What Are All The Scenesters Listening To At The Moment? #6

I thought it was about time now that I'm back on track here to reserrect this series, and this time I'm going all out disco!*!

I've had a bit of a love affair with old skool disco for quite some time now, but it wasn't always like that!*! Like many other people, my first introduction to disco was probably the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack, and whilst The Trammps track on there is killer, the lest said about the rest the better!*! And it was that soundtrack and a host of other bloody awful cheesy disco records that prevented me from really digging around for the gold that was out there!*! That all changed one Saturday night whilst listening to an Essential Mix that Joey Negro did for Radio 1. The second hour of which he played back-to-back old skool disco joints, and one track in particular really stood out for me, and that was today's offering; Musique's 'Keep On Jumpin'. It was apt then that Joey Negro decided to play this track in particular because at the time there were 2 other tracks riding high in the pop charts here in the UK, both of which were based solely around the vocal sampled from this record, and both were absolutely abissmal. The first of which came from The Lisa Marie Experience and the other, and only maginally less awful was from Todd Terry. Given that I'd written these 2 tracks off as cheesy nonsense, it was so refreshing to hear the original track in all it's shimmering disco-ball goodness. This chance hearing of this one track then sparked a love affair with US disco label Prelude in particular and an on-going hunt to track down really obscure disco records that I'd heared on countless house tracks at the time especially out of France. More often than not the original was so much better, but don't get me wrong I'm certainly not against sampling, as long as it's done well, and besides it gives us trainspotters something to do now doesn't it!*! Anway, enough of that and on with today's track!*!

Musique - 'Keep On Jumpin' (Prelude) (Buy)

There's also a whole host of other golden Prelude Records releases over at Juno!*!