A1 – Divine - Love Reaction A2 – Ramming Speed - When You Walk In The Room A3 – Patrick Cowley - Megatron Man A4 – Sarah Dash - Lucky Tonight B1 – Hazell Dean - Evergreen B2 – Velvette - Nothing's Worse Than Being Alone B3 – Kofi & The Lovetones - Countdown (Here I Come) B4 – Eric Roberts - The Next In Line
DJ Mix – Richard Anthony Jones
Remix – Ian Levine (tracks: A2, B2 - B4)
Mixed and Segued by Richard Anthony Jones At Part Two Nottingham Mastered at The Townhouse
(C) 1984 Proto Records Ltd.
Various – Twelve Inches Of Pleasure (Volume 2) Label: Proto – PROTO 2 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Compilation, Mixed Country: UK Released: 1984 Genre: Electronic Style: Disco, Hi NRG
RESTORATION AND REMASTER: [35TH ANNIVERSARY] RETRO DISCO Hi-NRG [1984] (2019)
Producer – Ian Anthony Stephens Written-By – Ian Anthony Stephens
A2 –Hazell Dean - Searchin' (I Gotta Find A Man) (Mega-Mix)
Producer – Ian Anthony Stephens Remix – Ian Levine Written-By – Ian Anthony Stephens
A3 –Marsha Raven - I Like Plastic
Producer – Pierre Tubbs, Steve Rowland Written-By – Pierre Tubbs
A4 –Nancy Nova - The Force
Producer – K. Gibson, R. Danova Written-By – C. Holness, K. Gibson, R. Danova
B1 –American Fade - I'm Alive (Mega-Mix)
Producer – Willie Morrison & Ian Guenther Written-By – C. Ballard, I. Guenther / W. Morrison
B2 –Lafleur - Boogie Nights
Producer – Ben Liebrand Written-By – R. Temperton
B3 –Slip - Don't Leave Me This Way (Mega-Mix)
Producer – Tess Teiges Remix – Ian Anthony Stephens Written-By – Gamble / Huff
B4 –The Broads - Sing-Sing-Sing
Producer – Ben Liebrand, Sander Bos Written-By – L. Prima
Various – Twelve Inches Of Pleasure - Volume 1 Label: Proto – PROTO 1 Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Mixed Country: UK Released: 1983 Genre: Electronic
Style: Hi NRG, Disco
Marketed By – The Proto Record Company Copyright (c) – Proto Records Ltd. Mastered At – The Town House Mixed At – Scorpio Sound
Compilation Producer – Nick East DJ Mix [Album Segued By] – Ian Levine
Mixed at Scorpio Sound London NW1 Equipment supplied by Station Radio London NW1
Additional tracks courtesy of Red Bus, Vanilla Music & Hansa Musik GmbH
(C) 1983 Proto Records Ltd.
