Why doesn't Disco music get props for being the mother of House music?

[IllmaticDelta]

Dog....I saw Niles Rogers at EssenceFest this weekend. I had NO CLUE how much of his music was a part of my upbringing. Spent half the time listening to him jamming with everyone dancing and I'm like

Great Nile Rogers docu for ya

 

[NYC Rebel]

On the real....unlike Motown to Detroit, hip hop to New York,the Philadelphia Sound never gets it's just due.

Gamble and Huff? Salsoul? MFSB?Barry White?

Dog....they really are the fathers of house music.

That production.....

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

Disco doesn't get 'props' from today's generation because they don't realize they're STILL listening to it 40 years later. This, more than anything, is the main reason I'm really not feeling much of today's 'corporate dance music'.

I could listen to stuff like this all day.........









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[NYC Rebel]

Disco doesn't get 'props' from today's generation because they don't realize they're STILL listening to it 40 years later. This, more than anything, is the main reason I'm really not feeling much of today's 'corporate dance music'.

I could listen to stuff like this all day.........









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I still marvel at the layering of sounds.

 

[Grizzly]

Disco has always gotten love from the real hosueheads..anybody that says diferent doesnt know wtf they talkin about

 

[IllmaticDelta]

On the real....unlike Motown to Detroit, hip hop to New York,the Philadelphia Sound never gets it's just due.

Gamble and Huff? Salsoul? MFSB?Barry White?

Dog....they really are the fathers of house music.

That production.....

Agreed. They had the disco type stuff and the more straight Soul

 

[Bruce Wayne]

THESE SOUNDS FALL INTO MY MIND!

 

[CodeBlaMeVi]

The backlash from the "Rock" crowd was definitely racial but the mainstream media back then for the most part propped up Disco and had quite a few self respecting soul/funk/r&b acts selling out making a disco record or 2.

Funk is the one that is so musically unappreciated because it's not a watered down genre like Disco was.

I won't call disco watered down since it was one of the most expensive records to produce.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

disco being a fad is why people shat on hip hop

they shoulda let disco cook

^^And This Too Coli^^

 

[IllmaticDelta]

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[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

I still marvel at the layering of sounds.

Just think: There were NO computers or software back then. All that was done by hand and actual talent. 40 years later and the only thing that has gotten better is marketing.

Old cats like myself have been hoping to see something like it make a comeback, but that ain't happening.

That PR campaign back in the 70's pretty much turned everyone who didn't experience it into a hater and copyright laws destroyed any vestige of a resurrection of the sound.









Love this goddamned song.........


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[scuba]

I don't really didn't know people in today's time didn't generally understand that disco is really the birth of house, and the forefather of most modern dance music...

Now that being said House in the late 80s divested itself of its disco roots because the disco backlash feeling was still strong... Point blank, it was early house acts and DJs who tried to distance it from disco.

Now I got to correct one big revisionist going on in this thread... Disco was hated by everyone by 1982. Black, white, poor, rich, rock fans, country fans, soul fans, etc.... Can go into it deeper... But it wasn't just some racist hate thing.

 

[IllmaticDelta]

George Clinton did alot of Disco tinged Funk songs like





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techno and House cats were both up on this

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

I don't really didn't know people in today's time didn't generally understand that disco is really the birth of house, and the forefather of most modern dance music...

Now that being said House in the late 80s divested itself of its disco roots because the disco backlash feeling was still strong... Point blank, it was early house acts and DJs who tried to distance it from disco.

Now I got to correct one big revisionist going on in this thread... Disco was hated by everyone by 1982. Black, white, poor, rich, rock fans, country fans, soul fans, etc.... Can go into it deeper... But it wasn't just some racist hate thing.

Nah, my man. It wasn't hated by everyone. That was the general perception due to the media push but we were still jamming disco well into the late 80's. As I said earlier, that PR campaign was just too strong and many people succumbed to simple peer-pressure as they didn't want to be seen as lame for liking the genre.......



It also didn't help that disco became oversaturated (disco version of the Star Wars theme) and many discotheques/clubs were struggling to survive and had to go with the times to keep money rolling in.​

 

[IllmaticDelta]

Now that being said House in the late 80s divested itself of its disco roots because the disco backlash feeling was still strong... Point blank, it was early house acts and DJs who tried to distance it from disco.

No they didn't. Early House in Chicago was called Deep House and honored it's Disco roots,

Now I got to correct one big revisionist going on in this thread... Disco was hated by everyone by 1982. Black, white, poor, rich, rock fans, country fans, soul fans, etc....

Not true. Disco was mainly hated by Rock fans and conservative whites. Commercial Disco was hated by black people but not the more underground variety. In New York you still had blacks, white and latinoslistening to Disco at clubs in New York

There was a big difference between Studio 54 disco (commercial)



and Paradise Garage disco (underground)

Can go into it deeper... But it wasn't just some racist hate thing.

It was clearly racist