For so long now I have been listening to disco. It was the first form of music to be made with clubs in mind, DJs would play it and it brought people together.
There have been a few groups set up to sound similar to 60s funk and soul (Sharon Jones & the Dap kings and The New Mastersounds, to name a couple), but none for the 70s as yet.
Anyway, something that lacks from a lot of music nowadays is the money spent. In disco, there would be whole orchestras created for any kind of music to make a rich sounding type of music. Disco was big for this, but there are few people who use a whole orchestra any more.
Enter Al Kent. A house producer who decided, after yet another re-edit, to try and create a disco album as it would have been made back in the day, including analogue recording techniques and making a track in 1 take, rather than taking the best bits. The result? A fantastic look into the past with a sound which could have been recorded in 1979. The album, which is called Better Days (also the name of a soul/funk night I DJ at) is a great achievement, and shows how rich it all sounded. I’d recommend a listen (it is available at emusic).
