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

TRACKLISTING


1 R. Roland - Ethero-Disco
2 Carl Wats on - King Kong
3 Charles Vernon - Baby Won't You Turn Me On
4 Love Dream - Sexy
5 Fancy - Tropicana Beach
6 Marianne - Queen To The Pharaoh
7 Fla me - Groovin' To The Music
8 Steve - I'm Free
9 Carl Candy and the Candy-C hicks - It's Magic
10 La Bush - Disco Bush
11 System Love - System Love
12 Cora Corona - Jungle Love
13 The Diskery - Star
14 The Rogers - Cosmos 81

1 C.C. Band - Be My Love Tonight
2 Quartz - Cool & Get Up
3 Kev in Morane - Ivre De Vie
4 L2 - La Gomme
5 Venus - Strange How You Move
6 Bubble - Bubblegum
7 Rendez-Vous - My Blue Bird
8 Raymond Joniaux - All' A Bi Bi
9 Dan Davis - Feel So Glad
10 Manuel Ferrero - Fela
11 Afro-Di siak - Chant Vaudou
12 Autumn - The Third Autumn
13 Rayon Laser - Funky Me teor
14 Patrik - The Joymaker
15 Roland Delys - Love
16 DJ Bert & Eagle - I Am Your Master





INFO


Patrick, Raymo nd, Marianne, Roland, Kevin and Bert. These are among the most common and ordina ry names in Belgium. Yet, these are also the names of some of the artists on thi s compilation. No fancy alter-egos here.

The tracks on this delightfu lly obscure collection are from ordinary folk. Most have day jobs. Yet as musici ans, they go as far out as possible into the disco universe and back again. Not too serious or overambitious and definitely not overproduced. This is stripped d own space music. This is next-door-disco.

The choice of music is not a reflection of an actual ?scene?. In fact, most of the bands here have probably never performed live. The 30 tracks on this compilation are the result of a dec ade of crate digging in flea markets, charity shops, and vinyl trades and pickin g out what might appeal to a contemporary dancefloor or just to our deranged and perhaps adventurous earbuds.

That being said, there?s not many c ountries 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 is an abundance of recording studios, impresarios, local radio stations and pressing plants. Bars and clubs sit side by side, providing a soundtrack for our ordinary lives and it?s here where Patrick, Raymond, Roland or Marianne draw inspiration that led them into the studio and pick up a mic, a bass or synthesizer, making music to groove to, feel sexy to and be free or glad or just to say that they ar e your master.

A special mention should go to the uncrowned king of n ext-door-disco: Artibano Benedetto. The un-assuming Italian, who works from the unglamorous town of La Louvière no less, is one of the only ?professional? music ians 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 mus icians in the area in need of a studio or technical knowhow. The result? The sou l-singing Dan Davis, the outrageous synthesized bagpipe discofest The Diskery, t he spaced out Holger Czukay-esque Rayon Laser and the Arabian sleeze of Alabibi. Oh yes, Benedetto is still very much at it, with a head full of clouds and a po cket full of dreams. His DIY ethic to music is the embodiment of next door disco and provincial space music.