What's a DJ to do when a dance club closes...

[SandraDee]

Originally Posted by discokicks

I thought that thump thump thump initially came from Europe!

Much of it did & that's why I don't understand why many UK people don't like it 'cos we are European after all!

[QUINNY]

Originally Posted by discokicks

I like Quinny's thoughts...always will....but I thought that thump thump thump initially came from Europe! And so here's my opportunity to say THANK YOU EUROPE!!!

Sorry to trawl through old conversations and thoughts, but (for Discokicks enlightement) for the umpteenth time......most UK jocks didn't play much Euro disco or anything that sounded too thump, thump, thump. I was a club DJ for 15 years and before I joined this site, Costandinos, Cerrone, Midney et al meant very little to me, if they meant anything at all!!! In fact, I didn't even know who Sir Alec was, only when I asked something about Tony Rallo Band - Holdin' On (certainly not typical Costandinos), did anything register with me.

My hunch is that most UK club jocks in the height of the Disco period would have been old school, who, if they played club music would have had their roots in the funk, soul, R&B from earlier in the decade. To our (biased) ears, 90% of Eurodisco was white man's music, dressed up to sound like something else (and there is a distinction between say 125 BPM pure Eurodisco Disco and 125 BPM pure US Disco) . Thump, thump, thump (at c. 125-135 BPM) wasn't what we wanted to play all night, every night. Typically, my sets went from sub 100 BPM right up to 140 BPM, and by far the largest chunk of tracks played would have been in the 112-122 BPM range.

Soooo, if you'd come to any of my residencies (or almost anywhere else in the UK), you probably would have heard more thump, smack, thump, smack than thump, thump, thump, thump. I can't tell you how much I hated the sound of the snare drum offbeat being replaced by the kick drum. Therein, lies the difference I guess.