Re: Disco

From: terrence grant (leftalive@comcast.net)
Date: Tue May 14 2002 - 03:56:55 CEST

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    "Last Night A DJ Saved My Life" is an excellent book for anyone interested
    in the history of the DJ. Highly recommended...

    > From: philip@cs.adfa.edu.au
    > Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 08:48:04 +1000
    > To: acid-jazz@ucsd.edu
    > Subject: Disco
    >
    >
    >> Can anyone else put me onto some more disco tunes like Loose
    >> Joints? Is the rest of the stuff on West End like it? Who made it,
    >> and what else did they do? Is that MAW mix of West End stuff as
    >> good as its price is high?
    >
    > loose joints is of course the truly wonderful arthur russell
    > (http://www.geocities.com/jahsonic/ArthurRussell.html)
    > apart from 'is it all over my face' he also wrote, played & produced a few
    > other leftfield disco classics, inc 'go bang' by dinosaur L (sampled by
    > todd terry in 'bango'). nuphonic seems to have plans to release some of
    > arthurs more disco / dance oriented material. check the disco not disco
    > comps for similar quality disco strangeness.
    >
    > also check 'last night a DJ saved my life' by brewster & broughton for some
    > cool info about the disco era which should also throw up a few more
    > interesting names & artists. disco DJs like francis grasso and larry levan
    > are the ones who started getting really creative with mixing & turntables,
    > which led to the birth of house. if you're into this stuff, dig it. it's
    > cool, and some of the music is still amazing.
    >
    > p-dogg
    >



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