Saturday, March 17, 2018 1:56 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

uh "square biz"!!!

wonderful thread idea btw

oooh, holy heck, how did i not hear that before?

fuck, sweet tune! and that weird subtly psychedelic percussion sound in the background, reminds me of the glottal noises that the jug player in the 13th floor elevators used to make

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HzfGbzq29g
Thelma Houston - If You Feel It (1981)

Another one I keep coming back to, so flipping funky. Don't know who's playing that bass but Keni Burke and Scott Edwards (who's all over the great Stevie albums) get credits on the album so that figures

Gotta say though, I'm not sure what to make of the line 'you're like an important china tea cup'. Is that supposed to be a good thing?

my favorite recent disco discovery is voyage's "souvenirs". completely gorgeous song.

yeah, that’s a good one. wacky band, think all the people involved were french library music guys - some of their non-voyage stuff goes for a fortune

So many new discoveries (as I'm maintaining this blog), so many new purchases (as I have a new weekly residency playing disco-jazz-funk-boogie on vinyl), so this is a timely thread.

Received in this morning's post:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIx7RMbKqsg

Mary Clark "Take Me I'm Yours" also seconded - bought this a couple of weeks ago.

Also received in this morning's post:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXhbXh2_xS8

And finally, in yesterday's post:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NF6MqDsSock

Hooray Mike! :D

Will have a listen once I get home, but that Mass Production looks familiar. Blog looks like an absolute goldmine!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-eCNM-TmhY

obsessed with the vocal performance on this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbKv_M3UwMc

nothing new to anyone but do you ever notice the way all the different elements on this are so strong and yet intertwine so effortlessly

welcome boxedjoy! that melba moore - oh shit, lovely stuff! <3

again she's someone that i need to investigate a bit more thoroughly, her catalogue's vast! things that i do know and love: 'You Stepped Into My Life', 'Pick Me Up, I'll Dance', 'Miss Thing', 'Underlove'

need to get myself educated though!

fave gwen for me atm is 'seventh heaven', but that whole 82-86 period of hers is all gold imo

ha, that donald byrd goes a lot harder than i thought it would! mass production is cool as well, love that soprano sax. i suspect a certain ratio were definitely listening to that one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54qYh92-F_A
Bobby Nunn - Don't Knock It (Until You Try It) (1983)

^ been jamming this one a lot today. was a single in the UK only and pretty much flopped at the time, but it's some really nice synthy boogie business. guy was involved with both rick james and earth, wind & firer, and i think it has got some of the funkiness of the former and the sweetness of the latter

jazz-funk but so so great

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ga7f-vh4Bg

love that cover too

Best discovery yet from Mike's blog: Shalamar's 'Right in the Socket'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFrRECQarE0

The song itself is great, and at 4:36 it becomes amazing.

ha yeah - big old synth wombles in and starts blowing the place up! :D

something very prog but still pretty funky about the one that Neil posted, like if genesis had infiltrated earth, wind & fire instead of the other way round. hadn't heard of those dudes before

hadn't heard this before today either...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVy4HW6FQ9c

Midnight Star - Midas Touch [Acappella AKA Bassappella version] (1986)

you probably know the song but this version is just vocals and a really reverby bass synth, sounds weirdly modern but also quite bonkers

b2 on the standard US & UK 12" btw

shalamar 'right in the socket' is a key moment in this insanely good live larry levan dj set recording: https://www.discogs.com/Larry-Levan-Live-At-The-Paradise-Garage/release/21473

if you haven't heard that you are absolutely missing out on life

he blends it into cher's "take me home," so awesome

xp to Nick a great summary of "Celebration"! I love how that ecstatic guitar solo comes in towards the end, it's almost Eddie Hazel-esque in its virtuosity

I also discovered "Right In The Socket" via the same blog, and I've since played it out a few times; handily, "Second Time Around" is on the other side.

Not played that Levan mix in a long, long time, must rectify.... but I see it has T-Connection "At Midnight", a copy of which arrived in yesterday's post!

My roommate is constantly digging for boogie/funk and we have lots of reccomendations.

Here's some UK Boogie we're feelin: https://www.discogs.com/State-Of-Grace-Touching-The-Times/release/600722
Italo: https://www.discogs.com/Dr-Togo-Be-Free/release/102834

Oh and I accidentally ordered six copies of this record a couple weeks ago. Boys and girls, don't drink and shop for records. https://www.juno.co.uk/products/unit-one-lets-all-sing-together/675376-01/

speaking of xxxxxpost Teena Marie, I really liked Congo Square, the last new album released before she passed--first few songs are pretty desperately philosophical more than anything else, but then she gets it together---and this transitional effect turns out to be very appropriate---wiki quotes:
The album title references Congo Square, in the Tremé in New Orleans, an area in which, during times of slavery, slaves were "allowed to dance and sing in the wardrobe of their mother country on Sundays."[5] Teena Marie said of the album:

"I've been through quite a few trials and tribulations over the last two years. I spent many of those hours in prayer and felt like God was putting his arms around me. I started thinking about the music I grew up on—how inspired it was. Each song I was coming up with began to sound like the style of some favorite artist of mine from the past... Curtis Mayfield and Marvin Gaye, Billie Holliday, the old Chicago soul of The Emotions and the new Chicago vibe of Kanye West... Ice Cube's bumpin' in the trunk vibe and of course, Rick James. It's all in there."[5]

Teena Marie also expressed her appreciation for Faith Evans, saying, "I've always loved Faith and her vocal style. She reminds me of me. Her correlation with Biggie—having a career with him and without him—reminds me of me and Rick James. I feel like she's a younger me. Of the younger ladies, she's the one I love most."

