I wasn't planning to make a Pride mix this year, but friends asked me to DJ at a live disco event and I recorded it...I had to clean it up since I had technical issues and quite a few trainwrecks at the start, but the tunes stand out even if my mixing doesn't!
Because of current events such as Black Lives Matter, the fact that 50 years on from the first Pride, any Prides that have been held this month in lockdown have become quite rightly protests for our black queer family. So I chose most of the tunes to show the intersection between black/BAME and LGBTQ culture - disco was one of those collaborations, and tends to get overlooked because it is thought of as frivolous. That is actually bullshit because there is politics of resistance, empowerment and racial unity in disco, you just have to look harder and listen harder.
Hi-NRG, space disco, African, Cuban and Bollywood disco, slow disco jams..UNITY UNDER ONE MIRRORBALL.
