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Any Major Funk Vol. 5

Posted in Disco, Mix CD-Rs, tagged , , , , , , , , on December 26, 2008 | 3 Comments »

Just in time for New Year’s Eve, the fifth Any Major Funk mix (and I am going to reupload the first two two mixes before the year is out; the links for mixes 3 and 4 are still live). And I still have at least one more mix in me.
As always, this is serious disco [...]

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Any Major Funk Vol. 4

Posted in Disco, Mix CD-Rs, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on October 2, 2008 | 5 Comments »

Here’s the fourth Any Major Funk mix, covering the years 1977-84, a few standards and a few lesser known gems. Patrice Rushen’s Number One in particular is glorious.
1. Crusaders feat. Randy Crawford – Streetlife (Full version)
2. Average White Band – Let’s Go Around Again
3. Dan Hartman – Relight My Fire
4. Linda Lewis – Class-Style (I’ve [...]

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Any Major Funk Vol. 3

Posted in Disco, Mix CD-Rs, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on September 17, 2008 | 3 Comments »

Apart from the phenomenally popular Christmas mix, the first two volumes of Any Major Funk have been the most downloaded mixes on this blog. Acting on apparent demand, here is Volume 3, with a fourth installment in the works. Like all my mixes, this one is timed to fit on a standard CD-R. As before, [...]

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The Disco Inferno

Posted in Disco, tagged , , , , , on April 18, 2008 | 5 Comments »

An splendid piece on disco, by the excellent Simon Price on The Quietus site, makes reference to mind the Disco Sucks movement which found full expression in the record burning bonanza at Chicago’s Comiskey Park in July 1979 (pictured). Price’s suggestion, not a new one, that the the Disco Demolition Night in particular was fuelled [...]

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Any Major Funk Vol. 2

Posted in Disco, Mix CD-Rs, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on April 1, 2008 | 17 Comments »

In December I posted a funk/disco mix-tape (meaning the songs don’t fade into each other), covering the golden era 1978-1983, and fitting on one CD-R. It was downloaded more than 1,300 times, and received the grand total of one comment. But that commenter was so pleased with the Any Major Funk mix, he or she [...]

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Any Major Funk

Posted in Disco, Mix CD-Rs, tagged , , , , , , , , , on December 26, 2007 | 2 Comments »

This mix might come in time for your New Year’s Eve party: great disco/funk tracks from the glory years, 1978-82. The songs should fit on a CD-R.
I’ve tried to stay clear of the usual fare offered disco samplers, so no synth-driven Euro disco, no Bee Gees, no Michael Jackson, no Alicia Bridges, and damn well [...]

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Time travel: 1979

Posted in Disco, Time travel, tagged , , , , , , , on October 1, 2007 | 4 Comments »

As summer approached in 1979, we moved out of the house where I had spent all of my life into a new one, in the same suburb. It was a great house. It’s top two floors had been bombed off in World Way 2. My brother and I were given a spacious room each in [...]

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Get funky: Remembering Disco

Posted in Disco, tagged , , , on March 22, 2007 | 1 Comment »

In the 1981 Bill Murray comedy Stripes, a character (possibly played by Judge Reinhold) wears a t-shirt bearing a legend which summed up a particular spirit of the time: “DISCO SUCKS”.Of course, our t-shirted friend was spectacularly wrong. He might have had a point, however, had his t-shirt proclaimed: “Certain aspects of Disco Suck, particularly [...]

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