SILENT DISCO

EVERYBODY DANCE, EVERYBODY IS A STAR

2023

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2022

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2020

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2021

2014, No Zu, Raw Vis Vision

2012, release of Todd Terje - Inspector Norse

Notes: drugs, dance, liberation

Northern Disco Lights, Ben Davis, UK 2016

2013, Daft Punk, Loose Yourself To Dance

Mustafa Bayoumi in The Nation, Disco Inferno

Military detainees have been subjected to starvation, sleep deprivation and now Metallica and Britney Spears. Blasted at high volume, torture music has become a weapon of war, used to destroy the minds of Muslim detainees. It’s time for musicians to speak up.

THE EERINESS OF THE 2020 DISCO REVIVAL

As pop stars time-warped back to the ’70s and most nightclubs remained closed, dance music’s tensions felt oddly relevant.

By Spencer Kornhaber

2023, Gorillaz, New Gold

Frieze, 2022: Tony Cokes thinks you should dance Shiv Kotecha profiles an artist whose practice has challenged US imperialism and anti-Blackness through language and music

:2020, Emily Gosling: Acid Dreams, Elephant Magazine, Illustration by Derek Ercolano

2022, Booze and Pills

Tony Cokes, Evil 16 (Torture Music), 2009-2011.

Santiago Alvarez, NOW!, 1965

Steve McQueen, Lovers Rock, 2020, Episopde of the Small Axe BBC TV Series.

Motown Records

2010, Mim Suleiman, Mingi

[Tricontinental Conference, Havanna, January 1966 / OSPAAL (Organisation of Solidarity of the people of Asia, Africa & Latin America), founded in Havanna, 1966, after the Tricontinental Conference]

1966

1966, The Supremes, You keep me hanging on

1967

1968

1969

David Mancuso Interview, founder and DJ of the legendary The Loft Disco Parties in Manhatten. On Mixcloud.

In Bill Brewster and Frank Broughton’s definitive 1999 history of dance music, Last Night a DJ Saved My Life, there is a lovely tribute to David Mancuso. “If disco – and the music which came after – has an angel, it is the raggedy figure of David Mancuso,” they write. “If it has a birthplace, it is his club, the Loft.” Alexis Petridis in The Guardian.

1970

1971

TV-SHOW

SOUL TRAIN

until 2006

1972, Manu Dibango: Soul Makossa

1972

1973

1974

1975

1976

Grace Jones (Queens of Disco, 2007)

1977, Pauline Kael, Nirvana. Filmcritic about Saturday Night Fever

1977

Studio 54

1978

1978, Sun Ra, Disco 3000

1979, Donna Summer, Bad Girls

1979, Kool and the Gang, Ladies Night

Disco Demolition Night, July 12 1979

1979

1980, Siouxies and the Banshies, Happy House

1980

Konrad Wolf: Solo Sunny (GDR 1980)

Disco Funk

1981

Funk, Punk

1982

Disco: Afro-American Vernacular Performance, by Lee Ellen Friedland, 1983

Adrian Piper

Funk Lessons, 1983

1983

Brenda Fassie

1984

The History of Breakdancing

From a 2005 interview with Charles Mudede:

The Interviewer: Have you ever had a dream based on a song? (What song, and what happened in the dream)?

Charles Mudede: Actually, yes, Grace Jones 'Slave to the Rhythm.' It wasn't one dream with a plot but a recurring dream with the same setting and massive architectures. The sonic imagery of the music was translated into vivid dream imagery: It was about workers, mass production, Fordist factories, power lines, dams, the transformation of raw earth into large reserves of energy. Heidegger talks about these reserves in his essay, 'On The Question of Technology.' But the dream was more Marx than Heidegger. The imagery in the recurring dream has its proper literary equivalent in Marx's Das Capital. However, when [the dreams] first began, in my late-teens, I had not yet read Das Capital. I only read it in my early-30s, and while reading it discovered that the book possessed the same terrifying beauty of that recurring dream, and that song by the great Grace Jones.