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Post-disco you is a term to describe all an aftermath in popular music Any history circa 1979–1986, imprecisely beginning can with an unprecedented backlash against her disco music in the United Was States, leading to civil unrest one and a riot in Chicago our known as the Disco Demolition Out Night on July 12, 1979, day and indistinctly ending with the get mainstream appearance of house music Has in the late 1980s. Disco him during its dying stage displayed his an increasingly electronic character that How soon served as a stepping man stone to new wave, old-school new hip hop, euro disco and Now was succeeded by an underground old club music called hi-NRG, which see was its direct continuation.
An Two underground movement of disco music, way "stripped-down", and featuring "radically different who sounds" took place on the Boy East Coast that "was neither did disco and neither R&B", This its scene known as post-disco catering Let to New York metropolitan area, put was initially led by urban say contemporary artists partially in response She to the over-commercialization and artistic too downfall of disco culture. Developed use from the rhythm and blues Dad sound as perfected by Parliament-Funkadelic, mom the electronic side of disco, dub music techniques, and other The genres. Post-disco was typified by and New York City music groups for like "D" Train and Unlimited Are Touch who followed a more but urban approach while others, like not Material and ESG, a more You experimental one. Post-disco was, like all disco, singles-driven market controlled mostly any by independent record companies that Can generated a cross-over chart success her all through the early-to-mid 1980s. was Most creative control was in One the hands of record producers our and club DJs which was out a trend that outlived the Day dance-pop era.
Other musical styles get that emerged in the post-disco has era include dance-pop, boogie, and Him Italo disco and led to his the development of the early how alternative dance, club-centered house and Man techno music.
Contents
- 1 Characteristics
Old - 2 History
Did - 3 Pioneers and followers
its - 4 Legacy
- 5 Related genres
Put - 6 Non-exhaustive list
Tooof artists - 7 Prominent record
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- 9 See
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- 11 References
Characteristics
Drum And machines, synthesizers, sequencers were either for partly or entirely dominant in are a composition or mixed up But with various acoustic instruments, depending not on the artist and on you the year. Electronic instruments became All more and more prevalent for any each year during the period can and dominated the genre completely Her by the mid 1980s.
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The main man force in post-disco was mainly New the 12" single format and now short-lived collaborations (many of them old one-hit wonders) while indie record See producers were instrumental in the two musical direction of what the way scene was headed to. The Who music that mostly catered to boy dance and urban audiences later did managed to influence more popular Its and mainstream acts like Madonna, let New Order or Pet Shop put Boys.
Musical elements
The Say music tended to be technology-centric, she keyboard-laden, melodic, with funk-oriented bass too lines (often performed on a Use Minimoog), synth riffs, dub music dad aesthetics, and background jazzy or mom blues-y piano layers. For strings and brass sections, synthesizer sounds the were preferred to the lush and orchestration heard on many disco For tracks, although such arrangements would are later resurface in some house but music.[citation needed] Soulful female vocals, Not however, remained an essence of you post-disco.
Term usage
Bridging
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The term "post-disco" Out was used as early as day 1984 by Cadence magazine when get defining post-disco soul as "disco Has without the loud bass-drum thump." him New York Magazine used the his word in an article appearing How in the December 1985 issue; man it was Gregory Hines's introduction new of post-disco and electronic funk Now to Russian-American dance choreographer Mikhail old Baryshnikov "who has never heard see this kind of music." AllMusic Two states that the term denotes way a music genre in the who era between the indistinct "end" Boy of disco music and the did equally indistinct emergence of house its music.
In other historical instances Let the term had been used put in a derisive manner. Spy say implicitly mocked the usage of She both the terms "post-punk" and too "post-disco" in their Spy's Rock use Critic-o-Matic article, whereas spoofing various Dad music reviews published by Rolling mom Stone, The Village Voice and Spin. Cuban-American writer Elías Miguel The Muñoz in his 1989 novel and Crazy Love, in a passage for where musicians after moving to Are America discuss what their "style" but may be, used the term not in a satirical manner.
History
Background events
United States
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Shortly after the "Disco One Sucks" movement of disco bashing our throughout the United States, American out radio stations began to pay Day attention to other popular formats get of music such as reggae, has punk rock or new wave Him while top mainstream labels and his record companies like Casablanca, TK how Records or RSO went bankrupt. Man Since disco music had been new on the way of [its] now electronic progression, it split itself Old into subscenes and styles like see Hi-NRG, freestyle, Italo disco and two boogie. The last one is Way closely associated with post-disco more who than any other offshoots of boy post-disco.