my favorite tune from the donald byrd from the F.U.M.L. album is the closer. i listen to it for affirmation at least once a month. and one of the great walking bass lines out there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7z97XfHVoY

and some more solar. i am absolutely in love lately with dynasty's "groove control." i think it's perfect in every way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgCUq0gdh0M

davey: i was going to say that i don't think i've ever even heard of state of grace before and then it turns out that lol this one is already on my discogs want list...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HE8ytsuYgHg
State Of Grace - That's When We'll Be Free [Special New Mix] (1982)

and that dr togo song is sick! a nice uh chris rea vibe to that one (not an insult!) :D

when i was listening to lots of jazz as a teen, donald byrd was always way too slick sounding for me and i never really checked him out, but now every song i hear from him is just super nice, what the hell was i thinking?

and yes, dynasty have got some good stuff! the one i have is 'i don't wanna be a freak (but i can't help myself)'

oh nice milk bottle accompaniment on 'groove control'!

xxxp State of Grace is pretty good huh. I wasn't aware of their other output.

Here's another one I'd picked up recently. Not sure how obvious it is, since my knowledge of the genre isn't really deep, but it's funky as hell. It looks like there are some reasonably priced copies still on Discogs: https://www.discogs.com/Steve-Watson-Born-To-Boogie-My-Little-One/release/7554675

Oh and another bomb reissue: https://www.discogs.com/Touch%C3%A9-Just-Like-A-Doorknob/release/11079663

I love how strong the vinyl reissue scene has been, lately. My theory is that Discogs is a big positive influence, since it's made it easy to quantify how many people want out-of-print releases.

when i was listening to lots of jazz as a teen, donald byrd was always way too slick sounding for me and i never really checked him out, but now every song i hear from him is just super nice, what the hell was i thinking?

Pretty much the same path we all eventually follow with jazz-funk mastercuts fodder.

Word on the street is this is gonna get another pressing: https://www.discogs.com/Kiki-Gyan-24-Hours-In-A-Disco-1978-82/release/4080563?ev=rr

*rubs hands together*

And I'm just discovering this record now through Discogs' recommendation algorithm, and it is fantastic: https://www.discogs.com/Rim-And-Kasa-Too-Tough/release/2262081?ev=rr

oh that kiki sounds great on first pass! and rim and kasa too but that might be just a tad above my pay grade. i'm mostly a charity shop disco sort tbh, so i haven't really got properly stuck into any african stuff, but keep 'em coming by all means

god the world is just full of vast amounts of incredible music isn't it?

just when you think you know stuff, you realise you were just fart-arsing about in the ante chamber the whole damn time

this is a pretty nice one that i found for like a pound or something a couple of months back:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oW1L9-GTOTc
Vera - Take Me To The Bridge (1980)

anyone got any veras?

and this one has become a huge favourite of mine too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhCf2L2-jww
Phyllis Hyman - You Know How To Love Me (1979)

that flute! that little thing that the guitar does every now and again! that voice!

so fucking sad reading about phyllis now though :(

one million xps. that shalamar tune is amazing, i don't think i've heard it before

an obvious one that i'll nonetheless take the opportunity to remind you all of:

the brooklyn, bronx & queens band - on the beat

dutch 80's funk from heaven:

the limit - she's so divine

played this at a house party and the chorus got my pals jumping:

chas jankel - 109 (chasanova album version)

the bassline (put headphones on if you're listening on laptop so you can hear it!) on this song, and really the way the whole intro comes together, is out of this world:

can-dee - lucky day

also gonna crosspost this Shintaro Sakamoto track i posted in the japanese boogie thread cuz its my favourite boogie discovery in like a year

'80s japanese boogie/r&b/freestyle

hey Nick, there are other editions of the Rim & Kasa record that are much cheaper & still available.

i swear i've seen that BB&Q band record. my roommate has a few of the records posted itt, probably that one's in there too.

i just got this one in the mail today, heard it first in a breakbot mix on youtube: https://www.discogs.com/Empire-2-Projecting-Lisa-Freakman/release/1419039

"She's So Divine" is one of the greatest songs ever

totally. could’ve been a mega smash hit too

I got these Rim & Kasa edits when they came out a couple of years ago. Nik Weston's Mukatsuku label reissues some great stuff. https://www.discogs.com/Nik-Weston-Presents-Rim-Kasa-Rim-Kwaku-Obeng-Mukatsuku-Vs-BBE-Official-Edits/release/8176789

I've also been playing that Phyllis Hyman track out a lot - the original, not the big new remix.

Mike, I want to THANK YOU. SO. MUCH. for that James Hamilton blog. I went all the way back to the beginning and am reading every page chronologically while listening to the tracks. Music history is unfolding before my eyes. What a goldmine.

Davey, if it's not too much trouble, could you post links to YouTube instead of Discogs?

xxp - My favorite BB&Q jam is 'Starlette':

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZ_gG78WJYc

Some good ones from James Hamilton's first couple of months (mid-1975):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fudV-od6-c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6Ro0B9RETM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m48wpxFPHQU
"Instrumental flip minus groans." - LOL

And who knew Demis Roussos did disco?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzOI_IxB7NA

Sorry, 'Rendezvous' is for a different thread.

