Disco in Eastern Europe?

[Fso Stodwapiec]

Originally Posted by discosavvy

In Poland in 1980, Ewa Kuklinska released the disco songs "Boutique" and "Pokochaj Mnie", based on Chic's "Le Freak" and "I Want Your Love" respectively.

Ewa Kuklińska :o the light opera chick? Oh, and a "comedy" bloke T. Drozda had a comedy "disco" record in which he is wearing a pink wig or something, but I forgot what it is called...

[jazz_pilgrim]

My wife is Polish but was born in Warsaw and left Poland in 1980-81.

She used to go to the discos in Warsaw on a regular basis in the Seventies. She told me the music she danced to was mostly the mainstream American disco tunes.

She does recall dancing quite often to live Polish bands who played their own versions of the main disco tunes. But she does not recall any Polish artists ever making disco records.

:)

[sirius]

Dear Friends!
Cause my mom´s from YU I knew a lot about Disco there.
Certainly they played DiscoSound at the Disco´s esp. because so many tourists were there...Boney M., Donna
Summer, Amanda Lear, etc. etc. Certainly they haven´t such
a wide range of good Disco-Records.
In the early 80ies YU was very into the NewRomanticScene
like Classix Nouveaux or Simple Minds. In Dalmatia you got
the best ItaloDiscoRadioPrograms ever heard.

Did you know that BONEY M.´s "Rasputin" was banned
in the USSR??? Sometimes there was big censoship in
comunistic states at that time. "Lili Marleen" by Amanda
Lear was banned in YU for expample, etc. etc.(I should
play this track on HOT DISCO NIGHTS). Sexuality in
songs was also sometimes a big problem there: Never
heard "Love To Love You Baby" in YU.
To be continued...
Cosmic Love & Kisses From SIRIUS & DARKTUNES...

P.S.: Russian scientists discovered at that time that if
mice are hearing Disco-Music they will get Homosexuals.
And I Feel Love Forever!!!

[K-Bee]

P.S.: Russian scientists discovered at that time that if
mice are hearing Disco-Music they will get Homosexuals.
And I Feel Love Forever!!!

Are you kidding, Sirius??!!
This is too funny for words!! :lol:

[JussiK]

Originally Posted by sirius

Did you know that BONEY M.´s "Rasputin" was banned
in the USSR???

This must have been a temporary thing cause I danced to that tune in Leningrad when it was happening - that tune I mean! :-) - and the track seemed to be everywhere.
This thread got me wondering so I walked into one of the junk stores run by Russians here and amid pirated cds and dvds of the type of Kill Bill vol 2 and the trashy Mel Gibson splatter thing there were a number of disco vinyls. I got Rasputina's "Urban Madwoman" and several other titles by equally obscure singers with exaggarated hairdos, massive layers of Rimmel and who all held cigarettes on the sleeves. The sound qualities are good but the songs awful.

[sirius]

Dear JussiK!
Maybe it´s my mistake...but I´ve heard that rumour. I
mean the USSR, not Russia!!!
About AMANDA LEAR´s "Lili Marleen", that´s true. This
song is from the LP"Never Trust A Pretty Face", but on
the YU-Album it´s not included!
Dear K-Bee!
My name is SIRIUS(serious) not Kiddy!
Also you can get sick dancing to DiscoMusic:
The FREAK is responsible for many discus-prolaps and
your fingers are inflamed because of snipping all the time.
There were many ugly words about the Disco-Scene...
Cosmic Love & Kisses From SIRIUS & DARKTUNES...

[hotdiscomix]

In East-Germany there was a law that a DJ must play 70% "east-block" music (East-German, Polish etc.) and 30% "west-music".
I do know not a DJ there has played in this relationship. The DJs has played 90-100% "west-music".

I have lost my DJ license after a night with 100% "west music", e.g. Patrick Cowley's "I Feel Love" megamix or "Hills Of Katmandu" (all from cassettes) :roll:

The official statement was: "I spread the decadent American subculture." :evil:

Censored was all versions of "Lily Marleen" (I like the Kid Creole version), all artists which have left East-Germany, the groups Dschingis Khan, KISS (okay no disco music) but also Voyage's "From East To West" :o

[discosavvy]

OK, I finally found Neoton Familia's disco songs. (I didn't realize they are spelled Familia and not Family). The disco songs I heard from them are "Diszkókege" (1979, rather nice, mostly instrumental), "Ha szombat este táncol" (1979), "Hazafelé" (1979), "Hegyirabló" (1979), "Szia!" (1979), "Let's Go Dancing" (1978), "Marathon" (1980), and two songs - "Santa Maria" (1979) and "Don Quijote" (1980) - that are rather like Boney M's "Rasputin" and Dschinghis Khan's "Dschinghis Khan" in their "historical/literary-theme-expressed-thru-disco-pop" method. And just like Dschinghis Khan, Neoton Familia released some of their material in English versions in addition to the Hungarian originals.

"From Beats to Bass: A brief history of beat and rock music in Hungary" by Blade Runner with Gusztáv Kosztolányi claims that disco music became uncool among Hungarian youth because the Communist leaders, like "Comrade Péter Erdos", endorsed it instead of rock. Anyway, Neoton Familia itself turned in a very rock and electro direction after the start of the 1980s. Once again people thought rock = rebellion, disco = status quo establishment.

[philter2]

That's a very exciting topic.
I can remember some very cool soviet late 80s synth disco. Tracks like "Ballet Ticket", "My Dear" and "I just can't understand what's happening" by ? (i frogot his name).
There was also some dance music being presented as "new computer music".

Here's an excerpt from a track my father wrote back in 1984:
http://blendbrank.com/transfer/fortuna.mp3

The vocals are ukrainian. Just listen how energetic the guitar improvisation at the end is.

Last year i got the idea of recording a perestroika diso mix containing soviet tracks. It slowly proceeds.

[EL COCO]

For K-Bee...
I think there's nothing to laugh about these topics.
Try to imagine what was about to live in that situation.
Don't joke people who could not live free in their nations.

[born2disco]

Originally Posted by shenkin2001

Also I remember
Zodiac(Lithuania)...

My mother is Lithuanian and would be delighted to hear this! :lol: Any other info on Litho-disco? :)

[K-Bee]

Originally Posted by EL COCO

For K-Bee...
I think there's nothing to laugh about these topics.
Try to imagine what was about to live in that situation.
Don't joke people who could not live free in their nations.

I'm definetely not laughing, El Coco.
I was being utter serious when starting this thread....out of curiosity for the lack of info about disco in eastern europe.
Sorry if it somehow came out the wrong way...it was not my intention.

[EL COCO]

no problem...k-bee.ciao from Italy.

[osses]

Hi,

I know this topic is veeeeeeeeeeeery old but...

I've just added Ewa Kuklinska record Boutiqu Disco,you can see it under that link

http://www.discomusic.com/records-more/10844_0_2_0_C/

so you can all see how it looks:)

I'm from Poland,soon i'll be posting polish disco songs and compiliations ,so for everyone interested-keep waiting:)

all the best disco fans

[Videoskooter]

Osses, welcome 2 da board! Great to see people from Eastern Europe here! Thanks for contributing to the main site too and have fun here!