In The Trashcan Records
GARBAGE27
"I must
confess; most of these tunes haven't ever made it to the discotheque, but
yet they should have. But beware, deejays have been killed on the dancefloor
for even less than these bad bad songs. I'd kill to be able to dance to
these tunes once in a while..."
Heavy pounding drums, an inviting flute and an irresistible beat to fil the discotheque dancefloor. This instrumental was a hit in the underground discotheques in Belgium in 1976, but nobody seems to remember this hot tune.
And again a heavy pounding drum beat to start this 1974 soul disco dancefloor filler by a girl with a great voice. Why do all songs have to be complicated? Keep it simple and have fun fun fun! And dance dance dance into the smoke on the dancefloor.
Also hot is “Hot jungle” which takes off with steel drums and a Swahili voodoo chant in the middle of the jungle. Surprise your soul/disco audience with this tune. The steady beat and the organ at the end give an extra dimension to this wild 1974 dancefloor killer.
Bongo drums call for attention: the best instrumental bongo soul combo you can imagine from the 70s. This 1973 song was the inspiration for The Bongolian, the solo project of the man behind Big Boss Man.
Tribe released several 45s, but I don’t think that Koke (from 1973) has been reissued yet on a compilation. It should have been used for a soundtrack about a Tutsi tribe discovering the first discotheque of Central Africa.
Super kitschy French disco about Dracula: another Halloween surprise song. Who knows this one? Nobody!
A 1975 French release with a moog synth interfering the girls chanting the song title
Shorty Long had a big hit with his “Here comes the judge”, but better though is this instrumental version by The Buena Vistas from 1968.
Wow! A great 1971 uptempo soul stomper I’ve never seen being compiled before. “Listen to the rhythm…”
This flipside of “Good news” is a strange choice for this volume, but still it’s too good to be thrown away or forgotten.
Groovy soul from a super duper band on a super duper label. A paranoid tale about strangers in your house. If this ain’t a dancefloor filler,…
I assume that most of the Stax/Volt singles have been compiled on their numerous comps but I haven’t seen this 1971 song. I could be wrong (I probably will be) about this one. You must admit it’s a fantastic soul tune by The Soul Philosopher and not very well known.
Boom boom boom and then a groovy organ follows the hypnotic drum beat. It’s not fast, but it’s the repetition that keeps you on the dancefloor. And after 90 seconds the intro is over and the band starts singing “boogie all over the world, boogie, boogie” all over again. From 1976.
A 1975 disco version of the Theme From Star Trek in a Love Boat special edition. Again a perfect example of bad bad taste, so bad that it’s super good.
It starts as a great breakbeat soul tune and then it sounds like a bubblegum singalong tune and switches to Motown and back to bubblegum pop. It’s one of my favourite recordings by The 5th Dimension. This is not from the 70s (1968), but hey, who cares.
This is definitely not 70s, and certainly not 70s sounding. It’s an excellent soul 45 from 1966. But I thought: Star Trek is from 1966 and it’s also about comics and so is Supergirl. And this is the end of another crazy volume of goooooooooooooooood taste.
