there's a disco (not disco) 2!!

Tracklisting from Amazon. Any comments on the, erm, lesser known artists? Is 'King Sporty' Jonathan King judging the egg and spoon race on sports day? Nice to see Eddy Grant popping up again. Context is everything.

[Caught out ! for not reading my weblog regularly.]

Uh never mind.

This is also another opportunity to mention the GRATEness of Monifah's "Touch It," which contains liberal use of the almighty "White Horse."

01. babe ruth - the mexican [5:41]
02. liquid liquid - scraper [3:38]
03. artefact - mae [3:09]
04. ian dury - dance of the screamers [5:40]
07. can - i want more [3:31]
08. can - and more [2:13]
09. lizzy mercier descloux - wawa [2:19]
10. the dance - do dada [3:04]
11. robert palmer - looking for clues [4:51]
12. bush tetras - stand up and fight [4:35]
13. sandy steel - mind your own business [2:57]
14. devo - satisfaction [2:38]
15. tom tom club - wordy rappinghood [6:12]
16. pil - this is not a love song [4:25]
17. 23 skidoo - last words [3:35]
18. flying lizards - move on up [3:43]
19. nina hagen - african reggae [5:47]

It's actually the instrumental of his track "Nobody's Got Time", and is credited to 'The Coachhouse Rhythm Section' on this comp.

It's often namechecked by the holy Detroit Techno trinity as proto-techno.

the second was indeed not so special when i finally tracked it down

connie case's "get down" has been ruling my world for a few months now. jess and crabbe did a pumped-up re-edit called "the council". go slsk it.

This is my weekly post about "Get On Down" being a cover of King Sporty's original. slsk it in my files, if you like...

There shouldn't be a Disco Not Disco 3 (unless Simple Minds' Thirty Frames a Second is on it).

REISSUES ARE KILLING MUSIC (and sometimes my wallet)

reminded me of my love for proper weirdy disco songs.

are there any good compilations out there, that arent restricted to one label ( e.g. mutant disco)?

or any mixes?

Disco not Disco I & II, 9 oclock drop never big sellers, but seem to have had a massive impact on music at the mo'

or at least what is regarded as canonical of early 80s music.

apparently strut is being resurrected via k7, and they're going to do a disco (not disco) 3!!

GOD DAMN YOU NOW I NEED FRESH PANTS

>:(

Any word on whether they'll reissue the first two?

They're also doing an Eddie Grant compilation....

And a Giorgio Moroder comp.

"apparently strut is being resurrected via k7, and they're going to do a disco (not disco) 3!!"

What's left to put on it?

Eberhard Schoener's "Why Don't You Answer," Cabaret Voltaire's "Breathe Deep," YMO's "1000 Knives," a Joey Negro edit of Jan Hammer Group's "Who Are They?," Robert Palmer's "The Silver Gun," Kleeer's "Taste the Music," Brooklyn Express' "Sixty Nine," something else by Material... uh...

Simple Minds' Thirty Frames a Second

-- Andy K. (ADK), Thursday, May 26, 2005 12:25 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Link

That too.

Skat Bros?

...they could go more post-punk and do stuff like Hungry, So Angry, ACR's Shack-Up etc. Or go more weirder euro/italo, there's plenty of stuff there. Or weird NY stuff though they'd be coming close to Soul Jazz's New York Noise and/or the Ze comps. There's plenty of weird disco left and stuff that's just been bootlegged and never officially released, like those Darker Side of Disco and Disco-Rotic comps.

What I'd like is more stuff along the lines of the Music Box series but legit and cheap.

The B-52s' "Mesopotamia," Polyrock's "Your Dragging Feet"...

Meh that tracklist looks okay, but there've been so many of these comps that I can't find myself getting too amped about this one. The first Disco Not Disco was pretty special, but even by the time the second one came out it sort of felt like this was getting to be a pretty well worn comp-cliche.

