We are celebrating the 40th anniversary of THE GROOVE by offering THE REAL HISTORY OF DISCO!
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The objective of this show is to provide you with a guide that attempts to chronicle the development of the Disco medium and music spanning over the last 80 years.
As we don't pretend to know absolutely everything about Disco, this guide gives you information and recordings that will at least encourage a better understanding of the rich cultural and musical heritage of the medium.
| ON A RAGGA TIP SL2 - 12" - XL RECORDINGS |
| One new GENRE OF DISCO was quickly developing that directly came out of REGGAE and DANCEHALL. It was called DRUM & BASS, although many sources insist on the name JUNGLE. It was not considered to be from the western hemisphere, even though some sources claim that there were comparable examples in Jamaica in the mid 1980's. Much of the real developmental innovation occurred in England with early examples like the SL2 record "On A Ragga Tip":
One of those early innovators in the development of DRUM & BASS became a super-group. After a piece of recording equipment they named themselves THE PRODIGY and became releasing wildly popular JUNGLE and BREAKBEAT tracks like "Everybody In The Place": |
| EVERYBODY IN THE PLACE (FAIRGROUND REMIX) THE PRODIGY - EVERYBODY IN THE PLACE (EP) - XL RECORDINGS |
| One of the biggest records from the late 1980's was that ERIC B. & RAKIM track "Paid In Full" remix. The group that did it was COLDCUT who continued to record music, mostly variations of BRITISH HOUSE MUSIC. According to various sources, they released a down tempo cover-version of an old love song in 1993, that apart from being extremely popular, is the one event that really propelled the prominence of two new GENRES OF DISCO from England. Those GENRES were called ACID JAZZ and TRIPHOP. Some sources insist that the whole ACID JAZZ thing had already started in the late 1980's. Nobody had enjoyed so much success with the ACID JAZZ like that of COLDCUT with "Autumn Leaves": |
| AUTUMN LEAVES COLDCUT - 12" - NINJA TUNE |
| According to various sources COLDCUT would use some of the money made from the success of "Autumn Leaves" to finance their new label called NINJA TUNE which would, during the 1990's release an amazing collection of artists like FUNKI PORCINI, DJ FOOD, THE HERBALISER, 9 LAZY 9, HEDFUNK, UP, BUSTLE AND OUT, THE LONDON FUNK ALLSTARS, FUNKI PORCINI and Canada's KID KOALA. To promote their product the label organised promotional tours in various markets that featured these artists, as special deejays spinning and mixing their music with other ACID JAZZ and TRIPHOP recordings. The early 1990's was the period when the whole turntablism and mixology thing was taking off. A whole new generation was growing up to an increasingly steady supply of HIPHOP. There was a common curiosity about performances were Deejays would scratch records and do other new tricks. These NINJA TUNE tours brought popular British artist deejays to them, and they ate it all up. More then anything else these tours really boosted the sales of NINJA TUNE records and established that new GENRE OF DISCO - TRIPHOP. In the 21st Century, TRIPHOP was informally renamed in many circles of deejays to the name DOWNTEMPO. Many of the deejays in early 1990's would also mix TRIPHOP with CHILL records.
There was a third movement in AMBIENT music in 'mondo disco' that was very different from the movement in the 1970's SPACE environment. It had also nothing to do with experimental deejays in the 1980's that were playing Ambient from artists like ENO, DAVID BOWIE, PUBLIC IMAGE LIMITED, DOME, THIS MORTAL COIL, TRISOMIE 21 and early HUMAN LEAGUE. This movement became an important part of RAVE CULTURE and is still going strong now in the 21st Century. Much of the CHILL music and deejay activity would be connected to the slowly emerging GOA/PSY TRANCE movement, eventually heavily involved with INDIAN music, yoga, and the eastern spiritualism. In 1993, one of the super-groups we had mentioned because of events in 1980's released one last exceptional contribution to popular disco. The group was MATERIAL. It's dominant figure was the experimental bassist and producer BILL LASWELL. In the 1980's BILL LASWELL would start more intensively experimenting with DUB. He would eventually become popular on the world wide scale for his experiments with DUB. Some sources have actually gone as far as claiming that no other "non Jamaican" has done more to promote and enrich the development of the many DUB music applications than BILL LASWELL. MATERIAL would release an INDIAN composition that dabbled in DUB and the current CHILL music. They had a group that many young people all over Europe and the Americas hailed at the time as their CHILL super-group that was called THE ORB remix it. It was called "Mantra": |
| MANTRA (PRAYING MANTRA MIX) MATERIAL - 12" - ISLAND |
| This is not a mind trip this is a body journey!
