Re: (313) Some reading

2007-04-11 Thread Drew Daugherty
Why settle for just one disco comp? :) I second toms call on journey into paradise...speaking of patrick adams: http://www.discogs.com/release/796708 Also this one is the bomb: http://www.discogs.com/release/95766 Jeff Mills Choice has some monsters on it too...but if I only get one desert isla

RE: (313) Some reading/Disco Comps

2007-04-10 Thread Odeluga, Ken
42 To: paul mouser Cc: list 313 Subject: Re: (313) Some reading I would start with the Disco Juice comps on Counterpoint. Lots of great Patrick Adams productions: http://www.discogs.com/release/581837 http://www.discogs.com/release/581847 It seems many master tapes from the era are lost or disinteg

Re: (313) Some reading

2007-04-10 Thread Jacob Arnold
I would start with the Disco Juice comps on Counterpoint. Lots of great Patrick Adams productions: http://www.discogs.com/release/581837 http://www.discogs.com/release/581847 It seems many master tapes from the era are lost or disintegrated and rights are confused, so decent comps of 12-inch vers

Re: (313) Some reading

2007-04-08 Thread Thomas D. Cox, Jr.
On 4/8/07, paul mouser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: so if you were going to buy one disco mix cd or complilation, what would it be? there are a huge number of really awesome mixes you can get for free online, just go to a forum like deephousepage or djhistory or CBS and clean house. but if you wa

RE: (313) Some reading

2007-04-08 Thread Robert Taylor
t: Re: (313) Some reading so if you were going to buy one disco mix cd or complilation, what would it be? cheers On 06/04/07, kent williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not to put too fine a point on it, but unless you were gay and lived > in a large city, the disco you got to hear back

Re: (313) Some reading

2007-04-08 Thread paul mouser
so if you were going to buy one disco mix cd or complilation, what would it be? cheers On 06/04/07, kent williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Not to put too fine a point on it, but unless you were gay and lived in a large city, the disco you got to hear back in the 'disco era' was only the chees

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2007-04-06 Thread David Powers
I think I will call my next record "Suburban Breeder Disco ep", in fact suddenly I'm inspired to do a new track. Somehow I imagine suburban breeders as some kind of evil tentacle monsters ... ;-) ~D On 4/6/07, kent williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Not to put too fine a point on it, but unles

Re: (313) Some reading

2007-04-06 Thread kent williams
Not to put too fine a point on it, but unless you were gay and lived in a large city, the disco you got to hear back in the 'disco era' was only the cheesiest, most annoying tip of the iceberg. I refuse to be embarrassed by what I was listening to at the time -- funk, jazz, and early electronica

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2007-04-05 Thread Fred Heutte
That is an excellent book. I kind of let disco go past at the time but in retrospect it looks more and more interesting as a kind of musical and cultural crucible. Most of which was not visible at the public surface, of course. fh - > >Not strictly speaking on topic but Detroit

(313) Some reading

2007-04-05 Thread robin
Not strictly speaking on topic but Detroit techno is mentioned, and we all know the lineage so I thought I'd mention this. I've just finished Peter Shapiro's "Turn the beat around - The secret history of Disco". If you were hankering after more disco history after reading Tim Lawrence's