Any New Disco Music?

**RetroRuss** · April 18th, 2006, 09:31 AM

My recent sojourn to New York got me thinking (for a change! :P )...most music styles have continued to attract new artists - so there is a constant stream of new material across all genres, soul, jazz, rock, punk etc...however unless I am very much mistaken disco has evolved into house music, so consequently 'old style' disco music, without a synthetically produced hi-hat and snare drum beat, has not been recorded much if at all, let alone orchestrated (violins, brass etc.) disco. Just wondering if anyone knows of anything that has been recorded since 2000 in this style and if not why not? (Apart from the usual not commercial enough answer :roll: )

Did Disco really finish in 1988?

**Disco Dave** · April 18th, 2006, 10:06 AM

While I don't think Disco exists in its natural form anymore (I could be wrong), I do think disco house (also known as filtered house) that was the rage in 98 and after was the best modern version of disco.

Tracks like:
Stardust - Music Sound Better With You
Spiller - Groovejet
Soulsearcher - Can't Get Enough
Armand Van Helden - You Don't Know Me
Peter Heller - Big Love
Moloko - Sing it Back
Lenny Fontana - Chocolate Sensation
Phats & Small - Turnaround

Hope this helps even if it isn't exactly what you're looking for.

**needlefingers** · April 18th, 2006, 11:34 AM

Hi,

I always thought Jamiroquai has a retro-disco sound, especially Canned Heat and Little L.

I would also add Magic Carpet Ride by The Mighty Dub Cats. The latin sounding horn section reminds me of the more salsa tinged disco songs from back in the day.

**KayJayEm54** · April 18th, 2006, 05:36 PM

Get yourself a copy of Sex Machine feat Shena - 'Friday Night' from Juno.

Pete Tong played it 3 weeks in a row and it is in the style of Spiller's Groovejet.

If you disagree - post a reply.

**ol'skinflint** · April 18th, 2006, 07:45 PM

music stores in my area have been using the term "disco" to describe music I consider house, drums and bass, and electronica. One store recently ran an ad stating they were having a "DISCO" sale, and when I went to the store, the music they were selling was completely foreign to me. Also, the local digital music express cable channel also uses the word disco to describe electronica. VERY frustrating. And to add a bit of insult to injury, when the local stores DO get pure disco records these days, they price it sky high, as if now they're aware of it's value after 20 years. My collection gets more and more precious to me every day....

**RetroRuss** · April 19th, 2006, 06:47 AM

Interesting replies! I agree with DiscoDave and that the tracks he points out are quite 'old style' Disco - the stand out one for me is Moloko, but that's about 10 years old now! :o - I'm never sure about Jamiroquai, Jay Kay kind of 'keeps the faith' but it is still a distinctive JK sound and not neccesarily 'proper' Disco.

KayJayEm54 - Sex Machine feat Shena - 'Friday Night', nice track but it is more 'Disco House' style rather than old school 70's/80's Disco.

So it looks like the answer is yes, Disco in its original form died in the late 80's, yet it still gets played on the radio, in shopping Malls (I was stunned to hear Shame & Yvonne Elliman's Can't Have You at Woodberry Common over the tannoy), danced to and written about! :o :(

**efunk_adelic** · April 19th, 2006, 11:03 AM

the Jamaraquoi choices are dead on... good tunes, cuz they both caught my attention.

**discodjinn** · April 19th, 2006, 08:13 PM

This is a great thread-- I've often complained that none of the revivals and neo-somethings get it right when it comes to disco. I find the canned beats too distracting, even if (a big if) melodies are present. Organic horns and sweetening with strings just can't hide the monotony of drum "riffs." Why, I ask, do so few acts use real instruments, especially real drums, for that special sound. The only recent acts I've been able to listen to without wincing are Jamiroquai and Incognito.

**disco1999** · April 19th, 2006, 09:48 PM

To me, modern "disco" music is something like:

Ultra Nate - Free
Deee-Lite - Good beat
French affair - My heart goes boom
Haddaway - What is love

**eddie** · April 19th, 2006, 10:02 PM

I love Incognito and Hil St. soul but its more contempory R&B than anything else. However I've never been a 4 on the floor THUMP THUMP fanatic anyway.

**Zef** · April 20th, 2006, 01:01 PM

What about the recent Vincent Montana track, that's what love does?
That's a pretty authentic philly style track which features real instruments.

**discosavvy** · April 20th, 2006, 01:51 PM

How quickly you forget?! There are several hundred such songs from the 1990s and 2000s. And I have links to licensed samples of the listed songs to prove it - just take a listen. Not all of them have an electronic house beat either.

http://www.discosavvy.com/disco90s.html
http://www.discosavvy.com/disco00s.html (this page has a section listing some live drummers on modern disco songs)
http://www.discosavvy.com/discomid00s.html

As for "most authentic" we can consider certain songs made by BsB Disco Club, Jamiroquai, The Company, Alcazar, Michael Franti and Spearhead, and cover versions by D'Influence, Sheila Ferguson, and Boogie Fever Disco Band, and many of the live remakes of the classics (Rose Royce, Chic, Brothers Johnson, Tavares, etc.).