Trippy Disco

[Kendela]

Hi everyone,

I've seen queries about tunes from this mix before but can't find them now so sorry if someone's already answered this one.

The tune has quite a long build up but gets going properly at about 11 mins 45 secs and goes on for about 8 or 9 minutes. It's an instrumental and has quite a trippy sounding synth that comes in about a third of the way through. Sorry I can't be more descriptive but here's a link to the mix.

http://www.deephousepage.com/discotizer1.ram

or if you prefer mp3

http://rose107.biostat.wisc.edu/drived/discotizer1.mp3

Cheers

[QUINNY]

The track is Michele - Disco Dance (Patrick Cowley Mega mix).

[Kendela]

Cheers Quinny, I appreciate it mate

This tune is blinding but the sound quality is pretty terrible on the mix. (Not really surprising for a tape from the 70s)

Now to get on to Ebay or Gemm

[QUINNY]

Some of us around here (well, Forrrce & myself) are not so sure this mix is an authentic 1970's one. It just seems too clever that a guy would have had such an amazingly trippy/housey taste BITD and with so many obscure tracks on one tape, or would have been quite so bad (side 2 is awful) and got away with it. Presumably this was supposedly a DJ booth tape. Plus no one has ever heard of DJ discotizer. You'd have thought he might have had a few admirers then (he appears to have plenty now).
However, we could be wrong, wrong, wrong, so the jury is still out.

[terrybecker]

What is the first track on the mix ?
Can you help please.

Thanks

[Kendela]

Quinny. I know what you mean. It could have just been some bloke in his bedroom though and someone found the tape he had made.. The mixing certainly doesn’t sound like someone who did it for a living.

Another question though: Who’s Patrick Cowley? I found snippets of the original version of the track here

Click here

Ebay item number: 4033820829

And it sounds totally different. The tune’s different and there are none of the same synth sounds. Did Patrick Cowley do a lot of this kind of remix (where the track is changed a lot) I thought that most remixes back in the day were more about extending parts of the track rather than putting new bits in. Of course I could be wrong about thissounding different. There’s not much of the track in those snippets.

Do you know any other tracks that Patrick Cowley worked on or produced? I really like this.

Cheers

[Kendela]

Oops I've messed the page up.
Sorry

[kaliffen]

HI Kendela,

The Discotizer mix is one of our favorite pet topics in here.
The tracks has been id by the vault watchers of Discomusic.com

Go to search forum an insert the magic word "Discotizer"
And watch all full overview of the debate over the mixes.

Kaliffen

[QUINNY]

Bernie wrote some time ago:

I have a promo copy of this record and the enclosed press release sheet states that the "new version" was mixed by Patrick Cowley. It goes on to say that the first 5-6 are the same as the album version, but then it veers off to Cowley's work. As I noted earlier, this 12 inch contains two versions. Hope that clears things up.


As for Patrick Cowley.....I suggest you look up his official (or otherwise) website. He did one hell of a lot of work BITD and was one of the best remixes/performers in many people's books. A cult figure for sure.

[Kendela]

Thank you all very much.

Especially you Quinny. I'll check out some more of his stuff.

[born2disco]

Some of us around here (well, Forrrce & myself) are not so sure this mix is an authentic 1970's one. It just seems too clever that a guy would have had such an amazingly trippy/housey taste BITD and with so many obscure tracks on one tape, or would have been quite so bad (side 2 is awful) and got away with it. Presumably this was supposedly a DJ booth tape. Plus no one has ever heard of DJ discotizer. You'd have thought he might have had a few admirers then (he appears to have plenty now).
However, we could be wrong, wrong, wrong, so the jury is still out.

Yeah I thought the same thing. I also thought this mix was mostly horrendous... panpipe disco? I'll leave it thanks.