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Originally Posted by Soulflower
I don't see what the problem is in voicing that Disco deserves more respect by the industry. Giving me one example of a club that plays Disco does not change that while I do appreciate the example.
Just because one small obscure club plays Disco does not mean I should keep quiet about the lack of respect Disco receives overall.
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A small club group?
Tell you what
The DJ List - Genre: Indie Dance / Nu Disco - The DJ List
I'll give you a link listing 337 artists including a lot of big names acts that get plenty of attention in the media and on this forum who sell out clubs all across the world who owe their sound to disco in one form of another.
Tell you what, here's another link to over 1,600 disco inspired mixes & playlists by both amateur and professional DJs
1,600+ Free Nu Disco music playlists | 8tracks internet radio
Or maybe you'd like it on CD released by a record company.
Well there's Ministry of Sound, Global Underground, Hed Kandi, Fabric, Kontor, Kitsune and many others who all belonging to major labels who are churning these out by the bucketload month after month. They wouldn't be doing it if nobody was buying them.
And guess what, I'm only a casual fan of this stuff and yet I've uncovered tons of stuff I like and tons of artists putting out music and tons of websites, magazines, critics and fans singing the praises of this stuff with hardly any effort on my part.
It IS there and it IS getting credit, you're just not looking in the right places. Chart music & Industry award ceremonies are a the tiny tip of the iceberg yet one you only seem to focus on.
Guess what, most of the world's population doesn't give a sh
it about your favourite artists, welcome to the world of being a music fan.
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What I don't understand about this place is.....It is okay to critique rock bands but its not okay to talk about how other less praised genres never get any credit.
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I showed you where it was getting it and first you totally glossed over it, and you just repeated about what the very top of the music industry cares about..... again....and again....and again.And then you belittled it without even bothering to check anything out by saying I'm just talking about a few little clubs scattered around the place. I told you of 3 continents that enjoy this stuff and have a club culture that's under the mainstream and you just ignore it.
You ask why there are no albums in the charts, it's because they're not making them. Why go to all the effort of making a whole album when you can make one good song as an independent artist and get it on a compilation or mix put together by a major or large independent label.
That's how disco started in the 70s, DJ's printing their own acetates singles and licensing them to record companies to put out for the public. Ironically it was when record companies started signing these acts to album deal that the whole disco thing began to fall apart because they were treating artists that were releasing singles based club music DJ's and tried to treat them like album based artists like rock or jazz bands. Acid House pretty much died for the same reason in the late 80s so why on earth are you so keen for the mainstream to get involved when it's just that which kills it?
Even so the the cream of these acts do make the charts and do release albums anyway, Daft Punk, Justice, Chromeo, MGMT, Crystal Castles... any of those names ring any bells, they should do they're mentioned on this forum pretty often.
The fact is things are different to how they were in the 70s & 80s and you can't handle it so you put your fingers in your ears and go LALALALALALALALALALALA and convincing yourself that you're right and everybody else is wrong.
If that's how you want to be then fine, keep on digging out your Sylvester or Wild Cherry records and enjoy those and convince yourself disco is hard done by and nobody cares, I'll happily listen to those songs too, the only thing is I'll be enjoying the new sh
it as well and seeing how thing progress in the future.