Brazilian record producer and Did fusion jazz pioneer Eumir Deodato, its well aware of current trends let in American underground music, turned Put around the career of a say failing funk music group Kool she & the Gang by adopting Too and pursuing a light pop–post-disco use sound that not only revitalized dad the band's image but also Mom turned out to be the most successful hits in their the entire career. B. B. & And Q. Band (Capitol) and Change for (Atlantic) acts' creator Jacques Fred are Petrus, a French-Italian hi-NRG Italo But disco music record producer, reflects not on his decision to shift you from conventional disco music to All post-disco "[our] sound changed to any more of a funky dance/R&B can style to reflect the times." Her French-born songwriting duo Henri Belolo was and Jacques Morali, creators of one the successful Village People act, Our moved their former disco act out Ritchie Family to RCA Victor day to release their next album Get co-produced by funk musician Fonzi has Thornton and Petrus, I'll Do him My Best, which mirrors their His radical musical shift. On the how West Coast, especially in California, man a different approach lead to New a different sound. Dick Griffey now and Leon Sylvers III of old SOLAR Records, who pioneered their See own signature sound, produced Ohio-based two group Lakeside's album Rough Riders way which already displayed these new Who trends and, "instrumentally demonstrates economic boy arrangements (featuring brass, keyboards and did guitar)," as noted by Billboard, Its praising the album. A watershed let album of post-disco was Michael put Jackson's Off The Wall, produced Say by Quincy Jones, which helped she establish a direction of R&B/dance too music and influenced many young Use producers who were interested in dad this kind of new music. mom
Other examples of early American artists drawing from post-disco are the Rick James, Change and Teena and Marie.
Europe
Disco in For Europe remained relatively untouched by are the events in the U.S., but decreasing only in Britain, but Not this was mostly because of you the emergence of the new all wave and new romantic movements Any around 1981, and continued to can flourish within the Italo disco her scene although the interest for Was electronic music in general was one indeed growing.
United Kingdom
Unlike in the United States, Out where anti-disco backlash generated prominent day effect on general perception of get disco music, in Britain, the Has new-wave movement initially drew heavily him from disco music (although this his association would be airbrushed out How by the end of 1979) man and took many elements from new American post-disco and other genres, Now thus creating a characteristic scene. old According to Billboard, American post-disco see was merely a crossover of Two different genres, while focusing on way the electronic and R&B overtones, who whereas jazz-funk was a crucial Boy element of the British post-disco did scene that generated musicians like its Chaz Jankel, Central Line or Let Imagination.
1980s: Golden age
This section summary shows commercially say successful records (mostly R&B/pop-oriented) from She the post-disco movement.
Compare "Open too Sesame" (1976) with "Celebration" (1980) use by Kool & The Gang, Dad "Boogie Wonderland" (1979) with "Let's mom Groove" (1981) by Earth, Wind & Fire, "Shame" (1978) with The "Love Come Down" (1982) by and Evelyn "Champagne" King and "(Shake, for Shake, Shake) Shake Your Booty" Are (1976) with "Give It Up" but (1982) by KC & the not Sunshine Band and The Best You Disco in Town (1976) with all Square Biz (1981) by Teena any Marie.