RESTORATION AND REMASTER: [36TH ANNIVERSARY] RETRO DISCO Hi-NRG [1983] (2019)
01. Haddaway - What Is Love? (1992) 02. Snap! - Rhythm Is A Dancer (1992) 03. Nightcrawlers - Push The Feeling (1992) 04. Bad Boys Blue - Save Your Love (1992) 05. Robin S - Show Me Love (1993) 06. Reel 2 Reel - I Like To Move It (1993) 07. Crystal Waters - 100% Pure Love (1994) 08. Captain Hollywood Project - More And More (1992) 09. M.C. Sar & The Real McCoy - Another Night (1993) 10. The Bucketheads - The Bomb! (1995) 11. Everything But The Girl - Missing (1995) 12. No Mercy - Where Do You Go? (1996) 13. Bizarre Inc - I'm Gonna Get You (1992) 14. Mighty Dub Katz - Magic Carpet Ride (1995) 15. Ruffneck feat Yavahn - Everybody Be Somebody (1995) 16. Tag Team - Whoomp! (There It Is) (1993) 17. Roula - Lick It (1994) 18. 20 Fingers feat Gillette - Short Dick Man (1994) 19. Jocelyn Enriquez - Do You Miss Me (1996) 20. The Outhere Brothers - Boom Boom Boom (1995) 21. DJ Sneak & Fast Eddie - Booty Call (1994) 22. Max-A-Million - Fat Boy (1994) 23. Big Sister - 'Round We Go (1995) 24. Livin' Joy - Dreamer (1994) 25. 3rd Party - Can U Feel It (1996) 26. Gina G - Ooh Aah... Just A Little Bit (1996) 27. Lil Susy - Take Me In Your Arms (1991) 28. 2 Unlimited - Twilight Zone (1992) 29. Culture Beat - Mr Vain (1993) 30. Dr Alban - It's My Life (1992) 31. Amber - This Is Your Night (1996) 32. Rednex - Cotton Eye Joe (1994) 33. Quad City DJ's - C'Mon N' Ride It (The Train) (1996) 34. DJ Miko - What's Up? (1993) 35. Fun Factory - Close To You (1994) 36. Crush - Jellyhead (1996) 37. Aqua - Barbie Girl (1997) 38. La Bouche - Be My Lover (1995) 39. Le Click - Tonight Is The Night (1994) 40. Ace Of Base - Beautiful Life (1995) 41. MC Sar & The Real McCoy - Run Away (1994)
Kimyla – Don't Give Your Love (So Easily) Label: DUCAL (Mexico) LPD-1043 [Original US release on Nuance Records – NU-1248] Format: Vinyl, 12", 33 ⅓ RPM Country: Mexico Released: 1984 Genre: Electronic Style: Hi NRG, Italo Disco
01. Don't Give Your Love (So Easily) (Dance Extended Mix) 6:24 02. Don't Give Your Love (So Easily) (Instrumental Mix) 7:57
Engineer [Mix Engineered By] – Danny Leake Executive-Producer – Jurgen S. Korduletsch Mastered By – Herbie Powers, Jr. Mixed By – Mickey "Mixin'" Oliver Producer – Bobby Orlando (BOBBY "O") & Don Oriolo Recorded By – Questar Welsh Written-By – Don Oriolo
"An Underground Hi-NRG / Italo Disco / Synth Pop / Dance Record, co-produced by
02. Disco Rock Machine - Living For The City (1978) 7:19
03. Hot R.S. - House Of The Rising Sun (1977) 14:35
04. People Like Us - Hiroshima (1987) 6:39
05. Rouge - Eloise Concerto (1978) 17:32
06. Neil Cloud - Time Of The Season (1978) 6:33
07. John Ireland - Living Inside My Head (1978) 6:25
08. Hot R.S. - In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida (1978) 7:47
09. Disco Rock Machine - You Really Got Me (1978) 7:12
10. Buffalo - Born To Be Wild (Medley) (1978) 14:07
11. Neil Cloud - Reflections (1978) 17:38
12. Hot R.S. - Delta Queen (1977) 7:49
13. Disco Rock Machine - Time To Love (1978) 7:18
14. Harari - Give (1980) 5:16
15. Hot R.S. - Money Runner (1980) 6:28
16. Disco Rock Machine - Loving Styles (1978) 7:15
17. Sipho "Hotstix" Mabuse - Burn Out (1984) 4:57
RARE 2CD SET RELEASED FOR A LIMITED TIME July 1999, Gallo, CDREDD 627
Credits:
Thanks to: John Ireland, Brian 'Vagabond' Currin, Dion Singer, Gary Van Riet, Lana-Jane Miller, Terry Owen, the good people at EMI, Peter Pearlson (Forest Studios) for all his hard work, Terry Fairweather, the crowd at Apula and everybody else who made this compilation possible.
Compiled by Derek Smith
Digitally re-mastered at Forest Studios by Peter Pearlson.
Reviews:
In the late 70s disco music internationally was dominated by such artists as The Bee Gees, Donna Summer, Chic, Gloria Gaynor, Village People, etc. The rhythm was everything and musicianship was secondary.
