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Old 05-20-2009, 07:59 PM   #13 (permalink)
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Well there's a lot of orchestration, horn, strings and stuff. I thought those were samples and synthesizers but I guess I was wrong about that.

They certainly sound very "sterile" to me.
Definitely a lot of orchestration. In fact I read before that all the orchestration wound up playing a big role in Disco's downfall because it made the songs so expensive to produce. But yeah Disco was before sampling came into vogue so I think you'd be hard pressed to find much in the way of samples in Disco songs. And as far as synths go, there were some but they weren't the backbone of the music or anything, they were just another instrument in the mix.

I agree that Disco at it's worst can sound kind of sterile but there are also quite a few high-energy, sweaty, non-sterile Disco songs out there too.
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