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Disco Pride 29 Jun 2013 | 09:31 pm
A little overwhelmed by all the things happening on Pride/Canada Day long weekend here in Toronto, and I'm still keeping my schedule pretty light, all things considered. Tonight, to quote Fab - "the b...
Mix Fix #2: Beam Me Up presents Kon 1 Jun 2013 | 04:46 am
One of the nice things about relocating to Toronto have been the disco parties (among other things) that happen here on a fairly regular basis, which range in size and frequency, but are usually succe...
Gino Soccio speaks! 30 May 2013 | 01:37 am
One time, while at a bookstore in Calgary, I recall perusing through a volume on The Top 100 Greatest Canadian Albums, wondering, hoping perhaps, that they'd have something to say on Gino Soccio's "Ou...
Vincent Montana, Jr. (1928-2013) 26 Apr 2013 | 10:38 am
I'm well overdue with this, but out of all the people in the music world, particularly those associated with the soul and disco worlds who have passed recently like Major Harris of The Delfonics and B...
Disco Delivery #65: Ms. Sharon Ridley - Full Moon (1978, Tabu/CBS) 23 Feb 2013 | 07:19 pm
"the sun is going down and the truth is the night..." Sharon Ridley - You Beat Me To The Punch Sharon Ridley - Just You and Me (Walking Along Together) Sharon Ridley - Changin' Sharon Ridley - Foreve...
He's too good to believe.. 4 Feb 2013 | 09:44 am
First heard this bit of elegantly funky early 80s late-period disco on Stevie Kotey's ace rarities compilation "Disco Diva Delights Vol. 1" (2009, Ambassador's Reception) a while back. Produced by Ton...
A revolution so secret, even its participants were unaware of it.. 12 Sep 2012 | 09:09 am
A friend had recently told me about a new disco documentary premiering at this year's Toronto International Film Festival this past Saturday (thanks Oliver!). While he wasn't entirely convinced, and d...
Don't say goodnight.. 4 Sep 2012 | 12:28 pm
Haven't done a great deal of record shopping in the last little while, but while plumbing the depths of my hard drive(s), found something that I had ripped at the beginning of 2011 that I thought was ...
I've got love on my mind.. 19 Aug 2012 | 10:29 am
Held down by the most basic of disco basslines, this little number from 1979 comes courtesy of Marilyn McLeod, sister of the late Alice Coltrane, grandmother of Flying Lotus (who records for the über-...
Donna Summer (1948-2012) 19 May 2012 | 02:35 pm
This year has already seen so many high-profile losses in the music world: Whitney Houston, Etta James, Don Cornelius and Dick Clark. More recently, Adam "MCA" Yauch. Stax Records' bassist Donald "Duc...