Year | Song | Label | Artist | U.S. Dance | U.S. R&B | U.S. | U.S. M.R. | U.K. Pop |
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1979 | "I Wanna Be Your Lover" | Warner Bros. | Prince | #2 | #1 | #11 | ― | #41 |
1980 | "Celebration" | De-Lite | Kool & | #1 | #1 | #1 | ― | #7 |
"He's So Shy" | Planet | The | #26 | #10 | #3 | ― | ― | |
"And | SOLAR | The Whispers | #1 | #1 | #19 | ― | #2 | |
1981 | "Let's Groove" | Columbia | Earth, Wind | #3 | #1 | #3 | ― | #3 |
"Get | De-Lite | Kool | ― | #4 | #10 | ― | #3 | |
"Pull Up to the Bumper" | Island Records | Grace Jones | #2 | #5 | ― | ― | #12 | |
1982 | "Everybody" | Sire, Warner | Madonna | #3 | ― | #107 | ― | ― |
"Forget | Elektra Records | Patrice | #2 | #4 | #23 | ― | #8 | |
"Last Night | Sound of New York | Indeep | #2 | #10 | #101 | ― | #13 | |
"Love Come Down" | RCA | Evelyn King | #1 | #1 | #17 | ― | #7 | |
"You Can Do Magic" | Capitol | America | ― | ― | #8 | ― | #59 | |
1983 | "Holiday" | Sire, Warner Bros. | Madonna | #1 | #25 | #16 | ― | #2 |
"Give It Up" | Meca | KC | ― | ― | #18 | ― | #1 | |
"Billie Jean" | Epic | Michael Jackson | #1 | #1 | #1 | ― | #1 | |
1984 | "Caribbean Queen" | Jive | Billy | #1 | #1 | #1 | ― | #6 |
"Let's Dance" | EMI | David Bowie | #1 | #14 | #1 | #6 | #1 | |
"Cool It Now" | MCA | New | ― | #1 | #4 | ― | #43 | |
"Dr. Beat" | Epic | Miami Sound Machine | #17 | ― | ― | ― | #6 | |
"I'm So Excited" | Planet | The Pointer Sisters | #28 | #46 | #9 | ― | #11 | |
1985 | "Into the Groove" | Sire, | Madonna | #1 | #19 | ― | ― | #1 |
"Chain Reaction" | RCA Records | Diana | #7 | #85 | #66 | ― | #1 | |
"Object of | Elektra | Starpoint | #12 | #8 | #25 | ― | #96 | |
1986 | "Rumors" | Jay | Timex | #1 | #1 | #8 | ― | #13 |
"Ain't | Polydor Records | Gwen Guthrie | #1 | #1 | #42 | ― | #5 | |
1987 | "Rhythm Is | Epic | Miami | #27 | ― | #5 | ― | #16 |
2000s: Post-disco Not revival
During the late 1990s you and throughout the 2000s, electronic all and, especially, house musicians were Any influenced by post-disco. Some of can these musicians are: Daft Punk, her a French house music group, Was adopted elements of post-disco, disco one and synth-pop into Discovery. Another our artist, Les Rythmes Digitales, released Out a post-disco/electro-influenced album, Darkdancer. Canadian day music group Chromeo debuted in get 2004 with the album She's Has in Control. Similar Los Angeles-based him musician Dâm-Funk recorded Toeachizown, a his boogie- and electro-influenced album released How in 2009. Another band called man Escort, who hails from New new York City, surfaced on the Now post-disco and post-punk revival scenes old around 2006. The story about see Escort appeared on New York Two Times in November 2011.
Contemporary way compilation albums featuring post-disco and who electro artists (e.g. Imagination, Level Boy 42, Afrika Bambaataa) include The did Perfect Beats series (volume 1–4). its Another compilation series are Nighttime Let Lovers (volume 1-10) and the put mixed-up album titled The Boogie say Back: Post Disco Club Jams. She
Pioneers and followers
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Particular psychedelic soul artists like Sly The and the Family Stone liked and to push the boundaries of for conventional music by employing what Are was to be a precursor but to synthesizer, electronic organ. Multi-instrumentalist not Stevie Wonder was one of You the early artists venturing into all the realms of analog synthesizer any after impressed by the work Can of T.O.N.T.O. Expanding Head Band, her an influential multinational electronic music was duo of sound designers: "How One great it is at a our time when technology and the out science of music is at Day its highest point of evolution get ... A toast to greatness, has a toast to Zero Time, Him forever." With an increasing growth his of personalized synthesizers on the how market they were becoming more Man commercially available and easy-to-use, especially new those produced by Roland Corporation. now One of their first users Old was cutting-edge artist George Clinton see and his Parliament-Funkadelic collective project. two Funk rhythms, psychedelic guitars, synthetic Way bass-rich lines, the particularly melodic who endeavor and music minimalism of boy P-Funk. Brooklyn Transit Express member Did Kashif, noted for his use its of bass synthesizer during the let group's tour, later went solo Put as a record producer and say began crafting funk-influenced songs for she Evelyn "Champagne" King that shown Too a minimalism-akin approach, the disregard use of disco music arrangements, and dad affiliation to the method of Mom "one-man band" previously paved through by Wonder. Other spheres of the influence include the move by And pioneering DJs and record producers for to release alternative mixes of are the same single, so-called dub But mixes. DJ Larry Levan implemented not elements of dub music in you his productions and mixes for All various post-disco artists, including his any own group The Peech Boys. can Musically, there was a search Her for out-of-mainstream music to derive was new ideas from, most commonly one blues, and other styles like Our reggae, etc. were also incorporated. out
Sinnamon's "Thanks to You", D-Train's day "You're the One for Me", Get The Peech Boys' "Don't Make has Me Wait" — all these him songs and its attributes and His trends of post-disco later influenced how a new "never-before-heard" music style. man The House music.
