Re: Acid Jazz and Disco

From: Tom Giles (thomas.giles@st-annes.oxford.ac.uk)
Date: Mon May 13 2002 - 20:27:45 CEST

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    On the face of it most disco does seem to suck, but i reckon there
    are some really really good disco tunes out there if you know what
    they are. I have only two decent disco tunes in my collection:
    Loose Joints 'Is it All Over My Face?' on West End Records
    And Locksmith's 'Far Beyond' on Arista

    The latter is the tune Basement Jaxx sampled for Red Alert.
    Basically all the Jaxx boys did was put a 909 and a vocal over it.
    Locksmith keep the groove Jaxx took going through all the song,
    so it is a good tune.
    The Loose Joints 12" is something else though. Disco it may be,
    but it has something about it which makes it sound different from
    your stereotypical disco record. The playing is really loose, yet it
    is really, really funky. Its got a really sweet rhodes, and grooving
    bass & guitar, the vocal, the drums and thats about it. So it
    sounds sparse for disco.
    Can anyone else put me onto some more disco tunes like Loose
    Joints? Is the rest of the stuff on West End like it? Who made it,
    and what else did they do? Is that MAW mix of West End stuff as
    good as its price is high?

    I'm sure that's enough questions from me now...
    Tom

    On 13 May 2002, at 15:06, Wm. ERROL PACE wrote:

    From: "Wm. ERROL PACE" <wm_errol_pace@hotmail.com>
    To: acid-jazz@ucsd.edu
    Subject: Re: Acid Jazz and Disco
    Date sent: Mon, 13 May 2002 15:06:44 +0000

    >
    >
    >
    > >--- Eric Kitel <eric@ayalounge.com> wrote:
    > > > Paul Berger wrote:
    > > > > I hope acid jazz doesn't go the way of disco.
    >
    > 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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