The second was convenient to have in one volume, but I really felt like it wasn't nearly as special as the first, I think the selections were a bit more common, though hearing Lets Go Swimming for the first time was like scooping my brains out with a mellon baller.

Wait, that's not the actual tracklist Andy, right? Just speculating?

No, those were shoddy speculations -- stuff I might select if I were putting it together.

Alex in SF wouldn't buy it. :(

Haha the funny thing is I would buy it, but I might feel guilty about it later. But I have even bought the second and third New York Noise comps (despite really wanting the latter) so no I probably wouldn't.

I wouldn't buy it because of course I have all those records because I'm super cool.

Other tracks I'd try to license:

Phew - Closed
Marianne Faithfull - Why D'Ya Do It?
Yukihiro Takahashi - Glass

Rolling Stones - one of Emotional Rescue/Hot Stuff

Phil Manzanera - Gone Flying

Rolling Stones - one of Emotional Rescue/Hot Stuff

Arthur Baker mix of Too Much Blood has been a beardo staple for a while, Harvey played it on a widely distributed nuphonic radio mix or something in 2000 or so.

i feel that a 3rd volume wouldn't mean too much w/all the beardo comps and mixes coming out lately, no?

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argh

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Tracklisting (I think):

Vivien Goldman — "Launderette"
Delta 5 — "Mind Your Own Business"
Shriekback — "My Spine Is The Baseline"
Konk — "Your Life"
Isotope — "Crunch Cake"
James White & The Blacks — "Contort Yourself" (August Darnell remix)
Quando Quango — "Love Tempo" (remix)
Gina X Performance — "Kaddish"
Material — "Don't Lose Control" (dance version)
Kazino — "Binary"
Liaisons Dangereuses — "Los Ninos Del Parque" (12-inch mix)
A Number Of Names — "Sharevari"
Six Sed Red — "Beat 'Em Right"
Maximum Joy — "Silent Street/Silent Dub"

yawn?

there's 3.5 songs on there i'd like to hear. isotope, kazino, six sed red and sorta to the contort yrself remix (is it really different?)

Go contort yourself! lol, yeah I'm not sure whether to yawn either.

Yeah I'm curious to hear that remix as well, but I don't think anyone can touch JD Twitch's tweak.

Good tracks but quite a lot of 'em comped elsewhere.

never thought I'd see that day a Disco not Disco compilation drew a 'meh' out of me.

Sad days indeed my friends.

the tracklist looks like something someone who bought loads of DND type compilations would make for a friend.

unlike the first two which were real and obvious labours of love, which pretty much defined what was being played at the time.

Delta 5 — "Mind Your Own Business" <<< I find this song really annoying. I should get rid of my 7" of it.

If that's the correct tracklisting it is indeed disappointing, but hopefully the Moroder and Eddie Grant comps will live up to the Strut name.

I'll have it if you don't want it.

xpost to RP

Minor update to the tracklist above: "Kaddish" has been replaced with Yellow Magic Orchestra's "Seoul Music" (yay!) and it's the instrumental version of "Sharevari" (boo!).

Boo indeed.

just like on the ballroom bootleg. Everything that's wrong about people's taste in dance music can be summed up by anybody preferring the instrumental version of Sharevari.

i thought the strut label was out of business...?

They're back, now as a subsidiary of !K7.

And Dan Selzer so so OTM re: Sharevari.

that 'contort yourself' remix is, essentially, 'house of jealous lovers'.

it'd be nice to have launderette without paying an arm and a leg for it, but yeah, otherwise yawn. of course the series is a victim of its own success, jumpstarting other comps and reissues amid strut's collapse.

but no disco dub band - for the love of money?

heading for the highest heights, for the climax of the night

http://youtube.com/watch?v=glcLq5PUmwE

how many more of these damn things are they going to crank out?

as much as i love "los ninos", it's been on enough comps already

and that delta 5 song does need to be taken out back and shot