Glad you're enjoying the blog, ArchCarrier. I have made dozens and dozens of amazing discoveries through doing it, which led to me pitching a weekly Friday night gig at the bar up the road, playing a lot of the records I've recently bought. The night's going great, and is funding more purchases. Here's one I bought today - the 1980 debut single from Freeez.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uT6acsV353M

hey archcarrier, if you don’t know it there’s another HUGE demis disco banger called ‘I dig you’ which has this funked-up eastern med melody and big squiggly disco synths and strings. was a b-side originally I think but it’s also on the classic charity shop staple ‘the demis roussos magic’ (has a boring mauve coloured cover, looks like a shit box of chocolates)

this is 'i dig you', it's a monster:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kx-lj02_z4

flopson prompted me to check out the rest of the limit's discography (didn't take long, it's only 1 album and 4 singles). had heard 'say yeah' before, think it was a minor hit over here but it doesn't really do an awful lot for me tbh. this one does sound pretty good though:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvhohToyGh0

that can-dee tune is totally new to me - fucking hell, dopamine rush or what? :D

omfg, 'freakman' is an instant hit here too, thanks davey!

sounds like she's *really* enjoying that cornish pasty on that intimate strangers track

and i bought a freeez record today too! 'melodies of love' reissue came out this week, what a song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3QHpUVjuK4

xxp - Wow, 'I Dig You' is indeed fantastic. I only knew Demis from Aphrodite's Child and a couple of ballads ('My Friend the Wind', 'It's Five o'Clock', both great, 'Lovely Lady of Arcadia' not so much), but I guess it makes sense to think of him as the eccentric Greek cousin of the Bee Gees.

Digging a little deeper, I see there's also this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QO_lAbitUNg

I wish there was a bar down my road that would let me play disco every Friday...

ArchCarrier, this Demis Roussos edit was one of my most favorite records last year! The a-side is great as well. I saw that "L.O.V.E. Got a Hold on Me" is getting a re-issue soon, too, but it's 30 bucks for pre-order on pbvinyl.com, and that's just wrong. https://youtu.be/gU1wm4uOuow

this Demis Roussos edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gU1wm4uOuow

Ooh, that's a good one!

This is the opposite of a deep cut, but I've been watching reruns of 1985 TOTP and this boogie banger is always a highlight. Had no idea they were Dutch!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KyM6rCUOiM

Don't forget to check out the Dutch TopPop channel for much more Mai Tai.

On today's James Hamilton blog he mentions one of my favorite disco covers. Never fails to produce a couple of smiles in my direction whenever I play it in front of a crowd:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nwa2YtZRGs

(Not sure about the grammar in that last sentence but you get the idea...)

Oh cool, need to check that out!

Fabulous thread, just saw----this band may have already been mentioned, but can't resist quoting a late great ilxor, as already quoted on Amazon, re Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band s/t debut:

Disco rarely got more musically or lyrically sophisticated than on this self-titled debut album. Long before he took up the role of Kid Creole with the Coconuts, wordsmith August Darnell cushioned small, perfect truths--singer Cory Daye promises to get her "equivalency diploma" in love in "I'll Play the Fool"--in knowingly retro sounds. Stylish, honest, and completely one of a kind. --Rickey Wright
Speaking of Cory Daye, check out her solo album, Cory and Me w Dr B etc. input--the last I heard, she and a bunch of them are still performing together.

Speaking of Africa, don't miss Rough Guide To African Disco, esp, w bonus disc. Disc 1's opening track is weirdly generic, but the rest of it takes disco expectations on a trip.

Ditto this Nicky Siano comp---I'm told he hated the d-word, didn't want it on here, but Soul Jazz insisted---but disco-and-boogie is a handy tag for it---he really likes songs that tell stories that you can/have to dance to:

Siano the Times
Mercury rising as disco evolves out of its prior knowledge
by Don Allred
January 11th, 2005 2:14 PM Issue 02

Blissed-out, but not always totally
photo: Courtesy of Nicky Siano
Nicky Siano's Legendary the Gallery: New York's original disco 1973-1977
Soul Jazz import

In the early '70s, a teenage DJ named Nicky Siano traveled the space-wise
dancefloor of David Mancuso's Loft, before launching his own Gallery. (Gallery
kid Larry Levan later levitated Paradise Garage; he and Siano also worked with disco mystic Arthur Russell.) Despite acid, balloons, and
the food bar, the Gallery wasn't always totally blissed-out. As described in his CD notes, Siano's sound design, influenced by Mancuso's approach, was logically
based on and changing with the rooms and scenes he performed in as the feast
moved around NYC.
The Gallery opened in the summer of '73. Couch-potato arena rock ruled. There and elsewhere, DJs and dancers (especially blacks,
Latinos, gays) were among those, at times closely observed, who chose to carve fresh heat from the vinyl
beast. Spinning out of this disc, the Gallery is mercury still
rising, through crosstown funk, soul, and one gospel
song, personalized: Gloria Spencer proclaims, "I got it! I don't understand it! I got
it!" A jet blasts (like, "Amen!") out of Exuma's "Obeah Man." The Temptations
lay down the "Law of the Land": "You might not like who you are, but you
better start. 'Cause you sure can't be nobody else." But the music rumbles and clatters like a
roulette wheel. Meanwhile, turns out that Bonnie Bramlett's "Crazy 'Bout My
Baby" is crazy like a tambourine and a fox, shaking in wait for that slowhand
dobro.
Loleatta Holloway, Bobby Womack, Bill Withers, the Isleys,
and Undisputed Truth also make the most of prior knowledge and surprise.
Without waiting for the remix: These are original (full-length) LP tracks and
seven-inch singles. Yet great breaks burst out of (and roll through) good
grooves, good songs. Often.
Also see http://www.nickysiano.com/ and http://www.timlawrence.info/.

