Nu disco is set to be the sound of Ibiza 2010, edging minimal out of the way as its anything- goes spirit brings joyful life-affirming music back to the dancefloor. DJmag reports…
Words CLAIRE HUGHES & JOE ROBERTS
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cross the world there’s a fresh sound working its way out of back rooms in clubs onto main room dancefloors. And it’s this groove-based, musical house sound,
laden with vocals, that’s been shoving the bland, soulless sound of minimal out of the way as it cuts a path to the nearest, glistering mirrorball-lit spot on the dancefloor. “I’m really happy that after the dark period of minimal people are getting back to joyful melodies and joyful music,” says German disco-house producer Tensnake. “It’s just better to dance to, better to have a good time to.”
Tensnake is just one of the future dance stars making this new style of disco and 1980s boogie-influenced house music that’s been bubbling under for the best part of a decade and is now pushing its way into the mainstream. His 2009-released ‘Holding Back (My Love)’ was one of the biggest underground ‘nu disco’ tunes of last year; played by everyone from Prins Thomas to Pete Tong. It’s put Tensnake and the output from his Mirau label on the global nu disco map; an underground network that snakes a pulsating path to vibrant scenes flourishing in pockets all over the world. Now, with the Ibiza 2010 season just kicking off, tracks such as Tensnake’s ‘Coma Cat’, recently included on the tenth
edition of ‘Defected In The House Ibiza’, are already looking set to mutate from the underground hotbed — where they’ve been bubbling under for a while — into fully-blown Ibiza anthems.
Dirty Disco “People used to think disco was a dirty word but it’s come back round again,” says Sean Brosnan, head honcho of Needwant, the label that just recently released the third installment in the successful ‘Future Disco’ compilation series and who take up a residency in the Red Room of Carl Cox’s Tuesday night party at Space on the 13th and 20th of July, the 3rd, 10th and 24th of August, and the 7th of September. “When I DJ, I combine deep house with disco stuff, boogie influenced music, even some of the filter house sound that was popular in the 1990s. I’m 30 this year and I grew up in the 1990s listening to house music that contained lots of disco samples. Bands like Crazy P, Faze Action and a lot of the stuff that came out on Nuphonic and Paper Recordings in the 1990s sampled old disco tunes. I dug back from then and I think a lot of the people making re-edits of old disco and boogie tracks from the 1970s and 1980s are doing the same thing.”
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Sean put out his first ‘Future Disco’ album last year; one of the final compilations to come out on the now defunct Azuli label. That first selection of disco-infused tunes included fresh cuts such as Tensnake’s ‘Holding Back (My Love)’ and the Hercules & Love Affair remix of Chaz Jankel’s ‘Get Yourself Together’. After it was released, the album became 2009’s biggest selling compilation on iTunes. It also generated the kind of feedback on blogs and in music press and music-dedicated websites that encouraged Sean to do another. This summer, as well as the Space residency he has a set of tour dates that will take the label’s future disco sound all over the world. “There’s been a lot of interest in disco for a long time now,” says Sean. “In London there are underground parties such as Disco Bloodbath that are packed out every time they happen. And there are underground parties like that all over the world. In Norway, Prins Thomas and Lindstromm have been pushing the sound for ages. Then there’s the whole DFA thing from New York, and Tim Sweeney’s Beats In Space (www.
beatsinspace.com) show that he does out of the city every week. He’s really been hugely responsible for pushing this new disco sound. Really it’s just groove-based music that’s just been a bit of a refreshing antidote to the boring minimal sound that we’ve all had to suffer for so long.”
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