Check also the 80’s hint #1 and #2

You’re in trans living in a video…

…surrounded by saturated & colored circles…

…these big lips kisses set you on fire…

…and you think you rule the world?

We knew Dave1 was a great dancer.

1974, this Cosumer Rapport’s record sold 100.000 copies in the first two weeks without even the benefit of having a radio airplay. People were just going straight from the clubs to the record shop. Good times ! People now are not even buying a simple mp3 file 0.99€ each just a click away…

Come on, this song is about having sex sooner or latter and the big smiley thin stem in the middle that barely makes an effort to dance in his polo neck is Eddie Kendricks, and I am pretty sure he did not come back home by himself that night…I am maybe going to far in inventing people’s life here, but but you have to know that none the less, Eddie was the lead singer of The Temptations from 1960 to 1971.
This track “Girl you need a change of mind” was a classic played at the NYC underground club “The Loft”. There definitely is a New-York soul in this song.

Here is a perfect example of what a Philadelphia sound could be. Philadelphian producers were the masters at using strings energetically. The other particular thing about productions from Philly is that they really made and effort to keep a strong songwriting while other productions was more about repeating words and simple verses.
We are in 1974, and The Three Degrees here might appear to you as a disco cliché, but they were kind of the essence of what Philly disco was.

Some artists may have participated to make disco a cliché that was actually more about using formulas that would make your sound recognizable by a growing audience and then, potential consumers.
Gloria Gaynor, Barry White and McCrae really took advantage of these “disco formulas”, but McCrae kept the beat more laid back introducing sweet vocals that I particularly prefer…

In the meantime, disco freaks didn’t get trapped in the Disco biz and got heavily into imports like this classic French disco track from Bimbo Jet…
I am kind of embarrassed to post that here, but faithfully this track is a now a common classic.

Ok, I told you we were starting this Friday Disco Juice section for good. I’ll make sure to have it happen every friday.
So let’s drink up !

Historically speaking this Barrabas’s song might not be the perfect introduction since disco at its beginning was about Black & Latin underground club music, but anyway, it is here more about to put you in the mood for this first Friday Disco Juice and I hope this Barrabas‘ song will do the trick.
Well, apart from these considerations, I also find the invasion of the stage by these white chicks in panties kind of fascinating, even if the singer, that mostly looks like the owner of your local dirty club where you just go when you are way boozed, doesn’t look that right in his snaky t-shirt…

The song is about making out with girls while you are touring, to me it is a disco version of Adam Kesher’s Local Girl song in a less oneiric way…

This Manu Dibango’s track, was apparently and originally a French pressing on the Fiesta Label (how cool this label name is?) and recorded in Paris.
A Classic

In 98 I bought this first Chemical Brothers CD mix “Brother’s Gonna Work It Out” that came right after their first album, I couldn’t really find out where this intro was coming from. Any blaxploitation expert would think it’s obvious but now I know, it’s actually an extracted scene from the movie The Mack.

Willie Hutch is the author of all the soundtrack for this movie and specially of this major track Brothers’s gonna work it out

Friday Disco Juice #2 is on its way.

Remember the two first ones

Red Baron video game (1980)

Another run for the DP best video awards and the Pics Hunting sections.

Memory Cassette - Surfin’/ Body in water
The video is actually from 2009, great work from Pat Vamos, I actually think this is the best video I’ve seen in 2009 so far.

Miami Horror - Don’t Be On With Her

Craig Mack, Puff Daddy, and Notorious in 1994