Re: Acid Jazz and Disco

From: Dr. Axel Barcelo Aspeitia -- Investigador (abarcelo@minerva.filosoficas.unam.mx)
Date: Mon May 13 2002 - 22:21:42 CEST

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    Talking 'bout Disco, let me express my immense gartitude to Gustavo
    Aspeitia, Mexican disco DJ from the late seveties early eighties, whose
    LUCKY nights might remain lost in the history of the underground disco
    scene in Mexico, but who was also my uncle and, hence, a very strong
    influence on me as a kid. He used to take me to the parties where he DJed
    and taught me to spin when I became a teenager. I was a lousy pupil,
    because I never learnt to beatmatch, but I did learn his love for music
    in general, and disco in particular. When I got my first set of turntables
    and mixer, he encouraged me by giving me his collection of Medley 12",
    including some white labels and his Tony Humphries Master Mix Medley from
    1982, on West End Records. I still spin those records (and listen to his
    mix tapes) and smile, just because of the beauty of the music.

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    On Mon, 13 May 2002, Tom Giles wrote:

    > 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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