Disco not Disco (2000-2001)
Related: music compilation - disco - Strut - no wave
Description
Conventional wisdom equates late-'70s/early-'80s disco with velvet ropes and coked-up supermodels, but Joey Negro and Sean P.'s ongoing Disco Not Disco series makes a convincing case for the N.Y.C. discotheque as a place where bold genre-blurring experimentation thrived under the guise of recreation. Where Disco Not Disco 1 spotlighted avant-funk bands, part deux works like an electroclash crash course, with a collection of tracks that suggest Kraftwerk was a more important influence on East Village culture than the Velvet Underground or Ramones. Several nations come together under one groove here: the Clash and Can get cross-wired with Yello's classic "Bostich" and Material's "Rapper's Delight" redux "Ciguri," and if much of DND2 sounds dated... well, isn't that why you're listening in the first place? -- Gern BlandstenDisco not Disco (2000) - Various Artists
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1. Walking On Thin Ice - Yoko Ono
2. Cavern - Liquid Liquid
3. Tell You Today - Loose Joints
4. Spatisticus Autisticus - Ian Dury
5. Over And Over - Material
6. Wheel Me Out - Was (Not Was)
7. Kiss Me Again - Dinosaur
8. I Walk - Don Cherry
9. Voices Inside My Head - Common Sense
10. School Bell/Tree House - Indian Ocean
11. Macho City - Steve Miller Band
Three great Arthur Russell tracks, 'Tell You Today' and 'School Bell/Tree House', 'Kiss Me Again'. Ian Dury is a Sly & Robbie production.
Disco not Disco (2001) - Various Artists
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TRACKLISTING: 1. Bostich - Yello
2. Let's Go Swimming - Russell, Arthur
3. Timewarp - Grant, Eddy
4. Spectacle (Sean P edit) - Can
5. White Horse - Laidback
6. Problems d'Amour - Alexander Robotnik
7. Radio clash - Clash (2)
8. Ciguri - Material
9. Sting - Waits, Barry
10. Listen to the Rhythm Band - MD 20 20
11. Get down - Case, Connie & King Sporty
12. Fourteen days - Lex (2)