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Steven Harvey: "Thanks to You and "Don't Make Me Wait" came out and started the whole dub thing in disco.

  • Shep Pettibone: " [...] strangely enough, all these computer records started after "Thanks To You". It was kind of like that computer sound within a black vein.

    Urban spaceman Afrika Bambaataa and producer Arthur Baker, plus musician John Robie, were the trio behind a musical revolution called "Planet Rock", Bambaataa's 1982 single with Soul Sonic Force. Following the impact of "Planet Rock", UK groups made Electro-boogie pilgrimages to Baker's studio in Manhattan: Freeze's "IOU" rocketed jazz funk into the infosphere but more significantly, New Order's "Blue Monday" launched indie dancing and sold massively on 12". Also breaking and robot dancing, the acrobatic and simulated machine dances that drew many adolescents into the alien zone of black science fiction. Bleep music was one consequence of this. Hardly adequate to describe and encompass the protozoic chaos of New York Nu Groove, Detroit Techno, Chicago House, [...]. -- David Toop for Wire magazine

    1. Soul Sonic Force - Planet Rock [Arthur Baker]
    2. Michelle Wallace 'Jazzy Rhythm' Tee Scott
    3. Donna Summer - I Feel Love (Patrick Cowley's remix)
    4. Peech Boys - Don't Make Me Wait
    5. Grace Jones - Feel Up (Levan mix)
    6. Dinosaur L - Go Bang [Arthur Russell]
    7. Klein & MBO - Dirty Talk
    8. Debbie Trusty - Searchin' for Some Lovin' [Nick Martinelli]
    9. Chemise - She Can't Love You
    10. Raw Silk 'Do It To The Music' [Nick Martinelli]
    11. Fonda Rae 'Over Like A Fat Rat' [Fonda Rae]
    12. Indeep - Last Night A DJ Saved My Life
    13. Bo Kool - Love Money [Jazz-Funk]
    14. Carly Simon - Why
    15. Denroy Morgan - Happy Feeling
    16. Funk Fusion Band - Can You Feel It [Nick Martinelli]
    17. Rockers Revenge - Walking On Sunshine [Jamaica]
    18. Fat Larry's Band - Act Like You Know + Whatnauts
    19. Leon Ware - Why I Came To California
    20. Sinnamon - Thanks To You [Shep Pettibone]
    21. Montana Sextet Heavy Vibes [Montana]
    22. Marvin Gaye - Sexual Healing (one of the very first 808s used for bass)
    23. Material - Let Me Have It All
    24. Patrice Rushen - Number One
    25. Heaven And Earth - I Really Love You
    26. Inner Life - Moment Of My Life
    27. Man Parrish - Hip Hop, Be Bop (Don't Stop)
    28. Grace Jones - My Jamaican Guy
    29. Extra - Havenīt Been Funked Enough
    30. Willy Hutch - In and Out
    31. Touchdown - Ease Your Mind
    32. Plunky & the Oneness of Juju - Every Way But Loose
    33. Clark Sisters - You Brought the Sunshine
    34. Kasso - Keywest

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