I really like the West End remix thing.........Worth the money if you are
a fan of West End. The Loose Joints track may be the best track on it though...........
>-- Original Message --
>From: "Tom Giles" <thomas.giles@st-annes.oxford.ac.uk>
>To: acid-jazz@ucsd.edu
>Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 19:27:45 +0100
>Subject: Re: Acid Jazz and Disco
>
>
>On the face of it most disco does seem to suck, but i reckon there
>are some really really good disco tunes out there if you know what
>they are. I have only two decent disco tunes in my collection:
>Loose Joints 'Is it All Over My Face?' on West End Records
>And Locksmith's 'Far Beyond' on Arista
>
>The latter is the tune Basement Jaxx sampled for Red Alert.
>Basically all the Jaxx boys did was put a 909 and a vocal over it.
>Locksmith keep the groove Jaxx took going through all the song,
>so it is a good tune.
>The Loose Joints 12" is something else though. Disco it may be,
>but it has something about it which makes it sound different from
>your stereotypical disco record. The playing is really loose, yet it
>is really, really funky. Its got a really sweet rhodes, and grooving
>bass & guitar, the vocal, the drums and thats about it. So it
>sounds sparse for 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?
>
>I'm sure that's enough questions from me now...
>Tom
>
>
>
>On 13 May 2002, at 15:06, Wm. ERROL PACE wrote:
>
>From: "Wm. ERROL PACE" <wm_errol_pace@hotmail.com>
>To: acid-jazz@ucsd.edu
>Subject: Re: Acid Jazz and Disco
>Date sent: Mon, 13 May 2002 15:06:44 +0000
>
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>>
>> >--- Eric Kitel <eric@ayalounge.com> wrote:
>> > > Paul Berger wrote:
>> > > > I hope acid jazz doesn't go the way of disco.
>>
>> I am seriously trying to comprehend any redeeming qualities associated
>> with Disco and its culture. Unless one held a huge arse holding in
>> the polyester industry maybe that could be one. Music-wise? I'm
>> still trying to think of one almost redeeming quality. Every once in
>> a while I'll see this interview on VH-1 with Niles Rodgers complaining
>> about that baseball game in the 70's where it turned into a Death To
>> Disco Rally. I can usually find something redeeming about almost
>> anything but living during that era just turned me against it all.
>> Hey wait before I flush Disco down the toilet I just thought of
>> something redeeming about it, Louis Johnson's Bass Playing on
>> Strawberry Letter 23. I have to say that was friggin' awesome and I
>> have recently heard it on a T.V. Commercial. Always end on a
>> positive.
>>
>> Semper Motociclismo,
>>
>> Pace'
>>
>>
>> > >
>> > > You mean go underground and morph into a variety of
>> > > fresh new sounds like
>> > > house and techno, like Disco did? I think it's
>> > > already happened, though
>> > > acid jazz was always underground, now it has morphed
>> > > into NuJazz and Broken
>> > > Beats.
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> >
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