Disco re-edits ..

[ashley]

.. thanks to many high profile DJs like Dimitri, Rahaan, Bob Sinclar, Ashley Beedle, Greg Wilson, Al Kent, Joey Negro etc .. authentic disco music has become very popular with many of today's young club audiences .. just look at the large number of new 12" disco re-edits currently being released .. Juno now have a weekly disco chart .. check out the following link:
Disco charts - Juno Records

.. it's like 1977 all over again ..

.. fantastic ..

[ashley]

.. and of course the great thing about Juno is you can listen to the tunes before buying ..

[ashley]

.. let's hope that for today's hip teenagers, these nu-age disco records (re-edits & remixes) will become the tunes that haunt them to the grave .. ( .. I call it discos' revenge .. )

[QUINNY]

Ashley: Hasn't Juno had these charts for some time? If not, it may be a sign of the times and their way of generating sales in a sluggish market.

Not to put a screwdriver in the works, but I hardly feel this is like 1977 all over again. For a start, all the releases then were 100% new (albeit some were re-workings of old tunes), there was a (soon to be huge) growing market for the product and the dance scene was positively on the way up. Today, it's almost dead in the water (compared to where it was a few years back). Can't say I'm a great fan of re-edits, although the odd one works. Many are just looped segments, ad infinitum.......I guess it's the best they can do, as they don't have access to original multitracks.

Possibly of more significance IMO is the fact that more and more chart singles (in the UK...can't speak for the USA and elsewhere) are adopting a more swinging, rock 'n' roll type of back beat and people are finding these records catchy and making 'em BIG hits. Things like Rehab and Mercy have blazed a trail that is really picking up momentum right now.

Now, that's what I call Retro.

[ashley]

.. hello Quinny .. Juno are selling sufficient quantities of disco tunes to enable a weekly 12" disco chart .. I agree not every re-edit is good .. but then not every disco tune made 30 years ago was worth buying either .. the new Rahaan 12" EP is a collection of genuine remixes (not simply edits) .. and the Two Man Sound re-edit (at least to these ears) is a big improvement on the original, complete with extended jazz breaks .. the massive proto-disco club smash "Blind" by Hercules & Love Affair has been topping this chart for weeks, which would suggest the Juno disco chart is an actual reflection of units sold (rather than just a cynical attempt to convince us new disco has an audience) ..

.. I know you've been spinning dance records since Glen Miller was a boy .. there's probably little to stimulate your old tentacles these days (aside from rock n roll, obviously) ..

.. but I personally havn't seen a new disco chart since 1979 ..

.. so am very excited to discover disco is back & appreciated by a young club audience (who frankly don't give a hoot for our opinion on these matters) ..

.. sure, disco will never again reach the sales achieved during the golden days of Saturday Night Fever .. but the world has changed since then .. dance music has grown & diversified ..

.. but it's kinda cool to know that disco (albeit spun, mangled, mixed & chewed up) has it's place in modern dance culture ..

.. until recently I assumed disco had died long ago ..

.. but no ..

.. it's obviously something of an underground phenomena right now .. but what's wrong with that? .. disco began as an underground movement .. disco has simply come home .. appreciated again by the discerning & the perceptive ..

.. sure, disco ain't at the top of the national charts alongside Rehab & Mercy ..

.. but that's probably a good thing ..

[needlefingers]

Donna Summer is at the number 1 position on the Billboard Dance charts this week with I'm A Fire.

Joining her in the top 10 is Shirley Bassey and Jeanie Tracy, two other former disco/Hi-NRG acts.

Recent top ten BB dance chart toppers include Kristine W's version of Diana Ross' The Boss, and the remixes of Karen Young's Hot Shot.

Candi Staton is in the top 25.

So maybe it's closer to 1977 than you think.

Billboard.com - Charts - Singles - Hot Dance Club Play


And it's a wrench that gets thrown into "the works". Screwdrivers are for tightening loose screws.

[ashley]

.. thanx needlefingers .. the new 12 minute remix of Karen Young "Hot Shot" by Ralphi Rosario sounds superb ..

.. cheers for bringing this to my attention

.. and only available from Amazon as a download ..

.. very 21st Century ..

[needlefingers]

There is also Perfect Beat which offers downloads of today's club music.

Perfect Beat - Your One Stop Source for Dance Music

[Graham_Start]

Originally Posted by needlefingers

Joining her in the top 10 is Shirley Bassey and Jeanie Tracy, two other former disco/Hi-NRG acts.

I think calling Shirley Bassey a disco artist is a bit of a stretch. The *vast* majority of her work is "adult contemporary" or whatever term they're using now. We don't call the Rolling Stones a disco-funk group because they did "Miss You", do we?

[needlefingers]

Originally Posted by Graham_Start

I think calling Shirley Bassey a disco artist is a bit of a stretch. The *vast* majority of her work is "adult contemporary" or whatever term they're using now. We don't call the Rolling Stones a disco-funk group because they did "Miss You", do we?

I agree with that 100%. And I am a lover of standards, not to mention James Bond themes, my favorite being Moonraker, also sung by her and very disco-ish (Moonraker, End Title).

But she has had a couple of disco records, a recent CD of mixes of her "more famous" work, is held in esteem by some DJ's, fans and drag queens of that era, and is currently back on the dance charts approximately 30 years later.

