20th Century Disco

Music you love.
Music you know.

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Volume 4 is here!

Another 82 minutes of 20th Century pop, disco, soul, and rock.
Available to stream for free on @mixcloud

https://t.co/DOFbQT8yut

#disco #dj #mixtape #mixcloud #stream #pop #charts #vinyl #retro #topofthepops

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Richie Havens with his seminal classic

#disco #retro #vinyl
#dancing #partytime #music #dance #nightout #djs #funky #nightlife #80s

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Did you miss me?
Back once again to dance across the floor

#music #dancing #party #partytime #dance #nightout #funky #80s #nightlife #nightclub #disco #instadjs

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Celebrating 100 years of the BBC

"Hello my dear ...."
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#disco #bbc #pebblemill #dollybirds #nec #birmingham #retro #vintage

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Timmy Thomas - 1973

No5 in the Hot 100 in the week Roe Vs Wade was handed down,Timmy Thomas was inspired after listening to the nightly deathtoll from Vietnam. Timmy Thomas passed away just a couple of months ago, and here we are full circle.
Why can't we live together?

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"Sid Vicious dancing the Macarena"

Thought I'd jump on the text to AI bandwagon..
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#disco #ai #texttoai #sexpistols #pistol #artificial #photo #instadj #mixtape #punk #dannyboyle

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Sex Pistols at the Disco.
Norway 1977

Sex Pistols perfom in Trondheim Student Union in 1977

#disco #punk #norway #trondheim #history #vintage #photography #photo #music #sexpistols #pistol #dannyboyle #retro #instadj

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Punk goes Disco

Black Arabs were a minor british disco band caught up in the world of late 70s punk, and produced a fairly credible medley of Sex Pistols hits which appeared on the album soundtrack, Black Arabs sadly sunk without a trace

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KC & The Sunshine Band 3\⁠
The best disco band you forgot about.⁠
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One of the bigger hits from KC - and sampled again in the 90s. Get Down Tonight from 1977, again, with about four sentences of lyrics⁠
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KC & The Sunshine Band 2\
The best disco band you forgot about.

Another beautiful sunshine hit from Harry Wayne Casey. Keep it Comin Love from 1976, with about four sentences of lyrics

#disco #music #1976 #kc #sunshineband #instadj #mixtape #retro #vintage #pop #seventies #cool

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Harry Wayne Casey (Or KC ...) led one of the best pop disco bands throughout the 70s and 80s, and yet are rarely mentioned alongside the big names today. So here this week, a celebration of the best disco pop band you forgot about

Starting with I'm Your Boogie Man from 1976

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A war is raging, and an oil price shock has sent inflation to 9%
Yes, it's 1973 all over again

1973 is when Disco as we know it started, as everyday New Yorkers found a release from life at The Loft in Manhattan. It inspired and set the scene for all great venues to come.

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Musique
Keep on Jumpin - 1978

A really unique sound which became a massive house influence in the 80s when Todd Terry took the hook from this 1978 disco hit.

#disco #toddterry #music #retro #instadj #mixtape #party #singers #dancing #nightclub #musique #house #vinyl

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Michael Zager Band
Let's All Chant

Unlikely disco star Michael Zager created this 1977 disco hit when a friend heard this chant in all the New York clubs.
#disco #zager #chant #dancers #dance #music #vintage #video #newyork #nightclub #instadj #mixtape #mixcloud

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Life During Wartime 4\

The Parisian Zazous had their own signature style,

#disco #fashion #paris #retro #history #1941 #rebellion #resistance #music #culture #france #zazou

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Even the dancing was a form of rebellion in Paris in WW2.
The Zazous would also draw attention to themselves. Even in front of sentries they would yell ‘Swing!’, hop on the spot, scream, ‘Zazou hey, hey, hey, za Zazou!’slap their hips 3 times, shrug their shoulders twice.

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Life During Wartime 2\

A big part of the Paris disco scene was Cab Calloway, who you might know from the Blues Brothers.
His 1933 tune Zaz Zuh Zaz was a big inspiration to the Paris nightclub scene, and even gave a name to it's fashion code

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Nobody ever seems to wonder why dancing to records is a French term ...

In WW2, live jazz was banned in Paris, so the French resorted to dancing to records in what became the Discotheque

(yes, Converse really are that old)

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What you are missing in Rubix is authentic disco #surreydecides

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Classic Labels 4\
Island Records

There have been quite a few iconic variants of the Island Records label - but this one remains the disco classic. Invoking the tropical sunset, from the golden era of Island when they had disco acts, rock, reggae, pop, and more

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Classic Labels 3\
Perfecto

This is the original Perfecto design, before the football crest "P" arrived. I remember buying this 12" just because I loved the look of the label. Duotone printing with that striking image round the center hole.