.

And xgau almost nailed this one:
Midnight Rhythm [Atlantic, 1979]
At last a whole disco album that actually brings off all the disco tricks--exploding out of the speakers, washing over the room, and so forth. The thump of the bass drum never dominates the rhythmic pulse, and the lyrical tag lines avoid the words "dance," "dancer," "dancing," "dancin'," and "disco"--until an orgasmic break (repeated once) that goes "Dancin', dancin', dancin', dancin'." Monofunctional but potent. A-
"almost nailed" because dunno that it was really the first, though obv. he heard more than most people, certainly me, but yeah at the time it was kind of like back when Jefferson Airplane's After Bathing At Baxter's was the first whole acid-rock album I heard that sounded like all those psychedelic posters etc. looked. . Also dunno about "monofunctional," because some of it was good for tripping as well as dancing; I had flashbacks to it when first heard Algiers.

extremely recommend that everyone in this thread follow @garageclassics on twitter; a bot that tweets discogs of paradise garage-era classics twice an hour. insanely high quality curation despite the massive volume. would be better if it were youtube links but whatever; i go every couple weeks and add a few dozen trax to a tidal playlist and jam it all week

rhyze - just how sweet is your love

rome jefferies - good love

five special - why leave us alone

Some more great re-issues I just picked up on Juno:

Kleeer - Intimate Connection
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fhXIWjDmkU

Tommy Stewart - Bump & Hustle Music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=718GGUbH3ho

Donnell Pitman - Love Explosion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmNcW8WdxMo

This is the Kleeer track that got my dancers going last Friday, in the bar up the road - discovered a couple of months ago.

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

That Donnell Pitman track's interesting - it's basically Ripple "The Beat Goes On And On" with a vocal plonked on top, but it works....

love kleeer. lots of good jams spread among their albums.

that rome jefferies is neat, thanks flopson! hadn't heard it before but greg henderson was already a familiar name cos he also did this classic which recently appeared on the sam records anthology set:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ft8uYVnrzgc
Greg Henderson - Dreamin'

ah i've heard 'intimate connection' before but i forgot about it, haha excellent track! seeeriousss...

i've spammed ilm about this song before but i've been binging on it once again lately...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y1lgh166rk
Fern Kinney - Groove Me (1979)

starts off as a pretty sweet pop reggae track and then it veers off into outer space about halfway through. so good and pretty easy to find cheap ime. cover of a king floyd southern soul song btw, original is fucking excellent too if you don't know that.

and this is another track off the same fern kinney album as the above

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaxyQF0jegQ
Fern Kinney - Baby Let Me Kiss You (1979)

bit more of an electronic one but still really spacey and again it's really easy to find the 12" in the UK - it's the b-side of her big hit 'together we are beautiful'

Both of those big staples on the Balearic scene

Early Cameo is SUCH a treasure trove. "It's Serious" is one of my top jams (and I suspect it's the first track to use the "oo-wa oo-wa" chant, swiftly plundered by Michael Zager), almost all of the Secret Omen album is great, and I've just discovered "Cameosis" from 1980.

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9av9tY3vTY

hooooly shit, more incredible afro disco edits. the flip of this one's great, too, and there are still cheap copies on discogs. i will be snapping one up tonight for sure.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwXJ4OyLpwM

here's another great discovery for me this week. all 4 tracks are hot on the brazilian tip. someone on discogs is saying that it will be getting another pressing in the next couple weeks. gotta have it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRPBvCXrzDs

xp i dig those Cameo tunes. didn't realize what a big band they were.

that amadou balake is gorgeous!

those cameo boys sound drilled as fuck on those tunes - so tight!

This is my discovery of the week (again thanks to the James Hamilton blog): Debbie Jacobs - 'High on Your Love'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSKwGJtOs-8

That intro!

Ooooh, I missed that, creamy!

Re: the Kleeer song, I keep hearing "Internet Connection" :)

Weird Al needs to get on that right quick.

In today's post: The Invisible Man's Band - All Night Thing (1979)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MMntuWZ5o4

The band were formerly known as Five Stairsteps, of "O-o-h Child" fame, featuring Keni "Risin' To The Top" Burke and his brothers.

my roommate funky brewster just put this on the turntable, ufff:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKqLmiMXja8

and now this one. dude has expensive taste:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIZ5suObstA

Cubie Burke - Down For Double (1982)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKO7BW1mIFU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmkTTE1CAJ8

Anarchy In The UK covered in a disco stylee :D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xnx4Ky8v6tg

Memorably deployed near the climax of Can't Stop the Music.

Well, memorable to me in any case.

Thanks for that Sex Pistols cover, Paolo! I love it. The original is by the Black Arabs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZmZ1Z9o73E

Aha, I suspected as much and had been meaning to cross-check, thanks for confirming!

In today's post: Carrie Lucas - Dance With You, as liberally sampled by a certain late 90s monster hit. The YouTube doesn't do it full justice compared with the 12", but HOLY SHIT THIS IS SO GREAT.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BHww8urQGE

Obv introduced to that song via the sample that eclipsed it, but man the original is a barnstormer. Way closer to the on-beat than most disco

Yeah that carrie lucas bangs, love that!

