Tunes about the type of music they are

Wonder what happened to this guys career?

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This is about little more than the elements needed for a good disco track:

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This one turned up randomly on my iTunes shuffle today.

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If you have the guts to call your band The Fabulous Superlatives, you know they’re gonna cook!

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Boyd Jarvis singing about making music in the middle of the night.

A Daniel Wang favourite. The Carpenters version of a 1930s goofy song about making goofy music.

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Just going to leave this here (apologies in advance):
Obviously a nice window into recording studio practices during the disco era…

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Few from the 60’s:

Arthur Conley - Sweet Soul Music
Prince Buster - My National Ska
Chuck Berry/The Beatles - Roll Over Beethoven

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Here’s a Disco Jam…

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Maybe off topic slightly but, in terms of an evocative vocal of what the music’s about… always on point Earl Zinger/Rob Galliano

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Stetsasonic’s response to James Mtume’s criticism of sampling in hip hop is another:

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I think this counts. MCA from the Beastie Boys rapping over a thundering Oberheim DMX drum machine about how to make a thundering drum machine-based track. A lot of it sounds like he’s reading from the manual, such as the bit about changing the sound chips.

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