Post-disco
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The term post-disco is a referral to the late 1970s and early 1980s movement of disco music into more electronic influenced sounds. This was mainly brought on by DJs, who remixed and added new experimental sounds. The term was coined in the early 2000s by analogy to musical genres such as post-rock. It includes music by ESG and Liquid Liquid, genres such as Italo disco, New Wave and No Wave.
"Before house music, a lot of the DJs on Chicago radio were playing a lot of Italian imports because I think the Italians were the only ones that continued with the disco when it all died out everywhere else," says American DJ and producer Juan Atkins on the emergence of the genre.
On the use of dub in these records, Shep Pettibone in an interview with Steven Harvey, says that ":"Thanks to You" and "Don't Make Me Wait " came out and started the whole dub thing in disco". Some excellent examples of hard-to-find songs are noted in video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories, on fictional radio station Paradise FM.
Also, disco's impact has been heard in many modern songs, mainly in house music.
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Proto-house labels
Sleeping Bag Records, Jump Street Records, Supertronics Records, EasyStreet, Quark Records, 1982, 1983, 1984, Arthur Baker, Emergency Records.
Before Frankie Knuckles moved to Chicago where he opened the Warehouse, before Trax records was founded, there had already been some New York labels and tracks that might be call proto-house.
The new Japanese music machines of that era had brought on the electronic age, electro funk was born.
See also
- The Perfect Beats, Vol. 1-4
Artists
Some post-disco artists are listed here:
- Jamiroquai
- Moloko
- Alexander Robotnick
- Arthur Baker
- Arthur Russell
- Bobby Orlando
- Central Line
- Change
- Charlie
- Class Action
- D Train
- Dayton
- Donald Byrd
- Dinosaur L
- ESG
- Ednah Holt
- Exodus
- Frankie Knuckles
- François K
- Freeez
- George Duke
- Giorgio Moroder
- Gwen Guthrie
- Jackie Moore
- Jimmy Bo Horne
- Kano
- Kleeer
- Klein + M.B.O.
- Larry Levan
- Lectric Workers
- Leroy Burgess
- Liquid Liquid
- Logg
- Loose Joints
- Material
- Nick Straker Band
- Patrice Rushen
- Peech Boys
- Plunky & the Oneness of Juju
- Rafael Cameron
- Randy Muller
- Raw Silk
- Ron Hardy
- Scotch
- Shannon
- Sharon Redd
- Sinnamon
- Sister Sledge
- Skyy
- Slave
- Starpoint
- Strafe
- Taana Gardner
- Tee Scott
- Telex
- The Fantastic Aleems
- Thelma Houston
- Tom Moulton
- Trussel
- The Universal Robot Band
- Unlimited Touch
- Walter Gibbons
- Was (Not Was)
See also
- Italo disco
- Hi-NRG
- Proto house labels: Sleeping Bag Records, Jump Street Records, Supertronics records, Easy Street, Quark records, Arthur Baker, Emergency Records
- List of post-disco artists
- Paradise FM
- Disco Demolition Night