Playlist from last Friday's DJ gig at the bar up the road:

Harold Melvin & The Bluenotes - Wake Up Everybody
Bill Withers - Lovely Day
ned doheny - to prove my love
donald byrd - love has come around
candi staton - when you wake up tomorrow
invisible man's band - all night thing
Norman Connors - Captain Connors
light of the world - pete's crusade
george duke - brazilian love affair
mass production - shante
tower of power - lovin' you is gonna see me thru
charles earland - let the music play
kleeer - it's magic
raul de souza - daisy mae
azymuth - jazz carnival
eddie henderson - prance on
debbie jacobs - high on your love
double exposure - ten percent
grey & hanks - dancin'
herbie mann - hijack
shalamar - right in the socket
d train - you're the one for me
david joseph - you can't hide (your love from me)
loose joints - is it all over my face?
talking heads - I zimbra
narada michael walden - I shoulda loved ya
gene chandler - get down
shalamar - I owe you one
the source ft candi staton - you got the love (original 1986 version)
sister sledge - thinking of you (dimitri from paris remix)
george benson - give me the night
Indeep - Last Night A DJ Saved My Life
queen - another one bites the dust
sugarhill gang - rappers delight
Positive Force - We Got The Funk
Patrice Rushen - Forget Me Nots
Michael Jackson - Off The Wall
players association - turn the music up
bobby thurston - check out the groove
Quincy Jones - Ai No Corrida
chic - le freak (dimitri from paris remix)
marvin gaye - got to give it up (the reflex re-edit)
Freeez - Southern Freeez
odyssey - use it up and wear it out
Sly & The Family Stone - Dance To The Music (John Luongo remix)
gloria gaynor - never can say goodbye
sylvester - you make me feel (mighty real)

nice! how did it go down? am picturing the ruins still smouldering here

The original Source/Candi Staton went down particularly well, as nobody seems to know it; I had a similar reaction with Tony Lee's "Reach Up" a few weeks ago, when people realised it had the vocal from Phats & Small. Looking forward to pulling a similar trick with Carrie Lucas on Friday.

George Duke, D-Train and Players Association were all requests. The D-Train sounded particularly fantastic; I never quite know what's going to sound best on my PA system, until I play it out. On the downside, the Debbie Jacobs didn't sound great, although it plays fine at home.

Sylvester got the most dancers, obviously. But the early-set jazz-funk was much appreciated, too.

can't argue with the d-train, huge song!

got lucky and picked up this bomb for a couple of quid at the weekend:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5XS1CZV9w4
Tamiko Jones - Can't Live Without Your Love (1979)

Great track, I also bought it a couple of months ago.

Best Night Ever at the bar up the road on Friday; I hit a sweet spot with this sequence, and was rewarded with a packed floor.
Tailgunner - Jimmy McGriff
You And I - Rick James
Can't Live Without Your Love - Tamiko Jones
Everybody Here Must Party - Direct Current, with a flukily spot-on long-running mix into...
R.R. Express - Rose Royce
Backstrokin' - Fatback
Far Beyond - Locksmith
On The One - Cameo
Let's Get Funktified - Boiling Point
Let's Get Serious - Jermaine Jackson
You Got The Love (1986 original version) - The Source & Candi Staton
Going Back To My Roots - Odyssey
Take Me I'm Yours - Mary Clark (I'll play requests when they're as good as this one)
Which Way Is Up - Stargard
Star - Earth Wind & Fire

Dance With You - Carrie Lucas into Streetplayer - Chicago also worked a treat.

Out today on Be With Records

https://www.discogs.com/The-Whispers-Keep-On-Lovin-Me/release/12031106

Such a great video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6aRvVTSC0I

I'm a bit of a boogie dilettante but listening to a few bits recently. I can sort of take or leave Leroy Burgess's voice on this but even so. Damn.

The Fantastic Aleems, Hooked On Your Love 12".

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

Through the letterbox yesterday: Rhyze - Just How Sweet Is Your Love (SAM, 1980). Creamy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxtNcDPmfy0

This is a nice one:
Queen Samantha - 'Singing Hallelujah'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HITBzKqmt3g

It's the B-side of her cover of 'The Letter'

i've had this in my collection for a while

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xy4nrCYMMcM

and just learned it rips off lipps inc., which i'm now convinced is the superior version!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr69NcmYg3Q

lol i like timecode better

you've heard the original by Ace? nice soft rock eagle-y romp

omg, i have heard the original and totally forgot about it. and it's also pretty great

Dee Dee Sharp Gamble - Breaking And Entering. (late 1980/early 1981)

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

courtesy of my now former roommate, funky brewster, who sent it via text message. i miss him lots.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZbdPtRSv-s

xp track is groovy as hell :)

cool, bookmarked this thread.

holy moly this tune tho. is there a "songs where there are handclaps after the singer says clap your hands" thread?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RulvW5IqIrg
bileo - you can win

From excellent sister thread I Love Deep Cuts--a yard sale treasure:

Another xpost Deep Cuts album mostly, though I think/hope Chic's "I Need Your Love" got a decent amount of airplay. Seems like a Chic album with well-served guest lead vox---Carly Simon at her best! The only track I kinda listen askance at is the closer w Debbie Harry. From the solo debut, and Nile & Nard produced that too, but the CREEM reviewer who liked it was not a Chic fan, so that put me off listening, and it disappeared pretty quickly, so another DC album but here's this---thanks again Discogs!

