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Liner Notes
The Disco Box
$59.98
PRODUCER'S NOTE
There was, and is, a blessed triumvirate to disco: the music, the DJs, and the dancers. You already know about the third element: it's you, whether you got down and boogied at any time in the '60s, '70s, '80s, or '90s, or tap your feet to the radio when "I Will Survive" or "Turn The Beat Around" comes on. These notes are meant to illuminate and document disco's other two elements: the music and the DJs--particularly since they were so unfairly marginalized in the media when these records were new.
In the Sting concert film Bring On The Night, Branford Marsalis says, with a good deal of humor, "I know what it is to be rejected: I'm a musician." My deepest hope is that the singers, producers, songwriters, and players of disco will finally be recognized among pop's pantheon of geniuses, right alongside Bacharach & David, the Muscle Shoals rhythm section, and George Martin. It's only fair--because they, too, made the music of a lifetime. Our lifetime.
And to those of you who have ever been DJs, whether in a glitzy club or playing on a patched-up system with no mixer at a school yard jam, a sweet 16 or a frat party, I must say this: You hold music for the people, and I hope you feel proud and accomplished for that. As Marvin Gaye once put it, thank you for sweet inspiration.
--Brian Chin
