Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night Brooklyn Disco 1974-5 (Vinyl 2xLP) Hip Hop

Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night Brooklyn Disco 1974-5 (Vinyl 2xLP) Hip HopBefore there was Saturday Night Fever there was underground disco. DJs across America went out and found the music to play; dancers went out and found the clubs. At this point, in the early seventies, the disco was the venue and not a genre of music. By the time Nik Cohns short story Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night was published by New York magazine in June 1976, disco was the biggest genre of music on the charts and was about to get bigger

the Junior Byles single ‘Beat Down Babylon’ provided one of the clearest indications to dateof the impending roots sound that would soon dominate reggae

producer and bassist Mauricio Maestro

honed our musical skills and found our own little place in the music industry - but we have also seen our share of shadows

Produced by Nick Gold and beautifully recorded by Jerry Boys

She deployed synthesisers that recall the off-kilter

Originally on the Time label

over the pond in the '80s for the UK rare-groove crowd

Adding a vocal to wobbly basslines and weird robotic bleeps

The Flying Stars of Brooklyn

and a pervasive doomy streak

I've never seen

the wah-wah solo that closes "Pavilions of Sun" demonstrates how just a little electricity gave this music a new lease on life