Various ‎– Soup For One - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Label:
Mirage (2) ‎– WTG 19353
Format:
Vinyl, LP, Compilation
Country:
US
Released:
1982
Genre:
Funk / Soul, Stage & Screen
Style:
Soundtrack, Disco, Funk
Tracklist Hide Credits
A1 –Chic Soup For One 5:33
A2 –Carly Simon Why 4:06
A3 –Teddy Pendergrass Dream Girl 4:08
A4 –Fonzi Thornton I Work For A Livin' 3:31
B1 –Chic I Want Your Love 6:53
B2 –Sister Sledge Let's Go On Vacation 5:08
B3 –Chic Tavern On The Green 2:15
B4 –Deborah Harry Jump, Jump
Written-By – Chris Stein, Deborah Harry
4:02
Credits
Bass, Vocals – Bernard Edwards
Bells [Tubular] – José Rossi*
Drums – Tony Thompson (2)
Engineer – Bill Scheniman, Bob Clearmountain, Scott Litt
Engineer [Assitant] – Barry Bongiovi, Dave "The Rave" Greenberg*, Jason Corsaro, Jeff Hendrickson, Josh Abbey
Guitar – Nile Rodgers
Horns – Edward Daniels*, Meco Monardo, Robert Millikan
Keyboards – Ray Jones*, Rob Sabino
Percussion – Sammy Figueroa
Producer, Written-By, Arranged By, Conductor – Bernard Edwards & Nile Rodgers
Vocals – Alfa Anderson, Diva Gray, Fonzi Thornton, Jocelyn Brown, Luci Martin, Michelle Cobbs, Robin Clark (2)

― dow, Sunday, July 22, 2018

i'm sure i've posted this a few times but i love this b-side from "bad bad boy" by theo vaness. it's kind of cheaply constructed and really doesn't need to be so long but it BANGS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LtNlT2SV_k

Revelation - Feel It (1980)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9y2JapLMkSQ

oh hell yes

i've been getting reacquainted with how good "music and lights" by imagination is.

fyi the bass playing on that theo vaness track is so killer, it just pours out of whoever's playing it... and i really want to know who it is but i can't find any credits.

and i should say it's not a b-side! it's from a double a side released in 1987

That 1987 release was a re-issue. It was on the B-side of Paradise Garage classic "Sentimentally It's You", released in 1979. I vastly prefer this to "Sentimentally It's You", but would still prefer an instrumental version; Theo's vocals rub me up the wrong way.

I've been told by a friend who goes to "modern" rooms at Northern Soul events that Revelation's "Feel It" often gets an airing. It'll get a first airing from me on Friday night, too - as will Chemise "She Can't Love You" (1982), recommended to me by a regular. This gets better with every play; all those little staccato stabs and squelches really do it for me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRrTR7hNO-M

^ Love this, especially the way she says, "She can't love you like I dohhhhh"

could spend a lifetime digging through all the various patrick adams projects. got this one the other week.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07dCMg7En9A

chemise is the GOAT floor-filler

GOAT....???

Get Out And Tosssssss

GOAT was originally released as an abbreviation ca. 2007. It means Greatest Of All Time. ;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOl-vTIKzCE
Melody Stewart - Get Down, Get Down (1980)

I saw a performance of King Lear last night. Shalamar's "Right in the Socket" takes on a whole new meaning after Gloucester's blinding scene.

Metropole - Miss Mahattan.
An Italian production from spring 1981, although it sounds a good deal more NYC than Italian.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3s64eEcUMM

Vera - Take Me To The Bridge (late 1980/early 1981)
The proto-hi-energy intro is a bit misleading, as it settles into a smoother and more satisfying groove thereafter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oW1L9-GTOTc

NickB already posted that Vera song itt 6 months ago but damn if it doesn't deserve another few postings here. Such a magical song! Thanks, you two!

Ahaha so he did! Well, this is my current new favourite: Jean Carn "If You Wanna Go Back" (1976). I only wish it was longer.

https://youtu.be/wboKA2XpfyM

with my first post in this thread, please allow me to say WOWOWOWOWOWOW @ "She's So Divine" upthread

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjpELZNsTD4

familiar to everyone I'm sure but it's such a perfect slow groove isn't it

i've been downloading 80s jams all night, getting ready for a gig tomorrow. this is one of my fave rediscoveries in a while. not sure how obvious it is, probably it's pretty obvious heh. but i had forgotten all about it. solo nile rodgers is my kind of throwback to play!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSCN4WZYU9Y

I'm having a good afternoon. These are all from around October 1981.

Arthur Adams - You Got The Floor
This builds from a subdued start, hitting its stride around 1:49, then peaking with a long jazzy instrumental section that eventually closes the track.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wm0e1fTpXo

The Frontline Orchestra - Don't Turn Your Back On Me
More strident and less weedy than Britfunk too often tended to be, and as such deservedly embraced by Knuckles and Levan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fsr-dymmbKA

Letta Mbulu - Kilimanjaro
Sets out its stall early, then sticks there to pleasing effect.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KI4clrzJZZk

very enjoyable stuff

Just discovered the french version and it's fye
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdIvdGoLJRU

Metropole "Miss Manhattan" and Vera "Take Me To The Bridge", as posted upthread, have both just been reissued on 12", making them both vaguely affordable at last. Hallelujah.

Blue Feather - Let's Funk Tonight (Instrumental) (1981) - miles better than the weedy vocal version.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPX548h6h4w

Nice one! And thanks again for the incredible job you're doing with the James Hamilton Disco Page, Mike. I have a daily script set up that downloads the audio of every track you link to, so whenever I'm in a disco mood I have a huge batch of new tracks to explore.

Ha, excellent!

Spent some time with <i>Disco Fever USA</i> recently - one of the latter volumes of the Disco Discharge series, so you can feel a bit of barrel-scraping. But I found this on it - sounds like Dr.John goes Disco, as the liner notes mention!

