Disc Music 70

STRUT YOUR FUNKY STUFF!

Which cabbage has happened? Creed that has been the question mark of many. Why of much beautiful music and an exterminated discografia, of YEARS 70, above all in Italy, it is only remembered to us of manciata of pieces (observed the list low)? The answers are innumerevoli. We try, but, to come some to head, but without wanting to put nobody to the gogna: in primis the responsibility it goes attributed to the Fever of the Saturday Evening, that it has also the merit to have diffuse the habit to the dance, stimulated the technical-aesthetic evolution of the discotheques and fed the disc-music consumption. After piroettes travoltiane and the febrile world-wide contagion, the disc did not seem more the same one: in last the two years of the decade, between 1978 and 1980, there was an exterminated production, of amount, but not of quality. All from that moment, in way detail, the press and the mass-media generally, began to take care of the phenomenon disc, when the phenomenon same era in decreasing phase, that is ready to commistionarsi with other kinds and using the new electronic technologies. Like already explained in other sections of the site, after first years eighty, dance it represents an other matter. Or what beautifulr or more creative, more ugly or repetitive, lasciamo the judgment to the posteri! Certainly, from a determined point in ahead, music from discotheque, for creative sonorità and humus, completely becomes a different transaction. Saying in soldoni, how much happens after 1979, with the affirmation of the febrile travoltismo and the bleaching of the sounds operated from the siblings Gibb (Bee-Gees), musically throws a species of shadow on that it had been developed, speaking, before 1978, hiding of to the memory and the same validity. If dates still a glance to the list low, you notice that nearly all the songs (some extraordinary and innovative ones) are contemporary or successive to the Saturday Night Fever. Without warning, nobody remembers more, except some rare exception, than it had succeeded between 1973 and 1978. Lasciamo from part, some cultori, students, professionals of the console who have always maintained cetra an accounting musical, in the overwhelming majority of the cases, the oblivion for the more vital and creative period of disc-music (1974-1977) is total. An other not negligible factor rotates around the figure of the DJ. Wherever, perhaps also in the USA, but in Italy and Europe, first part of years 70, the trade of the disc-jockey is not dissimilar from that one of a waiter or a bartender. This indefinite figure was premail to serve, in nearly automatic way, a disc sequence, rather than coctails or drinks and still much far assuming the features of the professionismo. On the credit side age, made some exception, to put discs in the premises from dance was the same owners, the sons, the grandsons or some friend of family. Ipso facto in the world of the private ether, where the chaos and the improvisation reigned sovereign. All this, since the action to put or to introduce of discs in discotheque or radius still did not constitute a trade and, sovente, was based on the mere voluntary service. It exists an entire generation of mettitori of discs, some also good, at least thus seemed, last to better things. Some time ago, I have met two old DJs of the age, now nearly cinquantenni: ago a piastrellista, the other the commerce representative. Of that period, they remember not music, but only the girls towed for the fact to be be in console. The figure of the DJ, with its I equip staff with discs and the colored ones valigette, slipmaps and it heads some from contest, was still lungi to come: generally the discs were acquired from the owners of the discotheques, which, sovente, prepared for the DJ a real ladder, or, however, they gave very precise indications on from is made. The Discc-jockey was only a manovale of the console: nothing technical creativities, strangeness or alchemies, of the rest did not exist not even the instruments. If some time, for a any reason, the track were emptied, poor and malcapitato the mettitore one of discs took also some squall of improperi from the holder of the premises. Here an other of the reasons for which, also sure specialistic press and some pseudo-assigning to the intense activities have made so that the wrapping ortiche discosinfonie of the Philly Sound, sure artists of the Motown, the school were thrown to disc of Miami, the production of the Stax, of the Atlantic, dlla Salsoul and of other smaller labels, marked from some unforgettable marks; Soul Explosion, Special Sound, Discoteque Special, Weateque, tied to primigenio the style matrix disc-funk soul-jazz-blues. Last factor, but not less important, a chasing new and generation of DJs, between which also most valid professionals, been born after 1979 and, sure, more interested to the recent phenomena (of own age) and to some record labels like the Casablanca, the Derby, the Ariola, the Arista, the Durium or the Italian Goody Music and Full the Time, most important, but, sure, except noble for musical extraction. In these new schools of disc-thought, perlopiù in Europe, is compensated the deficiency of ideas with a doubling of the ritmiche, the velocizzazione of struck and the use of the first electronic effects. Already from first years eighty, the resource to the rifacimenti, the so-called ones covers, and to the remixes become a practical one accustom them. But we come by piece: in the list low there are some capolavori little ones like the Freak of the Chic ones, where the low ritmica and game remain still innovative and inimitabili. You have never felt, but, of robe the most ugly ones than YMCA of the Village People or Born to Be Alive di Patrick Hernandez? (it is not true, they are beautifulst, they have concurred to us to fill up the tracks and, even, made to earn the sympathy of some discinta tersicorea.) They are two canzoncine model Zecchino d' Oro with a base dance, nevertheless they enjoy a sproporzionata fortune.


THE TOP 20 (IMMARCESCIBILI)
01. The Will Survive - Gloria Gaynor
02. YMCA - The Village People
03. Stay in Alive - The Bee Gees
04. That's The Way the Like It - KC & Sunshine Band
05. Chic LeFreak-
06. Ladies Night - Kool & The gang
07. Don't leave me and This Way - Thelma Houston
08. The Feel Love - Summer Woman
09. You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real) - Sylvester
10. We Are Family - Sister Sledge
11. Got to Be Real - Cheryl Lynn
12. Born to Be Alive - Patrick Hernandez
13. Disc Hell - The Trammps
14. Boogie Wonderland- Earth Wind and Fire
15. Funky town - Lipps Inc.
16. The Love America - Patrick Juvet
17. Rappers Delight - Sugarhill Gang
18. Dont Stop 'Til You Get Enough - Me. Jackson
19. Let's All Chant - Michael Zagar Band
20. Don't let me be misanderstood - Saint Esmeralda

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