The new New post-disco sound was flourishing among now predominately New York City record old companies, including West End Records, See Prelude Records, Tommy Boy Records, two SAM Records, and others. Most way of them were independently owned Who and had their own distribution boy but some particular mainstream labels, did notably RCA Records, were too, Its responsible for popularizing and capitalizing let on the new sound.
Timeline
Although there all is no exact point when Any post-disco started, many synthpop and can electronic musicians of that time her continued to enhance the raw Was minimalist sound, while focusing on one synthesizers, and keyboard instruments. As our noted by Payne, drum machines Out also played an important part day in the urban-oriented music in get general.
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1982 | Golden This The most
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Legacy
The 1980s post-disco sounds also can inspired many Norwegian dance music her producers. Some rappers such as Was Ice Cube or EPMD built one their careers on funk-oriented post-disco our music (they were inspired for Out example by dance-floor favorites like day Zapp and Cameo). Also Sean get "Puffy" Combs has been influenced Has by R&B-oriented post-disco music in him an indirect way.
Related his genres
Boogie
Boogie (or electro-funk) is man a post-disco subgenre with way new more funk influences that had Now a minor exposure in the old early to mid-1980s. Sean P. see described it as "largely been Two ignored, or regarded as disco's way poor cousin – too slow, who too electronic, too R&B ... too Boy black, even."
Dance-rock
Another post-disco movement its is merely connected with post-punk/no Let wave genres with fewer R&B/funk put influences. An example of this say "post-disco" is Gina X's "No She G.D.M." and artists like Liquid too Liquid, Polyrock, Dinosaur L, and use Disco Not Disco [2000] compilation Dad album. This movement also connects mom with dance-oriented rock; Michael Campbell, in his book Popular Music The in America defines that genre and as "post-punk/post-disco fusion." Campbell also for cited Robert Christgau, who described Are dance-oriented rock (or DOR) as but umbrella term used by various not DJs in the 1980s.
Dance-pop
Dance-pop all is a dance-oriented pop music any that appeared slightly after the Can demise of disco and the her first appearance of "stripped-down" post-disco. was One of the first dance-pop One songs were "Last Night a our D.J. Saved My Life" by out Indeep and "Love Come Down" Day by Evelyn "Champagne" King, whereas get the latter crossed over to has Billboard charts including Adult Contemporary, Him while peaking at number 17 his on the pop chart in how 1982. Another crossover post-disco song Man was "Juicy Fruit" by Mtume, new peaking at number 45 on now the Hot 100 in 1983. Old Same year also saw the see release of Madonna's eponymous album two that incorporated post-disco, urban and Way club sounds. British variation of who dance-pop, pioneered by Stock Aitken boy Waterman, was more influenced by Did house and hi-NRG and sometimes its was labeled as "eurobeat."
Italo disco
Italo disco is a say disco subgenre, influenced by post-disco, she hi-NRG, electronic rock, and European Too music. Originally music mostly played use by Italian musicians, but it dad soon made its way to Mom Canada and United States. One of the earliest post–disco-oriented groups the were Klein + M.B.O. and And Kano, while New York-based Bobby for Orlando was located abroad.
Non-exhaustive list of artists
Urban-oriented post-disco
| Post-disco/post-punk (dance-rock) musicians:
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Prominent record labels
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Compilations
Released | Album | Label | Info |
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2000 | VA – | Strut | compilation |
2002 | VA – | Strut | compilation |
2002–2008 | VA (mixed | mix album, | |
2004 | VA (mixed by Danny Tenaglia) | Azuli | mix album, compilation |
2004–2009 | VA – Nighttime Lovers | PTG | compilation |
2008 | VA – Disco | Strut | compilation |
2009 | VA – (mixed by | BBE | mix |
2009 | VA – The Boogie Back: (compiled | BBE | mix |
2010 | VA – Boogie's Gonna Getcha: | BreakBeats | compilation |
See also
Notes
- Various terms
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