Tag: Disco
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Looking from a Hilltop – RIP Larry Cassidy
Word has got through via the NoRecordShopsLeft blog that Larry Cassidy of Section 25 has died. Who you might say? Well Section 25 was part of the Factory Records roster, formed in Blackpool in 1977, and one of those few electro/dance acts that prefigured and prescribed acid house, linking electro to it’s future Detroit home.…
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Best mix ever?
Well the legend that is Greg Wilson is well known, but with the Music Played In Discotheques mix he had me at Chairmen of the Board and George McCrae’s woefully underloved ‘Rock Your Baby’ showing his true 70’s northern soul credentials! The idea was to use tracks from 1972-75 for the Tate Gallery in Liverpool,…
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Yr Favourite New (well old) Halloween Soundtrack!
Those who are looking for the perfect Halloween soundtrack can’t go far wrong than my dark mix from last year (if I say so myself) – loads of creepy disco noir, dark electro, Carpenter soundtrack classics and horror film samples!
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Accordions + Disco + Rap = WIN
Proud to say there are not one but TWO Disco Accordion bootlegs in the world – after the first DJNoNo’s Just Lose the Accordions with Eminem from many years back (with a little bit of Myron’s Circus Polka too), there is Pomdeter’s Pinky Ring Disco Polka which puts the Myron Floren cheesetastic Disco Polka classic…