Disco
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You can’t write a credible history of dance music without speaking to Beppe Loda. Tommaso Conforti interviews the Italian DJ legend ahead of two dates in Chicago.
If you’ve ever lost yourself in a swirl of twisted disco on the dancefloor, chances are that Daniel Wang was providing the soundtrack. Born in California and raised in Taipei, before returning to the United States to gain a university (and musical) education, Wang is a master of blending soul, disco and house music during […]
Welcoming the new year with Anane, Toribio, Italian DJ legend Beppe Loda, Black Eyes, Danny J Lewis and more inside Issue 211 of 5 Mag.
Legendary vocalist Kathy Brown’s family has announced that her previously diagnosed lung cancer has spread to her brain. A GoFundMe campaign has been launched to support her.
Black Science Orchestra, Daniel Wang, Aroop Roy and more are set to take to the stage at the first-ever Dublin Disco All-Dayer, taking place at Orlagh House in Rathfarnham, Dublin, at the start of February. Hosted by Fatty Fatty Phonographics, the lineup will also welcome Colm K (of Cork’s Sunday Times parties) going back-to-back with […]
New mix recorded live from the crib with 5 Mag’s Czboogie playing house, disco and garage to ring in the new year.
Harold Heath on DJ Disciple’s inside look at the rise, the fall and rebirth of house music in New York City.
Dorothy’s Disco Love Blueprint traces the history of disco through the people and places who connected one another.
Shimmertastic Disco grooves set the tone for Sammy Deuce’s latest Re-Loved release, ‘Give It To Me’. Dishing out a large dose of happiness to the more discerning dancefloors, ‘Give It To Me’, comes powered by a feast of uplifting brass, bubbling live bass, and a feel-good vocals. Turning down the tempo a notch, ‘Melt Me’, […]
In a musical landscape that’s in a perpetual state of flux, 2023 has bestowed upon us a musical treasure that transcends the confines of both time and genre. London’s illustrious Latin fusion duo, Juan Laya and Jorge Montiel, don their original Los Charly’s Orchestra personas to unveil “Vibration.” From the very first note, it becomes […]
Steeped in the sunshine soul where house, R&B and soul meet, Barcelona trio Kokoro Disco San shares Brightest Light on Rockafort Records.
A new documentary says the quiet part out loud: the disco backlash was a battle in the culture war against Black and queer Americans. But Disco won.
The founder of disco’s wildest orchestra, John Davis put in his time at Sigma Sound, with MFSB and his own Monster Orchestra. The once-prolific dance music artist passed away earlier this year in Ohio.
Disco is oh so nice and bees are oh so nice as well. So why not do something for the honey makers and enjoy a superb slice of funkiness at the same time? Well, that’s possible if you purchase Jackie Moore’s ‘Holding Back’ on A’s And Bee’s Records, which is now around on vinyl. […]
Dark Entries prepares an album of jazz, gospel and blues on Sylvester’s Private Recordings: August 1970 in honor of legendary disco vocalist’s 76th birthday.
A “dazzling innovator of this art form,” Nini Nobless broke new ground in electronic music in the early 1980s with synth disco duo Lime.
Commissioned by Unidisc, Dave Lee gives Come On Dance, Dance from flashly 1970s studio project Saturday Night Band a 9 minute rubdown, including bongo-riddled breakdown that will be catnip for DJs and dancefloors.
Guitarist, songwriter, producer and founding member of MFSB and the Salsoul Orchestra, Bobby Eli has died at the age of 77 of natural causes in Havertown, a suburb due west of Philadelphia.
With little more than some gentle filter tweaks, you get seven minutes of relentless glitterball disco-tech. On Rhythm and Truth, 6th Borough Project drop a quality example of how to do loop-filter house well.