17 Essential Walter Gibbons Remixes
DEL combs though his collection to pick the 17 most essential tracks remixed by the late, legendary disco icon, Walter Gibbons.
The Essential Fatback/The Fatback Band Playlist
From street funk to raucous disco, R&B and even the seeds of hip hop: the 12 essential Fatback tracks.
Fatback: The Last of the Great Dance Bands
Can a band release 35 albums and still be "unsung"? In the case of Fatback, the answer is most certainly "Yes!"
Eurodisco Forever: An Essential Voyage Playlist
12 essential tracks from VOYAGE, four French Eurodisco heroes that ruled the discotheque.
Foundations: Voyage and “An Absolute Timeless Dance Classic”
Music has always been a journey. The journey to our modern dance music had many foundations that have been shared in this column. Soul, funk, R&B, jazz, and rock all have played a key...
Frankie Knuckles’ Dancefloor Beasts
DEL compiles a selection of dancefloor "beauties" and dancefloor "beasts" from the illustrious career of Frankie Knuckles for his Foundations series. These are the beasts!
Related: Foundations' Reflections on Frankie Knuckles.
Related: Frankie Knuckles' Dancefloor Beauties.
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Frankie Knuckles’ Dancefloor Beauties
DEL compiles a selection of dancefloor "beauties" and dancefloor "beasts" from the illustrious career of Frankie Knuckles for his Foundations series. Part one: The Beauties. The Beasts will follow next week.
Related: Foundations' Reflections on...
Reflections on Frankie Knuckles
Symbolically and appropriately, 5 Magazine, a Chicago publication (in origin and spirit), was and is intricately tied to Frankie Knuckles.
Without pause, Frankie Knuckles not only lived the "roots of modern dance" - he personified...
Boogie Wonderland: The Genius of Earth, Wind and Fire
Editor's Note: Originally published in October 2012, we pulled this out of the archives in honor of the late Maurice White. RIP.
They produced the first album I ever bought (Cameo's "Rigor Mortis" was my...
FOUNDATIONS: The Essential WAR Playlist
Straight out of South Central Los Angeles, WAR fused genres and delivered pointed messages about race, poverty and conflict over an uplifting groove.
DEL selects 14 essentially tracks from WAR's storied career for the Essential...
Straight Outta South Central LA: It’s a WAR
Conflict is loved by few, disliked by most, and needed at times. Musically, conflict can be defined as a fusion of genres, a cacophony of sounds, key or tempo changes, and even actual conflict...
Foundations: 14 Essential Disco Mixers
DEL combs though his collection to bring us 14 of the best of these curious, often anonymous and sometimes unloved Disco mixer records.
Previously:
Big Apple 2
('91) ('82-'83) - Post-disco "Prelude-era" with some of my favorite...
Foundations’ Essential Guide to Disco Mixers
DEL's Foundations on the rise and fall of the quintessential vehicle for '70s dance music - the disco mixer.
The Secret Side of Incognito
The little known history of the undercover brothers and sisters of Incognito, in this month's Foundations by DEL.
FOUNDATIONS has focused a lot on the seminal days of dance music, particularly the period between the...
Heatwave: The Band That Wouldn’t Die
A Stabbing, a Car Accident, Paralysis, a Coma: Nothing Could Stop the Heatwave - the Pre-Eminent Multi-Ethnic Band of the Funk, Boogie and Disco Era.
While noodling about this issue's subject, it occurred to me...
The Essential George Duke Playlist
Crazy P, Daft Punk, Cajmere, Stanley Clarke and Michael Jackson make an appearance in DEL's Essential George Duke Playlist, compiled for his column Foundations.
Related: Foundations: George Duke: Master of the Game
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George Duke: Master of the Game
George Duke was the Master of the Game - a creative force that applied an academic and theoretical knowledge of music composition to pop music and a wide array of dance music's foundations.
DEL's Foundations...
The Essential TK Disco Playlist
Peter Brown, Kat Mandu, Gino Soccio and Ralph McDonald join Anita Ward and KC and the Sunshine Band in DEL's essential TK Disco Playlist, compiled by DEL for Foundations.
Related: Foundations: TK Disco: Ray Caviano...
TK Disco – Ray Caviano and the Lost Art of Record Promotion
The signature bamboo, blue skies and palm trees meant this was a record worthy of the name TK DISCO. Ray Caviano made sure DJs played it.
DEL's Foundations series searches through the roots of modern...
The Essential Sylvester Playlist
Dimitri from Paris, Kon, Theo Parrish and more make an appearance in the essential Sylvester playlist, compiled by DEL for his Foundations column.
Related: Foundations: Sylvester Fabuloso!
You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)
('78; #1 Dance-Disco/#20 R&B...
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Ka§par — Snorkeling On Mushrooms mix
We're bouncing into 2025 like we own it with a 4 hour mix from our friend in Lisbon, Ka§par.
