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[booth2710]

New to this whole website / forum thing so forgive anything that doesn't make sense but look forward to joining in and sharing views about Disco music - after all Disco NEVER died - it merely hybernated for a while. I first went Disco crazy at intermediate school in NZ when everyone who wanted to be anyone did the "Harlem shuffle" or the "Hussle" - the line dances from Saturday night fever. I, like my class mates, was 11 yeasrs old when I learned the steps to this dance. From then on I was gripped by Disco music and still love and appreciate it because it is still around us in pop music even today - listen carefully.

[carliano]

Hi there Bernie!
I been busy, so i didnt have time to say hello.
but i have to say something... i bee trying desperately to catch the name of one song i used to mix with cece penistons finally... this is you know... when you dont even remember anything... well finally last night i found the forgotten one, and i hope is listed here... cause i went trough the whole list.
is "Pamela Fernandez Kicking the beat"
anyway im happy now. greets from tabasco to everybody this is a great site!
see ya soon

[DJ Joey Madonia]

Music makes me forget all the develish things goin on out there, I can play forever.

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[GreatestDancer]

Hello,
I'm from San Franisco. My favorite disco night is The Tubesteak Connection at Aunt Charlie's on Thursday nights. Bus Station John plays the best original and rare disco in town. It's a tiny club in the Tenderlion, but it's always packed and the music is always superb.

Shopping would be Amoeba and Rare Grooves...

Just wanted to drop a note to say hello...

greatest dancer! :)

[idacarlini]

THANKS FOR WELCOMING ME ABOARD...MY SON RICHIE NEVER GOT TO MEET THE OTHER SIBLINGS IT WAS AT THE FUNERAL OF HIS FATHER THAT HE MET THEM FOR THE FIRST TIME. TITO WAS A WONDERFUL MUSICIAN BUT TRAVELED 365 DAYS A YEAR AND LEFT LITTLE TIME FOR PARENTING...BUT WAS VERY MUCH LOVED BY ALL.

Ida,

What an honor to have you here. Please make yourself at home and feel free to share your stories with us. Record producer, Ray Martinez of Florida knew your son Richie so I'm sure he'll see this and post as well.

Tito Puente was a legend and one that so many were proud of. Still play Dance Mania whenever I get a chance. I still remember seeing his grand-daughter Audrey Puente doing the weather on NBC4 in New York.

Take care and thanks for writing in.
Bernard Lopez

[Simon White]

http://www.myspace.com/simonrwhite

[DJSnowyUK]

Hi Y'all

Just introducing myself! DJ Snowy from sunny (!) Blackpool in the UK

Anyone know of a DJ called Dan Puturelli (I think that's how it's spelt)? He came from New York Record Pool in about 1982/1983 to Blackpool to play at The Touchdown when I started DJ'ing. He taught me to mix! and as a direct result I became one of the first members of the Disco Mix Club here in the UK.

I'd really love to know how he's doing. I was the young (17), spotty youth that was always in the background at the time!

Anyway

Cheers!


Andrew S

[Prefab Sprouter]

Hi all and Greetings from Dublin Ireland. Am a working DJ for the past 7 years with a love of Dance Music, some Disco, Soul, Jazz, Funk and 80s groove. Great to see such likeminded people here. I know K-Bee from another board and he knows me by a different name, prefab sprouter!!!!

Anyway nice to meet you all

[Bernie]

Welcome to our newest members. Thanks for joining and we look forward to your posts.

[cyberbeast]

hello, Miestorm here
does anyone have any information about a disco group from the 70s called SPACE. I loved their music at that time, but cant seem to find anything, much less an album, on this band. I know they existed because I had the album in the early 80s, and a lot of my disco albums were stolen by an ex, that being one of them.
thanx
Cyberbeast

[cyberbeast]

this is amazing, jest after leaving a post, I found the album on this site
Magic Fly- SPACE, 1977, France
one of my favorate songs to smoke-out to was "Carry on, Turn me on".
Wow, I love that song!

[White Raven]

Hi!

I'm very glad!

I'm ordinary engeneer. But that's not all!!!

I'm real wild bear( joke) from far and cold Russia. I'm disco fan during a long time, from the age of 10. Sorry for my poor english. I understand something more than can say. I'm affraid that I'll be more reader than writer. But maybe I'll feel warm here and will be more brave to write something else.

I love music, like she is not a sound but alive human beeing, I'm music myself: there are people that are living with music, but i live in it.

Thank You so much!

[bollywood]

hello all ,
i am bollywood from Mumbai in India. my love for the disco music of 80's brought me to this wonderful site. the information on this forum is amzing and i am looking forward to read every single page of this.

enjoy the music!

bollywood

[Videoskooter]

Hi guys, Russia and India :-o We are global, we are definitely global :grin:

Nice to have you amongst us!

[FunkyChris]

Hello :)

I'm from Germany, from Solingen (where the good knives come from ;)).

I prefer disco music from the 70s and sometimes the very early 80s.

This year I started to collect disco-vinyl and my collection is growing...

Nice forum :grin:

[Orlando J]

Hi everyone,

I've just joined..

I'm originally from Sheffield and it was there where my love for dance music developed. I'm into most forms of dance music but particularly disco and jazz-funk (or funky-jazz) as it takes me back to my youth.