In South Africa, however, disco seemed to take on a distinct harder edge, with a number of classic hard rock and heavy metal songs being given the disco treatment.
Paul Ryan's classic 'Eloise' was extended to 17 minutes by Zane Cronjé's Rouge, HOT RS covered Iron Butterfly's 'In-A-Gadda-Da -Vida' (cleverly combining it with Frankie Vaughan's 1957 UK #1 smash hit 'Garden Of Eden') and Peter Vee's Buffalo covered Steppenwolf's heavy metal anthem 'Born To Be Wild'.
Ex-Rabbitt, Trevor Rabin with his Disco Rock Machine recorded the Kinks' 'You Really Got Me' while his colleague, Neil Cloud (Rabbitt's drummer), covered 'Time Of The Season' originally done in 1968 by Rod Argent's Zombies.
All these tracks and others (like John Ireland's 'Living Inside My Head') are on this Gallo collection compiled by Derek Smith. -- Brian Currin, 1999
Even if one did not care overmuch for disco, he or she should be able to find enough songs on this double CD to make at least a 90 minute tape. In Texas we spend much time in our cars so road tapes, for me anyway, are important. This is good music to use to thump one's way across Texas. When done South African style, and that's with a bit more rock thrown in, one wonders if the disco genre is undervalued. Here are the songs of Disco Fever: all disco or dance, though some do rock:
'Magic Carpet Ride' by Buffalo is a strong opener, and in its way, "Ooh, ooh, carpet ride!" is a fine basic rock lyric. Nice musical frills here, the song is imaginative despite the dominant disco beat that can easily become moronic if not decorated creatively, as it is here. I hear a couple of lyrics differently on the original, but this is really a strong song.
'Living for the City' by Disco Rock Machine is a nice disco-fied cover of Stevie Wonder's song, and one faithful enough to the original, yet different and so eminently danceable that I can imagine Stevie himself might like it.
'House of the Rising Sun' by Hot R.S. A good version of one of my favorite rock standards, though the young lady singing really over-emotes how glad she feels, and she carries on disturbing the neighbours for quite a while.
'Hiroshima' by People Like Us has nice singing and is interesting lyrically, more than I-love-you-baby lyrics, yet it is a more straight-forward disco song than the first two songs on this double CD set.
'Eloise Concerto' by Rouge starts out as a readily recognizable disco song, with horn accents, and moves into a lo-o-ong and rather mellow interlude. The song is pleasant, with several movements, and comes across more as listening disco than dancing disco. If I were to hear it in a club I might think differently, though. The pleasantness of the song is borne out by the fact that it does not seem to last 17 minutes and 32 seconds.
'Time of the Season' by Neil Cloud has the same eerie mood of the original, but with a more obvious beat. The original was a favorite song, this version is too.
'Living Inside My Head' by John Ireland is my favorite song on 'Disco Fever'. Maybe early in childhood I was entranced by 'Greensleeves', which I feel sure Henry the VIII did not write, despite his claim. Anyway, John Ireland does a much better job than Henry could have with this beautiful melody and original lyrics. Absolutely lovely.
'In-a-Gadda-da-Vida' by Hot R.S. rocks, or is it that maybe the original wasn't too far from being a disco number itself? Whichever the case, this is a good version of a classic song that everyone pokes fun at, but one which everyone knows nonetheless.
That's disc one, some good pure disco, and some disco with a definite rock edge.
Disc two: 'You Really Got Me' by Disco Rock Machine (featuring Trevor Rabin) is only barely disco. It's disco in a hard rock mode, go-ahead rock with a cranking guitar. This is a loud disco cover of The Kinks song with a disco beat in the back and a wailing guitar up front in the lead.
Medley: 'Born to Be Wild', 'Gimmy Gimmy Good Lovin'', 'Mony Mony', and 'Born to Be Wild' by Buffalo works, flowing from one song to another. Inspirational rock in that it lifts me up like good music is supposed to do. Nice and long at 14 minutes and 7 seconds, too.
