A Complete Introduction To Disco
What do most people want to hear on a disco compilation? Night Fever? Stayin' Alive? Disco Inferno? Boogie Nights? Boogie Wonderland? Rock The Boat? Funkytown? I Will Survive? Some Michael Jackson? Well - none of those appear on this collection, maybe rightly, maybe wrongly. What we get here is a detailed look, via four excellent and varied discs, of the sequential, year-on-year development of the phenomenon that was disco. From first soul with a beat, to more targeted disco soul to the eventual six minute-plus extended groove workouts that filled the disco sets of the late seventies we are taken on a glitter ball journey that educates and delights at the same time. Disco was not all about The Bee Gees, believe me. Of course, their stuff was played a lot and filled many a dance floor, but many a disco I went to in the late seventies played a non-stop diet of 12" mixes. The 12" boom of the eighties started here, that's for sure. So get your wide lapels and your