<<I sorry, but I have a really hard time buying this. I've listened to "No
UFOs" plenty of times, and there's no scratching or turtablism in it.>>
Right, right, it's pretty simple I think. The only hard version of the song
I have was recorded from an MP3 that was probably ripped off a mixtape
(maybe Juan Atkin's own) and not labeled properly. So I just assumed the
sound of stopping a record (whatever that's called) &c were just part of the
song, but apparently the bad karma I've accumulated from infringing
copyrights has gotten the better of me. So I've got egg on my face and
omelette all over my suit, as they say on CNN. At any rate, I think all
those guys were DJs before they were producers (ironic because they produce
so much better than they mix), but that doesn't really have anything to do
with hip hop I concede.
<<I've just finished reading "Last night a DJ saved my life", which has
several *excellent* chapters about disco. It's by Bill Brewster & Frank
Broughton. You might start there for a great history of the genre.>>
I'll check it out. I'm very excited about this, but I understand some
particularly haughty persons on this list might not consider disco
"intelligent dance music." What pomp! The only disputable term is
intelligent, and I defy you to define intelligent in such a way that
excludes discotheque but includes all this mundane dancefloor crap (Kid
606!? Puh-leeze) you haute couture IDM intelligentsia discuss.
(I'm joking.)
np: DJ Assault "Sex on the Beach"
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