DJ Barry Walters on the RadioioDisco

[Marcio**]

"hello disco people. this is your dj, barry walters. in my "ordinary" life, i’m senior critic at rolling stone, and contributor to several other magazines and newspapers. i’ve been making my living as a music critic for over 20 years, but i’ve been a student of popular and semi-popular music for twice that. (see t. rex’s "cosmic dancer" for details.) my older sister ran a dance studio, and my dad supplied me with a steady stream of vinyl to smooth out the cracks in our family’s wobbling foundation. when i fled to nyc in the fall of 1979, i immediately hit the now-legendary clubs: paradise garage, the saint, the ritz, hurrahs, pyramid, funhouse, roxy, mudd club, danceteria — just like nina hagen sings in "new york, new york." whether it was the eurodisco rush of theo vaness’ "sentimentally it’s you" at the saint or the rough elegance of el coco’s "let’s get it together" at the garage, the excitement level would almost always hit a new level of frenzy whenever the beloved disco "classics" were revisited. it’s the sweaty and undeniably spiritual memory of those peaks that informs my love for what i’m passing along to you. as i tried to do with my consulting work for the experience music project’s traveling museum exhibit "disco: a decade of saturday nights," my goal here is to reflect the diversity and the depth of the disco experience. come join me on this dancefloor trip, and together we’ll get, as sister sledge sings, "lost in music." "



http://www.radioio.com/radioiodisco.php

[sfbeary]

you found the test page for radioio's upcoming disco channel that i’ll be programming. unfortunately, the station is not yet up and running. i'll be sure to make an announcement when it’s ready.