GOURANGA MIXTAPE: Bill Brewster's Electric Eighties Mix by Gouranga

BILL BREWSTER presents Electric Eighties
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"When disco crashed and the recording industry rejected dance music in the United States, the party didn’t stop, it just moved to a cheaper neighbourhood. The drummers mostly got laid off, the big recording studios started to close and the sound of disco changed completely. No more string sections, no big budgets. In its place came the sound that pre-dated house music: electronic disco (in Europe, a lot of it got another new name: Italo-disco). This mix is the sound of those records. All but two were made in north America, the others in the UK. It’s what happened when soul and disco met synthesisers and drum machines and it still sounds great today. Enjoy."

NONA HENDRYX - Transformation
DESI - I Want To Be With You
DELEGATION - It’s Your Turn
STAPLE SINGERS - Slippery People
BRENDA TAYLOR - You Can’t Have Your Cake And Eat It Too
LONZINE WRIGHT - Stop The Taxi
DOLOS - Night So Right
EMPRESS - Take A Risk
CAROL WILLIAMS - You’ve Reached The Bottom Line
RAMM - Spark The Universe
LOVE CLUB - Hot Summer Nights
SWEET PEA ATKINSON - Dance Or Die
THE O’JAYS - Put Our Heads Together
FORRCE - Keep On Dubbin’
KATIE KISSOON - You’re The One (My Number One)

Bill Brewster is a record collector, DJ, promoter and music writer and consultant. Along with Frank Broughton, he’s responsible for books like Last Night A DJ Saved My Life and How To DJ (Properly), the pair also responsible for the legendary party Low Life, which closed in 2015 after 20 years of fun. As a DJ, Bill is a former Fabric resident who now plays all over the word. He’s also the patron saint of lost causes and in the spirit of that supports Grimsby Town.

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