disco

Disco is the music that will not die. Born in the late seventies, disco music briefly ruled the world, reaching a fever pitch (pardon the pun) with the movie Saturday Night Fever and its disco-fueled soundtrack by the Bee Gees.

Basically a hybrid of funk and R&B powered by faster, metronomic beats, the club-based music became a world-wide phenomenon, impacting everything from fashion to culture, with the DJs spinning the records becoming stars as big as the artists (who included Chic, Donna Summer, and the Village People) that recorded them.

The backlash, however, was equally explosive, for a time spawning public burnings of disco records (Disco Demolition 1979), and selling a ton of Disco Sucks T-shirts. By the early eighties, disco was on the wane — but some argue it has never really gone away. Today's club music, from techno to trance to house owes a considerable debt to disco. Even hip-hop's do-it-yourself mantra of "two turntables and a microphone" can be traced to New York's thriving seventies disco scene.

Today disco lives on in the form of both nostalgic movies and club nights, and through it's continuing influence on dance, R&B, and pop. After all, aren't they all the same thing these days? You'll find disco fans boogieing the night away at blogs like The Disco Blog, Disco Delivery, and Space Disco.

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    Last month we introduced you to the Dub Mix of Alex Metric ‘s team-up with Jacques Lu Cont ’s Safe With You . It’s was surprisingly amazing, but all we could have asked for is a bit more in the vocal department from Niki & The Dove ‘s Malin, and more of a Pop structure. Well, we didn’t ...
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• [Audio] ATTAR!’s ‘The Fool’

  
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    The Fool is the new single from Belgian synthetic Disco maestro ATTAR! . Released later in the month on Eskimo Recordings , The Fool is actually the début solo release from ATTAR!, ex-one half of Mustang, despite the fact that it seems otherwise. ATTAR! has been entertaining us with tracks, reMixes ...
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    Here’s the video for NYC duo French Horn Rebellion excellent, Jody Watley & Young Empires featuring, new single Dancing Out . The clip was Directed by Norton, and is a suitably tongue-in-cheek vintage affair. French Horn Rebellion’s Dancing Out is out now. Buy French Horn Rebellion’s ...
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• [MP3] All Night Shoes’ ‘Like This’

  
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    American Dreamwave/Nu-Disco producer   All Night Shoes   is making forays into DiscoPop and Chillwave with his new tune,   Like This . Branching out from his Nu-Disco sound, All Night Shoes plays around with new elements and new tempos with this tune, including some pretty slick vocals to create a ...
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• Dandy Disco Club

  
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  Listen/purchase: Firewalker (Grant Phabao Remix) by Jungle Fire
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• [MP3] Bestrack’s new, free, album

  
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    Rad Parisian Disco producer Bestrack has just dropped a whole albums worth of tunes for free. The dude dropped some top reMixes recently but it sounds like he’s been saving the good stuff for this collection of original tunes. And what a collection it is! We would seriously pay money for this record, ...
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• [Mixtape] Peter & The Magician’s ‘Exclusive Mix’

  
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• VA – Disco House 2013/2

  
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  VA – Disco House 2013/2 Year of release: 2013 | Quality: Mp3 | Bitrate: V0 VBR | Total time: 134:05 Min | Total size: 252 Mb Genre : Dance, House, Disco | Label: Dance Street Gmbh / Zyx Music Tracklist: Disc: 1 1. Just The Way It Is (Edit Mix) – Housemaxx & Scotty 2. The Sun Always Shines On Tv ...
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• SLsecret: Week 251

  
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• Lane 8 – Be Mine

  
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• Revibe x F12: Özgur Can

  
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• Rubén Blades y Luba Mason interpretando en directo el tema “Danny boy”, del disco “Mundo”

  
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