3/1/2023 0 Comments Horse meat discoKool Herc, Afrika Bambaataa, and Lovebug Starski, for instance, began their trade mixing disco and funk. Even famously po-faced hip hop artists who professed never to touch this supposedly “gay” music with a Roland TR-808 owed a great deal to it. As Morley put it, it just mutated, wore new clothes, took new drugs, and filled new spaces. So even though disco became highly derided, having degenerated from its initial post-’60s spirit of liberation for the marginalised (gay and black people, mainly) into a hyper-commercialised juggernaut with a shadow the size of the AIDS epidemic, disco never really left us. What it begot were of course hi-NRG, house, techno, and a rash of subgenres that painted a godlike aura around the DJ. Disco never really died… despite the best efforts of one agitated DJ who declared war on disco in 1979 by whipping up a disco-hating mob during a White Sox game.Īs if to mark the 30th anniversary of this infamous affair, journalist and ZTT Records co-founder Paul Morley recently hit up some of disco’s remaining vanguard for an insightful discussion on its roots and what it begot.
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