The Twelve Inch 72 : Dance This Mess Around : Post-Punk/Disco/Post-Disco - 1979

I was honoured when Pe approached me about doing a swap of our shows a few weeks back, but puzzled about what to do were I to take over The TwelveInch for a day.

One night, while I was in the trance I usually fall into when selecting and downloading mp3s, it hit me: there was a preponderance of solid tunes from 1979, one right after the other, from a wide variety of genres which could all be classified as dance music. So 1979 it is.

And what a year! New Wave starts to come into the mainstream, Chic are everywhere, Rapper's Delight debuts, and Kiss is making disco tunes. What's not to like???

(And I have always wanted an excuse to mix Good Times into Rapper's Delight. Thanks, Pe!)

And my own twist: most of these are remixes or edits of the originals, leaning heavily on Dimitri from Paris, Sgt Slick, and a few other masters of the craft.

I hope you enjoy and have a great week, and be sure to check out Pe's version of my show!

(Image Credit - Pe / Little Miss G)
(mixed in DJ.Studio)