Best Before - a Dsico Fanzine

Best Before - a Dsico Fanzine

Best before - A Dsico Fanzine DSICO Here´s what to expect on the following pages, translated into three different languages: Disco. So heisst man seit Dsico. A freeing of eit- Disco. Non e solo un coso das mitende neunzehnjahr- her body and soul. Or is rotondo che si butta ma ehundert der tunz-tanz it only one music? Clear anche la musichetta. E vier-zu-den-boden samstags and hollow like plastic vecchia ma funziona ancora pimmelparty. Was ist mit bottles on the mountain abbastanze bene, dapper- den Disco passiert? Ist trashs? No sprite, no spi- tutto era morto. E di- es wirklich passierte oder rit. Seems like everynow ventata fiume principale was? Die antwort ist nicht like it anyhow and it`s (mainstream), poi sembrava etwas anderes: tanzst du assshaking danceable for merda! Meglio prima vuole oder sonst? Dazu - seit all fags or faginas. Yes, dire che c´era un tempo ihr deutsch, fremd-deutsch yes. I heard some people quando la musica disco oder was - ihr seit be- say Disco is best. But era fenomenale. Ma meglio scheid wissen. Wenn sie thats we talk about. prima anche sta scrit- ein leckerer Buerger maul- Talk about a music chan- to normalmente sobra il taschen paeckchen kaufen ging generations. Talk latte, ma per disco non wollen, lesen sie den min- about lightfigures. We got esiste la data precisa. destenshaltbar oder nicht? deep in it. Really deep - Non si sa quando il gusto Ich mach´s nicht und es just touched the real. We sara burro; gli anni set- schmeckt gut normaler- asked the internet and our tanta gia sono passati, weise. Keine sorgen, die parents. And it´s annoying giovanotto. Negli anni ot- maultaschen sind immer das but more interesting. So tanta Italia era il posto gute von menschen. Wie- just get inspired of this di nascita per un tipo di so ist Disco? Siebzigste, cool (the new meaning) disco plastico ginnastico. Achtzigste oder Neun- fanzine. You will find out Oggi, che bello, madonna zigste. Das war die zeit why you still dance to mia, disco piace la gente wo maenner ohne schamroe- this music and whats the si balla uno due. Questo te tanzen koennen. Aber scence behind great tunes. fumetto tifoso (fan zine) heute, was steht mehr? Plus some great Top 69 scrive la storia di sabato Eine uebel faelschung von list to checking out for, notte febre, di nuovo. An- was war langjaehrig? Oder the dsico classics. Best che la nonna quando balla sonst etwas radioaktives before baby. If you like in cucina dice che siamo heiss? Ihr seid hier um the zine just drop me some bravi e ci da un extra das zu erfinden. lines. poco di carna. Pierlo from Rome Mito from Tokyo is a DJ. Harald from Germany is a likes Germany and of friend of Pierlo and us. course: Disco. Sorry Hipsters, This fanzine doesn´t contain triangles Disco describes a musical end of the 1970s most of style which became popular the Western world was in- in the mid 1970s. Influ- fected with Disco fever. enced by Funk and Soul, The Discotheque plays a Disco music also includes key role in the movement; Latin percussion and sym- it´s where the music beca- phonic elements such as me a life-style. Every- strings or horns. Most thing revolves around DJs significant is the steady and club culture - doing rhythm that makes it easi- the hustle, doing the ly danceable: a ´four-to- bus stop, doing the bump. Bert knows how to Disco. the-floor´ beat, often Following planned steps with an open hi-hat on doesn´t appear as cool the off-beat. Thanks to nowadays, but it set the catchy melodies and re- whole world dancing, and petitive vocals the sound today Disco is still the became popular extremely best club music. Word! fast, and by the Stereotypical Disco Beat: Eighth Notes 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Claps X X X HiHATS (open) X X X X HiHATS (closed) X X X X Snare X X Legendary Minimoog BASSDRUM X X The use of the synthesizer created the sensual feel that is characteristic for Disco and paved the way for Donna Summer´s land- mark hit ´I Feel Love´ in 1977. It´s time for the next prohibition: Disco. Guitars jitter in the background instead of wailing self-confidently, masculinity is a joke. But they get all the air-time on the Steve at work. radio! I can´t listen to those soft synthe- feizer sounds any more! Rock is bad-ass, Disco is just bad! And look at those sell- outs: Rolling Stones, Rod Stewart, Queen, KISS - they all made a Disco song! Disco stamp, 1999 Hedonistic life style The massive quantities of drugs ingested in discotheques produced the next cultural phe- Excerpt from ´Discotheque Rock 72: Paaaarty!