Disco Box-Revisited

**Robbie** · January 11th, 2004, 12:12 PM

Yesterday at Record Explosion (Herald Square), I bought another Disco Box cd. This one contains Bryan Adams' "Let Me Take You Dancing". OK, so the sound quality could be so much better, but the mixing on this is so awesome it's a shame the sound can't match the mixing. Plus, unlike other volumes I have, the song lengths on some of them are much longer than usual. France Joli's "The Heart To Break The Heart" almost reaches six minutes. Ironically, they didn't list one of the songs in the CD on the back cover: Teri DeSario's "Ain't Nothing Gonna Keep Me From You". The CD ends in a bizarre manner: Chic's "Dance, Dance, Dance" mixes into Barbra and Donna's "Enough Is Enough" that is so totally off on pitch control that it kinda sounds cool when it's really slow.

**mixtape** · January 11th, 2004, 05:50 PM

hey man you should check out volume 12. That is the only volume where the mixing is right on the money and the quality is 10 times better than the other volumes. The quality on vol. 6 is not that bad either. Did you see a cd called Electric 80's by any chance?

**Robbie** · January 11th, 2004, 06:43 PM

I haven't seen Electric '80s but I will check out Vol. 12. Record Explosion has the largest selection of Disco Box cd's there. What's funny about this is that these cd's have been around for quite some time. I can remember almost buying one of the cd's about 10 years ago. It went under a different name (not called "Disco Box") but the song sequence was the same--it was the one that had Fever's "Standing In The Shadows Of Love" going into Donna's "One Of A Kind/Heaven Knows/MacArthur Park" suite. I eventually bought the cd when it was "Disco Box". I'd love to know who mixed all of those cd's. I also recommend Walter Gibbons' "Disco Boogie 2", although I don't think it's even been put on cd; I bought the album. Walter's mixes are great.

**the whistler** · January 12th, 2004, 01:30 AM

My favourite is Vol 1,the mixing & programming. is perfect!! 8)

I've seen the Disco Box on Ebay sold seperately starting at 1.99

**discodoc** · January 14th, 2004, 12:34 AM

I bought one of those (I think vol 6, it begins w/ a clip from SNF w/John Travolta "would you just watch the hair?" then into "Best Disco In Town"). Anyway, it would have been a great cd & mix but there was a space between each track when it obviously was meant to be continuously mixed. That and poor sound quality. I tried to return it and re-order it as I though it may be a defect, but they said the label no longer exists.