Releases from artist / Veröffentlichungen von : Black Disco

insurgently crossing philly soul, cape jazz and bump jive in 1976, the same year as the soweto uprising, poignantly shot through with timmy thomas’ why can’t we live together.
“it was so important for us to play a kind of crossover then, to weave in touches of motown, philadelphia soul and teddy pendergrass that the coloured community appreciated, and basil’s cape town sound, and sipho’s sound that was legendary in the black community, and make music that people could all enjoy together... the regime divided us: people classified coloured had identity documents, black people had the dompas. we didn’t accept that separation. sipho, although he was born in kzn, could play any feel. sometime he’d joke, does my bass line feel coloured enough?”
another landmark matsuli. the title track is killer.

the latest addition to the blackdisco series is the duo thriftcotheque made up of long-time la music fixtures eddie ruscha (laughing light if plenty, food of the gods, secret circuit, future pigeon) and jason mason. appropriately named, their dollar bin crackled jams have been given new lives on this 4 track ep. limited pressing!

lovefingers & nitedog welcome dutch beat head extraordinaire abel nagengast to the blackdisco family. get ready for side a, round in circles boasts the fattest undiscovered laidback groove underneath a funky chicken scratch guitar and sexy female vocal that you ll think you recognize, but think again. side b roughs you up with a gritty, raw wah wah guitar and marching beat on inner haze and cools off with seductively sleazy looped riff on hunting man. all three tracks are top notch leftfield burners. dont sleep, no repress as usual...