Lurkers To This Forum, Please Introduce Yourself

[Orlando J]

Hi everyone,

I've just joined..

I'm originally from Sheffield and it was there where my love for dance music developed. I'm into most forms of dance music but particularly disco and jazz-funk (or funky-jazz) as it takes me back to my youth.

Not sure if this is the place to mention but if anyone knows whatever happened to a dj who played around the Sheffield area in the late 70s/early 80's called Pete Girtley then it would be a real bonus. He loved his imports and through him, we got to here tunes that in normal circumstances you would not here in the clubs.

I think he moved to London in the mid 80s with his wife.

Anyway, I hope I'll be able to contribute in a little way to the forum.

Cheers..

[oluc]

hi all you disco lovers!
looking forward to learning more about disco.
i started selling disco at my job in 1978.
12'' singles were 2.50!!!!!
see ya later.

[wingey]

hee , hem....my name is wingey... completely admire disco.... but don 't know how to get into the us croud... by the way im uk.... i'd rip all of ur asses when it came to mixing tho...? my father is highly respected tho he jus dont know it yet.... peace always and the devil doesn't exist!!!!

[wingey]

just a hi.... am afte...roriginalbigm....

[Mr Kaplan]

Hi, just a quick word to say hello.

I'm just a small amateur DJ, that mostly mixes deep, garage house. I've recently started to take a (deep) interest in disco, especially rare 12 inches.
I prefer when the singers don't shout & yell too much and when there's a good funky/soul groove backed up by great musicians :D

I appologize for my ignorance, but hopefully, I'll improve thanks to this great website.

cheers
Alex

[Bernie]

Welcome everyone and please start posting, ask questions and get to know all of us a little better.

[garrybcoston]

Hi everyone; Garry here.

Feels good to be talking about disco again; I was really into the music and scene back in the day.

I was into all of the disco but in particular I was into the disco that wasn't that well known or that had not topped the charts; I used to call it "hard disco" because most of those songs were well over 10 minutes long, had intense orchestral arrangements, and a hard 4/4 beat. My favorite instruments in those orchestras back then were violins (strings), congas, and the deep, hard 4/4 disco beat. I loved the other instruments too, but these seemed to stand out and form the ryhthm and root of the music moreso than any other instrument outside of the bass along with the drums.

I had many favorite groups. Within top 40 Village People, Gloria Gaynor, Donna Summer, Sylvester; outside of top 40, the renegade groups that usually came out with hard disco, my favorites were: Love and Kisses, USA/European Connection, Voyage, Celi Bee and the Buzzy Bunch, Sticky Fingers, Patrick Juvet, Cerrone, French Kiss, Peter Jacques Band, Salsoul Orchestra, Loleeta Holloway, Michael Zager Band, and I could go on and on and on.

I must have owned over 300+ disco albums from 1978 until I lost them in 1993. Just think if I still had them; that would have been money! I bought most of them after disco died as they were extremely cheap, and the record stores were trying to dump them and get rid of them at any cost. People looked at me strangely for about 3 to 5 years after disco died because I was still playing the music, and recording some of it onto cassettes, listening to them and even mixing them into each other (I had two turntables as I was a DJ for 80's music from 82 to 84). After a while, I would listen to them, in the closet, with headphones. This went on well into the 1980's.

I finally gave up disco for good around 1988. But I always hoped that it would come back, the music if not the fad.

I got my wish in the mid-90's when sampling of old disco hits started to surface, and violins and congas were beginning to be placed back into dance music. Also, I have come to the realization, even in my middle age, that the music never really died but transformed along with technology. Today's dance music is really disco, all gussied and made up to fit the present. But that's o.k., because most of it is good stuff, and many of the producers borrowed from the mother of today's dance music, which is none other than disco.

Disco may have shed it's name, but it's still here in the form of dance, techno, industrial, etc. By the way, for those of you that don't think so, listen to some of the dance music online; it is nothing but disco technoized.

Keep dancin y'all!

Garry

[garrybcoston]

Two more things; dance, techno, house, garage, industrial, would not be here had it not been for disco.

Many of the old disco artists are beginning to record again, and boy do they sound great! Being an entertainer, I love straight singing without people going up and down, in and out of those ghastly scales.

By the way, here's two good URL's I think everyone will enjoy:

My personal URL: http://www.garrybcoston.com
My Yahoo Group's URL: http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group...INTERNATIONAL/

Enjoy! Keep dancin y'all!

Garry:D

[Disco Push!]

Hello everybody
Here I am, finally I have submited to this forum. I am an underground disco dj here in Rio who also performs in Paris. My sets are intense and stricly disco (including many underground-obscure brazilian disco acts and many from other parts of the world). I run the Disco Push parties over here which are quite hedonist, funny and 100% disco. It is where disco is respected and honoured without people mentioning it as something old. My live sets are free to anyone who want to listen. I work for an airline company (I can fly for free and check disco music wherever it may be) and on a small studio where I can make my special reedits which I drive people mad at night when I play them!
Why disco? No music has the power to bring joy and set free the human will and power such as disco and honeslty, my mum worked for a disco label placed in Madison Avenue back in 1978 (I still have a lot of promotional copies from this company).
I am reaaaally interested in meeting people all over the world for exchange of info as disco is spread all over and I must say that 2007 is the disco year as it has been said by many music editors...
Cheers
M. Chapman

[Disco Push!]

Hello cyber
Well, this band had one major hit which is a cover from Kebek Elektrik, the original label is French, Disques Ibach, not hard to find if you are in Paris...If you need any info, let me know...

