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- If there was one genre and era of music that got people on the dancefloor more than any other, it was disco of the late 1970s and early 1980s.
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Jan 19, 2024 · If there was one genre and era of music that got people on the dancefloor more than any other, it was disco of the late 1970s and early 1980s. Sure, some folks in the States ended up declaring that 'Disco Sucks', but over 40 years later disco music still makes us feel good and gets feet tapping.
- Tom Eames
- Out from The Underground
- The First Disco Record
- The Disco Groove Was Born
- A Producer-Driven Medium
- The Rise of The Dj
- The Queens of Disco
- When Disco Went Airborne
- From Domination to Demolition
Disco didn’t get dropped on our doorsteps overnight, it took a perfect storm of elements to emerge from the decimated landscape of 70s New York. While the major metropolises had their own club scenes in the 60s, the twist and go-go crazes of the decade paled in comparison to the liberated debauchery that emerged out of New York’s underground. In or...
In addition to creating the blueprint of disco clubs, Mancuso is also responsible for breaking essentially the first disco record with his discovery of African saxophonist Manu Dibango’s African-beat “Soul Makossa” in the spring of 1973. Mixing global beats with American R&B, it hit No.35 on Billboard‘s Hot 100 and became the first dancefloor hit p...
It was there he would make music history, speeding up the former ballad “The Love I Lost” and adding the hi-hat pattern on the spot. And thus, the “disco groove” was born. You can’t unring the disco bell and once this galloping rhythm started there was no stopping it. In 1973, MFSB would release “The Sound of Philadelphia” better known as “TSOP’ fo...
From its early incarnations to the later hits, disco remained a producer-driven medium. Just it the genre birthed influential DJs it also gave rise to the super-producer: from Rinder & Lewis in Los Angeles to Baker Harris & Young in Philadelphia, Ashford & Simpson in New York, and Van McCoy, the disco hitmaker and man behind the “The Hustle.” While...
Previously, a diverse set of individual records would make up a DJ set but Francis Grasso changed all that by innovating the practice of beat-matching aka mixing or blending. He along with the DJs of the day would take dancers on an audible journey, building them up to a cathartic release of sweaty euphoria. No longer were DJs considered the backdr...
Before Gardner and Guthrie, there was the Queen Of Disco, Donna Summer, and her seminal recording with German synth-master Giorgio Moroder, “Love To Love You Baby.”This was Moroder’s answer to Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin’s seductive masterpiece, “Je T’aime… Moi Non Plus,” with Summer channeling a breathy Marilyn Monroe for 16 minutes and 40 se...
By 1976, disco had gone airborne, with over 10,000 discos in the US alone, including inside roller rinks, shopping malls, and hotels. That same year, five out of 10 singles on Billboard’s weekly charts were disco, and one year later it reached its cultural apex with the release of the film Saturday Night Fever. Even before the film’s release, the B...
As disco continued to steamroll the airwaves, forcing funk and rock off pop radio, a backlash was inevitable and culminated in the infamous Disco Demolition Night at Comiskey Park in Chicago on July 12, 1979. It all started with a disgruntled radio DJ named Steve Dahl who lost his job after his station went to an all-disco format. Thanks to dwindli...
- Laura Stavropoulos
Jan 18, 2024 · The rise and fall of disco: From the dance floor to freedom. During the rough 1970s, people wanted to dance. The documentary ‘Disco: Soundtrack of a Revolution’ tells of how the genre grew on the margins, with Black women and gays at its helm, and how it wound up being eaten by its own success.
May 10, 2023 · Here’s a miniature selection of some of the classics that reveals the history of club music from the early days to the present era. Listen to the history of floor-filling club music on...
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Oct 22, 2015 · Ten years ago, on 23 October 2005, Arctic Monkeys’ debut single I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor went straight in at No 1. Although Alex Turner was often compared to Sheffield forebear ...
- Laura Snapes
Mar 8, 2022 · For many people, it’s the most iconic example of the musical genre disco. Known for its celebration of glamour, vice, and dancing, disco was wildly popular 50 years ago, until a double punch of ...
Nov 15, 2016 · But then Mancuso was always the most complex and anomalous of dance music’s early-70s pioneers. He defined the latter-day notion of a DJ not as someone who played records, but as someone who ...
