Tag: WEWANTSOUNDS
“Mainstream Disco Funk” is a quality mid-’70s compilation from Bob Shad’s Mainstream label
Mainstream Disco Funk gathers together twelve disco/funk tracks from between '74 and '76, a particularly fertile moment in R&B history as funk and soul artists, producers and musicians either adopted or adapted the disco innovations of labels like Philadelphia International Records. Most of the tunes contained here are located right in that disco-funk / funky-disco sweet spot, where intricate-yet-loose funk rhythms melded with cosmopolitan sweeping orchestration and the emergence of that insistent 4/4 disco pulse.
MOVE: Inside the new 5 Mag
Coflo on the cover, Alland Byallo in the studio, Phil Strand and Jeff Mills at the cinema and more inside 5 Mag Issue 206 out now.
Hear the earliest ever recordings from a proto-Chic on Robert Cotter’s Missing You
Released on just a handful of copies by a scam label, Missing You features the first recordings of the Big Apple Band, which would become Chic.
#DieTrying – Inside the new 5 Mag
Josh Milan, Ashley Beedle, Terry Farley, Jackie Queens and more inside the new issue of 5 Mag.
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Jack Revill aka Jackmaster dies after head injury in Ibiza
Scottish DJ Jack Revill passed away on the morning of October 12, 2024 in Ibiza following "complications arising from an accidental head injury," according to a statement from his family.
