<de-lurk>
hey wm.,
assuming you find some redeeming
qualities in any modern dance music
(house, jungle, breakbeat, broken beat,
techno, etc) - you should be able to see
it's lineage. without disco, there
would be no house, for example.
Listen to an early Kool and the Gang
record. These guys were busting with
the funky breaks, weird ass experimental
free jazz stuff, bustin out the jams all
over the place. Sure, a couple of years
later they were making more accesible
disco hits, but they prove where disco
came from: the funk, and the jazz.
That's where the stuff we talk about on
this list is still coming from, IMO.
Not saying there weren't any mistakes
(remember that Beethoven disco fusion
thing?) - but what happened there was a
appropriation of the underground by the
big labels - ie. pop culture. stuff
gets watered down in these circumstances
and there's always a backlash because it
gets milked. it's important to remember
the roots of all that, to remember what
made it all so powerful to begin with.
those who don't remember history are
condemned to repeat it. we are always
surprised when 'our' music gets snatched
up by the meatheads, distored into a
poppy mass-cultural morrass, then six
months later, the exact same meatheads
are shooting jukeboxes and wearing DISCO
SUCKS t-shirts. the problem with the
meatheads is that they aren't really
thinking for themselves or actually
listening - they are just reacting to
media. which is fine - not everyone has
the time to really understand poetry,
painting, or disco.
</de-lurk>
On Mon, 13 May 2002, "Wm. ERROL PACE"
wrote
> I am seriously trying to comprehend
any redeeming qualities associated with
> Disco and its culture. Unless one
held a huge arse holding in the
polyester
> industry maybe that could be one.
Music-wise? I'm still trying to think
of
> one almost redeeming quality. Every
once in a while I'll see this interview
> on VH-1 with Niles Rodgers complaining
about that baseball game in the 70's
> where it turned into a Death To Disco
Rally. I can usually find something
> redeeming about almost anything but
living during that era just turned me
> against it all. Hey wait before I
flush Disco down the toilet I just
> thought of something redeeming about
it, Louis Johnson's Bass Playing on
> Strawberry Letter 23. I have to say
that was friggin' awesome and I have
> recently heard it on a T.V.
Commercial. Always end on a positive.
>
> Semper Motociclismo,
>
> Pace'
>
>
> > >
> > > You mean go underground and morph
into a variety of
> > > fresh new sounds like
> > > house and techno, like Disco did?
I think it's
> > > already happened, though
> > > acid jazz was always underground,
now it has morphed
> > > into NuJazz and Broken
> > > Beats.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
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