No memory. You're all but shot through bicolored trichomatic vapours up to the cumulostratus mackerel sky, everchanging funnel of organic matters bullets of light invade you make you meltable fusible untouchable lighter than vanity levitating sprinkled peppered studded pocked opaloids rides of colored kaleidoscoping indigos, gravity's just a word now... V T O L... vertical takeoff or landing. Strobing lights pass you, flowers bursting clouds swirling time warping and chaos rules. Burnout burnout, your walk in space has begun. Don't look back, your mind has a mind of its own, it's falling floating, it feels the current of life energy in a new dimension of cubical and circular motions. It's bigger than life. Darkness speeds to light on prismatic thought waves and you ride them to the shore of a delirious no man's land. Oceans of solitary first steps. This is your reality. There is no other reality but your own. Heh! From monoliths to ice age to stoned age to no age to nobody just your mind expanding racing blues reds yellows white light indigos greens screaming back to reds and white, coming coming faster, peaking you climax. The seconds tick and tick and tick. You miss nothing as you fly up to the islands in the dark seas. Nephology is your new religion and you are the nucleus the center of the vastness they call the universe, they call God. It's all so clear, you made it, all this time you thought it was a lie, and now truth looks at you like a mirror, shatters into a thousand seeds like a trillion drops of mercury falling from your eyes. Like love. Liquid air This is not a mind trip this is a body journey Suddenly you feel again, warmth, degrees of ??? burning your cold hands, hot flames licking you all over. It's reentry time. You want to touch (echo echo...) Suddenly you feel again, warmth, degrees of the ??? burning your cold hands, hot flames licking you all over. It's reentry time. You want to touch, you want to feel like never before, you're ready for fusion of your sexual self, your mind turns to body turns to flesh. Your body has a body of its own, trembling, shaking. Mouth dry, hands sweat, feet cold, legs numb, arms hang, chest burning; where does my body stop and where does yours begin. This not a mind trip this is a body journey that takes us light years away, we don't ever want to go back because we found beauty and we found light, escaping from every pore like liquid air. Velvet satin, splashes of fingers on sequined nerve endings, prolong what we've always wanted, it's too late now to stop. Come come with me climaxing peaking riding physical waves faster and faster and slower, almost stopping. Sharing oxygen. And then it starts all over again. This is our bodies' reality. There's no other reality but our own as we orbit back into bicolored trichomatic vapors to cumulostratus holding on to mackerel skies and we know we've been there before so we wait for the next boat. And this time our minds and our bodies are one and the prismatic wave takes us higher than the last back to solitary oceans, and racing shattered blues and reds and yellows and we found the corners of our minds, we found the depths of our bodies, we found the prismal scream (echo echo...) |
| LIQUID AIR AIR LIQUIDE - LIQUID AIR (EP) - BLUE |
| SPEEDY GONZALES SCARFACE - 12" - BRRR |
| CYCLONE SAKIS ET LE GROUPE DYNAMIC - SYSTEM - CYCLONE (LP) - SONODISC |
| MACARENA LOS DEL RIO - A MI ME GUSTA (LP) - CFE |
| TAKE ME AWAY (SLIPMATT REMIX) JIMMY J & CRU-L-T - 12" - KNITEFORCE |
| KEEP HOPE ALIVE (THERE IS HOPE MIX) THE CRYSTAL METHOD - 12" - CITY OF ANGELS |
| LA SOLEDAD DADDY YANKEE - NO MERCY (CD) - WHITE LION |
| CONGA FURY JUNO REACTOR - 12" - BLUE ROOM RELEASED |
| FIRESTARTER THE PRODIGY - THE FAT OF THE LAND (2LP) - XL RECORDINGS |
| PSYCHE ROCK (FATBOY SlLIM MALPASO MIX) PIERRE HENRY & MICHEL COLOMBIER - 12" - PHILIPS |
| ALL MINE PORTISHEAD - PORTISHEAD (2LP) - - GO! BEAT |
| DIG YOUR OWN HOLE THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS - DIG YOUR OWN HOLE (2LP) - ASTRALWERKS |
| SPACE INVADERS SMOKING GRASS I-F - FUCKING CONSUMER (2LP) - DISKO B |
| MU-CHU DJ KRUSH & TOSHINORI KONDO - KI-OKU (2LP) - APOLLO |
| MADAGASCAR (FERRY CORSTEN REMIX) ART OF TRANCE - 12" - PLATIPUS |
| BADABOUM SAKIS - AFRICA MORNING (CD) - MELODIE |
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1:44 PM, July 13th, 2019