SEATTLE — It’s flashback time here in the land of Hendrix. Pulsating colored lights play over a parquet dance floor as disco’s signature “four on the floor” drum beat propels lyrics of unbearable ...
Have you heard of the obscure subgenre known as mutant disco? If not, you’re not alone in that respect. This genre is also known as avant-funk or punk-funk, and it makes sense why. Mutant Disco is all ...
Western New Yorkers of a certain age may recall the chant “Junction West, the baddest group from east to west,” a rallying cry to get up and move – at proms and school dances where the R&B/disco ...
The group’s funk, disco and pop songs have been sampled over 1,800 times, but haven’t collected the same accolades as many contemporaries. A new boxed set takes a look back. By Steve Knopper “Do ...
Disco is a music genre and a subculture born out of a dance floor and pioneered by Black musicians, DJs and producers in the 1970s and early 1980s. The word disco comes from the Italian discoteca, ...
Anabel Unity Sale takes to the dance floor to find out how a disco called Funky Feet is providing a night of grooves and tunes for people with learning difficulties in south London “Agadoo doo doo, ...