Tag: disco
Mixed With Love: A Story About Walter Gibbons
That night in 1977 when I heard Walter Gibbons at The Second Story in Philly allowed me a peek into the foundation of a DJ and remixer that would produce epic, unique and historic music.
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.
Scientists urge the world to deploy more disco balls
A new academic paper illustrates the benefits of brightening the planet with more sparkles. We agree.
Mapping 50 years of disco on a speaker circuit diagram
Dorothy's Disco Love Blueprint traces the history of disco through the people and places who connected one another.
Disco Demolition Night: A Drunk History
Season four of the Comedy Central Show Drunk History will feature a slightly misremembered history of Chicago's infamous Disco Demolition Night.
Tear The MF’ing Roof Off!
New documentary on the wild and dangerous times of Parliament Funkadelic Tear The Roof Off debuts in Chicago.
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.
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God’s Co-Producer: The Wacky World of Bobby O
What if the most prolific dance music producer in history staged a comeback and nobody noticed?
That appears to be the case...
Ten Years Ago This Website Saved My Life
If you didn't live it, you read about it, heard about and learned about it. Or you're lying about it.
These are facts: the amount...
Johnny D: A 5 Mag Mix Vol ++008
Johnny D, a giant in the music industry in general and founder of the legendary Henry Street Music takes us on a journey through...
This is the Disco Documentary We’ve Been Waiting For
For the public at large, it's all about KC. For people who really love music, it's Gino Soccio, it's T-Connection, it's Boris Midney and...
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...
Joey Negro’s 2008 Dub Mighty Bloody Real (Free Download)
Way ahead of it's time, Better Days Records featured some of the most beautiful and most versatile bootleg disco edits in the world. Better...
Joey Negro & Sean P’s Supafunkanova Vol 2
There was a moment in the documentary Muhammad And Larry, captured with the usual calm and steady cam the Maysles Brothers were known for,...
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...
House of Music: Stefano Zito and the Sudden Life and Death of the World’s Greatest Italo...
There are no good guidebooks to Italo Disco, no beginner's manual, no elegant list of essential tracks that can get a young record nerd...
Pittsburgh Track Authority’s Enter The Machine Age
It was somewhere between the second and third track on Pittsburgh Track Authority's debut LP that I realized something extraordinary was happening. In less...
The Devil’s Music: Who Is William Onyeabor?
World Psychedelic Classics Vol 5:Who Is William Onyeabor?
Luaka Bop
In the six months since Luaka Bop's reissue album Who Is William Onyeabor? was released, the...
This Entire Scene Was Frankie Knuckles’ Dance Floor
Where do you begin the story of the man who began it all? The man who began it for you?
Should I start at the...
How I Play: Joey Negro on the Culture and Craft of DJing
DJs today are confronted with an astonishing number of choices, from vinyl to digital media, controllers, mixers, and the unending stream of more music...
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MOVE! Inside the New Issue of 5 Mag
Detroit ambassador-at-large Mike Agent X Clark in 5 Mag's cover profile, plus DJ Slugo cover mix, Mystic Freaks featuring Jamie 3:26, Danou P and Young Pulse and more inside the new issue of 5 Mag, out now.