Not sure if this is the place to mention but if anyone knows whatever happened to a dj who played around the Sheffield area in the late 70s/early 80's called Pete Girtley then it would be a real bonus. He loved his imports and through him, we got to here tunes that in normal circumstances you would not here in the clubs.

I think he moved to London in the mid 80s with his wife.

Anyway, I hope I'll be able to contribute in a little way to the forum.

Cheers..

[oluc]

hi all you disco lovers!
looking forward to learning more about disco.
i started selling disco at my job in 1978.
12'' singles were 2.50!!!!!
see ya later.

[wingey]

hee , hem....my name is wingey... completely admire disco.... but don 't know how to get into the us croud... by the way im uk.... i'd rip all of ur asses when it came to mixing tho...? my father is highly respected tho he jus dont know it yet.... peace always and the devil doesn't exist!!!!

[wingey]

just a hi.... am afte...roriginalbigm....

[Mr Kaplan]

Hi, just a quick word to say hello.

I'm just a small amateur DJ, that mostly mixes deep, garage house. I've recently started to take a (deep) interest in disco, especially rare 12 inches.
I prefer when the singers don't shout & yell too much and when there's a good funky/soul groove backed up by great musicians :D

I appologize for my ignorance, but hopefully, I'll improve thanks to this great website.

cheers
Alex

[Bernie]

Welcome everyone and please start posting, ask questions and get to know all of us a little better.

[garrybcoston]

Hi everyone; Garry here.

Feels good to be talking about disco again; I was really into the music and scene back in the day.

I was into all of the disco but in particular I was into the disco that wasn't that well known or that had not topped the charts; I used to call it "hard disco" because most of those songs were well over 10 minutes long, had intense orchestral arrangements, and a hard 4/4 beat. My favorite instruments in those orchestras back then were violins (strings), congas, and the deep, hard 4/4 disco beat. I loved the other instruments too, but these seemed to stand out and form the ryhthm and root of the music moreso than any other instrument outside of the bass along with the drums.

I had many favorite groups. Within top 40 Village People, Gloria Gaynor, Donna Summer, Sylvester; outside of top 40, the renegade groups that usually came out with hard disco, my favorites were: Love and Kisses, USA/European Connection, Voyage, Celi Bee and the Buzzy Bunch, Sticky Fingers, Patrick Juvet, Cerrone, French Kiss, Peter Jacques Band, Salsoul Orchestra, Loleeta Holloway, Michael Zager Band, and I could go on and on and on.

I must have owned over 300+ disco albums from 1978 until I lost them in 1993. Just think if I still had them; that would have been money! I bought most of them after disco died as they were extremely cheap, and the record stores were trying to dump them and get rid of them at any cost. People looked at me strangely for about 3 to 5 years after disco died because I was still playing the music, and recording some of it onto cassettes, listening to them and even mixing them into each other (I had two turntables as I was a DJ for 80's music from 82 to 84). After a while, I would listen to them, in the closet, with headphones. This went on well into the 1980's.

I finally gave up disco for good around 1988. But I always hoped that it would come back, the music if not the fad.

I got my wish in the mid-90's when sampling of old disco hits started to surface, and violins and congas were beginning to be placed back into dance music. Also, I have come to the realization, even in my middle age, that the music never really died but transformed along with technology. Today's dance music is really disco, all gussied and made up to fit the present. But that's o.k., because most of it is good stuff, and many of the producers borrowed from the mother of today's dance music, which is none other than disco.

Disco may have shed it's name, but it's still here in the form of dance, techno, industrial, etc. By the way, for those of you that don't think so, listen to some of the dance music online; it is nothing but disco technoized.

Keep dancin y'all!

Garry

[garrybcoston]

Two more things; dance, techno, house, garage, industrial, would not be here had it not been for disco.

Many of the old disco artists are beginning to record again, and boy do they sound great! Being an entertainer, I love straight singing without people going up and down, in and out of those ghastly scales.

By the way, here's two good URL's I think everyone will enjoy:

My personal URL: http://www.garrybcoston.com
My Yahoo Group's URL: http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group...INTERNATIONAL/

Enjoy! Keep dancin y'all!

Garry:D

[Disco Push!]

Hello everybody
Here I am, finally I have submited to this forum. I am an underground disco dj here in Rio who also performs in Paris. My sets are intense and stricly disco (including many underground-obscure brazilian disco acts and many from other parts of the world). I run the Disco Push parties over here which are quite hedonist, funny and 100% disco. It is where disco is respected and honoured without people mentioning it as something old. My live sets are free to anyone who want to listen. I work for an airline company (I can fly for free and check disco music wherever it may be) and on a small studio where I can make my special reedits which I drive people mad at night when I play them!
Why disco? No music has the power to bring joy and set free the human will and power such as disco and honeslty, my mum worked for a disco label placed in Madison Avenue back in 1978 (I still have a lot of promotional copies from this company).
I am reaaaally interested in meeting people all over the world for exchange of info as disco is spread all over and I must say that 2007 is the disco year as it has been said by many music editors...
Cheers
M. Chapman

[Disco Push!]

Hello cyber
Well, this band had one major hit which is a cover from Kebek Elektrik, the original label is French, Disques Ibach, not hard to find if you are in Paris...If you need any info, let me know...