11/03/2024
🪩 When I find it hard to motivate myself on a rainy winter Monday morning, only one genre of music manages to give me the necessary energy: Disco 🪩
I've recently dived a lot more into the genre after shazaming Pareice Cowley and Sylvester's "Do you wanna funk" at Panorama Bar. That song, not even remixed, is still an absolute banger that will set fire to the dancefloor.
A couple of weeks later, it was this time "on't leave this way" that was playing in another club, the original by Thelma Houston. For a very long time, I had thought that it was a song by the Communards. But I was wrong. And the original groooves!
These Disco encounters made me want to dive back into this genre I had overlooked before.
I started to look more into this genre, how it came up from the black and gay scene, how a few influent DJs like David Mancuso, Nickt Siano, Larry Levan or Frankie Knuckles, which will then develop House Music in the 80s.
So this playlist is a first attempt to share a few hits but also less famous songs.
Most are coming from the 70s, songs that could have been played at The Loft, Studio 54 or Garage Paradise to name a few of New York best disco clubs.
But I've also added a few contemporary songs to show that disco is still alive today.
Photo by Waring Abotr and