Re: Acid Jazz and Disco

From: Olaf Molenveld (olaf@interactivelink.nl)
Date: Tue May 14 2002 - 09:22:36 CEST

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    some nice labels with quality disco:

    prelude, salsoul, harlem P&P records, westend

    for some good compilations:

    Disco spectrum 1,2 and 3 on BBE
    Diso forever on BBE
    Jumping 1 & 2 on Harmless
    Disco Juice (Funky Disco Sound Of Harlem's P&P Records)
    Classic Disco on Mastercuts Beechwood
    Classic Salsoul Mastercuts 1&2 on Mastercuts Beechwood

    now you should have a fine collection of full 12" versions of quality disco
    music

    Olaf

    ----- Original Message -----
    From: Tom Giles <thomas.giles@st-annes.oxford.ac.uk>
    To: <acid-jazz@ucsd.edu>
    Sent: Monday, May 13, 2002 8:27 PM
    Subject: Re: Acid Jazz and Disco

    > 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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