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[Jimmy-Michaels]

Check this out people,
I was just over on yahoo chat for a while and was in a chat room called 50's,60's,70's. It is a room where people play music,voice chat and cyber chat. No one in that room ever heard of any "true" classic club music (or disco if you may). Cerrone,Costandinos,Lime, even beleve it or not, GIORGIO MORODER!!!!!! (what the hell???). These were people of all ages and from all over the planet!! I would expect Giorgio to be known to even the classic rock fans for his well known work durring the 80's with Bowie,Blondie and many others. I even asked a girl in the UK if she knew Roxy Music. She did, but never heard of "Angel Eyes" (again...what the hell????). I even knew "Angel Eyes" as a young boy (not the great 12" Disco Mix I know and own now, but the rock version). I am either in the twilight zone or we need to spread the word about this great music to more people and open their minds a little. If I had a way to voice chat,etc.. Id have pulled out a few of my dance vinyl crates and let them have it!!!! What do you think people, am I in the twilight zone or do we need to promote some great music. Who's with me and how can we do this??

[Fantomas]

Definetely, need to promote. Have to educate the "not very demanding", illiterate, ignorant X-generation, audience of today.

[Blaxman]

The record companies must stop to push its crap records on listeners!Please... anyone with some programming sound can be a star!!
This "crap music" is erasing from the people's memory good and talented artists from the recent past. The good music is out there yet. There old and Young artist making
excellent music today, but they are in the second plan for the record companies.

What can we do???

Bernie is doing a big example with this site.
Keep spinning your records at home, clubs, cars.... the beat MUST goes on!!!!

Peace,

Blaxman

[Jimmy-Michaels]

I found a way to get my CD player hooked into my mic jack in my tower and it plays out the talk button on Yahoo!!! I didn't get to do it yet because everyone in this room is 'in line" to play 2 or 3 songs. When I have more time I'll get in and do it. I had set up to roll Edgar Winter "Above And Beyond (Inst. Mix)" from a cdr followed by " Mondo Disco" by El COCO. I went into the Backstreet Boys/Britney Spears chat room to test out my rigged invention and it was funny as hell!! No one in there had voice chat hooked up so I was free to run the show. I played the entire 12 of Dance Reaction "Disco Train" from my CDR and those little kids(I guess they were) were typing all kinds of interesting comments. The one that I found most funny was "This music sounds like satanic porn music"(LOL!!!). In the room I wanted to play in their are adults. Thats why I beleved I was in the twilight zone. I am only 26 years old but have been collecting music since I was 4(NO JOKE). Thanx to my dad being a music type guy and MTV in the begining as well. I didn't know the true disco music until the early 90's when I was going to a retro club that played the real stuff and thats when my love for this music began as well as my interest in spinning. With the net now I've been introduced to alot more great stuff of club yesturyear and am still learning and want to know and own it all. I'm doing pretty good so far. I have several vinyl 12s on the way to me right now that I won off ebay.

[Blaxman]

On 2002-04-26 09:24, DJ Jimmy M wrote:
...I went into the Backstreet Boys/Britney Spears chat room to test out my rigged invention and it was funny as hell!! No one in there had voice chat hooked up so I was free to run the show. I played the entire 12 of Dance Reaction "Disco Train" from my CDR and those little kids(I guess they were) were typing all kinds of interesting comments. The one that I found most funny was "This music sounds like satanic porn music"(LOL!!!)...

Are you crazy??? You'll kill this kids!!!
They're not use to listen good music!!!(laughs)

Peace,

Blaxman


Blaxman

[Jimmy-Michaels]

LOL!!! Yes, I suppose it might. Well, listening to a monster type voice saing "Tell Me What You Like" with nice synth and groove going with it compared to some teenie bopper suave wyning 'I want it that way" might kill 'em.(LOL). Speaking of the Dance Reaction track, I NEED to get this on vinyl and can never find it anywhere. I want this to mix with Dan Hartman's "Vertigo/Relight My Fire Prog. Inst.". "Vertigo" and "Disco Train" carry the same tune and pattern and could be almost unnoticably blended. I've heard it done perfect before. Now I want to try it my own way.

[Disc0tek]

Here is another strange thing! On AudioGalaxy you can belong to all kinds of groups and there are literaly hundreds of DISCO groups. Almost everyone there is in the 20 year old bracket! They know more about Disco than I do and I'm 46 and WAS a DJ! I thought it was amazing! I can see that in the UK the kids are into rock but they are also into eurovision contests and sample Disco to include in their mixes. A lot of them fell in love with the music.