Medley: 'The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly' and 'Reflections of My Life' by Neil Cloud also mixes different songs and it works, moving from the universally known "Good, Bad, and Ugly" theme to lyrics of Marmalade's reflective song to disco dance rhythm and back to the two pop songs -- it really works. Also nice and long at 17 minutes and thirty-eight seconds.
'Delta Queen' -- Another song with a vocal woman disturbing the neighbors. This starts out dance-worthy with a nice yearning mood, then it mellows to become a softer disco song, with a build meant to symbolize something going on. This is a disco song of movements and parts, good to listen to aside from the young lady's histrionics, which in the song, as in real life, are distracting.
'Time to Love' by Disco Rock Machine is a good disco song with a moderate beat and some electronic fills. Pleasant and acceptable, but it doesn't really stand out.
'Give' by Harari is not what I'd call a disco song, but rather it is a timeless dance number, and a catchy and good one. The few songs I've heard by Harari make me want to hear more.
'Money Runner' by Hot R.S. combines disco, horns, and hip lyrics in an anthem to the almighty buck. This song has a driving tempo and in a club was likely to cause everybody to move in unison.
'Loving Styles' by Disco Rock Machine is a quirky song, slow in tempo with a stop-start rhythm. While I can see where some might enthuse over this one it's another that didn't hit me. It's not obvious disco, but definitely a song to dance to. Okay, it has interesting guitar extrapolations.
'Burn Out' by Sipho "Hotstix" Mabuse is a nice and gently chugging dance song, and another without the obvious disco beat. The melody and beat work precisely together here. The vocals carry the tune but are not dominant, they work with the instrumentation. A pretty song, appropriate for a closing set for lovers to dance close to before going home together.
My take on over 150 minutes of South African disco music, untinged by nostalgia, is to wonder: can it be that South Africa improved on disco? I conclude: Yes.
About a third of the musical contents of these two discs is disco for rock fans, so rockified that one might ask, "Disco? What disco?" Many of the songs are untypical of an undervalued genre. The couple of songs that I didn't respond to as strongly as others most certainly don't detract from the whole. All in all, another case of my Dollars-into Rands being well-spent.
-- Kurt Shoemaker, Blanco, Texas, 2000
Various – Disco Fever Label: Gallo – CDREDD 627, Gallo Special Projects – CDREDD 627 Format: 2 × CD, Compilation, Stereo Country: South Africa Released: 1999 Genre: Electronic Style: Disco
"An extremely RARE OFFICIAL 2CD Disco Rock compilation"
01 Depeche Mode - World In My Eyes (Uwe Heinrich Adler Remix) 02 Faithless - We Come One (Jaden Raxel Remix) 03 Madonna - Get Together (AllixZ Remix) 04 Massive Attack - The Spoils Ft Hope Sandoval (Mystic Remix) 05 Pet Shop Boys - Love Etc (Gui Boratto Remix) 06 New Order - Blue Monday (Lewis Lastella Remix) 07 Moby - Go (Jo Manjis Total Remake) 08 Massive Attack - Teardrop (Mees Salome´s Filth on Acid Remix) 09 Radiohead - Everything In Its Right Place (Reinier Zonnevelds Filth on Acid Remix) 10 Aretha Franklin - Deeper Love (Extended Mix) 11 SevenDoors - Movement Of Whale (Original Mix) 12 New Order - Crystal (Ri Za Unofficial Remix) 13 Moby - The Last Day (David Mayer Remix) 14 Inner City - Good Life (Jo Manjis Petra Mix) 15 LAAZ - Dreaming Of The Crash (Original Mix) 16 Depeche Mode - Peace (Demon Noise Remix) 17 Seal & Adamski - Killer (Kieran Js Revisit) 18 Sade - I Never Thought I'd See The Day (LNTG Rework + Kiko Navarro Rework Mashup)