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

Haha! You probably know this one already but this is Dr John going electrofunk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hz4o2tWp8Vw

have got some serious catching up to do on this thread, every time it gets bumped i never seem to be in a place where i can listen

Haha Nick, that's pretty cool! Don't think I'd heard before.

some more cheri for the thread. "murhpy's law" stuck in my head all the time. such a good mix of melancholy and playfulness.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-b7NRg4hoD0

I just found this thread, thank god. Keep em coming!

a recent score: rainbow brown. fonda rae, produced by patrick adams, which is an obsession. i know i'm not alone in this. "i'm the one" is maybe my fave. for now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EP1s3rrFfb4

little dragon - lover chanting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiSTcdi82S0

btw the b-side on that EP is fresh too

this is my current favourite fonda joint, absolute rapturous stuff:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4J-F9M-KDBE

bumblebee vocals and all, I've been enjoying this for the past few days:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5zTZRm1cT0

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.

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 Stop
Mark Clark - Take Me I'm Yours (obviously)
Donald Byrd - Thank You For Funking Up My Life
Melba Moore - Love's Comin' At Ya!
Shalamar - Right in the Socket
Dr Togo - Be Free
Vera - Take Me To The Bridge
The 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.

This appeared on a spotify song radio, released in 1981, sailed under the radar for me.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XT-iikjgH0s

love that, fern had some great songs!

Vera - Take Me To The Bridge

Love this song, such longing in the voice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KIApAIztW8
The SD's ft Sherry Richards - Watch the Clock

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

^^^ alec mansion - ou es-tu

high fashion - next to you
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRzbmTVNeCc

stephanie mills - try my love
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvN8uyjc48E

i like "feelin' lucky lately" by high fashion, also i think it's hilarious that a chic ripoff band called themselves "high fashion"

that's harsh! hahah :)

james cobbin & prime cut - caught in the middle
https://youtu.be/SxWyvP94YA0

herre:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxWyvP94YA0

i-level - "give me"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2b6jgRCio0

questionable lyrics in this one

"minefield" off that same record is the other standout and has a killer drum workout
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdk_Tvu3blI

slave - wait for me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2crb0iFXro

one more from our man funky brewster's record collection. this is baxa, i'm not kool
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_Ss8iG8HCM

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

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!

Since I never pass up the opportunity to mention it, here's another shout out to James Hamilton's Disco Page.

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=O5ueuRDr8Hc
Rappermatical 5 - Party People

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

it wasn't my crowd last night, people were not feeling the slutty norwegian disco

making good use of that next to you break

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJNajgq7Phs

i'm finally recording the long-awaited funky b mix tape now. so many gems in dude's collection. couple highlights:

dabeull - dr fonk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OCyYbW6zPY

sky tony - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=no9bA_gUIyE
https://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

new touch sensitive EP is some str8up ear candy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQsQHHUQCWQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88p6AwgZNaw

great EP: https://lyndadawn.bandcamp.com/album/at-first-light

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BOmOADxDVA

out of the funky b archives, issa jam from 2008

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnvwXoTTO04

dayton flic - livin' for your love

'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]

and this is just straight gorgeous, think it's a JP Massiera joint:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wA5GR_iPfVQ

Chantal Balmy - Imagine

only just listened to that Sky Tony track upthread with the Donna Allen sample, that's pretty nice!

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

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

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

“Sophia Stanke”

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.

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

bringing the bounce to the floor there mike! :)

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

The John Robie one is a deep cut. Wanted to reissue it after finding it on a disconet comp. Pretty cool track.

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

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

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.

'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

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.

Nice Tuomas! Were you into the Disco Discharge comps? Your playlists kinda remind me of them.

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.

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.

too zingy for my tastes

This is a fantastic way to describe those comps. There was always something a little ... not for me about them?

What do yall mean by "zingy"? Never heard this series.

I would recommend the Grand 12-inches series for you if you aren't familiar with it already... It covers a lot of same ground as the Disco Discharge, but has way more mellow and funky stuff, and since it isn't limited to disco only, it also has loads of great extended versions of '80s R&B and synth pop too, with an occasional old school rap and house tune thrown in as well. The only downside is that Liebrand apparently couldn't get/afford anything from the Warner Bros archives, so there's no Prince or Madonna on the comps, but other than that they have almost all the great 12"/extended mixes from the seventies and eighties you can imagine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZ4nLTlCkLo

I started making a Spotify playlist of all those Disco Discharge comps earlier this week. I've added the first ten so far:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/58Sjf1TMQF5tMrk8xsBeFr?si=s7cnKA7LQcaUz9HoGXMH_A

And there's already one on there for the Grand 12 Inches series:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4LqfSYJkMpSNeUmcjefMSr?si=CmIeAuSEThyG_6Lb709KLA

And there's already one on there for the Grand 12 Inches series:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4LqfSYJkMpSNeUmcjefMSr?si=CmIeAuSEThyG_6Lb709KLA

It's nice that someone has made this, but since the actual comps apparently aren't on Spotify, it looks like in many case they've added the radio/7" edit of the song on the list, and not the 12" version, which, you know, kinda goes against the spirit of something called "Grand 12-inches" :) Based on the notes on Liebrand's site, several of the track on these comps are extended mixes he has uncovered from various archives, which have never been released on CD before, and I guess they aren't on Spotify either? There's also a handful of extended mixes he's done himself specifically for this compilations by blending together the vocal and dub mixes from the original tapes. These include "Beat the Street" by Sharon Redd, "You're the One for Me" by D-Train, "Love Can't Turn Around" by Farley Jackmaster Funk, etc., and they're mostly really good, since Liebrand is an excellent remixer.