I think it is relevant to say she has a disco/dance audience. And there is nothing wrong with having a mixed audience base. More power to her.

[needlefingers]

Here is Shirley Bassey ala disco.

Theme song (disco version) for "Moonraker" (1979).
YouTube - Theme song (disco version) for "Moonraker" (1979).



Shirley Bassey - This Is My Life



Shirley Bassey - LOVE IS IN THE AIR (ballad) and COPACABANA

[discokicks]

Originally Posted by ashley

.... just look at the large number of new 12" disco re-edits currently being released .. Juno now have a weekly disco chart .. check out the following link:
Disco charts - Juno Records

.. it's like 1977 all over again ..

.. fantastic ..

How timely of you to bring this topic up because I recently discovered Discogalaxy Records and their website....fantastic re-edits and remixes of lesser known disco gems created by a community of djs who seem to have a very sincere attraction to the music.

Check out the hot mix of Gayle Adams' You Brought It On Yourself on this 4-track single...

http://www.juno.co.uk/ppps/products/280921-01.htm&highlight=you%20brought%20it%20on%20yoursel f

Here is another 4-track single starting off with the song Leather Queen.....it sounds familiar but who did the original?

Pierre DE LA TOUCHE - Leather Queen

http://discogalaxy.com/pages/home.php

Mp3s of the above tunes at 320 kbps can be found here at this website...

House Music & House Records & House Vinyl & House MP3
(That Danism and Kathy Brown track is wonderful! )

[thommy2458]

This is a great topic Ashley-one that is near and dear to me.A good edit will bring attention to the track we already love-a great edit will make you fall in love all over again.Danny Krivit,Dimitri,Joey Negro are all well
known and reliable-but please seek out our very own Greg Wilson's Credit to the Edit series and
Stephen Freeman's Hot Track's(and other) work.And Lary Sanders monthly "Sandpiper" series has amazing
hard to find edits.This month he took Jeanne Burton's
45 of "Nobody Loves Me Like You Do" mixing the A vocal
with the B instrumental into what only can be described
as a 12" mix that was never released.And he did the same thing with the Trammps "Rubber Band".
And I have been a huge fan of Rahaan for awhile now.I
first discovered a small clip of him mixing at an underground club where he caused pandemonium mixing
out of Made In The USA "Never Let Go" into Mach's "On
and On"(posted on this very site!).I then searched ot a few of his mixes online-he
does an amazing job of making the old sound new.For me,the pleasure was being re-introduced to things
like Hott City's "Ain't Love Grand"(which I'd long ago
got rid of) and helped me discover the 12" instrumental
of Bunny Sigler and Barbara Mason's "Locked in this Position".And who would ever think to overlay the Sensuous Black Woman over "War Dance"?
Besides the excellent Juno also check out San Diego's Calsound
They have a nice selection of
edit's and bootlegs.
Thom

[remicks]

Originally Posted by ashley

.. hello Quinny .. Juno are selling sufficient quantities of disco tunes to enable a weekly 12" disco chart .. I agree not every re-edit is good .. but then not every disco tune made 30 years ago was worth buying either .. the new Rahaan 12" EP is a collection of genuine remixes (not simply edits) .. and the Two Man Sound re-edit (at least to these ears) is a big improvement on the original, complete with extended jazz breaks .. the massive proto-disco club smash "Blind" by Hercules & Love Affair has been topping this chart for weeks, which would suggest the Juno disco chart is an actual reflection of units sold (rather than just a cynical attempt to convince us new disco has an audience) ..

.. I know you've been spinning dance records since Glen Miller was a boy .. there's probably little to stimulate your old tentacles these days (aside from rock n roll, obviously) ..

.. but I personally havn't seen a new disco chart since 1979 ..

.. so am very excited to discover disco is back & appreciated by a young club audience (who frankly don't give a hoot for our opinion on these matters) ..

.. sure, disco will never again reach the sales achieved during the golden days of Saturday Night Fever .. but the world has changed since then .. dance music has grown & diversified ..

.. but it's kinda cool to know that disco (albeit spun, mangled, mixed & chewed up) has it's place in modern dance culture ..

.. until recently I assumed disco had died long ago ..

.. but no ..

.. it's obviously something of an underground phenomena right now .. but what's wrong with that? .. disco began as an underground movement .. disco has simply come home .. appreciated again by the discerning & the perceptive ..

.. sure, disco ain't at the top of the national charts alongside Rehab & Mercy ..

.. but that's probably a good thing ..

Every few months someone posts here they are sure disco is making a comeback.

Disco was a once in history only MIRACLE !!!

.. so am very excited to discover disco is back & appreciated by a young club audience (who frankly don't give a hoot for our opinion on these matters) ..

This can work both ways ....god bless the child ..... but really who gives a hoot if the young ones ever rediscover disco ... as if they could actually do so fully .
Let them create musically what they can with what they've now got ... WE already did disco .....

*****

[RetroRuss]

I know I harp on about my radio show, but the feedback I get from 'conteporary' DJ's is quite staggering really (and I don't think I'm any good!) Basically they listen, producers and remixers listen and woe betide me if I don't mention the name of the track, the artist, the label and the year it was released! The MSN and text messaging goes crazy!!
There is a very definite demand for music like this to be aired - and I am not surprised Juno are doing a disco chart (proto or otherwise) as its appeal is growing. It remains underground, but those that get it are the ones you know really appreciated your 'work'.