´ nomenon of the disco era: rampant promiscuity by Vince Aletti, Rolling Stone Mag, 13.09.1973 and public sex. While the dance floor was the central arena of seduction, actual sex usually took place in the nether regions of the disco: „Paar-ty! Paar-ty! [...] You hear the chant bathroom stalls, exit stairwells, and so on. at concerts, rising like a tribal rallying cry on a shrill wave of whistles and hard-bea- ten tambourines. It‘s at once a call to get down and party, a statement that there‘s a party going on and an indication that dis- cotheques, where the chant originated, are back in force... ... in the last year they‘ve returned not only as a rapidly spreading social phenomenon (via juice bars, after-hours clubs, private lofts open on weekends to members only, floating groups of party-givers who take over the ballrooms of old hotels from mid- night to dawn) but as a strong influence on the music people listen to and buy. Anita Bryant The best discotheque DJs are underground stars, discovering previously ignored al- bums, foreign imports, album cuts and Hi, my name is Anita Bry- obscure singles with the power to make the ant. I would like to tell crowd scream and playing them overlap- you the truth about Dis- ped, non-stop so you dance until you drop. co: it is a complete sin One of the most spectacular discotheque to live that hedonistic records in recent months is a perfect exa- ´life-style´ as many call mple of the genre: Manu Dibango‘s „Soul it, and god will never Makossa. [...] its hypnotic beat and mys- forgive you for listening terious African vocals drove people crazy. to that sex music! It´s (Vince Aletti) wrong to think Disco is What a dif- fun. And by the way, as a ference a mother I know that homose- gay makes. xuals cannot biologically reproduce children; there- fore, they must recruit O our children! That´s why I say: Ban Disco! Save our children. 8 haracterized by a radio stations. WPIX- Cstrong bass, a simple FM recently switched melody, and tense repe- several hours of its night- titive lyrics. “Disco“, as ly programming over to this music is called...is „Disco“ and leaned Disco becoming increasingly the rest of the day. (1975) popular on AM and FM Bill It´s not that I wouldn´t get in or anything, I just don´t wanna go. Disco- theques are for hypocrits, all that happy fuss is so superficial. Who cares if The Diskjockey you can´t dance or how you look, I´m leading the Space Invaders highs- In 1969, American club DJ core in all Ohio. I heard Francis Grasso popularized they´re doing drugs like beatmatching at New York´s all the time; I once tried Sanctuary nightclub. Beat- Champagne on New Year´s matching is the technique and it was aweful. Iuhhh. of creating seamless tran- sitions between records with matching tempos. This allowed people to keep dancing without a break inbetween songs. The first NY clubs in the early 70s must have been the shit! Electryfying temples of dancemusic: The DJ Francis Grasso Loft, The Gallery, Para- (Sanctuary) dise Garage or Studio 78. Larry Levan is one of my favorite DJs and Remixers; just bought his ´Ladybug´ Remix on Discogs for only $210. All my friends envy me for having it! My favo- rite artists of today are LCD Soundsystem, Hercules & LA and stuff by label DJ Nicky Siano (The Gallery) & Gomma. Nu Disco! DJ Larry Levan (Paradise Garage) Xavier of Justice made a collage out of his 8 favorite new Dsico labels - do you know Hey Xavier. You them all? (p.49) forgot me: Jellybean. Famous Fun- house DJ and Madonna`s first „records live and die in disco-9 lover. theques, like exotic hothouse Vince Aletti,1973 flowers.“ John ´Jellybean´ Benitez A Excerpt from „The Disco Handbook / Chapter 2 - Disco Lingo“ by Bruce Pollack: „Any new craze worth the hysteria that disco has created must have its own specialized language–a slang vocabulary known only to insiders, making them feel more in. The disco craze is no exception, coming equipped with an assortment of colorful words and expres- sions to match the colorful, high-gloss fabrics worn at the discothèque.“ BROTHER: FOX: 1) A kindred spirit in the night This year‘s version of the Old Lady, 2) Anyone who can demonstrate a who was last year‘s edition of the handshake of more than four separate Chick, who replaced Bird, who is a movements. Chick or an Old Lady in England. CONVERSATION: TURKEY: An outmoded preoccupation at the dis- Anyone who refers to women as Foxes, co, which many lead to things like ex- Chicks, Old Ladies, Birds, or Broads.

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