I made one more playlist:

"Smooth disco"
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdW4Wfh6CZlZwrRGFCyxmkZzh_O61L2Zf
- More mellow and romantic (but still danceable) tunes for the wee hours of the night.

Ah, haven't listened to the Grand 12 inches one as i've probably got 75% of the albums anyway xp

When I was making the Disco Discharge one I always tried to include the correct versions from the compilations

the sound quality on the “Grand 12 Inch” series is supposedly really good too:

I have taken the greatest care to come up with the best possible masters, sometimes comparing up to 5 different versions to find out which one sounded the best and most pure. And sometimes even baking the analog master tapes to make them playable again.

Yeah, the comps generally sound really good.

fucking hell this moonstone version of "the visitors" is killing me rn, so amazing

enjoying this Greek banger from 1979

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRMU787OEtY

tuomas thank you very much for posting your playlists!

fucking hell this moonstone version of "the visitors" is killing me rn, so amazing

fucking hell goddamn IAN LEVINE produced that? christ, that must be the one thing he's ever done in his life that isn't fucking horrible

Here's another not-fucking-horrible Ian Levine production (and co-write): finally, in 2001, he made a genuinely great Northern Soul record.

Sidney Barnes - Standing On Solid Ground

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMpnlZ7PaoI

https://youtu.be/4LDTn01uHno

I actually genuinely love the over-the-top quality of Levine's hi-NRG work with Earlene Bentley, but I can understand it's not everyone's piece of cake.

Let's try that again:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LDTn01uHno

speaking of "wait what the fuck", here's a disco record with vocals by clare torry, songs written by mike ratledge and karl jenkins. i knew about the "soft space" late-period softs disco single, i didn't know about this. and based on this song it's... great! fucking great! and that cover!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaoD90BnzZ8

here's a 45 i came across today while sorting records:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTGGwVoJuqg
unknown artist - what a man

just an all around goofy but pretty great tune. i guess this is a re-discovery.

somebody is trying to get $500 for it on discogs lol

this is a pretty decent playlist i ran across today

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSnqKIn6Nc8AJiFWqE5n2xs12AEFy-PwZ

And speaking of old proggers making dance records, here's the Francois Kevorkian remix of King Crimson's "Sleepless", from 1984:

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

More danceable Fripp, this one with David Byrne:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuuFP8gh2_E

got to looking through the discog of ricki byars muldrow (now beckwith) and ronald muldrow, aka chemise, aka parents of georgia anne muldrow (!), and found this gem, released same year as "she can't love you." doesn't reach quite the same heights, but some real nice chords and changes.

vivian prince, "a hold on you" (produced/written by the muldrows)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIgf3vvf_ag&feature=emb_logo

one of the prominent trumpet lines from this kept popping into my head throughout the day and i couldn't quite place it until just now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVbNoXt-Z7I

really a lovely record

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jl_E96x0u3o&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR0ZnvslHS-yGkmdD12fOhith4APaKUs0U74zWBCj_5yZlxlgKqvXA0YnSA

No? http://youtu.be/Jl_E96x0u3o

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

been listening to this one a lot lately and think it would vibe with a playlist of tunes from this thread.

title track from eddy grant's '82 album most famous, of course, for giving us "electric avenue."

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

Also in genuinely great grooves from perhaps unexpected light music quarters xp), this really is a masterpiece all the way.

https://tooslowtodisco.bandcamp.com/track/marti-caine-love-the-way-you-love-me

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

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:
https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a3594227143_10.jpg

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.

3. Eddy Grant - Time Warp, Nobody’s Got Time

Just realized he accused the Gorillaz of ripping off this song, oof. What is even post-disco? Ok that’s really it for me. A lil help? Roffle.

I have a minor obsession and major enthusiasm for the disco-y jazzfunkpop of freeez, the UK britfunk unlikely popstars with timeless grooves.

Freez - Southern Freeze

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Dla9xLIkfQ

Freeez - One to One

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L50uMYHqVsk

Freeez - Carribbean winter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pv5p45sW5bo

Jazz funk greats, even. It is quite good although as the name of that Throbbing Gristle LP implies, jazz funk was not exactly an unknown commodity in pop of this era.

That first tune in particular is a powerful performance. (Although impossible for me to tell if they’re lip syncing in the video — I can’t even tell if the bass is plugged in.)

I mostly just knew their song I.O.U. of which I’m fond of the I Dub U version.

Right now I’m really loving the Bronski Beat version of I Feel Love but maybe not quite goat material. What’s most striking is the mashup with haunting 60s pop song Johnny Remember Me. Sublime. But still not best of decade.

their live TV performances were great, this is all-time from the old grey whistle test

Freeez - Mariposa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-u5zC5o6kKE

Lovely. Cheers for taking the bait here, was getting a little lonely in this hole I dug for myself. Without further ado, the complete best top five post-disco songs:

5. Public Image Ltd - Death Disco
4. Patrick Cowley - Primitive World
3. Eddy Grant - Time Warp, Nobody’s Got Time
2. Klein & MBO - Dirty Talk (1983 Warehouse Edit)
1. Man Friday - Love Honey, Love Heartache

Someone do an NRG POV plz. Or alternatively a request is submitted to the archivist for related materials from the vault.

cool, I'm gonna listen to that post disco selection, I thought of this, thinking about that era of disco/NRG pop

Dee D Jackson - Meteorman (live on top of the pops)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftQdfvprE7g

Cherri - Murphy's Law

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-b7NRg4hoD0

Loose ends - Slow down

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

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:

📹
Cheri - Starstruck