Creating a Disco boxset - categories required

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I've agreed to make a Disco boxset to convert them.
Number of CDs to be used is 10. While I would have no problem filling the 10 CDs, I am wondering how I'm going to organise the boxset.

Should I go by theme (great remixers, Italo Disco), time period, or combination?

What categories would people suggest?

If time based, suggest starting and end markers.

― Jedmond, Sunday, 8 February 2004 13:17 (twenty-two years ago)

* Proto-disco ("Bad luck" by Harold Melvin & The Bluenotes for example)
* Commercial disco (Bee Gees etc.)
* Disco songs by rock acts (to show the influence, the weird Bryan Adams one for example)
* Groundbreaking disco (Giorgio Moroder)
* Underground disco ("Jakki - Sun sun sun" for example)
* Disco mash-ups (to show the jazz/funk/disco/synth/rock-hybrid tracks, Miroslav Virtous "New York City" fit this description)
* Post disco (Arthur Russell, Levan Levan etc.)
* Proto house (see above)
* European disco (Baccara, Alec R Costandinos etc.)
* Hi-NRG (see groundbreaking disco)
* Italo-disco (Blackbox etc.)

Some would argue you should add some house too, but that would be to stretch it a bit much imo.

― Jim Janse, Sunday, 8 February 2004 14:08 (twenty-two years ago)

proto disco "Super Rare Disco Vol 1&2" (Robbins Intl)
high disco "Saturday Night Fever" "I Feel Love" etc
fake disco "Miss You" "Do Ya Think Im Sexy" et al
euro disco "Supernature" Cerrone
underground disco "Larry Levan Live at the Paradise Garage 1979"
post disco "West End Classics Vol 1-4" or "Shep Pettibone's KISS FM Mastermixes" (or anything on Prelude like D Train, Sharon Redd etc)
At some point around 84, disco morped into dance music, electro, house, etc.

― sonic lifer, Sunday, 8 February 2004 15:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Disco camp -- "I Love America," "Could It Be Magic," "I Remember Yesterday"

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Sunday, 8 February 2004 15:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Putting the words "Disco" and "boxed set" into that title was a cruel thing to do on a board with so many Disco Inferno fans on it.

Next time, I will read the title properly before I let my heart jump.

― Stupid (Stupid), Sunday, 8 February 2004 15:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Anybody who thinks Disco Inferno whenever they see/hear the word disco are bound to be dissapointed. Get used to it.

Love,

Jedmond

― Jedmond, Sunday, 8 February 2004 16:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Surely Blackbox is more Italo house rather than typical Italo disco in the Pino d'Angelo/Francesco Napoli sense?

― Siegbran (eofor), Sunday, 8 February 2004 16:44 (twenty-two years ago)

you could chart the life of a man through disco. The man could be called Chad. Or John. It could go from his first disco, experienced from his mother's womb to school disco, to finally his bizarre disco death as he overheats in his luminous plastic cat suit and melts into the lighty up floor. Gravity...

― Flotsam of the Fishfolk (Flotsam of the Fishfolk), Sunday, 8 February 2004 18:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Arthur russell, larry Levan etc wasnt Post Disco. Larry was Disco Disco Disco, what was post about him? if you want to categorise the Disco output of Russell i'd put it in a Mutant Disco thing.

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 8 February 2004 19:35 (twenty-two years ago)

but yeah you should include a cd of disco on the cusp of turning into house, as jim said. Mybe thats what you meant by Levan veing post-disco? he spanned the whole thing pretty much though.

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 8 February 2004 19:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Diva Disco?

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 8 February 2004 19:43 (twenty-two years ago)

siegbran is right...Black Box and such represents that sort of piano-driven "italo-house" sound which is really a different beast then the late 70s/early 80s "italo-disco"

I think Strut's term Disco Not Disco or Mutant Disco is a good catch-all for weird/experimental disco as well as post-punk and new wave disco experiments.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Sunday, 8 February 2004 21:41 (twenty-two years ago)

larry levan was there at the beginning, no question. and he kept disco pumping when the mainstream disco-craze burned out. that's what I meant by "post" -- he defined the sound of NYC in the early 80s, his influence went way beyond the Paradise Garage. no possible disrespect intended. for my money he was the greatest disco DJ evah.

― soniclifer, Sunday, 8 February 2004 22:28 (twenty-two years ago)

three months pass...

Did you ever compile the boxset, Jedmond?

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 18:40 (twenty-one years ago)

eight months pass...

I did actually finish it, and did ten copies of it. Was actually hoping I had posted the tracklisting here so I could recreate it for somebody who asked for the boxset, sadly I was lazy, and so I either have to borrow a copy from one of my friends or look for my notes at my parents.

Most of my friends loved it thankfully enough (each CD to varying degrees) - there was a couple of months where Video's "Somebody - Hey Boy" (12" M&M mix) was unavoidable at partys due to the boxset. So I'm happy.

Will post tracklisting after I redo/burn a friends copy.

very delayed response (should have waited for the one year anniversary)

― Jedmond (Jedmond), Sunday, 6 February 2005 17:31 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

Any word on seeing a track listing for this?

― whenuweremine (whenuweremine), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 21:21 (nineteen years ago)

funny this should get bumped today because i'm sorta in the midst of doing the same thing for a friend, albeit a single dvd and me ripping stuff to V0 mp3s.

at this point i'm up to 351 tracks, but still working away at it. my one sticking point so far is that there's way too fine of a line between funk and funk-disco. but i'm not all too worried at the moment

― rentboy (rentboy), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 23:01 (nineteen years ago)

Man, I would have paid for that boxset.

― Mr _Deeds (Mr_Deeds), Thursday, 20 April 2006 05:09 (nineteen years ago)

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