Define Your Terms...

[markydefad]

A couple terms keep recurring in various posts. I have a vague idea what they mean (I think) but would appreciate a clear definition and possibly a couple examples.



"Filtered Disco"

"Handbag Pop Disco" (this is a Jussi Term)

[Giovanni]

Filtered disco identifies a easy (not deep) house sounding track whose basic groove is built on a classic disco sample

[Graham_Start]

"Filtered Disco"

This is where they take a one or two-bar loop from an old disco record, and run it through a filter, which is a sound modifying function previously found only on analog synthesizers. So you hear the loop start all muffled, then get brighter, and brigher, then muffled again... Daft Punk's "Musique" (b-side to their debut hit, which I can't remember the title of) is an excellent and highly enjoyable example of what is usually a cheap ploy.

"Handbag Pop Disco" (this is a Jussi Term)

I believe he's referring to the fast, ultra-sugary, synthy dance-pop that's very popular throughout Europe. I'm pretty sure the Vengaboys and Eiffel 65 qualify. It's also known by the less-flattering term of "Eurocheese".

[JussiK]

On 2001-11-15 15:48, Graham Start wrote:

I believe he's referring to the fast, ultra-sugary, synthy dance-pop that's very popular throughout Europe. I'm pretty sure the Vengaboys and Eiffel 65 qualify. It's also known by the less-flattering term of "Eurocheese".

Very correct. The Vengaboys & Eiffel personify what is known in as handbag. The term was born about a decade ago to more adequately describe what was then vaguely understood as "shopgirl" music. Groups of girls would take to the floor and place their handbags on the floor and dance around them to eurocheese, British Stock-Aitken-Waterman productions (Kylie, Jason Donovan, Rick Astley, "I'd Rather Jack" by The Reynolds Girls...and so on). This would happen - and still does - in every country around here. Bags are eternal.

[markydefad]

Thanks Giovanni, Graham, & Jussi for the enlightenment. So I guess "Music Sounds Better With You" is filtered disco and "We Like To Party" is handbag. Handbags placed on the floor of the mall, so the little hootchies could dance--who would have thunk that up!!!???!!!

[JussiK]

On 2001-11-16 12:58, markydefad wrote:

Handbags placed on the floor of the mall, so the little hootchies could dance--who would have thunk that up!!!???!!!

I'm not sure about malls but in clubs for sure!

jussi