Disco 2 started in New York in the late seventies. The times change, the drugs change, new clubs like the Paradise Garage open up, the disco twelve inch was invented. For the first time in musical history, music was made with "discotheques" in mind. The disco years ended with its gay audience decimated by a deadly disease called AIDS. My preferred disco labels of this era are Salsoul, Prelude and West end. There is a list of Disco on CD and
classic vinyl originals.
While in the early seventies, the influence on disco was funk and soul, in the second half of the seventies and the early eighties, disco music was influenced by dub and heavy bass sounds, which was typified in UK's flavour coined jazz-funk, a sound directly influenced by Roy Ayers. Disco like house, can have a diva-ish and sleazy style, with wailing vocals and jealous lyrics of Sylvester and Loleatta Holloway
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Roy Ayers - Running Away
Kraftwerk - Trans Europe Express
Francine McGee - Delirium (RCA)
Alfredo De La Fe - Hot To Trot
First Choice - Doctor Love
Loleatta Holloway - Hit & Run
Aquarian Dream - Phoenix
Salsoul Orchestra - Magic Bird Of Fire
Universal Robot Band - Dance & Shake Your Tambourine
Stevie Wonder - As
Norman Connors - Once I've Been There
Minnie Riperton - Stick Together (Ext. Mix)
Moment Of Truth - Chained To Your Love
Silvetti - Spring Rain
Salsoul Orchestra - Run Away
Teddy Pendergrass - You Can't Hide From Yourself
Teddy Pendergrass - The More I Get, The More I Want
Thelma Houston - I'm Here Again
Double Exposure - My Love Is Free
War - Galaxy
Phreek - Weekend
Third World - Now That We Found Love
Carl Bean - I Was Born This Way
Don Ray - Standing In The Rain
Dinosaur - Kiss Me Again
Goody Goody - It Looks Like Love
First Choice - Love Thang
Kraftwerk - The Robots
Loleatta Holloway - Catch Me On The Rebound
Martin Circus - Disco Circus
Kebekelektrik - War Dance
Bohannon - Let's Start The Dance
Loleatta Holloway - I May Not Be There When You Want Me
Freda Payne - I'll Do Anything For You
Grace Jones - My Jamaican Guy
Lenny Williams - You Got Me Running
Linda Clifford - Runaway Love
Lorraine Johnson - Feed The Flame
Tasha Thomas - Shoot Me (With Your Love)
Dan Hartman - Relight My Fire
Cory Daye - Pow Wow
Eddy Grant - Living On The Frontline
Ripple - The Beat Goes On
Kleeer - Keep Your Body Workin'
Black Ivory - Mainline (12")
Chicago - Street Player (12" Mix)
Risco Connection - Ain't no Stoppin' Us Now
Machine - There but for the Grace of God
Dee Dee Bridgewater - Bad For Me (Ext. 12" Mix)
First Choice - Double Cross (Levan Remix)
Taana Gardner - When You Touch Me (Levan Mix)
Jean Carn - Was That All It Was (Ext. 12" Mix)
Giorgio Moroder - I Wanna Rock You
Harvey Mason - Groovin' You
Candido - Thousand Fingerman
Inner Life - I'm Caught Up
Tamiko Jones - Can't Live Without Your Love
Patti Labelle - Music Is My Way Of Life
Candido - Dancin' & Prancin'
Sister Sledge - Lost In Music
Sergio Mendes - I'll Tell You (Ext. 12" Mix)
Eddy Grant - Walking On Sunshine (Ext. 12" Mix)
Chantal Curtis - Get Another Love
Positive Force - We Got The Funk
Donna McGhee - It Ain't No Big Thing
Salsoul Orchestra - How High (Levan Remix)
Roy Ayers - Don't Stop The Feeling
Candido - Jingo
George Duke - I Want You For Myself
Instant Funk - I Got My Mind Made Up (Levan Remix)
Skyy - First Time Around (Levan Remix)
Loleatta Holloway - Greatest Performance Of My Life (Levan Remix)
Billy Nichols - Give Your Body Up To The Music
Five Special - Why Leave Us Alone
Bruce Johnson - Pipeline
Jackie Moore - How's Your Love Life Baby
Giorgio - I Wanna Rock You
Double Exposure - I Got The Hots For You
Alfredo de la Fe - Hot to Trot
Loose Joints - Is It All Over My Face
Ramona Brooks - I Don't Want You Back
Loleatta Holloway - Love Sensation
Taana Gardner - Work That Body (Levan Remix)
Sylvester - I Need You
Eddy Grant - Nobody's Got Time
Sylvia Striplin - Give Me Your Love
First Choice - Breakaway
Gayle Adams - Stretchin' Out
Geraldine Hunt - Can't Fake The Feeling
Trussel - Love Injection
Invisible Man's Band - All Night Thing
Exodus - Together Forever
Raw Silk - Do It To The Music
Gwen McCrae - Funky Sensation
Logg - I Know You Will (Levan 12" Remix)
Inner Life - Ain't No Mountain High Enough
Chemise - She Can't Love You
Class Action - Weekend
Taana Gardner - Heartbeat (12" Levan Mix)
Secret Weapon - Must Be The Music [Prelude records]
ESG - Moody
Stone - Time
Esther Williams - I'll Be Your Pleasure (Levan Remix 12" or LP)
Grace Jones - Pull Up To The Bumper
Hi-Gloss - You'll Never Know
Patti Labelle - The Spirit's In It
D Train - You're The One For Me
Nick Straker Band - A Little Bit Of Jazz
Jamaica Girls - Need Somebody New (12" Levan Remix)
Empress - Dyin' To Be Dancin'
Strikers - Body Music (12" Levan Remix)
Unlimited Touch - Searching To Find The One
Donald Byrd - Love Has Come Around
Jimmy Ross - First True Love Affair (Levan 12" Mix)
Tom Tom Club - Le Elephant
Powerline - Journey
Inner LIfe - Make It Last Forever (Levan Remix)
Syreeta - Can't Shake Your Love (Levan Remix)
MFSB - Love Is The Message (14 min. Tom Moulton Remix Vers.)
Ednah Holt - Serious, Serious Space Party (Levan 12" Mix)
Mona Rae - Do Me
80's Ladies - Turned On To You
Logg - You've Got That Something
Frontline Orchestra - Don't Turn Your Back On Me
North End - Happy Days
Conversion - Let's Do It
Salsoul Orchestra - 212 North Street
Rainbow Brown - Til You Surrender