Spanish Disco Artists (from Spain)

[Nano]

Interesting memories, Q.

I would like to add about the "cheesy" thing (that always existed, with that name or others) that the disco scene in my town were pretty snobby, and to a certain extent I think the dance scene still is. Meaning that the more unaccesible the record, the more appreciated it was. There were a handful of disco stuff released locally in Argentina each year, but as soon as those editions appeared in the stores -which sometimes involved being played on the radio-, the songs were erased from the local disco playlists. (Of course, the Spanish-sung stuff, disposable everywhere, was automatically ignored.)

The pattern was like this: a song started to be played everywhere (the clubs fought each other to have an "exclusive" hit). Word-of-mouth started to run about the track's name and artist (many faces glued to the DJ cabin when the record was spinning). Of course the record wasn't available to buy in a common record store; you had to go to the small "cult" places that sold "imports" (the people behind the counter used to be the DJs themselves) and beg, because with some "exclusives" the guys didn't even want to sell you the record (thus forcing the people to go to the club that played it). Then the record appeared in some store that broke the "ban". So young wannabe DJs like me could buy it and play it at parties (before that you had to conform yourself with some mix tape from the store or, if you had contacts, the DJ cabin itself).

By the time the local labels "got" that this unknown record was an underground hit and released it, months had passed and people was getting tired of it. As soon as the local release was out, and the song announced in radios by some tragically un-hip DJs, the "in" people declared the song "burned" ("se quemó" in Spanish) and if you played again you were the corniest guy in the block... Sad but true.

[wever]

OH! how could forget about this!?!? it just came up to my mind! so obvious that didn't htink about it before.

Do you remember what i told you about our big time in musical aspect were the 80s with the movida madrileña, almodovar and all that stuff (post nº 23 http://www.discomusic.com/forums/dis...tml#post127331 )...well i totally forgot to tell also about Alaska!!!! she was (and still is!) a big icon from that time! all we had was punk and rock but YOU'VE GOT TO CHECK THIS SONG WHICH IS JUST CLASSIC!!! YouTube - Alaska y los Pegamoides - Bailando don't look to the punk outfit or their atitude playin, that's how it was but listen to the song which i think is DISCO! Everybody here knows this song!!!

[remicks]

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The US 45 of

SPRING RAIN
by Silvetti

Salsoul SZ-2014
1977

says:

Recorded in Spain
by Hispavox S.A.



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hmmm ......the Spring Rain in Spain falls mainly in the ......

[wever]

i think that Alaska song was SO DISCO! bass line, lyrics (do you want me to translate it??)......have you heard it before? what do you think about it?

what a pitty that the 70s were still a dark age here...but as you can see 80s gave us some music creativity! now everybody remember it :)

i'm gonna look for that silvetti song