DISCOPHILIA BELGICA: NEXT-DOOR-DISCO & LOCAL SPACEMUSIC FROM BELGIUM 1975-1987 (2)

TRACKLISTING


A1. La Bush - Disco Bush
A2. System Lo ve - System Love
A3. Cora Corona - Jungle Love
A4. The Diskery - Star
B 1. The Rogers - Cosmos 81
B2. Rendez-Vous - My Blue Bird
B3. Raymond Jonia ux - All' A Bi Bi

C1. Manuel Ferrero - Fela
C2. Rayon Laser - Funky Me teor
C3. Autumn - The Third Autumn
C4. Afro-Disiak - Chant Vaudou
D1. P atrik - The Joymaker
D2. Roland Delys - Love
D3. DJ Bert & Eagle - I Am Yo ur Master





INFO


Patrick, Raymond, Marian ne, Roland, Kevin and Bert. These are among the most common and ordinary names i n Belgium. Yet, these are also the names of some of the artists that appear of ' Discophilia Beligica', a 30-track compilation from groove-heavy record label SDB AN. No fancy alter-egos here.

Compiled by cratediggers Loud E & The W ild, 'Discophilia Belgica' is released 16th November and is a collection of next -door-disco and local spacemusic from Belgium 1975-1987. The tracks on this deli ghtfully obscure collection are from ordinary folk. Most have day jobs. Yet as m usicians, they go as far out as possible in to the disco universe and back again . Not too serious or overambitious and definitely not overproduced. This is stri pped down space music. This is next door disco.

The choice of music i s not a reflection of an actual 'scene'. In fact, most of the bands here have pr obably never performed live. The 30 tracks on this compilation are the result of a decade of crate digging in flea markets, charity shops, and vinyl trades and picking out what might appeal to a contemporary dancefloor or just to our derang ed and perhaps adventurous earbuds.

That being said, there are not ma ny countries that can provide you with the wonderful diversity and weirdness of the sounds you'll find here. Belgians have a great passion for music and there i s an abundance of recording studios, impresarios, local radio stations and press ing plants. Bars and clubs sit side by side, providing a soundtrack for our ordi nary lives and it's here where Patrick, Raymond, Roland or Marianne draw inspira tion that led them into the studio and pick up a mic, a bass or synthesizer, mak ing music to groove to, feel sexy to and be free. You are your master.

From R. Roland's French-pop inspired 'Ethero-Disco' and Carl Watson's sleazy j azz flute heavy 'King Kong' to the C.C. Band's disco floor filler 'Be My Love To night', 'Discophilia Belgica' is a collection of odd and sods, the weird and the wonderful.

A special mention should go to the uncrowned king of next -door-disco: Artibano Benedetto. The un-assuming Italian, who works out of a gar age in the unglamorous town of La Louvière, is one of the only "professional" mu sicians on this compilation. After a successful career with the late 70s/early 80s band i dragoni, he started to produce music for local artists and musicians in the area in need of a studio or technical knowhow. The result? The soul-singi ng Dan Davis, the outrageous synthesized bagpipe discofest The Diskery, the spac ed out Holger Czukay-esque Rayon Laser and the Arabian sleeze of Alabibi. Oh yes , Benedetto is still very much at it. His DIY ethic to music is the embodiment o f next door disco and provincial space music.