[Gabriel23]

Hey all... I've been months reading this forum, and now I decided to register, so here I am.
I'm Gabriel, from Spain, 25 years old, student... And I like music, of course disco.
My favourite artists are Diana Ross, Donna Summer, Thelma Houston...
I love tracks like "Don't Leave Me This Way", "Love Hangover", "No One Gets The Prize", "The Boss", "MacArthur Park Suite", "The Hustle", "Lost In Music"...
Well I hope you understand my English and hope to make friends and know more about disco.
THANKS
:oops:

[garrybcoston]

Originally Posted by born2disco

I've been registered on this forum for a while but rarely post - partly because I find it pretty unresponsive compared with other forums. Maybe there just aren't enough users.... hence this call to arms... But yeah.... often it's days before I receive a reply to a post, if at all... *shrugs*

Also there's a pretty intimidating crowd of "old-skoolers" who make us young'ns (i'm 30 :o ) feel a bit stoopit coz we weren't around the first time around.... but I swear my mother blasted her belly with Donna Summer when I was in the womb..... :lol:

Hey born2disco; I am one of those old skoolers and am now intimidated by your reply; you should never be intimidated by us because "we were there." We're trying to teach and give you a vision of what it was really like, that way, you will appreciate the music more. If we didn't do this, you would have some wrong, erroneous notion, view, or vision in your mind of what the scene was like which is totally not true.

20 years from now, you will be telling people about rap (if it's long gone cause rap has been around almost 30 years now), or the dance music scene now; if these types of music are long gone then, the youguns will not be able to relate or understand about what happened or what it was like unless you share it. They may be intimidated by it, but believe me, they will appreciate it.

It's called learning and we all do it. Oh, my Mom was playing a lot of 50's music when I was in the womb, and guess what? Though it's boring in general, I like it! Hang in there and don't be intimidated; we're old and accepting Rap, etc. You like disco but you will never fully appreciate it unless you know what was going on.

:D :D :D :D :D :D :D Garry

[garrybcoston]

Originally Posted by 02tranzam

hi everyone,
i just want to respond to what born2disco had written.
that at the age of 30 he considers himself a youngin' compared to older people who have lived their young adult lives in the disco scene. that maybe correct but i feel that if you love a certain type of music or sound then it really doesn't matter how old you really are. i myself just turned 31 yesterday but consider myself a veteran when it comes to disco music, granted i dont know every singer to every song but who does. thats what this great site is for, for the few times you dont know a song's artist theres always someone here who does. so if your out there browsing this site dont be afraid to join us, we can only help you with what your trying to find out. and im sure there will be answers to questions that youll know that someone else is trying to find out. thats it for now, just my 2 cents.
carmine

Great post 02Tram, and you know what? Something just hit me; you and born2disco are 30 and 31 respectively; both of you were born deep into the disco era, just as disco was taking off. Could be your Mother was playing disco and both of you were "dancin in the womb" back in the day. What a happy thought! But no one should be intimated by us old skoolers, we're just trying to let you and born2disco know what the scene was like because you weren't there, and you were in the womb while we were "killing the dance floor!"

Love both of you man. Keep dancin.

Garry

[garrybcoston]

Originally Posted by Bernie

Giovanni,

Thank you! You are definitely one of the honorary "old timers" here :-) In fact I think you were amongst the first people to send me an e-mail way back in 1996 when DiscoMusic.com was then known as Bernie's Disco Music Page. Who says my memory is fading with age?! All I know is that I'll be there with you at 80 playing Disco music real LOUD.

I'm a Junior member but an old skooler who was a devout disco fan, and I'll be there with you and Bernie playing the music REAL LOUD, THUMPING THE BEAT, AND DANCIN WITH MY ARTHRITIC FEET!:lol:

Garry

[PAJ 1]

HI,
I AM THE P OF PAJ DISCO MIX, CANADIAN PIONER OF THE ART OF REMIXING IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SEVENTIES. OUR BEST KNOWED WORK IS THE REMIX OF MUSIC BY MONTREAL SOUND IN SUMMER OF 1977 WHO REACH POSITION NUMBER 7 FOR 6 WEEK ON THE DISCO CHART OF THE BILLBOARD MAGAZINE.

I FOUND OUT YESTERDAY THAT THERE WAS A DISCUTION ABOUT OUR REMIX OF FREDOM TO EXPRESS YOURSELF BY DENISE LASALLE.

ME AND AND MY 2 OTHERS FRIENDS FORMING PAJ DISCO MIX HAVE JUST LAUNCH A WEEB SITE.http://pages.videotron.com/adamus/ IT IS IN FRENCH FOR THE MOMENT BUT IT WILL BE TRANSLATE IN ENGLISH VERY SOON. WE ALSO INTEND TO MAKE AVAILABLE OUR MORE THAN 50 REMIXES AND MONTAGES THAT WE CREATE FROM 1976 TO 1984 MOSTLY FOR DJ ROBERT OUIMET OF THE MONTRÉAL LIME LIGHT. IN 1977 SOME OF OUR REMIX HAVE BEEN CUT ON SUNSHINE SOUND ACETATES IN NEW-YORK. THEY ARE FLIP BY JESSE GREEN / FREEDOM TO EXPRESS YOURSELF BY DENISE LASALLE / YOU CANT HIDE FROM YOURSELF AND THE MORE I GET, THE MORE I WANT BY TREDDY PENDERGRASS / MAGIC BIRD OF FIRE BY SALSOUL ORCHESTRA / I FELL LOVE BY DONNA SUMMER ETC....

I AM VERY HAPPY THAT PAJ DISCO MIX IS STILL REMEMBER BY DISCO FANS OF THE SEVENTIES
I AM WAITING FOR YOUR COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS
HAVE A NICE DAY
PAJ 1