Here’s a short overview I wrote for DJ Mag’s Disco edition last year, outlining some of the musical threads that resulted in the evolving Disco movement’s expansion from the underground into the eye of mainstream attention as the ‘70s unfurled.
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Spotify Playlists
Technology is often a double-edged sword, announcing on the one hand exciting new possibilities, but on the other a break from a tradition you once thought was always.
Chuck Brown
Only just heard that a third black music icon died this week – Chuck Brown, the Godfather of Go-Go, the Washington DC Funk style that came to prominence during the ’80s, and which, for a short time, stood alongside the newly emerging Hip Hop genre at the cutting edge of black music.
One Deck Session Vinyl Selection
When the crew behind Manchester’s Electric Chair brought their monthly club night to an end at the beginning of 2008, they’d decided their next move would be from club to pub, opening a bar a few miles outside of the city centre in Chorlton-Cum-Hardy, which they called Electrik.
Jimmy Castor
Just heard the news that New York born ’70s Funk master Jimmy Castor died yesterday, aged 71.
Warehouse @ Vintage Goodwood
I got involved with Vintage on the back of ‘Music Played In Discotheques’, the mix of tracks I put together from the years leading up to when I stared deejaying in the clubs in late 1975, illustrating an era when disco music wasn’t a genre as such, but the music played in clubs and discotheques. This was something Wayne Hemingway and his son Jack (who’d been to some of my DJ dates) had asked me to do for the silent disco space they’d curated at Liverpool’s Tate Gallery, the centrepiece being an underlit disco dancefloor.
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