E10: Get Up! Disco Music 1973-75

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In this week's episode Tim and Jeremy consider the emergence of Disco as a recognisable and distinct sound in the period 1973-75. They grapple with the problems of codifying a genre, showing how genrefication can limit previously open spaces of possibility, and talk about to what extent the participants in the nascent scene saw themselves as part of a single project.

Tim and Jeremy also discuss the lush orchestrations of the Philly Sound, the machinic pulse of the four-to-the-floor drumbeat, the development of remix culture as a way of sculpting tracks more appropriate for the dancefloor, and finish up with the coronation of Gloria Gaynor as the first Queen of Disco. Plus: the Disco swear word!

Produced and edited by Matt Huxley.

Tracklist:

The O'Jays - Back Stabbers
Harold Melvin and the Bluenotes - The Love I Lost
Eddie Kendricks - Girl You Need a Change of Mind
MFSB - TSOP (The Sound of Philadelphia)
George McCrae - Rock Your Baby
Don Downing - Dreamworld (Tom Moulton Mix)
BT Express - Do It ('Til You're Satisfied) (Tom Moulton Mix)
Gloria Gaynor - Never Can Say Goodbye (Tom Moulton Mix)