Description
Following the commercial failure of Disco, and Punk attempts to further their agendas, a number of trends that appeared in New York during the early 1980s came together as mutant disco. It combined disco with elements of Funk, Post-Punk, and a spirit of experimentation and blending different sounds from Jazz, Hispanic American Music, and Dub, as well as Hip Hop.While mutant disco artists created left-field music that consciously resisted generic constraint, the sound coalesced around a core of funky basslines, syncopated grooves, and angular, sometimes abrasive guitar riffs. Its integration of post-punk aesthetics into a beat-driven framework would situate mutant disco in parallel to early New Wave. When present, the vocals are often quirky, ironic, or subversive, may include rapping, screaming, and weird vocal sounds.