[discosavvy]

If the Top 40 American radio stations played the same new songs the British radio stations play, like "Murder on the Dancefloor" by Sophie Ellis Bextor and "Canned Heat" by Jamiroquai and so on, many more American kids would be interested in the disco sound instead of garbage teen-pop and rap. Some kids are not interested in classics, so this is the way to reach them. Now that the music industry is trying to kill off the webcasting industry with outrageous recordkeeping and payment requirements, I don't see how the masses of young people can be exposed to the better kinds of music out there today IF THEY ARE CASUAL LISTENERS ONLY, because everything will become bland with less variety. Maybe the only way to do it would be to have a carefully-crafted modern disco compilation CD which would feature today's dance music which uses real strings and real instruments, and then market it very heavily to young audiences at a low price. But how much would it cost to make such a compilation in a professional way? How expensive is licensing a typical song?

[Jimmy-Michaels]

well later tonight i am going to go out to the yahoo chat in the 50's 60's 70's room again this time armed with whatever i have on cdr and play it. If anyone would like to help me in this attack my handle over there is Sumeria78. Add me to your friends list and come find me. Help me bomb all the rooms with great music if you can.

[Spacer]

Hi everybody!
I also belong to some of those Audiogalaxy-Groups that you mentioned, DiscOtek ((even in your group, but my nick there is "nolans2001")) and I think this is a great. It's a good way to spread (or find) good music.
I'm 19 years old and I can tell that lots of people in my age like disco (of course most of them just know "mainstream"-disco like donna summer, gloria gaynor, boney m, bee gees and that kind of stuff).
The problem is that the most radiostations and MTV don't play any discomusic so that you don't have a chance to hear good music.

((btw: sorry for my bad english))

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[DJ P]

Hello Spacer, first thing your english is excellent (I wish my 'Deutch' was a good!!). The second thing is that I totally agree with your feelings. Yes 'Disco' is played (on radio and the every 'now and than' on VH1 here in the U.S.) but all that is played is the 'Top 40' commerical tracks that have been played to death. I had a favorite radio station 'Jammin Oldies 100.7' on the FM dial here in Florida. Sadly the corparation (Clear Channel) that owns it changed it's format from 'Disco/Soul' oldies to a '80's 'Rock/Nu-Wave' format. Soon the only way we will have to hear Disco is to play it ourselves on our home stereo systems!! The only station in my area (Clearwater, Florida) that plays any is 'Oldies104.7'. They are doing a great dance mix every Friday and Saturday nite. Even the 'Dance Club's/Disco's' are changing thier 'Oldies Nights' to a 1980 'Nu-Wave/Top 40 sound!! Atleast we have 'Discomusic.com'! All the best, Phil

[Disc0tek]

Hi Nolans/Spacer! Good to see you here too!

I guess we're all getting a little long in the tooth when we hear the music we love on the OLDIES stations! Here in NY they still play 50's and 60's music on those stations (Thank God). KTU, which is the ONLY dance station here, plays recent stuff but has a few old timers like us doing mixes on the weekends. I find it amazing that most of the dance music today is done electronically with samples of original DISCO! The 70’s and 80’s produced some great music that I think deserve to be heard today. They could be chart toppers all over again! Too bad the mainstream population discounts Disco as being worthless

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Keep em dancin'

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[Spacer]

Hi!
DJPhil: You're right: I also only know 2 Radiostations that play Disco sometimes: the first one is from Luxemburg and I can only receive it via Satellite and the other one is sirius' show at radio orange that I can only listen to via internet after midnight. Music televisions like MTV and (think you don't know:) VIVA don't play any disco here. They just show the newest suff and once in a week have a show called 20years of MTV but of course they go back only 20 years what means the songs they play are '82 or younger.
I'm glad that I do know some Discos here that still play some 70s Disco one day in a week. They also play that mainsteam stuff and sometimes one or two better songs but of course they also play requested songs .
DiscOtek: when I visited the USA some years ago I recognized that nearly every town has it's own oldies station (even smaller ones). Wish there would be so much oldies stations around here...
It's a funny thing with sampled Disco-songs: everytime I've got I "guest" in my car, where only Disco is played , they say things like: "Somehow I know that song but I don't know where from...". :grin:

The 70’s and 80’s produced some great music that I think deserve to be heard today. They could be chart toppers all over again! Too bad the mainstream population discounts Disco as being worthless

!!! exactly what I think !!!

Spacer


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[Jimmy-Michaels]

Well I see my original post about Yahoo started a big discussion. Read my recent post "I DID IT..." and you'll see im kinda(hopefully) breaking through to some people. I will continue later tonight(or this morning, Im a night owl if you all dont know by now). I'll see what else I can play. Probably pull more of my mixes out(what little i have on CDR, I just got the damn machine)