Best From Artist 35 - Rinder & Lewis aka El Coco

**paul** · February 24th, 2003, 12:21 AM

With all the talk about "Cocomotion", it is my favorite and best from artist Rinder & Lewis aka El Coco. My other favorite that comes real close is "Get Your Boom Boom."
So...what are yours?

Marcio** · February 24th, 2003, 02:47 AM

Am I the first ??? What responsability !!!

Well, Laurin Rinder & W. Michael Lewis, this inventive guys (I think), put a sound of a SIREN !!! ( REMIX ???) in some of their songs and the result is ....original, esplendid, masterly, perfect (I think). I'm thinking of "Le Spank" by Le Pamplemousse, a marvellous and crystalline disco song (I think). Maybe I'm a R & L fan, I'm blind !

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**Robbie** · February 24th, 2003, 08:49 PM

I like "Cocomotion" the most because I think the breaks and bridges make for great listening. Ironically, the first El Coco song I ever heard was "Let's Get It Together", which I hardly ever hear, and that was in the early 90's on "Kool Kiss Classics" (98.7 Kiss-FM, N.Y.) with Johnny "Duke" Allen.

**BrunoRepublic** · February 24th, 2003, 09:57 PM

Well, I love Le Spank, but it's really Barry White's "It's Ecstacy When You Lay Down Next To Me" so I'll leave that one.

I guess "Blue Steel" or "Masquerade" would be my all-time fave by them.

**Forrrce** · February 25th, 2003, 01:54 PM

I think 'Do You Have Any' by Le Pamplemousse is an exceptional Rinlew production, though it's not their most 'disco'. David Benoit's 'Heavier Than Yesterday' and Doug Richardson's 'Night Talk' showed how versatile they were in a jazzier field.

**SandraDee** · February 25th, 2003, 05:13 PM

I also adore 'Cocomotion' & I love the entire 'Dancing in Paradise' LP by El Coco. Another favourite is 'Envy (Animal Fire)' by R & L.

**NickNack** · February 26th, 2003, 08:52 PM

"Cocomotion" is one of the sexiest dance songs. Love it to death but I also have to pick "Lust" from their Seven Deadly Sins lp. This was a fave with my old crew.

**HustleBaby** · February 26th, 2003, 09:48 PM

There is no way that I can pick one but the #1 Rinder & Lewis hit is "COCOMOTION" :D :P :D !!!!! It is one of my top ten disco songs of all time!

The second runner up is "LET'S GET IT TOGETHER" :D !

I must include the lush, soothing and beautiful instrumental piece called "LUST" :P ! I just don't get the part with the laughing lady/witch and xylophone:-? ?????

*DISCO DELIGHT*

**paul** · February 27th, 2003, 01:01 AM

Originally Written by HustleBaby

There is no way that I can pick one but the #1 Rinder & Lewis hit is "COCOMOTION" :D :P :D !!!!! It is one of my top ten disco songs of all time!

The second runner up is "LET'S GET IT TOGETHER" :D !

I must include the lush, soothing and beautiful instrumental piece called "LUST" :P ! I just don't get the part with the laughing lady/witch and xylophone:-? ?????

*DISCO DELIGHT*

Ah Delight...what a pleasure it is to see your post :)
I started to get concerned because you were awol for a few days.
I know Quinny hates it but I just can't seem to get enough Cocomotion lately. I've playing it to death in the car. I just love the way it begins and that break 2/3 of the way through the song.
As for that "laughing lady/witch", my guess is el coco :lol:

**Paulo** · February 27th, 2003, 04:43 AM

Rinder and Lewis have many different sides, as they produced music under different names to make a distinction between their range of styles.

From their pop-disco approach I would pick up SAINT TROPEZ's VIOLATION and ON A RIEN A PARDRE.

From their more complex disco acts (like EL COCO) I would pick-up the whole DANCING IN PARADISE (1978), COCOMOTION (1977), LET'S GET IT TOGETHER (1976) and BRAZIL (1975) albums.

From their "solo" albums I would choose the whole SEVEN DEADLY SINS and the follow-up WARRIORS. From the first, ANIMAL FIRE is a hilight. From the second, I would pick up BLUE STEEL, ARABELLA and LOVE POTION Nº9 (this last track is interest: they picked up an inocuous 50's silly song, subverted it all, turning it into a weird and experimental disco track).

In these days there is respect for certain forms of DANCE MUSIC. I mean: we have crap, but we also have DANCE MUSIC with credibitlity, being treated with respect by the music press.

I wish that distinction had existed in the 70's concerning disco. If that had happened, artists like RINDER AND LEWIS, MIDNEY, CERRONE, CONSTANTINOS would be treated better, instead of being completely ignored because of the bad stigma of disco...or because of the great success of pop-silly-crap disco "stars" (I don't want to mention names, but we all know that they exist).

Since that distinction did not exist in the 70's, people tended to mix everything, GOOD or BAD, under only one name: disco-music, which itself meant crap-music...

**darrens** · March 7th, 2003, 09:52 AM

I also love Cocomotion, and was fortunate enough to find the LP at a record fair for £5 a few years ago.

I'm now gradually building up my collection of Rinder & Lewis productions. I love both the Tuxedo Junction LPs (being a sax player I'm personally familiar with the old swing favourites). I also love "Le spank" by Le Pamplemousse, and I've recently discovered "Creepin'" from Le P.'s Planet of Love album.

The one track I know that I can't understand, though, is "Willie and the Hand Jive" from the Rinder & Lewis Warriors LP, which I have on a CD compilation. It's not disco, why is it there? In fact I hate it.

**Paulo** · March 11th, 2003, 04:40 AM

Hi Darren

Originally WILLIE AND THE HAND JIVE is not disco. It is an inocuous 50's song, which Rinder & Lewis disco-fied on their second "solo" album WARRIORS.

This track was just a single taken from that album and it does not represent it.

I regard WARRIORS as one of their best albums along with EL COCO's DANCING IN PARADISE LP or their first "solo" SEVEN DEADLY SINS. The songs are highly melodic (as usually their music is), but nevertheless they have a strange feel to them (be it on the sound of the keyboards or in the arrangements), giving the album a NOT-OBVIOUS-POP-DISCO-feel.

So, as I said, WILLIE AND THE HAND JIVE is an exception inside the album's context. Much superior tracks are BLUE STEEL, ARABELLA and LOVE POTION Nº NINE.

This weird experimental disco which I referred above is interesting because it makes the difference between RINDER AND LEWIS solo "sound" and EL COCO's "sound".

I mean: it is the same 2 people behind both projects, but the difference in approach is very distinctive and it makes obvious that this album WARRIORS should never be credit to EL COCO.

**maarten** · March 11th, 2003, 06:01 AM

I agree that 'Warriors' is by far the best they have done IMHO. I love that whole album.

For cheesyness, I also like Saint Tropez, especially 'Midnight fantasy'.